广东省肇庆市实验中学2011-2012年度高二下学期期中考试英语试题.docVIP

广东省肇庆市实验中学2011-2012学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题 考试时间：120分钟 满分：135分 第一部分 语言知识及应用(共两节，满分50分) 第一节 完形填空（每小题2分，共30分） When I first entered university, my aunt, who is an English professor, gave me a new English dictionary. I was?? 1?? to see that it was an English dictionary, also known as a monolingual dictionary.??Although it was a dictionary intended for 2 learners, none of my classmates had one，?and to be honest, I found it extremely?? 3?? to use at first. I would look up words in the dictionary and still not fully understand the meaning. I was used to the?? 4?? bilingual dictionaries, in which the words are ? 5?? both in English and Chinese.?I really wondered why my aunt?? 6?? to make things so difficult for me. Now, after studying English at university for three years, ? ?7?? that monolingual dictionaries are?? 8?? in learning a foreign language. As I found out, there is?, in fact, often no perfect equivalence(对应) between two? ?9???in two language. My aunt even goes so far as to?? 10??? that a Chinese equivalent can never give you the?? 11???meaning of a word in English!??Therefore, she insisted that I read the definition(定义) of a word in a monolingual dictionary??when??I wanted to get a better understanding of its meaning.??? 12 , I have come to see what she meant. Using a monolingual dictionary for learners has helped me in another important way. This dictionary uses a (n)?? 13? ?number of words, around 2,000, in its definitions. When I read these definitions, I am? ?14? ?exposed to the basic words and learn how they are used to explain 15 and ideas. Because of this, I can express myself more easily in English. 1. A. worried? ??? B. sad? ?????? C. surprised? ?? D. nervous2. A. native? ? B. non-native ???? C. elementary ?? ? D. advanced3. A. difficult?? ? B. interesting? ?? C. handy? ???? D. practical4. A. new ????? B. familiar?? ??? C. earlier??? ? D. ordinary5. A. explained ? B. expressed? ? ? C. described? ?? D