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Unit 1 单元加餐练
Ⅰ.阅读理解
With the click of a mouse consumers can purchase the goods and service they need at online shops. What they have to do is waiting for the goods sent to their homes. We shall all be grateful to the pioneers of online shopping for bringing us such convenience.
Michael Aldrich (the U.K.)
Online shopping was invented and pioneered by Michael Aldrich in the U.K. In 1979 he connected a television via a telephone line to a real time multi user transaction (交易) processing computer. He sold mainly Business to Business systems. There were a number of significant world firsts with new applications in several business fields.
Jeff Bezos (the U.S.A.)
Jeff Bezos defined online shopping and rewrote the rules of commerce. Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web server and browser (浏览器) in 1990. In 1994, Jeff Bezos read an article about how the World Wide Web was growing by 2,300% a year. He knew he had to tap into such a great potential for commerce. On July 6, 1995, Bezos launched Amazon.com, which operated out of the garage of his two bedroom home in suburban Seattle, Washington. With almost no publicity, sales took off immediately. The company has now expanded into dozens of product categories, forcing the world's biggest retailer (零售商) to rethink their business models, and finally changing the way people shop.
Jack Ma (China)
As a child, Jack Ma was bad at math but fascinated by English. He traveled to the United States in 1995 as a translator to help a Chinese firm recover payment. The attempt failed. But a friend in Seattle showed Ma the Internet, and an idea began brewing.
In 1999, Mr. Ma gathered 17 friends and founded Alibaba in his apartment in Hangzhou. Alibaba's model was simple: allow small and medium sized Chinese companies to find global buyers they would otherwise only be able to meet at trade shows. It works brilliantly. Alibaba's sales are now more than those of eBay and Amazon combined.
语篇解读:本文主要介绍了对网上购物有深远影响的三位人物以及他们对电子商务的促进作用。
1.What made Amazon.com a success
A.Business to Business systems.
B.The World Wide Web server and browser.
C.Commercial publicity.
D.Help from retailers.
解析:选B 细节理解题。根据第三段的“Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web server and browser (浏览器) in 1990.”及“With almost no publicity, sales took off immediately.”可知,亚马逊公司依托互联网发展迅猛。故选B项。
2.How did Jack Ma have the idea of founding Alibaba
A.A translator helped him.
B.A Chinese firm inspired him.
C.He was introduced to the Internet.
D.He was funded by some companies.
解析:选C 细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句“But a friend in Seattle showed Ma the Internet, and an idea began brewing.”可知,当朋友把互联网介绍给马云时,他开始有了想法。故选C项。
3.What do the pioneers have in common
A.They have improved computers.
B.They have sold goods worldwide.
C.They have enlarged product categories.
D.They have contributed to online shopping.
解析:选D 推理判断题。根据介绍的人物可知,他们都在互联网背景下从事商业贸易活动,因此他们都对网上购物起到了推动作用。故选D项。
Ⅱ.阅读七选五
__1__ Moving from high school into college can be especially difficult because of the freedom students experience in college along with a new set of expectations.
In high school, students usually live at home, and their parents take care of all their physical needs such as food and housing. __2__ Parents are also there to offer help and make sure that the students' homework is done. During the school day, students rarely have free time. They go directly from one class to another. Teachers are always around to tell the students what to do. __3__ So students can often complete their homework and reading in a short time.
__4__ They may be responsible for shopping, paying bills, and laundry. They also may have to cook their own meals. Their parents are not around to help with homework or even to check if it has been done. Contrary to students in high school, students in college may have a lot of free time between classes, but must discipline themselves to use this time productively for homework and other assignments. __5__
A.Students do not usually have to shop for their food, take time to pay bills, or even do their own laundry.
B.High school students have to bury themselves in piles of papers.
C.Finally, the work itself is not so challenging.
D.By contrast, in college, students often live away from home in dorms or apartments.
E.In college, students may apply to a bank loan and others will try to find part time jobs.
F.Each new level of education brings new challenges and demands to students.
G.Most importantly, college requires a higher level of thinking and a lot more work than high school.
