素能提升演练（十七）
选修Unit 17
Ⅰ．单词拼写
1. Middle school students in China are
(禁止)to smoke.
2. Are you positively
(相信) that he is not coming back?
3. Big cities have theatres, films, basketball matches and many other
(娱乐活动).
4. George showed me to the guest-room which, he said, was
(很少)used.
5. I was filled with
(惊异)at her strange action.
6. It’s
(难以置信的)that my wallet was stolen.
7. Children are raised to be independent and
(细心的，谨慎的), with a strong sense of self-esteem.
8. Many people
(饥饿)to death in the world each year.
9. The ecological environment will be improved, and the relationship between man and nature will become more
(和谐的).
10. It was a great
(成就) to finish this job in two days. Ⅱ．单项填空
1.
the little beings, I began struggling to get loose and managed to break the strings.
A. Scared
B. Being scared
C. Having scared
D. To scare
2. The best method to _______ this goal is to unite as many people as possible.
A. evaluate
B. value
C. accomplish
D. equip
3. ［2012亳州模拟］his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger.
A. Thanks to
B. Thanks for
C. In spite of
D. As regards
4. The similarities between identical twins often cause us to _______ their personal differences.
A. arrest
B. condemn
C. betray
D. overlook
5．I would be grateful if you would
receipt of this letter.
A. admit
B. acknowledge
C. accept
D. inform
6.［2012 南宁模拟］Scientists are convinced
the positive effect of laughter
_______ physical and mental health.
A. of; at
B. by; in
C. of; on
D. on; at
7. He was so weakened by the disease that he could _______ stand up.
A. rarely
B. barely
C. merely
D. almost
8. He drove _______ as the road was icy.
A. rapidly
B. courteously
C. cautiously
D. confidently
9. The shop assistant was dismissed as she was _______ of cheating customers.
A．accusedB．charged
C．scoldedD．cursed
10. ［2012福州模拟］ I don’t mind
the decision as long as it is not too late.
A．you to delay making
B．your delaying making
C．your delaying to make
D．you delay to make
11. Most parks with grassland will
signs asking the visitors not to step on them.
A. put on
B. put up
C. put down
D. put out
12. _______ garbage problems，the city will load huge spaceships with waste materials and send them towards the sun,
landfill and environmental problems.
A. To get rid of; to prevent
B. Getting rid of; to prevent
C. To get rid of; preventing
D. Getting rid of; preventing
13. People in these countries demand equal treatment for all, _______ race, religion or sex.
A. in defense of B. regardless of C. instead of D. in support of
14. _______ was reported that 115 miners trapped in the flooded mine for eight days were pulled out alive at last.
A. What
B. It
C. That
D. Which
15. ［2012潍坊模拟］John was not listening and made a
answer when called upon to recite.
A. tough
B. dull
C. delicate
D. random
Ⅲ．阅读理解
(A)
［2012武汉模拟］
A new book about Chinese-style tough parenting has caused debate in the US．Amy Chua, the author of the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is a Chinese-American professor at Yale Law School．She is also a mother of two．Chua describes the child-rearing methods she used with her daughters．She said they would seem unimaginable to Westerners．Chua set strict standards for her daughters．For example, in school they weren’t allowed to make grades lower than A．They had to play the piano or violin and practice hours a day．There were no sleepovers, play dates or TV．There has been wide criticism of Chua’s book in the US．“It is kind of extreme, ” Jeffrey Seinfeld, a professor at New York University, told the Los Angeles Times．“. . . standards of parenting need to be realistic and tailored to each child．Children need parents who can guide them, not force them to do things they are probably not interested in．”Now the criticism seems to have spread to China．Sun Yunxiao, an expert from the China Youth and Children Research Center spoke to The Beijing News about his concerns．He argued that Chua’s method of parenting would limit children from reaching their full potential．“Some Chinese parents do focus on test scores and good degrees, ” Sun said, “but what gets sacrificed along the way is their kids’ capacity fully to develop and to enjoy life．”While critics might sympathize with kids who experience this parenting style, some young people quite appreciate it．“I think anyone can do well if they work hard enough, ” said 17-year-old Li Ao, a Senior 3 student at Qingdao No. 2 High School．“A tiger mother is there to help her kids work hard．”Others think that Chua has a point when it comes to setting challenging goals for kids．“It’s crucial for children, ”
according to Abigail Gewirtz, a professor of family science at the University of Minnesota．She told CNN:
“Honestly, kids need to be pushed sometimes．If you push a kid to do well, and they’re good at it, they benefit．It’s good to have high expectations．”
1．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?
A. Most children don’t need strict standards to do well．
B. Chua’s educating method is widely accepted in China．
C. Supporters of Amy Chua believe in high expectations．
D. Most children welcome challenging goals．
2．The underlined word “crucial” could be replaced by .
