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高考英语专题练习（三十一）
冲刺导练
一、完形填空
I
used
to
believe
in
the
American
Dream,
which
meant
a
job,
a
mortgage
(
按揭
)
,
credit
cards,
success.
I
wanted it and worked toward it like
everyone else, all of us
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chasing the same thing.
One
year, through a series of unhappy events, it all
fell
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I found myself
homeless and alone. I had my
truck and
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．
I
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the countryside for some place I could
rent for the
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possible
amount. I came upon
a
shabby
house
four
miles
up
a
winding
mountain
road
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the
Potomac
River
in
West
Virginia.
It
was
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, full of broken glass and rubbish. I
found the owner, rented it, and
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a corner to camp in.
The
locals knew nothing about me,
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slowly, they started teaching me the
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of being a neighbor.
They dropped off blankets, candles, and
tools, and began
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around to chat. They started to teach
me a belief
in a
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American
Dream
—
not the one of
individual achievement but of
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What I had believed in, all
those things I thought were
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for a civilized life, were nonexistent
in this
place.
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on the mountain, my most valuable
possessions were my
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with my neighbors.
Four
years later, I moved back into
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I saw many people were having a really
hard time,
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their
jobs and homes. I managed to rent a big
enough house to
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a
handful of people. There are four of us now in
the house, but over time I’ve had nine
people come in and move on to other places. We’d
all be in
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if we
hadn’t banded together.
The American Dream I believe in now is
a shared one. It’s not so much about what I can
get for myself; it’s
about
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we can all get by together.
36
．
A
．
s
eparately
37
．
A
．
off
<
/p>
38
．
A
．
crossed
39
< br>．
A
．
fullest
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．
A
．
at
41
．
A
．
occupied
42
．
A
．
turned
43
．
A
．
but
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．
A
．
benefi
t
B
．
equally
B
．
apart
B
．
left
C
．
violently
C
．
over
C
．
toured
C
．
fairest
C
．
over
C
．
emptied
C
．
cleared
C
．
otherwise
C
．
nature
C
．
swinging
C
．
different
C
．
friendliness
C
．
rare
C
．
Deep
C
．
satisfaction
C
．
town
C
．
quitting
C
．
take in
D
．
naturally
D
．
out
D
．
searched
D
．
cheapest
D
．
round
D
．
robbed
D
．
cut
D
．
for
D
．
art
D
．
turning
D
．
remote
D
．
kindness
D
．
necessary
D
．
Along
D
．
appointments
D
．
life
D
．
offering
D
．
get in
B
．
largest
B
．
through
B
．
abandoned
B
．
approached
B
．
although
B
．
lesson
B
．
looking
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．<
/p>
A
．
sticking
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．
A<
/p>
．
wild
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．
A<
/p>
．
neighborliness
<
/p>
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．
A
．
unique
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．
A
．
Up
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．
A
．
c
ooperation
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．
A
．
reality
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．
A<
/p>
．
creating
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．
A
．
< br>put in
B
．
real
B
．
happiness
B
．
expensive
B
．
Down
B
．
relationships
B
．
society
B
．
losing
B
．
turn in
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54
．
A
．
yards
B
．
shelters
C
．
camps
D
．
cottages
D
．
how
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．
A
．
w
hen
B
．
what
二、阅读理解
Reading
Comprehension
C
．
whether
A
No one knows
for sure when advertising first started. It is
possible that it grew out of the discovery that
some
people did certain kinds of work
better than others did them. That led to the
concept of specialization, which means
that people would specialize, or focus,
on doing one specific job.
Let’s take a
man we’ll call Mr. Fielder, for example. He did
everything connected with farming. H
e
planted
seeds, tended the fields, and
harvested and sold his crops. At the same time, he
did many other jobs on the farm.
However, he didn’t make the bricks for
his house, cut his trees into boards, make the plo
ws
(
犁
)
,
or any of the other
hundreds of things
a farm needs. Instead, he got them from people who
specialized in doing each of those things.
Suppose there was another man we shall
call Mr. Plow right. Using what he knew about
farming and working
with
iron,
Mr.
