高考真题题组训练(五)Ⅰ.语法填空(2016全国Ⅱ)阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
If you feel stressed by responsibilities at work,you should take a step back and identify(识别) those of 1. (great) and less importance.Then,handle the most important tasks first so you’ll feel a real sense of 2. (achieve). Leaving the less important things until tomorrow 3. (be) often acceptable.Most of us are more focused 4. our tasks in the morning than we are later in the day.So,get an early start and try to be as productive 5. possible before lunch.This will give you the confidence you need to get you through the afternoon and go home feeling accomplished.Recent 6. (study) show that we are far more productive at work if we take short breaks 7. (regular).Give your body and brain a rest by stepping outside for 8. while,exercising,or doing something you enjoy.If you find something you love doing outside of the office,you’ll be less likely 9. (bring) your work home.It could beanything-gardening,cooking,music,sports-but whatever it is,10. (make) sure it’s a relief from daily stress rather than another thing to worry about.语篇解读:这是一篇说明文。
该文告诉我们当工作压力大时,应如何缓解压力。
答案及剖析:1.greater 与less是并列关系,应用比较级。
2.achievement 其前面有介词of,应用名词形式作介词的宾语。
3.is v.-ing 形式作主语,谓语动词应用第三人称单数。
全文说明的是一种生活常识,应用一般现在时。
4.on 短语be focused on集中于……大多数人早晨对任务的注意力要比晚些时候的注意力更集中。
5.as 考查固定搭配。
短语as...as possible尽可能……6.studies 本句的谓语动词是show,说明主语应为复数形式。
7.regularly 考查副词。
本句中使用副词regularly作状语修饰动词短语take short breaks。
8.a 介词短语for a while 是固定搭配,表示“一会儿”。
该处是指“让你的身体和大脑通过外出走走的方式休息一会儿”。
9.to bring be likely to do sth.是一种常见用法。
本处表示“如果你找到了下班后你喜欢做的事,你就不太可能把工作带回家去做”。
10.make 本句为祈使句,应用动词原形。
Ⅱ.阅读理解(2016全国Ⅲ,B)On one of her trips to New York several years ago,Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.They settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes,another customer was approaching their table.“Hey,aren’t you from Mississippi?”the elegant,white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger.“I’m from Mississippi too.”Without a second thought,the woman joined the Welty party.When her dinner partner showed up,she also pulled up a chair.“They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,”Welty said.“I didn’t know what my New York friends were thinking.”Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine.By the time the group got up to leave,it was pouring outside.Welty’s new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab.Heading back downtown toward her hotel,her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion (团聚).“My friend said: ‘Now we believe your stories,’”Welty added.“And I said: ‘Now you know.These are the people that make me write them.’”Sitting on a sofa in her room,Welty,a slim figure in a simple gray dress,looked pleased with this explanation.“I don’t make them up,”she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years.“I don’t have to.”Beauticians,bartenders,piano players and people with purple hats,Welty’s people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends,from walks through thestreets of her native Jackson,Miss.,from conversations overheard on a bus.It annoys Welty that,at 78,her left ear has now given out.Sometimes,sitting on a bus or a train,she hears only a fragment(片断) of a particularly interesting story.1.What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?A.Two strangers joined her.B.Her childhood friends came in.C.A heavy rain ruined the dinner.D.Some people held a party there.2.The underlined word “them”in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty’s .A.readersB.partiesC.friendsD.stories3.What can we learn about the characters in Welty’s fiction?A.They live in big cities.B.They are mostly women.C.They come from real life.D.They are pleasure seekers.语篇解读:这是一篇记叙文。
Welty根据亲身经历和现实生活中的有趣故事创作小说。
许许多多的真人真事成了Welty笔下的材料。
答案及剖析:1.A 细节理解题。
由文章第二段和第三段内容可知,有两个陌生人加入到了Welty在咖啡馆里的聚会中。
一个是stranger,另一个是her dinner partner。
2.D 代词指代题。
从第六段的“My friend said:‘Now we believe your stories,’”和These are the people that make me write them.可知them指代的是句中的stories。
3.C 推理判断题。
根据文章的描述可知,Welty笔下的人物来源于现实生活。
Ⅲ.完形填空(2016浙江)During the war,my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California.I went to live there in order to be 1 him.I hated the place.I had never 2 been so unhappy.My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty,and I was left in a tiny shack(棚屋) alone.The heat was 3 —almost 125°F even in the shade ofa cactus(仙人掌). 4 a soul to talk to.The wind blew non-stop,and all the food I ate,and the very air I breathed,were 5 with sand,sand,sand!I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents.I told them I was 6 and coming back home.I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer.I 7 be in prison!My father answered my 8 with just two lines—two lines that will always sing in my 9 —two lines that completely changed my life:Two men looked out from prison bars,One saw the mud,the other saw the stars.I read those two lines 10 .I was ashamed of myself.I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present 11 ; I would look for the stars.I made friends with the natives,and their 12 amazed me.They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had 13 to sell to tourists.I studied the delightful forms of the cactus.I watched for the desert sunsets,and 14 for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the sands of the desert had been an ocean 15 .What brought about this 16 change in me?The desert hadn’t changed, 17 I had.I had changed my 18 .And by doing so,I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing 19 of my life.I was excited by this new world that I had discovered.I had looked out of my self-created prison and 20 the stars.1. A.off B.behindC.nearD.beyondB.alreadyC.thenD.stillB.incomprehensibleC.uncontrollableD.unbearableB.NotC.ManyD.SuchB.filledC.buriedD.chargedup B.keeping upC.giving upD.getting upto B.might wellC.would ratherD.had betterB.callC.questionD.letterB.imaginationC.considerationD.memoryand over B.by and byC.up and downD.now and thenB.occupationC.situationD.relationshipB.reactionC.guidanceD.purposeB.failedC.managedD.happenedB.huntedC.waitedD.headedB.surfaceC.rockD.levelB.challengingC.puzzlingD.astonishingB.butC.forD.orB.principleC.identityD.standardB.operationC.affairD.adventureB.countedC.foundD.reached语篇解读:本文是一篇记叙文。