第十四周限时【含答案】赵余

高二英语限时训练（第十四周）

Time: 40 minutes Full Marks:65 My performance： __________

出题人：赵贤波余海涛审题人：王宇

I.完形填空（15×2=30分）

There is a popular saying, "All of us have a Guardian Angel, guiding us".

Some of the greatest success stories of 1 have followed a word of 2 or an act of confidence by a loved one or a 3 friend. Had it not been for a confident wife, Sophia, we might not have listed Nathaniel Hawthome among the great 4 of literature. One cold evening when Nathaniel, a 5 man, went home to tell his wife, Sophia, that he was a failure and had been fired from his job in the customs. She 6 him with a cry of joy.

"Now," she said 7 , "you can write your book!"

"Yes?" replied the man, with 8 confidence, "and what shall we 9 while I am writing it?" To his 10 , she opened a drawer and pulled out a sum of money .

"Where on earth did you get that?" he asked.

"I have always known you were a man of 11 ," she told him. "1 12 that someday you would write a great novel. So every week, out of the 13 you gave me for housekeeping, I saved a little bit. So here is enough to 14 us for one whole year."

From her trust and 15 came one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Scarlet Letter.

l. A. Chinese B. English C. maths D. history

2. A. enjoyment B. encouragement C. kindness D. delight

3. A. trusting B. merciful C. cautious D. intelligent

4. A. books B. novels C. names D. nicknames

5. A. successful B. courageous C. sorrowful D. heartbroken

6. A. bugged B. surprised C. comforted D. loved

7. A. sadly B. willingly C. proudly D. intentionally

8. A. little B.much C.no D.less

9. A. stick to B. try out C. take up D. live on

10.A. amazement B. satisfaction C. expectation D. disappointment

11.A. business B. writing C. talent D. marketing

12.A. knew B. see C. understand D. dream

13.A.time B.room C.job D.money

14.A.lead B. hold st D.leave

15.A.confidence B. experience C. competence D. guidance

II.语法填空（10×1.5=15分）

Long long ago, in a small and faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1,000 Mirrors. A 1ittle happy dog learned of this place 16 decided to visit it.

When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway 17 his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found 18 staring at 1,000 other happy 1ittle dogs 19 (wag) their tails just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and 20 (answer) with 1,000 great smiles. As he left the House, he thought to himself, "It is such a wonderful place 21 I will come back to visit it often."

In the same village, 22 little dog, who was not as happy as the first one, also decided to visit the House. In a bad mood, he slowly climbed up the stairs and looked through the doorway 23 a smile. When he saw the 1,000 24 (friend) dogs staring back at him, he shouted 25 (angry) at them and was horrified to see 1,000 1ittle dogs shouting back at him in the same way. As he 1eft, he thought to himself,

" This is a horrible place, and I won't come back here any more.

All the faces in the world are like mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet?

III.阅读理解（10×2=20分）

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When the SS Gairsoppa was sunk by a German war boat 70 years ago，it took its huge silver cargo to a watery grave. Today, US divers are working to recover what may be the biggest shipwreck treasure ever.

The Florida-based company Odyssey Marine Exploration announced that it had found the Gairsoppa, and cited official documents indicating the British ship was carrying some 219 tons of silver when it sank in 1941 in the North Atlantic f some 300 miles off the Irish coast.

Valued then at£600,000, the silver today is worth about $ 210 million, which would make it history's largest recovery of precious metals lost at sea.

“We've accomplished the first stage of this project — the location and identification of the target shipwreck — and now we're hard at work planning for the recovery stage，” Odyssey project manager Andrew Craig said.

Under the terms of an agreement reached between Odyssey and the British government，the company will retain 80 percent of the silver it can recover from the wreck.

The 412-foot Gairsoppa had been sailing from India back to Britain in February 1941 carrying a cargo of silver, iron and tea, when a storm hit. Running low on fuel, the ship was forced to change direction and headed for Galway，Ireland，the nearest port of safety.

It never made it，sunk by a German torpedo in the contested waters of the North Atlantic. Of the 85 people on board，only one survived.