1、Unit 2.完形填空It was rush hour, Heather Sant was driving her Mazda with her young daughter and son in the back. Suddenly, a red pickup truck _1_ them off. Sant turned the wheel hard to the right, sending the Mazda _2_ off the road and down an embankment (筑堤) and ended in a dropoff after about 50 feet.
2、If the car didnt _3_， it would fall onto the road some 20 feet below. Then a bit of _4_： As the car raced toward the edge, its undercarriage got _5_ on the concrete lip of the embankment, stopping it _6_.Jacob watched the _7_ unfold from the company where he works. Then he and four other men ran to
3、the car. They _8_ onto the trunk to balance the weight as the _9_ kids in the back seat watched._10_， Julio and his nephew, Marco, were driving to their jobs nearby. Julio jumped out of the car to help _11_ Marco went to the shop, grasped a heavyduty belt, and returned to the car. He tied the Mazda
4、to a truck that had been driven over by one of the other rescuers. With the car _12_， the group carefully opened the _13_ doors and helped the children out. The men, still on the trunk, _14_ Sant to jump into the back seat and then inched out the back door. Finally, the men carefully _15_ the car. E
5、veryone was safe. 本文是记叙文。本文叙述了Heather Sant开车遇险获救的故事。1A.cutBsawCsetDtook答案：A解析：考查动词及语境理解。句意：突然，一辆红色的皮卡车插在他们的车前面了。cut off隔绝；saw sb. off为某人送行；set off动身；took off脱掉，飞机起飞，事业腾飞。结合下文“turned the wheel hard to the right”可推知一辆皮卡车插在他们的车前面，把他们与前面隔开了(cut them off)。故正确答案为A。2A.leavingBjumpingCslidingDdiving答案：C解析：考
6、查动词及语境理解。句意：桑特使劲右转方向盘，马自达从公路上滑下，在大约50英尺后滑下了一道堤岸。A.leaving离开；B.jumping跳；C.sliding (使)滑行，滑动；D.diving潜水。结合上文“turned the wheel hard to the right”和下文 “and down an embankment (筑堤)”可知，刹车太猛，车滑(sliding)出了路，滑到了路堤，故正确答案为C。3A.moveBendCstopDlose答案：C解析：考查动词及语境理解。句意：如果汽车不停下来，它会掉到20英尺以下的路上。A.move移动；B.end结束；C.stop停止
7、；D.lose丢失。结合下文it would fall onto the road some 20 feet below可知如果车不停下来，它会落到20英尺以下的路上，故正确答案为C。4A.wisdomBluckCchoiceDconsideration答案：B解析：考查名词及语境理解。句意：然后是一点运气：当汽车冲向边缘时，车卡在路边，停了下来。A.wisdom智慧；B.luck运气；C.choice选择；D.consideration考虑。结合上下文意，车卡在路边，停了下来，可知这是“有一点点运气”，故正确答案为B。5A.hurtBchangeCseparatedDstuck答案：D解析：
8、考查动词及语境理解。句意：当汽车冲向边缘时，它的底盘卡在了堤岸的混凝土边缘上。A.hurt伤害；B.change变化，改变；C.separated分离；D.stuck插入，粘贴。结合上下文，可知它的底架卡在(got stuck)路堤的混凝土边缘上，故正确答案为D。6A.casuallyBsuddenlyCdeliberatelyDclosely答案：B解析：考查副词及语境理解。句意：车的底架卡在路堤的混凝土边缘上，突然停了下来。A.casually随意地；B.suddenly突然地；C.deliberately故意地；D.closely紧密地。结合上下文可知，车的底架卡在路堤的混凝土边缘上，所
9、以才会“突然地(suddenly)”停了下来。故正确答案为B。7A.sceneBplotCsceneryDview答案：A解析：考查名词及语境理解。句意：雅各布从他工作的公司看到了这一幕。A.scene场面，一幕；B.plot情景；C.scenery风景，景色；D.view观点。结合上下文，可知他目睹了这一幕(scene)的发生，故正确答案为A。8.A.leapedBescapedCflowedDslipped答案：A解析：考查动词及语境理解。句意：他们跳上车顶以平衡重量。A.leaped跳跃；B.escaped逃跑；C.flowed流动；D.slipped滑，溜。结合上下文，他们要想到车顶，
10、是要往上跳(leaped)的。故正确答案为A。9A.amazedBinspired CannoyedDterrified答案：D解析：考查形容词及语境理解。句意：他们跳上车顶平衡重量，坐在后座的孩子们惊恐地看着。A.amazed惊奇的；B.inspired被激励的；C.annoyed生气的；D.terrified害怕的，惊恐的。结合上文车卡在边缘，随时会掉下去，孩子们应该很害怕(terrified)，故正确答案为D。10A.StillBThereforeCHoweverDMeanwhile答案：D解析：考查副词及语境理解。句意：与此同时(meanwhile)，其他人也开始援助。A.Still仍
