1、单元素能自测.完形填空Mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in November, 2015. The doctor told me he was afraid the next Christmas would be her _1_ one. After getting the news, I wondered what _2_ I could possibly give her to show her how much I _3_ her. Then an idea hit me. I could give her a caring _4_
2、shower. I put a note in my Christmas cards, asking friends to send Mom and Dad cards to make them _5_.Well, my little idea spread _6_ thanks to my daughter and social media. She posted the _7_ for cards on her Facebook page. In turn, her friends picked up the idea and _8_ it with their friends.Near
3、the end of November, I asked Mom _9_ she had been getting any Christmas cards. She said she had got a few. Well, the flood _10_ in early December. Some days the mail carrier delivered a bag of cards to my parents front door because he couldnt fit them into their _11_.My husband and I live about a hu
4、ndred miles from my parents and we _12_ them every week after Mom was diagnosed with cancer. Mom _13_ the cards she received each week so that I could _14_ them, too.We would sit at the kitchen table, and shed _15_ every card, often saying how _16_ they were.Sometimes Mom had to _17_ because there w
5、ere too many cards for her to read at a time._18_，Mom passed away in early March, 2016.I _19_ when I remember her opening the cards and her total delight while enjoying strangers_20_.作者发动朋友给肺癌晚期的妈妈寄卡片，结果卡片如雪花般飞来。来自陌生人的问候温暖了妈妈在人世最后的日子。1A.noisiestBworstCshortest Dlast答案：D解析：根据“Stage 4 lung cancer”可知，医
6、生担心作者的妈妈下一个圣诞节会是她的最后(last)一个。2A.medicine BwishCgift Dadvice答案：C解析：根据语境圣诞节要到了，作者想着该送她妈妈什么礼物(gift)。3A.needed BunderstoodCloved Drespected答案：C解析：作者是想送一个能表达她很爱(love)妈妈的礼物。4A.flower BbookCphone Dcard答案：D解析：根据下文可知，作者想让妈妈沐浴在关爱的卡片(card)中。5A.thankful BhappyCbeautiful Dlovely答案：B解析：作者希望通过这种方式可以让她的父母高兴(happy)。
7、6A.widely BslowlyCcarefully Dformally答案：A解析：根据后文卡片如雪花般寄来的语境可知，作者的这个想法传播得很广(widely)。7A.request BreasonCexchange Dcharge答案：A解析：作者的女儿在Facebook上请求(request)大家给作者的妈妈寄卡片。8A.competed BenjoyedCshared Dcompared答案：C解析：根据后文很多人给妈妈寄来卡片可知，那些朋友又跟他们的朋友分享(share)了那个主意。9A.when BhowCwhy Dif答案：D解析：根据“She said she had got
8、 a few.”可知，作者问她妈妈是否(if)收到了卡片。10A.remained BstruggledCcontinued Dbegan答案：D解析：根据“Some days the mail carrier delivered a bag of cards.”可知，这里是指卡片真正开始(begin)大量寄来的是在十二月初。11A.house BmailboxCtoolbox Doffice答案：B解析：根据“delivered a bag of cards to my parents front door”可推知，因为爸妈的邮筒(mailbox)已经装不下了，所以邮差才把一袋卡片放到前门。
9、12A.visited BinvitedCmissed Dcalled答案：A解析：根据后文作者跟妈妈一起看卡片可知，作者每周去看望(visit)她父母一次。13A.sent BdecoratedCsaved Dwrote答案：C解析：妈妈把那些卡片都保留(save)了起来，因此作者可以看到。14A.learn BanswerCpost Dsee答案：D解析：根据上题解析可知选see。15A.buy BcopyCread Dplay答案：C解析：作者的妈妈很喜欢那些卡片，每一张她都会读(read)。16A.hardworking BheartwarmingCexpensive Dstrange
10、答案：B解析：这些卡片都是关爱妈妈的卡片，所以妈妈觉得它们很暖心(heartwarming)。hardworking“勤勉的”。17A.rest BcryCwalk Dsigh答案：A解析：根据“because there were too many cards for her to read at a time.”可知，妈妈一次要读太多的卡片，所以她读一些后需要休息(rest)一会儿。18A.Suddenly BHonestlyCSadly DClearly答案：C解析：根据“Mom passed away in early March,2016.”可知应选C项。19A.agree Breg
11、retCworry Dsmile答案：D解析：作者的妈妈很喜欢那些卡片，作者向她表达了对她的爱，所以每当回想起妈妈看那些卡片时高兴的神情时，作者都会微笑(smile)。20A.kindness BhappinessCpraise Dcoldness答案：A解析：作者的妈妈看那些卡片很高兴，是因为她感受到了来自陌生人的善良(kindness)。.阅读理解My father was poor in expressing his feelings. I knew that my dad loved me, but showed me love in other ways. There was one
12、 particular time in my life when this became real to me.I always believed that my parents had a good marriage, but gradually the strain (紧张)on my mom and dads relationship was quite evident. However, I was not prepared for the day when Dad had decided to leave. All that I could think of was that I w
13、as going to become a product of a divorced family. I kept telling myself that it wasnt going to happen. The night before he left, I stayed up in my room for a long time. I prayed and I cried and I wrote a long letter to my dad. I told him how much I loved him and that I would always and forever be h
14、is Krissie. As I folded my note, I stuck in a picture of me with a saying I had always heard, “Anyone_can_be_a_father,_but_it_takes_someone_special_to_be_a_daddy.” Early the next morning, as my dad left our house, I slipped my letter into one of his bags.Two weeks later, my mother told me that they
