1、 Section The Language Points of Reading课时作业(一)完形填空 Sandstorms are one of the natural disasters which are strong, dry winds that carry sand. Have you ever seen a sandstorm? I would like to share with you my personal _1_ of the sandstorm in northern China. One day, we decided to _2_ a city of Jilin Pr
2、ovince. It was supposed to be four hours drive from the place where we lived. We _3_ at about 7：00 only to see the most amazing _4_ we had ever seen. The sky was _5_ as if it was midnight. The _6_ from the few cars that dared travel in the streets were yellowish. So we had to stay at home, _7_ for a
3、 better condition for our trip. The wind was fairly _8_ and might have been stronger at night _9_ we woke up. The visibility (能见度) at this point was close to 20 m. About two hours later the _10_ increased to 50 m and stayed so _11_ about 10：00 am. When the dust lifted (消散) a little and the visibilit
4、y _12_ to 200 m, we decided to drive out. However, everybody on the road was enveloped in thick fog with dust and the sky glowed with a dark _13_ colour, so we hardly see each other _14_. Sometimes, the wind suddenly _15_ up a lot of dust and sand and the visibility occasionally decreased to 2050 m,
5、 making it very _16_ to drive. The dust _17_ in the air until the late afternoon when it slightly lifted. At last, we arrived at the city, but the trip that _18_ took about four hours, took us nearly eight hours. The dust remained in the _19_ for about two more days. On the third day a short period
6、of rain _20_ as the cold front passed the region. So the terrible scene came to an end, and everything took on a lively and fresh appearance again.1A.experience Brecord Cidea Daction答案：A根据下文可知，作者分享了自己遭遇沙尘暴的亲身经历。experience意为“经历”。2A.leave Bvisit Ccall Dsee答案：B根据下文中的“our trip”可知，我们决定去游览吉林省的一个城市。故选B项。3A
7、.woke up Bsat up Cset off Dleft off答案：A根据下文中的“So we had to stay at home”可知，作者还没出发，只是在7点醒来(woke up)。4A.storm Bsnow Crain Dwind答案：A根据上文可知，作者要讲述自己亲历沙尘暴的经过，因此此处应说的是“风暴”，故选A项。5A.dark BbrightCblue Dcold答案：A根据设空后“as if it was midnight”可知，天空一片漆黑，故选A项。6A.walls BglassCcover Dlights答案：D句意：敢于在街上行驶的车不多，车灯发出的光是黄色
8、的。根据句意可知此处应指车灯。故选D项。7A.leaving BwaitingCtaking Dcalling答案：B根据上文可知，天很黑，街上的车也不多，我们只能待在家里，等(waiting for)情况好转了再出行。8A.strong Bfaint Cweak Dsoft答案：A根据设空后的“stronger”可知，此处是说风非常大，在我们醒来之前的晚上可能更大。故选A项。9A.after Bwhen Cbefore Dwhile答案：C根据语境可知，风很大，可能在我们醒来之前的夜晚更大，故选C项。10A.speed BpowerCstrength Dvisibility答案：D根据上文中
9、的“The visibility (能见度) at this point was close to 20 m”可知，两个小时后，能见度(visibility)增加到了50米。11A.since Bbefore Cwhen Duntil答案：D句意：一直保持这样的状态，直到上午10点。until意为“直到为止”。12A.increased Breduced Cdecreased Dstayed答案：A根据上文可知，尘土有些许消散，能见度从20米到50米，再到200米，可以看出能见度在增加，故选A项。13A.red ByellowCgreen Dblack答案：B根据上文中的“yellowish”
10、以及常识可知，刮沙尘暴时天空是暗黄色的，故选B项。14A.faintly Bclearly Csuccessfully Dperfectly答案：B根据上文可知，外面大雾弥漫，伴有沙尘，天空暗黄，因此我们几乎看不清楚彼此。15A.picked BtookCturned Dlooked答案：A句意：有时，风突然卷起很多尘土和沙子。pick up意为“举起，捡起”。16A.safe Bdangerous Cnormal Dlikely答案：B根据常识可知，能见度降低会使得开车很危险(dangerous)。故选B项。17A.remained Bjumped Ccovered Ddropped答案：A
11、根据下文中的“The dust remained in the _19_ for about two more days.”可知选A项。remain意为“停留；逗留”。18A.normally Brarely Cfrequently Dparticularly答案：A句意：但是通常大约4个小时的车程，却花了将近8个小时。normally意为“通常；正常地”。19A.city Btown Cair Dcar答案：C句意：大约两天多的时间里，空气中仍有尘土。根据上文中的“The dust _17_ in the air”可知，此处指空气中的尘土。故选C项。20A.happened Bdropped
12、Cstruck Dstopped答案：B根据设空后的“as the cold front passed the region”可知是冷锋过境雨水到来。drop意为“落下；滴”，形容下雨。故选B项。阅读理解A(2019浙江杭州高三模拟)The tornado came without any signthe sky was blue and the sun had been out. The first alert my husband, Jimmy, 67, and I, 65, got came around 9 pm, from some scrolling text on the TV
13、Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to find me in our thirdfloor bedroom, and we changed the channel to our local Pensacola, Florida, station.No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out. Pink insulation(绝缘材料) flew into
