1、选修 Unit16 Stories高考对接题.语法填空Sport not only is physically challenging,but it can also be mentally challenging.Criticism (批评) from coaches,parents,and 1 teammates,as well as pressure to win can create 2 excessive (过度的) amount of anxiety or stress for young athletes (运动员).Stress can be physical,emotiona
2、l,or psychological (心理的),and it can lead to burnout.Burnout has been described 3 dropping or quitting of an activity 4 was at one time enjoyable.The early years of development are critical years for 5 (learn) about oneself.The sport setting is one where 6(value) experiences can take place.Young athl
3、etes can,for example,learn how to work together with others,make friends,and gain other social skills that will 7 (use) throughout their lives.Coaches and parents should be aware,at all times,that their feedback to youngsters can 8 (great) affect their children.Youngsters may take their parents and
4、coaches criticisms to heart and find a flaw (缺陷) in 9.Coaches and parents should also be careful that youth sport participation (参与) doesnt become the work for children.The result of the game should be 10 important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons.1.解析:其他的。答案:other2.解析:e
5、xcessive是元音开头,所以用an。答案:an3.解析:be described as被描述成、被认为。答案:as4.解析:这是定语从句。答案:that/which5.解析:介词后面用v.ing。答案:learning6.解析:修饰名词用形容词。答案:valuable7.解析:skills是被用的,所以用被动语态。答案:be used8.解析:修饰affect,所以用副词。答案:greatly9.解析:用反身代词,说明flaw是在youngsters中的。答案:themselves10.解析:从文中看出the result of the game没有the process of learn
6、ing the sport and other life lessons重要。答案:less.阅读理解A chicken or egg question about the early universe has been answered by astronomers who say black holes came before galaxies(星系).Most if not all galaxies,including our own Milky Way,are believed to have massive black holes in their central parts.But
7、 did the black holes come first,helping to build galaxies by pulling material towards them,or did they arise in the centre of already formed galaxies?According to new research focusing on the first billion years of the universes history,the former is most likely to be true.“It looks like the black h
8、oles came first,”said Dr Chris Carilli,from the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory,who took part in the study.“The evidence is piling up.”Earlier studies had revealed a link between the masses of black holes and the central “bulges” of stars and gas in galaxies.Generally,the black holes mass wa
9、s seen to be about one 1,000th the mass of the surrounding galactic bulge.This indicated a relationship between the black hole and the bulge.What was not clear was whether one grew before the other,or whether they grew together.New radio telescope observations reaching back almost to the birth of th
10、e first galaxies may have answered that question.Radio waves received from these galaxies and traveling at the speed of light were sent out about a billion years after the Big Bang (大爆炸)which started the universe.These young distant galaxies had much larger black holes in relation to their bulge mas
11、s than older and closer galaxies.“The implication is that the black holes started growing first,”said Dr Fabian Walter,from the MaxPlanck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany.The next challenge is to work out how the black hole and the bulge affect each others growth,said the astronomers.语篇解读:天文
12、学上也有一个“先有鸡还是先有鸡蛋”的问题,即黑洞和星系哪一个先出现,对此科学家给出了答案。1.What would be the best title for this passage?A.How scientists observe the early universeB.Which came first,black holes or galaxiesC.Some evidence about black holes and galaxiesD.A funny question about the early universe 解析:主旨大意题。本文主要是关于科学家对黑洞和星系哪一个先出现这
13、个问题的研究成果,故答案为B。答案:B2.The underlined word “revealed” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by .A.expected B.formedC.started D.shown解析:词义猜测题。根据本段后面的内容可知,这是早期研究的结果,故reveal表示“显示”,答案为D。答案:D3.The difference in size between the black holes mass and the mass of the surrounding galactic bulge is .A.usually fixed B.
14、so far unknownC.very likely to change D.very unbalanced解析:细节理解题。根据第四段“Generally,the black holes mass was seen to be about one 1,000th the mass of the surrounding galactic bulge.”可知,答案为A。答案:A4.Which is the next question astronomers have to answer according to the passage?A.Why the black hole started
15、growing first.B.What the relationship between the black hole and other stars is.C.How the black hole and the bulge affect each others growth.D.When and how the earliest stars and galaxies began to form.解析:细节理解题。根据末段“The next challenge is to work out how the black hole and the bulge affect each other
16、s growth.”可知,答案为C。答案:C5.What can we conclude from this passage?A.The universe has a history of about one billion years.B.Scientists know little about how the universe was formed.C.Research on black holes has been carried out for decades.D.Scientists have found some valuable evidence by analyzing rad
17、io waves.解析:推理判断题。根据第五段“New radio telescope observations.may have answered that question.”可知,答案为D。答案:D.信息匹配阅读下列应用文及相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。以下是英语电影的名称及内容简介:A.Birth of a NationBirth of a Nation was the most popular film or the silent era.The message in the film was that African Americans could never be integra
18、ted into the white society as equals.Race violence directed against African Americans took place in many cities.In the South,African Americans were only allowed to go to separate schools,hotels,and restaurants.B.Gone with the WindGone with the Wind was the costliest and most popular film of Hollywoo
19、ds Golden Era.Producer David Selznick had promised that the film would be free of any antiNegro ideas.Although it did not use white actors in blackface,like Birth of a Nation,its picture of enslaved African Americans as loyal but scatterbrained house servants and clumsy field hands was what the whit
20、e thought the black ought to be then.C.GloryGlory offers a powerful retelling of the story of the first black regiment (团) during the American Civil War.Half the regiments men were killed or wounded in the war,but it dramatically demonstrated the courage of African American troops in battle.However,
21、the film failed to describe the larger historical context of the Civil War.D.AmistadThe Steven Spielberg film is about a historical event.In 1839,a group of Africans were captured and shipped to the Spanish colony of Cuba.During transshipment to nearby sugar plantations,53 slaves overpowered the cre
22、w.The captives then ordered the two men who had purchased them to navigate the ship toward Africa.At night,however,the men sailed the ship northward and westward.The case ultimately went to the Supreme Court.In 1841,the Court freed the captives.E.BelovedThe film is based on Margaret Garners story of
23、 killing her own twoyearold daughter Mary.Margaret Garner said that she had intended to kill her other children rather than see them returned to slavery.She later explained that she wanted to “end their sufferings” rather than see them returned to bondage and “murdered by piecemeal”.No other work ha
24、s so powerfully examined the interior life of a former slave.F.Schindlers ListThe film concerns the lives of a thousand Jews during World War .The film shows,unforgettably,how one man does make a difference.Schindler proves that mans morality and humanity are always alive.“Save one life,save the world entire.”The heavy tone and fearful atmosphere of the film are heightened by blackandwhite cinematography.以下是与电影相关的评论文章标题,请匹配标题与它们所对应的电影:1.Inner Hurt2.International Slave Trade3.Civil Rights4.Blacks with Low Abilities5.Brave Blacks答案:15EDABC (高.考.资+源-网)