提分专练（四）Ⅰ.完形填空All of us go through some difficult times as we approach teenage years. It's the age when we have to deal with the most __1__ in our life. This transition (过渡) from childhood to adulthood is __2__ for some, but rough for others. The most important thing about being a teenager is __3__. When we are teenagers, we would get blamed or even punished for anything wrong we do. Unlike before when we were small kids, even if we made a big trouble, we didn't need to pay anything for it.It's all not so __4__ about being a teenager though. We don't have to have our __5__ take us to somewhere we want to go or we couldn't go before. We can have __6__ with friends or even alone, which we couldn't have because we were too __7__ to know what pleasure is! It's a very enjoyable time of life. During this age, we are old enough to __8__ what is good for us, and make decisions without __9__ others.But like the saying goes, “All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue __10__.” During this period, we are having much __11__ for our studies. If we don't pass, we won't get jobs, and things will take a turn for the __12__. With the present world economy in __13__， we have to do really, really well in our __14__ for a job. Adults say that their __15__ is the hardest part of life. But I think the transition from a kid to an adult is much __16__ than being already an adult. What we do in our teenage years will __17__ what we become and how we lead our life in the future.In conclusion, it is quite __18__ that parents put much pressure on an already stressed out teenager. If they realized that, living condition for teenagers would be much better, __19__ for the teens ourselves we should get to know what is best for us. What's more, we should understand the right __20__ of life we choose at this age can make us happy for the rest of our existence.语篇解读：本文主要介绍了青春期的特点，并告诉我们应如何度过青春期。
1．A.chances B．changesC．feelings D．expectations解析：选B 青春期是我们经历人生中最大“改变(changes)”的时期。
2．A.smooth B．practicalC．demanding D．necessary解析：选A 根据下文“对于一些年轻人而言，青春期难熬”可知“对于另一些年轻人而言，青春期‘轻松(smooth)’过去”。
3．A.knowledge B．independenceC．confidence D．responsibility解析：选D 根据本段最后一句“当我们是孩子时，我们即使惹了大麻烦也不必负责”可知青少年必须“负责(responsibility)”。
4．A.easy B．strangeC．bad D．interesting解析：选C 本段主要说明青春期也有“好的(not bad)”一面。
5．A.guides B．partnersC．parents D．friends解析：选C 我们不必要求“父母(parents)”带我们去想去的地方。
6．A.fun B．troubleC．relation D．business解析：选A 我们可以同朋友一起“玩乐(fun)”。
relation意为“关系”。
7．A.proud B．youngC．smart D．mature解析：选B 当年我们没有感到那些快乐，是因为那时我们太“年轻(young)”，不知快乐的滋味。
8．A.predict B．rememberC．imagine D．understand解析：选D 在这个时期，我们大了，可以“知晓(understand)”什么对我们有益了。
9．A.guiding B．helpingC．inviting D．consulting解析：选D 我们现在可以不必“询问(consulting)”别人来作出决定。
10．A.occasionally B．temporarilyC．forever D．increasingly解析：选C 所有好的事情都会结束，而不好的事情都可以“永远(forever)”持续下去。
11．A.pressure B．passionC．motivation D．panic解析：选 A 青春期时我们有学习“压力(pressure)”。
passion意为“激情”；motivation意为“激励”；panic意为“恐慌”。
12．A.better B．worseC．fewer D．more解析：选B 如果不能通过考试，我们就得不到工作，情况就会变得“更糟(worse)”。
13．A.decline B．hopeC．increase D．debt解析：选A 参见下题解析。
14．A.contribution B．educationC．application D．qualification解析：选 B 当今世界经济“下滑(decline)”，我们必须有非常良好的“教育(education)”以获取工作。
contribution意为“贡献”；application意为“运用”；qualification意为“资格”。
15．A.promotion B．workC．experience D．age解析：选D 成年人认为他们那个“年龄(age)”最艰难。
promotion意为“提高”；work 意为“工作”；experience意为“经验”。
16．A.harder B．happierC．easier D．lighter解析：选A 我认为度过青春期比已成年“更艰难(harder)”。
17．A.reflect B．confirmC．determine D．identify解析：选C 我们在青春期所做的一切将“决定(determine)”我们的未来。
18．A.vital B．urgentC．common D．unnecessary解析：选D 总而言之，父母“没有必要(unnecessary)”给我们压力，因为我们已经有很大的压力了。
19．A.thus B．althoughC．while D．because解析：选 C 如果父母认识到我们已有很大压力，我们感觉就会更好一点；“但是(while)”我们也应该知道怎么做才对我们最好。
20．A.print B．wayC．condition D．power解析：选B 我们应该理解青春期时所选择的正确的生活“方式(way)”能让我们的未来更幸福。
Ⅱ.任务型阅读“A life of usefulness, literature, and religion, was not by any means a life of event，” wrote Henry Austen of his unmarried sister Jane. This image of thesequestered (与世隔绝的) author persisted for years. But contemporary scholars have reappraised “dear Aunt Jane” as an independent and worldlywise woman who used a sardonic (嘲弄的) pen. She continues to fascinate, 200 years after the publication of Pride and Prejudice. This is the charm of a new biography from Paula Byrne, a British author, who breathes yet more life into Austen and her works by considering the objects that populated her days.Each chapter is organised around a single thing. Some are Austen's possessions, such as a topaz cross she received from her brother. Others are simply from the period, such as an upmarket carriage, which helps to illustrate how welltravelled she was and how transport indicates status in her novels. Broadly chronological (按发生时间顺序排列的) , this thematic approach offers a revealing picture of Austen and a lively social history.Austen's formative years are the most interesting. Three notebooks contain her “Juvenilia” — the stories and poems she wrote as a teenager. Her greatest gifts are here in embryo (在萌芽时期), writes Ms Byrne, clearly appreciating Austen's criticism of famous figures. But she reserved her choicest words of wit for her sister Cassandra. When they were not living together they corresponded frequently, and Austen often tried out different voices —“gossipy, jokey, affectionate” — to make her laugh.During this time the movements of family followed the flow of inheritance (继承): a matter that drives Austen's writing. An East Indian shawl (披肩) introduces Aunt Phila — who at 21 sailed to Bengal in order to find a husband — and her daughter, Eliza. A romantic figure, Eliza first married a man who died in the French Revolution, and later married Austen's brother Henry. This spoiled cousin is fictionalised as Mary Crawford in “Mansfield Park”. Au sten also drew on Henry's military experience for her description of attractive redcoats in Pride and Prejudice. Her officer brothers helped inform references to the navy.The book's liveliest passages are about city life and romance. Austen frequently visited London and lived in Bath for years. She was probably not a beauty but her wit and intelligence won many lovely hearts. None of them won her heart, but many are recalled with laughter in her letters.Ms Byrne has an obvious affection for Jane Austen. This book may offer few revelations, but it paints a fresh and vivid picture of a woman none can imitate.3．uneventful/ordinary 4.fascination 5.lively 6.gift7．changeable/various/different 8.realistic9．single/unmarried 10.inimitable/uniqueⅢ.书面表达(2019·南京、盐城高三模拟)请认真阅读下面有关公共图书馆的文字及相关图表，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。