1、课时提能练(八) 必修2Unit 3ComputersA:知识层面.语境语法填空A(考查派生词)Our life has changed a lot since the 1appearance (appear) of computers. Complicated issues have been 2simplified (simple). For example, financial services are becoming more easily accessible. 3Operators (operate) just use a keyboard or a mouse to get t
2、heir work finished in a short time. Now, 4intelligent (intelligence) computers are being more widely used, even in the 5exploration (explore) and recognition of the universe. 6Personally (personal), computers will influence all aspects of our life with more 7application (apply) softwares being devel
3、oped.B(考查动词)The forum is meant 8to explore (explore) how mobile phones influence peoples wellbeing. A mobile phone is now used for more than just communication. It can function as a 9calculating (calculate) device. Someone uses it 10to signal (signal) to the robot in his/her home to do housework, su
4、ch as 11mopping (mop) the floor and doing the laundry. By 12downloading (download) and installing a certain app, people can video chat with each other. With new apps 13arising (arise), mobiles will have more functions. However, negative effects mobile phones have on peoples health is obvious. The pr
5、oblem must 14be solved (solve) if we want to stay fit.C(考查句型)With the sun 15rising (rise), I was expecting a new start. After a quick breakfast, I went to my office 16feeling (feel) energetic and quickly devoted my attention to my work. So much work did I have to do 17that I had no time to take a re
6、st. However, 18as the day went on, the weather was getting worse. It didnt take long 19before a heavy rain came. I stopped my work and was hurrying back home. Unfortunately, I fell off my bicycle. As well as 20breaking (break) one of my legs, I hurt both of my arms.语境短文改错(短文中有5处错误)Tom was going to g
7、et together with his family at weekends. But he caught in a traffic jam on the way to the airport. At the time he got there, the flight had taken off. That would take 24 hours before another flight left. Filling with regrets, he shook his head but decided to wait. He booked a hotel room nearby used
8、his mobile phone. He was just praying that everything would work out well the next day.【答案】Tom was going to get together with his family at weekends. But he caught in a traffic jam on the way to the airport. the time he got there, the flight had taken off. would take 24 hours before another flight l
9、eft. with regrets, he shook his head but decided to wait. He booked a hotel room nearby his mobile phone. He was just praying that everything would work out well the next day.根据提示补全句子 1可以先把这个文件移到一个目录中存放一个月左右,然后再删除掉。The file can be moved to a directory where it is kept for a month or so before it is
10、deleted2迈克尔今天对我们十分冷淡。不知我们是否冒犯了他。Michael seems very cool towards us today.I wonder whether weve offended him.3随着时间的推移,脑力劳动和体力劳动更加难以区分。As time goes by,it will become increasingly hard to distinguish mental and manual labour.4关键是你得找到顺手的工具,这样你才能快速、简洁并高效地工作。The key is to find the tool that is most comfor
11、table for you,so you can work quickly concisely,and at a high level.5他专注于看手机,结果忽视了周围的一切。He was so absorbed in his phone that he ignored everything around.B:能力层面.阅读理解A(2020安徽省部分重点学校联考)Remember Vitaminwaters “free of rolling screens for a year” challenge that people to be free from smart phones for a
12、whole year will win $100,000? Well,Elana Mugdan,a New York woman,has been into it for eight months,and just four months away from claiming the grand prize.Vitaminwater made news headlines last December when it announced its unique challenge.Thousands of people applied to be chosen as the perfect can
