1、Unit 2Language.单项填空1According to a UN report,30 percent of the world population have no _to clean drinking water and health care.Asense Bchance Caccess Dstandard答案C句意：根据一份联合国的报告，世界上30%的人口没有干净饮用水和健康保障。have no access to没有机会利用。access使用；sense意义，感觉；chance机会；standard标准，与句意不符。2He holds the view that the li
2、terature of a period_its values and tastes.Apronounces BsatisfiesCreflects Drecognizes答案C考查动词词义辨析。句意：他认为某一时期的文学可以反映出该时期的价值观和审美观。pronounce发音；satisfy使满意；reflect反映；recognize认出，识别，所以选择C项。3Mary cant afford the film as she is _a translation of an English novel.Abusy in Babsorbed toCoccupied with Ddevoted
3、by答案Cbe occupied with sth忙于做某事。be busy with，be absorbed in，be devoted to都可译为“从事于，忙于”，注意正确搭配。4They tried to _hard plastics for metals in manufacturing machine parts.Areplace BsubstituteCtake the place of Dgive way to答案Bsubstitute A for Breplace B with A用A来代替B；A takes the place of B用A代替B。give way to “
4、让路，让步”。5How are you getting on with your business，Tom?Im glad to say it is _after several months depression.Apicking up Bmaking upCtaking up Dturning up答案A考查动词短语。pick up“恢复健康，情况好转”。make up“占据，弥补”；take up“开始从事”；turn up“出现”。句意：汤姆，生意进行得如何？很高兴在几个月的萧条之后，正在好转。6Did you enjoy yourself at the party?Yes，Ive n
5、ever been to _one before.Aa more excited Bthe most excitedCa more exciting Dthe most exciting答案C考生易误选A项或D项，其实本题是对形容词比较级及动词ing、动词ed型形容词的考查。动词ed型形容词表示被动的含义，多用于说明人的感受，意为“(人)感到”动词ing型形容词表示主动的含义，多用于说明事物的性质，意为“令人”。由于题中的one指代party，为表示事物的词语，故选项A和B首先被排除；分析句意“我还从没有去过比这更让人兴奋的聚会”可知，横线处应为一个比较级结构，故选项C为本题的正确答案。7Wh
6、at puzzles me is _he was a thief when you first saw him.Ahow you could tell Bhow could you tellCwhat could you tell Dwhat you could tell答案A句意：使我迷惑不解的是，你怎么会第一眼看见他就判断他是个小偷呢？考查名词性从句，名词性从句用陈述语序，因此B和C可以排除。根据句子结构可知is后是表语从句，从句中又包含一个宾语从句，he was a thief是tell的宾语，因而不用what，故选A项。8Everyone in the village hoped th
7、at he would_after a few days treatment.Apick up Bcome upCkeep up Dmake up答案 A 句意：村里的每一个人都希望他能在几天的治疗后好转。pick up好转，恢复；comp up走上前来，发芽，发生；keep up保持；make up编造，弥补，化妆，构成。故A项符合句意。9John says he has just arrived，but it has been raining for hours，and his shoes are completely dry.He _be joking！He _be telling th
8、e truth.Acan；mustnt Bmust；cantCshould；mustnt Dmust；mustnt答案B考查情态动词。在情态动词表推测时，must只用于肯定句中；而can用于否定句或疑问句中。A、C、D中均有不正确项mustnt。故只有B项正确。答句句意：他一定是在开玩笑，他不可能在说实话。10Over two thirds of the population were believed to have no_to the health care in the west rural areas in China.Aaid BbasisCbelief Daccess答案 D 句意
9、：人们认为，中国西部农村地区三分之二以上的人口享受不到医疗保健。have access to“得以使用”，符合句意。aid帮助；basis基础；belief信念。11This kind of medicine，_by American chemist Professor Carl in 1951，saved millions of peoples lives.Abeing invented Bto be inventedCinventing Dinvented答案D句意：这种药1951年由美国化学家卡尔教授发明，挽救了数百万人的生命。medicine和invent之间存在逻辑上的被动关系，应该
10、选择过去分词作定语，发明的动作是在1951年，意味着动作早已完成，所以选择invented，既表被动又有完成的含义。12Even some of the casual garments we wear have brand names_them which turn us_walking advertisements.Aattached to；into Battaching to；toCappealed to；into Dcontributed to；to答案 A attach to贴在上；appeal to吸引；contribute to捐赠，有助于。根据句意可知，应该用attach to，
11、且attach to和brand names之间是动宾关系，因此要用过去分词(这里的过分词短语attached to them作names的定语)。turn.into.“把变成”，是固定短语。13Cinderella has been learning Chinese in Beijing University for the past four years.No wonder she _above her colleagues in Chinese.Astands out Bsticks outCcomes out Dsorts out答案A答语句意：难怪她的汉语比她的同事们学得好。stan
12、d out突出，杰出，符合句意。14Choosing the right dictionary depends on _you want to use it for.Awhat Bwhy Chow Dwhether答案A句意：选择合适的词典取决于你想要用它做什么。考查宾语从句，what引导宾语从句，并在从句中充当for的宾语。15_we like a particular piece of news or not，all we have to do is sit in front of the TV set and “let it happen”AEven if BWhetherCHoweve
13、r DNo matter答案B句意：不管我们喜不喜欢一条新闻，我们所能做的只是坐在电视机前，“让它发生”。whether.or.不管还是，引导让步状语从句，符合句意。.完形填空Preparing for TomorrowSixthgrade schoolteacher Ms.Shelton believed in readiness.Students remembered how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of eighthgrade on the_16_.They quickly prote
14、sted that the words were not on their_17_and they couldnt learn them.Their teacher insisted that the students could and would learn these_18_.She said that she would teach them something that should be given.Ms.Shelton_19_by saying that one of the students in the classroom could go on to_20_，maybe e