14、 the room from a trapdoor to the attic, and the wind began to roar through the house. We had three flights of steps to navigate to get to the relative safety of the first floor. Because the closet down there is wedged (塞进) underneath a brick staircase, it seemed like the sturdiest (坚固的) place in our
15、 town house to wait things out.I didnt know how or if we would make it down the steps. It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. I gripped the banister (楼梯扶手) and tried to move forward, but this_intense_pressure held me in place. In those seconds of stillness
16、, I could hear everything around me rattling.As we reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Shards of glass that looked like broken ice flew everywhere. Suddenly, a threefootlong tree branch whipped through the doorframe. It flew over our heads, missing us by inches. Had we been on
17、e step up, it would have impaled us. The back wall of the house followed suit and tore off into the darkness outside.Instantly I reached the closet, Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldnt get inside himself because of the wind. I gripped Jimmys arm as the tornado sucked the door op
18、en and tried to bring Jimmy with it. My knees and scalp were full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out and into the bay. “Hold on! Hold on！” he yelled. But there was nothing in this closet to hold on to.All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his
19、feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldnt believe it was over. Jimmy said hed go outside to check. “No，” I said. “Dont leave me.”Our neighbor says the storm lasted four minutes. I
20、n that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured. 1Paragraphs 24 mainly tell us_.Athe tornado was on top of usBthe tornado caused great damageCthe coverage of the
21、 tornado became a realityDthe tornado was so strong that it lifted the author off her feet答案：B段落大意题。根据第二、三、四段内容，特别是第二段中的“The bones of the house shook . to roar through the house.”，第三段中的“In those seconds of stillness, I could hear everything around me rattling.”及第四段中的“As we reached the last flight of
22、 steps, our front door blew out.”等细节描写可知，第二、三、四段主要讲述的是龙卷风造成了巨大的损害，故B项正确。2The underlined words “this intense pressure” in Paragraph 3 refer to _.Athe authors nervousness about the tornadoBthe force from the tornado on the authorCthe stress the author felt from her lifeDthe pressure the banister gave
23、the author答案：B词义猜测题。根据画线词前的“It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. I gripped the banister (楼梯扶手) and tried to move forward”可知，风把作者刮起来的时候，她觉得脚下好像没有地板，她抓住楼梯扶手想往前走，但是风吹得她动弹不得，由此可知画线词词义为“风对作者的作用力”，故B项正确。3From the passage we can know that _.Aneither the author
24、nor her husband was injuredBthe authors house was completely destroyedCthey were aware of the tornado before it cameDit became dark outside when the tornado hit the town答案：A细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“Amazingly, none of us were severely injured.”可知，作者和丈夫都没有受伤，故A项正确。4The author wrote the passage to _.Ashare with
25、us her experience of surviving a tornadoBwarn us of the danger caused by tornadosCshow us how to fight against a tornadoDtell us tornados are dangerous and how to protect us from them答案：A推理判断题。通读全文可知，本文讲述了龙卷风突然来袭，作者家的房子损坏严重，但作者和丈夫竟然安然无恙地幸存下来，所以作者写这篇文章就是为了分享自己和丈夫在龙卷风袭击中幸存下来的经历，故A项正确。B Residents of En
26、senada and neighboring towns in southern Chile are struggling to pick up the pieces following two eruptions of Chiles 6,500foot Calbuco volcano. Calbuco erupted on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, and again the next morning. It was the first time the volcano had erupted since 1972. According to officials,
