安徽合肥剑桥学校高二下期中英语试卷

What _________ pity you didn’t go to ______ concert with us! It was so exciting!

--Could you help me with some math problems?
--Sure. That’s _______ I’m here.

I’ve just read your blood test report and all seems OK, so there’s _______ to worry about.

Many people believe if you are _______, better things will happen to you.

Do you know the boy under the tree_______ is playing with a dog/

--Can I have your name, sir?
--Err… Albert Johnson, if you _______ know.

–How did you like your trip to the mountain village last Sunday?
--It couldn’t be worse. My bicycle  _______  several times on the way.

– Why did you start out so early yesterday morning?
--   _________  there on time.

Hi, Jack. Nice to see you here. I _____ you would come to the party.

–Rose, I’ve just written a poem. Want to read it?
-- _______? Come on.

完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Children like to copy what they hear. They copy their parents，their friends and even the TV. This teaches them ____ to speak the language. They don’t practice grammar, ____ use the language to talk about things that interests them. They don’t worry about their ____ or poor grammar. They can find ways to ____ themselves，and they do it successfully.
Copying also good for students to learn a foreign language. When you listen to foreigners speaking English，____  what they say as loudly as you can. You should also pay your attention to communication. Look for chances to ____ with native speakers of English. If you can’t find a ____ to talk to, talk with other students in English ____. You can also join an English club or go to an English corner to talk about music, movies or ____interests you.
Don’t worry about  making ______. The aim is to learn how to communicate(交流) easily and comfortably. Remember that you can communicate successfully even with a small vocabulary.

A．how B．where C．when D．why

A．so B．or C．but D．nor

A．course B．vocabulary C．passage D．composition

A．express B．understand C．teach D．remind

A．prepare B．master C．hold D．repeat

A．walk B．camp C．talk D．help

A．foreigner B．teacher C．classmate D．parent

A．too B．instead C．though D．since

A．whichever B．wherever C．whatever D．whenever

A．tricks B．noises C．notes D．mistakes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote the story of the detective(侦探) Sherlock Holmes, was having a trip in Europe. One day he got out of the railway station and climbed into a taxi. Before he could say a word, the driver turned to him and asked, “Where can I take you, Mr. Doyle?”
Doyle was rather surprised. He asked the driver if he had ever seen him before. “No, sir,” the driver replied, “I have never seen you before.” Then he explained, “This morning’s newspaper had a story about your being on vacation in Marseilles. This is the taxi stop where people who return from Marseilles always come. Your skin color tells me you have been on vacation. The ink spot on your right fingers suggests to me that you are a writer. Your clothes are very English, not French. Adding up all those pieces of information, I conclude that you are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”
“This is truly surprising!” the writer cried out. “You are a real-life copy to my fictional(虚构的) story, Sherlock Holmes!”
“And there is one other thing,” the driver added, with a smile on his face.
“What’s that?”
“Your name is on the front of your suitcase.”
The conversation between the two people took place________.

Doyle was rather surprised because ________.

After he heard the driver’s analysis, Doyle concluded that ______.

From what the driver said, we could know ________.

The driver knew the writer’s name because _______.

How important can a fifteen-year-old boy’s work be? Well, Louis Braille’s work changed the world. Born in a small town near Paris in 1809, shortly after his third birthday Louis blinded himself in one eye while playing with a sharp pointed tool in his father’s workshop. He soon lost the sight in his other eye when the infection(感染) spread.
He wanted to go to school, but in his small town there was no school for him. At that time, blind people did not get any school education. Braille went to Paris to study, but there were few books for the blind.
Louis knew that books were the key to learning. He struggled with ideas for three years. Finally, at fifteen, he invented an alphabet made with raised dots(点). Blind people could “read” by feeling the patterns of the dots.
Being able to read Braille allows blind children to learn together with the sighted at school, and go on to get jobs. It allows people who lose their eyesight to continue to read, learn and get information.
Braille got blind as a result of _________.

From the passage we know in Braille’s day, _________

It took Braille _______ to invent the alphabet.

The Braille alphabet _________.

Which could be the best title for the passage?

Course A: Understanding computers
1. A twelve-hour course for people who do not know very much about computers but need to learn about them. You can learn what computers are, what computers can do and cannot do, and how to use them.
2. Course fee: $75, from June 1 to June 28, 9~12am every Sunday.
3. Equipment fee: $10.
4. Teacher: Joseph Saunders, professor of computer science at New Urban University, with twelve years of experience in computer field.
Call 67801642 or 67801643 for more information.
Course B: Learning to speak French
1. A course with a small class of less than 20 people, twice a week. Your French level is tested in the first class. Then you can begin practicing at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed, and prepares you to learn through situations of real life with a funny and easy method.
2. Course fee: $200, from June 1 to June 25, 4~7pm every Monday and Thursday.
3. Personal tutoring fee: $100.
4. Teacher: From the first day on you can have your own personal French teacher that corrects your exercises and assists you along the course, who has successfully taught French course before.
Phone 67353019 for more information.
Course C: Learning to swim
1. A course for people who have interest in swimming. We offer morning and afternoon classes, where swimming knowledge will be taught. Then you can gain swimming skills through practicing in water.
2. Course fee: $150, from June 9 to June 29, 10am~4pm every Tuesday and Friday..
3. Personal tutoring Fee: $100
4. Teacher: Teachers from sports college and experienced swimming-loves.
Very close to the Central Park. For further information call 67432308.
The computer professor has got _____ years of experience in computer field.

If you want to take Course A, you need to go ______ learn something about computers.

Having a test in the first French class is to ____.

With a personal swimming trainer helping you along the course, you should pay ______ for the course altogether.

If you want to know more about the French-learning course, you can phone ____.

Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops. People had it sent from Holland. And even those people who could afford it did so only because of curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.
Tea remained very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea. Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added. She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was so famous a lady that people liked to copy everything she did, they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.
At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess （公爵夫人） found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o'clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born.
The word “curiosity” in the first paragraph probably means ________.

Which of the following is true of tea-drinking in Britain?

Some people cooked tea leaves because ______

People in Britain like to drink tea with milk because of the influence of _______.

This passage mainly discusses _______.

单词拼写（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）
She _________(使结合) some fresh fruit with some milk..
My friends and I made a(n) _________（安排）to meet at 5:00 pm in the cinema.
It is _________(不清楚的) whether they will agree to carry on the research.
When he tried to listen carefully, the sound suddenly _________(消失).
It took us almost a week to reach our __________（目的地）.

最近，你们班就“学校需不需要利用暑假时间组织学生集体补课”进行了讨论。有些同学认为学校应该组织补课，而另一些同学认为不需要。现在请你将讨论结果写一篇短文。

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2、词数：80个左右。开头部分已给出，不计入总词数。
Recently we had a warm discussion about whether our school should organize all the students to study at school during the summer holidays.