2016届高三英语一轮复习题组层级快练：（二十一）外研版必修4

　　题组层级快练(二十一)

　　Ⅰ.完形填空

　　My nine-year-old daughter walks to school almost every day of her school life. Each morning the same crossing guard, Ms. Leslie, is there to help the child ___1___ cross the street.

　　She and my daughter have a ___2___ way of hugging. My daughter runs to her, they hug and Ms. Leslie twirls (旋转) her ___3___ quickly once with the “Stop” sign in one hand. Once, a neighbor driving her 3 children to school told me they felt ___4___ when they got the chance to ___5___ this. Any fight on the road that is going on stops and they all ___6___ the joy between the two.

　　This morning after watching them hug, I said, “That ___7___ so much fun. Can I have a ___8___ as well?”

　　Ms. Leslie ___9___ and we embraced for a full 5 seconds. I could ___10___ her heart beat and her breath. We didn’t twirl around ___11___ we did allow our emotions to connect. My eyes got a little wet when she looked at me and said, “Thank you so much. It gets ___12___ here some days when ___13___ can be so rude.”

　　As we walked away, my daughter ___14___ my arm and just smiled, ___15___ at me, full of love, as if to say “Mom, now you know”.

　　I am fortunate to have ___16___ that a hug can ___17___ much more power than words. I’ve been enjoying the ___18___ of that hug in the following hours of heavy traffic that I was able to experience with no inner ___19___. Thank you: Ms. Leslie and my little daughter. I ___20___ you to take the opportunity to show your kindness.

