2017届高考英语一轮复习课时作业17：Unit 2《Working the land》（人教版必修4湖北专用）

　　课时作业(十七)　[必修4　Unit 2 Working the land]

　　[限时：30分钟]

　　Ⅰ.多项选择

　　1．The father has been ________ for many years in order that his only son can be equipped with higher education.

　　A．fighting

　　B．struggling

　　C．working

　　D．laboring

　　2．Pictures on TV show the quake­hit capital________to ruins and helpless survivors waiting eagerly for relief.

　　A．decreased

　　B．destroyed

　　C．returned

　　D．reduced

　　3．You'll become more confident and stronger after you finish your senior school lessons. You see, hard work ________ character.

　　A．puts up

　　B．builds up

　　C．sets up

　　D．turns up

　　4．It is ________ ill health that she is now not so active in the movement.

　　A．instead of

　　B．in place of

　　C．due to

　　D．in face of

　　5．We have every reason to believe that progress in new technology will ________a more comfortable life.

　　A．lead to

　　B．refer to

　　C．turn to

　　D．stick to

　　6．He didn't believe the explanation of the detective and determined to get to the ________ of the case on his own.

　　A．occasion

　　B．discovery

　　C．root

　　D．condition

　　7．John worked hard at his lessons and gained ________ to a famous university last year.

　　A．permission

　　B．admission

　　C．agreement

　　D．freedom

　　8．People should open the window in the morning to make air ________ in order to keep the indoor air fresh.

　　A．spread

　　B．remove

　　C．float

　　D．circulate

　　9．The population of Africa is ________ so rapidly as to cause concern of the whole world.

　　A．expanding

　　B．stretching

　　C．extending

　　D．spreading

　　10．At times, the balance in nature is ________，resulting in a number of possibly unforeseen effects.

　　A．confused

　　B．puzzled

　　C．disturbed

　　D．troubled

　　Ⅱ.阅读理解

　　A

　　Jackie Heinricher's love affair with bamboo started in her backyard. “As a child, I remember playing among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when there was a slight wind, the bamboos sounded really musical.”

　　A fisheries biologist, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in the salmon industry in Seattle, where she lived with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, but she found it too competitive. Then her garden gave her the idea for a business: She'd planted 20 bamboo forests on their seven­acre farm.

　　Heinricher started Boo­Shoot Gardens in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to be known to the rest of the world. It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, furniture, floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen.

　　First she had to find a way to mass­produce the plants—a tough task, since bamboo flowers create seed only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it.

　　Heinricher appealed to Randy Burr, a tissue culture expert, to help her.“People kept telling us we'd never figure it out，” says Heinricher.“Others had worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were doing, though, so I just kept going.”

　　She was right to feel a sense of urgency. Bamboo forests are being rapidly used up, and a United Nations report showed that even though bamboo is highly renewable,_as many as half of the world's species are threatened with dying out.Heinricher knew that bamboo could make a significant impact on carbon emissions(排放)and world economies, but only if huge numbers could be produced. And that's just what she and Burr figured out after nine years of experiments—a way to grow millions of plants. By placing cuttings in test tubes with salts, vitamins, plant hormones, and seaweed gel, they got the plants to grow and then raised them in soil in greenhouses.

　　Not long after it, Burr's lab hit financial difficulties. Heinricher had no experience running a tissue culture operation, but she wasn't prepared to quit. So she bought the lab.

　　Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimillion­dollar company, working on species from all over the world and selling them to wholesalers(批发商). “If you want to farm bamboo, it's hard to do without the young plants, and that's what we have，” she says proudly.

　　11．What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely?

　　A．They didn't have enough young bamboo.

　　B．They were short of money and experience.

　　C．They didn't have a big enough farm to do it.

　　D．They were not understood by other people.

　　12．What does Heinricher think of bamboo?

　　A．Fragile and affordable.

　　B．Productive and flexible.

　　C．Useful and earth­friendly.

　　D．Strong and profitable.

