放暑假了，同学们应该怎样度过这个暑假呢?高中阶段是我们一生中学习的“黄金时期”。暑假这一个月的时间对同学们尤其重要。下文为大家准备了高二英语暑假作业练习题。

一、美文晨读

To protect celebrities from the photographers who hound them, the mayor of Malibu has made a decision. “All professional photographers who want to take photos of celebrities in Malibu must be licensed. The license will cost $2,000 a year,” said Mayor Eddie Arnold. “I know that sounds like a lot, but these people can make a lot of money off one photo.”

In fact, a recent photo of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s new baby sold for $4 million. They had contracted with a magazine for the photo, and then donated the money to a charity for children. A couple of years before that, a photo of Brad and Angelina walking along an African beach sold for $400,000. So celebrity photos, contracted or candid, can make a photographer wealthy. But the stalking that goes on can make a celebrity crazy; recently, an actor punched out a photographer.

Stalking can be dangerous to the public, too. Recently, paparazzi in nine different cars chased after Britney Spears as she left a friend's house to go to a nearby restaurant. The driver of one car, intent on beating his competitors, struck a man in a crosswalk. The man was taken to the hospital with two broken legs. Nobody took his photo.

That accident prompted the mayor’s decision. The very cost of the license, he said, would reduce the number of photographers who hang around in Malibu. “Good riddance,” said one restaurant owner. “Some of them hang around my restaurant every Saturday. They never buy lunch or dinner. They just use my rest room all day long.”

The paparazzi, of course, were angry. “We’re just little people trying to make a buck,” said Ansel Adams. “Most of us never have big paydays. Malibu should collect the $2,000 only if we actually sell a photo.”

二、词汇训练

1. Researchers c_________ living conditions in London with those in other places.

2. I don’t think anybody m _________ to her apart from herself.

3. He prefers q__________ to quality when food is concerned.

4. The d_________we have collected are not enough to be convincing.

5. Everything was in a s_________ of disorder.

6. The number of the children in the school has __________(降低)by 500 this year.

7. She _________(安排)all her business affairs before going on holiday.

8. Some children can’t go to school because of _________(缺乏)of money.

9. He studied the German market to find the _________(潜力)there for profitable investment.

10. Having no children of their own they decided to __________(收养)an orphan.

三、阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Dawn graduated several years ago. She __1__________(be) a successful model, and 2________(find) a job had not been a problem ─ until _3_________(recent).

When Dawn did start trying to find another type of job, she found in interview after interview that computer literacy was a must to  4 _____(employ).

__5_______ Dawn had always been afraid of learning computer while in college ─ our school didn’t require to learn computer at that time — she managed to get a degree __6_______ ever confronting(面对) a computer.

Finally, after months of searching for a job, Dawn failed. She had to admit that sidestepping (回避) computer literacy hadn’t been a good idea._7______, She enrolled in a computer course at 8 ____adult vocational school.

__9__________(surprise), although she had been afraid of learning computer, she took to computers __10________much that after about a year she opened her own computer-based business.

四、阅读理解

A

During the early years of the settlement of the American continent, a highly distinctive form of English, spoken by the black population, was beginning to develop in the islands of the West Indies and the southern part of the mainland. The beginning of the seventeenth century saw the emergence(出现)of the slave trade. Ships from Europe traveled to the West African coast, where they exchanged cheap goods for black slaves. The slaves were shipped in terrible conditions to the Caribbean islands and the American coast, where they were in turn exchanged for such products as sugar and molasses. The ships then returned to England, completing an “Atlantic triangle” of journeys, and the process began again. Britain and the United States had outlawed the slave trade by 1865, but by that time, nearly 200 years of trading had taken place. By the middle of the nineteenth century, there were over four million black slaves in America.

The policy of the slave-traders was to bring people of different language backgrounds together in the ships, to make it difficult for groups to plan rebellion. The result was the growth of several pidgin(混杂的)forms of communication, and in particular a pidgin between the slaves and the sailors, many of whom spoke English. Once they arrived in the Caribbean, this pidgin English continued to act as a major means of communication between the black population and their new owners, and among the blacks themselves. Then, when children came to be born, the pidgin became their mother tongue, thus producing the first black Creole(克里奥尔语)speech in the region. This Creole English rapidly came to be used throughout the cotton plantations(种植园), and in the coastal towns and islands.

1. Which of the following is the correct route taken by slave traders?

A. Europe → the West African coast → the Caribbean islands and the American coast → England.

B. Europe → the West African coast → Europe → the Caribbean islands and the American coast.

C. The West African coast → Europe → the Caribbean islands and the American coast → Europe.

D. The West African coast → Europe → the Caribbean islands and the American coast → the West African  coast.

2. It can be inferred that slaves in the same ship _____.

A. didn’t communicate with each other     B. could understand several languages

C. spoke different languages              D. came from the same place

3. Creole speech comes from _____.

A. Spanish and English

B. English and African languages

C. a European language and an American language

D. an African language and an Asian language

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The history of the slave trade.        B. The so-called “Atlantic triangle”.

C. Languages spoken in America.       D. How a particular version of English was born.