江阴市澄西中学2008-2009年学年度第二学期高一年级英语试卷
第二周周练2009-2-21
第一节 单选（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
( )16． ______I will accept the gift is none of your business．
A. If B. Whether C. What D. Which
( )17._______ in the newspaper that the Japanese Minister will arrive next Monday ．
A. It says B. It is said C. It has said D. He is said
( )18．Comrade Wang is to give us a talk on _____he saw and heard in Britain．
A . what B. all what C. that D. which
( )19. We think it important____ college students should master at least one foreign language ．
A. which B. that C. what D. whether
( )20. ---What did your parents think about your decision? ---They always let me do _____ I think I should.
A. when B. that C. how D. what
( )21. Danby left word with my secretary ______ he would call again in the afternoon.
A. who B. that C. as D. which
( )22.The place _______ the bridge is supposed to be built should be________ the cross-river traffic is the heaviest.
A. which; where B. at which; which C. at which; where D. which; in which
( )23. The town is no longer ________ it was ten years ago.
A. which B. that C. what D. when
( )24. _____ environmental damage is done, it takes years for the ecosystem(生态系统) to recover.
A. Even if B. If only C. While D. Once
( )25. In my opinion, what he told us just now about the matter doesn’t make any_______.
A. meaning B. idea C. sense D. point
( )26. He dived _______into the river to save the girl and I was ______ moved by his deed.
A. deep, deep B. deep, deeply C. deeply, deep D. deeply, deeply
( )27. I’m moving to the countryside, because the air there is much fresher than ____ in the city.
A. ones B. one C. that D. those
( )28. All of us should _______ such a good dictionary.
A. make most of B. make sense C. make the most of D. make sense of
( )29. Project Hope aims at helping the poor children in remote areas to ______ education.
A. keep B. accept C. help D. receive
( )30.She can’t help ______ the house because she’s busy making a cake.
A. to clean B. cleaning C. cleaned D. being cleaned
( )31. The gestures (手势) are _____ both by Chinese and foreigners as _____ the same meaning.
A. accepted; having B. accepted; to have C. received; having D. received; to have
( )32. This new model of car is so expensive that it is _____ the reach of those with average incomes.
A. over B. within C. beyond D. below
( )33. As we have known from the map of the world, this is ______.
A. twice as large an island as that B. twice as larger as that island
C. as twice as that one D. as twice a large island as that
( )34. ---Anything else, sir? ----No, thank you. Please wrap all these separately.
----Yes, sir. A pair of trousers, a dress, a briefcase, a dozen ties. That _____ $660, sir.
A. adds B. adds up to C. adds to D. is added to
( )35. Nowhere else in the world______ cheaper tailoring than in Hong Kong.
A. a tourist can find B. can a tourist find C. a tourist will find D. a tourist has found
第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist (打击乐器独奏演员) in spite of her disability.
“Early on I decided not to allow the 36 of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began 37 piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion (酷爱) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my 38 . Doctors concluded that the nerve(神经) damage was the 39 and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never 40 me.
“My 41 was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I 42 to hear music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can 43 the pitch of a note (音调高低) by the vibrations (振动). I feel through my body and through my 44 . My entire sound world exists by making use of almost every 45 that I have.
“I was 46 to be assessed(评价） as a musician, not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had 47 this before and some teachers 48 my admission. Based on my performance, I was 49 admitted and went to 50 with the academy’s highest honours.
“After that, I established myself as the first full-time solo percussionist. I 51 and arranged a lot of musical compositions since 52 had been written specially for solo percussionists.
“I have been a soloist for over ten&n