2022广安一中高考英语短文语法填空和阅读类暑假选练(10)及答案.docx

【陕西省2022五校联考】
阅读下列四篇短文, 从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
LAST week, the College Board announced that it was revising the SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) in an effort to make it more acceptable to test-takers, teachers, college admission officers and the public more generally. Test-takers who receive lower scores than they have hoped for are likely to be concerned about their academic future. It’s no wonder that it’s hard to discuss the test without negative feelings.
The SAT isn’t perfect. Like any test, it can be misused, and may reflect unequal educational opportunities. Even before the announcement of the SAT’s redesign, experts were discussing the test’s limitations. Writing in The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert described its questions as limited: “Critical thinking was never called for, let alone curiosity or imagination.” But the SAT provides an effective measure of a person’s ability to reason through verbal(文字性的) and mathematical materials, a skill required in college. Although there are conflicting reports on the issue, a study published in the journal Educational and Psychological Measurement in 2011 found that the SAT can meaningfully add to the prediction of a student’s first-year college academic performance, above his grades in high school alone. The fact that the SAT can help predict this is, to me, an astonishing achievement that cannot be ignored.
We cannot afford to ignore tests because they fall short of perfection or make us uncomfortable. But there’s a better way to make the SAT more acceptable in the long run: We should expand the types of tests we use so as to more fully reflect what students can do. What if, in addition to the SAT, students were offered new tests that measured more diverse abilities? For future artists or musicians, there are tests that measure creative thinking —a largely ignored ability by the SAT. For future engineers, there are tests that measure their sense of space. And new measures of “personal intelligence” — the ability to reason about a person’s motives, emotions and patterns of activities — may also tell us something important about students’ self-knowledge and understanding of others.
53. Why is it difficult for the test takers to discuss the test without negative feelings?
A. The SAT is unacceptable for the test takers, teachers, officers and the public.
B. They may not get satisfactory scores and it influences their admission to college.
C. The SAT can’t reflect their creative thinking, curiosity as well as their imagination.
D. The board don’t know how to make the SAT more suitable for the test takers.
54. Elizabeth Kolbert may consider the SAT to be _________.
A. imaginative B. creative C. critical D. limited
55. According to the text, the author may disagree with the idea that _________.
A. the SAT can at some point predict how a student will do in the freshman year of college academically
B. the SAT helps measure students’ ability of reasoning through their creativity and imagination
C. the SAT will be more acceptable if creative thinking, sense of space and personal intelligence are tested as well
D. the SAT has many limitations and it may make a difference to students’ educational opportunities
56. The article most probably appears in the newspaper column __________.2-1-c-n-j-y
A. Sports  B. Entertainment C. City News D. Education
【参考答案】53-56 BDBD

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
America is growing older. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society in many ways — education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the aging of America has made us a very different society — one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.
A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his/ her social position, marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn’t as strong as it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.
Many people say, “I am much younger than my mother or my father was at my age.” No one says “Act your age” any more. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.
1. It can be learned from the text that the aging of the population in America ________.
A. has made people feel younger B. has changed people’s social position
C. has changed people’s understanding of age D. has slowed down the country’s social development
2. The underlined word “one” refers to ________.
A. a society B. America C. a place D. population
3. “Act your age” means people should ________.
A. be active when they are old B. do the right thing at the right age
C. show respect to their parents young or old D. take more physical exercises suitable to their age
4. If a’ 25-year-old man becomes general manager of a big firm, the writer of the text would most probably consider it _________.
A. normal B. wonderful  C. unbelievable D. unreasonable
1. C 主旨题。依据第一、二段的最终一句及第三段可推断。
2. A 细节题。one是a society的同位语且后面跟了一个定语从句，可以通过分析句子结构得出正确答案。
3. B 细节题。全文最终一句话给出了提示。
4. A 推理题。可认真阅读其次段中倒数其次句话。