13、didate to spend a year without touching their smart phones,but in the end,the only person who got to try and survived for an entire year without a handheld smart phone was Elana Mugdan,a 29yearold fiction writer from Queens,New York.Eight months into the challenge,she claims it has been a free and e
14、yeopening experience that shows her just how dependent she becomes on her smart phone.Even though there are times when she misses her handheld smart phone,she plans to go on living without it even after the challenge ends,because she really doesnt want to go back to days when she overused it,wasted
15、time,stayed up all hours of the night on it,and was obsessed with social media.But not having access to her smart phone really made certain situations a lot harder than she could have imagined them before.“Many people did me a favor.However,once,I almost get stranded (被滞留的) in the SeaTac Airport bec
16、ause the phone number Id written down was wrong,and I had no way of referring to the right one,no way of calling a cab,and no one in the state who could help me,” the young writer said.Another time,her cars “ check engine” light turned on while she was driving in an unfamiliar area at night.She coul
17、dnt use her phones GPS,or even check what the light meant online or find a nearby car repair shop.But she learned to overcome these situations.And now she claims the last eight months of phonefree life have been one of the best adventures of her life and that shell keep it for another four months.【语
18、篇解读】文章讲述了Elana Mugdan在参加Vitaminwater发起的一年不用手机的挑战过程中,所遇到的困难及其感受。1Whats the challenge “free of rolling screens for a year”?APeople free from smart phones can live a richer life.BPeople living a telephonefree life can be awarded money every year.CPeople living without computers for a year will win a gr
19、and prize.DPeople spending a year free from smart phones will get a reward.D细节理解题。根据第一段第一句中的“challenge that people to be free from smart phones for a whole year will win $100,000”可知,这个挑战要求参加者一年内不使用手机,参加者完成挑战后可以获得奖金。故选D。2Which phrase can replace the underlined part “obsessed with” in Paragraph 2?Asat
20、isfied withBaccustomed toCaddicted toDpopular withC词义猜测题。根据第二段画线词所在句中的“she really doesnt want to go back to days when she overused it,wasted time,stayed up all hours of the night on it”可知,Elana Mugdan曾经过度使用手机,浪费了时间,并且还熬夜玩手机。此处与上文内容相衔接,由此可以推测出,此处表示她当时对社交媒体非常迷恋,即上瘾。故选C。3What does Elana Mugdan mainly w
21、ant to express in Paragraph 3?AIts fantastic to have someone to help her all the way.BIts unimaginable to lose her phone number on the way.CIts unnecessary to refer to information with a smart phone.DIts difficult to get out of the trouble without a smart phone.D推理判断题。根据第三段第一句“But not having access
22、to her smart phone really made certain situations a lot harder than she could have imagined them before”以及本段所列举的事例可知,Elana Mugdan在第三段想告诉我们,没有手机很难摆脱困境。故选D。4What can we learn about Elana Mugdan?AShe couldnt live without a smart phone.BShe finds no one can help her in the adventure.CShe has not won the
23、 grand $100,000 prize yet.DShe used to use her smart phone to write fiction.C细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句中的“shell keep it for another four months”可知,Elana Mugdan还要继续四个月的挑战,由此可知她还没有获得奖金。故选C。B(2020东北三校第一次联合模拟)Clothing rental is a hot new industry and retailers (零售商) are demanding to get on board in the hope of att
