1、高考资源网() 您身边的高考专家单项填空1 _thats important is that you are doing your best and moving in the right direction.AOneBAllCEverything DAnything解析 考查不定代词的用法。句意:最重要的是你要尽力并朝着正确的方向前进。one一个人;all一切,所有;everything每一件事;anything任何事。通览全句,all符合语意及语境。答案 B2This kind of animal is able to protect itself from danger in many
2、years._,the colouring of its hide makes it almost invisible when it is feeding in the shadow of trees.AFirst at all BFirst of allCIn all DAfter all解析 句意:多年间这种动物能保护自己避免危险。首先,当它在树阴下进食时,它的色彩的隐蔽性使它不易被看到。空白处用来强调重要性,因此只能用first of all。无A项这种表达法。in all相当于altogether“总计”;after all“毕竟”,表程度。答案 B3For professional
3、 athletes,_ to the Olympics means that they have a chance to enter the history books.Aappeal BattachmentCaccess Dapproach解析 考查名词词义辨析。access进入。句意:对于专业运动员来说,参加奥运会就意味着他们有机会被载入史册。appeal请求;attachment附加;approach接近;方法。答案 C4When we climbed up to the top of the hill,we all were _.Aout of the breath Bshort of
4、 breathCout of breath Dshort of breaths解析 考查固定短语out of breath的用法。out of breath为“气喘吁吁”,名词breath前没有冠词a,the,也没有复数breaths形式。答案 C5Must I turn off the gas after cooking?Of course.You cant never be _ careful with that.AenoughBtoo CsoDvery解析 考查cant/can never.too.句型,意为“再也不过分”。答案 B6Id also like to _ you on yo
5、ur good work in these two years.Acongratulate BcelebrateCwish Dhope解析 考查动词词义辨析。congratulate sb.on sth.“祝贺某人某事”,从搭配来看,应选择A项。celebrate的宾语通常是“物”,如节日、生日等。答案 A7The good thing about children is that they_ very easily to new environments.Aadapt BappealCattach Dapply解析 考查短语辨析。句意:关于孩子们,好的一点是他们很容易适应新环境。adapt
6、to表示“使适应于”;appeal to表示“对有吸引力”;attach to表示“(使)相关”;apply to则表示“运用,适用于”。根据句意,A项正确。答案 A8Frank put the medicine in a top drawer to make sure it would not be_to the kids.Aaccessible BrelativeCacceptable Dsensitive解析 考查形容词词义辨析。句意:Frank把药放在顶层抽屉中,以确保孩子们够不到。accessible表示“可以得到的,可以接近的”,通常与to 搭配。后三项分别表示“相关的”“可接受的
7、”“敏感的”。答案 A9Whos most likely to_the old ladys death?Abenefit Bbenefit fromCbe beneficial Dbe beneficial to解析 benefit对有益,benefit from从获益,be beneficial to对有益,所以B项正确。答案 B10He has devoted himself_mankind.Ato benefit BbenefitingCto benefiting Dbenefited解析 考查devote的用法,即devote oneself to doing sth.。答案 C11A
8、fter a number of disagreements with the committee,the chairman decided to_.Aretire BretreatCwithdraw Dresign解析 retreatwithdraw“撤退”;resign“辞职”。句意:与委员会有了许多分歧后,主席决定辞职。答案 D12He _his post because he had been offered a better job.Aresigned BretiredCdismissed Dfired解析 考查动词词义辨析。句意:他辞去了他的工作因为他找到了更好的工作。retire
9、表示“退休;退职”;dismiss表示“解雇”;fire表示“解雇”;resign表示“辞职;放弃”,符合句意。答案 A13Over two thirds of the population were believed to have no_to the health care in the west rural area in China.Aaid BbasisCbelief Daccess解析 have no access to“得不到,没有的机会”。句意:人们相信在中国西部农村地区,有超过三分之二的人口得不到卫生保健。答案 D14We must make sure that public
10、 facilities in the newlybuilt buildings,like the restroom and the lift,are _ to disabled visitors.Aimpressive BindependentCremarkable Daccessible解析 accessible可接近的;可进入的;可使用的,常用于短语be accessible to sb.。impressive给人深刻印象的;independent独立自主的,不受约束的;remarkable非凡的,显著的。答案 D15I soon found that the work I was doi
11、ng had already been done by somebody else,_,I was wasting my time.Ain a word Bwith wordsCin other words Dby word解析 考查短语辨析。句意:不久我就发现我在做的工作已经被其他人做了,也就是说,我在浪费时间。in a word表示“一句话,总之”;B、D两项搭配错误;in other words表示“换句话说”,符合句意。答案 C阅读下列四篇短文,从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。My father was Chief Engineer of a merchant
12、ship,which was sunk in World War . The bookNight of the U-boats told the story.MemoriesIn September,1940,my mother,sister and I went to Swansea,where my fathers ship was getting ready to sail. We brought him a family photograph to be kept with him at all times and keep him safe.Then I remember my mo
13、ther lying face down,sobbing. She had heard from a friend that the ship had been sunk by a torpedo (鱼雷).I can remember the arrival of the telegram (电报),which in those days always brought bad news. My grandmother opened it. It read,“Safe. Love Ted. “My most vivid memory is being woken and brought dow