　　1. A. seriously

　　B. eagerly

　　C. safely

　　D. usually

　　2. A. strange

　　B. special

　　C. similar

　　D. slight

　　3. A. around

　　B. below

　　C. over

　　D. along

　　4. A. well

　　B. shy

　　C. easy

　　D. lucky

　　5. A. operate

　　B. control

　　C. pass

　　D. witness

　　6. A. get

　　B. provide

　　C. notice

　　D. share

　　7. A. sounds

　　B. remains

　　C. seems

　　D. keeps

　　8. A. talk

　　B. look

　　C. word

　　D. hug

　　9. A. smiled

　　B. refused

　　C. replied

　　D. hesitated

　　10. A. hear

　　B. feel

　　C. see

　　D. affect

　　11. A. and

　　B. so

　　C. for

　　D. but

　　12. A. tough

　　B. noisy

　　C. smooth

　　D. common

　　13. A. students

　　B. drivers

　　C. parents

　　D. children

　　14. A. supported

　　B. grabbed

　　C. touched

　　D. guided

　　15. A. putting up

　　B. holding up

　　C. looking up

　　D. ending up

　　16. A. learned

　　B. created

　　C. accepted

　　D. imagined

　　17. A. contain

　　B. explain

　　C. convey

　　D. consist

　　18. A. beauty

　　B. art

　　C. means

　　D. warmth

　　19. A. hurry

　　B. happiness

　　C. sadness

　　D. struggle

　　20. A. encourage

　　B. demand

　　C. permit

　　D. persuade

　　答案与解析

　　【文章大意】

　　本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了拥抱带来温暖的故事。

　　1. 答案

　　C

　　解析

　　考查副词。上文提到孩子上学，再结合生活常识可知，协警要安全护送孩子过马路。

　　2. 答案

　　B

　　解析

　　考查形容词。下文描述了协警与作者女儿的拥抱过程，由此可推知这种方式是特殊的。

　　3. 答案

　　A

　　解析

　　考查副词。本句中的twirls和once暗示着协警把作者的女儿抱起来转了一圈，故选A项。

　　4. 答案

　　D

　　解析

　　考查形容词。根据该空后的got the chance并结合选项可知，此处表示感到幸运。feel lucky意为“感到幸运”。

　　5. 答案

　　D

　　解析

　　考查动词。此处表示他们感到很幸运，因为有机会目睹了这位协警和作者女儿的拥抱。witness“目击；目睹”符合语境。

　　6. 答案

　　D

　　解析

　　考查动词。此处表示过往的路人都在看她们二人的拥抱，分享她们的快乐。

　　7. 答案

　　C

　　解析

　　考查动词。下文作者也提出和协警拥抱，说明她认为她们的行为看起来很有趣。

　　8. 答案

　　D

　　解析

　　考查名词。下文的we embraced for a full 5 seconds说明作者提出和协警拥抱。

　　9. 答案

　　A

　　解析

　　考查动词。下文的embraced说明协警同意了作者提出的要求。根据语境可知，此处应用smiled。

　　10. 答案

　　B

　　解析

　　考查动词。和协警拥抱时作者感觉到了她的心跳和呼吸。feel意为“感觉到”，符合题意。

　　11. 答案

　　D

　　解析

　　考查连词。上文的didn’t twirl around和下文的we did allow our emotions to connect说明前后是转折关系，故用but。

　　12. 答案

　　A

　　解析

　　考查形容词。下文的when ___13___ can be so rude说明有时候在这里协警的工作也不容易。

　　13. 答案

　　B

　　解析

　　考查名词。结合上文中的fight和选项可知，此处表示开车的司机们有时候很不礼貌。

　　14. 答案

　　B

　　解析

　　考查动词。结合语境可知，此处表示母亲送孩子去上学，故孩子应该是抓着母亲的胳膊。

　　15. 答案

　　C

　　解析

　　考查动词短语。9岁的孩子看母亲的时候需要抬头才能看到，故选look up“抬头往上看”。

　　16. 答案

　　A

　　解析

　　考查动词。通过这件事，作者认识到了拥抱给人们带来的影响。故选A项。

　　17. 答案

　　C

　　解析

　　考查动词。文中谈到拥抱给人们带来的快乐，此处是说这种行为传递的能量远远超过了言语。

　　18. 答案

　　D

　　解析

　　考查名词。在接下来交通繁忙的时间里，作者一直回味着拥抱带来的温暖。warmth“温暖”符合题意。

　　19. 答案

　　D

　　解析

　　考查名词。与协警的拥抱使作者感到快乐，因此心中应该是没有挣扎的。with no inner struggle表示“没有内心的挣扎”。

　　20. 答案

　　A

　　解析

　　考查动词。由第三段内容可知作者主动提出与协警拥抱，此处是说作者鼓励大家抓住机会去表达善意。

　　Ⅱ.阅读理解

　　British singer Sarah Brightman will begin training this year for a 2017 flight to the International Space Station where she hopes to become the first professional musician to sing from space, the company arranging the trip said on Tuesday.

　　Brightman, a famed soprano(女高音) who starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, will pay about $52 million for a 10-day stay aboard the orbital outpost, Tom Shelley, president of privately owned Space Adventures, said.

　　“She’s absolutely 100 percent committed,” Shelley said during a National Space Club Florida Committee meeting. “She’s putting together her mission plan now.”

　　Brightman, who would become the eighth privately funded space tourist, is scheduled to fly in September 2017. Her training to fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule is to begin as early as this fall.

　　Brightman planned to be the first professional musician to sing from space. But she faces competition from Lady Gaga, who according to media reports late last year intends to be the first when she performs one song in space in early 2017 on a Virgin Galactic flight. Virgin Galactic, part of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, plans to offer suborbital space flights.

　　Brightman said in 2017 that she would travel to the space station, but her plans were not confirmed until now. So far,Space Adventures has arranged for nine private missions to the space station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 260 miles above Earth. Microsoft co-founder Charles Simonyi made two trips.

　　Brightman will be the first private citizen to visit the station since Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Lalibarte paid about $35 million for an 11-day stay in September 2009.

　　Google co-founder Sergey Brin has an option to fly on the next available Soyuz seat after Brightman, which most likely will be in 2017, Shelley told Reuters.

　　?He paid us a deposit and whenever we have a seat available, he has the right of first refusal,” Shelley said.

