高中英语单项选择题汇总500题（附答案）

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1. Exploring ________space is exciting, yet dangerous. There is ________need for both robots and humans for space exploration.

A. the; a

B. a; a

C. /; a

D. /; the

2. ---I will have to think about it again.

--- If you _ , you may lose the opportunity to compete altogether.

A. hesitate

B. wonder

C. continue

D. fail

3. The V oice of China has set up a stage some people can achieve their dreams.

A. which

B. where

C. that

D. when

4. I ________ on a sofa because my grandparents have been here to spend the weekend.

A. slept

B. was sleeping

C. have slept

D. am sleeping

5. I'm interested in a single room. Do you have any ________？

A. convenient

B. available

C. possible

D. personal

6. The further falling of the stock market as reported today has ________ a fresh wave of selling.

A. given off

B. set off

C. put off

D. got off

7. The incomes of skilled workers went up. ________, unskilled workers saw their earnings fall.

A. Moreover

B. Therefore

C. Meanwhile

D. Otherwise

8. You may imagine what great difficulty I had ________ complicated ideas in simple English.

A. expressing

B. to express

C. expressed

D. express

9. If we keep wasting so much energy, ________are that our oil wells will dry up and the

environment will be destroyed.

A. problems

B. difficulties

C. questions

D. chances

10. You should study the details of the policy before you sign it.

A. in return

B. in advance

C. at ease

D. on purpose

11. with College Entrance Exam slogans, the walls of the classroom look better.

A. Having decorated

B. Being decorated

C. To be decorated

D. Decorated

12. Thanks to Mr. Smith the father and the son eventually ________after ten years' cold relationship between them.

A. took up

B. made up

C. looked up

D. turned up

13. —Andrew won't like it, you know.

—________？I don't care what Andrew thinks!

A. So what

B. So where

C. So why

D. So which

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14. “In no conditionyou are a Chinese.” Dad told me before I went abroad.

A. you should forget

B. forget you

C. shouldn’t you forget

D. should you forget

15. Some women _ _ a good salary in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work

for the sake of the family.

A. should make

B. should have made

C. would make

D. could have made

16. Often looking at your daily behavior from a different ______ will help you change your actions for the better.

A. procedure

B. perspective

C. principle

D. prediction

17.On no account can parents always _______ with the children, otherwise they will become more greedy and come up with more unreasonable requests.

A. compromise

B. overlook

C. disapprove

D. cooperate

18.In business negotiation, an _______ attitude may result in breaking the relationship with our partner

while a too frank communication may bring a company into an unfavorable situation.

A. accessible

B. aggressive

C. allergic

D. alternative

19.It seems ________ to our modern world, where everything is a rush and we try to cram as much into

every minute as possible, but if not busy, we feel unproductive and lazy.

A. controversial

B. conventional

C. contemporary

D. contradictory

20.Nowadays, a lot of children have less time to play and communicate with their peer due to extra studies.

________, it is difficult to develop their character and social skills.

A. Consequently

B. Occasionally

C. Eventually

D. Dramatically

21.In order to get happiness, many people chase after reputation or money aimlessly. However, in most

cases, real happiness is actually _________.

A. at ease

B. at hand

C. at length

D. at random

22.If not going through the thunder and the storm, you won’t see the rainbow, so you should not be _____

by temporary setbacks in our life.

A. cast down

B. put away

C. taken in

D. given out

23.In this age of information overload and abundance, those who get ahead will be the folks who figure out

what to________, so they can concentrate on what’s important to them.

A. carry out

B. turn out

C. bring out

D. leave out

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24.At the initial stages of postwar, _______ maintaining of cooperative relationship with USA and

strengthening Soviet’s interest, Stalin adopted negative attitude to the Communist Party of China.

A. in the possession of

B. for the sake of

C. at the mercy of

D. on the occasion of

25.We human beings experience a great liberalization and open-mindedness, which is ______ in our daily

attitude to the disabled, olds, females, especially homosexual populations.

A. distinguished

B. mirrored

C. declared

D. substituted

26. I advise you to stay away from Maria. Although she is usually easy-going, she ________ quite annoying

sometimes.

A. can

B. may

C. must

D. should

27. Recognized as ________ world cultural heritage by the United Nations in 2002, paper cutting is

________ practice which originated inancient China.

A. the; a

B. a; a

C. the; the

D. a; the

28. Although chatting on line has exploded in popularity in recent years, there is no ________ for a

face-to-face conversation.

A. privilege

B. affection

C. substitute