2017届广东省从化市高考英语短文语法填空、阅读理解课外自练（8）及答案

　　广东省从化市2017高考英语短文语法填空、阅读理解课外自练（8）及答案

　　广东省2017语法填空(共10小题；每小题l 5分．满分l5分)

　　阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。London was awarded __1_______ 2017 Olympic Games on Wednesday, __2_________ (defeat) European rival Paris in the final round of voting to take the games back to British capital __3________ the first time since 1948.

　　__4_______ Moscow, New York and Madrid were eliminated (淘汰) in the first three rounds London beat Paris 54 : 50 on the fourth ballot(投票表决) of the IOC.

　　In London crowds cheered and waved flags as __5_______ watched the announcement from Singapore __6_______ a giant screen in Trafalgar Square and in the east London area __7______ the main Olympic complex (建筑群) will be based.

　　Blair spent two days in lobbying(游说) in Singapore __8______ leaving to host the G8 summit (8国峰会) in Scotland. “My promise to you is that we will be your very __9_______ (good) partners,” Blair said.

　　It’s the fourth bid (申办) from Britain after __10__________ (fail) attempts(尝试；企图) by Birmingham for the 1992 Olympics and Manchester for the 1996 and 2000. 18）

　　16. the

　　17. defeating

　　18 for 19. After

　　20. they

　　21 on. 22 where.

　　23. before 34. best

　　25. failed

　　广东省2017语法填空(共10小题；每小题l 5分．满分l5分)

　　阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。In Africa, when the antelope wakes up every morning, the first thing

　　16.

　　comes into his mind is, “I must be able to run

　　17.

　　(fast) than the fastest lion,

　　18.

　　I will be killed by a lion.” And at just the same time, the lion

　　19.

　　(wake) out of his dream, and the first thing

　　20.

　　(flash) into his mind is: “I must be able to catch up with the slowest antelope, otherwise I will starve to

　　21.

　　(dead).” So almost at the same moment

　　22.

　　the antelope and the lion jump to their feet, and start

　　23.

　　(run) toward the rising sun.

　　Such is life —

　　24.

　　you are an antelope or a lion, you ought to dash forward without

　　25.

　　(hesitate) when the sun rises.

　　【参考答案】（19）

　　16. that

　　17. faster

　　18 or (else) / otherwise 19. wakes

　　20. flashing

　　21. death

　　22. both

　　23. running

　　34. whether

　　25. hesitation

　　【阅读理解】------ (山东卷)

　　Arthur

　　Miller(1915­2005)is universally

　　recognized

　　as one of the greatest dramatists

　　of the 20th

　　century. Miller's father

　　had

　　moved to the USA from Austria­Hungary, drawn like so many others by the“Great American

　　Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the

　　early 1930s.

　　Miller's most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with this system.

　　Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can't do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.

　　When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews，and it won the Tony Award for Best Play，the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.

　　Miller died

　　of heart failure at his home in Roxbury，Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.

　　本文讲述了亚瑟·米勒，美国著名的剧作家，以及他的著名的戏剧《男售货员之死》，当这部戏剧第一次搬上舞台时，赢得了巨大的成功，获得了三项大奖。

　　1. Why did Arthur Miller' s father move to the USA?

　　A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.

　　B. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”．

　　C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.

　　D. His family business failed.

　　答案：B。细节理解题。根据短文第一段第二句话“Miller's father had moved to the USA from Austria­Hungary，drawn like so many others by the ‘Great American Dream’．”可知答案。

　　．The play Death of a Salesman ________.

　　A. exposes the cruelty of the American business world

　　B. discusses the ways to get promoted in a company

　　C. talks about the business career of Arthur Miller

　　D. focuses on the skills in doing business

　　答案：A。细节理解题。根据短文第二段第三、四句话可知，Willy Loman已陷入美国社会制度的困境中，他已精疲力尽，在这残酷的商业世界中，他不知道应该怎样做，最后，他选择了自杀。由此可知A项正确。

　　. What can we learn about Willy Loman?

　　A. He treats his employer badly.

　　B. He runs the Wagner Company.

　　C. He is a victim of the American system.

　　D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.

　　答案：C。推理判断题。由短文第二段可知，Willy Loman在这残酷的商业世界中，根本没有情感可言，但是他又不能对不起他的雇主和公司，他又不知道如何处理自己的失败，只有选择自杀，由此可知他是美国社会制度的牺牲品。

　　. After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman________.

　　A. achieved huge success

　　B. won the first Tony Award

　　C. was warmly welcomed by salesmen

　　D. was severely attacked by dramatists

　　答案：A。细节理解题。由短文第三段可知，戏剧Death of a Salesman第一次搬上舞台，就赢得了三项大奖，故A项正确。

　　. What is the text mainly about?

　　A. Arthur Miller and his family.

　　B. The awards Arthur Miller won.

　　C. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.