人物传记型阅读理解
There has been an outpouring of love for, a 23­year­old disabled woman whose dog was killed in front of her while a groomer (美容师) tried to trim (修剪) its claws.
Calls and e­mails came from as far away as the Upper Peninsula and Arizona as well as Oakland and Macomb counties, offering Laurie Crouch, who uses a wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis (硬化症), everything from dogs to money, such as that from Jason Daly of Roseville who said, “I would like to buy her a new dog.”
A story about the death of Crouch’s pet, Gooch, was
printed on the front page of Macomb Daily.Crouch said a groomer tied Gooch up with a collar, and then she and a man sat on the dog to trim its nails.Gooch died after one claw was trimmed.
Crouch yelled at the groomer to stop when she saw Gooch was struggling to breathe, but she said she was ignored.“If I could have walked, I would have put my hands on her and pulled her off my dog and physically stopped her, but I can’t do that.” Gooch was not a trained service animal, but naturally helped Crouch by picking up things for her.
“This case is absolute animal abuse (虐待)，” Larry Obrecht, division manager of the Oakland County Animal Shelter in Auburn Hills, said.
People who read the story contacted Oakland Press to offer help.A message, from Rebecca Amett of Giggles N Wiggles PuppyRescue, in Roseville, said, “We have puppies to donate and want to help the young woman who lost her service dog.”
“When Gooch was with me, I was happy，” Crouch said.“I think I can be happy again but no animal can replace Gooch.There’s never going to be another Gooch out there but I think I will find a dog that can bring me joy again.”
(　　)1.What does the passage mainly tell us?
A．A disabled woman’s service dog.
B．A cruel groomer killed a disabled woman’sdog.
C．People’s love for a disabled woman who lost her dog.
D．A disabled woman loves to have the dog as company.
(　　)2.People called and e­mailed to ________.
A．give their angry voice to the groomer
B．offer help and care to Laurie Crouch
C．tell Crouch how to punish the groomer
D．offer a cure for Crouch’s disease
(　　)3.Gooch died mainly because ________.
A．the groomer was careless
B．the groomer didn’t know how to trim the dog’s nails
C．the groomer sat on the dog with another man
D．the dog was wearing a collar
(　　)4.What do we know about Crouch’s dog?
A．It was a specially trained service dog.
B．It was trained to do many things for people.
C．It was Crouch’s only friend.
D．It could offer some help to Crouch.
(　　)5.We can infer from the passage that ________.
A．Crouch must be sad after losing her dog
B．Crouch refused to take another dog
C．Crouch has accepted another dog from a stranger
D．Crouch can live well without a dog’s company
【解析】 一位23岁的残疾女士，她的狗被宠物美容师压死以后，人们纷纷打电话或者发电子邮件劝慰她，并表示情愿为她供应挂念。
　　1．C　主旨大意题。综合文章内容可知，文章主要叙述了人们对这位失去爱狗的残疾女士的关爱。
　　2．B　细节理解题。从文章其次段everything from dogs to money, such as that from Jason Daly of Roseville who said, “I would like to buy her a new dog.”和倒数其次段可知B为正确选项。
3．C　细节理解题。从文章第三段可知，宠物美容师和另外一个人坐在狗身上最终导致狗窒息而死。
　　4．D　细节理解题。从文章第四段可知，Gooch虽然没有经过特殊训练，但能够为Crouch捡东西，给她供应一些挂念。
　　5．A　推理推断题。从文章最终一段可知，Crouch认为没有狗会替代她原来的狗，因此推断狗死了以后，她很难过。