语篇解读:每一个新阶段的教育都会给学生带来新的挑战和要求,本文详细介绍了大学和高中生活学习的不同之处。
1.选F 设空处下一句中提到“Moving from high school into college”和F项中的“Each new level of education”吻合。故选F项。
2.选A 根据上文提到的“their parents take care of all their physical needs”可知,此处应是家长为孩子做的具体的事情,也就是孩子不需要做的事情。本段和第三段形成对比,所以也可以根据第三段中的“They may be responsible for shopping, paying bills, and laundry. They also may have to cook their own meals.”判断出A项内容与之相符。故选A项。
3.选C 根据上文“Teachers are always around to tell the students what to do.”和下文“So students can often complete their homework and reading in a short time.”可知,此处应是描述学生的作业,而且是说作业并不是很难。这与C项(最后,作业本身并没有太大的挑战性)相符。故选C项。
4.选D By contrast这个短语起到了承上启下的作用,且本段和第二段是明显的对比关系,所以本段首句应和第二段的首句形成鲜明的对比,D项(与之对比,在大学,学生经常远离家,住在学生宿舍或公寓)符合语境。故选D项。
5.选G 上文描述了在大学和在高中的区别,G项中的“college requires a higher ...than high school”是两者之间的对比,符合语境。故选G项。
Ⅲ.完形填空
In my youth, I often disagreed seriously with my father about some issues.Once, my father even hit me, and then he burst out __1__.
The memory of those tears says more to me about who my father was than the memories of our __2__.I never doubted that he loved me, even in those moments when I felt least __3__ by him.He was a man who __4__ not onlypeople he knew and loved, but also those in need he didn't __5__ at all.He taught me to love people __6__.In his life, he always did something out of __7__, for example, preparing and serving meals for __8__ people at St.Ben's parish (教区) in Milwaukee's inner city.After my father retired, he took his social action to a __9__ level.
Admitted to a ministry program that introduced him to Catholic social action, he __10__ it happily.Meanwhile he became __11__ about how unconcerned the people in his district were about the life of the less __12__.When he graduated from the program, he became the Social Programs Coordinator for his district, continually __13__ the citizens there to give moreto those in need, __14__ he died at eighty one.
Because of the __15__ set by my father, I have a responsibility to give of myself — not just to those I know and love, but to those I would never know if I didn't __16__ them out: the poor and the disabled.It is because of my father's guidance that I try to __17__ 10 percent of my income to charity.It is also because of my father's guidance that I spend two hours a week __18__ a blind man.
I don't do it out of guilt but out of love, because I saw love in my father's __19__, in his tears and in the way he lived his life.Because of him, I __20__ love.
语篇解读:本文是夹叙夹议文。作者的父亲热衷于公益事业,为他树立了榜样,也让作者学会了关爱他人。
1.A.crying B.annoying
C.regretting D.cheering
解析:选A 根据下文的“The memory of those tears”可知,因作者和父亲意见分歧,父亲打了作者之后哭了。
2.A.achievements B.progress
C.cooperation D.arguments
解析:选D 根据第一段可知,作者和父亲因意见分歧而争辩。
3.A.followed B.blamed
C.accompanied D.understood
解析:选D 即使是在父亲最不理解作者的时候,作者也从不怀疑父亲对自己的爱。
4.A.dealt with B.cared about
C.heard about D.agreed with
解析:选B 根据下文的“He taught me to love people”可知,父亲关爱他人。
5.A.know B.praise
C.mention D.remember
解析:选A 父亲不仅关爱他认识的人,也关爱他不认识的人。
6.A.simply B.secretly
C.personally D.genuinely
解析:选D 父亲教作者真诚地关爱他人。
7.A.charity B.culture
C.finance D.society
解析:选A 根据下文可知,父亲总是慷慨助人。do something out of charity“慷慨助人”。
8.A.common B.devoted
C.homeless D.occupied
解析:选C 例如,父亲总是为那些无家可归的人提供饭菜。
9.A.primary B.low
C.new D.normal
解析:选C 父亲关爱他人,他退休后,将关爱他人的做法上升到一个新的高度。
10.A.ignored B.accepted
C.admitted D.prepared
解析:选B 根据上文讲到的父亲热衷于社会公益事业的做法可知,当他被允许进入一个牧师项目时,他愉快地接受了。
11.A.angry B.realistic
C.careful D.impatient
解析:选A 从上文讲到父亲热衷于关心那些弱势群体的做法可知,他对他所在社区的人们不关心不幸的人的做法很生气。
