2017届高考英语总复习闯关密训卷 Unit1《A land of diversity》选修8

　　2017高考总复习闯关密训英语卷 Unit01 A land of diversity 必修8

　　单项填空’t it on ________ sink?

　　A. the; a

　　B. /; the

　　C. the; the

　　D. /; a

　　2. ---Has Ingid handed in her paper yet?

　　---I’m not sure. She _______ on it last week.

　　A. was working

　　B. has worked

　　C. worked

　　D. had worked

　　3. It was the first time that I _______ visitors since I’d moved to London.

　　A. had had

　　B. have had

　　C. have

　　D. had

　　4. Jenny hopes that Mr. Smith will suggest a good way to have her written English ________.

　　A. improved

　　B. improving

　　C. to improve

　　D. improve

　　5. We can’t wait. We have to_______ the direction and the distance before we take action.

　　A. make out

　　B. pick out

　　C. think out

　　D. turn out.

　　6. We wouldn’t go abroad for our vacation _______ we could afford it.

　　A. as if

　　B. so that

　　C. in case

　　D. even though

　　7. If you say that someone is ________ for a shock or a surprise you mean that they are going to experience it.

　　A. out

　　B. in

　　C. at

　　D. on

　　8. They spent the afternoon _________ in the street, not knowing what to do.

　　A. putting on

　　B. blocking out

　　C. holding out

　　D. fooling around

　　9. The man didn’t admit _________ anything at the store, when he was questioned by the police.

　　A. to steal

　　B. having stolen

　　C. to have stolen

　　D. having been stolen

　　10. It is in England ________ the Olympic Games will be held.

　　A. when

　　B. while

　　C. which

　　D. that

　　11. She said the contest ________ by the Students’ Union the next Friday.

　　A. will be held

　　B. would be holding

　　C. would be held

　　D. was holding

　　12. What a pity! If I had known Tom earlier, I ________ him to the party

　　A. had invited

　　B. would invite

　　C. invited

　　D. would have invited

　　13. ---Who ______ it be that hasn’t handed it in yesterday.

　　---It _______ be Bob. He handed it in yesterday.

　　A. can; mustn’t B. must; can

　　C. can; can’t

　　D. may; mustn’t

　　14. I ________ like boiled water, but now I love it.

　　A. would

　　B. used to

　　C. wouldn’t

　　D. didn’t use to

　　15. It was difficult being in a foreign country, ________ if you don’t speak the language.

　　A. extremely

　　B. naturally

　　C. basically

　　D. especially

　　第二节 完形填空阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。The Voice of America began during the World War II. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international

　　16

　　, American officials believed they should

　　17

　　the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in18

　　. “The 19

　　may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA 20

　　were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

　　After the World War II ended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s 21

　　had to be changed, 22

　　the Soviet Union became enemy of America. They wanted to23

　　Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

　　In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was 24

　　“ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959. VOA knew that many listeners did not know 25

　　English to completely understand its 26

　　English broadcast. So VOA 27

　　a simpler kind of English, 28

　　uses about 1,500 words and is spoken 29

　　of course, it is special English.

　　In the 30

　　of most VOA listeners, the most31

　　program is the news report. News from around the world 32

　　into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in 33

　　cities and also from other 34

　　like BBC. VOA writers and editors use these materials to35

　　news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

　　16.A.business

　　B. culture

　　C. support

　　D. information

　　17.A.reply

　　B. answer

　　C. join

　　D. interrupt

　　18.A.same

　　B. short

　　C. English

　　D. German

　　19.A.news

　　B. problems

　　C. effects

　　D. opinions

　　20.A.stations

　　B. news

　　C. announcers

　　D. officials

　　21.A.home

　　B. position

　　C. purpose

　　D. results

　　22.A.if

　　B. supposing

　　C considering

　　D. in order that

　　23.A.reach

　　B. satisfy

　　C. attack

　　D. support

　　24.A.known

　　B. reported

　　C. called

　　D. printed

　　25.A.American

　　B. British

　　C. standard

　　D. enough

　　26.A.normal

　　B. fast

　　C. good

　　D. exact

　　27.A.invented

　　B. discovered

　　C. taught

　　D. stopped

　　28.A.it

　　B. who

　　C. which

　　D. that

　　29.A.slowly

　　B. rapidly

　　C. normally

　　D. loudly

　　30.A.pleasure

　　B. course

　　C. opinion

　　D. advice

　　31.A.difficult

　　B. important

　　C. various

　　D. common

　　32.A.flies

　　B. sends

　　C. delivers

　　D. pasts

　　33.A.all

　　B. major

　　C. American

　　D. news

　　34.A.broadcasts

　　B. forms

　　C. newspapers

　　D. countries

　　35.A.broadcast

　　B. announce

　　C. translate

　　D. prepare

　　第三节：阅读理解

　　认真阅读下列短文， A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　A

　　You are busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let’s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma(毕业文凭) represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?

