1、Unit 4（测试时间：60分钟 满分：100分）第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第一节 （共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分） 阅读下面短文，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。A【豫西名校20182019学年上期第一次联考高二英语试题】 In celebration of Womens History Month, here are a few of the millions of women that have broken all conventional rules to make a difference in the world.Susan B.
2、AnthonyBom on February 15, 1820, Susan B. Anthony was a womens rights activist in the US. She spent many years campaigning for womens right to vote. Anthony was also against slavery, helping support the passage of the Civil War Amendments. She also lent her voice to the battle for equal pay and educ
3、ational opportunities for all.Anne FrankAnne Frank grew up in a happy family. However, things changed when Hitler came to power. Anne and her family were forced to hide inside a tiny house, where the young girl recorded her familys fears and struggles. Even after all these years, her journal, Anne F
4、rank: The Diary of a Young Girl, continues to be popular with people across all ages and cultures.Aung San Sun KyiDetermined to bring democracy (民主）to Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi founded the National League for Democracy (NLD). Suu Kyis open displeasure with the government resulted in her spending muc
5、h of the time between 1989 and 2010 in prison or under house arrest. In 1991，Suu Kyi received the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2015, five years after she had been freed, Suu Kyis NLD Party won a great victory in the general elections.Malala YousafzaiMalala Yousafzai was bom to a Pakistani educator and poet
6、. When the Taliban declared that girls should not be educated, the worlds youngest Nobel Prize winner decided to challenge these unfair policies (政策).On October 9, 2012, she was shot and badly injured. Since recovering, Malala continues her fight for girls education. Her bravery is encouraging young
7、 people all over the world to stand up for what they believe is right.1. Who made a great contribution to womens right to vote?A. Anne Frank. B. Malala Yousafzai.C. Susan B. Anthony. D. Aung San Suu Kyi.2. Why was Aung San Suu Kyi put into prison?A. She refused to leave Myanmar.B. She demanded that
8、the democrats be freed.C. She voiced dissatisfaction with the government.D. She blamed the government for its economic policy.3. Which of the following can be used to describe the women mentioned in the text?A. Brave and inspiring. B. Reliable and devoted.C. Honest and responsible. D. Considerate an
9、d optimistic.【答案】1. C 2. C 3. A【解析】本文是一篇人物传记。为了庆祝“女性历史月”，文章介绍了打破常规，改变了世界的数百万女性中的几位代表女性。 学科#网【1题详解】【3题详解】推理判断题。根据Susan B. Anthony中She also lent her voice to the battle for equal pay and educational opportunities for all.根据Anne Frank中The Diary of a Young Girl, continues to be popular with people acros
10、s all ages and cultures.根据Aung San Sun Kyi中Suu Kyis NLD Party won a great victory in the general elections.再根据Malala Yousafzai中Her bravery is encouraging young people all over the world to stand up for what they believe is right.可知，文中提到的妇女是勇敢的和鼓舞人心的。故选A。B【黑龙江省佳木斯市第一中学2017-2018学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题】Most co
11、mpanies around the world use two different types of office layouts: Landscape Office and Enclosed Office. A landscape office is an office which lacks privacy; however, this office layout is more beneficial than an enclosed office for employees to improve work efficiency (效率) and productivity.Some pe
12、ople might desire a workplace without being disturbed by others. According to the survey collected from a company with the two kinds of office layouts, most of managers prefer a workplace where they can concentrate on their work and make a clear thinking. However, managers that possess their own enc
13、losed offices might have the feeling of being distant from their clerks, which leads to high pressure. Meanwhile, employees tend to be nervous when they have conversations with their managers in an obviously high-level environment. In contrast, a landscape office makes it easier and more pleasant fo
14、r employees to communicate with their managers or their colleagues; this would result in speeding up work efficiency and productivity.Besides, greater interaction is beneficial for employees to build up friendship in a landscape office. This can be proved by the experiment of Brookes and Kaplan. The
15、y recorded the attitudes and opinions of 120 employees toward their enclosed office before they moved to the landscape office, and then after nine months they were tested again. The researchers discovered that those employees performed positive changes in group sociability. When people have better g
