1、广东省 2014-2015 学年高中英语同步语篇练习（3 ）及答案：Unit3（人教新课标必修 3）语篇训练卷(九)Unit 3 Using Language. 完形填空Years ago, when I was looking for my first job, wise advisers told me, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you 1 than any amount of experience. ”How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a(n) 2 d
2、rive into an adventure, extra work into an opportunity and strangers into friends. “Nothing great was ever 3 without enthusiasm. ”wrote Waldo Emerson. It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be 4 accepted. Yet she di
3、dnt stop working on her experiments. Work was such a deep 5 for her that she never 6 stopping. It is hope that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their 7 . At 90, musician Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach, which was an exciting thing that made life a never-ending
4、 8 . Elizabeth Layton was 68 when she began to draw. This activity 9 the depression that she had suffered from for 30 years, and the 10 of her work led one critic(评论家)to say, “Elizabeth had rediscovered her 11 . ”How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, 12 the w
5、ord itself. “Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means “God within”. And “God within” is 13 else but a sense of loveproper love of self that is self-acceptance and from that, love of others. Enthusiastic people also 14 what they do, regardless of money or fame or power. If we cannot do what we love
6、 as a full-time career, we can do it as a part-time 15 . 1. A. further B. less C. better D. farther2. A. interesting B. long C. boring D. short3. A. discovered B. achieved C. sought D. described4. A. frankly B. generally C. honestly D. warmly5. A. pleasure B. success C. feeling D. love6. A. made up
7、B. remembered ofC. started with D. thought of7. A. thought B. energy C. look D. age8. A. routine B. adventure C. trip D. travel9. A. ended B. completedC. began D. started10. A. amount B. qualityC. beauty D. atmosphere11. A. enthusiasm B. strengthC. advantage D. power12. A. consists of B. dates fromC
8、. lies in D. belongs to13. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. none14. A. hate B. love C. doubt D. consider15. A. goal B. taskC. interest D. assignment. 语法填空阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month accordin
9、g to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival 1 (mark)by eating zongzi and racing dragon boats in honour of Qu Yuan, who is said to have committed suicide(自杀)by drowning himself. Qu was a minister of the State of Chu 2 (situate)in present-day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the W
10、arring States Period(战国时期). He was upright, loyal and highly respected. 3 , he was dismissed from office. 4 (realize)that the country was in the hands of evil officials, Qu leapt into River Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to save him but were 5 (able)to
11、recover his body. The people of Chu 6 mourned Qus death threw rice into the river to feed his ghost 7 year on the day of his death. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile(爬行动物)in the river had stolen the rice. The spirit then advised 8 to wrap the rice and
12、bind it 9 throwing it into the river. During the Duanwu Festival, zongzi is eaten to symbolize(象征, 表示)the rice offerings to Qu. And the dragon-boat races symbolize 10 many attempts to rescue and recover Qus body. . 阅读理解AOn Nov. 30, 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was welcomed into the world as the si
13、xth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. Little did John and Jane know, their son Samuel would one day be known as Mark TwainAmericas most famous literary(文学)icon( 偶像). Samuels father was a judge, and he built a two-story frame house at 206 Hill Street in 1844. As a child, Samuel was kep
14、t indoors because of poor health. However, at the age of nine, he seemed to recover from his ailments and then attended a private school in Hannibal. When Samuel was 12, his father died of pneumonia(肺炎), and at 13, Samuel left school to become a printers apprentice(学徒). After two short years, he joi
15、ned his brother Orions newspaper as a printer and an editorial assistant. It was there that young Samuel found he enjoyed writing. At 17, he left Hannibal for a printers job in St. Louis. While in St. Louis, Samuel became a river pilots apprentice. He became a licensed river pilot in 1858. Samuels p
16、en name, Mark Twain, comes from his days as a river pilot. It is a river term which means, 12 feet when the depth of water for a boat is being measured. “Mark Twain” means that is safe to navigate(航行). In 1861, Samuel began working as a newspaper reporter for several newspapers all over the United S
17、tates. In 1870, he married Olivia Langdon. Mark Twain began to gain fame when his story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County appeared in The New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865. Mark Twains first book, The Innocents Abroad, was published in 1869, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in
18、1876, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1885. He wrote 28 books and numerous short stories, letters and other articles. Mark Twain passed away on April 21, 1910, but has a following still today. His childhood home is open to the public as a museum in Hannibal. Walking tours are given in New
19、York City of places that Mark Twain visited near his birthday every year. 1. What does the underlined word “ailments” refer to? A. Injury. B. Pressure. C. Sadness. D. Illness. 2. Which of the following is the correct order according to the passage? a. Samuel Clemens left school to become a printers
20、apprentice. b. Samuel Clemens became a licensed river pilot. c. Samuel Clemens attended a private school in Hannibal. d. Samuel Clemens first book The Innocents Abroad was published. e. Samuel Clemens began working as a newspaper reporter. f. Samuel Clemens married Olivia Langdon. A. a b c d e f B.
