1、Module 1British and American English.语法填空，单句训练1(2014届太原高三质检改编)Generally speaking, the music of one country is quite a lot in _ with its culture.答案：common句意：一般而言，一个国家的音乐和这个国家的文化有很多共性。in common with“与相同”，符合句意。2(2014届济南一中高三质检改编)John and David are twins. They are similar _ appearance, but differ widely
2、_ personality.答案：in; in句意：约翰和戴维是双胞胎。他们外貌相似，但在个性方面大不相同。be similar in“在方面相似”；differ in“在方面不同”。3(2014届天津宝坻区高三质量调查改编)As far as I know, it was the car accident due to drunk driving that led to his _(kill)答案：being killed句意：据我所知，是那次酒后驾驶引发的车祸致使他死亡。lead to“导致”，其中to是介词，后接动词ing形式；his与being killed一起构成动词ing形式的复合
3、结构作介词to的宾语。4In some places women are expected to earn money _ men work at home and raise their children.答案：while句意：在一些地区，妇女出去挣钱而男士在家干家务、照看孩子。前后形成对比，用while。5(2014届河北衡水中学二模改编)The story shows that _ knowledge of _ first aid can make _ real difference.答案：a; /; a考查冠词的用法及固定搭配。句意：这个故事表明有了急救知识确实能起很大的作用。Know
4、ledge是不可数名词，一般前面不能加不定冠词，但a knowledge of sth.“掌握某方面的知识”，前面需加a；first aid前面不用加冠词；make a difference “有影响，有关系”，是固定短语。6In an _ to solve the problem, the chairman gathered all the ministers to hold a meeting at midnight.答案：attempt句意：试图解决问题，主席在半夜召集所有的部长开会。in an attempt to do sth.“试图做某事”。7_(compare) with his
5、 sister, Jerry is even more sensitive, and more easily troubled by emotional and relationship problems.答案：Compared句意：和姐姐相比，杰瑞更敏感，更易受情感和交往方面问题的困扰。Jerry与compare之间为被动关系，故应选表被动的过去分词。compared with为固定搭配，意为“与相比”，在句中作状语。8Linda, the phone in your office cant be connected all the time. Why?Oh, sorry, Miss Mil
6、es. The service _(stop) since last Wednesday.答案：has been stopped考查时态和语态。句意：“琳达，你办公室的电话一直打不通，为什么？”“噢，对不起，迈尔斯小姐，自从上周三以来，电话服务就被中止了。”根据句意可知，电话中止开始于过去，并持续到现在，故用现在完成时态。service与stop之间为被动关系，故答案为has been stopped。9The experts are trying to find out the reason why many teenagers have difficulty in _(communicat
7、e) with their parents.答案：communicating考查固定搭配。句意：专家们正在努力地弄清楚青少年和父母交流有困难的原因。have difficulty in doing sth.为固定搭配，表示“做某事有困难”。10Mother _(do) all the housework for my family, but lately shes been too weak to continue it.答案：does考查时态。句意：我们家的所有家务活都由我母亲承担，但最近她身体太弱不能继续做了。根据句意可知，设空处表示现在的情况，故用现在时，且表示现在的习惯，故用一般现在时
8、。.语法填空，篇章训练阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)Tom：People always say that Chinese is very hard_1_.Sometimes I wish I_2_(be) learning French or Japanese.Maybe theyd be easier.Mary：Maybe, but maybe not. It all depends_3_what language you already speak.Tom：Why should that be? What_4_does it make?Mary：Well, lang
9、uages are more or less_5_(equal)difficult. Most of the things one language says must be said by every language in some way.Tom：You mean I could learn Chinese easily?Mary：No.Because your native language is Spanish.But Italian_6_be easy. It has a lot of words_7_are similar to words in Spanish.Even the
10、 sound system is_8_similar than that of Chinese is to Spanish._9_difficult a language is to learn depends mostly on how much it_10_(resemble)your own language.1_2._3._4._5._6_7._8._9._10._答案：1to learn考查不定式。不定式与主语之间存在被动关系，但此处主动形式表示被动含义。2were考查虚拟语气。wish后面的从句里表示对现在情况的假设，应用一般过去时。3on考查介词。depend on“依靠”，是固
11、定短语。4difference考查名词。make a difference“有影响，起作用”。5equally考查副词。此处修饰形容词difficult，所以应该用副词。6might/may考查情态动词。此处表示不太肯定的推测，所以用may/might。7that/which考查定语从句。从句中缺少关系代词，用来作主语，所以用that/which。8more考查比较级。similar属于多音节形容词，用more来构成比较级。9How考查主语从句。从句中缺少状语成分，所以用how来引导，表示程度。10resembles考查时态。根据上下文可知此处应用一般现在时。.完形填空There are ab
