必修5 Module 1 British and American English
维A 单项填空________to get the two tickets.
—Is the film really worth________twice？(2016·抚顺调研)；seeing
B．managed；seeing；being seen
D．managed；being seen答案 A [句意：“你不知道我买这两张票费了多少劲。”“这部电影真的值得看两遍吗？”what great difficulty在句子中作先行词在后面的定语从句中作宾语(in) doing sth“做某事而有困难”；而be worth之后加的形式的主动形式表被动意义。]_______traffic directions made all the drivers quite ______．(2016·济南模拟)；confused
B．confusing；confusing；confusing
D．confusing；confused答案 D [句意：警察那令人迷惑的交通指挥使得所有的司机都感到很迷惑。confusing用来修饰物意为“令人迷惑不解的”；confused修饰人意为“(人)感到迷惑不解的”。]？Don't you think we have so much________？2016·太原高三模拟)答案 A [句意：你也喜欢冲浪和整夜聊天？难道你不认为我们有很多共同之处吗？have much in common“有许多共同之处”。]________to make it.
A．succeeded
B．attempted
C．managed
D．failed
答案 B [succeed in doing sth“成功地做了某事”；attempt to do sth“试图做某事”；manage to do sth“设法成功地做了某事”；fail to do sth“没有做成某事”。该题从安慰的角度考虑应选B项。]ing that led to________．答案 D [lead to意为“导致”其中to是介词后接动词形式；his与being killed一起构成动词ing形式的复合结构作介词to的宾语。句意：据我所知是那次酒后驾驶引发的车祸致使他死亡。]It makes no________to me what you say.I won't care.
A．choice
B．effort
C．difference
D．decision
答案 C [choice“选择”；effort“努力”；difference“不同”；decision“决定”。根据句意应选C项构成make no difference表示“没有关系”。]to Italy?
—Oh，________the fine weather，we enjoyed ourselves indeed.
A．but for
B．thanks to
C．in spite of
D．because for
答案 B [but for意为“要不是由于”一般用于虚拟语气；thanks to意为“多亏由于”；in spite of意为“尽管虽然”；D项本身错误。根据句意应选B项。]8．We're going to________the hutongs of Beijing.Would you like to join us?
A．get round
B．get along
C．get in
D．get over
答案 A [根据句意此处应指四处走动、参观胡同故选A。B指相处；进展指插嘴指克服翻越。]g the conference are not________the project, for it costs too much.
A．in spite of
B．in case of
C．in honour of
D．in favour of
答案 D [考查短语辨析。句意：参加会议的大部分代表都不赞成这项计划因为花费太大。in favour of“支持同意”符合题意。in spite of“尽管”；in case of“万一”；in honour of“为了纪念”均不符合题意。]________with his sister, Jerry is even more sensitive, and more easily troubled by emotional and relationship problems.
(2016·南昌模拟)答案 B [句意：和姐姐相比杰瑞更敏感更易受情感和交往方面问题的困扰。Jerry与compare之间为被动关系故应选表被动的过去分词。compared with为固定搭配意为“与……相比”在句中作状语。]________her views to the committee very clearly.
A．preserved
B．presented
C．provided
D．supplied
答案 B [考查动词辨析。preserve“保护保存”；present“提出”；provide“提供供应”；supply“提供供应”。根据句意判断答案为B。]________mine but they differ________quality.
A．to；in
B．in；in；from
D．in；from答案 A [考查介词搭配。be similar to意为“与……相似”表示“在……方面相似”。differ from意为“与……不同”；differ in意为“在……方面不同”。句意：玛丽的裙子与我的很相似但是质量不同。]________150 passengers.
(2016·宝鸡高三质检)答案 B [句意：一场可怕的航空事故发生在大西洋上空造成了150人死亡。a terrible air crash与kill是逻辑上的主谓关系故空白处应填现在分词killing表示飞机事故带来的自然而然的结果。]xamination so that he could be sure of passing it at his first________．答案 C [at one's first attempt表示“某人第一次尝试”。]________it is true that a student's most important goal is to do well in his or her studies, it doesn't need to be the only goal.
A．When
B．As
C．While
D．Before
答案 C [考查状语从句及连词。句意：尽管学生最重要的目标是在学业上做到优秀但这不必是惟一的目标。while作连词尽管”引导让步状语从句。]维B 完形填空选材网站：http：//www.values.com高考曾用材料：2010山东卷完形填空选材相似度：★★★★设题相似度：★★★__1__in school and I even got a scholarship to a really good __2__．The only thing that I wasn't good at was __3__friends.I was so shy that I had a hard time talking to people.I just didn't __4__anywhere.__5__classes, getting into trouble and then I was__6__out of college.I started__7__with the other kids I grew up with that didn't have the same__8__I had.We lived in poor neighborhoods and we had no idea how much our __9__could affect our future.We weren't kids anymore and the only thing we __10__was the streets.I was looking up to the __11__people and I couldn't even recognize myself__12__．To make a long story short, I went to prison.Twice.I __13__thought I would make it to see my family again, __14__I did.
Now I'm with my __15__．I never cried through any of it, __16__．I suddenly felt so__17__to be home.My heart finally opened up and that 18__of being abandoned was gone.All I want to do now is give to other people the __19__way I know now.Just decide who you want to be __20__someone else decides for you.
