高二英语第二学期期中试题练习

概要： huge increase in the number of the human species in the ___35__ where it could be successfully practised. These were, at first, only those in which nature fertilized (使肥沃) the __36__ after each harvest. Agriculture ___37__ with violent resistance from the pastoral nomads (游牧民), but the agricultural way of life became popular in the end because of the physical comforts it provided.___38__ fundamental technical advance was writing, which, like spoken language, developed out of pictures, but as soon as it had reached a certain ___39__, it was possible to keep records and transmit ___40__ to people who were not present when the information was given.(

Two important stages came not so long before the dawn of written history. The first was the taming of ___31__; the ___32__ was agriculture. Agriculture was a step in ___33__ progress to which there was nothing comparable until our own machine age. Agriculture made ____34__ a huge increase in the number of the human species in the ___35__ where it could be successfully practised. These were, at first, only those in which nature fertilized (使肥沃) the __36__ after each harvest. Agriculture ___37__ with violent resistance from the pastoral nomads (游牧民), but the agricultural way of life became popular in the end because of the physical comforts it provided.

___38__ fundamental technical advance was writing, which, like spoken language, developed out of pictures, but as soon as it had reached a certain ___39__, it was possible to keep records and transmit ___40__ to people who were not present when the information was given.

(    )21.A. tell      B. declare     C. pronounce     D. make

(    )22.A. leg      B. brain       C. mind         D. hand

(    )23.A. Before        B. when       C. During       D. But

(    )24.A. increased      B. produced    C. pronounced   D. invented

(    )25.A. since         B. when        C. while        D. how

(    )26.A. picture        B. spoken       C. silent        D. written

(    )27.A. which         B. who         C. that         D. whose

(    )28.A. fire           B. catch         C. offer        D. accept

(    )29.A. developed     B. used          C. got          D. discovered

(    )30.A. voice         B. language      C. picture       D. words

(    )31.A. animals       B. trees          C. land         D. plants

(    )32.A. latter         B. one           C. other        D. second

(    )33.A. mankind      B. man           C. human       D. men

(    )34.A. certainly      B. probably        C. impossible    D. possible

(    )35.A. cities         B. countries       C. regions       D. lakes

(    )36.A. ground        B. land           C. field         D. soil

(    )37.A. dealt          B. agreed         C. faced         D. met

(    )38.A. Other         B. One            C. Another      D. The

(    )39.A. area          B. section          C. step          D. stage

(    )40.A. record        B. information       C. speech       D. picture

第二部分阅读理解(共20小题。第)

第一节  阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

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