Unit 3 Under the sea
Ⅰ.单项填空
1.The difference in thickness and weight from the earlier version makes the iPad 2 more comfortable ______.
A.heldB.holding
C.be heldD.to hold
解析 考查动词不定式作状语。句意:厚度和重量与先前版本的不同使得iPad 2拿着更舒服。形容词easy,hard,difficult,comfortable作表语,后面需用不定式的主动形式表被动意思,故正确答案为D项。
答案 D
2.After the earthquake,the first thing the local government did was to provide______for the homeless families.
A.accommodation
B.occupation
C.equipment
D.furniture
解析 考查名词词义辨析。句意:地震之后,当地政府首先做的事情就是为无家可归的家庭提供住处。accommodation“住处,容身之处”;occupation“职业,工作;占据”;equipment“设备,装备;素质”;furniture“家具”。由句意可知,应选accommodation。
答案 A
3.Just as the clothes a person wears,the food he eats and the friends with whom he spends his time,his house______his personality.
A.resembles
B.strengthens
C.reflects
D.shapes
解析 考查动词词义辨析。句意:对于一个人来说,就像他的穿衣、吃饭以及与之过时光的朋友一样,他的房子代表了他的个性。resemble“类似,像”,强调外形的“像”;strengthen“加强,巩固”;reflect“反射,映出;反省,反映;显示(事物的自然属性或人们的态度、情感等)”;shape“塑造;(使)成形”。 根据语意及词语的意思,reflects是最佳选项。
答案 C
4.You have to be a fairly good speaker to______listeners’ interest for over an hour.
A.hold
B.make
C.improve
D.receive
解析 hold one’s interest使某人保持兴趣。B项“制造;做”;C项“改善,提升”;D项“接收”。
答案 A
5.Many people ______the car accident,so it was not difficult to investigate.
A.witnessed
B.harnessed
C.swallowed
D.drugged
解析 句意:许多人看到了那起车祸,所以不难调查。在这个句子中,witness意为“目睹”。harness治理,控制;swallow淹没,吞下;drug使服毒品;三个词都不符合句子的意思。
答案 A
6.The new apartment built a few months ago is large enough to ______ over two hundred people.
A.supply
B.provide
C.reside
D.accommodate
解析 accommodate“提供膳宿”。句意:几个月前建造的那个新公寓足够的大,能为二百多人提供膳宿。
答案 D
7.Also when you write your goals in a particular way you are able to make yourself continuously______ situations that will bring you nearer to your goal.
A.aware of
B.worried about
C.familiar with
D.accustomed to
解析 make sb.aware of...意为“使某人意识到,明白”,据题意A项正确。
答案 A
8.Because he was______the new limit,he was stopped and warned for speeding.
A.good at
B.tired from
C.unaware of
D.uninterested in
解析 句意:由于他不知道新的限速,他被拦了下来并被警告超速。根据所选项意思,be unaware of不知道,不明白,没意识到。be good at 擅长;be tired from因……而劳累;be uninterested in对……不感兴趣。
答案 C
9.A good mother would not______her baby.
A.abandon
B.leave
C.adapt
D.quit
解析 句意:一个好母亲是不会丢弃自己的孩子的。
答案 A
10.______a moment and I will go to your rescue.
A.Go on
B.Hold on
C.Move on
D.Carry on
解析 go on继续;hold on抓住不放,坚持;move on继续前进;carry on继续进行;根据后句的I will go to your rescue可知,这里应是“坚持住”,“别松手”。
答案 B
11.She was scared______on the horse.
A.to ride
B.riding
C.of being ridden
D.rode
解析 be scared to do“害怕干某事”。句意:她害怕骑马。
答案 A
12.The passengers had a chat with the college students______as conductors during the summer vacation.
A.help out
B.helped out
C.to help out
D.helping out
解析 考查非谓语动词。动词不定式作后置定语表示一个将要发生的动作,过去分词表示一个已经发生了的被动的动作,故B、C两项均不符合题意。句意:旅客们同那几个暑假临时帮忙充当列车员的大学生聊天。
答案 D
13.Sean’s strong love for his country is______in his recently published poems.
A.relieved
B.reflected
C.responded
D.recovered
解析 reflect“反射”,比喻义为“反映,表现”; relieve意为“(从危险,痛苦中)救出,使脱离,解脱”;respond意为“答应(要求),应付(敌人等)反应”;recover意为“克服,恢复”。
答案 B
14.We were______the most important scientific development of the century.
A.seeing
B.watching
C.looking
D.witnessing
解析 考查同义词的辨析。see表示看见的结果、内容;watch表示仔细观察或观看电视、比赛等;而look表示看的动作,且为不及物动词,后不能跟宾语。
答案 D
15.—Have you completed the project?