16、roup sociability, they experience a better team work and efficient cooperation, which surely promotes work productivity.Some opponents claim that a landscape office would lead to the decline of the value of work satisfaction and motivation from employees. However, the result from other researchers r
17、emained controversial; in their opinion there are several factors which affect job satisfaction and motivation. 600 Canadian federal government department workers who were housed at a modem landscape office and were surveyed gave both negative and positive feedback. They admitted that they felt the
18、sense of belonging to a team or a working community, which mainly contributes to job satisfaction. Motivation is also increased by a sense of responsibility for and loyalty to a team. Admittedly, there are some advantages that only enclosed offices possess. However, a landscape office can combine th
19、e features of the traditional enclosed office, for example, designing the independent meeting room to decrease noise from discussion. Although the benefits of a landscape office outweigh those of an enclosed office, which layout is better should be decided by the characteristics of the people and th
20、e type of work they do.4. What is mainly talked about in the passages?A. Colleague cooperation and its motivation.B. Group sociability and its productivity.C. Working environment and its effect.D. Office privacy and its atmosphere.5. What has the significant effect on productivity according to Parag
21、raph 2?A. Job satisfaction.B. Relaxed atmosphere.C. Group sociability.D. Undisturbed workplace.6. What can be inferred from the passage?A. Enclosed office leads to individual creativity.B. Landscape office contributes to effective conversations.C. Different working styles in enclosed office are enco
22、uraged.D. Frequent communication in landscape office results in high pressure.7. What is the authors attitude towards office layouts?A. Objective B. CasualC. Optimistic D. Sceptical【答案】4. C 5. B 6. B 7. A【解析】本文讲述的是工作环境及其影响。【4题详解】【6题详解】C【邢台市20182019学年高三上学期第一次月考英语试题】 I have a neighbor who is a capable
23、, fashionable, seventy-year-old, single woman. Her name is Grace. Grace was laid off from her job a little over two years ago and has been living off her savings ever since but not officially retired. Grace called me up one day about this time last year and asked if I had a ladder. She needed to cle
24、an out her gutters (水槽) on the roof and wanted me to hold the ladder.She didnt want me to climb up and clean the gutters. She just wanted me to hold the ladder. As it happened I did have a ladder. I said: “The leaves are going to fall off the trees in a month, why dont we wait till they finish and d
25、o it then?” She agreed and naturally we didnt talk about it again until spring. Spring in Tennessee is wild and we talked about it over the course of three weeks in which it rained nearly every day, then I got busy and Grace went into seclusion (隐居).A couple of weeks ago, she told me shed been spend
26、ing too much money and decided to apply for a bar tending job at a local hotel. “Now I dont know about you all but Id never considered what it would be like to apply for and begin a new job at the age of seventy. Im fifty-three and the older I get, the more I think about how great itll be if I can j
27、ust get out of bed when Im seventy.” Anyway, she got the job, serving the bar and tending banquets at the hotel.The day when she left for her training at 6 am, I walked across the street with my ladder and cleaned out her gutters.8. What did Grace want the author to do?A. Make a ladder. B. Retire co
28、mpletely.C. Lend her a ladder. D. Give her suggestions.9. When did the author advise Grace to clean her gutters?A. In early spring. B. In rainy season.C. In time of leaves falling. D. In time of few leaves on trees.10. What was the authors neighbor doing when the author wrote the text?A. Working at
29、a hotel. B. Training for her job.C. Cleaning out her house. D. Walking with the author.【答案】8. C 9. D 6. A 10. D【解析】 学科#网本文是一篇记叙文。作者的邻居是一位70岁的老太太，她两年前失去工作并靠着积蓄过活。但是有一天她突然告诉作者要找工作挣钱。虽然作者认为这是不可思议的，但是这位邻居确实得到了一份工作。【8题详解】A。第二节 （共5小题； 每小题2分，满分10分。）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。【河南省洛阳市新安县第一高级中学2
30、018届高三热身练英语试卷】Culture shock is the emotional and mental reaction to being in a completely new cultural environment. _11_ it generally consists of several stages of feelings.The “honeymoon stage” is usually, the first stage that people go through when surrounded by different cultural values and lifes
31、tyles. During this stage, people have positive images of their new cultural surroundings. They tend to view these in an idealistic way and ignore problems. _12_ This stage is usually quite short and quickly replaced by the second stage called “the frustration stage”.During the “frustration stage”, n