A. helpful
B．cruelC．unfairD．important
3．Which of the following statements might Jeffrey Seinfeld agree with?
A．Children need to be pushed to succeed．
B．The tiger mother is no longer popular in American society．
C．Parents should take their children into account when they give them guidance．
D．Extreme parenting produces children who do not know themselves when grown up．
4．What is the main point of the article?
A．An unreasonable parenting style．
B．A debate on Chinese-style tough parenting．
C．Book reviews of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother．
D．The strict standards that should be set for children．
(B)
The Harrington School is an old one-room schoolhouse in Georgia. The building has not been used in years. Community leaders and even the local historical society thought it wasn’t worth saving. “Just look at it and you could tell it was going to fall any minute, so let’s tear it down, ” they said.
The Harrington School was built in nineteen twenty-five for black children on St. Simons Island. Amy Roberts well remembers she attended first grade there in nineteen fifty-three. That was a year before the United States Supreme Court ruled that schools had to be racially integrated. A number of states kept blacks from attending school with whites. After the ruling, the children joined white students at St. Simons’ other elementary school.
The old schoolhouse continued to be used for social activities and a day care center. By nineteen seventy, however, it stood empty. Amy Roberts worried that developers might tear it down. So she started the African-American Heritage Coalition to try to save it.
“If it’s not saved, then eventually you would not know that we existed here on St. Simons. Everything of African-American heritage has been torn down. ” She said.
In two thousand nine the Harrington School was weeks away from destruction. Then a local historian named Patty Deveau took a closer look and started a movement called the Rosenwald Fund. Georgia historian Jeanne Cyriaque explains. “At the very core of that movement was the involvement of the community, sympathetic whites and philanthropy, merging together to do what today we’d call partnerships. ”
Julius Rosenwald was a businessman. In nineteen fifteen he donated money to black communities to build their own schools. By the late twenties, the Rosenwald Fund had donated to more than five thousand educational buildings in fifteen states across the South. One-third of rural black children were attending a Rosenwald school.
“This particular school kind of embodies to me what was going on with the communities at the time, because in many African-American communities, it was African-American families that gave land for these schools to be built. ” Jeanne Cyriaque said.
Now, preservation architects are developing plans to restore the Harrington School. Amy Roberts and others were surprised by what the experts found when they inspected the structure. “They went through it and they talked about how sound it was and they’d never seen anything like this. I mean, it was, like, in great shape! ”
5. What do you learn about the Harrington School?
A. It only has one room and is going to fall down.
B. It was built in 1925 and is in poor condition now.
C. It has not been used since 1954.
D. Though it was built over 85 years ago, it is still in good condition.
6. According to the second paragraph, we learn that ______.
A. the Harrington School was ruled by the United States Supreme Court
B. the Harrington School used to be a white school mixed with blacks
C. black children went to separate school before the ruling
D. the Harrington School was forbidden to be used for racial reasons
7. The meaning of the underlined word “integrated” is similar to ______.
A. mixed
B. completed
C. separated
D. destroyed
8. Which of the following titles do you think would attract the readers most?
A. A School with a Long History
B. Saving a School, and Its History
C. Saving the African-American Heritage
D. The Harrington School, an African-American Heritage
答案解析
Ⅰ．1. forbidden
2. convinced
3. amusements
4. rarely
5. astonishment
6. unbelievable
7. cautious
8. starved
9. harmonious
10. accomplishment
Ⅱ．1.【解析】选C。考查非谓语动词。句意: 把那些小人吓坏之后， 我开始挣扎着挣脱捆绑，并设法弄断绳子。scare在began struggling 之前，故用完成结构。
2. 【解析】选C。考查动词词义辨析。句意:
实现这个目标最好的方法就是团结尽可能多的人。accomplish 完成, 实现; evaluate 评价, 评估; value 珍重, 重视；equip 装备。
【变式备选】
The man we followed suddenly stopped as if ______ whether he was going in the right direction.
A. seeing
B. having seen
C. to see
D. to have seen
【解析】选C。考查非谓语动词。句意：我们跟着的那个人突然停了下来好像要看看是否走对了方向。(as if) to see. . . , 动词不定式表目的。
3. 【解析】选A。句意：由于他的研究，联合国在消除世界饥饿的战斗中有了更多的方法。thanks to多亏，因为；thanks for=thank. . . for. . . 为……而感谢……；in spite of尽管；as regards至于，关于。
4. 【解析】选D。考查动词辨析。句意：同卵双胞胎的相似性往往让我们忽略他们的不同点。arrest 逮捕；condemn 谴责；判刑；betray 背叛； overlook忽略，忽视。
5．【解析】选B。句意: 如果你告知我已收到这封信，我将非常感激。
acknowledge在此表示“告知已收到”。
【变式备选】
He
having been frightened.
