步步高2014版通用高考英语大二轮复习专题四 情态动词与虚拟语气

C．behind 答案 A

解析 这里用hardly...without的双重否定表示肯定的含义：很幸运，我几乎从来没有拉过空车。 12．A.follow

C．envy 答案 A

解析 从下文叙述判断选A项，从来不跟在跑空车的出租车后面，这样的车向南开，他就开车往北去。follow跟随；admire羡慕；envy 嫉妒；meet遇到。 13．A.route

答案 D

解析 与下文的“狭窄的街道”呼应，这里应选D项表示“公路”。route路，(公共汽车和列车等的)常规路线；path小路，路；railway铁路；highway公路，公用通道。 14．A.intelligence

答案 B

解析 从前文这个司机的叙述看，他很满意自己开出租车的生活，因此选B项。 15．A.made

答案 D

解析 从搭配看，这里用take pride in表示“以??自豪”。 16．A.buildings

C．standard 答案 B

解析 从生活常识可知，高山上的氧气稀薄，因此选B项。 17．A.gains

答案 A

解析 就像一句老话所说的，“不以物喜，不以己悲”(不以物质的收获为喜，不以个人的挫折为痛苦)。gain获得；concern关心；support支持；loss失去。 18．A.special

C．simple 答案 C

解析 就像这个司机这样的境界，过一种简单而内心平静的生活。simple与前面的high相对，符合语境。 19．A.angry

B．content D．curious

C．dangerous

B．happy D．original

B．concerns D．losses

C．supports

B．mountains D．heaven

B．held D．took

C．caught

B．satisfaction D．honesty

C．competition

B．path D．highway

C．railway

B．admire D．meet

D．beside

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答案 D

解析 此情此景，不禁让我感到不寻常。curious不寻常的，稀罕的，符合语境。 20．A.morning

C．moment 答案 B

解析 文章开头就暗示了故事发生的时间是晚上。 Ⅱ.阅读理解

A

French novelist Jules Verne (1828～1905) is often called the father of science fictions.Although he was not a great traveller himself，his characters journeyed to the moon (in From Earth to Moon)，Under the sea (in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)，into a volcano (in A Journey to the Centre of the Earth)，around the world (in Around the World in Eighty Days) and to many other places.

Jules Verne was born in the French city of Nantes in 1828.When he was a boy he ran away from home to work on a ship.However，his father soon found him and brought him home.After that he decided that any future travel he did would be in books.In 1847，his father sent Jules to Paris to study to be a lawyer.Even though he was busy writing，Verne passed his exams in 1849 with high marks.

When Jules told his father he did not want to be a lawyer，his father was very angry.He stopped sending his son any money，so Jules had to earn a living by his writing.Over the next few years he wrote many stories and plays which brought him only a little money.Then，in 1856，he met Honorine de Viane，a rich，young widow with two children.The couple married the next year and their only child Michel was born in 1862.

After his marriage，Verne worked as a businessman in Paris.However，he was not very successful at his job and spent most of his time writing books and doing research for the next one.In 1863，he published his novel Five Weeks in a Balloon and in the following year he published A Journey to the Centre of the Earth which brought him fame.His books became so popular and earned him so much money that he was able to leave his job and work full time on his writing.

In his lifetime，Jules Verne wrote more than 50 books and he became a rich man.Many of this imaginative novels have been turned into films. 1．Jules Verne became rich because of his________.

A．father C．business 答案 D

解析 细节理解题。由文章倒数第二段最后一句可知，是写作使Jules Verne取得了巨大的成功，变得非常富有。

2．When Jules Verne was brought home by his father，he decided that________.

B．marriage D．writing

B．night D．season

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A．he would go on more travels in the future B．he would do as his father required

C．he would be devoted to writing about future travels D．he would stop writing about future travels 答案 C

解析 细节理解题。由文章第二段第四句可知，遭到父亲的阻挠以后，Jules Verne决定用书来描写自己未来的旅行。

3．Which book can be considered as a turning point in Jules Verne’s life?

A．Five Weeks in a Balloon.

B．A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. C．From Earth to Moon.

D．Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 答案 B

解析 细节理解题。由文章倒数第二段可知，1864年Jules Verne出版的《地心之旅》使他成名了。

4．What can we infer from the passage?

A．Jules Verne was appreciated by film makers. B．Jules Verne was not clever enough to learn law.

C．Jules Verne’s stories and plays won him big fame in the 1850s. D．Jules Verne’s wife helped him a lot in his writing career. 答案 A

解析 推理判断题。由文章最后一段可知，Jules Verne的许多作品被拍成了电影，故推测他深受电影人的喜爱。

B

How many times have you got upset because someone wasn’t doing his job，because your child isn’t behaving？How many times have you been irritated (恼怒的) when you’ve planned something carefully and things didn’t go as you’d hoped?

This kind of anger and irritation happens to all of us—it’s part of the human experiences. One thing that irritates me is when people talk during a movie，or cut me off in traffic.Actually，I have a lot of these little annoyances—don’t we all？And it isn’t always easy to find peace when you’ve become upset or irritated.

Let me tell you a little secret to finding peace of mind：see_the_glass_as_already_broken. See，the cause of our stress，anger and irritation is that things don’t go the way we like，the way we expect them to.Think of how many times this has been true for you.And so the solution is simple：expect things to go wrong，expect things to be different than we hoped or planned，expect the unexpected to happen.And accept it.

One quick example：on our recent trip to Japan，I told my kids to expect things to go wrong—they always do on a trip.I told them，“See it as part of the adventure.”

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And this worked like a charm.When we inevitably (不可避免地) took the wrong train on a foreign-language subway system，or when it rained on the day we went to Disney Sea，or when we took three trains and walked 10 blocks only to find the National Children’s Castle closed on Mondays...they said，“It’s part of the adventure！” And it was all OK—we didn’t get too bothered.

So when the nice glass you bought inevitably falls and breaks some day，you might get upset.But things will be different，if you see the glass as already broken，from the day you get it.You know it’ll break some day，so from the beginning，see it as already broken.Be a time-traveler，or someone with time-traveling vision，and see the future of this glass，from this moment until it inevitably breaks.And when it breaks，you won’t be upset or sad—because it was already broken，from the day you got it.And you’ll realize that every moment you have with it is precious.

5．The author would probably agree that________.

A．we should control our anger and irritation B．we must get well prepared for the future

C．optimism can help us overcome our anger and irritation D．anger and irritation is a natural part of our life 答案 D

解析 细节理解题。由文章第二段可知，作者认为，生气和发怒是我们生活中不可缺少的部分。C项由文章内容不能得出。 6．The purpose of the author is to________.

A．tell us his own experience in life B．advise us how to find peace of mind C．tell us a happy trip he took with his children D．ask us to see things from both sides 答案 B

解析 推理判断题。根据文章的结尾可推断出作者的写作意图，作者是想告诉我们怎样保持良好的心态。

7．By the underlined part (in Para.4)，the author tells us to________.

A．get ready for the worst result of things B．enjoy the process of things C．expect little from life

D．find the relationship between cause and effect 答案 A

解析 细节理解题。由下文可知，作者用形象的比喻说明，只要我们心里想着事情最坏的结果，在发生不好的事情时，就依旧可以保持平静的心态。 8．We can learn from the passage that the author________.

A．often gets angry in his life

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