27、 the volcano sent out an estimated 7,420 cubic feet of ash. Thursdays eruption created an ash cloud that reached 12 miles into the air. Even now, days after the initial eruption, the volcano continues to emit ash and smoke. Ensenada, which lies at the foot of Calbuco, and the areas surrounding it ha
28、ve been covered with ash. The Ministry of Interior and Public Safety says more than 20 inches of ash fell in some places. The dust even reached a small town in Argentina more than 50 miles northeast of the volcano. “Wherever you look, all you see is gray dust，” says Ensenada resident Victor Hugo Tol
29、edo. “It looks like a gray desert.” More than 6,000 people were evacuated (撤离) from their homes following the eruptions. The weight of the ash caused the roofs of many homes and businesses to collapse. No one was injured. Officials are not expecting any water, food, or fuel shortages. But Chilean Pr
30、esident Michelle Bachelet has declared a state of emergency. “Our problem is . breathing in all of this ash, and the fact that this ash could generate some sort of environmental pollution，” Bachelet says. Local farmers are also worried about their cows and sheep. The government of Chile announced on
31、 Saturday that it would provide financial aid for farmers who suffered big losses and help evacuate thousands of farm animals.Many residents of areas now considered safe are returning to their homes to see what they can save. Military forces are helping with the cleanup. “We have observed secondary
32、explosions . linked with the movement of fluids within the volcano，” the National Office of Emergency says. Because of that, the office has established a 12mile exclusion zone around the volcano in order to keep people at a safe distance, and scientists are maintaining a red alert status.5The underl
33、ined word “emit” in Paragraph 2 may mean “_”Atake in Bgive outCput off Dsend away答案：B词义猜测题。根据画线词前面的内容“the volcano sent out an estimated 7,420 cubic feet of ash”可知，火山应该是喷发出一些火山灰和烟尘等，再根据画线词前的“continues”可知，emit和send out意思一致，故选B项。6Which of the following problems is the area facing after the eruption?ATh
34、e lack of water and food.BThe shortage of fuel.CThe environmental pollution.DThe death of farm animals.答案：C细节理解题。结合第五段第三句中的“Our problem is . breathing in all of this ash, and the fact that this ash could generate some sort of environmental pollution”可知，这个地方现在所面临的问题是环境污染。7We can infer from the last p
35、aragraph that _.Ascientists are watching for the volcanic eruptionsBthe alert about the following volcanic eruptions is given by scientistsCthe safe distance to all the volcanoes is about 12 milesDscientists are studying the red lava from the volcano答案：A推理判断题。结合最后一段尾句中的“scientists are maintaining a
36、red alert status”可知，科学家们依然处在保持警惕的状态之中，因此可推断A项正确。8What might be the most suitable title for the passage?AA big loss in volcanic eruptionsBA volcano erupts suddenly in ChileCA dead volcano becomes activeDA lack of water after volcanic eruptions答案：B标题判断题。本文主要介绍了智利连续两次火山喷发，给当地人们造成了一些财产损失及当地人们面临的环境污染等情况。
37、故B项最适合作文章的标题。短文改错(2018全国卷)It was Monday morning, and the writing class had just begin. Everyone was silent, wait to see who would be called upon to read his and her paragraph aloud. Some of us were confident and eager take part in the class activity, others were nervous and anxious. I had done mysel
38、f homework but I was shy. I was afraid that to speak in front of a larger group of people. At that moment, I remembered that my father once said, “The classroom is a place for learning and that include learning from textbooks, and mistake as well.” Immediate, I raised my hand.答案：难项分析：第二处：waitwaiting考查非谓语动词。分析句子成分可知，本句有谓语动词was，没有连词，且句子的逻辑主语与wait是主动关系，所以wait 要用其现在分词形式waiting，表伴随。第六处：去掉that考查固定结构。be afraid to do sth. “害怕做某事”，所以that多余，删掉。第八处：includeincludes考查主谓一致。that指代learning，作第二个分句的主语，谓语动词用第三人称单数includes。