15、ven be president someday，and she wanted to prepare them for that day.Ms.Shelton spoke those words many years ago._21_did she know that someday one of her studentsJesse Jacksonwould take them_22_.She believed that if they were well prepared，they could_23_high goals.Ralph Waldo Emerson once said，“Peop
16、le only see what they are_24_to see.”If thats true，then it is also_25_that they only become what they are prepared to become.And many things in life is just about getting ready.“I want to be doing something more_26_with my life than what I am doing now，”a young man once said to me.He_27_what he was
17、doing was just not that important.Other people have said things to me such as，“I only_28_I had a meaningful relationship.Id really like to get a better job，but I just dont see_29_.”You fill in the blanks.What is it you would like to_30_that isnt happening？Perhaps the answer is that you are not yet_3
18、1_.Maybe you need more time to prepare before you are truly ready for that which you_32_.Think of today as another chance to_33_yourself for that exciting future you are looking for.Today is not wasted.If you desire more from_34_，then you can use today as training.For you will experience only what y
19、ou are prepared to_35_.Something wonderful can happen.And you can use today to get ready for tomorrow.16A.desk Bwall Cchalkboard Ddoor答案C结合前面的“Sixthgrade schoolteacher Ms.Shelton”和“began writing words”可知老师在教室里，应该是在黑板(chalkboard)上写字。17A.duty Bdesk Cmind Dlevel答案D由前面的“Sixthgrade schoolteacher”及“writin
20、g words of eighthgrade”可知这些词超出了他们的水平。故选D项。18A.words Bgrammars Cpronunciations Dsentences答案A根据第一段中的“writing words of eighthgrade”可知此处表示老师认为学生们能够并且将学会这些单词。19A.started Bended Cwarned Dreminded答案B结合上下文可知此处是老师总结性的话，即老师最后说故选end。20A.greatness Bwealth Chonor Dfailure答案A从后面的“maybe even be president someday”可
21、知此处指将来某一天这个班中的某一个学生会成为伟大的人物(greatness)。wealth财富；honor荣誉；failure失败，均不符合语境。21A.Seldom BLittle CHardly DTotally答案B从后面的“did she know that someday one of her studentsJesse Jacksonwould take them”可知当时这个老师并没有意识到自己的话对学生的影响，其中有一个学生杰克逊很认真地对待了她说的话。seldom很少，不常，表示否定意义，指频率，可以排除；little不多，稍微；hardly几乎不；totally全部地；只有
22、little符合语境。22A.nervously Beagerly Cseriously Dsimply答案Ctake sth seriously认真地对待某事，是固定搭配。23A.keep Bhave Cset Dachieve答案D根据前面的“She believed that if they were well prepared”可知她认为学生们只要做好准备，就一定会实现(achieve)他们的目标。keep保持；have拥有；set使处于。24A.prepared Bforced Cattracted Dtempted答案A根据后一句中的“they only become what t
23、hey are prepared to become”可知答案为A项。25A.proper Bexact Clegal Dtrue答案D根据前面的“If thats true，then it is also”以及空格后面的“that they only become what they are prepared to become.”可知，此处指他们仅会成为准备成为的那样的人，这一点也是真实的(true)。proper恰当的；exact精确的；legal合法的，均不符合语境。26A.difficult Bsignificant Cpleasant Dinteresting答案B根据后面的“He
24、_27_what he was doing was just not that important.”可知此处表示他想做一些比现在所做的更加有意义的事情，所以选B项。27A.boasted Bbehaved Cfelt Dlooked答案C他认为自己现在从事的事情不重要。feel认为，符合语境。28A.wish Bexpect Chope Dimagine答案A前面的“want to”和后面的“Id really like to”都是说明一些人的愿望。从这个空后面的had可知此处是一种虚拟的形式，所以不用hope，应用wish。29A.what Bwhen Cwhy Dhow答案D根据前面的“
25、Id really like to get a better job”可知此人想获得一份好的工作，但是不知道怎样获得。30A.survive Bhappen Cgain Dwin答案B由后面的“that isnt happening”可知B正确。survive幸存；gain获得；win赢得，均不符合语境。31A.adventurous BactiveCready Dintelligent答案C由后句“Maybe you need more time to prepare before you are truly ready.”可知C项正确。adventurous冒险的；active积极的；in
26、telligent聪明的。32A.concern Barrange Cadore Ddesire答案D由下一段的“If you desire more from_34_”可知选D项。33A.prepare Benjoy Cimagine Dconduct答案A根据文章题目“Preparing for Tomorrow”及文章主旨可知此处选prepare。34A.history Bnature Clife Dmarriage答案C由第五段第一句“.with my life.”可知选C项。35A.suffer Bexperience Cstruggle Dwork答案B由此句句意“因为你只能经历你
27、准备经历的。”可知B项正确。.阅读理解The British arent having as many children as they used to.One reason is that people are having children much older than before，meaning they have fewer years in which they can have them.After years at university，they need a few years of work experience before they can get the job t
28、hey want.They might then get married，but its incredibly expensive to buy a house in the UK.The above explains why young British people now dont move out of their parents home until they are around 30 years old on average.It is not until they are 30 that they can afford their own home.Increasingly，it