—I’m sorry to tell you that we______it when we found how much it______.
A.have abandoned;costs
B.abandoned;cost
C.had abandoned;cost
D.abandoned;would cost解析 答语句意:我非常遗憾地告诉你当我们发现这一项目要花多少钱时,我们就放弃了。从we found来判断,表示过去的情况,故用过去时,“花费”这一动作还未发生要用过去将来时。
答案 D
Ⅱ.完形填空
The day finally came,when I had to leave the warm home where I’d grown up.I ran to the back yard,as tears came up from my heart.Suddenly I__1__a hand rest on my shoulder.I looked up to__2__my grandfather.“It isn’t__3__,is it,Billy?” he said softly.
Gently__4__my hand in his,we walked,hand in hand,to the front yard,__5__a huge red rosebush sat alone.
“What do you see here,Billy?” he asked.I looked at the flowers,not knowing__6__to say,and then answered,“I see something soft and__7__,grandpa.”
He pulled me__8__.“It isn’t just the roses that are beautiful,Billy.It’s that special place in your heart that makes them so.”“Billy,I__9__these roses when my first son was born.It was my__10__of saying ‘thank you’ to God.I__11__to watch him pick roses for his mother.Then,as a young man of only 20,a terrible war robbed him of his life.” Grandpa slowly stood up.“Never say goodbye,Billy.Never__12__to the sadness and the loneliness.Instead,I want you to remember the joy and the__13__when you first said hello to a friend.”
A year later,my grandpa became very__14__.Then all members of the family were__15__back,and I returned to the old house.When it came to my__16__,I took his hand as__17__as
he had once taken mine.
“Hello,grandpa,” I__18__.His eyes slowly opened and said,“Hello,my friend.” With a brief__19__he died.Suddenly,and truly.I knew what he had __20__ about never saying goodbye—about refusing to give in to sadness.
语篇解读 本文为一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述一天“我”为离开温暖的家而伤心难过时,祖父过来安慰“我”,并告诉“我”无论发生什么永远不要说再见。直到祖父去世时,“我”才真正明白祖父所说的“永远不要说再见”的真正含义——不要屈服于悲伤和难过。
1. A.felt B.fixed
C.watched D.heard
解析 根据语境可知,此处指“我”跑到后院,任泪水流淌。突然“我”感觉有只手放在“我”的肩膀上。feel感觉到,符合语境。
答案 A
2.A.watch B.interview
C.see D.discover
解析 此处指“我”抬起头结果看见是祖父。see强调看的结果;watch强调有意识地“观看”。
答案 C
3.A.difficult B.hard
C.easy
D.comfortable
解析 由上文可知,祖父看到“我”因不得不离开家而悲伤难过得哭了,所以他会说“不容易是吗”,故此处应为easy。
答案 C
4.A.making B.taking
C.leading D.carrying
解析 根据倒数第二段最后一句话“...I took his hand as________as he had once taken mine.”可知,此处应填taking,与下文相照应。
答案 B
5.A.where B.when
C.which D.while
解析 “________a huge red rosebush sat alone”为非限制性定语从句,修饰先行词the front yard,先行词在从句中作地点状语,故填关系副词where。
答案 A
6.A.what
B.how
C.who D.whether
解析 此处指“我”看着花不知道该说什么。________to say为宾语从句,从句中缺少成分,故应用关系代词what引导,作动词say的宾语。
答案 A
7.A.red B.tasty
C.funny
D beautiful
解析 根据下文“It isn’t just the roses that are beautiful,Billy.”可知,此处应填beautiful,与下文相照应。
答案 D
8.A.close B.hard
C.far D.around
解析 根据语境可知,此处是指祖父把“我”拉近。close符合语境。答案 A
9.A.bought
B.planted
C.treated D.discovered
解析 根据语境可知,此处是指当祖父的第一个儿子出生时,他种植了这些玫瑰。plant意为“种植”,符合语境。
答案 B
10.A.approach B.method
C.way D.solution
解析 method指相当精心安排的技术技巧所构成的方法,强调以效率与精确为其目标;way为普通用语,指一般的方法,a/the way of doing sth./to do sth.意为“做某事的方法”;A、D项之后都接介词to。
答案 C
11.A.preferred B.wanted
C.referred D.used
解析 由下文“a terrible war robbed him of his life”可知,此处为祖父过去常常看儿子摘玫瑰花给妻子,而现在无法看到了,因为战争夺去了他年轻的生命。used to do sth.意为“过去常常做某事”,符合语境。
答案 D
12.A.give up B.give off
C.give in D.give away
解析 give up放弃;give off发出(气味等);give in屈服,让步;give away赠送;泄露,出卖。根据文章最后一句话“...about refusing to give in to sadness.”可知,此处应填give in,与下文相照应。
答案 C
13.A.word B.happiness
C.sight
D.memory
解析 由并列连词and可知,空格处与前面joy相呼应。
答案 B
14.A.ill B.weak
C.old
D.serious
解析 由下一句“Then all members of the family were________back,and I returned to the old house.”可知,祖父这时病重。
答案 A
15.A.ordered
B.called
C.delivered D.sent
解析 由于祖父病重,所以把家里所有的成员都叫回来。call符合语境。答案 B
16.A.pleasure
B.duty
C.turn D.wish
解析 此处指祖父临终前和家人作临终告白,当轮到“我”时……turn意为“轮流”,符合语境。
答案 C
17.A.happily
B.sadly
C.carefully