Plow
right
invented
a
plow
that
made
farming
easier.
Mr.
Plow
right
did
not
really
like
farming
himself and wanted to specialize in
making really good plows. Perhaps, he thought,
other farmers will trade what
they grow
for one of my plows.
How did Mr. Plow
right let people know what was doing? Why, he
advertised, of course. First he opened a
shop and then he put up a sign outside
the shop to attract customers. That sign may have
been no more than a plow
carved
into
a
piece
of
wood
and
a
simple
arrow
pointing
to
the
shop
door.
It
was
probably
all
the
information
people needed to find Mr. Plow right
and his really good plows.
Many
historians believe that the first outdoor signs
were used about five thousand years ago. Even
before most
people could read, they
understood such signs. Shopkeepers would carve
into stone, clay, or wood symbols for the
products they had for sale.
A
medium,
in
advertising
talk,
is
the
way
you
communicate
your
message.
You
might
say
that
the
first
medium
used in advertising was signs with symbols. The
second medium was audio, or sound, although that
term
is not used exactly in the way we
use it today. Originally, just the human voice and
maybe some kind of simple
instrument,
such as a bell, were used to get people’s
attention.
A crier, in the
historical sense, is not someone who weeps easily.
It is someone, probably a man, with a voice
loud enough to be heard over the other
noises of a city. In ancient Egypt, shopkeepers
might hire such a person to
spread the
news about their products. Often this earliest
form of advertising involved a newly arrived ship
loaded
with goods. Perhaps the crier
described the goods, explained where they came
from, and praised their quality. His
job was, in other words, not too
different from a TV or radio commercial in today’s
world.
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．
What probably
led to the start of advertising? ______
A
．
The discovery
of iron
.
B
．
The
specialization of labor
.
C
．
The appearance
of new jobs
.
D
．
The
development of farming
techniques
.
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．
To advertise
his plows, Mr
.
Plow right
______
.
A
．
praised his
plows in public
B
．
placed a sign
outside the shop
C
．
hung an arrow
pointing to the shop
D
．
showed his
products to the customers
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．
The writer
makes up the two stories of
Mr
.
Fielder and
Mr
.
Plow right in order to
______
.
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A
．
explain the
origin of advertising
B
．
predict the
future of advertising
C
．
expose problems
in advertising
D
．
provide
suggestions for advertising
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．
In ancient
Egypt, a crier was probably someone who
______
.
A
．
owned a ship
B
．
had
the loudest voice
C
．
ran a shop
selling goods to farmers
D
．
functioned like
today’s TV or radio
commercial
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．
The last two
paragraphs are mainly about
______
.
A
．
the history of
advertising
B
．
the benefits of
advertising
C
．
the
early forms of advertising
D
．
the basic
design of advertising
B
Years
ago,
when
I
started
looking
for
my
first
job,
wise
advisers
advised.
“Barbara
be
enthusiastic!
Enthusiasm
will take you further than any amount of
experience,” How right they were!
“Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm.” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It
is the paste that helps
y
ou
hang on there when the things get tough. It is the
inner voice that whispers, “I can do it!” When
others shout,
“No,
you
can’t!”
It
took
years
and
years
for
the
early
work
of
Barbara
Mclintock,
a
geneticist
who
won
the
1983Nobel
Prize in medicine, to be
generally
accepted. Yet she didn’t stop working on her
experiments.
We
are
all
born
with
wide-eyed,
enthusiastic
wonder
and
it
is
this
childlike
wonder
that
gives
enthusiastic
people such
youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist
Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach.
As the
music flowed through his
fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten
and joy would reappear in his eyes. As
author and poet Samuel Ullman once
wrote, “Years wrinkly the skin, but to give up
enthusiasm wrinkles the
soul.”
Enthusiastic
people
also
love
what
they
do,
regardless
of
money
or
title
or
power.
Patricia
Mellratl
retired
director
of
the
Missouri
Repertory
Theater
in
Kansas
City,
was
once
asked
where
she
got
her
enthusiasm.
