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篇一:黑龙江省双城市2015高考英语语法填空及阅读类二轮训练(9)(含解析)

黑龙江双城市2015高考英语语法填空及阅读类2轮训练(9)及答案

【上海市徐汇区2014诊断卷】短文语法填空

He almost killed somebody, but one minute changed his life. This beautiful story comes from Sherman Rogers’ book, Foremen: Leaders or Drivers? .

In his true-life story, Rogers illustrates the importance of effective

relationships. During his college years, Rogers spent 34______ summer in an Idaho(爱达荷州) logging camp. When the superintendent had to leave for a few days, he put Rogers in charge.

“35______ if the men refuse to follow my orders?” Rogers asked. He thought of Tony, an immigrant worker who roared all day, giving the other men a hard time.

“Fire them,” the superintendent said. Then, as if 36______ (read) Roger’s mind, he added, “I suppose you think you are going to fire Tony if you get the chance. I’d feel badly about that. I have been logging for 40 years. Tony is the most reliable worker I’ve ever had. I know he hates everybody and everything. But he comes in first and leaves last. There has not been an accident for eight years on the hill 37______ he works.”

Rogers took over the next day. He went to Tony and spoke to him.

“Tony, do you know I’m in charge here today?” Tony grunted(发哼声). “I was going to fire you the first time we fought, but I want you to know I’m not,” he told Tony, adding what the superintendent 38______ (say).

When he finished, Tony dropped the shovelful of sand he had held and tears streamed down his face.

“Why he no tell me dat eight years ago?”

That day Tony worked harder than ever before --- and he smiled! He later said to Rogers, “My first foreman who ever say, ‘Good work, Tony’ and it made me feel like Christmas.”

Rogers went back to school after that summer. Twelve years later he met Tony again who was now superintendent for railroad construction for one of 39______ (large) logging companies in the West. Rogers asked him how he came to California and happened to have such success.

Tony replied, “If it not be for the one minute you talk to me back in Idaho, I keel somebody someday. One minute change my whole life.”

Effective managers know the importance of taking a moment to point out 40______ a worker is doing well. But what a difference a minute of affirmation can make in any relationship!

【参考答案】

(B) 34. a35. What36. reading37. where

38. had said39. the largest40. what

完型填空。阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从以下题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。[记叙文型完形填空] -

As I held my father's hands one night, I couldn't help but notice their calluses(老茧) and roughness. His hands tell the story of his life as a farmer,including all his struggles.

One summer, I remember,a drought(旱灾) hit Ontario, turning it into a __1__ desert. On one of those hot mornings I was picking sweet corn with my dad to fill the last __2__ from the grocery store. Fifty dozen was all we needed, which __3__ took twenty minutes. That morning,however, the process didn't__4__ quickly.After forty minutes of aimlessly walking in the field, we __5__ needed twenty dozen. I was completely frustrated and __6__.Dropping the basket heavily,I declared,“If the store wants its last twenty dozen,they can pick it themselves!” Dad __7__ ,“Just think, my little girl, only ten dozen left for each of us and then we're done.”Such is Dad—whatever problem he __8__ ,he never gives up.

Unfortunately,the disastrous effects of the drought were felt all over our country. It was a challenging time for everyone, __9__Dad remained optimistic.He continued to be grateful for other things like good health and food on our plates.Only then did I truly begin to __10__ Dad and his faith that guided us through the hard times. Dad is also a living example of real__11__.From dawn to dusk, he works countless hours to support our family.He always puts our happiness __12__ his own, and never fails to cheer me on at my sports games __13__ his exhaustion after long days.His loving and selfless nature has inspired me to become more sympathetic and __14__ , putting others first.

Dad, the life __15__ I have learned from you will stay with me forever.You are my father, teacher, friend and,most importantly,my hero.

