2017届高三英语一轮复习课时作业2：Unit2《English around the world》（新人教版必修1）

　　Ⅰ.多项选择

　　1．Great changes have taken place in my hometown and it has changed beyond ________.

　　A．hearing

　　B．strength

　　C．recognition

　　D．measure

　　[解析]句意：我的家乡发生了巨大的变化并且变得认不出来了。beyond recognition 无法辨认，认不出来。

　　[答案]C

　　2．Drunk driving, which was once a ________ occurrence, is now under control.

　　A．general

　　B．frequent

　　C．normal

　　D．particular

　　[解析]句意：酒后驾车，在过去曾是经常发生的事，现在已得到了控制。general 一般的，普通的；frequent 时常发生的；normal 正常的，标准的；particular 特别的，独有的。

　　[答案]B

　　3．(2017·湖北四校期中联考)Countries in Southeast Asia have ________ become familiar with Chinese brands, but there is still a long way to go.

　　A．instantly

　　B．gradually

　　C．actually

　　D．frequently

　　[解析]gradually 逐渐。instantly 立即；actually 实际上；frequently 频繁地。句意：东南亚国家逐渐熟悉了中国的品牌，但仍有很长一段路要走。

　　[答案]B

　　4．—Do you like cats?

　　—Of course.They mean ________ a kind of pet to their masters.

　　A．less than

　　B．more than

　　C．no more than

　　D．not more than

　　[解析]句意：——你喜欢猫吗？——当然喜欢。猫对于它们的主人来说不仅仅是一种宠物。A：少于；B：多于，不仅仅；C：仅仅；D：不多于，至多。

　　[答案]B

　　5．We put off the sports meeting________the heavy storm.

　　A．instead of

　　B．because of

　　C．regardless of

　　D．according to

　　[解析]because of 由于。句意：由于暴风雨，我们推迟了运动会。

　　[答案]B

　　6．—Do you think it's a good idea to make friends with your students?

　　—________， I do.I think it's a great idea.

　　A．Really

　　B．Obviously

　　C．Actually

　　D．Generally

　　[解析]句意：——你认为和你的学生交朋友是一个好主意吗？——其实，我真的认为那是个很不错的主意。actually (实际上)在句子中起加强语气的作用。really 真正地；obviously 明显地；generally 大体上。

　　[答案]C

　　7．We have a house and a garden. The former is less beautiful than the________.

　　A．late

　　B．later

　　C．lately D．latter

　　[解析]the latter“后者”，与the former 对应使用。

　　[答案]D

　　8．I'm amazed to hear from my school teacher again.________， it is ten years since we met last.

　　A．In a word

　　B．What's more

　　C．That's to say

　　D．Believe it or not

　　[解析]句意：想不到又一次收到我的老师的来信。信不信由你，自从我们上一次见面到现在已有十年了。in a word 总之；what's more 并且；that's to say 也就是说；believe it or not 信不信由你。正确分析句子前后的逻辑关系，应选D。

　　[答案]D

　　9．He ________ a good knowledge of Chinese history.You can ask him about the ancient China.

　　A．conducts

　　B．controls

　　C．contains

　　D．commands

　　[解析]考查词义辨析。command 在句中的意义为“掌握”。

　　[答案]D

　　10．After long and hard work, the police at last discovered the ________ of the baby found by the side of a road.

　　A．dialect

　　B．identity

　　C．situation

　　D．condition

　　[解析]identity“身份”。dialect“方言”；situation“形势，局面”；condition“状态，状况，情形”。

　　[答案]B

　　Ⅱ.阅读理解

　　A

　　(2011·浙江高考)It was Saturday.As always, it was a busy one, for “Six days shall you labor and do all your work” was taken seriously back then.Outside，Father and Mr Patrick next door were busy chopping firewood.Inside their own houses, Mother and Mrs.Patrick were engaged in spring cleaning.

　　Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites.Now, even at the risk of having Brother caught to beat carpets, they had sent him to the kitchen for more string(线)．It seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites would fly today.

　　My mother looked at the sitting room, its furniture disordered for a thorough sweeping.Again she cast a look toward the window.“Come on，girls! Let's take string to the boys and watch them fly the kites a minute.”

　　On the way we met Mrs.Patrick, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her girls.

　　There never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our fresh string into the boys' kites and they went up higher and higher.We could hardly distinguish the orange­colored spots of the kites.Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down in the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending it up again.

　　Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us.Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls.I think we were all beside ourselves.Parents forgot their duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies.“Perhaps it's like this in the kingdom of heaven，” I thought confusedly.

　　It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the houses.I suppose we had some sort of supper.I suppose there must have been a surface tidying­up, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough.The strange thing was, we didn't mention that day afterward.I felt a little embarrassed.Surely none of the others had been as excited as I．I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep “the things that cannot be and yet they are”．

　　The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my three­year­old insistently cried her desire to “go park, see duck.”

　　“I can't go！” I said.“I have this and this to do, and when I'm through I'll be too tired to walk that far.”

　　My mother, who was visiting us, looked up from the peas she was shelling.“It's a wonderful day，”she offered, “really warm, yet there's a fine breeze.Do you remember that day we flew kites？”

　　I stopped in my dash between stove and sink.The locked door flew open and with it a rush of memories.“Come on，” I told my little girl.“You're right, it's too good a day to miss.”

　　Another decade passed.We were in the aftermath (余波)of a great war.All evening we had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences as a prisoner of war.He had talked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent.What was he thinking of—what dark and horrible things?

　　“Say！” A smile slipped out from his lips.“Do you remember —no，of course you wouldn't.It probably didn't make the impression on you as it did on me.”