　　13．The underlined word “renewable” in Paragraph 6 probably means “________”．

　　A．able to be replaced naturally

　　B．able to be raised difficultly

　　C．able to be shaped easily

　　D．able to be recycled conveniently

　　14．What do you learn from the passage?

　　A．Heinricher's love for bamboo led to her experiments in the lab.

　　B．Heinricher's determination helped her to succeed in her work.

　　C．Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing.

　　D．Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream.

　　B

　　All over my garden I've planted nothing but roses, because I especially love the flower. A close friend came for a visit the other day. I told her that she should pick a bunch of roses to beautify her bedroom. I promised that the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away.

　　That girl friend of mine, walking into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there, but in the end she didn't pick a single rose. I said that she could pick many flowers; I told her that I was not a flower farmer and didn't make a living out of them. Saying so, I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers, but she stopped me, crying no, no, no!

　　To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said. With her hands seizing at my sleeves, she told me that by no means should they be cut. Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so iron­hearted as to destroy such a charming smile?

　　My mind was shocked: the ugly earth, the tough earth, the plain earth—it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people.

　　15．The writer plants nothing but roses in her garden probably because ________.

　　A．she can make money out of them

　　B．her friends like them

　　C．she enjoys the roses very much

　　D．the roses sell well

　　16．The underlined word “wafted” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “________”．

　　A．given off

　　B．lost

　　C．destroyed

　　D．thrown away

　　17．Why did the writer's close friend refuse to pick a single rose?

　　A．Because the roses were not beautiful.

　　B．Because she loved the roses very much.

　　C．Because she did not like this kind of roses.

　　D．Because the writer did not want to give her any.

　　18．What is the best title for the passage?

　　A．The Pity of People to the Roses

　　B．A Lover of Flowers

　　C．A Lovely Rose Garden

　　D．The Smiling Face of the Earth

　　Ⅲ.完成句子

　　阅读下列各小题，根据每句后的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。

　　19．A number of new machines were installed in the factory, thus ____________________in production. (result)

　　工厂安装了大量的新机器，因而使得产量增加。

　　20．Who do you think ____________________my homework? (hand)

　　你认为是谁帮我交了作业了呢？

　　21．The living room of this house is ____________________ of the bedroom, which suits the family pretty well. (length)

　　这个房子的起居室是卧室长度的两倍，这很合家庭成员的意。

　　22．Victor apologized for his ____________________ inform me of the change in the plan beforehand. (able)

　　维克多为他没能提前通知我计划有变而道歉。

　　23．It is generally believed that the more fertile a piece of field is, ____________________ grain it produces. (output)

　　人们普遍认为土地越肥沃，谷物的产量就越高。

　　24．How often I have regretted ____________________！ (advice)

　　我常常后悔没听他的建议！

　　25．____________________， they set out to break the record for cross­Channel swimming. (equip)

　　装备好了之后，他们就出发去打破游泳横渡英吉利海峡的纪录了。

　　26．____________________ I am of opera, I'd rather not sit through the Ring of the Nibelungs cycle this weekend. (though)

　　尽管我喜欢歌剧，但这个周末我不想一直坐等《尼伯龙根的指环》的结束。

　　27．People were perhaps more honest a long time ago when life was very different from ____________________. (be)

　　很久以前，生活与今天的样子大不相同，那个时候的人们可能更加诚实一些。

　　28．____________________is to carry out all we have planned during the last month. (thing)

　　要做的最后一件事是在最后一个月里执行我们的全部计划。

　　答案

　　课时作业(十七)

　　.1.B　考查动词词义辨析。句意：为了让自己唯一的儿子接受更高等的教育这位父亲打拼了好多年。struggling此处是一种形象化的表达。

　　2．D　考查动词词义辨析。句意：电视上的图片向我们展示了被地震袭击的这座都市沦为废墟，无助的地震幸存者焦急地等待着救济。reduce sth to rubble/ashes表示“把某物夷为废墟、化为灰烬”，因此这里用(be)reduced to ruins表示“被夷为废墟”。