11、然；B.Therefore因此；C.However然而；D.Meanwhile与此同时。并结合上下文可知其他人也开始援助，故正确答案为D。11A.whileBuntilCunlessDeven if答案：A解析：考查连词及语境理解。句意：当马可去商店时，朱利奥跳下车去帮忙。A.while当时候；B.until一直到；C.unless除非；D.even if即使。结合上下文应该是“一个人与此同时另一个人”，故正确答案为A。12A.repairedBsecuredCcleanedDdeserted答案：B解析：考查动词及语境理解。句意：在汽车安全的情况下，人们才打开门。A.repaired修理；B
12、.secured稳定使其安全；C.cleaned清理；D.deserted放弃。结合上文“He tied the Mazda to a truck that had been driven over by one of the other rescuers.”可知，他们把车绑在一辆卡车上，确保安全，故正确答案为B。13A.thickBnarrowCfrontDback答案：D解析：考查形容词及语境理解。句意：在汽车安全的情况下，这群人小心翼翼地打开后门，把孩子们扶了出来。A.thick厚的；B.narrow狭窄的；C.front前面的；D.back后面的。结合上文“son in the bac
13、k，”可知打开后车门，让孩子们出来，故正确答案为D。14A.informedBorderedCchallengedDdirected答案：D解析：考查动词及语境理解。句意：这些人仍然坐在车顶上，指导桑特跳到后座上。A.informed通知；B.ordered命令；C.challenged挑战；D.directed指导。结合上下文可知，他们指导(directed)Heather Sant从车的前排到车的后排，故正确答案为D。15A.got offBturned offCset upDturned up答案：A解析：考查短语动词及语境理解。句意：最后，这些人小心地从车上下来。大家都很安全。A.go
14、t off下车； Bturned off关闭；C.set up建立；D.turned up调大，出现。结合下文“Everyone was safe”可知“他们从车顶上下来(get off)”，故正确答案为A。.语法填空Smile is a universal language, which _1_ (use) throughout the world. However, the meaning of a smile in different cultures may be different. Depending on different cultures, smiling can expre
15、ss joy and _2_ (amuse), but it can also indicate embarrassment. The following examples show this point of view. In an attempt to be open and _3_ (friend), people in the United States smile a lot. Every one smiles at each other and this nonverbal communication shows being polite in the United States.
16、 But in China, smiling is not only _4_ expression of happiness, but also a way to avoid _5_ (be) embarrassed. Chinese people like smiling when they are embarrassed in order to avoid embarrassment. Smiling is a kind of good will but not sneer (嘲笑). For example: When a child falls off from a bike, the
17、 adults in China may smile, _6_ is a kind of gentle encouragement and may not be a kind of impolite laugh.The laugh is _7_ (relate) to the smile. Also, different cultures have various _8_ (meaning) about laugh. Americans can enjoy a very heartfelt belly (腹部) laugh that comes _9_ the deepest emotions
18、 while most Chinese may think _10_ silly to laugh that way.微笑是世界语言，但是，不同的文化，微笑的意思是不同的。文章介绍了不同文化中微笑的含义。1is_used 解析：考查动词时态和语态。句意：微笑是世界语言，在全世界被广泛使用。此空在定语从句中作谓语，与其主语是被动关系，且主句为一般现在时，故此处用一般现在时的被动语态。2amusement 解析：考查名词。该空在句中和joy并列，作express的宾语，故要用名词。3friendly 解析：考查形容词。friendly是形容词，和open并列，作be的表语。4an 解析：考查冠词。
19、句意：微笑不仅仅是快乐的表示，而且是避免尴尬的方式。expression意为“表达，表示，表现”，是可数名词。结合句意，该处应用不定冠词。且expression的发音开头是元音音素，故该空应填不定冠词an。5being 解析：考查非谓语动词。avoid意为“避免”，后面接名词或动名词作宾语。6which 解析：考查定语从句。分析句子结构可知，“_6_ is a kind of gentle encouragement and may not be a kind of impolite laugh”是非限制性定语从句，修饰前面整个句子，引导词在从句中作主语，故要用关系代词which引导该从句。7
20、related 解析：考查形容词。be related to意为“和有关”，是固定搭配。8meanings 解析：考查名词。meaning意为“意思”，是可数名词，该空前有various修饰，故要填复数形式。9from 解析：考查介词。comes _9_ the deepest emotions，来自最深处的感情。10it/its 解析：考查代词或宾语从句。it在句中作形式宾语，指代“to laugh that way”。另外，“_10_ silly to laugh that way”还可看作think的宾语从句，在该从句中，it是形式主语，代指“to laugh that way”，is是系动词。