12.A.competitive B.energetic
C.intelligent D.fortunate
解析:选D 参见上题解析。
13.A.forcing B.inviting
C.calling on D.calling up
解析:选C 父亲从这个项目毕业后,继续呼吁居民帮助那些需要帮助的人。
14.A.after B.until
C.though D.because
解析:选B 根据上文讲述的父亲热衷于关爱他人的公益事业的做法可知,他从事公益事业直到他去世为止。
15.A.task B.level
C.example D.standard
解析:选C 根据下文的“It is because of my father's guidance”可知,作者对社会的责任感是以父亲为榜样的。
16.A.take B.seek
C.make D.carry
解析:选B 如果作者没有找到穷人和残疾人这些需要帮助的人,他永远不会知道他们。
17.A.explain B.return
C.show D.give
解析:选D 作者把自己每月的10%的收入捐给慈善机构。
18.A.recognizing B.thanking
C.assisting D.encouraging
解析:选C 作者对社会上需要关爱的人提供帮助,比如他一周会花两个小时帮助一位盲人。
19.A.actions B.speeches
C.aims D.memories
解析:选A 作者从父亲的行为、眼泪和生活方式中感受到了爱。
20.A.hold back B.come across
C.believe in D.depend on
解析:选C 根据上文讲述的作者和父亲对他人的关爱的做法可知,受父亲的影响,作者深信要关爱他人。
Ⅳ.语法填空
About 40 years ago, Jadav Payeng, an Indian teenager, began planting trees in a huge sandbar (沙洲) near his birthplace.With his hard work and great efforts, he has turned the sandbar __1__ a forest.
It was 1979, __2__ Payeng was only 16, and floods had washed a great number of snakes onto the sandbar.When Payeng found them, they had all died.“Because of the __3__ (absent) of trees, the snakes died in __4__ heat.It was really __5__ (pain), so I decided to grow bamboos and trees there,” said Payeng.
Over the years, Payeng __6__ (plant) over 1,360 acres (英亩) of forest.The forest, __7__ (name) after its creator, is believed to be the world's biggest forest in the middle of a river. The once lifeless sandbar is now home to several thousands of __8__ (variety) of trees and an amazing diversity of wildlife, including birds, deer, apes, elephants and even tigers.In 2015, Payeng __9__ (honor) with Padma Shri, one of the top awards in India.
Today, Payeng still lives in the forest.He shares a small house with his wife and three children __10__ makes a living by selling cow and buffalo milk.
语篇解读:本文是记叙文。印度曾经的一片沙洲如今却成了1 360英亩的森林,有着各种各样的植物,吸引着无数动物前来光顾。这一切的转变,全靠一个人,他就是Jadav Payeng。
1.into turn ...into ...是习惯搭配,意为“将……变成……”。
2.when 此处when用作关系副词,引导非限制性定语从句,修饰先行词1979, 其中when在从句中作时间状语。
3.absence 空格中所填单词在句中作because of的宾语,且空前有冠词the,故用absent的名词形式。
4.the 此处heat为不可数名词,in the heat意为“在炎热的天气中”。
5.painful 空格中所填单词在句中作表语,需用pain的形容词形式。
6.has planted “over + 一段时间”作状语时,句子谓语用现在完成时。
7.named named after its creator是过去分词短语作后置定语,修饰the forest, 分词动作name与被修饰词之间是被动关系。
8.varieties thousands of修饰名词,被修饰名词需用复数形式;varieties of表示“各种各样的”。
9.was honored 主语Payeng是谓语动词动作honor的承受者,用被动语态;时间状语in 2015与一般过去时连用。
10.and 空前和空后属于并列谓语,故用and连接。
Ⅴ.应用文写作
假设你是李华。你的美国笔友Susan最近收到了某所大学的录取通知书,但由于经济原因准备放弃入学资格。请根据以下要点给她写一封信,劝说她不要放弃:
1.上大学的重要性;2.如何解决所面临的困难。
注意:1.词数80左右;
2.信的开头已给出,但不计入总词数;
3.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Susan,
I am sorry to hear that you have decided not to go to college.
Yours,
Li Hua
参考范文:
Dear Susan,
I am sorry to hear that you have decided not to go to college. I am writing to try to persuade you not to do that. The reasons are as follows.
First, education has a long lasting influence on our future. No one can ignore the fact that well educated people usually perform better in their career and enjoy a better life. Second, we all meet certain difficulties in our lives and what we should do is take up the challenges and try to overcome them. Third, you can apply for a student loan or take part time jobs to earn some money. Of course I will try my best to help you too.
In short, I hope you can accept the offer from that college.
Yours,
Li Hua