黄浦新王牌 春季周末小班 高中英语同步提高课程

第一讲

2014高三英语秋季练习1 Clint Liu

Highlights: 1. Grammar 2. Vocabulary

3. Q & A; Reading; Cloze; Translation (09126) 4. Writing (Table, Graph, etc.)

Grammar

I. Confused grammar (sentence structure analysis)

1. (1) Mr. Smith did all he could ______ his family’s living standard.

(2) Mr. Wang made up his mind to devote all he could _____ his oral English before going abroad. (3) He couldn’t believe that such a little boy could _____ his English with so little time.

A. improve B. to improve C. improving D. to improving 2. (1) He was very careless, so I am afraid he _____ your umbrella by mistake yesterday. (2) Everything he _____away from him before he returned to his hometown. (3) Everything ______ away from him before he returned to his hometown.

A. took B. had been taken C. had had been taken D. had taken 3. (1) Before he went abroad, he looked forward ______ English as much as possible. (2) Before he went abroad, he spent as much time as he ______ English.

(3) As their English teacher had gone back to America, so as a result, they stayed only ____French. A. could learning B. to learn C. to learning D. could learn 4. (1) --- Why didn’t you put your cell phone in our overcoat pocket? --- I _______, but I was afraid it would be stolen. A. had put B. put C. would have D. could have (2) --- _______ Mr. Brown _______ this week? --- No. he is on holiday. A. Has; worked B. Does; work C. Did; work D. Is; working 5. (1) The person we spoke to _______ no answer at first. (2) The person was made _____ a speech at the meeting.

A. making B. makes C. to make D. made 6. (1) He seemed _____ everything, but in fact he knew nothing.

A. to know B. to have known C. to knowing D. knowing (2) The person we referred to ______ us a report tomorrow.

A. giving B. have given C. gave D. will give 7. (1) The days we have been looking forward to ______ soon. (2) They have been looking forward to _____ to China soon.

(3) These days we have been looking forward to _______ to visit you. A. coming B. will come C. came D. have come 8. (1) Are you talking about _____ the new school next week? (2) The person we talked about _______ our school last week.

A. visiting B. will visit C. visited D. has visited 9. (1) The man is fond of _____ the most popular songs in our city.

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(2) The man whose songs we are fond of ______ in our city next week. A. singing B. to sing C. will sing D. sang

10. (1) Not only_____ the jewelry she ____ been sold for her son’s gambling debts but also her house. (2) Never _____ he come unless he _____ his wallet back. A. will, has B. has, had C. has, has D. /, has 11. (1) _____ in thought, he almost ran into the car in front of him. (2) _____ his lovely dog, he looked for it everywhere. (3) _____ his dog, he took it in the scary bushes. A. Losing B. Having lost C. Lost D. To lose 12. (1) You’d better _____ the small child across the street. (2) It’s better _____ the small child across the street. A. to guide B. guide C. to guiding D. to be guided 13. (1) --- What do you think made the woman so upset? --- ____ weight. (2) --- What can I do to join in the league? --- _____ weight.

A. As she put on B. Put on C. Putting on D. Because of putting on (3) --- Why are the students so diligent these days? --- _______ the entrance exams. A. Pass B. To pass C. Passing D. Having passed 14. (1) How long is it ______ we last spent the holiday in the country together? (2) Will it be long ______ we spend the holiday in the country together? A. before B. until C. since D. that 15. (1) It was only with the help of the local guide ____. (2) It was snowing heavily _____.

(3) Only with the help of the local guide _______.

A. was the mountain climber rescued B. then the mountain climber was rescued C. when the mountain climber was rescued D. that the mountain climber was rescued

II. Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions.

1. Typical the grassland dwellers of the continent is the American antelope, or pronghorn.

2. the millions who saw Haley’s comet in 1986, how many people will live long enough to see it return in the twenty-first century.

3. The greater the population there is in a locality, the greater the need there is water, transportation, and disposal refuse.

4. modern offices becoming more mechanized, designers are attempting to personalize them warmer, less severe interiors.

5. Billie Holiday’s reputation a great jazz-blues singer rests her ability to give emotional depth her songs.

6. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation what is conceived to be reality. 7. Long before children are able to speak or understand a language, they communicate facial expressions and making noises.

8. The development of mechanical timepieces spurred the search more accurate sundials (日晷) which to regulate them.

9. Anthropology is a science that anthropologists use a rigorous set of methods and techniques to document observations that can be checked by others.

