1、Section Learning about Language & Using Language课时训练基础夯实.单词拼写1.The railway line runs p to the road,so they will never meet.答案：parallel2.People here are rich,partly because this area is in natural resources.答案：abundant3.You must not be (支配) by the opinions of others.答案：governed4.The travel agency off
2、ers a lot of d for us to have our holidays.答案：destinations5.He makes his r trip to the store every day.答案：routine6.Certain courses are compulsory,while others are o.答案：optional7.She made it (充分) clear that she wanted me to leave.答案：abundantly8.We s the children into new schools when we moved to Lond
3、on.答案：settled9.I have been instructed by my (代理人) that you still owe me 100 pounds.答案：agent10.The tiger lashed its tail around whenever anyone came near its c.答案：cage.选词填空make an apologyday in and day outparallel without of the questionsettle in1.That scientist was devoted to the study and finally h
4、e achieved a great success.答案：day in and day out2.The trees stand the path.答案：parallel with3.His uncle chose to the countryside.答案：settle in4.If you keep on eating like this,losing weight is .答案：out of the question5.If you are late,you should to the teacher either at the time or after class.答案：make
5、an apology.完成句子1.(过去这个湖里的鱼很丰富)where we often swam when young.答案：Fish used to be abundant in the lake2.A new car (是不可能的)at that time,(它的价格太高了)we couldnt afford it.答案：was out of the question;the price of which was so high3.The country (在解放之前被西方人统治).答案：was governed by westerners before being liberated4
6、.(由于我们已经安顿下来了),you may come and see our new house at any time.答案：As weve settled in5.(日复一日地)he gave the same excuse for his laziness.答案：Day in and day out能力提升.阅读理解A导学号53070033As is the case in many cultures,the degree to which a minority group was seen as different from the characteristics of the do
7、minant majority determined the extent of that groups acceptance.Immigrants who were like the earlier settlers were accepted.The large numbers of immigrants with significantly different characteristics tended to be viewed as a threat to basic American values and the American way of life.This was part
8、icularly true of the immigrants who arrived by the million during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Most of them came from poverty-stricken nations of southern and eastern Europe.They spoke languages other than English,and large numbers of them were Catholics or Jews.Americans at the
9、 time were very fearful of this new flood of immigrants.They were afraid that these people were so accustomed to lives of poverty and dependence that they would not understand such basic American values as freedom,self-reliance and competition.There were so many new immigrants that they might even c
10、hange the basic values of the nation in undesirable ways.Americans tried to meet what they saw as a threat to their values by offering English instruction for the new immigrants and citizenship classes to teach them basic American beliefs.The immigrants,however,often felt that their American teacher
11、s disapproved of the traditions of their homeland.Moreover,learning about American values gave them little help in meeting their most important needs such as employment,food,and a place to live.Far more helpful to the new immigrants were the “political bosses” of the larger cities of the northeaster
12、n United States,where most of the immigrants first arrived.Those bosses saw too many of the practical needs of the immigrants and were more accepting of the different homeland traditions.In exchange for their help,the political bosses expected the immigrants to keep them in power by voting for them
13、in elections.In spite of this,many scholars believe that the political bosses performed an important function in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.They helped to assimilate large numbers of disadvantaged white immigrants into the larger American culture.The fact that the United State
14、s had a rapidly expanding economy at the turn of the century made it possible for these new immigrants,often with the help of the bosses,to better their standard of living in the United States.As a result of these new opportunities and new rewards,immigrants came to accept most of the values of the
15、larger American culture and were in turn accepted by the great majority of Americans.For white ethnic groups,therefore,it is generally true that their feeling of being a part of the larger culture,that is,“American” is much stronger than their feeling of belonging to a separate ethnic groupIrish,Ita
16、lian,Polish,etc.1.A minority groups acceptance to the country was determined by .A.the difference they showed from the majorityB.the time when they arrived at the new landC.the background conditions they came fromD.the religious group to which they belonged解析：细节理解题。由第一段的第一句可知,一个少数群体区别于社会主导群体的特征的程度决定
17、了它被接受的程度,在许多文化中这是事实。因此答案为A项。答案：A2.The political bosses helped the new immigrants for the main purpose of .A.showing off their political powers and advantagesB.getting support in electionsC.assimilating the minority into the majorityD.showing their generosity解析：细节理解题。根据文章第五段最后一句“In exchange for their
18、 help,the political bosses expected the immigrants to keep them in power by voting for them in elections.”可知,政治大亨给予了移民很多帮助,主要目的是为在竞选时获得更多的选票以保持其政治实力。所以B项为正确答案。答案：B3.The living standards of the new immigrants were improved in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries mainly because .A.they ke
19、pt the political bosses in powerB.the political bosses gave them a lot of practical helpC.they had a much stronger feeling of being a part of the larger cultureD.there was a rapid growth in American economy at that time解析：细节理解题。根据最后一段第三句可知,十九、二十世纪之交时美国经济迅速发展,再加上有政治大亨的帮助,移民的生活水平得以提高。所以,美国经济的迅速发展是移民生活
20、水平提高的主要原因,而政治大亨的帮助是次要原因。因此答案为D项。答案：DB(2016全国丙,B)On one of her trips to New York several years ago,Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.They settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes,another customer was approaching their table.“Hey,arent you fro
21、m Mississippi?” the elegant,white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger.“Im from Mississippi too.”Without a second thought,the woman joined the Welty party.When her dinner partner showed up,she also pulled up a chair.“They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,” Welty said.“I d
22、idnt know what my New York friends were thinking.”Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine.By the time the group got up to leave,it was pouring outside.Weltys new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab.Heading back downtown toward her hotel,her big-city friends were amazed at
23、 the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion(团聚).“My friend said:Now we believe your stories,”Welty added.“And I said:Now you know.These are the people that make me write them.”Sitting on a sofa in her room,Welty,a slim figure in a simple gray dress,lo
24、oked pleased with this explanation.“I dont make them up,” she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years.“I dont have to.”Beauticians,bartenders,piano players and people with purple hats,Weltys people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends,from walks through the st
25、reets of her native Jackson,Miss.,from conversations overheard on a bus.It annoys Welty that,at 78,her left ear has now given out.Sometimes,sitting on a bus or a train,she hears only a fragment(片段)of a particularly interesting story.4.What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?A.Two s
26、trangers joined her.B.Her childhood friends came in.C.A heavy rain ruined the dinner.D.Some people held a party there.解析：细节理解题。由第一段最后一句中的“another customer was approaching”和第三段中的“When her dinner partner showed up,she also pulled up a chair.”可知,在韦尔蒂与朋友吃饭时,有两个陌生人加入了她们。故选A项。答案：A5.The underlined word “th
27、em” in Paragraph 6 refers to Weltys .A.readersB.partiesC.friends D.stories解析：词义猜测题。代词通常指代上文刚提到的人或事。根据画线词them前面提到的“Now we believe your stories”可知,本句的意思为“就是这些人们让我写出它们(我的故事)”。故选D项。答案：D6.What can we learn about the characters in Weltys fiction?A.They live in big cities.B.They are mostly women.C.They come from real life.D.They are pleasure seekers.解析：推理判断题。由短文倒数第二段中的“I dont make them up(这些故事不是编的)”以及最后一段第一句可知,韦尔蒂小说中的人物均来自现实生活中。故选C项。答案：C