A．acknowledgedB．considered
C．recognizedD．knew
【解析】选A。句意：他承认曾经被威胁过。acknowledge承认; consider考虑；recognize认出；know知道。
6.【解析】选C。考查固定搭配。句意：科学家们确信大笑对身心健康有积极的影响。be convinced of 确信；认识到；the effect on. . . 对……的影响。
7. 【解析】选B。考查副词辨析。句意：他被疾病弄得如此虚弱，以至于几乎不能站立。rarely罕见地，很少。 barely仅仅，勉强，几乎不；merely仅仅；almost几乎。
8. 【解析】选C。考查副词辨析。句意：他很小心地驾驶，因为马路结了冰。rapidly快速地；courteously亲切地；有礼貌地；cautiously小心地，谨慎地；confidently 自信地。
9. 【解析】选A。考查动词辨析。句意：店员被解雇，因为她被指控欺骗顾客。accuse sb. of sth. 指控某人某事；charge sb. with sth. 指控某人某事；scold sb. for sth. 因某事责备某人； curse sb. for sth. 因某事咒骂某人。
10. 【解析】选B。句意：我不介意你推迟做决定，只要时间来得及。mind doing介意做某事，此处用的是动名词的复合结构；delay doing 推迟做某事。
11. 【解析】选B。句意：大部分绿地公园都会竖起牌子要求游客勿踏草地。put on 穿上； put up竖起，张贴，留宿；put down 放下，镇压，扑灭，写下来；put out扑灭，发行，公布。
12.【解析】选C。 考查非谓语动词。句意：为了摆脱垃圾问题的困扰，城市将把垃圾装载到大型的飞船上，然后把它们发射到太阳上。这样就会阻止垃圾填埋场和环境问题的产生。To get rid of garbage problems为动词不定式在句中充当目的状语；preventing landfill and environmental problems为现在分词短语, 在句中为顺其自然的结果；动词不定式表示结果时表示出乎意料的结果。
13.【解析】选B。考查短语辨析。句意：在这些国家中人们要求全民平等，不管种族、宗教和性别。in defense of 防御；regardless of 不管，不顾；instead of 代替；in support of 支持。
14.【解析】选B。句意：据报道，困在被水淹没的矿井中达八天的115名矿工最终被活着救出。形式主语it指代整个that从句作主语。
【知识拓展】含it 的重要句型
it在英语中除了充当形式主语，还可用在一些固定句型中，应注意这些句型的使用。
1. It be + 被强调部分 + that/who + 其他成分
2. It’s time that. . . did/should do. . . (定语从句)
3. It’s + 时间名词+ when. . . (时间状语从句)
4. It is/has been. . . since. . . did. . . (时间状语从句)
5. It won’t be. . . before. . . 用不了(多长时间)就会……
It will be. . . before. . . 得过(多长时间)才……
It wasn’t. . . before. . . 没过(多长时间)就……
It was. . . before. . . 过了(多长时间)才……
15. 【解析】选D。句意：约翰没在听，当他被叫到背诵时就胡乱地回答。tough坚韧的， 艰苦的； dull钝的，迟钝的；delicate精美的，易碎的；random随机的，胡乱的，任意的。
Ⅲ．1．【解析】选C。推理判断题。根据最后一段Abigail Gewirtz的话“kids need to be pushed sometimes．If you push a kid to do well, and they’re good at it, they benefit”可知A错。根据第六段可知蔡美儿的方法并非广泛被接受，B错。根据倒数第三段“some young people quite appreciate it．”可知是some而不是most，故D错。
2．【解析】选D。词义猜测题。根据最后一段中Abigail Gewirtz的观点可知不是cruel而是important。
3．【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据第五段Jeffrey Seinfeld的话“. . . standards of parenting need to be realistic and tailored to each child．Children need parents who can guide them, not force them to do things they are probably not interested in．”可知。
4．【解析】选B。主旨大意题。根据第一段和全文可知。本文主要内容是对于这种中国式严酷教育方式的争议。
5. 【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据最后一段可以看出，专家对学校的检查使他们出乎意料。in great shape相当于in good condition。
6. 【解析】选C。细节理解题。从第二段最后一句“After the ruling, the children joined white students at St. Simons’ other elementary school. ”可以看出选择C项。
7. 【解析】选A。词义猜测题。从第二段可以判断，之所以黑人孩子和白人孩子能够一起上学，是因为政府规定学校需要人种“混合”。
8. 【解析】选B。主旨大意题。根据文章大意，题目必须表现出“学校”和“挽救”等关键词来概括文章内容。A、D项偏离主题；C项意义太宽；只有B项表现出本文有关“拯救”学校及其历史的主题。