Unit2 Learning About Language 综合素养提升练
一、完形填空
Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad.
Instead of looking at nature, I 1 my email. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading 2 newspapers each morning. And that was the problem: I was acting as if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my 3 wasn’t.
So this year I made up my mind to try something 4: getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, 5 I’m not good at self-control. But I was 6. I started by handing the iPad to my wife. Then, a stroke of luck-them mobile phone 7 at our cabin was worse than in the past. I was trapped, forced to carry out my plan. Largely 8 from email and my favourite newspaper websites, I had little way to 9 the world. I had no 10 but to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.
With determination and the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle against the Internet. I finally 11 that it was me, of course, not the iPad, that was the 12.
I knew I had 13 when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “Don’t need it,” I said. 14, as we return to work, a test begins: Can I survive when I’m back at work I don’t plan to 15 my iPad completely. But I hope to resist the temptation (抵抗诱惑) to use it every five minutes.
1. A. received B. selected C. checked D. removed
2. A. online B. informal C. local D. traditional
3. A. opinion B. mind C. identity D. curiosity
4. A. attractive B. logical C. magical D. different
5. A. since B. unless C. though D. so
6. A. excited B. shocked C. frightened D. determined
7. A. quality B. design C. signal D. technology
8. A. taken out B. pulled down C. cut off D. carried away
9. A. rely on B. connect to C. help with D. look at
10. A. method B. goal C. trick D. choice
11. A. expected B. realised C. permitted D. suggested
12. A. puzzle B. sign C. evidence D. problem
13. A. won B. forgotten C. suffered D. recovered
14. A. Somehow B. Anyway C. However D. Therefore
15. A. take apart B. give up C. turn to D. care about
二、语法填空
It’s Global Youth Service Day, the largest youth service and citizen movement in the world and the only one that celebrates the contributions 1. ________ (make) by all youth aging from 5 to 25 through service.
The Youth Engagement Team of United Way of Central Indiana is taking 2. ________ (act) to advance the common benefits. When members found out that a small rural town northwest of Indianapolis, had the 3. ________ (high) percentage of financially stressed households in the area, they decided to do something about it. Since the town doesn’t have a public library, the team built a Little Free Library, and prepared 100 snack bags with notes of encouragement words inside for kids 4. ________ (involve) in the We All Matter after-school programme. The 5. ________ (child) will receive not only food for their bodies, but food for their minds as well, as the team is also donating books 6. ________ (get) the library up and running.
Serving 7. ________ a young age promotes healthy lifestyles and choices, teaches life skills, 8. ________ (improve) the community and encourages lifelong moral rules of giving. Are you ready to join youth like these in making 9. ________ difference Youth Service America offers excellent resources and your local United Way can point youth to the people and places 10. ________ need your support.
参考答案
一、完形填空
【语篇导读】本文是一篇记叙文,讲述了作者为了抵挡网络诱惑,在度假时尝试彻底远离网络的经历。
1. C 【解析】句意:我查看电子邮件而不是欣赏大自然的美景。check email为固定搭配,意为“查看电子邮件”。故选C项。
2. A 【解析】根据语境和下文的newspaper websites可知,作者每天早上用iPad读报,所以是读网络报纸。故选A项。
3. B 【解析】句意:我的身体在度假,但我的大脑却没有。此空应与my body对应。故选B项。
4. D 【解析】根据设空后的getting away from the Internet可知,作者今年度假想尝试一些与去年度假不同的事,即远离网络。故选D项。
5. A 【解析】根据设空后的I’m not good at self-control可知,设空前后为因果关系,前果后因,故选A项。
6. D 【解析】根据前一句中的I knew it wouldn’t be easy和空前的But可知,作者这次的改变是下定决心的。故选D项。
7. C 【解析】句意:一件幸运的事是我们小屋里手机的信号比过去差。故选C项。
8. C 【解析】引根据语境可知,没有Pad,手机信号不好,作者感觉自己与世隔绝。cut off意为“切断;中断”,符合语境。take out意为“抽出;除掉”;pull down意为“摧毁;拆掉”;carry away意为“拿走;运走”。故选C项。
9. B 【解析】引因为没有邮件,没有报纸网站,作者几乎没有办法与外面的世界联系。故选B项。
10. D 【解析】根据上一句中的I had little way to the world. 可知作者与世隔绝,只能实施自己读书的计划。have no choice but to do sth. 为固定搭配,意为“除了做某事别无选择”。故选D项。
11. B 【解析】引句意:我最终意识到有问题的是我,而不是Pad。故选B项。
12. D 【解析】句意参见上一题解析。根据上文可知,作者一直认为是Pad毁掉了他的假期,而这次远离网络的经历让他意识到网络本身没有问题,是自己的问题。故选D项。
13. A 【解析】路过星巴克时妻子问作者是否进去蹭网,作者说不需要,他觉得自己已经战胜了网络。故选A项。
14. C 【解析】句意:但是,当我回去上班时,会面临一个考验:我在工作中还能幸免于难吗?根据语境可知设空处表示转折关系。故选C项。
15. B 【解析】根据下一句But I hope to resist the temptation to use it every five minutes.可知,作者并不想完全放弃iPad。故选B项。
二、语法填空
【语篇导读】本文是一篇说明文,介绍了全球青年服务日及这一活动为社会所作的贡献。
1. made 【解析】句意:今天是全球青年服务日,这是世界上最大的青年服务和公民运动,也是唯一庆祝由所有5至25岁的青少年通过服务作出的贡献的活动。分析句子结构可知,设空处应用非谓语形式作定语;因contributions与make之间为逻辑上的动宾关系,此处应用过去分词形式作后置定语。故填made。
2. action 【解析】take action to do sth. 为固定搭配,意为“采取行动做某事”。故填action。
3. highest 【解析】句意:当成员们发现印第安纳波利斯西北部的一个农村小镇上经济困难家庭所占比例最大时,他们决定为此做点什么。设空处前有定冠词the修饰,其后有比较范围in the area,因此应用最高级形式。故填highest。
4. involved 【解析】句意:由于镇上没有公共图书馆,该团队建了一座小型免费图书馆,并为参与“我们都很重要”课后活动的孩子们准备了l00个零食袋,里面装有写着鼓励话语的字条。be involved in.为固定搭配,意为“参与”,设空处在句中作后置定语,修饰kids,因此省略be动词。故填involved。
5. children 【解析】句意:孩子们不仅能得到身体所需的食物,还能得到精神食粮,因为这个团队也正在捐赠书籍以让图书馆运转起来。
设空处为句子的主语,指代上文的kids,且根据句中的their可知,此处应用复数形式。故填children get。
6. to get 【解析】 句意参见上一题解析。此处表示他们捐赠图书的目的,因此,________ the library up and running在句中作目的状语,设空处应用动词不定式。故填to get。
7. at 【解析】at a young age意为“在小时候”,为固定短语。故填at。
8. improves 【解析】设空处与promotes、teaches、encourages.之间为并列关系,因此应用一般现在时。主语为动词-ing短语Serving at a young age. 设空处应用单数形式。故填improves。
9. a 【解析】make a difference为固定搭配,意为“起作用;有影响”。故填a。
10. that 【解析】分析句子结构可知,设空处引导定语从句,先行词为the people and places,既包含人又包含物,关系词在从句中作主语,应用that引导该从句。