12、out fifteen hundred languages in the world. But _1_ a few of them are very _2_. English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the US, but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 people speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are lear
13、ning it as a _3_ language. Many millions are _4_ to do so.Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different _5_. Have you ever _6_ the ads of this kind in newspapers or magazines?“Learn English in six month, or your _7_ back.” “Easy and funny? Our records and tapes _8_ yo
14、u master your English in a month. _9_ the first day your _10_ will be excellent. Just send.” Of course, it never _11_ quite like this.The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should _12_ that we all learned our own language well when we were _13_. If we could learn English
15、 in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. _14_ what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, and _15_ in it all the time, just imagine how much _16_that he gets!So it is _17_ to say that learning English is easy,
16、 because a good command of English _18_upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and _19_ much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will _20_. But they cannot do the students work of him.1A.notBquiteConly Dvery答案：C句意：世界上约有1500多种语言，但只有少数几种是重要的。only“仅仅，只有”。2A.diff
17、icult BimportantCnecessary Deasy答案：B根据下文提到英语作为例子，且被广泛使用可知，这几种语言是“重要的”。3A.native BforeignCuseful Dmother答案：B由“learning it.”可知，此处指把英语作为一门外语学习，与前句中的“as their own language”相对应。4A.learning BenjoyingCtrying Dliking答案：C由上句提到的英语作为一门外语被很多人学习可知，许多人都在努力学英语。try to do“尽力做”。5A.questions BproblemsCideas Danswers答案
18、：Danswer “答案”，指本段首句所提问题的答案。6A.found BwatchedCnoticed Dknown答案：Cnotice“注意到”，尤其指不经意间注意到，符合语境。7A.knowledge BtimeCmoney DEnglish答案：Cor your money back“否则退钱”，是为吸引人，商家做出的承诺。8A.force BhelpCget Dallow答案：Bhelp sb. (to) do sth.“帮助某人做某事”。其他三项后都用带to的不定式作补语。9A.From BOnCSince DAfter答案：Afrom the first day“从第一天起”。1
19、0A.spelling BgrammarCEnglish Dpronunciation答案：D前半句中提到records和tapes都是练习发音的工具，故选pronunciation“发音”。11A.happen BknowCseem Dfeel答案：Ahappen“发生”，这里指前面广告中提到的快速学好英语这种事情是决不会发生的。12A.know BrememberCunderstand Dthink答案：B本段讲了母语似乎是唯一容易学的语言。该句是论据：我们应当记得很小的时候我们就把母语学得很好了。13A.students BchildrenCbabies Dgrownups答案：Bchi
20、ldren与后面的“a small child”相对应，指我们是小孩时就能学好母语。14A.Get BMindCDo DThink of答案：D后面三句讲述了小孩是如何学语言的。本句总领下面三句，故用think of“想象，想一想”。15A.using BthinkingCtrying Dpracticing答案：B此句意为：谈话用母语，思考用母语。think意为“思考”。16A.time BmoneyClanguage Dpractice答案：D上文所述的多听、多学等都是在“练习”应用某种语言。17A.hard BeasyCfunny Dsilly答案：A由上段提到的儿童学习语言而做的大量练
21、习可知，很“难”说学习英语容易。18A.depends BtriesChas Dtakes答案：A该句承接上段，给出结论：要想掌握好英语需要大量的练习。depend upon/on“依赖；依靠”。19A.uses BtakesCgets Dspends答案：Btake“花费(时间、金钱)”。此句意为：而练习需要付出极大的努力和花费大量的时间。use和spend的主语多为人。20A.do BworkChelp Dmaster答案：C对于学习英语，好的教师、录音磁带、书和词典都会有所帮助，但这些都不能代替学生自身的学习。.阅读理解(2014届潍坊市高三上学期期末) “Confidence” is
22、probably one of the most noticeable traits (特点) in the Americans. They show confidence in the way they talk, the way they smile, the way they dress and the way they walk. Living and competing with all these confident American students, I find it extremely important to be confident as an internationa
23、l student and a foreign instructor. As a student, being confident means you should never hesitate to raise your hand whenever a question or a point comes to your mind. Dont mind if it sounds simple or silly. Otherwise you will never get a chance to speak in class at all. Whats worse, the professors
