高考英语专题练习（二十五） 语法填空＋阅读理解＋书面表达
Ⅰ．语法填空
A
When you take a walk in any of the cities in the West, you often see a lot of people walking with dogs. 1．________ is still true that the dog is the most useful and faithful animal in the world．But the reasons why people keep a dog 2．________ （change）. In the old days, people used to train dogs to protect themselves against the attacks 3．________ other beasts. And later they came 4．________ （realize） that the dog was not only useful 5．________ willing to obey its master. For example, when people used dogs for hunting, the dogs would not eat 6．________ they caught without permission. But now people in the city need not protect themselves against attacks of animals. Why do they keep dogs, then? Some people keep dogs to protect themselves from robbery, but the 7．________ （important） reason is for companionship. For a child, 8．________ dog is his best friend when he has no friends to play with; for a young couple, a dog is 9．________ child when they have no children ; for old couples, a dog is also their child when their real children have grown up. So the main reason why people 10．________ dogs has changed from protection to friendship.
B
Jenny: What did you think when your dad first suggested building a hand for you with a 3D printer?
________ would be very hard to achieve. But it wasn't. It was 2．________ （actual） a lot Leon: It seemed that 1．of fun to make.
Jenny: How often do you wear the hand?
Leon: I don't wear it all the time. I use it like a tool. I only use it 3．________ I need it. Jenny: How does the hand allow you to do things you couldn't do before?
Leon: It really helps me do things 4．________ （well）. I can carry more than one thing now. I'm 5．________ to hold two grocery bags and help my mom carry them. 6．________ the hand, I can rest a grocery bag on my left arm, but because that arm is shorter than the other one, 7．________ not a lot of room for the bag to rest on. Jenny: How does it feel when you're 8．________ （wear） it?
Leon: It's pretty comfortable. 9．________ there are still some edges that we need to smooth out because they dig into my skin.
Jenny: What was the 10．________ （react） of the kids at your school when they saw the hand?
Leon: They wouldn't leave me alone! They all wanted to touch it and they asked me a lot of questions about it. Ⅱ．阅读理解
A
Celebrities（名人） are more in love with themselves than the average person, according to a new study. In case anyone needed proof, a new study supports the widely held perception: famous people are more narcissistic（自我陶醉的）, which means they are more in love with themselves than the average person is. That is the conclusion drawn by Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young of the University of Southern California, whose study of
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200 celebrities will appear in the Journal of Research in Personality.
It is not the entertainment industry that turns stars into narcissists, the study found．Rather, it suggests, the self-adoring（自恋的） people seek jobs in show business. The study, whose subjects were all celebrities from Pinsky's “Love line” radio show, found that reality TV stars were the most narcissistic of all celebrities. Female stars were also more likely than the male stars to exhibit narcissistic characteristics.
It's “common sense” that celebrities are narcissists, said Jeremy Ritzlin, a longtime Hollywood psychologist who has not seen the study. “Everyone knows famous people are really in love with themselves, ” he said．“So it would be natural for narcissists to be attracted toward the stage and spotlight, where other people will also think highly of them.”
Pinsky, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at USC's Keck School of Medicine, said narcissists desire attention, are overconfident, behave strangely and lack sympathy. “However, they are easily-liked, especially on first meeting, are outgoing and perform well in public,” added Pinsky, who has hosted the radio show “Love line” for 20 years.
Celebrity guests appearing on the program were randomly chosen to participate in the study. They anonymously took the Narcissistic Personality Inventory test, which rates self-love levels based on seven （匿名地）components: superiority, exhibitionism, entitlement, vanity, authority, exploitativeness, and self-sufficiency. 1．Who are most likely to be self-adoring in the study? __________ A．The women stars. B．The men stars. C．The average people.
D．It is not mentioned in the passage.
