上海市2011-2012学年高一英语下学期学业水平模拟考试试题2新人教版Part II.Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. 1. The biggest whale is _ blue whale, which grows to be about 29 meters longthe height of _ 9-story building. A. the; the B. a; aC. the; aD. a; the2. The exam was easy, wasnt it? Yes, but I dont think _ could pass it.A. somebody B. anybody C. nobody D. everybody3. Youd better go there by train. The train ticket is _ the airplane ticket. A. as cheap three times as B. as three times cheap asC. three times cheaper than D. cheaper three times than4. The film Mei Lanfang, _ Li Ming plays the starring role, has again drawn the worlds attention to our traditional Chinese art.A. what B. that C. which D. here 5. I would like _ you to my birthday party, but I was busy and forgot to call you. A. to invite B. inviting C. to have invited D. having invited6. Barack Obamas victory is a historic victory and _ that promised change and overcame centuries of prejudice. A. one B. it C. the one D. that 7. - Are you still very busy? - Yes, I _ the report for the manager and it wont take long.A. have just finished B. am just finishingC. had just finished D. am just going to finish8. During the reconstruction of the city, many modern tall buildings went up _ old shabby houses were torn down. A. where B. in what C. in which D. which9. Not until he called the secretary three times _ that the manager went to an important meeting. A. did he tell B. he told C. was he told D. he was told10. Try to spend your time just on the things you find_. A. worthing doing them B. worth being done C. worthy to being done D. worthy of being doneSection BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. rewardB. creative C. originalD. lackE. repair F. tiredG. overcomeH. awakeI. poorly J. normal K. particularlyHave you ever felt your mind getting confused after a sleepless night? You couldnt come up with a(n) _11_ thought no matter how hard you tried.You were probably right if you thought that was caused by a _12_ of sleep. Dr. Home, a sleep researcher in England, studied 24 college students. One group got their _13_ eight hours of sleep. The other group didnt get the smallest amount of sleep -they stayed _14_all night. The next day, Dr. Horne tested them. He asked them questions that required _15_ and original thinking. One of the questions was “How many uses can a cardboard box be put to?”The result is the wide-awake students did well on the tests. The tired students did poorly. Research has already shown that _16_ people can do okay on tests of routine thinking, like simple addition. But Dr. Horne tested creative thinking only.As part of his study, he offered an amount of money as a _17_ to the sleepy students if they did well. But even this encouragement wasnt enough to help the students _18_ their tiredness. They still did _19_. Dr. Horne believes the cerebral cortex-the part of the brain where thinking takes places, may get worn out during waking hours. Sleep may help _20_ the brain overnight. “without any sleep,” he emphasizes, “even if you concentrate harder, you cant do better.”This study gives people something to think about, especially people like hospital workers and airline pilots, who must stay awake all night and then make emergency decisions.Section C Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Today, most of the countries in the world have canals. Many countries have built canals near the coast, and parallel _21_ the coast. Even in the twentieth century, goods can be moved more cheaply by boat than by any other _22_ of transport. These waterways make it possible for boats to travel between ports along the coast without _23_ to the dangers of the open. Some canals, such as the Suez and Panama, save ships weeks of time by making their _24_ a thousand miles shorter. Other canals permit boats to reach the cities that are not _25_ on the coast, still other canals drain lands where there is too much water, help to irrigate fields where there is not enough water, and _26_ water power for factories and mills. The size of a canal depends on the kind of boats going through it. The canal must be wide enough to permit two of the largest boats using it