　　3．B　考查动词短语辨析。后一句句意：你知道，艰苦的工作可以培养性格。build up逐渐增强；put up建起，提出；set up创立，建立；turn up出现，调高。

　　4．C　考查介词短语辨析。due to因为，由于。此句用了强调句型It is…that…，强调due to ill health。instead of代替，而不是；in place of代替，取代；in face of面对。

　　5．A　考查动词短语辨析。句意：我们完全有理由相信，新的技术进步将会通向更加舒适的生活。lead to导致，造成，通向；refer to查阅，参考；turn to转向；stick to坚持。

　　6．C　考查名词词义辨析。句意：他不相信侦探的解释，决心亲自去寻找案件的根源。root意为“根源”。

　　7．B　考查名词词义辨析。admission意为“准许进入”，admission to university指“被大学录取”。permission“许可”；agreement“同意”；freedom“自由，特权”。

　　8．D　考查动词词义辨析。circulate表示“(空气、液体等的)流通”。spread传播；remove去掉；float漂浮。句意：为了室内空气清新，人们应该在早晨打开窗子让空气流通。

　　9．A　考查动词词义辨析。expand不仅指尺寸的“增加”，还可指范围和体积的“扩大”。stretch一般指由曲变直、由短变长的“伸展”；extend指空间范围的“扩大”或长宽的向外“延伸”，也可指时间的“延长”；spread一般指向四面八方“扩大”或“传播”。

　　10．C　考查动词词义辨析。句意：有时候，自然界的平衡受到了扰乱，导致了很多未能预见的后果。confuse/puzzle困惑不解，迷惑；trouble麻烦；disturb扰乱，干扰。

　　.A

　　本文是一篇记叙文。其大意是说Jackie Heinricher创办了一家生意独特的公司——出售对地球环境有很大好处的植物竹子。文章还介绍她栽种竹子的艰辛历程。

　　11．A　细节理解题。根据文章的最后一句“If you want to farm bamboo, it's hard to do without the young plants, and that's what we have…”可知没有小竹子很难广泛地栽种竹子。

　　12．C　推理判断题。根据第三段最后两句“It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, furniture, floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen.”可推知竹子是“有用的”以及“环保的”。

　　13．A　词义猜测题。由renewable的构成可知其词根是new，加后缀­able意思是“能够更新的”；加前缀re­意思是“再，又，重新”，由此可知本题选A。

　　14．B　推理判断题。通读最后一段可知Heinricher的生意很成功，前几段讲了她的艰辛的历程，故本题选B。

　　B

　　本文为夹叙夹议文。主要讲述了“我”种了一园的玫瑰，朋友来访时，“我”建议她可以把花摘回，放在屋里，可朋友说玫瑰是地球的笑脸，决不能采摘。

　　15．C　细节理解题。根据第一段第一句“All over my garden I've planted nothing but roses, because I especially love the flower.”可知，“我”种玫瑰是因为“我”非常喜欢玫瑰，故选C项。

　　16．A　词义猜测题。根据画线词所在句“…the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away.”可猜出玫瑰的香味应该能散发到很远，故选A项，give off意为“散发出”。B项意为“遗失，失败”；C项意为“毁灭”；D项意为“扔掉”。

　　17．B　推理判断题。根据第二段第一句“That girl friend of mine, walking into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there…”以及第三段第三句“Roses are the smiling face of the earth…”可知，作者的这个朋友应该是非常喜欢玫瑰，故选B项。

　　18．D　主旨大意题。综观全文，以及倒数第二段最后一句“Roses are the smiling face of the earth…such a charming smile？”以及最后一段“My mind was shocked: the ugly earth, the tough earth, the plain earth—it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people.”可知选D项。

　　Ⅲ.19.resulting in an increase

　　20．has helped me hand in

　　21．twice/double the length

　　22．not being able to

　　23．the higher output of

　　24．not taking/following his advice

　　25．Well equipped

　　26．Fond though

　　27．what it is today

　　28．The last thing to do