32、ewcomers begin to act negatively. _13_ Visitors tend to exaggerate (夸大) problems in the new culture. They may feel isolated (孤立) during this stage. Depending on ones situation, this stage can last days, months, or even years.With the frustration stage ending, the adjustment stage begins. This marks
33、the time when newcomers try their best to accept the differences of the new culture and the challenges of everyday life._14_ Some newcomers enter the “mastery stage” and are completely accustomed to the values and beliefs of the new culture. They are able to handle the new culture like a native whil
34、e keeping some of their own original cultural values. Some choose the “rejection stage” and decide against fitting in with the new culture. _15_ _ Other newcomers completely adopt the identity of the new culture and give up the values and beliefs of their home culture.A. Meeting new people is seen a
35、s fascinating.B. The new cultural surroundings are no longer novel.C. They regain their sense of balance and become confident.D. This process opens the door to three possible outcomes.E. For many people this is often a very difficult experience.F. A person experiencing culture shock may display many
36、 symptoms.G. They usually permanently withdraw from the culture through isolation or returning home.【答案】11. E 12. A 13. B 14. C 15. G【解析】【116题详解】【13题详解】文章第三段主要是关于“文化休克”中的“挫折期”。在这一阶段，新人们会变的消极。B选项The new cultural surroundings are no longer novel.“新的文化环境不再新颖”切题。【14题详解】第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节 满分40分）第一节：完形填空（共20
37、小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）【江苏省南京市金陵中学2017-2018学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题】Every Sunday morning I take a light walking around a park near my home. Theres a lake _16_ in one corner of the park. Each time I _17_ by this lake, I see the same elderly woman sitting at the waters _18_ with a small metal cage sitting beside her
38、.This past Sunday my _19_ got the best of me, so l stopped jogging and walked _20_ to her. _21_ I got closer, I realized that the metal cage was _22_ a small trap. There were three turtles, unharmed, slowly walking around the base of the trap. She had a fourth turtle in her lap _23_ she was _24_ scr
39、ubbing with a spongy brush.“Hello,” I said. “If you dont mind my _25_, Id love to know what youre doing with these turtles.”She smiled. “Im cleaning off their shells,” she replied. “_26_ on a turtles shell, like algae or scum, _27_ the turtles ability to absorb heat and impedes its ability to swim.
40、It can also _28_ and weaken the shell over time.”She went on: “I spend a couple of hours each Sunday morning ,relaxing by this lake and helping these little guys out. Its my own _29_ way of making a difference.”“But dont most freshwater turtles live their whole lives with algae and scum _30_ from th
41、eir shells?” I asked.“Yep, _31_, they do,” she replied.“Well then, dont you think your time could be better spent? And 99% of these turtles dont have kind people like you to help them clean off their shells. So, no _32_.but how exactly are your localized _33_ here truly making a difference?”The woma
42、n giggled aloud.She then _34_ at the turtle in her lap, scrubbed off the last piece of algae from its shell, and said, “Sweetie, if this little guy _35_ talk, hed tell you I just made all the difference in the world.16. A. being located B. locating C. located D. having located17. A. reach B. hike C.
43、 wander D. jog18. A. surface B. bottom C. position D. edge19. A. curiosity B. passion C. enthusiasm D. caution20. A. down B. over C. up D. around21. A. Until B. As C. While D. After22. A. in particular B. in return C. in chaos D. in effect23. A. that B. where C. which D. what24. A. attentively B. gr
44、adually C. directly D. alternatively25. A. request B. permission C. doubt D. nosiness26. A. Something B. Anything C. Nothing D. Everything27. A. broadens B. strengthens C. lowers D. enlarges28. A. weather B. address C. choke D. split29. A. common B. unique C. explicit D. potential30. A. attached B.
45、tied C. hanging D. potential31. A. fortunately B. basically C. sadly D. absolutely32. A. wonder B. problem C. offense D. excuse33. A. contributions B. efforts C. sacrifices D. arrangements34. A. looked down B. drove away C. tore up D. thought back45. A. would B. might C. shall D. should【答案】16. C 17.
46、 D 18. D 19. A 20. B 21. B 22. D 23. A 24. A 25. D 26. B 27. C 28. A 29. B 30. C 31. C 32. C 33. B 34. A 35. D【解析】这是一篇记叙文。作者偶遇了一位帮助乌龟清理龟壳的老太太，通过谈话得知，她只是在用自己的努力对世界产生影响。【16题详解】考查动词形式。located in表示坐落于某地，此处是过去分词作定语，故选C。【17题详解】考查动词。A. reach到达；B. hike远足；C. wander徘徊，漫步；D. jog慢跑。根据下文的I stopped jogging可知，作者是在
47、湖边慢跑，故选D。【18题详解】考查名词。A. surface表面；B. bottom底部，末端；C. position位置；D. edge边缘。此处指一个老太太坐在水边，旁边放着一个金属笼子。表示坐在水边，根据常识选D。 学&科网【19题详解】【22题详解】考查介词短语。A. in particular尤其；B. in return作为回报；C. in chaos混乱；D. in effect实际上，生效。我意识到这个金属笼子实际上是一个小陷阱，表示实际上，故选D。【23题详解】考查代词。A. that关系代词；B. where在的地方；C. which哪个；D. what什么。她的膝盖上有第四只乌龟，她正在用海绵刷子认真地清理它。此处是定语从句，先行词