　　1. Brightman is a famed soprano ________.

　　A. who became famous because of Phantom of the Opera

　　B. who is sure to pay $52 million or so for her space travel

　　C. whose friendship with Tom Shelley contributes to space travel

　　D. who is reported to be taking up training at present

　　2. When will Brightman start training for her space travel?

　　A. This autumn.

　　B. This winter.

　　C. Next spring.

　　D. Next summer.

　　3. What is Lady Gaga according to the passage?

　　A. A writer.

　　B. A poet.

　　C. A singer.

　　D. A painter.

　　4. Which words can be used to describe Charles Simonyi?

　　A. Brave and wealthy.

　　B. Lucky and selfish.

　　C. Brave but dishonest.

　　D. Confident and generous.

　　答案与解析

　　【文章大意】

　　来自英国的跨界音乐女高音歌唱家莎拉·布莱曼计划去国际太空站，她将成为第一个去太空唱歌的歌唱家，让我们拭目以待。

　　1. 答案

　　B

　　解析

　　细节理解题。根据第二段中的句子Brightman, a famed soprano who starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, will pay about $52 million for a 10-day stay aboard the orbital outpost可知，B项正确。

　　2. 答案

　　A

　　解析

　　细节理解题。根据第四段Her training to fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule is to begin as early as this fall.可知，布莱曼要在今年秋天开始训练。

　　3. 答案

　　C

　　解析

　　细节理解题。第五段提到But she faces competition from Lady Gaga, who according to media reports late last year intends to be the first when she performs one song in space in early 2017 on a Virgin Galactic flight.由此可知，她是一位歌手。

　　4. 答案

　　A

　　解析

　　推理判断题。去太空旅行的费用相当高，而查尔斯·西蒙尼去了两次，说明他富有；去太空充满了危险，判断他勇敢。所以选择A项。

　　About 5,000 children die each day due to preventable diseases such as cholera(霍乱) and dysentery (痢疾), which spread when people use unclean water for drinking or cooking. A lack of water for personal hygiene leads to the spread of totally preventable diseases like trachoma(沙眼), which has blinded some six million people.

　　Water troubles also trap many low-income families in a cycle of poverty and poor education — and the poorest suffer most from lack of access to water. People who spend much of their time in ill health, caring for sick children or collecting water at a distance averaging 3.75 miles a day are denying educational and economic opportunities to better their lives.

　　Agriculture is called the lion’s share of freshwater worldwide, soaking up some 70 percent, and industrial uses consume another 22 percent. Water areas have no political borders and nations don’t always work together to share common resources — so water can be a frequent source of international conflicts as well.

　　The day-by-day demand keeps growing, further draining water sources, from great rivers to groundwater. “We’re going deeper into debt on our groundwater use,” Postel said, “and that has a very significant impact on global water security. The rate of groundwater consumption has doubled since 1960.”

　　Some of Earth抯 groundwater is fossil water, created when Earth抯 climate was far different. Today such water is as limited as petroleum. 揃ut we抮e pumping much of it out faster than precipitation (ealt降水) is recharging it,” Postel explained. “This is the case underneath the breadbasket of India, underneath the cornfields on the plains of North China. We need to bring withdrawals into balance by recharging.”

　　Humanity’s growing thirst also causes a major problem about water. “When we take water from rivers, those ecosystems begin to reduce or even disappear,” she said. “And that also creates cost to us, not just to nature, because we also depend upon those ecosystems.”

　　1. What does the author really want to say in the passage?

　　A. Water has been the most serious challenge.

　　B. So many children die from polluted water every day.

　　C. Diseases should be properly controlled and treated.

　　D. A shortage of water leads to the unrest of the world.

　　2. For lack of access to water many people ________.

　　A. will fail to see what has led to trachoma

　　B. will not have confidence in themselves

　　C. will lose chances to improve their life

　　D. will have to live far from their villages

　　3. What can we know according to what Postel said?

　　A. The groundwater is rich in India and China.

　　B. There is no need to dig deep for groundwater.

　　C. We are consuming our next generation’s water.

　　D. We should plant rice instead of wheat and corn.

　　4. What can we infer from the passage?

　　A. We shouldn’t use water from rivers.

　　B. We should protect our ecosystems.

　　C. Water should be distributed equally.

　　D. Laws should be passed for groundwater.

　　5. The underlined word “impact” in Paragraph 4 means “________”.

　　A. effect

　　B. reason

　　C. strike

　　D. knock

　　答案与解析

　　【文章大意】

　　水是生命之源，离开了水就意味着失去了赖以生存的物质基础。但是近几年在很多国家和地区，不安全的饮用水、不安全的环境卫生或个人卫生导致很多人失去了生命。

　　1. 答案

　　D

　　解析

　　主旨大意题。这篇文章讲述了目前在全世界范围内，水短缺给人们的健康、生活、经济等带来了灾难。故选D项。

　　2. 答案

　　C

　　解析

　　细节理解题。依据第二段中的第二句People who spend much of their time in ill health, caring for sick children or collecting water at a distance averaging 3.75 miles a day are denying educational and economic opportunities to better their lives可知，健康状况不佳的人花费大部分时间照顾生病的孩子，或一天走平均3.75英里的路去打水，他们拒绝接受改善他们生活的教育和经济机会。故选C项。