21、c a b e d fC. c a b e f d D. a c b e f d 3. What can we know from the passage? A. Samuel Clemens parents had found his great talent for writing. B. Samuel Clemens had good health in his childhood. C. Before his first book, Mark Twain published his writing. D. Mark Twain wrote 28 short stories in tot
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29、distance trip, you can start at . A. Diamond Creek B. Lees FerryC. Phantom Ranch D. Pierce Ferry6. On the trip on the Grand Canyon, you are not recommended to enjoy . A. oar raft rowing B. traveling on foot C. animal riding D. swimming entertainment7. At which time of the following is an off-season
30、trip on the Grand Canyon? A. June. B. February. C. October. D. September. 8. Rafting the Grand Canyon doesnt suggest the reader contact them in the way of . A. calling at it in person B. filling in a form C. sending an email D. making a call来源:学优高考网答案解析. 【文章大意】如果没有热情, 一个人将一事无成。诺贝尔医学奖的获得者巴巴拉麦克林托克、杰出的
31、西班牙音乐家帕勃罗卡萨尔斯和伊丽莎白雷顿用自己的亲身经历告诉我们这一道理。1. 【解析】选 A。词语辨析题。热情会比大量的经验带给你更大的成功。take sb. far 使前途远大。further 更高程度的, 更进一步的; farther(距离、时间上)更远的, 较远的。2. 【解析】选 C。词语辨析题。热情的人能把一次“乏味的(boring)”驱车变成一次冒险。3. 【解析】选 B。逻辑推理题。如果没有热情 , 一个人将一事无成。achieve 表示 “达到, 获得, 如愿以偿”。discover“ 发现, 找出”; seek“寻求, 探求”; describe“描述, 形容”。4. 【解
32、析】选 B。词语辨析题。经历了好多年才使得自己早期的工作得到社会的广泛(generally)认可。5. 【解析】选 A。逻辑推理题。工作对她来说是如此快乐的事情, 以至于她从来没有想过要停下来。6. 【解析】选 D。短语辨析题。 think of“想过”。7. 【 解析】 选 D。词语辨析题。正是一种期望使得那些热情的人始终保持年轻态, 无论他们的年龄如何。8. 【解析】选 B。词汇复现题。对于卡萨尔斯来说 , 音乐是使人生变成无止境的探索之旅的灵丹妙药。此处与第一段的 adventure 相呼应。9. 【 解析】选 A。逻辑推理题。这项活动结束了(end)困扰她 30 年的悲伤情绪。10.
33、【解析】选 B。逻辑推理题。她绘画作品的质量使得一位评论家这样说道, “雷顿又找回了她的 热情。 ”amount 数量; quality 质量; beauty美丽; atmosphere 气氛。11. 【解析】选 A。逻辑推理题。根据下文“rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood”可知 , 伊丽莎白又找回了她的“热情”。12. 【解析】选 C。逻辑推理题。问题的答案在于这个词本身。consist of“包含, 由组成”; date from“起源于, 追溯到”; lie in“在于”; belong to“属于”。13. 【 解析】选 C。逻辑推理题。 “内在的上帝”不是别的, 而是一份爱恰当的自爱 , 即自我接受 , 并推及他人。14. 【解析 】选 B。词语辨析题。热情的人们同样热爱他们所做的事, 而不是考虑钱、名誉或权力。hate“憎恨, 讨厌”; love“热爱, 爱”; doubt“怀疑, 疑虑”; consider“考虑”。15. 【解析】选 C。词语辨析题。如果我们不能把热爱的事作为正式职业, 我们也可把它当作兴趣爱好(interest)。. 【文章大意】本文讲述中国传统节日端午节的由来及其背后的故事。