　　I hardly dared speak.“Remember what？”

　　“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp (战俘营), when things weren't too good.Do you remember the day we flew the kites？”

　　1．Mrs.Patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought ________.

　　A．she was too old to fly kites

　　B．her husband would make fun of her

　　C．she should have been doing her housework then

　　D．her girls weren't supposed to play the boy's game

　　2．By “we were all beside ourselves”， the writer means that they all ________.

　　A．felt confused

　　B．went wild with joy

　　C．looked on

　　D．forgot their fights

　　3．What did the writer think after the kite­flying?

　　A．The boys must have had more fun than the girls.

　　B．They should have finished their work before playing.

　　C．Her parents should spend more time with them.

　　D．All the others must have forgotten that day.

　　4．Why did the writer finally agree to take her little girl for an outing?

　　A．She suddenly remembered her duty as a mother.

　　B．She was reminded of the day they flew kites.

　　C．She had finished her work in the kitchen.

　　D．She thought it was a great day to play outside.

　　答案与解析

　　[语篇解读]　本文通过回顾儿时放风筝的经历，讲述了童年的美好回忆对以后生活的深刻影响。

　　1．C　推理判断题。A项意为“她太老了而不能放风筝”；B项意为“她丈夫会取笑她”；C项意为“当时她本该做家务的”；D项意为“她的女儿们不应该玩男孩子游戏”。根据上下文可知，Mrs.Patrick 内疚的笑了是因为她觉得自己应该先做家务的，所以C项正确。

　　2．B　推理判断题。该段描述了父母们加入到了孩子们放风筝的活动中，兴奋得忘了自己的职责和尊严，孩子们忘了平日的打斗和嫉妒。A项意为“感到困惑”；B项意为“欣喜若狂”；C项意为“旁观”；D项意为“忘记打斗”。综上所述B项正确。

　　3．D　推理判断题。根据文中信息句“The strange thing was，we didn't mention that day afterward.I felt a little embarrassed.Surely none of the others had been as excited as I．”可以看出，作者认为放风筝之后其他人不再提起那天的事，肯定是因为忘记了。

　　4．B　细节理解题。根据文中所述“My mother，who was visiting us，looked up from the peas she was shelling，...The locked door flew open and with it a rush of memories.”作者的母亲使作者回想起了儿时父母和他们一起放风筝的快乐情景，所以她最终决定带女儿去郊游。所以B项正确。

　　B

　　(2017·陕西名校联考)Who's in control of your life? Who is pulling your string? For the majority of us, it's other people—society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry(模仿), their passions a quotation.”

　　So when people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their fix (一剂毒品). We worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval.

　　But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their own agenda, and they come with their own baggage and，in the end, they're more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will build our life on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions all the time. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process.

　　So how can we take back control? I think there's only one way—make a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values—not values imposed (强加) from the outside by others, but innate values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others, we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life.

　　1．What Oscar Wilde says implies that________.

　　A. we have thoughts similar to those of others

　　B. most people have a variety of thoughts

　　C. most people's thoughts are controlled by others

　　D. other people's thoughts are more important

　　2．What does the author try to argue in the third paragraph?

　　A. We may lose ourselves to please others.

　　B. Changing opinions may cost us our freedom.

　　C. We need to pay for what we want to get.

　　D. The price of taking drugs is freedom.

　　3．In order to live a happy, effective and purposeful life, we should________.

　　A．care about others' opinions and change opinions all the time

　　B. guide ourselves by means of values from the outside

　　C. persuade others to accept our opinions

　　D. stick to our own values

　　4．It can be concluded from the passage that________.

　　A．we shouldn't care about what others think

　　B．it's better to do what we like

　　C．we shouldn't change our own opinions

　　D．it's important to accept others' opinions

　　答案与解析

　　1．C　从第一段第一，三句可知。

　　2．A　从第三段最后一句可知A项正确。

　　3．D　从最后一段第三句可知D项正确。

　　4．A　从最后一段第二句可推断出A项正确。

　　Ⅲ.完成句子

　　1．Every minute is________our lessons well.(use)

　　充分利用每一分钟来把我们的功课学好。

　　2．Later in the next century，people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and ________ that，English began to be spoken in many other countries.(because)

　　下个世纪的晚期，从英格兰来的人利用航海征服了世界上的其它一些地方，也正因为如此，英语开始在其它许多国家使用。

　　3．________her accent，she must be from Shanghai.(judge)

　　从她的口音判断，她肯定来自上海。

　　4．Many students believe the choice of their courses and universities________their own interest.(base)

　　许多学生认为应该根据他们自己的兴趣来选择课程和大学。

　　5．The officer commanded that everyone passing by________that day.(search)

　　那个官员命令搜查那天每一个路过的人。

　　6．________，I'll keep my business going.(even)

　　即使要卖掉我的房子，我也要让生意进行下去。

　　7．The UN________international relations.(part)

　　联合国在国际关系中起着一个重要的作用。

　　8．It is so nice to hear from her.________，we last met more than twenty years ago.(believe)

　　收到她的来信真是令人愉快。信不信由你，我们上次见面是在二十多年前。

　　9．People________would have a discussion on pollution.(present)

　　与会的人们将就污染问题展开讨论。

　　10．He asked us to be quiet and________.(disturb)

　　他要求我们安静，并且不要去打扰他。

　　答案

　　1．made full use of to study　2.because of

　　3．Judging from/by　4.should be based on

　　5．(should) be searched

　　6．Even if/though I have to sell my house

　　7．plays an important part in

　　8．Believe it or not

　　9．present at the meeting

　　10．not to disturb him