She
replied, “My father,
long ago, told me, I never made a dime until I
stopped working for money.”
We
can’t
afford
to
waste
tears
on
“might
-have-
been”.
We
need
to
turn
the
tears
into
sweat
as
we
go
after
“what
-can-
be”. We
need to live each moment
whole
-heartedly,
with all
our senses-finding pleasure in the sweet
smell of a back-yard garden, the simple
picture of a six-year-old, the beauty of a
rainbow.
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．
What
is the passage mainly talking about? ______
A
．
Enthusiasm is
more important than
experience
.
B
．
Enthusiasm can
give people more success and
fame
.
C
．
Enthusiastic
people will never get old
.
D
．
Enthusiasm can
make you succeed and enjoy
life
.
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．
We can inter
than enthusiasm is more important for a person
especially when ______
.
A
．
he is in
trouble
B
．
he is
getting old
C
．
he can do what
he love
D
．
he has
succeeded
48
．
The
author mentions Pablo Casals in the third
paragraph to show that
______
.
A
．
enthusiasm can
make people feel young
B
．
music can
arouse people’s enthusiasm
C
．
enthusiasm can
give people inspiration needed to succeed
D
．
enthusiasm can
keep people healthy
49
．
How many
examples are referred in the passage to show the
importance of enthusiasm? ______
A
．
Three
B
．
Four
C
．
Five
D
．
Six
50
．
Which proverb
may the writer agree with according to the last
paragraph? ______
A
．
A good
beginning makes a good
ending
.
B
．
Don’t cry over
the spoiled milk
.
C
．
Love me, love
my dog
.
D
．
All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy
.
C
There
are
two
types
of
people
in
the
world.
Although
they
have
equal
degree
of
health,
wealth
and
other
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comforts of
life, one becomes happy and the other becomes
unhappy. This arises from the different ways in
which
they consider things, persons,
events and the resulting effects upon their minds.
People who are to be happy fix their
attention on the convenience of things: the
pleasant parts of conversation,
the
well prepared dishes, the goodness of the wine and
the fine weather. They enjoy all the cheerful
things. Those
who are to be unhappy
think and speak only of the opposite things.
Therefore, they are continually dissatisfied. By
their
remarks,
they
sour
the
pleasure
of
society,
offend
many
people,
and
make
themselves
disagreeable
everywhere. If
this turn of mind was sounded in nature, such
unhappy persons would he the more to be pitied.
The
intention of criticizing and being
disliked is perhaps taken up by imitation. It
grows into a habit, unknown to its
possessors. The habit may
be
strong, but it may be cured when those who have it
realize it had effects on their
interests and tastes. I hope this
little warning may be of service to them, and help
them change this habit.
Although in
fact it is chiefly all act of the imagination, it
has serious results in life since it brings on
deep
sorrow and bad luck. Those people
offend many others: nobody loves them, and no one
treats them with more than
the most
common politeness and respect. This frequently
puts them in bad temper and draws them into
arguments.
If they aim at getting some
advantages in social position or fortune, nobody
wishes them success. Nor will anyone
start a step or speak a word to favor
their hopes. If they bring on themselves public
objections, no one will defend
or
excuse
them,
and
many
will
join
to
criticize
their
wrong
doings.
These
should
change
this
bad
habit
and
be
pleased
with what is pleasing, without worrying needlessly
about themselves and others. If they do not, it
will be
good for others to avoid any
contact with them. Otherwise, it can be
disagreeable and sometimes very inconvenient,
especially when ore becomes mixed up in
their quarrels
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．
People who are
unhappy ______
.
A
．
always consider
things differently from others
B
．
usually are
affected by the results of certain things
C
．
usually
misunderstand what others think or say
D
．
always discover
the unpleasant side of certain things
52
．
The phrase
“sour the pleasure of society” most nearly means
“______”
.
A
．
have a good
taste with social life
B
．
make others
unhappy
C
．
tend to
scold others openly
D
．
enjoy the
pleasure of life
53
．
We can
conclude from the passage that
______
.
