河北省秦皇岛市昌黎县第一中学高二英语上学期期末试卷含解析 一、 选择题 1. It _______to John that he had left the door unlocked. A.happened B. occurred C. struck D. took place   参考答案： B 略 2.  In 1900, aspirin was sold in shops as a tablet _________ 500 milligrams of ASA.     A. contains      B. includes       C. containing        D. including 参考答案： C 3. Wherever he goes, he will be the ______ of people’s attention. A. point B. post C. focus D. spot 参考答案： C 【详解】考查名词词义辨析。句意：无论他走到哪里，他都会成为人们关注的焦点。A. point要点；B. post帖子；C. focus焦点；D. spot地点。分析句意可知，此处表示无论他走到哪里，他都会成为人们关注的焦点。结合选项，故选C。 4. __________ more attention, my pronunciation will be improved greatly.    A. Giving          B. Having given          C. Given          D. Having been given   参考答案： C 5. We are in a difficult situation __________ we do not develop new products, we will end up closing our doors. A. where if B. where C. if D. if where 参考答案： A 6. ---Since you have agreed to go with us, why aren’t you getting ready? ---- But I____ that you’d have me start immediately.    A. don’t realize   B. didn’t realize  C. hadn’t realized  D. haven’t realized 参考答案： B 7. ---- Hi, Vera, have you checked the account yet? ---- Certainly, I ______ it five times even though you told me to do it twice．          A．checked                                             B．will have checked          C．have been checking                        D．had checked 参考答案： A 8. Don’t get your schedule _____; stay with us in this class. A. to change          B. changing           C. changed            D. change 参考答案： C 9. Finally he reached a lonely island _________ was completely cut off from the outside world. A. when      B. where      C. which        D. whom 参考答案： C 10. Though             money, his parents managed to send him to university. A. lacked                                       B. lacking of C. lacking                                      D. lacked in 参考答案： C 11. Harry, did you attend the dancing party________ at Jack’s house the other day? A．held               B．having been held   C．to be held      D．being held 参考答案： A 略 12. ______ around the zoo, we were taken to see the dolphin performance. A. To be shown     B. To show          C. Being shown     D. Having been shown 参考答案： D 13. Have you heard ____ news? The price of ____ petrol is going up again. A. the, the       B. /, the         C. the , /       D./, / 参考答案： C 14. You must have wronged him. He showed no ______ of intending to give away your secret before. A. marks                     B. signs                                 C. symbols                  D. signals 参考答案： B 15. Is this the reason _________ at the meeting for his carelessness in his work A. he explained        B. what he explained   C. how he explained    D. why he explained 参考答案： A 二、 填空 16. Have you heard of the word “hygge”? It’s a Danish word and a lifestyle of Danish people. There is no English word  61  the exact meaning of “hygge”. It might  62  (translate) to comfort in English, but it is more than that. Enjoying beautiful music or having a movie night  63  (be) hygge. Lighting candles or making real tea in china cups-that’s hygge too. There’s nothing more hygge than sitting around a table with your family or friends,  64 (discuss) the big and small things in life. Hygge focuses on  65  idea of making ordinary daily activities special, or meaningful. For Danish people, hygge is a way of fighting the cold winter,  66  it doesn't have to be a winter-only thing. In Denmark, there can be up to 17 hours of  67  (dark) per day in winter, and the average temperatures are around 0℃. As a result, people spend more time indoors and focus on entertaining  68  (they) at home. Now the idea of hygge  69  (expand) and becoming popular in some other countries too. In the United Kingdom and the United States, there are more and more hygge-themed cookbooks and lifestyle guides, as well as Danish restaurants, cafes and bars. The rest of the world seems to be slowly waking up to  70  Danes have been wise to for ages. 参考答案： 1. With       2. be translated    3. is    4. Discussing     5. the 6. although/ though/ but    7. darkness   8. themselves   9. is expanding   10. what 三、 阅读理解 17. The Indian government may use 3D paintings as virtual speed-breakers on major highways and roads, in an attempt to check speeding and careless driving，and eventually make its deadly roads a little safer. “We are trying out 3D paintings used as virtual speed breakers to avoid unnecessary requirements of speed breakers,” India’s transport minister Nitin Gadkari tweeted. The visual illusions (幻象) are supposed to encourage drivers to slow down automatically. Earlier this month, India had ordered the removal of all speed breakers from highways, which are considered to be a danger to safety for high-speed vehicles. India has the highest number of road accident deaths in the world. According to the World Health Organisation, o