　　3. 答案

　　C

　　解析

　　推理判断题。第四段中的The rate of groundwater consumption has doubled since 1960表明，我们消耗了过多的地下水。再依据第五段中Postel的话But we’re pumping much of it out faster than precipitation is recharging it可知，我们的水资源是有限的，但我们抽水的速度比降水补给的速度要快。故选C项。

　　4. 答案

　　B

　　解析

　　推理判断题。依据文章尾段的内容可知，当我们从河流中取水时，这些生态系统开始减少甚至消失，因此我们要保护我们的生态系统。故选B项。

　　5. 答案

　　A

　　解析

　　词义猜测题。结合下一段中的Some of Earth’s groundwater is fossil water以及such water is as limited as petroleum可知，地下水资源很宝贵，过度使用水会对全球用水安全产生很大的影响，故选A项。impact意为“巨大影响；强大作用”，相当于effect, influence等。

　　Ⅲ.语法填空

　　Choosing a College Major

　　In college, you are required to major in a specific academic area. Most colleges require students to ___1___(decision) a major by the end of their sophomore year. Until then, you’ll likely be taking general education courses, ___2___ are courses that every student has to complete in order to graduate.

　　Choosing your college major can be a ___3___(stress) process. It can be even ___4___ (difficult) if you wait until you step foot on your college to start thinking about your possible ___5___(choose). Instead, take the active approach and start the process now. Start by asking yourself the ___6___(follow)simple question: What Do I Love?

　　In order to decide what college major would ___7___(well) suit you, you must first examine your interests. What excites you? What type of activities do you look forward ___8___ each week? Understanding what really interests you is very important.

　　If you think you want to be an accountant, but you can’t wait until pre-calculus class is over because it means that you can head straight to your ___9___(create)writing class, pay attention to this. All in all, you should choose a major that really speaks to you and that really gets you ___10___(excite).

　　答案与解析

　　【文章大意】

　　本文是一篇议论文。对于高中生来说如何选择大学里所学的专业至关重要，本文认为，在作出选择时，要首先考虑自己的兴趣爱好。

　　1. decide

　　考查动词。根据空格后面的语境a major可以得知，此处表示“决定所学专业”，故用decision的动词decide。

　　2. which

　　考查关系代词。根据空格后面语境可以得知，此处考查定语从句，故答案为which，引导非限制性定语从句。

　　误解分析：此题考生易误填入they或that。解答此题关键是注意空格前面的逗号。

　　3. stressful

　　考查形容词。根据空格后面语境可以得知，此处需要用形容词形式修饰后面的名词process，故答案为stressful“有压力的；令人紧张的”。

　　4. more difficult

　　考查比较级。根据空格前面语境even以及空格后面多音节形容词difficult可以得知，此处需要用形容词的比较级形式。

　　5. choices

　　考查名词。根据空格前面的形容词possible可以得知，此处表示“可能的选择”，故答案为名词形式choices。

　　6. following

　　考查形容词。根据空格后面的名词可以得知，此处需要用形容词形式following“下面的；下述的”，修饰question。

　　7. best

　　考查副词。此处表示“最适合你的专业”，故用well的最高级形式best修饰动词suit。

　　8. to

　　考查介词。根据空格前面语境look forward 可以得知，此处考查固定搭配look forward to表示“期望；盼望……”之意的用法。

　　9. creative

　　考查形容词。根据空格后面语境中的名词writing class可以得知，此处需要用形容词形式creative“有创造力的”，修饰writing class。

　　10. excited

　　考查非谓语动词。根据空格前面语境get you可以得知，此处需要用形容词化的-ed分词修饰人，在此处作get的宾语补足语。