Netes：潜力warned
B．scoldedA.wandered about
B．lived by
B．so
C．or
D．butD．fear
19．A.only
B．proper
C．best
D．right
20．A.after
B．before
C．while
D．since
【语篇解读】 本文是夹叙夹议的文章。“我”曾经因为聪明、具有潜力在中学表现优秀而考上了好大学。然而上了大学后我”开始疏于学业被学校开除。然后“我”自暴自弃与社会上的闲散人 [联系空后的“and I even got a scholarship to a really good __2__ (college)”我们知道因为成绩优异我”考上了好大学。] [前面说了自己在中学的表现再联系空前的“got a scholarship”我们知道我”得了奖学金上了一所好大学。其score指“分数”指“程度”ade指“年级”。] [联系下文的“I was so shy that I had a hard time talking to people.”我们知道我”性格内向不善交际不善于交朋友。] [联系前文“我”不善于交朋友性格内向我们知道我”不适应环境。fit in的意思是“适应好”。其他选项中意为“迁出”意get along意为“相处；进展”。] [联系空后的“getting into trouble”以及被赶出学校我们知道我”开始逃课。] [联系下文“We lived in poor neighborhoods and we had no idea how much our__9__(environment)could affect our future.”我们知道因为逃课陷 [联系下文“We weren't kids anymore and the only thing we __10__(cared about)was the streets.”我们知道我”与其他闲散青年一起在街上闲荡。] [联系前后文我们知道我”上了大学而这些人是闲散人员。现在“我”与这些跟“我”机遇不同的人逛荡。] [联系前文的“We lived in poor neighborhoods”我们知道作者在这里讲述环境对自己的影响。从后文的“I was looking up to the__11__(wrong)people”我们也可以得出答案提示。] [联系空前的“the only thing”我们可以推断出我”所在乎的是大街上的人们。其他选项中意为“游荡”意为“住在旁边” [联系下文自己两次进监狱我们知道我”在大街上只是找那些与自己臭味相投的人因此是wrong people。] [联系空前的“couldn't even recognize myself”我们知道我”自己再也不认识自己了。] [联系“I went to prison.Twice.”我们知道两次入狱我”从没有想到能见到家人。] [空前后为转折关系。] [联系下文的“I suddenly felt so __17__ (grateful) to be home.”我们知道现在与家人在一起。C和D均有一定的干扰性文中没有提到作者的妻子或者孩子因此可以排除。] [联系空前的“in the hospital”我们知道作者在讲述自己遭遇最困难时期的时候因 [联系“to be home”以及“My heart finally opened up and that __18__ (fear) of being abandoned was gone.”我们知道家人接纳了自己自己很感激。] [空前有“My heart finally opened up”空后有“of being abandoned was gone”因此这里指对别人放弃自己的担心。] [文章最后一句就是作者给出的建议他觉得这是自己认识到的最好的建议了。] [显然在别人为你决定前你首先要决定自己成为什么样的人。]维C 阅读理解
选材网站：www.voanews.com/english/news高考曾用材料：2010山东卷D篇选材相似度：★★★★设题相he popularity of school spelling competitions, adults in the US performed poorly in a survey comparing how English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic deal with commonly misspelt words.
Sixtytwo percent of Americans got“embarrassed”wrong, against 54 percent of Britons who struggled with the word in a survey last year. Adults in the US performed less well on most of the ten words tested, including millennium (52 percent wrong, against 43 percent in the UK), liaison (61 percent to 54 percent)and “accommodation”(42 percent to 36 percent)．Only “definitely”and “friend”were spelt correctly by more Americans.(发起)the research, e English spelling system to be modernized.“When asked, only a quarter of adults thought they had a problem with spelling.The answers in the test prove that this_is_far_from_the_case，”he said.“What is holding the UK and the USA back is the irregular spelling system.”
Professor Edward Baranowski, one academic consultant for the project, said, “We have different spellings for the same sound, and a system which reflects how English was spoken in the 13th to 15th centuries, not how it is spoken today.So many sound changes have occurred in the language, which is not reflected in modern spelling, that we are left with a ‘fossilized(僵化的)’system.” percent opposed the idea.And 31 percent said it didn't matter.
The US survey involving a sample of 1，000 adults was carried out online by Ipsos MORI last month, with the method based on a survey of 1，000 Britons in April last year.
1．The second paragraph is developed________．________．The underlined part “this is far from the case” in Paragraph 3 implies that________． create a new spelling system
4．Professor Baranowski seems to agree that________．sound changes have nothing to do with spelling
5．What would be the most suitable title for the passage?
A．Who is responsible for our spelling
B．The English language to be blamed
C．Americans embarrassed by their spellings
D．Words needed to be modernized
【语篇解读】 一项调查发现美国人在单词拼写方面不如英国人。 [论述手法题。第二段对美国和英国成年人单词拼写情况进行了对比故选D。] [词义猜测题。根据本句的“showed the need for the English spelling system to be modernized”联系第inaccuracy可用error来代替都是“错误”的意思。] [推理判断题。联系上一句“When asked, 可知是想说这项研究表明实际上很多人都存在拼写问题。] [推理判断题。根据第四段Baranowski所说的话可知他认represent意为“表现”ct意为“反映”此处两者含义一致。] [标题归纳题。C项标题一语双关一词既表明了美国人拼写的尴尬现状又涉及了拼写调查的部分内容。]