2023-2024学年福建省福州市金山中学高二（上）期末英语试卷 一、选词填空-句子：本大题共3小题，共9分。 1.Most tennis is played on hard courts,but a_____（大量的） amount is played on clay. 2.The department has been shrinking year by year because of_____（预算） cuts. 3. devote...to...；every time；make inference；by contrast；be used for；be linked to；expose...to...；no wonder；be comprised of， (1) What criteria _____ assessing a student's ability？ (2) I am banned from _____ by referring to a reference book. (3) When you look at their new system，ours seems very old fashioned _____ . (4) The programme _____ the following activities：recitation，singing，word spelling，storytelling and so on. （5） _____ they went dancing，they ended up in a bad mood. (5) Britain _____ the rest of Europe by the Channel Tunnel. (6) We want to _____ the kids _____ as much art and culture as possible. 二、阅读理解：本大题共13小题，共32.5分。 A I left university with a good degree in English Literature，but no sense of what I wanted to do.Over the next six years，I was treading water（停滞不前），just trying to earn an income.I tried journalism，but I didn't think I was any good，then finance，which I hated.Finally，I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher.I loved working with books，although the job that I did was dull. I had enough savings to take a year off work，and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel.Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55，000 words. It takes confidence to make a new start—there's a dark period in-between where you're neither one thing nor the other.You're out for dinner and people ask what you do，and you're too ashamed to say， "Well，I'm writing a novel，but I'm not quite sure if I'm going to get there." My confidence dived.Believing my novel could not be published，I put it aside. Then I met an agent（代理商） who said I should send my novel out to agents.So，I did and，to my surprise，got some wonderful feedback.I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and，after signing with an agent，I finished the second half of the novel. The next problem was finding a publisher.After two-and-a-half years of no income，just waiting and wondering，a publisher offered me a book deal—that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for. It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck—of fate，really.When you set out to do something different，there's no end in sight，so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract（合同） of the publisher—to be a published writer—is unbelievably rewarding. 4.Why did the author decide to write a novel？ _____ A. Because she hated her previous jobs. B. Because her parents and friends had encouraged her to do so. C. Because she wanted to pursue her own dream of writing a novel. D. Because she graduated from university with a good degree in English Literature. 5.What does the unde ... ...