14、n to sit on my fathers knee,his arm in a bandage.He was judged unfit to return to sea and took a shore job in Glasgow for the rest of the war. For as long as I can remember,he had a weak heart. Mother said it was caused by the torpedoes. He saidit was because of the cigarettes. Whichever,he died sud
15、denly in his early 50s.Ten years later I readNight of the U-boats and was able to complete the story.TorpedoOne torpedo struck the ship. Father was in the engine room,where the third engineer was killed. He shut down the engines to slow the ship making it easier for it to be abandoned.By the time he
16、 got on deck (甲板)he was alone. Every lifeboat was gone except one which had stuck fast. When he tried to cut it free,it swung against the ship,injuring his hand and arm. He had no choice but to jumpstill with the photograph in his pocket.Three days later,he and other survivors were safe in Glasgow.
17、All 23 with him signed the back of the photograph.A ToastIn my room is the book and the photograph. Often,glass in hand,I have wondered how I would have dealt with an explosion,a sinking ship,a jump into a vast ocean and a wait for rescue?Lest(以免)we forget,I have some more whisky and toast the heroe
18、s of the war.1. We can infer that the mother and children went to Swansea.A. to meet a friendB. to see the father offC. to take a family photoD. to enjoy the sailing of the ship2. What did the author learn about the father from the telegram?A. He was still alive. B. His knee was broken.C. His ship h
19、ad been sunk. D. He had arrived in Glasgow.3. The underlined word“it” in Paragraph 6 refers to the fathers.A. weak heartB. taking a shore jobC. failure to return to sea D. injury caused by a torpedo4. What can we know about the authors father after his ship was attacked?A. He lost his arm. B. He rep
20、aired the engines.C. He managed to take a lifeboat. D. He was the last to leave the ship.5. What is the passage mainly about?A. A group of forgotten heroes. B. A book describing a terrifying battle.C. A ship engineers wartime experience. D. A merchants memories of a sea rescue.【参考答案】1-5 、BAADC【2015高
21、考复习】阅读理解 Areas of Tokyo which had usually been packed with office workers like sushi(寿司) restaurants and noodle shops were unusually quiet. Many schools were closed. Companies allowed workers to stay home. Long queues formed at airports.As Japanese authorities struggled to avoid disaster at an earth
22、quakebattered nuclear plant 240 km to the north, parts of Tokyo resembled a ghost town. Many people stocked up on food and stayed indoors or simply left, transforming one of the worlds biggest and most populated cities into a shell of its usual self.“Look, its like Sunday no cars in town,” said Kazu
23、shi Arisawa, a 62yearold taxi driver, as he waited for more than an hour outside an office tower where he usually finds customers within minutes. “I cant make money today. ”Radiation in Tokyo has been negligible,_ briefly touching three times the normal rate on Tuesday, smaller than a dental Xray. O
24、n Wednesday, winds over the Fukushima (福岛) nuclearpower plant blew out to sea, keeping levels close to normal. But that does little to relieve public anxiety about a 40yearold nuclear plant with three reactors in partial meltdown (熔毁)and a fourth with spent atomic fuel exposed to the atmosphere afte
25、r last Fridays earthquake and tsunami.“Radiation moves faster than we do,” said Steven Swanson, a 43yearold American who moved to Tokyo in December with his Japanese wife to help with her family business.He is staying indoor but is tempted to leave.“Its scary.Its a triple threat with the earthquake,
26、 tsunami and the nuclear radiation leaks.It makes you wonder whats next. ”【语篇解读】 本文主要介绍了日本的核辐射泄露对人们造成的影响。1The text is mainly about_.Athe earthquake that happened in MarchBthe governments effort to avoid disasterCthe effects of the nuclear radiation leaksDthe earthquakebattered nuclearpower plant解析主旨
