Book 2 Unit 1 Cultural relics
Ⅰ.单项填空
1.It is reported that there was an air crash in Cuba.Nobody on board ________ it with all the passengers and the crew killed.
A.avoided B.escaped
C.missed D.survived
答案 D
解析 survive为及物动词,后面直接跟宾语。只有D项符合句意。
2.The newly-built houses,specially ________ the old are sold well this year.
A.designed for B.designed to
C.designing for D.designing to
答案 A
解析 句子主语和design之间是被动关系,且句中的the old为名词,故用designed for。
3.Charles Babbage is generally considered ________ the first computer.
A.to invent B.inventing
C.having invented D.to have invented
答案 D
解析 sb.is considered to have done sth.认为某人做过某事。
4.What do you advise for ________ ink from my clothes?
A.removing B.moving
C.getting D.bringing
答案 A
解析 句意为:你建议采用何种方法除去衣服上的墨迹?remove sth.from someplace意为“从某地清除某物”。
5.In April,thousands of holidaymakers remained________abroad due to the volcanic ash cloud. (2010·福建,34)
A.sticking B.stuck
C.to be stuck D.to have stuck
答案 B
解析 句意为:四月份,由于火山灰云的影响,成千上万的度假者被滞留在海外。空格处用过去分词stuck表示“被卡住”,引申为“被滞留”,符合句意。现在分词表示动作正在进行;动词不定式表示将要发生的动作,不符合句意。
6.He said it was ________ impossible to buy the novel which was ________ worth reading.
A.very;very B.very;quite
C.much;much D.quite;well
答案 D
解析 quite impossible完全不可能;be well worth doing很值得做……。
7.I don’t think such a young child will be able to ________ the two Italian visitors apart.
A.say B.speak C.read D.tell
答案 D
解析 句意为:我认为这么小的一个孩子不能把这两个意大利游客区分开。tell...apart分清。
8.On no account________do anything that benefits ourselves but harms the interests of the state.
A.we should B.should we
C.we are to D.are to we
答案 B
解析 考查倒装。on no account“决不”放于句首,句子应倒装,故A、C两项不对;D项中的to如放到we后也对。
9.—________ does the computer belong to?
—It belongs to ________.
A.Whose;mine B.Whose;my
C.Who;Tom’s D.Who;me
答案 D
解析 belong to后接代词时应用宾格。故只能选D项。
10.________ a certain doubt among the people as to the practical value of the project.
A.It has B.They have
C.It remains D.There remains
答案 D
解析 考查固定句型。此句实际上是考查句型There is a certain doubt...,这里用系动词remain代替了is。
Ⅱ.完形填空
The world has almost seven billion people.At least two billion are__1__to be on the Internet by January.New growth is__2__from developing countries.Yet only twenty-one percent of their__3__is online.
A group called the World Wide Web Foundation is working to make the Web more__4__to more of the world.
Tim Berners-Lee is the British computer scientist who__5__the World Wide Web.He__6__the launch of the Web Foundation last November.
The group says many people can access the Web__7__are unable to use it.The biggest__8__is illiteracy(文盲).
The latest United Nations report says almost eight hundred million adults are__9__to read or write.Even for those who can__10__,much of the information that is available on the Web is not in a language they can understand.
Tim Berners-Lee first__11__the idea for the World Wide Web in 1989.This was twenty years after Americans__12__the first version of what we know as the Internet.
The Internet is a network of networks.It lets millions of__13__communicate with each other.The Web is a__14__part.However,people now often use applications that are not Web-based,like on social networks and mobile devices__15__the iPhone.
Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way to help people__16__information.His early work brought the Hypertext Markup Language,or HTML,__17__to create Web pages.It also gave us the Hypertext Transfer Protocol—the HTTP before Web addresses.
Steve Bratt says the World Wide Web Foundation wants everyone to be able to use this__18__.Partnerships with the Web Science Trust and the World Wide Web Consortium__19__create applications that make the Web more user-friendly.Steve Bratt says mobile technology is an important part of that work,__20__more and more people use their phones to go online.