10. Eliminating problems transferring the blame others is often called scape-goating.

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Vocabulary

I. Fill in the blanks with the words or expressions given below. Change the form where necessary. wear out bear racial mature draw conquer break into pay attention to aspect perform as far as get tired of

1. The films he directed two decades ago still _____ large audiences today.

2. Of all the sorrows she had to _____, none was so great as her son’s being born blind.

3. He didn’t throw away the stockings until they were so _____ that they couldn’t be mended anymore.

4. He finally _____ sitting in the office all day and longed for a more active life.

5. He had a vision (幻想) of a society in which the members of different races could live together in _____ harmony.

6. He _____ so little _____ what he was doing that he cut his face while shaving. 7. Although he’s only 16 he has very _____ ideas about life. 8. He told such a funny story that everybody _____ laughter.

9. The concert at which the classical pianist _____ was a great success.

10. Although he made a great deal of money, he could never _____ his feelings of worthlessness. 11. We must consider all _____ of the plan before deciding.

12. _____ I know, it is not necessary to buy tickets in advance. They should be available at the door.

II. Replace the colored parts in the following sentences with words or expressions from the text that best keep the original meaning.

1. Having grown up in a church-going family, Bill is friendly, polite and willing to help anyone in need.

2. As soon as he turned into a side road, he started to run. 3. The teacher was very much surprised to find that the laziest student in her class had gained a mark of 100 in an important test.

4. Mr. Johnson had made up his mind to go to Africa with the medical team. His wife could do nothing but help him to pack up.

5. The twin brothers are like each other not only in appearance but also in character. 6. Bob was intelligent and capable of passing his exams without difficulty. 7. The boy has overcome his fear of failure and is making great progress in his studies. 8. She never buys cheap shoes for her son as they become useless very quickly. 9. The job proved to be harder than we had thought. 10. To everyone’s surprise, Jane has become a beautiful young woman. 11. Her death at the age of 21 was a very sad event for the family. 12. When she found her child was running a high fever, she immediately took him to hospital.

Q & A

Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

Many countries have made it illegal to chat into a hand-held mobile phone while driving. But the latest research further confirms that the danger lies less in what a motorist’s hands do when he takes a call than in what the conversation does to his brain. Even using a “hands-free” device can divert a

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driver’s attention to an alarming extent.

Melina Kunar of the University of Warwick, and Todd Horowitz of the Harvard Medical School ran a series of experiments in which two groups of volunteers had to pay attention and respond to a series of moving tasks on a computer screen that were reckoned equivalent in difficulty to driving. One group was left undistracted while the other had to engage in a conversation using a speakerphone. As Kunar and Horowitz report, those who were making the equivalent of a hands-free call had an average reaction time 212 milliseconds slower than those who were not. That, they calculate, would add 5.7 metres to the braking distance of a car travelling at 100kph. They also found that the group using the hands-free kit made 83% more errors in their tasks than those who were not talking.

To try to understand more about why this was, they tried two further tests. In one, members of a group were asked simply to repeat words spoken by the caller. In the other, they had to think of a word that began with the last letter of the word they had just heard. Those only repeating words performed the same as those with no distraction, but those with the more complicated task showed even worse reaction times—an average of 480 milliseconds extra delay. This shows that when people have to consider the information they hear carefully, it can impair their driving ability significantly.

Punishing people for using hand-held gadgets while driving is difficult enough, even though they can be seen from outside the car. Persuading people to switch their phones off altogether when they get behind the wheel might be the only answer. Who knows, they might even come to enjoy not having to take calls.

47. Carrying on a mobile phone conversation while one is driving is considered dangerous because it seriously distracts ___ ___ .

48. In the experiments, the two groups of volunteers were asked to handle a series of moving tasks which were considered ___ ___ . 49. Results of the experiments show that those who were making the equivalent of a hands-free call took to react than those who were not ___ ___ .

50. Further experiments reveal that participants tend to respond with extra delay if they are required to do ___ ___ .

51. The author believes persuasion, rather than ___ ___ , might be the only way to stop people from using mobile phones while driving.

Reading Passage One

There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the over-educated, eco-conscious types. So you can imagine the reaction when a recent USA Today investigation of air quality around the nation’s schools singled out those in the smugly (自鸣得意的) green village of Berkeley, Calif. as being among the worst in the country. The city’s public high school, as well as a number of daycare centers, preschools, elementary and middle schools, fell in the lowest 10%. Industrial pollution in our town had supposedly turned students into living science experiments breathing in a laboratory’s worth of heavy metals like manganese, chromium and nickel each day. This in a city that requires school cafeterias to serve organic meals. Great, I thought, organic lunch, toxic campus.

Since December, when the report came out, the mayor, neighborhood activists (活跃分子) and various parent-teacher associations have engaged in a fierce battle over its validity: over the guilt of the steel-casting factory on the western edge of town, over union jobs versus children’s health and over what, if anything, ought to be done. With all sides presenting their own experts armed with conflicting

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