15、decided that there were things that both of them could and would change and that their marriage was worth saving. “Well, Dad said that when he read your letter, it made him cry. It meant a lot to him and I have hardly ever seen your dad cry. After he read your letter, he called to ask if he could co
16、me over to talk. Whatever you said really made a difference to your dad.”A few days later my dad was back. We never talked about the letter. I guessed that it became a secret between us.本文主要讲述了在父母的婚姻遇到紧急情况时，作者写了一封信给父亲，其真情流露感动了父亲，最终挽救了他们的婚姻。1Why did the authors father decide to leave?ABecause he was
17、poor in showing his feelings.BBecause his wife was always giving orders.CBecause serious problems occurred in his marriage.DBecause the strain on fatherdaughter relationship was evident.答案：C解析：推理判断题。由第二段的“gradually the strain(紧张) on my mom and dads relationship was quite evident”可知，爸爸离开是因为婚姻中出现了严重的问
18、题，因此C项正确。2How did the author feel when her father decided to leave?AExcited. BAnnoyed.CDoubtful. DUpset.答案：D解析：推理判断题。根据第二段中的“I kept telling myself that it wasnt going to happen.”和“I prayed and I cried”可推断，爸爸的离开让作者倍感伤心，因此选D项。3The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means _.Aa man may have to give up a
19、 lot to be a real fatherBa man may have to give in to his wife to be a daddyCa man who raises special children can become a real fatherDa man who develops some special talents can be a real father答案：A解析：句意理解题。根据本句的字面意思“任何人都可以成为一位父亲，但是并非人人都能成为一个真正的父亲”，再联系文章内容可推测，成为真正的父亲是要懂得放弃与付出，因此答案为A项。4Whats the ma
20、in idea of the passage?AHow the authors parents enjoyed a happy marriage.BHow a letter saved the authors parents marriage.CThe divorce had a great influence on the author.DThe author had a good relationship with her parents.答案：B解析：主旨大意题。本文主要讲述了在父母的婚姻遇到紧急情况时，作者写了一封信给父亲，其真情流露感动了父亲，最终挽救了父母的婚姻。因此正确答案为B项
21、。.概要写作阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。Babies dont learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests that they also learn from watching lips.Florida scientists discovered that at around the age of 6 months, babies begin studying mouths when people talk to them.“In order to imitate you, babies h
22、ave to figure out how to shape their lips to make that particular sound theyre hearing，”explains David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic University, who led the study published on Monday.Scientists have long known that babies also look to speakers faces for important social cues (暗示) about what they are
23、 hearing. Just like adults, theyre drawn to the eyes, which express important messages like the emotion connected to words. David Lewkowicz went a step further, wondering whether babies look to the lips for cues as well，like how adults lipread what someones saying at a noisy party. So he and his stu
24、dent Amy HansenTift tested nearly 180 babies, dividing them into different groups according to their ages (4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 months)They showed videos of a woman speaking in English or Spanish to babies of English speakers. They found a shift in attention: When the speaker used English, the 4montho
25、lds looked mostly at her eyes; the 6montholds spent equal amount of time looking at the eyes and the mouth. The 8 and 10montholds studied mostly the mouth; at 12 months，attention started shifting back toward the speakers eyes.“Its a pretty interesting finding，” says University of Iowa psychology pro
26、fessor Bob McMurray, who also studies speech development. The research offers more evidence that quality facetime with the baby is very important for speech developmentmore than, say, playing the latest baby DVD.Studying how babies learn to speak isnt a curiosity. Scientists want to know how to enco
27、urage that process，especially if it doesnt seem to be happening on time. And, it helps them understand how the brain wires itself early in life for learning all kinds of things.New_research_finds_that_babies_acquire_the_ability_of_talking_not_only_from_listening_but_also_from_lipwatching_(要点1)_and_r
28、esearchers_want_to_prove_that.(要点2)Experiments_show_that_babies_at_different_development_stages_pay_attention_to_different_parts_of_face_of_the_speakers.(要点3)Thus,_its_evident_that_facetoface_communication_with_the_baby_is_essential_for_speech_development.(要点4)Furthermore,_it_helps_scientists_understand_how_babies_other_abilities_develop_at_an_early_stage_and_scientists_wonder_how_to_motivate_it.(要点5)