高中英语试题

Internet, as well as telephones, ____ an important part in daily communication. 

A．is playing

B．have played

C．are playing

D．play

Not only I but also Tom _____ fond of watching TV.  

A．am

B．is

C．are

D．be

It is difficult for us to ______  our conversation with all this noise around us.

A．carry on

B．account for

C．bring up

D．get across

Lisa would rather_______ at home than_______ to the cinema .

A．staying; going

B．staying; go

C．to stay; to go

D．stay; go

Yuan Longping makes ____ possible to produce more crops in the same fields with this special strain of rice

A．that

B．it

C．this

D．it that

Please ______ the traffic regulations.

A．observe

B．take

C．see

D．look

Before he came , I’d finished _______ the whole book.

A．to read

B．to have read

C．reading

D．read

They asked me so many _____ questions that I got _______ at last.

A．confusing, confusing	B．confused, confusing
C．confused, confused	D．confusing, confused

Missing this bus means ___________back home on foot

A．go

B．going

C．to go

D．going to

Both Mr. Wang and Mrs. Wang _______ his blind son to attend a school which ______  blind children

A．intends, is intended to	B．intend, is intended for
C．intends, is intended for	D．is intended, is intended for

The little girl was allowed to go swimming ____ she must keep herself near her father.

A．when

B．in case

C．in order that

D．on condition that

A large number of people ______present at the meeting yesterday afternoon.  

A．was

B．were

C．are

D．have

1. The tournament is open to both____(业余爱好者) and professionals.
2. He is an excellent ____(律师) with a good brain and a determination to achieve.
3. He's had three accidents in the past ____(两星期).
4. There is much chance that Bill will ____(复原) from his injury in time for the race.
5. Since a lot of graduates are hunting for jobs, the government should take measures to _____
(促进) employment.
6. The plane crashed, killing all 200 people____(在飞机上).
7. Who is it that has the children ____(负担) with so much homework nowadays?
8. She is always very ____(准时的) for appointments.
9. Computers and mobile phones, though they are indeed making our life easy and ____(效率高的) have reduced the need for face-to-face communication.
10. Her health has been____(下降，衰退) progressively for several months.

The Rockford police chief and some city officials want to install （安装） video cameras in all 100 police cars．They think this will reduce the number of lawsuits （法律诉讼）．In the last five years, Rockford has paid out more than five million dollars to settle about 40 lawsuits．
The chief said, "If cameras had been in those cars．we wouldn't have had to pay one cent． We're always pulling over drunks or drug users who try to fight the police or shoot them．Then they always claim （声称） that the police start beating them first or start shooting at them first．"
The cost of installing cameras will be about $500 each．The city council （委员会） will vote on the proposal （提议） next Monday．Ten of the 13 council members said that they like the idea． One member said that it makes good sense．
The police officers enthusiastically support camera use．One officer said that too many people think the police often lie; cameras would show citizens that police tell the truth．"The money that we've been spending on lawsuits will be better spent on more cameras," said one officer．
Citizen opinions to the idea of police car cameras are mixed．One person, said that the police should have started doing this years ago when video cameras were invented．But an elderly man strongly objected．'These police are trying to stick their nose into everything," he said．He was going to attend the council meeting to condemn the proposal．He hoped that other citizens would join him.
We can learn from what the chief said that with cameras on ___．

A．the police will not be treated unjustly

B．the police will be free from any lawsuits

C．the police can beat the law-breakers first

D．the police can monitor everything around

What's the purpose of installing video cameras in police cars?

A．To pay less money on lawsuits．

B．To cut the number of lawsuits．

C．To prevent lawsuits from happening．

D．To stop being beaten by law-breakers．

Which group of people support camera use most?

A．Council members,	B．Police officers．
C．Local people．	D．Drug users．

What can be learned from the last paragraph?

A．Most citizens support camera use in police cars,

B．The police are trying to take control of everything．

C．The man showed great disagreement on camera use in police cars．

D．Other citizens will join the man to object to camera use in police cars．

A nine-year-old kid was sitting at his desk when suddenly there was a puddle （/JC^C）between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet．He thought his heart was going to stop because he couldn't possibly imagine how this had happened．It had never happened before, and he knew that when the boys found out he would never hear the end of jt. When the girls found out, they would never speak to him again as long as he lived．
He prayed this prayer, "Dear God, I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat!" He looked up from his prayer and here came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he had been discovered．As the teacher was walking toward him, a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water．Susie tripped （绊倒） in front of the teacher and dumped （倒） the bowl of water in the boy's lap．The boy pretended to be angry, but all the while was saying to himself, "Thank you．Lord!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy was the object of sympathy．The teacher rushed him downstairs and gave him gym shorts to put on while his trousers dried out．All the other children were on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk．The sympathy was wonderful．But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred （转移） to someone else—Susie．She tried to help, but they told her to get out．
When school was over, the boy walked over to Susie and whispered, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Susie whispered back, "I wet my trousers once, too!"
The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means ____        .

A．the boys would never play with him

B．the boys would treat him as usual

C．he would hardly hear any praise from the boys

D．he would be laughed at by the boys endlessly

After Susie dumped water in his lap, the boy was in a state of ___     

A．excitement

B．relief

C．anxiety

D．anger

What did the other kids do after the incident?

A．They offered him dry clothes．

B．They laughed at the boy rudely,

C．They helped the boy do the cleaning．

D．They urged the boy to get out angrily,

Why did Susie dump water in the boy's lap?

A．The boy asked her to do so．

B．She just did it by accident．

C．The teacher tripped her on purpose．

D．She knew the boy's embarrassment．