24、may think you are not prepared for the discussion or you do not have your own opinion on the issuethis is the last comment any graduate would like to receive.Being confident for me as a foreign instructor means calmly asking the student to repeat what he or she has said if I did not get it. Pretendi
25、ng to understand what you actually do not may just bring yourself embarrassment or even disgrace. But the time I most need to be confident is when my students come to my office and bargain about the grades I have given for their speeches (The course Im teaching here is Public Speaking). Modesty is a
26、 trait highly valued in China, but it wont be of much help here if you want to survive and succeed in a good American graduate program.文章大意：谦虚是中华民族的传统美德，可是在美国，自信却尤为重要。1To compete with American students its very important to _.Abe quite confidentBbe polite and friendlyChave more discussions with them
27、Dunderstand what they think about答案：A细节理解题。根据第一段第三句“Living and competing with all these confident American students, I find it extremely important to be confident as.”可知自信尤其重要。2A professor will have the worst opinion of a student who _.Agives a silly or simple answerBtries to seize any chance to spe
28、ak in classCshows no interest in the courseDis considered to have no opinion of his own答案：D推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句可知如果学生不自信，不积极发言，教授会认为他没有准备好讨论或者没有自己独特的见解，故而会对他评价很低，故D项正确。3The author is most likely to feel embarrassed if _.Ahe asks a student to repeat what he has saidBthe students bargain with himChe preten
29、ds to know what he doesntDhe has to give a speech答案：C细节理解题。根据第二段第二句话可知，不懂装懂可能会带来尴尬甚至是耻辱，故C项正确。4We learn from the second paragraph that _.Awe should also remain modest in AmericaBmodesty doesnt help you much in AmericaCAmericans also like modest peopleDmodesty can help you get through an American gra
30、duate program答案：B推理判断题。根据最后一段最后一句可知，谦虚在中国被推崇，但是在美国却没有多大用处，故B项正确。5The passage is mainly developed by _.Aproviding examplesBmaking comparisonsCgiving different figuresDtelling personal experiences答案：D篇章结构题。整篇文章作者都是通过讲述自己的经历来阐述自信在美国的重要性，故D项正确。.短文改错假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处
31、。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线()划掉。修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。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。This morning on my way to school I was deep moved by what I saw outside a bank.An old man was counting his money in the front of the bank.Suddenly a young man came
32、running and knocked him down.To make things bad，his money was flying in all direction.In no time the people around rush to pick the money up while the old man stood there，not know what to do.Surprisingly，everyone gave back the money they had just picked.The old man counted the money again and found
33、that not a single bill was missed.To my great joy，there are now a lot of nice people in your life.Its true what honesty is more important than money!答案：This morning on my way to school I was moved by what I saw outside a bank.An old man was counting his money in front of the bank.Suddenly a young ma
34、n came running and knocked him down.To make things ，his money was flying in all .In no time the people around to pick the money up while the old man stood there，not what to do.Surprisingly，everyone gave back the money they had just picked .The old man counted the money again and found that not a single bill was .To my great joy，there are now a lot of nice people in life.Its true honesty is more important than money!