【阅读理解】
Arthur Miller(1915­2005)is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller's father had moved to the USA from Austria­Hungary, drawn like so many others by the“Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early 1930s.
Miller's most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with this system. Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can't do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews，and it won the Tony Award for Best Play，the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury，Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
本文叙述了亚瑟·米勒，美国出名的剧作家，以及他的出名的戏剧《男售货员之死》，当这部戏剧第一次搬上舞台时，赢得了巨大的成功，获得了三项大奖。
1. Why did Arthur Miller' s father move to the USA?
A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.
B. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”．
C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.
D. His family business failed.
答案：B。细节理解题。依据短文第一段其次句话“Miller's father had moved to the USA from Austria­Hungary，drawn like so many others by the ‘Great American Dream’．”可知答案。
2．The play Death of a Salesman ________.
A. exposes the cruelty of the American business world
B. discusses the ways to get promoted in a company
C. talks about the business career of Arthur Miller
D. focuses on the skills in doing business
答案：A。细节理解题。依据短文其次段第三、四句话可知，Willy Loman已陷入美国社会制度的逆境中，他已精疲力尽，在这残酷的商业世界中，他不知道应当怎样做，最终，他选择了自杀。由此可知A项正确。
3. What can we learn about Willy Loman?
A. He treats his employer badly. B. He runs the Wagner Company.
C. He is a victim of the American system. D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.
答案：C。推理推断题。由短文其次段可知，Willy Loman在这残酷的商业世界中，根本没有情感可言，但是他又不能对不起他的雇主和公司，他又不知道如何处理自己的失败，只有选择自杀，由此可知他是美国社会制度的牺牲品。
4. After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman________.
A. achieved huge success B. won the first Tony Award
C. was warmly welcomed by salesmen D. was severely attacked by dramatists
答案：A。细节理解题。由短文第三段可知，戏剧Death of a Salesman第一次搬上舞台，就赢得了三项大奖，故A项正确。
5. What is the text mainly about?
A. Arthur Miller and his family. B. The awards Arthur Miller won.
C. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced. D. Arthur Miller and his best­known play.
答案：D。主旨大意题。综观全文可知，本文主要叙述了亚瑟·米勒及他的名著Death of a Salesman，故D项正确。

完形填空。完型填空。阅读下面短文，把握其大意，然后从以下题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I returned to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, after graduation. I had been there before my mother became a minister. Two weeks later, I told my mother I was bored. She said, “Here’re the car keys. Go and buy some fruit.” 1__, I jumped into the car and speeded off.
Seeing me or rather my 2__, a boy sprang up（跳起来），3__ to sell his bananas and peanuts. “Banana 300 naira. Peanut 200 naira!” Looking at his black-striped bananas, I 4__ to 200 total for the fruit and nuts. He 5__ . I handed him a 500 naira note. He didn’t have 6__ , so I told him not to worry. He was 7__ and smiled a row of perfect teeth.
When, two weeks later, I 8__ this same boy, I was more aware of my position in Nigerian society. I should 9__ this country as the son of a 10___. But it was hare to find pleasure in a place where it was so 11___ to see a little boy who should have been in school selling fruit.
“What’s up?” I asked. He answered in 12___ English, “I … I no get money o buy book.” I took out two 500 naira notes. He looked around 13___ before sticking his hand into the car 14___ the bills. One thousand naira means a lot to a family that 15___ only 50,000 each year.
The next morning, security officers told me, “In this place, when you give a little, people think you’re a fountain of opportunity（机会）.” 16__ it’s right, but this happens everywhere in the world. I wondered if my little friend had actually used the money for 17___. After six months’ work in northern Nigeria, I returned and saw him again standing on the road. “Are you in school now?” He nodded. A silence fell as we looked at each other, then I 18___ what he wanted. I held out a 500 naira note. “Take this.” He shook his head fiercely and stepped back 19__ hurt. “It’s a gift.” I said. Shaking his head again, he handed me a basket of bananas and peanuts. “I’ve been waiting to 20___ these to you.”
( ) 1. A. Encouraged B. Disappointed C. Delighted D. confused
( ) 2. A. car B. mother C. driver D. keys
( ) 3. A. willing B. afraid C. eager D. ashamed
( ) 4. A. got down B. bargained down C. put down D. took down
( ) 5. A. explained B. promised C. agreed D. admitted
( ) 6. A. change B. notes C. checks D. bills
( ) 7. A. troubled B. regretful C. comfortable D. grateful
( ) 8. A. ran after B. ran into C. ran over D. ran to
( ) 9. A. protect B. enjoy C. help D. support
( ) 10. A. minister B. headmaster C. manager D. president
( ) 11. A. lucky B. amazing C. funny D. common
( ) 12. A. old B. broken C. traditional D. modern
( ) 13. A. proudly B. madly C. curiously D. nervously
( ) 14. A. for B. with C. at D. upon
( ) 15. A. spends B. pays C. makes D. affords
( ) 16. A. possibly B. actually C. certainly D. fortunately
( ) 17. A. joys B. nuts C. books D. bananas
( ) 18. A. asked B. imagined C. reminded D. realized
( ) 19. A. when B. as if C. even if D. after
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