24、racting green shoppers.But is renting fashion actually more environmentally friendly than buying it,and if so,how much more? Journalist and author Elizabeth Cline investigated this question and concluded that its not as sustainable as it seems.Take shipping,for example,which has to go two ways if an
25、 item is rentedreceiving and returning.Cline writes that consumer transportation has the second largest carbon footprint of our collective fashion habit after manufacturing.She writes,“An item ordered online and then returned can release 20 kilograms of carbon each way,and increases up to 50 kilogra
26、ms for rush shipping.By comparison,the carbon impact of a pair of jeans purchased from a physical store and washed and worn at home is 33.4 kilograms,according to a 2015 study by Levis.”Then theres the burden of washing,which has to happen for every item when its returned,regardless of whether or no
27、t it was worn.For most rental services,this usually means drycleaning,a highimpact and polluting process.All the rental services that Cline looked into have replaced perchloroethylene (全氯乙烯),a carcinogenic (致癌的) air pollutant,still used by 70 percent of US dry cleaners,with alternatives,although the
28、se arent great either.Lastly,Cline fears that rental services will increase our appetite for fast fashion,simply because its so easily accessible.Theres something called “sharewashing” that makes people waste more precisely because a product or service is shared and thus is regarded as more ecofrien
29、dly.Uber is one example of this,advertised as “a way to share rides and limit car ownership”,and yet “it has been proven to discourage walking,bicycling,and public transportation use”Renting clothes is still preferable to buying them cheap and throwing them in the dustbin after wearing few times,but
30、 we shouldnt let the availability of these services make us too satisfied.Theres an even better step thats wearing what is already in the closet.【语篇解读】服装租赁是新兴的热门行业,零售商希望以此吸引环保消费者。可是,该行业并不像它看起来的那样绿色环保。它包含的运输环节要比在实体店里买一件衣服然后在家里洗和穿释放的碳多;清洗环节也会污染环境;而且它可能会使我们更追求快时尚从而浪费得更多。最环保的做法是穿衣橱里本来就有的衣服。5What is Eliz
31、abeth Clines attitude toward clothing rental?AApproving.BUnfavorable.CObjective.DEnthusiastic.B推理判断题。根据第二段第二句可知,Cline得出的结论是,这个行业并不像它看起来的那样环保;并结合第三至第六段表述的Cline得出这种结论的原因可推知,Cline并不支持服装租赁,B项意为“不赞成的,否定的,不喜欢的”,故B项正确。C项意为“客观的”,与文意不符。6The Uber example in Paragraph 6 indicates that _Arental services are on
32、the riseBclothing rental will be as successful as UberCrenting clothes might waste more than expectedDrenting clothes might make people lose interest in fast fashionC推理判断题。根据第六段第二句可知,因为一种产品或服务是共享的,因此就被认为更环保,但这却使人们浪费得更多。接着下文列举了Uber的例子它被宣传为一种共享出行并限制汽车拥有权的方式,但是最终证明它阻碍了步行、骑自行车和公共交通的使用,由此可推知,举Uber这个例子表明了
33、服装租赁造成的浪费可能比我们想象的多,故C项正确。7The author suggests that we should _Agive up renting clothesBpurchase inexpensive clothesCrent clothes rather than buy themDmake full use of clothes weve possessedD细节理解题。根据尾段尾句“Theres an even better stepthats wearing what is already in the closet”可知,作者认为更绿色环保的方法是穿衣橱里已经有的衣服,
34、故D项正确。8What is the passage mainly about?AClothing rental is a new fashion.BClothing rental is retailers preference.CRenting clothes is not that ecofriendly.DRentingclothes business is in a dilemma.C主旨大意题。通读全文可知,本文第一段引入话题;第二段提出论点服装租赁业其实并非像它看起来的那样绿色环保;接着第三至第六段给出了论据来支持这一论点;最后一段作者进行总结并给出建议。由此可知,C项符合文意。.
35、完形填空(2020广州市高三年级阶段训练)Throughout my life,I was never very athletic.I wasnt really into 1 or sports.The only 2 I enjoyed were 3 things like watching TV and playing computer games.It was during my junior year in high school that I realized I needed a 4 My friends were joining the longdistance running c