　　D. Arthur Miller and his best­known play.

　　答案：D。主旨大意题。综观全文可知，本文主要讲述了亚瑟·米勒及他的名著Death of a Salesman，故D项正确。

　　One of Britain’s bravest women told yesterday how she helped to catch suspected (可疑的) police killer David Bieber—and was thanked with flowers by the police. It was also said that she could be in line for a share of up to the ￡30,000 reward money.

　　She said: “I was very nervous. But when I opened the hotel door and saw 20 armed policemen lined up in the car park I was so glad they were there. ”

　　The alarm had been raised because Vicki became suspicious

　　of the guest who checked in at 3 pm the day before New Year’s Eve with little luggage and wearing sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his face. She said: “He didn’t seem to want to talk too much and make any eye contact. ” Vicki, the only employee on duty, called her boss Margaret, 64, and husband Stan McKale, 65, who phoned the police at 11 pm.

　　Officers from Northumbria Police called Vicki at the hotel in Dunston, Gateshead, at about 11:30 pm to make sure that this was the wanted man. Then they kept in touch by phoning Vicki every 15 minutes.

　　“It was about ten past two in the morning when the phone went again and a policeman said ’Would you go and make yourself known to the armed officers outside?’ My heart missed a beat. ”

　　Vicki quietly showed eight armed officers through passages and staircases to the top floor room and handed over the key.

　　“I realized that my bedroom window overlooks that part of the hotel, so I went to watch. I could not see into the man’s room, but I could see the passage. The police kept shouting at the man to come out with his hands showing. Then suddenly he must have come out because they shouted for him to lie down while he was handcuffed (带上手铐). ”

　　. The underlined phrase “be in line for” (paragraph 1) means ___________.

　　A. get          B. be paid           

　　C. ask for         

　　D. own

　　. Vicki became suspicious of David Bieber because ___________.

　　A. the police called her

　　B. he looked very strange

　　C. he came to the hotel with little luggage

　　D. he came to the hotel the day before New Year’s Eve

　　. Vicki’s heart missed a beat because _________.

　　A. the phone went again

　　B. she would be famous

　　C. the policemen had already arrived

　　D. she saw 20 policemen in the car park

　　. David Bieber was most probably handcuffed in__________.

　　A. the passage                B. the man’s room

　　C. Vicki’s bedroom            D. the top floor room

　　4. The whole event probably lasted about __________ hours from the moment Bieber came to the hotel to the arrival of some armed officers.

　　A. 6            

　　B. 8           

　　C. 11           

　　D. 14

　　【参考答案】41—45 ABCAC

　　【2017高考英语陕西省一模联考试题】A

　　阅读下列短文,

　　从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。The Father-Daughter Duel shifted into high gear ( 档位) when you taught me to drive the old Dodge and I decided I would drive the '54 Chevy whether you liked it or not. The police officer who sent me home after you reported the Chevy stolen, didn't have much tolerance for a stubborn 16 year old, while you were so tolerant about it, Dad, and I think that was probably what made it the worst night of my life.

　　Our relationship greatly improved when I married a man you liked, and things really turned around when we began making babies right and left. Somewhere along the line, the generation gap disappeared. I suppose I saw us and our relationship as aging together, rather like a fine wine.

　　But the strangest thing happened last week. I was at a stop sign and I watched as you turned the corner in your car. It didn't immediately occur to me that it was you because the man driving looked so elderly and fragile behind the wheel of that huge car. It was rather like a slap in the face delivered from out of nowhere. Perhaps I saw your age for the first time that day.

　　I guess what I'm trying to say, Dad, is what every son and daughter wants to say to their Dad today. Honoring a father on Father's Day is about respect and sharing and acceptance and tolerance and giving and taking. It's about loving someone more than words can say, and it's wishing that never had to end.

　　I love you, Dad.

　　Love,

　　Jenny

　　46.How did Jenny probably feel on the night she was sent home by the police?

　　A. Disappointed.

　　B. Nervous.

　　C. Guilty.

　　D. Frightened.

　　47. We can learn from the passage that Jenny and her father_________.

　　A. kept in touch by writing each other

　　B. are separated due to the generation gap

　　C. have been getting along very well

　　D. had a hard time understanding each other

　　48. Why did Jenny feel strange when she saw her father last week?.

　　A. She seldom saw him driving that huge car.

　　B.She had never realized his being old and weak.

　　C. She didn't expect to meet with him there.

　　D.She had never seen him driving so slowly before.

　　49. Jenny wrote his father this letter to _________

　　A. tell him about their conflicts

　　B. say sorry for her being stubborn

　　C. express her gratitude to him

　　D. remind him of the early incident

　　【参考答案】CDBC

　　【2017高考复习】阅读理解

　　Many of us still tend to think that emotions can affect reasonablethought，and sometimes land us in trouble.But in recent

　　years psychologists have taken quite a different view.Keith Oatley，Professor of Psychology at Glasgow University，is involved in the research which shows the fundamental importance of emotions.

