:高二下学期期中考试英语试卷

:第一卷（共70分）
第一节：单项填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
1. The director’s new film turned out to be ____ failure, but as we know, success often comes after___ failure.
A. a; a   B. x; x   C. a; x    D. x; a
2. Eating too much fat can ____ to heart disease and high blood pressure.
A. devote     B. attend  C. contribute  D. turn
3. I was telling them about my travels when she _____ with her own story on her visits to Hawaii.
A. broke in   B. broke out  C. broke up  D. broke down
4. ---I hear John has taken up his business in London.
 ---Really? He has no business ___ and I’m sure he’ll fail.
A. feeling   B. idea     C. sense      D. opinion
5. Mr. Smith flew to New York this morning, his assistant ____him there next Saturday.
A. joining   B. to join  C. will join  D. wants to join
6. The couple looked at the score that their __ son had got in the exam, ____. 
A.   disappointing; disappointed  B. disappointed; disappointed
C. disappointed; disappointedly  D. disappointing; disappointing
7. ---The boss expressed his satisfaction with your wonderful work.
 ----Really? I ____ better under more favorable conditions.
A.   could do   B. should do  C. must have done   D. could have done
8. The foreign friends you referred to ____ looking forward to _____ around our university.
A. are, being shown   B. being, being shown
C. being, shown      D. are, be shown
9. ― Why do you want to change your job?
― I’ve been _______ typing and _______ so many telephones every day.
A. tired of; answered     B. tiring from; answered
C. tired of; answering     D. tiring from; answering