柘木中学高二下学期第二次月考英语试题第二部分：词汇知识运用（共二节，满分30分）第一节：多项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

22. At last, I should thank Mr. White for the _______ of speaking here and for ensuring me such an attentive audience.A. prejudiceB. privilegeC. ambitionD. favor23. Lack food supplies and wanted by the police, the terrorists made a ______ attempt to hijack(劫持) a plane to Iran.A. braveB. freshC. harmfulD. desperate24. Lawrence’s novel was rejected at first, but it later came to be ______ as a work of genius.A. acknowledgedB. permittedC. adaptedD. congratulated25. The old man asked the children to _____ to each other near the campfire so that he could start telling his story at once.A. take upB. stay upC. close upD. turn up26. To solve the problem, we would appreciate it if you could give us an ______ explanation and compensate (补偿) us.A. abundantB. adequateC. approximateD. awesome27. The Chinese government has made great efforts to ______ the gap between the rich and the poor, but has not achieved obvious results.A. abolishB. conductC. dragD. narrow28. All around them was only the white snow and the night; they were ____________ from the rest of the world and were conscious only of each other.A. cut outB. cut downC. cut offD. cut in29. That restaurant serves __________ the best food I’ve ever eaten, so I strongly recommend you go there next time.A. actuallyB. eventuallyC. absolutelyD. steadily30. Somehow this seems to me to be _______. How could a team that had fought for Canada before suddenly become citizens of the USA?A. out of questionB. out of placeC. out of shapeD. out of control 第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very 31 .Some stories are told 32 they were true. Real people who live in a 33 world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not 34 . They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be 35 for us.But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only 36 . How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter ,we 37 seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than 38 . Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of 39 . When we read or write something ,we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our 40--which is real—and our imagination—which is real in a different way --- to make the words come to life in our minds.Both realism and fantasy(幻想) 41 the imagination and the “magic”of reading and writing to make us think. When we read 42 realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we 43 that we are real and they are 44 . It sounds 45 ,but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and 46 about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by 47 that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the book, too.Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our 48 when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose 49 in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel 50 we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.31. A. possible B. easy C. new D. different32. A. that B. what C. whether D. as if33. A. usual B. normal C. certain D. common34. A. realistic B. reasonable C. moral D. instructive35. A. difficult B. impossible C. important D. necessary36. A. thinkable B. designed C. imagined D. planned37. A. do B. make C. have D. are38. A. lessons B. dreams C. experience D. magic39. A. working B .thinking C. living D. understanding40. A. knowledge B. skill C. words D. grammar41. A. make B. get C. use D. have42. A. a newspaper B. something C. everything D. a story43. A. find B. learn C. know D. hope44. A. too B. not C. all D. so45. A. dangerous B. serious C. strange D. terrible46. A. talk B. learn C. read D. think47. A. telling B. pretending C. promising D. guessing48. A. mind B. life C. world D. society49. A. heart B. time C. money D. ourselves50. A. what B. how C. when D. why第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分, 满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。