1.A.expected B.explained
C.watched D.realized
答案 A
解析 此处是说截止到1月份,“预计”使用互联网的人数为20亿。
2.A.secretly B.eagerly
C.firmly D.mostly
答案 D
解析 联系下句“然而在线人数只占了那些(发展中)国家总人口的21%”可以推知,此处说新增网民大部分来自发展中国家。mostly大部分,主要地,符合语境。
3.A.environment B.knowledge
C.population D.government
答案 C
解析 由上文提到的全世界共有接近70亿人口及预期至少有20亿人使用互联网可以推知,此处主要是说“人口”。
4.A.natural B.personal
C.formal D.usable
答案 D
解析 由第7空后的“...are unable to use it.”可以推知,此处指“万维网基金会”的目的是让更多人可以使用网络。usable可用的,符合语境。
5.A.invented B.happened
C.copied D.translated
答案 A
解析 由第八段第一句可知,Tim Berners-Lee是万维网的发明者,故此处用invent。
6.A.knew B.announced
C.gathered D.adjusted
答案 B
解析 由语境可知,他于去年11月份“宣布”成立“万维网基金会”。
7.A.and B.but
C.or D.so
答案 B
解析 前面提到的“许多人能进入因特网”与下文的“不会使用”之间构成转折关系,故选but。
8.A.idea B.reason
C.promise D.service
答案 B
解析 文盲应该是前一句提到的许多人可以上网却不会使用网络的原因,故此处用reason。
9.A.quick B.ready
C.unable D.willing
答案 C
解析 句意为:联合国最新的一份报告表明,接近8亿的成年人不会读写。
10.A.read B.hear
C.write D.see
答案 A
解析 根据上一句中的unable to read以及空前的Even可以推知,此处指“即使对那些会读的人来说,网上的大部分信息用的也是他们不懂的语言”。
11.A.refused B.demanded
C.proposed D.arranged
答案 C
解析 由后面的idea可知,概念应该是被提出的,故选propose符合题意。
12.A.developed B.analyzed
C.studied D.scanned
答案 A
解析 由语境可知,这是美国开发出互联网的首个版本的20年之后。develop开发,研制,符合语境。
13.A.radios B.lines
C.windows D.computers
答案 D
解析 由常识可知,互联网就是由网络组成的网,将数百万台“电脑”连接在一起。
14.A.serious B.great
C.lucky D.major
答案 D
解析 此处指网络是连接电脑的主要部分。major主要的,符合语境。
15.A.for B.like
C.as D.with
答案 B
解析 根据上下文可知,此处为举的例子。故选like。
16.A.share B.control
C.create D.meet
答案 A
解析 由常识可知,万维网可让人们“分享”信息。
17.A.raised B.found
C.explored D.used
答案 D
解析 此处指他的早期研究带来了用于创建网页的超文本标记语言。故use符合语境。
18.A.information B.technology
C.toy D.attitude
答案 A
解析 由第16空后的information可知,这个基金会的目的是让更多的人使用这些“信息”。
19.A.lead to B.devote to
C.apply to D.aim to
答案 D
解析 此处指国际网络科学协会和万维网联盟合作的目的是创建让网络更方便使用的应用程序。aim to目的是。
20.A.though B.as
C.unless D.if
答案 B
解析 句意为:Steve Bratt称,随着越来越多的人使用手机上网,移动技术已成为这项工作的重要组成部分。
Ⅲ.阅读理解
Hundreds of great books are published in America every year.And every year,editors,critics and many readers try to choose a list of favorites.
A few books showed up on list after list of the best fiction from this year.One of them was Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder.Publishers Weekly described the novel as one “readers_will_hate_to_
see_end”.The story centers on a drug researcher from Minnesota named Maria Singh.She travels to Brazil to investigate the death of a co-worker.Her search takes her deep into the Amazon area and danger.But she also goes deep into her own soul for a close look at who she is,what she has lost in her life and how she wants the future to look.Ann Patchett lives in Tennessee.She told Publishers Weekly magazine that the state is leafy.She visited that area while doing research for the novel.
Chad Harbach’s name was also all over the critics’ best lists this year for his first book,The Art of Fielding.The New Yorker magazine praised the novel for the easy way it joins a love of baseball with a love of literature.The book is about a college baseball star.He suffers a mental crisis and begins to fail on the playing field as a result.But the book is about much more than the sport of baseball.It is also a story of love,loss,friendship and growing up.Chad Harbach says his own upbringing influenced the book.
The Marriage Plot also got a lot of attention this year.It is the third book from Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides.He spent almost ten years writing it.The Marriage Plot is also a story about becoming an adult.It follows the lives of three students in their final year of college and beyond.Leonard struggles with manic depression,Mitchell,with religious belief and Madeleine struggles with her feelings for both men.
1.What does the underlined part “readers will hate to see end” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.Readers love State of Wonder very much.
B.Readers don’t like reading State of Wonder.
C.Readers don’t like Ann Patchett’s writing style.
D.Readers don’t want to read the end of State of Wonder.
答案 A
解析 句意猜测题。从下面的介绍可知,作为榜首之一,自然是读者很喜欢看的。故选A。
2.What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A.Maria Singh’s co-worker died of serious illness.
B.The story focuses on a scientific research.
C.During the research Maria thinks a lot about her own thoughts and feelings.
D.The subject of Maria Singh’s study was supported by Publishers Weekly.
答案 C
解析 推理判断题。从这一段中的“But she also goes deep into her own soul for a close look at who she is,what she has lost in her life and how she wants the future to look.”可推断出,在研究过程中,Maria思考了很多她自己的思想和感情。
3.It can be inferred from the third paragraph that ________.
A.Chad had mental problems in his childhood
B.Chad became famous for The Art of Fielding
C.more and more readers like Chad’s book
D.The Art of Fielding is only about the story of baseball
答案 B
解析 推理判断题。从第三段中的“Chad Harbach’s name was also all over the critics’ best lists this year for his first book,The Art of Fielding.”可看出,Chad Harbach因他的著作The Art of Fielding而出名。
4.The following statements about The Marriage Plot are true EXCEPT that ________.
A.it took its author about 10 years to finish the book
B.it is about the lives of three college students
C.Mitchell in the story struggles with religious belief
D.its author’s character is similar to Madeleine’s
答案 D
解析 细节理解题。从最后一段中的“He spent almost ten years writing it.”可看出A项是正确的;从“It follows the lives of three students in their final year of college and beyond”可看出B项是正确的;从“Leonard struggles with manic depression,Mitchell,with religious belief...”可看出C项是正确的。故选D。
5.What is the passage mainly about?
A.People’s reading preference.
B.Three famous writers.
C.The introduction of three books.
D.The common features of interesting books.
答案 C
解析 主旨大意题。文章主要是对三本书的介绍。故选C。
Ⅳ.写作素材(关于艺术)
1.我喜欢绘画。
2.昨天我去书店搜寻一位著名艺术家的绘画集。
3.人们高度评价这位艺术家的画。
4.绘画集中有很多画构思独特。
5.所以确实值得购买。
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连句成篇(将以上句子连成一篇50词左右的英语短文)
I like painting.Yesterday I went to the bookstore in_search_of a famous artist’s selected_paintings,which were highly_thought_of.Many of the paintings have fancy designs,so they’re really worth buying.