高考题型规范练(一)
高考题型规范练第2页 模块一 Unit 1 School life Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
A
Staying focused during senior year can be a challenge.But making the year meaningful has its rewards.These high school seniors describe their strategies for staying interested and involved in school.
How are you getting the most out of senior year?
I have picked up the pace by taking a stricter curriculum than in my junior year.My high school is a competitive one,so I am driven much harder to compete with my friends and to try very hard for an outstanding scholastic record.
—David
For electives,I took Portfolio Art and Modern Poetry last semester,and I’m presently taking Modern America and Photography.I want my senior year to be fun and I want to avoid senioritis (高年级倦怠症),so I took those elective classes because they’re in areas I love.
—Sarah
Since it is the last year of high school,I am trying to be a part of as many school activities as possible.Yearbook has continued to be my most valuable course for the fourth year because of the life lessons I learn in it.
—Alexander
My senior year has been the best year yet.I have an internship (实习) at a community theater,and the experience has been amazing.By being involved in the drama club,I found something I love,and I now feel ready to face whatever may come in my future.
—Katie
Track and field has been the highlight of my year and has gotten me through so many boring days that could have led to senioritis.
—Tahlia
Presently,I am taking two courses at a local college.After getting a little taste of college life,I’m crazy about it!I love the challenges as well as the freedom.
—Kayla
【语篇导读】本文是应用文。文章主要介绍了六名高中毕业班的学生为了让自己的学校生活有意义而做的努力。
1.What does Sarah do in her senior year? A.Take college courses. B.Take her favorite subjects.
C.Work hard for academic achievement.
D.Participate in various school activities. 答案B 解析细节理解题。由Sarah所说的话可知,她选择了《现代美国》和《摄影》两门自己喜欢的选修课,是为了避免高年级倦怠症,让自己高中的最后一年充满乐趣。 2.What do we know about Katie’s internship experience? A.It helped her cure senioritis. B.It prepared her for her future. C.It raised her community spirit. D.It was demanding and stressful. 答案B 解析细节理解题。由倒数第三段中的“I now feel ready to face whatever may come in my future”可知,在社区剧院的实习经历让Katie做好准备面对未来的一切可能。 3.What can we infer about the six high school seniors? A.They suffer from senioritis to some degree. B.They consider senior year boring and frustrating. C.They do part-time jobs to enrich their school life. D.They make their senior year count with great effort. 答案D 解析推理判断题。由第一段中的“These high school seniors describe their strategies for staying interested and involved in school.”以及文中的描述可知,这六名高中毕业班的学生都努力让自己的学校生活充实、有意义。
B
Saturday,11 July,1942 Dear Kitty,
Daddy,Mummy and Margot can’t get used to the sound of the Westertoren clock yet,which tells us the time every quarter of an hour.I can.I loved it from the start,and especially in the night it’s a faithful friend.I expect you will be interested to hear what it feels like to “disappear”; well,all I can say is that I don’t know myself yet.I don’t think I shall ever feel really at home in this house,but that does not mean that I hate it here.It is more like being on vacation in a very strange boarding house.Rather a mad idea,perhaps,but that is how it strikes me.The “Secret Annexe” is an ideal hiding place.Although it is damp(潮湿的),you’d never find such a comfortable hiding place anywhere in the whole of Holland.Our little room looked very empty at first with nothing on the walls; but thanks to Daddy who had brought my film-star collection and picture postcards on beforehand,and with the aid of paste pot(浆糊) and brush,I have changed the walls into one big picture.
Margot and Mummy are a little bit better now.Mummy felt well enough to cook some soup for the first time yesterday,but then forgot all about it,while she was downstairs talking,so the peas were burned to a cinder and refused to leave the pan.I went to the private office yesterday evening and turned on the radio.I was so terribly frightened that someone might hear it that I simply begged Daddy to come upstairs with me.Mummy understood how I felt and came too.We are very nervous in other ways,too,that the neighbors might hear us or see something going on.We made curtains straight away on the first day.
Someone is calling me.
Yours, Anne
【语篇导读】本文选自《安妮日记》,此部分描写了Anne一家为躲避纳粹而找的藏身之处的状况和她当时的心情。
4.What did Anne do with the walls?