D.gently
解析 由第二段“Gently________my hand in his...”可知,当轮到“我”时,“我”像祖父曾经抓住“我”的手一样轻轻地抓住他的手。所以gently符合语境。
答案 D
18.A.laughed
B.shouted
C.added
D.whispered
解析 laugh笑;shout喊叫,大声说;add接着说,补充说;whisper小声说,耳语。此处指“我”小声地说:“你好,祖父”。A、B、C项皆不符合语境。
答案 D
19.A.sign B.sigh
C.smile D.wave
解析 此处应指祖父和“我”说完话之后是含笑而终。smile符合语境。
答案 C
20.A.thought B.meant
C.worried D.cared
解析 此处是指突然“我”真正明白了祖父曾经说的关于“永远不要说再见”的含义。
答案 B
Ⅲ.阅读理解
The interview had been going on for about 20 minutes and everything seems to be going well.Then,suddenly,the interviewer asks an unexpected question,“Which is more important,law or Dove?”
Job applicants in the West increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this.And the signs are that this is beginning to happen in China.
Employers want people skilled,enthusiastic and devoted.So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicants will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are.In response,employers are increasingly using questions which try and show the applicant’s true personality.
The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Keirsey Personality Sorter.It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems,rather than what they know.This is often called an aptitude test (能力倾向测验).
According to Mark Baldwin many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult.When a Chinese person fills out an aptitude test he or she will think there is a right answer and they may fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see.
This is sometimes called the prisoner’s dilemma.Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interest.But they fail because they don’t understand what the interviewer is looking for.Remember that in an aptitude test,the correct answer is always the honest answer.
【语篇解读 本文讲述了现代企业招聘面试中的能力倾向测试并为求职者提供了回答此类问题的技巧。
1.The writer wrote the passage to________.
A.give you a piece of advice on a job interview
B.tell you how to meet a job interviewer
C.describe the aptitude test
D.advice you how to find a job
解析 写作目的题。通读全文可知,本文意在为面试者提供建议。
答案 A
2.Why do the interviewers ask such questions?
A.They want to discover what the interviewees know.
B.They are curious about the answers.
C.They try to discover the ability of the interviewees solving problems.
D.They just ask questions without thinking much.
解析 细节理解题。根据第四段中的“It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems,rather than what they know.”可知答案为C项。
答案 C
3.According to the writer,in an aptitude test,Chinese job applicants should________.
A.not tell the truth
B.learn to tell what they really think
C.be more enthusiastic
D.try to find out what the examiner really want to know
解析 细节理解题。根据最后一段的最后一句“Remember that in an aptitude test,the correct answer is always the honest answer.”可知,在能力倾向测验中,求职者应该给出一个诚实的答案。
答案 B
4.From the passage we know that________.
A.job applicants are always asked such questions
B.more Chinese applicants fail to find a job
C.applicants should not act as reasonably as a prisoner
D.the aptitude test is becoming popular worldwide
解析 推理判断题。根据文章第二段的内容可知,西方的求职者们不断发现他们被问到类似这样的奇怪问题,而且有迹象表明这种情况在中国也开始出现。由此可推知D项正确。
答案 D
Ⅳ.短文改错
Dear Tony,
Thank you for your letter.To tell you the truth,I’ve thought a lot of——
about whether you should buy a laptop computer
help you with your study.In my opinion,you’d better not.For one reason,it’s very easy for you to develop some bad
once you have it,such as playing computer games and
movies,which will be a waste of time.For
reason,buying a laptop computer
mean you can study well.If you want to make
a—— progress,you need to put your heart into your study
work hard.Whether you
a computer or not is not the most important.Do you agree
me?Looking forward to your reply!
Li Hua
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