1、单项填空1The boys new bike was_envy of his friends.Aa Bthe C/ Dan解析 考查冠词。本句中envy为of his friends所限制,表特指。答案 B2How I_him the pleasure he had during the vacation!Aenvy Badmire Cappreciate Denjoy解析 句意:我多么忌妒他在假期间的快乐。admire“羡慕”后接for;appreciate欣赏;enjoy喜欢。答案 A3I was about to_the phone when it was_.Areply;rung of
2、f Breceive;rung upCanswer;rung off Danswer;rung up解析 answer the telephone“接电话”;ring off“挂断电话”。句意:我正要接电话,这时电话挂断了。答案 C4We feel sympathy_the deaths in the earthquake.Ain Bfor Cwith Don解析 feel sympathy for“对某人深感同情”。答案 B5Out of_for the homeless children,he gave them shelter for the night.Apity Bshame Csy
3、mpathy Dmercy解析 考查sympathy的用法。句意:出于对无家可归的孩子们的同情,他给他们提供了住处。out of sympathy for是固定短语,意为“出于对的同情”,符合句意。pity“怜悯;惋惜”;shame“可惜;羞愧”;mercy“仁慈”;三者皆不合句意。答案 C6Many couples_to adopt the baby which survived the earthquake.Aare desiring Bhave been desiringChave desired Ddesire解析 考查时态。desire“想要,渴望”,不用进行时,分析句子可知,此处不
4、表示动作的先后,所以选项D合适。答案 D7Try to _ at least an hour each day for learning new vocabulary.Aset off Bset outCset aside Dset down解析 句意:争取每天至少抽出1小时时间学习新词汇。set aside为某种目的留出、拨出(金钱、时间)等,符合句意。答案 C8Tomorrow the mayor is to_a group of Canadian businessmen on a tour of the city.Acoordinate BaccompanyCcooperate Dass
5、ociate解析 从“a tour of the city”,“the mayor”和“Canadian businessmen”可确定答案为accompany陪伴,陪同。coordinate调和,协调;cooperate合作;associate联合。句意:明天市长将陪同加拿大商人游览本市。答案 B9At 3:30 pm.the chairman_the meeting closed.Adecided BdeclaredCannounced Dinformed解析 考查动词的基本意思。根据句子意思,应该为“宣布”会议闭幕。答案 B10Gathering clouds_the coming st
6、orm.Adeclared Bturned outCconnected Dannounced解析 announce此处表示“显示,预告”。答案 D11_that_;you might break it.ALeave;off BLeave;outCLeave;alone DLeave;over解析 leave off“停止,结束”;leave out“忘掉,漏掉”;leave alone“不管,不打扰”;leave over “留下;剩下”。句意:别动它,否则你会把它弄坏的。答案 C12Its unnatural for a mother to leave her child_to enjoy
7、herself.Aalone Blonely Clone Dloneliness解析 leave.alone表示“丢下不管”,是一个固定短语。答案 A13The escaped prisoner,_,looked up and stared in the direction where the noise came from.Aalarming BalarmedChaving alarmed Dto be alarmed解析 由语境可知,这里描述的是越狱的囚犯听到声音的样子,所以应该用alarmed,意思是“惊恐的”。答案 B14If asked,I _ his opinion of goin
8、g abroad for further study.After all,it is a good chance to train himself.Adeclared for Bdeclared againstCagreed on Dprotected against解析 考查短语辨析。由下文的After all,it is a good chance to train himself可推知,“我”是赞成他出国留学的,故选择declare for,其意为“宣布赞成”。declare against表态反对,声称反对;protect against“使免受”。答案 A15At the bad n
9、ews,she was so sad _ I had to stay here keeping her _.Athat;companion Bthen;companiesCthat;company Dand;accompany解析 考查结果状语从句及固定搭配。句意:听到这个不好的消息,她如此悲伤以至于我得留下来陪她。此句采用了“so.that”结构,that引导的是结果状语从句;keep pany为固定表达,意思是“陪伴某人”或“为某人作伴”。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。Most young architectsparticularly t
10、hose in big citiescan only dream about working in a building of their own. And making that dream come true often means finding a building no one else seems to want,which is exactly what happened to David Yocum and his partner,Brian Bell. Their building is a former automobile electrical-parts firm in
11、 Atlanta. From the outside,it looks too old,even something horrible,but open the door and you are in a wide,open courtyard,lined on three sides with rusting (生锈的)walls.In 2000,Yocum and Bell found this building in the citys West End. Built in 1947,the structure had been abandoned years earlier and t
12、he roof of the main building had fallen down. But the price was right,so Yocum bought it. He spent eight months of his off-hours on demolition (拆除),pulling rubbish out through the roof,because it was too dangerous to go inside the building. The demolition was hard work,but it gave him time to think
13、about what he wanted to do,and“to treasure what was therethe walls,the rust,the light. “ Yocum said. “Every season,more paint falls off the walls and more rust develops. Its like an art installation (装置)in therea slow-motion show. “Since the back building had been constructed without windows,an all-
14、glass front was added to the building to give it a view of the courtyard,and skylights were installed in the roof. The back of the building is a working area and a living room for Yocum and his wife. A sort of buffer (缓冲) zone between the front and the back contains a bathroom,a kitchen and a mechan
15、ical room,and the walls that separate these zones have openings that allow views through to the front of the studio and the courtyard beyond.Yocum and Bell,who have just completed an art gallery for the city,feel that the experience from the decoration of their building,focusing on the inside rather
16、 than the outside,has influenced their work. It has also given these architects a chance to show how they can make more out of less.1. According to the passage,it isfor most young architects in big cities to work in a building of their own.A. easyB. unnecessaryC. unrealisticD. common2. Yocum bought
17、the old building because.A. it was a bargain to him B. it was still in good conditionC. it was located in the city center D. it looked attractive from the outside3. Working on the old building,Yocum and Bell.A. pulled rubbish out through the roofB. removed the skylights from the bathroomC. presented
18、 a slow-motion show in an art galleryD. built a kitchen at the back part of the old building4. It can be inferred from the passage that Yocum and Bell.A. benefited a lot from pulling down the roofB. turned more old buildings into art galleriesC. got inspiration from decorating their old buildingD. p
19、aid more attention to the outside of the art gallery5. The main idea of the passage is that.A. people can learn a lot from their failuresB. it is worthwhile to spend money on an old buildingC. people should not judge things by their appearanceD. creative people can make the best of what they have【参考