A
．
We should pity
all such unhappy people
B
．
such unhappy
people are dangerous to social life
C
．
people can get
rid of the habit of unhappiness
D
．
unhappy people
cannot understand happy persons
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．
If such
unhappy persons insist on keeping the
habit
.
the author suggests
that people should ______
.
A
．
prevent any
communication with them
C
．
persuade them
to recognize the bad effects
B
．
show 120
respect and politeness to them
D
．
quarrel with
them until they realize the mistakes
55
．
In this
passage, the writer mainly
______
.
A
．
describes two
types of people in our life who have negative
effect on others
.
B
．
give some
examples to laughs at the unhappy people in our
society
C
．
suggests the
unhappy people should get rid of the habits of
unhappiness
D
．
tells people
get away from unhappy people and how to be happy
in life
三、阅读表达
阅读
下面短文
,
按照要求完成阅读任务
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/p>
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One day I
decided to plant a garden in our backyard, and my
husband began to paint our fence. We’re renters,
not owners, and were growing tired of
waiting for the day when we would be able to buy
something, so we began
turning our
house into a place we could call home.
We’ve also taken on new
responsibilities: I started volunteering at the
city’s animal shelter, and my husband
has
been
volunteering
for
a
nonprofit
art
gallery.
Being
involved
in
this
way
has
given
each
of
us
an
increased
sense of purpose and strengthened our
ties to the place we live in.
But it’s
not just the things that you can add to your
restart that matter. I’m happy to be able to help
out an
elderly woman I see struggling
with her bag. I kn
ow I’ve done
something good when I knock on a neighbor’s door
and
let
her
know
her
car
lights
are
still
on.
I
feel
I’ve
done
my
part
when
I
find
a
lost
dog
wandering
in
the
neighborhood and return
him to his relieved owner.
No doubt it
works the other way, too. As we come to care about
the place we live in, the people here grow to
know and care about us. It feels good
to know that when we’re out of town, our neighbors
are picking up our mail
and keeping an
eye on our house for us. We’re delighted when a
nei
ghbor congratulates us on my
pregnancy.
This symbiotic
(
共生的
)
relationship we’re building with our
community is exciting and inspiring. As I watch
new life sprouting up in my garden, I
think about all the possibilities for laying down
more roots to this place and
growing
along with it. And as I think about the baby
growing, I am knowing we will be bringing a new
person
—
a
new
participant
—
into this community, a community he’ll
call his hometown.
56
．
What new
responsibility has the author’s husband been
taki
ng on?
(
No
more than 10 words
)
57
．
Why are the
writer and her husband rewarded in return?
(
No more than 10
words
)
58
．
What does the
underlined phrase “sprouting up” most probably
mean?
(
No more than 3
words
)
59
．
What is the
main idea of the text?
(
No
more than 10 words
)
60
．
After reading
the text, if you want to have a life with your
neighborhood, what should you do?
(
No more than
20
words
)
4
．谓语动词与基本句型
8
特殊句
-
3
强调
A
．
把下列句子各部分分别用强调句来表达
.
1
．
I didn’t
realize all my mistakes until you told me
yesterday
.
B
．根据整句或部分句意
,
用强调结构完成句子
.
1
．真正重要
的不是你拥有什么
,
而是你学到了什么
.
2
．到她回到家才记起和医生的预
约
.
3
．我
们选职业时真正应该考虑的是我们喜欢什么以及我们适合做什么
.
4
．他迟到是因为下大雨吗
? <
/p>
5
．我们都不知道到底是什么吸引了那些旅游者
< br>.
6
．
___________________________________
（我所
希望你呈现给我的）
is a more detailed report,
(
present
)
7
．
_______________
____________________________________
(
尽管他的建议听起来很荒谬
)
, it
was accepted
by most of the people
present at the meeting,
(
as
)
<
/p>
8
．
________________
____________________________________
(<
/p>
直到最后一刻我才提醒他
)
the
potential
danger
.
(
not… until;
remind
)
A
．译句练习
1
．据说汤姆已经回国了
.
2
．这种事竟然发生在你班上
,
真是遗憾！
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