模块四•Unit 1

1、模块四·Unit 1一、完形填空(江苏省南通市2019年高考英语全真模拟试题)My brother had distrusted my driving skill since the day I smashed his car against a wooden pole at the garage of our small compound. “You are too _1_！ ” he said sharply. I could offer no _2_ at the moment, although any expert could have made the same sill

2、y mistaketrust me. At first, I was quite _3_ in myself for having damaged the new car, I found myself building a story in my head: it's so _4_， “Why could it has been me in this _5_？”Then I dug a little _6_ to realize why I was feeling so upset. I realized I making something _7_ into a big deal.

3、 I was merely building a story that made no _8_ to me at all. I was too _9_ to the current situation, I just taught myself. I may as well _10_ this and move on！”_11_ looking at where you are and start looking at what you can. We are sure to be _12_ when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.You

4、r future depends on many things, but _13_ on you. You may succeed if _14_ else believes in you, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in _15_. A focus on the past causes us to miss opportunities in the _16_Don't spend half your _17_ telling what you are going to do and the other ha

5、lf explaining why you _18_ do it. Forgive yourself for past _19_ and hurts. Reach out to the wonderful things that lie _20_ of you. A man is not what he's called; a man is what he responds to.()1.A.absent­minded Bself­confidentCfierce Dridiculous() BexcuseCadvice Dcompensation() Bamaze

6、dCannoyed Ddifferent() BunclearCunfair Duncertain() Badventure Ctrap Dconflict() BdeeperCharder Dfurther() BbitterCchallenging Dunimportant() Bsense Capology Ddifference() BexposedCattached Dlimited() BmaintainCcheck Dimprove() BPractise CEnjoy DStop() BjudgesClosers Dobservers() BmostlyCgradually D

7、actually() BeverybodyCanybody Dnobody() BothersChimself Dthemselves() BcourseCpresent Dcompetition() BenergyCminute Dpenny()18.A.didn't Bshouldn'tCcouldn't Dmustn't() BmemoriesCfailures Ddifficulties() Bout Cright Dahead二、阅读理解ATalk Now! Series CD­ROM Language CoursesTalk Now! is

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16、 Btalk to language experts Cdo shopping online Dlearn how to operate a computerB(江苏省南通市2019年高考英语全真模拟试题)Due to light pollution present everywhereglare from too much misaimed night lighting80% of Europe and North America no longer experiences real darkness. For anyone living near a major metropolis, a

17、 satellite image of the Milky Way(银河) seems abstract; We understand it to be a document of something true, but our understanding is purely theoretical. In 1994, after a predawn earthquake cut power to most of Los Angeles, the Griffith Observatory received phone calls from frightened local people ask

18、ing about “the strange sky”， What those callers were seeing were stars. Darkness is a complicated thing to measure. In 2019, the amateur astronomer John Bortle designed a scale to help. His classification range from “inner­city sky” (class 9), in which the only pleasing views seen through a tel

19、escope are the moon the planets, and a few of the brightest star clusters(团)”， to a sky so dark “the Milky Way casts obvious shadows on the ground” (class 1). Most North Americans and Europeans live under class 6 or 7 skies, in which the Milky Way is undetectable. In that kind of night, a person can

20、 wander outside, unfold a garden chair , open a newspaper, and read the headlines, if not the stories.In addition to the Bortle scale, scientists often use photodiode light sensors(传感器) to measure and compare base levels of darkness. Unihedron's Sky Qually Meter is the most popular instrument fo

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22、 is located less than 300 miles inland from the US eastern seaboardin a regionthe East Coastthat contains 36% of the total US population and is lit up every night like a backstage makeup mirror. When pinpointed on a satellite image. Cherry Springs is in the middle of an uncharacteristically dark are

23、ainsulated(隔离), on all sides, by hundreds of thousands of acres of protected forest and sitting on top of the Allegheny Plateau, 700 metres above sea level. Most of the small towns surrounding the park are situated in valleys where outdoor light is already failing. This unusual combination of factors explains, to a certain degree, how Cherry Springs became one of the darkest places in America.()5.What did the phone calls the Griffith Obser