高一期末复习测试题
Unit 1
Several tons of yellow brown amber were selected and used to make the Amber room. It (1)______(design)in those fancy sty6le popular in those days and decorate the gold and jewels.(2)_______room
was
designed for the palace of Frederic 1, the king of Prussia. But the next King of Prussia, Frederic William i, (3)_______whom the amber room belonged, decided to give it to Peter the
Great
as
a
gift,
and
(4)______return he got a troop of
the Czar’s best soldiers. Later Catherine had the Amber room (5)_______(move) to a palace outside
ST.
Petersburg
Z(6)______she spent her summers. She had her artists add more details to it.
September, 1941 was a time (7)______Germany and Russia were at war. The room, which once served as a reception hall for important (8)_____(visit), was stolen by the Nazis(9)_____(secret). Recently, by studying old photos of the former Amber, the Russians and Germans
have built a new Amber Room , which
looks
like
the
old
(10_______.
Unit 2
Pausanias, a Greek writer about 2,000years ago, went （1)________a journey to find out about the present day
Olympic
Games.
After
(2)________(interview) Li Yan, he got some information about them. The
modern
Olympic
Games(3)________(divide)into two main sets ---the Winter and the Summer Olympics, and both of (4)________are held every four
3
years. However, the Winter Athletes
the
Olympics are usually held two years(5)_______(early). who
have
reached
(6)_____(agree) standard for their event can be admitted as competitors. There are over 250 sports, each of (7)______has its own standard. (8)______it’s
expensive,
every
country competes to have the opportunity to host the Olympic Games
because
they
consider(9)_______not only a great responsibility but also a great honor to be chosen. Nowadays winners are
awarded Games
medals remains
the
sane
and as and
(10)_____motto of the Olympic before----”Swifter, Stronger.”
Unit 2
Atlanta, 11________was a Greek princess, could run faster than any man in the Greece but she was not 12_______(allow) to compete in Olympic Games. She was so angry about the fact13________she made a bargain with her father to choose her husband in the race. Many men tried to compete14________her, but
Higher,
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