1.A.stormy B.lively

C.disappearing D.burning

2.A.order B.form

C.gap D.position

3.A.repeatedly B.normally

C.finally D.really

4.A.go B.begin

C.occur D.change

5.A.yet B.still

C.even D.nearly

6.A.surprised B.nervous

C.angry D.frightened

7.A.apologized B.cried

C.complained D.laughed

8.A.meets with B.brings up

C.works out D.thinks about

9.A.or B.for

C.so D.but

10.A.face B.appreciate

C.examine D.question

11.A.love B.pride

C.friendship D.honesty

12.A.after B.before

C.beside D.under

13.A.in spite of B.in terms of

C.in control of D.in place of

14.A.careful B.regretful

C.considerate D.humorous

15.A.history B.mottos

C.patterns D.lessons

C

【要点综述】 本文是一篇记叙文。作者通过生活中的小事,描述了作为农民的父亲是一个勤劳、乐观且对家庭充满爱的人。借助此文,作者向父亲表达了深深的爱意,他是作者的父亲、老师、朋友,也是作者心目中的英雄。

1.D 考查形容词词义辨析及语境理解。根据空格前的a drought以及下一句的hot mornings可知,干旱把这个地区变成了一片燃烧的沙漠。stormy 有暴风雨的;lively 活跃的,生动的;disappearing 正在消失的;burning燃烧的。

2.A 考查语境理解。根据空格后的grocery store可知,作者和父亲正在拾玉米以完成订单。order订单,订货;form 形式;gap 裂口,间隙;position位置,地位。

3.B 考查语境理解。根据空下句中的however可知,拾玉米的过程进行得不顺利。此处表示“通常需要花20分钟的时间就能完成。”repeatedly 重复地;normally正常地;finally 最后,终于;really确实。

4.A 考查动词词义辨析及语境理解。句意:然而,那天早晨拾玉米的过程进行得并不顺利。go进行; begin开始;occur 发生;change改变。

5.B 考查语境理解。作者和父亲漫无目的地在地里走着,还需要20打玉米。

6.C 考查语境理解。由空格前的frustrated可知此处应填angry。

7.D 考查语境理解。从后面父亲的话语可知,父亲是很乐观的。故选D。

8.A 考查动词短语辨析及语境理解。句意:这就是“我”的父亲——不管他遇到什么问题,他从不放弃。meet with 遇到,碰到;bring up 养育,培养,提出;work out 解决,算出;think about思考。

9.D 考查语境理解。空格前的a challenging time与空格后的optimistic构成对比关系,即对每个人来说那都是一段具有挑战性的时期,但作者的父亲依旧保持着乐观。

10.B 考查动词词义辨析。face 面对;appreciate 欣赏,感激;examine 检查;question问(某人)问题,对(某事物)表示怀疑。根据语境可知选B。

11.A 考查语境理解。根据下文的“His loving and selfless nature?”可知,此段是在描述父亲是一个充满爱心的人。

12.B 考查语境理解。句意:他总是把“我们”的幸福置于他自己的幸福之前??

13.A 考查介词短语辨析及语境理解。空格前的cheer me on与空格后的his exhaustion构成逻辑上的对比关系,由此可知空格处缺表示转折的介词短语。in spite of 尽管,虽然;in terms of 就??而言;in control of 控制;in place of代替,取代。

14.C 考查形容词词义辨析及语境理解。与空格前的sympathetic意思相近的是

considerate。句意:他的爱和无私的品质鼓舞“我”变得更有同情心和更加体贴,把别人放在第一位。

15.D 考查名词词义辨析及语境理解。history 历史;motto 格言;pattern 模式,图案;lesson教训,道理。

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We're fortunate to live along a monarch butterfly migration path.Every fall,

篇二:江苏(丰县)2016高考英语(二轮)阅读理解选练(5)

【2015高考复习】阅读理解

For many people,volunteering is a way of life.Holidays are the time of the year that more people are in a giving mood.Homeless shelters,children’s hospitals,and nursing homes are excellent places to give of one’s time. Volunteering in Homeless Shelters

There is a homeless directory online that anyone can easily access to find the closest homeless shelter to their

home.According to the homeless shelter directory,currently there are 3,233 shelters in the US,so it is not difficult to find a shelter.Helping to serve food,picking up donations of food,preparing meals,and cleaning up are things that one can do to help at a homeless shelter.

