期末语法填空试题

英语必修2（人教版）语法填空（共五大部分，每部分20 分，每空两分，共100 分）1 Cultural relics ( 20 分)IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room 1 ________ (move) to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details 2 _______ it. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold.3 (sad),although the Amber Room was considered oneof the wonders of the world, it is now 4 ______ (miss).In September 1941, the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. This was a time 5 ________ the two countries were at war.Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able6 ______ (remove) some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis7 ________ (secret) stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven8 ______ (wood) boxes.9 ________ is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room 10 ______ (remain) a m ystery.2 The Olympic Games ( 20 分)AN INTERVIEWPausanias,who was a Greek writer about 2,000 years ago,has come on a magical journey 1 _____________ March 18th 2007 to find outabout the present-day Olympic Games.He is now interviewing Li Yan,a 2 ______________ (voluntary) for the 2008 Olympic Games.P:How often do you hold your Games?L:Every four years. There are two main sets of Games.the Winter and Summer Olympics, and both are held every four years on a regular 3_______________ (base). The Winter Olympics are 4 _____________ (usual) held two years before the Summer Games.Only athletes 5 have reached the agreed standard for their event will beadmitted 6 ______ competitors.They may come from anywhere inthe world.P: Winter Games? How can the runners enjoy 7_____ (compete)in winter? And what about the horses?L: Oh no! There are no running races or horse riding events. Instead there are competitions like skiing and ice skating which need snow and ice. That ' swhy they 8 ________________________ (call)the Winter Olympics. It 'ins the Summer Olympics 9 _________ you have the running races, together with swimming, sailing and all the team 10_________ (sport).3 Computers( 20 分)WHO AM I?Over time I have been changed quite a lot.I began as a 1 ______ (calculate)machine in France in 1642. Although I wasyoung I could simplify difficult 2 __________ (sum).I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years 3 ____ I was built asan analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an operator 4 _________ used cards with holes, I could "think" logically and produce 5 _____ answer quicker than any person. At that time it 6_______ ( consider) a technological revolution and the start of my "artificial intelligence". In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a "universal machine" 7 ______________ (solve) any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew 8 ______ (rapid) both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s I had grown as 9 ____ (large) as a room, and I wondered if I would grow any larger. However, this reality also worried my designers.As time went by, I was made 10 (small). First as a PC (personal computer) and then as a laptop, I have been used in offices and homes since the 1970s.4 Wildlife protection( 20 分)HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WLDLIFE Daisy had always longed 1 ____ ( help) endangered species ofwildlife. One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed. "Where do you want to go?" 2 __________ asked. Daisy responded immediately. "I'd like to see some endangered wildlife," she said. "Please take me to a distant land 3 _____ I can find the animal that gave fur to make this sweater." At once the carpet flew away and 4_____ (take) her to Tibet.There Daisy saw an antelope5 ____ (look) sad. It said, "We're being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs. Our fur is being used to make sweaters6 _________ people like you. As a result, we are now an7 __________ (endanger) species." At that Daisy cried, "I'm sorry I didn't know that.I wonder what is being done to help you. Flying carpet, please show me a place where there's some wildlife protection."The 8 ____ (fly) carpet traveled so fast that next minute theywere in Zimbabwe. Daisy turned around and found that she 9 (watch) by an elephant. "Have you come to take myphoto?" it asked. In relief Daisy burst into 10 ___ (laugh).5 Music( 20 分)THE BAND THAT WASN'TAs some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other 1 ____ (music) to help them.So during the broadcasts they just pretended 2_____ (sing).Anyhow their performances were3 _____ (humor) enough to be copied by other groups.They were sopopular 4 _____ their fans formed clubs in order to get more familiar 5 _____ them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs 6 _____ (write)by other musicians.7 ___ ,after a year or soin which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing 8 ____ (they) own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even 9 (popular) than the Beatles and sold even more records. Theband broke up about 1970, but happily they reunited in 10 _______ mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they celebrated their former time as a real band.。