27、大意题。整篇文章介绍了日本的核辐射泄露对人们造成的影响。故选C项。答案C2What did Kazushi Arisawa mean?ATherere usually more cars on Sundays.BHe didnt care much about nuclear radiation.CHe preferred to stay at home on Sundays.DHe couldnt find many customers.解析细节理解题。从文章第三段的“as he waited for more than an hour outside an office tower whe
28、re he usually finds customers within minutes.I cant make money today.”看出答案。答案D3The underlined word “negligible”in Paragraph 4 most probably means_.Aserious Bslight Cnormal D. average解析词义猜测题。从下文的“smaller than a dental Xray”看出答案。答案B4What can we learn about the Fukushima nuclearpower plant from the tex
29、t?AIt lies to the south of Tokyo.BIt started to operate about fifty years ago.CIt was damaged in the earthquake and tsunami.DAll its four reactors are now well under control.解析推理题。从文章第四段的“a 40yearold nuclear plant with three reactors in partial meltdown (熔毁)and a fourth with spent atomic fuel expose
30、d to the atmosphere after last Fridays earthquake and tsunami”看出答案。答案C阅读下列四篇短文,从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。A research by the National Center for Health Statistics is seen as an important confirmation of the “Hispanic mortality paradox(西班牙裔死亡率悖论).”On average, Hispanics outlive whites by 2.5 years and
31、 blacks by 7.7 years. Their life expectancy at birth in 2006 was 80.6 years, compared with 78.1 for whites, 72.9 for blacks and 77.7 years for the total population. The report shows that the Hispanic population has higher life expectancy at birth and at almost every age despite a socioeconomic statu
32、s lower than that of whites. “Mortality is very correlated with income, education and health care access,” says Elizabeth Arias, author of the report. “You would expect the Hispanic population would have higher mortality, in line with the black population.”The Hispanic paradox has been documented fo
33、r more than two decades, but this is the first time the government has had enough data to issue national numbers. Researchers are struggling to explain why Hispanics live longer. “We dont know,” says David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLAs Dav
34、id Geffen School of Medicine. “We thought it was a problem in the data, but we can pretty much say this is real.”Potential factors: Culture and lifestyle. Support from extended family and lower rates of smoking and drinking. Latino groups in particular have very strong family and social ties. Migrat
35、ion. The “healthy migrant effect” argues that healthy people are more likely to emigrate. And when immigrants become ill, they might return home and die there. “Solving the puzzle may help the nation deal with health care issues because Hispanics use health services lessthey make fewer doctors visit
36、s and spend less time in hospitals,” Hayes Bautista says. “Its clearly something in the Latino culture,” he says.1. In 2006, Hispanics life expectancy isyears longer than the average of the total population. A. 2. 5 B. 7. 7 C. 2. 9 D. 80. 62. What does the underlined word “outlive” in the second par
37、agraph probably mean? A. To live longer than. . . B. To live shorter than. . . C. To die out. D. To expect to live. 3. What is the main idea of paragraph three? A. Hispanics were born better than whites. B. Morality is closely related with health care access. C. Whites should have longer life expect
38、ancy. D. Even experts cant explain the phenomenon. 4. What is Mr. Hayes-Bautistas opinion about the paradox? A. He supports there is a problem with the data. B. He intends to trust the cultural factor. C. He believes in the “healthy migrant effect”. D. He thinks health care the most important factor
39、. 5. Which of the following inferences is true according to the passage? A. Black people suffer the lowest social status in America. B. Hispanics might have healthier ways of life. C. Only healthy people can immigrate into America. D. White people dont have strong family ties. 【参考答案】15、CADBB- 9 - 版权所有高考资源网