广东省从化县高考英语单项选择和阅读理解选练（11）.doc

广东省从化县2016高考英语单项选择和阅读理解选练（11）.单项填空 1george is going to talk about the geography of his country，but id rather he_ more on its culture.afocusbfocusedcwould focus dhad focused解析 考查虚拟语气的用法。难度中等。句意：乔治打算谈论他的国家的地理，但我宁愿他更多地把焦点集中在文化上。would rather后接从句时，从句中的谓语动词要用虚拟语气，若表示与将来和现在的事实相反的情况，则谓语动词要用一般过去时，由上句中“is going to.”可知b项时态正确。答案 b2youll find this map of great_in helping you to get round london.aprice bcostcvalue dusefulness解析 be of great value“很有价值”。句意：你将会发现这幅地图对你周游伦敦很有价值。答案 c3the rain was heavy and_the land was flooded.aconstantly bcontinuouslycconsequently dconsistently解析 constantly经常地；continuously连续不断地；consistently一致地，一贯地。由句意“雨下得很大，结果土地被水淹没了”可知，应选用consequently“因此，所以”，表示结果。答案 c4you must keep the news a secret and dont put it_anybody else.ain possession of bin the possession ofcin charge of din the charge of解析 句意：你必须对这个消息保密，不要让任何人知道。表示“某物被某人占有”用in the possession of。答案 b5lets go and have a good drink tonight._ have you got the first prize in the competition?awhat for? bthanks a lot.cyes，id like to. dwhy not?解析 句意：咱们今晚好好喝一杯。为了什么？你比赛得了一等奖吗？根据have you got.可知，用what for？(为了什么？)用以询问目的。答案 a6he was late for work many a time last week and _a consequence，he was fired by his boss.aat boncas dfor解析 as a consequence“结果”，是固定搭配。句意：他上周多次迟到，因此被老板解雇了。答案 c7you cant legally take_of the property until three weeks after the contract is signed.acharge badvantageccontrol dpossession解析 take charge of负责；take advantage of利用(的机会)；take control of接管；take possession of拥有。由句意“契约签署三周以后，你才能合法取得这份产业的所有权”可知，应选用possession。答案 d8because of continual price increases，the _of the pound has fallen in recent years.avalue bpriceccost dusefulness解析 value指“价值”或“交换价值”。句意：由于物价的不断上涨，英镑的价值近几年下跌了。答案 a9with his eyes _ on the tv programme，the boy didnt see the teacher.afocused bfocusingcfocus dfocuses解析 考查with 复合结构。focus ones eyes on“眼睛盯在上”。此处动词focus与eyes之间是被动关系，因此选a项表被动。答案 a10he _ to escape from the prison，but he couldnt find anybody to help him.asucceeded battemptedcadvised dthought解析 句意：他企图越狱，但找不到人帮他。attempt to do sth.试图做某事。答案 b11my remarks were not _ you，its jacks fault.aaim baimed tocaimed at dpointed to解析 句意：我的评论不是针对你的，这是杰克的错。be aimed at目的/目标是，为固定搭配；point to指向。答案 c12he felt rather _ as he was the only person who wore sportswear at the dinner party.ain placebin the waycby the way dout of place解析 out of place“不适当地，不在正确的位置”。句意：因为在宴会上只有他穿着运动服，因此，他感到不自在。答案 d13the pictures painted by picasso are really_.i cant understand them without caption(说明)aabrupt babstractcconcrete daddictive解析 abrupt“突然的，唐突的”；abstract“抽象的，纯理论的”；concrete“具体的，实在的”；addictive“上瘾的”。句意：毕加索画的画很抽象，没有说明我看不懂。答案 b14shelly had prepared carefully for her english examination so that she could be sure of passing it on her first _.aintention battemptcpurpose ddesire解析 attempt“尝试，企图”；intention“意图”；purpose“目的”；desire“欲望”。句意：shelly为英语考试准备的很认真，以便于能首次尝试就确保过关。答案 b15although he was disabled when he was only ten years of age，yet he aimed_，for which his classmates spoke_of him.ahigh；high bhighly；highlychighly；high dhigh；highly解析 high表示具体高度；highly则表示抽象意义。aim high“力争上游”，speak highly of“高度赞扬”。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。decision- making under stressa new review based on a research shows that acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative(负面的) consequences of a decision.the research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.“stress affects how people learn, ”says professor mara mather. “people learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress. ”for example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images (影像) with either rewards or punishments. in one experiment, some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience; in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. in both cases, the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadnt gone through the stress.this phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies or smoking a cigarette while under stressat those moments, only the pleasure associated with such activities comes to mind. but the findings further suggest that stress may bring about a double effect. not only are rewarding experiences remembered better, but negative consequences are also less easily recalled.the research also found that stress appears to affect decision- making differently in men and women. while both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences under stress, their