36、lub and 5 me to do it too.At my school,there were no qualification 6 ;every student was accepted.As everyone gathered together on the first day of practice,the 7 announced that it was time for a “warmup”I imagined the warmup would be a 8 jog around the 400metre track.I soon 9 it was a 1km run.After
37、completing the run,I was 10 ! I wondered,“ If thats a warmup,whats next?” The 11 workout for the day was a 5km run,which I mostly walked.When I came home,I really considered 12 However,I 13 myself to keep at it and try harder.Of course,there was no real improvement 14 I always came last during pract
38、ice and the first few 15 .As days and weeks went on,I really tried my best.During practice,I would always keep at the 16 of the group;the fastest,more 17 runners were always ahead,while the laziest were behind.As a result of my 18 ,the warmup became a real warmup.The 5km runs was transformed into an
39、 19 workout.And I was no longer the last in anything we did.For a former couch potato,like me,this was a(n) 20 【语篇解读】在“我”的生活中,“我”从来都不是很擅长运动,“我”喜欢做无意义的事;但在高三时,“我”意识到“我”需要做出改变;“我”的朋友邀请“我”参加五千米长跑俱乐部,在俱乐部第一次训练后,“我”想过放弃,但“我”说服了自己继续训练并最终成功地坚持了下来。1A.rulesBartCcompetitionsDschoolworkC根据上文中的“I was never very
40、 athletic”可知,“我”对竞赛或运动不是很感兴趣。故选C。2A.proceduresBactivitiesClessonsDprogramsB根据第一句中的“I was never very athletic”及该句中的“watching TV and playing computer games”可知,“我”仅仅喜欢的活动都是无意义的(pointless),比如看电视和玩电脑游戏。故选B。3A.endlessBpointlessCimportantDchallengingB参见上题解析。A项意为“无止境的”,C项意为“重要的”,D项意为“挑战性的”,均与语境不符。4A.changeB
41、restCteamDresultA根据下文中的“joining the longdistance running club”以及“to do it too”并结合语境可知,“我”在高三的时候,意识到自己需要做出改变。故选A。5A.accompaniedBassistedCrequiredDinvitedD根据该句中的“My friends were joining the longdistance running club”和“to do it too”可推知,“我”的朋友邀请“我”也参加。6A.trialsBalternativesCopportunitiesDreasonsA根据空后的“e
42、very student was accepted”可知,在我们学校,没有资格选拔赛(trials)。7A.competitorBcoachCreporterDrefereeB根据该句中的“the first day of practice”并结合常识可知,此处应是俱乐部的教练在指导学生进行长跑前的热身练习。故选B。8A.hardBboringCpracticalDcasualD根据该句中的“the warmup”以及语境可知,当教练宣布要进行热身练习时,“我”以为是绕着400米的跑道随便慢跑而已。故选D。9A.decidedBsuspectedCrealizedDagreedC根据上题的解析
43、及该句中的“it was a 1km run”可知,“我”很快意识到热身练习是一千米的长跑。故选C。suspect意为“觉得”,不符合语境。10A.sent offBtaken awayCturned downDworn outD根据下文中的“If thats a warmup,whats next?”可知,“我”跑完一千米之后,已经精疲力竭了。D项意为“精疲力竭,疲惫不堪”,故选D。send sb.off意为“罚某人下场”;take sb.away意为“带走某人”。11A.realBbestCexpectedDfunA根据上文中的“If thats a warmup,whats next?”
44、并结合语境可知,那一天真正的训练是五千米长跑。故选A。12A.complainingBquittingCcryingDrefreshingB根据上文的内容可知,当回到家的时候,“我”真的考虑过退出长跑俱乐部。故选B。13A.convincedBtaughtCsentDhelpedA根据该句中的“keep at it and try harder”可知,“我”说服了自己要坚持,并且将更加努力。convince意为“说服”,故选A。14A.actuallyBgraduallyCseparatelyDinstantlyD根据空后的“I always came last during practice
45、”可知,真正的进步不是马上就有的,故选D。A项意为“实际上”;B项意为“逐渐地”;C项意为“分别地”;D项意为“立即,马上”。15A.performancesBpresentationsCracesDstepsC根据文章内容可知,“我”加入的是长跑俱乐部,因此这里表示的是“我”在训练中以及最初的一些跑步比赛中,总是最后一名,故选C。16A.middleBtopCfrontDbottomA根据该句中的“the fastest,more _ runners were always ahead,while the laziest were behind”可知,在训练中,“我”总是处于小组的中间位置,
46、那些跑得最快、更加认真的(serious)学生总是在“我”的前面,而那些最懒惰的则在“我”后面。故选A。17A.popularBconfidentCseriousDrelaxedC参见上题解析。18A.inspirationBdeterminationCloyaltyDcontributionB根据第13及16小题的解析和语境可知,“我”没有退出长跑俱乐部,而是说服自己要坚持,并且在尽自己的最大努力之后,“我”也在慢慢进步,并且由于“我”的决心,进行五千米长跑前的热身练习成了真正的热身练习,而且每天的五千米跑也变成一次容易的训练。故选B。A项意为“灵感”;B项意为“决心”;C项意为“忠诚”;D
47、项意为“贡献”。19A.unimaginableBavoidableCeasyDoptionalC参见上题解析。unimaginable“难以置信的”;avoidable“可以避免的”。20A.exceptionBexampleCpromotionDsuccessD根据前一句中的“I was no longer the last in anything we did”以及上文的内容可知,“我”之前是不爱运动的,但自加入长跑俱乐部以来,经过“我”的努力,“我”在任何跑步活动中都不是最后一名了,这对“我”来说,就是一件成功的事情。故选D。A项意为“例外”;B项意为“例子”;C项意为“提升”;D项意为“成功的事”。