　　He believes we_are_very_ambivalent_about_them：we think of our emotions as being unreasonable，but we also consider them as essential to being human.For example，Mr Spock，a character in the television series Star Trek，is super­intelligent and he has no emotions at all.However，he is never made captain of the spaceship.Maybe，this is because Mr Spock is not the kind of person you can share your feelings with—a person who shows his emotions.

　　As Professor Oatley points out，our emotions have very important functions，for example，fear.If we cross the road and a car approaches，we usually stop moving or step back.We stop what we are doing，check what we have done and pay very careful attention to the environment.The emotion of fear makes us take this small series of actions which，on average，help preserve our safety.

　　On the other hand，if things are going well and small problems come up，we find we can solve them with the resources we have to hand.As a consequence，we tend to feel happy and usually continue doing the job.

　　Anger is an emotion that tends to occur when someone is preventing

　　us from doing something.Then this small “kit” of reactions enables us to

　　prepare ourselves to be quite aggressive to that person，or to try harder，and so on.

　　Professor Oatley believes emotions generally occur at these important moments in actions.With fear and anger our emotions make us decide to start

　　doing something else，while with happiness they “suggest” we continue what we are already doing.

　　【语篇解读　相关研究表明，情感对人而言至关重要，不可或缺。

　　1．What’s Keith Oatley’s opinion about emotions?

　　A．They affect reasonable thought.

　　B．They get us into trouble.

　　C．They are helpful to us.

　　D．They are reasonable.

　　解析　细节理解题。根据文章第一段最后一句中的“which shows the fundamental importance of emotions”以及第三段中的“our emotions have very important functions”可知，Oatley认为情感对我们来说是有益的。

　　答案　C

　　2．What does the underlined part “we are very ambivalent about them” in Paragraph 2 mean?

　　A．We have contradictory feelings towards emotions.

　　B．We have similar ideas of emotions.

　　C．We are quite clear about emotions.

　　D．We can do nothing about emotions.

　　解析　句意理解题。根据第二段中的“we think of our emotions as being unreasonable，but we also consider them as essential to being human”可知，我们认为我们的情感毫无道理，但对于我们人类来说，它是必不可少的，这足以说明我们的矛盾心理。

　　答案　A

　　3．Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

　　A．Fear helps us to be careful about our surroundings.

　　B．Happiness inspires us to continue what we are doing.

　　C．Anger may urge us to make greater efforts.

　　D．Anger tends to do us more harm than good.

　　解析　细节理解题。本题可用排除法。根据第三段的内容可知A项正确；根据第四段的最后一句可知B项正确；根据第五段的最后一句可知C项正确。

　　答案　D

　　4．It can be inferred from the passage that________.

　　A．we must control our emotions in daily life

　　B．emotions play a more important part than we realize

　　C．positive emotions such as love and joy are good for us

　　D．negative emotions make us continue what we are doing

　　解析　推理判断题。根据文章最后一段的内容可推知，积极的情感和消极的情感都发挥着比我们意识到的更重要的作用。

　　答案　BKong.

　　In Chicago, the mayor(市长) appeared on television to announce the choice of To Kill a Mockingbird as the first book in the "One Book, One Chicago" program. As a result, reading clubs and neighborhood groups sprang up around the city. Across the US, stories emerged of parents and children reading to each other at night and strangers chatting away on the bus about plot and character.

　　The only problem arose in New York, where local readers could not decide on one book to represent the huge and diverse population. This may show that the idea works best in medium-sized cities or large towns, where a greater sense of unity can be achieved. Or it may show that New Yorkers rather missed the point, putting all their energy and passion into the choice of the book rather than discussion about a book itself.

　　Ultimately, as Nancy points out, the level of success is not measured by how many people read a book, but by how many people are enriched by the process, or have enjoyed speaking to someone with whom they would not otherwise have shared a word.

　　11. What is the purpose of the project launched by Nancy?

　　A. To invite authors to guide readers.

　　B. To encourage people to read and share.

　　C. To involve people in community service.

　　D. To promote the friendship between cities.

　　12. Why was it difficult for New Yorkers to carry out the project?

　　A. They had little interest in reading.

　　B. They were too busy to read a book.

　　C. They came from many different backgrounds.

　　D. They lacked support from the local government.

　　13. According to the passage, where would the project be more easily carried out?

　　A. In large communities with little sense of unity.

　　B. In large cities where libraries are far from home.

　　C. In medium-sized cities with a diverse population.

　　D. In large towns where agreement can be quickly reached.

　　14. The underlined words “shared a word” in Paragraph 5 probably mean

　　.

　　A. exchanged ideas with each other

　　B. discussed the meaning of a word

　　C. gained life experience

　　D. used the same language

　　15. According to Nancy, the degree of students of the project is judged by

　　A. the careful selection of a proper book

　　B. the growing popularity of the writers

　　C. the number of people who benefit from reading

　　D. the number of books that each person reads

　　【参考答案11--15】B C D A C