广东省高中英语 素能提升演练(七) Unit2 新人教版必修2

素能提升演练（七） 必修2 Unit 2

Ⅰ. 单词拼写

1. We will all have a course in _______ (古代的) history this term. 2. Can I have a ________ (自愿者) to wash the dishes? 3. Electric lights have ________ (取代)candles.

4. They’ve been very ______ (迅速的)to deny these rumors.

5. We attended a dinner party _______（做东，招待）by the president of the company. 6. If you want to sell your product, you must ________（做广告）it. 7. He made a _______（定期的）visit to his parents. 8. The _____（基本的） theme of these stories never varies.

9. My sister bought this T-shirt at such a low price. She was really good at ________ (讨价还价).

10. He ________ (应受) to lose the game because he never trained hard. Ⅱ. 完成句子

1. I ______________________ take part in the competition if I don’t show my permit to the guards. (allow)

如果我不向保卫人员出示我的通行证，我就不被允许参加这次竞赛。

2. The five rings on the Olympic flag ____________________________________ ______ are blue, yellow, black, green and red. (stand)

代表着五大洲的奥运会会旗上的五环是蓝、黄、黑、绿和红色的。 3. The small window _________________________.（admit） 那个小窗户只能透进一点光线。

4. It was in the church __________________, representing their new start of life. (marry) 他们是在教堂结的婚，代表他们新生活的开始。

5. The report that the young man will be in charge of the company _______________ ______________________________. (deserve)

有关那位年轻人将要负责这个公司的报告值得认真考虑。

6. He ___________________ his wife:He will look after the children and his wife will cook.

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（bargain）

他和妻子达成一项协议：他照看孩子，妻子做饭。

7. A group of villagers surrounded the building, _________________ a young boy was standing. (top)

许多村民围着这幢楼，楼顶上站着一个小男孩。

8. As is well known to all, the 2012 Summer Olympics ______________ in London, the capital city of England. (host)

众所周知，2012夏季奥运会在英国首都——伦敦举办。

9. My father bought me a cellphone for my birthday, __________________________ after being used for three days. (charge) 我生日那天父亲给买了部手机，用三天就得充电。

10. As a matter of fact, getting rid of a bad habit is ____________________ forming a good one. (effort)

事实上，摆脱坏习惯和养成好习惯一样费劲。 Ⅲ. 阅读理解

(A)

When most people turn 21, they spend too much time partying and having fun. But when Adele turned 21, she did something completely different.

After going through a tough breakup(分手), the British singer turned her pain into glory and recorded one of the most moving albums of the year.

The album, 21, which was released in January, has already hit the charts in 14 countries, according to the Billboard magazine.

It also noted that Adele made history as the first artist since the Beatles to have two top five singles and two top five albums in the charts at the same time (Adele’s first album, 19, was released in 2008. Each album is named for her age when she wrote it).

Now, after touring around the world for almost a year, the DVD of her live concert, released on November 29, is Adele’s latest work.

Having topped the pre-order list of Amazon. com for over a month already, this one seems

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set to stay on top for a while.

Born in north London, Adele sang her way up honestly: In 2006, she was signed by England’s XL Recordings on the strength of (基于)a three-song demo(样本唱片) a friend of hers had posted on MySpace; within two years she had won the BRIT Awards ‘Critics’ Choice prize and been tipped by the BBC as the “Sound of 2008”.

In 2009 she got the best new artist Grammy Award, and went on a world tour in support of the album 19 with a sold-out show in Los Angeles.

According to Adele herself, much of the inspiration of her music comes from one single breakup. That’s probably what has made the singer’s success-that emotional certitude(确信), according to Dickins.

“The key to great singers is believing every single word they sing, ” he said. “And I think you believe every word that comes out of Adele’s mouth. You can feel her life force through her voice. ”

1. When she wrote album 19, she is at the age of ________. A. 21

B. 18

C. 20

D. 19

2. How many awards did Adele get? A. One.

B. Two.

C. Three.

D. Four.

3. The underlined word“released”can be best replaced by ________. A. recorded C. sold

B. came out

D. written

4. In Adele’s opinion, where does her inspiration of music mainly come from? A. Emotional certitude. C. A three-song demo.

B. One single breakup.

D. A world tour.

5. What can we infer from the passage? A. Adele went smooth in her career.

B. 21 was the most moving album of the year.

C. Her DVD topped the pre-order list of Amazon. com for only a month. D. She went on a world tour in support of the album 21. 6. 请用30个左右的词概括文章大意

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(B)

In a moment of personal crisis, how much help can you expect from a New York taxi driver? I began studying this question and found the answers interesting.

One morning I got into three different taxis and announced: “Well, it’s my first day back in New York in seven years. I’ve been in prison. ” Not a single driver replied, so I tried again. “Yeah, I shot a man in Reno, ” I explained, hoping the driver would ask me why, but nobody asked. The only response came from a Ghanaian driver: “Reno? That is in Nevada? ”

Taxi drivers were uniformly sympathetic when I said I’d just been fired. “This is America, ” a Haitian driver said. “One door is closed. Another is open. ” He argued against my plan to burn down my boss’s house: “If you do something silly and they put you away, you cannot look for another job. ” A Pakistani driver even turned down a chance to profit from my loss of hope: he refused to take me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge, a $20 trip. “Why do you want to go there? Go home and relax. Don’t worry. Take a new job. ”

One very hot weekday in July, while wearing a red ski mask and holding a stuffed pillowcase with the word “BANK” on it, I tried hailing a taxi five times outside different banks. The driver picked me up every time. My ride with a Haitian driver was typical of the superb assistance I received.

“Is anyone following us? ”

“No, ” said the driver, looking in his rearview mirror at traffic and me.

“Let’s go across the park, ” I said. “I just robbed the bank there. I got $25, 000. ” “$25, 000? ” he asked.

“Yeah, you think it was wrong to take it? ”

“No, man, I work 8 hours and I don’t make almost $70. If I can do that, I do it too. ” As we approached 86th and Lexington, I pointed to the Chemical Bank.

“Hey, there’s another bank, ” I said, “Could you wait here a minute while I go inside? ” “No, I can’t wait. Pay me now. ” His reluctance may have had something to do with money—

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