【高考预测】2008年高考英语最有可能考的10道选择题

10道选择题

1.语法与词汇知识选择题

1. --- Is there any possible way to help them get rid of such a bad habit?

--- To tell the truth, it’s very hard. But we on this problem trying to improve the situation.

A. worked B. had worked C. are working D. had been working

【答案】C

【解析】考查动词时态。语境意义：“这个问题还没解决，我们正在努力解决这个问题”，因此用现在进行时。对动词时态的考查历来是高考试卷的重点内容。

2. The computer looks old, but it _________ just half a year ago.

A. has been bought B. will be bought C. is bought D. was bought

【答案】D

【解析】考查动词时态。本题容易错选A项。语境有具体过去时间“half a year ago”，因此buy表示过去的动作，用一般过去时被动语态。

5. On March 14, violent crimes of beating, looting and burning in Lhasa of Tibet broke out, _____ 13 innocent people and with more than 300 _____.

A. killed; injured B. killing; injured C. killed; injuring D. killing; injuring

【答案】 B

【解析】考查非谓语动词用法。第一空用kill的现在分词做状语表示主动含义和补充说明，第二空用过去分词表示“受伤”。

10. 一Isn't it a surprise that I happened to meet Francis Mathews at the Christmas party last week?

一If my memory serves me correctly, you _____ each other for exactly two years.

A. hadn't seen B. haven't seen C. didn't see D. don’t see

【答案】 A

【解析】考查动词时态。语境表示在上周见面之前有两年没见面，因此用过去完成时。

12. —What do you think of the blind man?

—I’ve never seen a man with sense of touch.

A. the better B. a better C. a good D. the best

【答案】 B

【解析】考查形容词比较级的用法。本题用“否定词+比较级”结构表示“没有比……更……的”，比较结构后有名词时，用不定冠词修饰，表示没有具体限定的“更……的”。

13. The result was far beyond _____we had expected, ____brought great joy to every one of us.

A. that; which B. than; that C. what; what D. what; which

【答案】 D

【解析】考查宾语从句和定语从句。第一空用what引导宾语从句，连词what在从句中做宾语，第二空用which引导非限制性定语从句，关系代词which指代主句内容。

17. —Where is Bob? I cannot find him anywhere.

—He have been off long. I heard him make a call just now.

A. shouldn’t B. can’t C. mustn’t D. needn’t

【答案】 B

【解析】考查情态动词与虚拟语气用法。语境表示语气很肯定的否定判断推测：我刚才还听见他打电话了，因此他一定没走多远。用can’t have done。

18. If the prediction for the earthquake ________ more accurate, we would have been more prepared and many more lives would have been saved.

A. had been B. was C. has been D. were

【答案】A

【解析】考查虚拟语气。语境表示假如地震的预测更准确，我们就能做好准备，很多生命就不会失去了，主句使用了would have done，因此表示与过去实际情况相反的假设，状语从句用过去完成时，因此选A。

24. —I just wonder that made Mark Twain so famous a writer.

—Of course his early experiences.

A. it was what B. what he did C. how he did D. what it was

【答案】D

【解析】考查强调句的特殊疑问句和语序。从题干的含义看，本题涉及强调句的特殊疑问句和语序。被强调的成分在原句做主语，表示物，用what，疑问句在本题做宾语，用陈述句的语序，因此选D。

27. —I found my mom not feeling well this morning. I’m afraid she is ill.

—_________.

A. Don’t worry too much B. It’s nothing at all

C. I’m sorry to hear that D. Take it easy

【答案】 C

【解析】考查交际用语。本题的交际语境是如何表示安慰。对方说他母亲生病了，此时应该表示安慰，帮对方分担忧虑，选C，而不是A、D项空泛地让对方别着急，也不是B，没事。