山东德州2016届高考英语二轮复习单项填空精练精析19

　　山东德州2016届高考英语二轮复习单项填空精练精析19

　　1. The British use prepositions _______ Americans sometimes omit them.

　　A. when

　　B. which

　　C. that

　　D. where

　　2. ［2012杭州模拟］When we finally _______ to get home after the tiring long journey,

　　we could hardly move a step further.

　　A. tried

　　B. succeeded

　　C. attempted

　　D. managed

　　3. Maybe you will prefer to _______ the town by taxi(British) or cab (American).

　　A. get around to

　　B. get around

　　C. get away

　　D. get back

　　4. After all,

　　there is probably _______ variation of pronunciation within the two countries as between them.

　　A. so much

　　B. as many

　　C. too much

　　D. as much

　　5. ［2012西安模拟］Chang Xiufeng,

　　known as China’s “Van Gogh Granny”,

　　uses her tools to vividly _______ old memories and bright gold autumn scene.

　　A. present

　　B. process

　　C. prohibit

　　D. predict

　　6. ［2012乐山模拟］Mum _______ my suggestion while dad spoke _______ my idea.

　　A. turned off;

　　in favour of

　　B. turned down;

　　in favour of

　　C. turned down;

　　in need of

　　D. turned on;

　　in hope of

　　7. ［2012聊城模拟］Although metals _______ widely in qualities such as strength and hardness,

　　they all have certain qualities in _______ .

　　A. vary;

　　general

　　B. differ;

　　common

　　C. react; particular

　　D. refer;

　　detail

　　8. Whether he will agree with us doesn’t _______ .

　　A. make any difference

　　B. make any differences

　　C. do any difference

　　D. do any differences

　　9. ［2012宜宾模拟］Do you know the teacher _______ Li Ping just shook hands?

　　A. with whom

　　B. to whom

　　C. whom

　　D. who

　　10. Production of the car increased _______ 10% in July,

　　2011 _______ the same month of last year.

　　A. in；compared to

　　B. by；compared with

　　C. in；compared with

　　D. by；comparing to

　　11. A heavy snow fell on the first day of this year;

　　you’ll imagine what difficulty we had _______ home in the snow.

　　A. walked

　　B. walk

　　C. to walk

　　D. walking

　　12. Many children seldom communicate with adults，_______ it difficult for their parents to know what they are thinking about.

　　A. making

　　B. makes

　　C. made

　　D. to make

　　13. It is really an exciting game. _______ the game?

　　A. Who do you think will win

　　B. Whom do you think will win

　　C. Do you know who will win

　　D. Who do you think to win

　　14. 桯ow about your trip to Italy?

　　桹h,

　　_______ the fine weather,

　　we enjoyed ourselves indeed.

　　A. but for

　　B. thanks to

　　C. in spite of

　　D. because of

　　15. It抯 quite _______ that the aging population in China will call use a heavy pressure on the whole society in the future.

　　A. surprising

　　B. obvious

　　C. impossible

　　D. funny

　　1. 【解析】选D。句意：英国人在美国人有时省略介词的地方使用它们。根据句意和句子结构可知，要填词引导的是地点状语从句，故用where。

　　2. 【解析】选D。句意：当我们经过疲惫的长途旅行最终回到家时几乎一步也走不了了。try to do sth. 努力/试图做某事；succeed in doing sth.

　　成功做某事；attempt to do sth. 试图做某事；manage to do sth. 成功做某事。结合句意可知应选D项。

　　3. 【解析】选B。考查短语辨析。get around四处走动；get around to抽时间来做；开始考虑; get away走开，离开，脱身；get back拿回，取回。由句意可知B项正确。

　　4. 【解析】选D。本题考查as. . . as. . . 结构。由variation可知B项错误；so. . . as. . . 常用于否定句和疑问句中，所以A项不对；too much不与as连用，故可排除C项。

　　5. 【解析】选A。句意：常秀峰，被称之为中国的“梵高奶奶”，用她的画笔生动展现了怀旧的思绪和亮丽的金秋景色。present“展现，陈述”，符合句意。process“处理，加工”；prohibit“禁止”；predict“预言”。

　　6. 【解析】选B。句意：妈妈拒绝采纳我的建议而爸爸却赞成我的想法。turn down“拒绝”；in favour of“赞成，支持”，符合句意。

　　【变式备选】

　　All the students were _______ my idea that we should go for a picnic the next week.

　　A. instead of

　　B. in honor of

　　C. in favour of

　　D. by means of

　　【解析】选C。句意：所有的同学都同意我提出的下周去野炊的建议。in favour of“赞同”，符合句意。instead of“代替”；in honor of“为了表示对……的敬意”；by means of“用……方法”。

　　7. 【解析】选B。句意：虽然金属的某些特性有很大差别，诸如强度和硬度等，但是它们都具有某些共同特性。第一空用vary和differ皆可；第二空用common表示“共同的”。

　　8. 【解析】选A 。句意：他是否同意我们的意见并没有什么影响。make some difference用于否定句时将some改为any，此短语中difference为不可数名词。

　　9. 【解析】选A。句意：你认识刚才和李平握手的那位老师吗？shake hands with sb. “与某人握手”，故选A。10. 【解析】选B。句意：和去年的同月相比，2011年7月小汽车的产量增加了10%。表示“数量、程度达到”之意时，常用by；compared to/with位于句尾或句首表示“和……比较”。

　　11. 【解析】选D。句意：在今年的新年第一天就下了一场大雪，你会想像出我们在大雪中走回家遇到了多么大的困难。本句话包含一个固定句型，即：have difficulty in doing，其中的介词in可以省略。

　　12. 【解析】选A。句意：很多孩子极少与成年人交流，这使得他们的父母很难了解他们在想些什么。making it difficult. . . 为现在分词短语，在句中作结果状语，表示顺其自然的结果。

　　13. 【解析】选A。该句中的do you think是插入语，其结构是：“特殊疑问词+do you think+句子的剩余部分”。注意，题中who作主语，所以仍用陈述句式。

　　14. 【解析】选B。句意：——你们的意大利之行怎么样？——噢，多亏了天气好，我们的确玩得很开心。此空要用thanks to 表示“多亏了”;

　　but for表示“要不是……的话”；in spite of 表示“尽管……”；because of“因为” 表示直接原因，不合题意，故选B。

　　15. 【解析】选B。句意：很明显，中国的老龄化人口会对未来的整个社会造成很大的压力。surprising令人惊奇的；obvious明显的；impossible不可能的；funny滑稽的。