　　More and more people are turning to an utter deception(欺骗)

　　like this to land their first job or to move head in their careers. For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars(注册主任)at most well-known colleges say that they deal with dishonest claims like these at the rate of about one per week.

　　Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly. One lvy League school refers to them as “special cases”, One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says these claims are made by “no such people”.

　　To avoid complete lies, some job seekers claim that they “attended” or “were associated with” a college or university. After careful checking, a personnel officer may discover that “attending” means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that “being as sociated with” a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of

　　the century—that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow.

　　If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a fake diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of non-existent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from “Smoot State University”. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the “University of Purdue”. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.

　　36. The writer mainly wants to tell us that _______.

　　A. college degrees can now be purchased easily

　　B. it is very hard for people to find jobs

　　C. lying about college degrees is becoming a widespread problem

　　D. employers are no longer interested in applicants’ actual performances

　　37. The underlined word “utter” in the second paragraph means “______”.

　　A. thorough

　　B. careful

　　C. incomplete

　　D. spoken

　　38. Once finding applicants with false diplomas, most colleges would _________.

　　A. keep the records of them

　　B. drive them out of college

　　C. avoid direct conflicts with them D. accuse them of such behavior

　　39. We can learn from the passage that ________.

　　A. US employers value their job applicants with a degree from top universities

　　B. University of Purdue and Purdue University are the same school

　　C. people with fake diplomas can get their first jobs in the US easily

　　D. people pay the same price for a fake diploma from different universities

　　B

　　The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy center caused by the terrible earthquake has raised questions about the future of the nuclear energy industry. Arjun is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in the United States. He says the disaster in Japan is historic.

　　This week, the chairman of America’s nuclear agency said there is little chance that harmful radiation(辐射) from Japan could reach the United States. Gregory also said America has a strong program in place to deal with earthquake threats. No new nuclear power centers have been built in the United States since 1979. That was when America’s worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania. The accident began to turn public opinion against nuclear energy. At present, about twenty percent of electricity in the United States comes from nuclear energy.

　　German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would close seven nuclear power centers for the time being while energy policy is reconsidered. The European Union is planning to test all centers in its twenty-seven member nations.

　　Developing nations are less willing to slow down the development of nuclear. China says it will continue with plans to build about twenty-five new nuclear reactors(核反应堆). And India, under a cooperation agreement with the United States, plans to spend billions on new centers in the coming years.

　　Nuclear reactors supply fourteen percent of global electricity. Nuclear energy is a clean resource, producing no carbon gases. But radioactive waste is a serious problem to be solved. So is the presence of nuclear power centers in earthquake areas like the one near Bushehr, lran.

　　40. We can learn from the text that America ________.

　　A. experienced a terrible nuclear accident 32 years ago

　　B. has a strong program to deal with radiation danger

　　C. depends heavily on nuclear energy to produce electricity

　　D. will check all the reactors before cooperating with India

　　41. According to the text, which country will be most likely to have a similar disaster?

　　A. German.

　　B. Iran

　　C. India.

　　D. China.

　　42. How does the author seem to feel about the future of nuclear energy?

　　A. Satisfied.

　　B. Pleased.

　　C. Worried.

　　D. Surprised.

　　43. The best title of the text is ______.

　　A. Various Opinions on Japan’s Nuclear Disaster

　　B. Japan’s Disaster is Likely to Run Out of Control

　　C. America Shows Great Concern for Japan’s Nuclear Crisis

　　D. Japan’s Disaster Throws Doubt on Nuclear Energy Industry

　　C

　　If cars had wings, they could fly and that just might happen, beginning in 2017. The company Terrafugia, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, says it plans to deliver its car-plane, the Transition, to customers by the end of 2017.

　　“It’s next ‘wow’ vehicle,” said Terrafugia vice president Richard Gersh. “Anybody can buy a Ferrari, but as we say, Ferraris don’t fly.”

　　The car-plane has wings that unfold for flying-a process the company says takes one minute-and fold back up for driving. A runway is still required to take off and land.

　　The Transition is being marketed more as a plane that drives than a car that flies, although it is both. The company has been working with FAA to meet aircraft regulations, and with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to meet vehicle safety regulations.

　　The company is aiming to sell the Transition to private pilots as a more convenient and cheaper way to fly. They say it saves you the trouble from trying to find another mode of transportation to get to and from airports: You drive the car to the airport and then you’re good to go. When you land, you hold up the wings and hit the road. There are no expensive parking fees because you don’t have to store it at an airport-you park it in the garage at home.

　　The car-plane is designed to fly primarily under 10,000 feet. It has a maximum takeoff weight of 1,430 pounds, including fuel and passengers. Thrrafugia says the Transition reduces the potential for an accident by allowing pilots to drive under the bad weather instead of flying into marginal(临界的) conditions.

　　The Transition’s price tag: $194,000. But there may be additional charges for options like a radio, , a transponder or a GPS. Another option is a full-plane parachute.

　　“If you get into a very awful situation, it is the necessary safety option.” Gersh said.

　　So far, the company has more than 70 orders with deposits. “We’re working very closely with them, but there are still some remaining steps,” Brown said.