Volunteering in Children’s Hospitals

Every child needs comfort and joy,especially during the holiday seasons.By visiting sick children in hospitals,an individual provides helping hands by supplementing the services usually done by the hospital

staff.Personalizing the hospital experience adds to the comfort and happiness of the children and their

families.Volunteers provide help,and positive interactions (相互交流) which enhance the patient’s quality of

care.Help is needed almost everywhere in a hospital;from the lobby,parking lot,cafeteria,to admitting,helping with the gift cart,and even reading to children in the waiting rooms or their hospital rooms.

Volunteering in Nursing Homes

According to the National Center for Health Statistics,“Over 50% of those living in nursing homes do not have close relatives and 46% have no living children.” Life in a nursing home is lonely,confusing,and frightening for many residents.Volunteering at a nursing home is a great opportunity to make a difference in someone else’s life.Playing cards,sitting with and talking to a resident,taking a walk,or sharing a meal makes a huge difference,especially when they have no other sole on earth to visit them.

The three examples above are only a small fraction of institutions in which volunteers are needed.Giving of oneself,especially during the holidays blesses and cheers others.

【语篇解读】 本文介绍了人们在假期中可以选择去做志愿活动的三个地方。

1.According to the passage,what can a volunteer do in nursing homes?

A.Visiting the sick children.

B.Picking up the donated food.

C.Helping with the gift cart.

D.Playing cards with a lonely old man.

解析 细节理解题。根据文中Volunteering in Nursing Homes部分的描述可知D项正确。A、C项是在children’s hospitals可以做的事,B项是在homeless shelters可以做的事。

答案 D

2.What can we learn about the volunteering?

A.You can only volunteer during the holidays.

B.You can help prepare meals in a nursing home.

C.It is easy to find a homeless shelter to volunteer.

D.Help is needed everywhere in a homeless shelter.

解析 细节理解题。根据文中的“There is a homeless directory online that anyone can easily access to find the closest homeless shelter to their home.”可知,人们很容易找到一个能在里面做志愿活动的流浪者之家。其他三项都是与文章内容不符。

答案 C

3.In a children’s hospital,which of the following is true?

A.Over 50% of those living there do not have relatives.

B.A personal visit brings happiness to a sick boy.

C.Children live a lonely and frightening life.

D.Children love listening to volunteers’ reading.

解析 细节理解题。根据文中Volunteering in Children’s Hospitals部分的描述可知B项正确,A、C两项错误,D项文中未提及。

答案 B

4.The best title for the passage would be________.

A.Giving of oneself cheers others

B.Volunteering is a way of life

C.Volunteering during the holidays

D.Giving is better than taking

解析 主旨大意题。全文主要介绍了假期中人们可以选择去做志愿活动的三个地方。故C项作为本文的标题最佳。

答案 C

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设题相似度:★★★

难度系数:★★★★★

We're fortunate to live along a monarch butterfly migration path.Every fall,thousands of them fly through our backyard,headed south for the winter.We always thought that a butterfly with a broken wing was a sad sight,but one we could do nothing about.We were wrong! Jeannette Brandt was bike riding near Hadley,in the southern Adirondacks of New York,a few weeks ago when she spotted an injured monarch butterfly and took it home in an empty water bottle.Brandt and her partner,Mike Parwana,fed the butterfly rotting pears and water sweetened with honey.The butterfly survived,and fattened up.But what to do about the broken wing?

The couple found an online video demonstrating butterfly wing repair which was posted by the nonprofit Live Monarch Foundation of Boca Raton, Florida.Tiny cardboard splints and contact cement did the trick.In another

week,the butterfly was flying at the couple's home.But by then,it was too cold in upstate New York to release the monarch into the wild.Monarchs are known for their 3,000 miles migration from Canada to Mexico.But this migration is usually finished by the end of October,and it was mid-November.

About a week ago,the couple put the monarch in a shoebox and went to Scotty's,a truck stop north of Albany,NY.Eventually,a good-natured trucker from Alabama,who was headed to Florida,volunteered to transport the monarch to the Sunshine State.Last Tuesday,the trucker called.The butterfly with the mended wing had been released in Florida,now free to join millions of other monarch butterflies migrating south to the mountains of central Mexico.