2．According to the fourth paragraph, the fact “celebrities are narcissists” ________. A．is common in the entertainment industry B．is a misunderstanding of Jeremy Ritzlin C．is known to most of the people D．is unreal on the stage
3．According to Pinsky, narcissists may NOT________. A．hope to attract attention B．be kind to poor people C．believe in themselves D．be liked by others easily
4．The author of this passage wants to tell us________. A．how psychologists make a study
B．how entertainment industry produces celebrities C．how people think of the famous stars D．how celebrities feel about themselves
B
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Recently, my mother asked me to drop off some letters at the post office and pick up some stamps for her. Without giving it a thought, I took the letters and purchased her stamps.
A few days later, she mentioned that one of the letters I had mailed was missing a stamp, and asked me if I had put a stamp on it. She had remembered asking me to put a stamp on it, though I certainly had not heard her. So, unfortunately, it looked like the letter, which was a bill of course, would come back marked “Return to Sender for Insufficient Postage”. A few days went by and I returned to the post office to pick up our mail. While I was there, I saw the postmaster and happened to tell him about Mom's letter missing the stamp. I asked him to be on the lookout for it coming back. It was then that he told me history. “You know,” he said, “I immediately saw after you had dropped the mail off that your letter was missing a stamp. I also noticed that it was a bill for a credit card company. I thought to myself that you have always been kind to me and my partner, and I wanted to return the favor. So, to prevent your mother from getting charged a late fee from the credit card company, I took money from our change dish （extra pennies for folks who need one）, and purchased a stamp for you.”
When I heard it, I couldn't believe it. What a blessing that was! I thanked him over and over again for putting the stamp on the letter for us. Then, I immediately dumped（倾倒） all the change out of my purse and into the penny dish in order to help others out in the future. When I got home, I was able to tell Mom the good news. This was kindness karma（因果报应） in action, I believe! 5．The letter was missing a stamp because the author ________. A．forgot to buy a stamp for it B．didn't take enough money
C．may not know he should put a stamp on it D．was not asked to put a stamp on it
6．What does the underlined word “Insufficient” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? _________ A．Lacking. C．False.
B．Heavy. D．Hard．
7．Why did the postmaster buy a stamp for the letter? __________ A．Because it was the responsibility of his job． B．Because the author had asked him to do so. C．Because the author was the postmaster's friend. D．Because the postmaster wanted to pay the author back.
8．It can be inferred from the last paragraph that the author ________. A．didn't believe what the postmaster said B．thought the postmaster misunderstood him
C．gave the postmaster the money for buying a stamp for him
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D．thought highly of what the postmaster did Ⅲ．书面表达
假如你是李华,你的美国朋友Tom几天前给你发来电子邮件,询问你的寒假生活情况,请根据以下要点给他回一封邮件: 1．感谢Tom的来信; 2．假期生活情况总体介绍; 3．假期中的收获和遗憾.
注意: 1．词数100左右;
2．可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯; 3．开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数.
Dear Tom,
How are things going on with you?
___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ All the best.
Yours ever,______
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高考英语专题练习（二十五） 语法填空＋阅读理解＋书面表达
答 案
Ⅰ．A 1．It
2．have changed 6．what 10．keep 2．actually 6．Without 10．reaction
6~8．ADD
3．when 7．there's
4．better 8．wearing
3．by/from/of
4．to realize 8．A
5．but (also) 9．their B 1．it
5．able 9．But Ⅱ． 1~5．ACBDC Ⅲ．
Dear Tom,
7．most important
How are things going on with you? You cannot imagine what a pleasant surprise it is to have heard from you! In your email you asked about how I spent my winter vacation. Well, my winter vacation lasted about half a month. During the first few days, I went over my lessons and finished the assignments my teachers had set me. And then came the Spring Festival, which as you may already know, is one of the most important traditional festivals for us Chinese. During the festival, I had great fun staying with my family, helping them with the routine housework as well as visiting friends and relatives. Meanwhile, I, together with several of my classmates, carried out some voluntary work in our local home for the elderly. The winter vacation had fled by before I realized it. Now my new term has begun, and I am buried in my lessons as usual.
I'd appreciate it if you could tell me how you spent your winter vacation. And hope to hear from you pretty soon.
All the best.
Yours ever,
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高考英语-语法填空+阅读理解+书面表达-专题练习(二十五)(含答案与解析)