　　44. We can learn from the first two paragraphs that _________.

　　A. car-planes will be popular in 2017-4-6

　　B. people might drive a car-plane in 2017

　　C. both the Transition and Ferrari can take off and land

　　D. Richard Gersh is the vice president of Massachusetts

　　45. It takes the car-plane one minute to _________.

　　A. fold and unfold its wings

　　B. unfold wings for flying

　　C. land in the airport

　　D. meet flying safety regulations

　　46. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true

　　A. The car-plane needs a runway to take off and land.

　　B. To meet aircraft regulations, the company has been working with FAA.

　　C. The car-plane may fly as high as normal planes.

　　D. People can park the car-plane in the garage at their home.

　　D

　　Angry survivors demanded answers on Sunday after a terrible stampede（踏）at “Love Parade 2010”, a music festival in Germany, killed 19 people and left hundreds hurt.

　　The German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her shock over Saturday’s tragedy in the western city of Duisburg. “This was a very sad day,” Merkel said. “We must do everything we can to ensure that something like this never happens again.”

　　Witnesses said that people pushed into the narrow tunnel, the only entrance to the Love Parade festival, from both sides until it was dangerously overcrowded. The panic began as festival-goers began to lose consciousness as they were crushed against the walls and each other. The dead included eight foreigners, from Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, China, Bosnia and Spain. More than 340 people were injured.

　　After the panic, a lot of emergency vehicles, including helicopters, could be seen parked on the highway leading to helicopters, could be seen parked on the highway leading to the festival site, carrying away the injured people. The festival itself, however, went on. Police were afraid that ending the music altogether could cause further unrest among the crowd.

　　“The event was a real mess,” Patrick Guenter, a 22-year-old baker, said.

　　“Although the festival was full, they kept letting people in.” he added. “It seems the organizers didn’t plan the route. The road was very narrow, and no one knew what was going on.” Said Taggart Bowen-Gaddy,20,an American from Philadelphia.

　　Officials said 4,000 police officers and 1,000 security guards provided security for the event, which attracted up to 1.4 million people. The authorities had only given organizers permission for 250,000 people to attend.

　　“I warned one year ago that Duisburg was not a suitable place for the Love Parade. The city is too small and narrow for such events. It is a pity that…” German police union chief Rainer Wendt told the Bild.

　　The chief organizer, Rainer Schaller, said the popular event would never be held again, “out of respect for the victims and their families”.

　　First held in Berlin in 1989 just months before the fall of the Wall, the Love Parade is one of the biggest music festivals in Europe. It left Berlin from 2007 onwards after disagreements with the city authorities over security and has been held in several other German cities in recent years.

　　47. How did the German Chancellor Angela Merkel feel about the tragedy?

　　A. Very disappointed.

　　B. Angry and surprised.

　　C. Very puzzled.

　　D. Touched.

　　48. According to Patrick Gunter and Taggart Bowen-Gaddy, ________.

　　A. the event was well-organized

　　B. the performance was wonderful

　　C. Duisburg was suitable for the Love Parade

　　D. the organization was very bad

　　49. We can infer that __________.

　　A. Rainer Wendt’s warning went unnoticed

　　B. Rainer Wendt was a chief organizer of Love Parade 2010

　　C. Rainer Wendt is a music lover

　　D. Duisburg is a famous holiday destination

　　50. We can learn from the passage that ________.

　　A. the Love Parade has been canceled forever

　　B. the Love Parade is a very popular sport event

　　C. the festival was ended shortly after the panic

　　D. the Love Parade has a history of over 30 years

　　第节：短文改错^），并在其下面写上该加的词。

　　删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。

　　修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

　　注意： 1.

　　每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

　　2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

　　In recently years，dust storms take place more?and more often in the north of Chinese. They have brought a great deal of trouble to people’s lives．The strong wind blows up the dust，made the air?very dirty. It also stops many of people from going out. In past, people raised a large number of sheep. The sheep eat up a great deal grass and the land?became sandy. Now the government have begun to?pay attention to the problem. Each year, a lot of? money spent on the improvement of the environment．?

　　第五节 书面表达

　　假定你是中学生李华。在一位名叫TigerMom的学生家长的博客上，你看到如下内容。请你根据博客内容、写作要点和要求，给这位家长回复。

　　I’m the mother of a fourteen-year-old. I have a rule for my daughter：be among the top 5 students or get punished in one way or another. She has been doing very well in school，but some friends of mine keep telling me that I put too much pressure on her. Am I wrong?

　　写作要点：

　　1．表明自己的看法；

　　2．陈述自己的理由(可举例说明)；

　　3．提出至少两条建议。

　　要求：

　　1．短文须写在答题卡的指定区域。

　　2．短文词数不少于100(不含已写好的部分)。

　　3．内容充实，结构完整，语意连贯。

　　4．书写须清晰、工整。

　　Hi，TigerMom，

　　What puzzles you is actually a puzzle for many parents in China. My idea is_______________________________________________________________________________

　　_____________________________________________________