2020年北京高考英语基础习题及答案（9）
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。
3. “I in the room, watching TV broadcast about the earthquake.” I told the policeman who had driven here to question me.
A. was staying B. stay C. stayed D. am staying
【答案】A
【解析】考查动词时态。语境没有提到具体时间，但从语境和和试题命制形式上看是直接引语，这里表示回答警察的讯问，那么一定是问在过去某个时候“我”在做什么，因此用过去进行时。
4. in charge of the shopping center has upset him for quite some time.
A. Left B. Being left C. Having left D. To leave
【答案】 B
【解析】考查非谓语动词用法。本空在句中做主语，表示被动含义，因此选B。
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”。
6. Do you know that the first textbooks written for teaching English as a foreign language ____ in the 16th century?
A. came up B. came along C. came out D. came about
【答案】C
【解析】考查常见动词短语用法。语境表示第一本教授英语作为外语的课本“出版，出现”，用come out表示“被出版，被刊行”。其他短语的含义：Vi. A发生，被提出，B进展，出现，D发生。
7. Write down the key words that you ____ your students to find in the passage.
A. make B. expect C. suggest D. hope
【答案】 B
【解析】考查常见动词辨析。从搭配看，只有expect能接带to的不定式做宾补;从含义看，语境表示预料学生可能会问的问题，因此选B。
8. To _______ good relationships with your teachers and classmates, you should learn to be on good terms with them.
A. bring up B. add up C. keep up D. take up
【答案】 C
【解析】考查常见动词短语。语境表示“保持/维持”好的人际关系，因此选C。
9. We’d better set off，or it will be dark we know it.
A. before B. after C. when D. until
【答案】A
【解析】考查状语从句的连词。语境表示“还不等我们意识到”，用before引导状语从句表示“在……之前”。
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。
11. the city lies the famous beautiful mountain.
A. 40 miles southeast of B. To 40 miles southeast of
C. Southeast 40 miles to D. To southeast 40 miles of
【答案】A
【解析】考查副词用法。语境表示方位，“城市东南方向四十公里的地方”，用(to the)+方位词，数量概念放在介词短语或副词短语的前面。因此A为唯一正确表达。
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。
14. Everyone has periods in their lives __________ everything seems very hard.
A. when B. where C. which D. that
【答案】 A
【解析】考查定语从句。本题的关系词引导定语从句修饰periods，并在从句中做时间状语，因此选A。
15. What impresses me most is _________ he appears in front of others, he wears a sincere and charming smile.
A. which B. that C. where C. that whenever
【答案】 D
【解析】考查表语从句和状语从句。从语境看，本题需要两个连接词，一个是表语从句的连词that，此时that只起连接作用，不在从句中做任何成分，而且一般不省略;表语从句中还有一个状语从句，表示“无论他在什么时候出现”，用从属连词whenever。