29、 is not until that age that they can afford to get married and start a new life in a new home.Its only after this age that many young people start thinking about having a child.So a British person manages to get a job，get a home and get married.Why isnt he or she then having at least two children on
30、 average？The main reason is that it is quite expensive to bring up a child in the UK.Why is it expensive？Well，these days，both parents need to work just to pay for their home and living expenses.Because both parents are at work，that means they then need to pay someone to look after their child during
31、 the day.Paying for this childcare is nearly always expensive.The recent financial crisis is making things even harder for families，since unemployment is rising and even fewer people can afford to have children.With so much pressure on families，is it any surprise that the divorce rate is so high?So
32、what is Britain doing to try and save the British family？The government is trying to make it cheaper to have children.For example，there have been increases in money families can claim from the state each month.Also，there are increasing government subsidies for nursery schools，so that parents do not
33、need to pay so much for childcare.The government is also trying to reduce the number of hours British parents have to work to earn enough money to pay their bills.If parents didnt have to work so many hours，theyd have more time to spend with their children and wouldnt need to spend so much on childc
34、are.On average，a Briton works 49 hours a week，which is the most in Europe.The state is now considering introducing laws to encourage companies to improve their employees worklife balance.Lets hope theyre not too late to save the British family.Otherwise，the British will always be too tired，and wont
35、have enough time and money，to have children.【语篇导读】文章主要讲述英国年轻人不像原来那样多生孩子的原因。36Young British people live in their parents home until around 30 because_.Athey are allowed to get married at 30Bthey cant find jobs to support themselvesCthey cant afford a house of their own until thenDthey enjoy family li
36、fe with their parents答案 C 细节理解题。从第二段的第二句It is not until they are 30 that they can afford their own home.可知。37The British are now having fewer children than before for all the following reasons EXCEPT that_.Athey have fewer years to have childrenBthey live much shorter lives than beforeCit is more ex
37、pensive to bring up a childDpeople are losing their jobs because of the recent financial crisis答案 B 细节理解题。第一段的第二句One reason is that people are having children much older than before，meaning they have fewer years in which they can have them.解释的是A项；第三段的第三句The main reason is that it is quite expensive
38、to bring up a child in the UK.解释的是C项；第四段的第一句The recent financial crisis is making things even harder for families，since unemployment is rising and even fewer people can afford to have children.解释的是D项；文章中未提到B项。38To make it cheaper to have children，the British government is_.Abringing down pricesBrais
39、ing the salaries of parentsCreducing family income taxDincreasing subsidies for families and nursery schools答案 D 细节理解题。从第五段的最后一句Also，there are increasing government subsidies for nursery schools，so that parents do not need to pay so much for childcare.可知。39It can be inferred from the text that_.Awit
40、h long work hours，it is hard for British parents to balance life and workBmore and more families in Britain are breaking up because they are having fewer childrenCamong Europeans，British people work hardest and earn the leastDchildcare takes up too much energy and time for the British答案 A 推理判断题。从最后一
41、段的第二句If parents didnt have to work so many hours，theyd have more time to spend with their children and wouldnt need to spend so much on childcare，可推知。40The underlined word“subsidies”in Paragraph 5 means_.Afood paid by the governmentBschool buildings for poor studentsCfree transportationDmoney from the government to benefit the public答案 D 猜测词义题。从本句的.do not need to pay so much for childcare可知。