Note:

cardboard splints and contact cement薄纸夹板和接触粘合剂

【语篇解读】 本文记叙的是一对美国夫妇和一位卡车司机救助一只在迁徙中翅膀受伤的帝王蝶的故事。

1.We can learn from Paragraph One that the butterfly ________.

A.was hit by a motorbike

B.was noticed by a US woman

C.would spend winter in Hadley

D.was too old to go on flying

答案 B [细节理解题。根据第一段第五句“Jeannette Brandt...when she spotted an injured monarch

butterfly...”可知,这只受伤的帝王蝶是由一位美国妇女发现的。]

2.The main problem of the butterfly's wing was ________.

A.how to treat the illness of the butterfly

B.how to keep the butterfly at home

C.how to help the butterfly reach Mexico

D.how to get the butterfly's favorite food

答案 C [推理判断题。根据第二段第四句“But by then,it was...into the wild”和第五句“Monarchs are known...from Canada to Mexico”可知,蝴蝶翅膀修复以后,主要的困难就是如何帮助它到达墨西哥以完成迁徙。]

3.According to the last paragraph,the couple went to Scotty's to ________.

A.ask help from truck drivers

B.release the butterfly there

C.attract the attention of the public

D.ask for experts' advice

答案 A [推理判断题。由最后一段可知,在一位好心的卡车司机的帮助下,这只帝王蝶赶上了浩荡的蝴蝶迁徙队伍。]

4.What does the author seem to agree?

A.It is useless to learn to repair insects' wings.

B.A monarch butterfly's wings are likely to get hurt.

C.A monarch butterfly can be kept as a pet.

D.It is quite possible to repair a butterfly's wings.

答案 D [细节理解题。根据第一段第三句“We always thought...do nothing about”和第四句“We were wrong”,再联系本文故事可知,作者认为修复蝴蝶翅膀是完全可能的。]

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选材相似度:★★★★

设题相似度:★★★

难度系数:★★★★

Mankind evolved to possess the fight-or-flight stress response,allowing us to survive in a dangerous world.Yet in today's man-made jungle,it has become one of our greatest killers.

Even simple tasks,such as driving to work,are often compounded by emotional responses: expletives hurled,fists shaken in anger and aggressive threats made toward other drivers.We forget to turn off our nature and instead allow stress,anger and frustration to take physical control of our bodies.

Why Stress,Anger and Frustration are Problematic

The problem with stress and anger in the modern world is that most stressful or frustrating scenaries do not

require an active physical response.There are no lions or tigers to escape,only imaginary ones.Our inactivity in the face of stress or frustration causes most of us not to recognize that our fight-or-flight response system has been started.Our bodies often exist in a state of constant panic,and the chemicals and hormones released into the blood become toxic,resulting in heart disease,arthritis,osteoporosis,diabetes and certain How to Keep Stress,Anger and Frustration from Killing You

The first thing to do in the battle against stress and anger is to recognize them.Recognizing triggers and physical responses to stressful situations can help you reduce them.Once you recognize that a stressful situation has triggered a physiological response,physical activity.Walking,running,biking,jumping or any energetic activity will help bring the body back into equilibrium.While it may seem strange to do 100 jumping jacks after a stressful meeting or go for a jog after getting into an argument with your wife,it can save your life.It only feels unnatural because our environment is unnatural.Don't let stress,anger or frustration eat at you.Fight back through exercise.

Notes:

①frustration n.挫折 ②equilibrium n.平衡

长短句分析:Our bodies often exist in a state of constant panic,and the chemicals and hormones released into the blood become toxic,resulting in heart disease,arthritis,osteoporosis,diabetes and certain cancers.

句法点睛:and前后为顺承关系,resulting是动名词形式作结果状语。

句意:我们的身体常常处于一种持续的恐慌状态,这使得化学物质和释放入血液中的荷尔蒙变得有毒,从而导致心脏病、关节炎、骨质疏松症、糖尿病和某些癌症。

【语篇解读】 本文是一篇说明文,主要讲述了面对压力、愤怒和挫折,人们最佳的应对方法——进行体育活动。

1.Which of the following isn't mentioned in the passage as the expression of emotional response during driving to work?