20、答案】1-5 、CAACD【2015高考复习】.阅读理解Actually we have known a lot of examples and meaningful words to support the fact that we should try our best to ease the bad impression of others. Just like the old saying goes, we should give a better assumption to the one than we think he was. But many of us always fai
21、l to do this.Take the situation of my class for example. Right at the beginning of the first semester when we were freshmen we all showed great favor to each other. And when there was an activity that needed some people to join, we would be willing to attend whether it was interesting or not. And we
22、 were really like brothers and sisters, and our class was just like a family, a warm family. But now, I feel tired of those meaningless activities not only because of the boring activities themselves but also the cool response of our classmates.I think the reasons why the passion of most classmates
23、is so low may be as follows:To start with, many of us take part in more than one organization, which will certainly make us tired. Also, in the study fields, many of us may find that our courses are sometimes difficult to understand or comprehend, especially the specialized subjects.Moreover,“histor
24、y” teaches us that if one does not study hard, it is possible to fail in the exams. So it is a big and good excuse to say that “I do really want to attend, but I have a lot of homework to do, so.”Last but not least, some people believe that some of our leaders should not be regarded as a leader, may
25、be I should say we, as leaders, lost the reputation, support and trust of yours. At least I am the warmhearted one, although I cannot promise you that your advice will be adopted surely, at least I will spare no effort to “give” you the right to be heard, and to serve you.Be active to show your tale
26、nts and abilities and to create a better image of our class. Most important of all, work pains takingly for a better condition that we should have reached.【语篇解读】 昔日热衷于参加各类活动的雀跃而又温馨的场面已成为美好的回忆,如今取而代之的是冷漠。创建优秀的班集体需要全体学生的共同努力,班干部要起好带头作用。1At the beginning of the first semester the students were_each oth
27、er.Aquite curious about Bactive and kind toCfull of sympathy to Dspecially tired of解析细节理解题。结合第二段第二、三、四句的内容可知,学生在第一学期开始的时候非常活跃,并且彼此之间非常友好。答案B2Now the students are unwilling to get involved in the activities because they are_.Anot easy to organize Bcosting too much timeCdifficult to comprehend Dmeanin
28、gless and boring解析细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句的内容可知,现在学生不愿参加各种活动的原因是这些活动既没有意义又枯燥乏味。答案D3Which of the following statements is TRUE?AStudents passion for activities was high at first but weakened gradually.BStudents passion for activities grew gradually because they were interesting.CStudents were too busy to take
29、part in activities after their classes.DStudents were unwilling to participate in activities because of their leaders.解析推理判断题。第二段提到新生在第一学期开始的时候热衷于各种各样的活动,而现在已对这些活动毫无兴趣,由此可推断学生对活动的热情度起初很高,但是后来逐渐减弱了。答案A4We can infer from the passage that the writer must be_.Aa supporter of activities Ba responsible te
30、acherCa top student in class Da devoted class leader解析推理判断题。结合倒数第二段前半部分中的“.maybe I should say we,as leaders.”以及本段后半部分的内容可推知,作者是一位忠诚的班干部。答案D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。The government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be
31、 large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to represent all crops known to scientists. The British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the worlds food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible
32、threats. It will be built in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The mountain is less than one thousand kilometers from the North Pole, the northernmost position on Earth.An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group
33、, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if in his words “the worst came to the worst”. Norway is expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill deep in the side of a sandstone moun
34、tain. Temperatures in the area never rise above zero degrees Celsius. The seeds will be protected behind concrete walls a meter thick and high-security doors.The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will come fro
35、m collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen de
36、grees below zero Celsius. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the worlds most secure gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason.Norway first proposed the
37、 idea in the 1980s. But security concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was permitted use of Spitsbergen. New Scientist says the plan won United Nations approval in October at a meeting in Rome of the Food and Agriculture Organization.1. The project is meant to_. A. increase the w
38、orlds food production in the futureB. carry out some scientific experiments on plant genesC. protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disastersD. build an exhibition centre of the worlds plant seeds2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage?A. The govern
39、ment of Norway will perform the project alone.B. Seeds to be collected there were produced ten thousand years ago.C. Spitsbergen is chosen because it is away from the threat of unclear war forever.D. Temperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place.3. We can infer from the text t
40、hat_.A. People will get newly-developed seeds from the center every yearB. The storage center will greatly promote the development of world agricultureC. Norway meant to have built the storage centre more than 20 years agoD. There havent been any seed storage centers in the world before4. What is probably the best title of the passage?A. Noahs Ark of Plant Seeds in Plan B. The Best Place to Store SeedsC. Concerns of World Food Supply D. A New Way to Feed the World【参考答案】14、CDCA