responses to risk turn out to be different.men who had been stressed by the cold- water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded in the opposite way. in stressful situations in which risk- taking can pay off big, men may tend to do better; when caution weighs more, however, women will win.this tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might also help explain why women are less likely to become addicted than men: they may more often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction.1. we can learn from the passage that people under pressure tend to.a. keep rewards better in their memory b. recall consequences more effortlesslyc. make risky decisions more frequently d. learn a subject more effectively2. according to the research, stress affects people most probably in their.a. ways of making choicesb. preference for pleasurec. tolerance of punishmentsd. responses to suggestions3. the research has proved that in a stressful situation,.a. women find it easier to fall into certain habitsb. men have a greater tendency to slow downc. women focus more on outcomesd. men are more likely to take risks【参考答案】13、aad阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d)中，选出最佳选项。dear kind-trustee-who-sends-orphans-to-college,here i am! i traveled yesterday for four hours in a train. its a funny feeling, isnt it? i never rode in one before.college is the biggest, most puzzling place i get lost whenever i leave my room. i will write you a description later when im feeling less confused; also i will tell you about my lessons. classes dont begin until monday morning, and this is saturday night. but i wanted to write a letter first just to get acquainted.it seems strange to be writing letters to somebody you dont know. it seems strange for me to be writing letters at all ive never written more than three or four in my life, so please overlook it if these are not a model kind. before leaving yesterday morning, mrs. lippett and i had a very serious talk. she told me how to behave all the rest of my life, and especially how to behave towards the kind gentleman who is doing so much for me. i must take care to be very respectful.but how can one be very respectful to a person who wishes to be called john smith? why couldnt you have picked out a name with a little personality? i might as well write letters to dear flagpole or dear clothes-line.i have been thinking about you a great deal this summer; having somebody take an interest in me after all these years makes me feel as though i had found a sort of family. it seems as though i belonged to somebody now, and its a very comfortable feeling. i must say, however, that when i think about you, my imagination has very little to work upon. there are just three things that i know: i, you are tall. . you are rich. . you hate girls.i suppose i might call you dear mr. girl-hater. only thats rather rude to me. or dear mr. rich-man, but thats rude to you, as though money were the only important thing about you. besides, being rich is such a very external quality. maybe you wont stay rich all your life; lots of very clever men get broke in wall street. but at least you will stay tall all your life! so ive decided to call you dear daddy-long-legs. i hope you wont mind. its just a private pet name we wont tell mrs. lippett.the ten oclock bell is going to ring in two minutes. our day is divided into sections by bells. we eat and sleep and study by bells. its very lifeful. there it goes! lights out. good night.observe how precisely i obey rules due to my training in the john grier home.yours most respectfully,jerusha abbottto mr. daddy-long-legs smith本文是一个受赞助上大学的女孩子给自己的赞助者写的一封信。告诉对方自己刚到学校，但对学校还不熟悉。写信人的主旨是想表达自己对赞助人的感谢，但由于根本不知道对方到底是个什么样的人，在信里作者做了几个猜测，最后决定称呼对方daddy-long-legs smith，以此拉近彼此的距离。并表达了自己对现在有规律的生活感觉很好。36. jerusha felt “confused” because _.a. she had never written to the trustee beforeb. she was not familiar with the college yetc. she could never find the way to her homed. she had never traveled on a train before【答案】b【解析】细节理解题。作者在第二段第二句说到等她less confused的时候，就会写一个详细的description，结合上一句的主题，这里的description是指对大学的描述。问中还提到作者一出门就迷路，可见，是因为初到学校，对学校不熟悉，使作者感到confused，因此本题选b。37. jerusha thought that she couldnt be very respectful to “john smith” because _.a. he was a total stranger to her b. she was sure it was a false identityc. the name was too common d. nobody would like to