A.Expletives hurled.

B.Sweat all over.

C.Fists shaken in anger.

D.Aggressive threats.

答案 B [细节理解题。由第二段第一句“Even simple tasks,such as driving to work,are often compounded by emotional responses:expletives hurled,fists shaken in anger and aggressive threats made toward other drivers.”可知,A项、C项和D项都在文中有信息支持,只有B项未提及。]

2.What can we infer from the underlined sentence?

A.Our biological response is not as useful as before.

B.There is something wrong with our biological response.

C.Our biological response now affects us in a bad way.

D.Our biological response now makes us the prey of other livings.

答案 C [推理判断题。这句话直译是“数千年来使得我们成为捕猎者的生物反应现在反过来使得我们成为被捕猎者”。意味着以前帮助我们生存的生物反应现在使得我们在生存中变得十分被动,因而C项正确。其他选项均不合语境。]

3.Find out a word which has the similar meaning with the underlined phrase in this passage.

A.Equilibrium. B.Stressful.

C.Unnatural. D.Frustrating.

答案 A [词义猜测题。由语境可知,使身体回到“homeostatic state”的最好方式是进行体育活动。后面一句对上文进行了进一步解说。equilibrium和homeostatic state是同义词。]

4.Which of the following is NOT the right way to keep you from stress,anger and frustration?

A.Do jumping jacks. B.Go for a jog.

C.Have a walk. D.Stay at home doing nothing.

答案 D [推理判断题。由最后一段最后两句“Don't let stress,anger or frustration eat at you.Fight back through exercise.”可知,击败压力、愤怒和挫折的最好办法是进行体育活动。选项中只有D项不是体育活动。]

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篇三:十大动物迁徙奇迹

1. 帝王蝶:有翅膀就能飞翔

帝王蝶:有翅膀就能飞翔

帝王蝶

有翅膀就能飞翔

帝王蝶的大规模迁徙可能是任何其他昆虫中,飞行距离和持续时间最长的。帝王蝶迁徙一次需要很长时间,而且迁徙一次往往需要很多代才能完成。然而 帝王蝶迁徙最令人感到震惊的地方可能是,人们直到1975年才发现它们在墨西哥中部欧亚梅尔杉(oyamel fir)丛林中过冬的栖息地。

明年帝王蝶是否还能继续它们的大规模迁徙活动?目前它们面临一系列困难,其中一些是人为因素造成的。非法砍伐森林、伐木造田和人口压力都会增加 它们的迁徙难度,除此以外,定期出现的厄尔尼诺现象也会给它们的迁徙带来影响,例如2009年到2010年间的厄尔尼诺现象,使它们的冬季栖息地遭到降 雨、

冰雹和大雪袭击。帝王蝶还能坚持多久?只有时间可以告诉我们这一切。

2. 角马迁徙:惊心动魄

角马迁徙:惊心动魄

角马迁徙

它们将穿过肯尼亚马赛马拉地区的边界线,前往塞 伦盖蒂西部水草丰美的平原

和林地。

电影摄制者和野生生物纪录片制片人经过几十年的努力,已经证实有超过100万只非洲角马和斑马进行每年一次迁徙活动。每年2月,坦桑尼亚南部塞 伦盖蒂平原恩戈罗地区的角马大迁徙开始。迁徙开始的具体时间,根据产犊季节的进展情况来定。在产犊季节,大约会有50万只新生命诞生,但是到了3月初,会 有超过50万只斑马、将近200万只角马和大约10万只其他食草动物参与到这次大规模迁徙活动中来,它们将穿过肯尼亚马赛马拉地区的边界线,前往塞伦盖蒂 西部水草丰美的平原和林地。

这个前往塞伦盖蒂的动物大军必须面临的最后一个障碍——马拉河,是最具挑战性的。在干旱贫瘠的热带大草原经历长达数周的迁徙,在此期间它们得到 的食物和水很少,这大大削弱了它们的体力,不过它们还要渡过这条水流湍急,而


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