A.She painted them white with the help of her dad. B.She decorated them with picture postcards. C.She drew colorful pictures on them. D.She covered them with old curtains. 答案B 解析细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句中的“thanks to Daddy who had brought my film-star collection and picture postcards on beforehand,and with the aid of paste pot and brush,I have changed the walls into one big picture”可知选B项。
5.What can we know about Anne according to Paragraph 1? A.She disliked the hiding place. B.She disliked the Westertoren clock. C.She missed her hometown in Holland. D.She tried to make the room more homelike. 答案D 解析细节理解题。第一段提到,Anne 一家的藏身之处非常潮湿,家徒四壁,但是Anne 用明信片把墙壁装饰了一番,故可知她很努力地想要把这个地方变得更像家一样。
6.What does the underlined part “were burned to a cinder” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? A.The peas were overcooked. B.The peas were served slowly. C.The peas tasted strange. D.The peas looked ugly. 答案A 解析词义猜测题。根据上文的“forgot all about it”和下文的“refused to leave the pan”可知,豌豆糊锅了。
7.Which of the following words can best describe Anne? A.Careful and helpful. B.Creative and patient. C.Adaptable and sensitive.
D.Warm-hearted and easy-going. 答案C 解析推理判断题。面对着如此境地,Anne没有怨天尤人,而且很快适应了新的环境,第一段的“that does not mean that I hate it here”和“a good hiding place”都说明她适应力强。第二段中提到她唯恐屋外有人发现他们,由此可以看出她很敏感。故选C项。
C
Reducing class size has traditionally been seen as an important way to improve a student’s educational experience.
Many public opinion studies have shown that both teachers and parents favor smaller class sizes.Teachers who go on strike are often seeking lower classroom numbers,among other better working conditions.Many often believe that smaller classes would permit teachers to give more personal attention to their students.This can theoretically lead to improved academic results for students.
But one recent study suggests there is not much research-based evidence to support this idea. The researchers say the idea of smaller class sizes has been studied and debated for many years.However,they noted a lack of clear research to support class-size reductions.
The study notes that one of the main problems with reducing class size is that it can have very high costs.Increasing class size is one of the most common ways school systems control education
spending.Financial limitations make it very difficult for many schools to reduce the number of students in the classroom.
The researchers’ goal was to examine the major research studies already completed on the subject.They especially centered on studies that tried to measure whether smaller class size resulted in greater academic success for students.
The researchers concluded that there is some evidence to suggest that reducing class size may lead to some improvement in a student’s reading achievement.But they said “the effect is very small.” They found just a 53-percent chance that a randomly selected test score of a student from a small class would be higher than the selected score of a student from a larger class.For mathematics achievement,the result was 49 percent.This led the researchers to conclude that there would be no benefit at all to math students in a smaller class size.
【语篇导读】本文是说明文。一直以来,人们都讨论并支持小班化教学,认为这样有利于学生的学习提高。但最新的研究发现小班化教学是否有利于学生学习这一结论还缺乏证据,并且研究结果表明班级大小对学生成绩的影响很小。
8.What’s teachers’ attitude toward reducing class size according to public opinion studies? A.Indifferent. C.Worried. 答案D 解析推理判断题。根据第二段的首句“Many public opinion studies have shown that both teachers and parents favor smaller class sizes.”可知,老师们和家长们都支持小班化,认为这样对学生学习有利,同时可改善教师的工作条件。
B.Negative. D.Supportive.
9.Why do many schools increase class size? A.To save the education expenses. B.To help schools make more money. C.To attract more students to study. D.To improve students’ academic results. 答案A 解析细节理解题。根据第五段中的“Increasing class size is one of the most common ways school systems control education spending.”可知,学校使用大班教学是为了节约教学成本。小班化教学耗费很大。
10.What can we know about reducing class size? A.It doesn’t affect students’ results at all. B.It makes a little difference in some aspects. C.It has been proved beneficial for all the students. D.It isn’t practical because parents are against it. 答案B 解析推理判断题。根据全文内容,尤其是最后一段中的前两句可知,通过研究对比,小班教学对学生某方面的成绩有一定的影响,但综合而言影响不大。 11.What can be a best title for the text? A.How will the class size develop in the future? B.What class size will we use in our future teaching? C.Does smaller class size affect students’ results? D.Why does reducing class size improve students’ results? 答案C 解析主旨大意题。一直以来,人们都讨论并支持小班化教学,认为这样有利于学生的学习提高。但最新的研究发现小班化教学是否有利于学生学习这一结论还缺乏证据。研究结果表明班级大小对学生成绩的影响很小。因此,C项最能体现文章的主旨。
D
If you were to travel back in time to the tenth century,you probably wouldn’t be able to understand a sentence that anyone said to you.They’d be speaking Old English.Talking to a tenth-century Englishman,you’d probably only be able to understand a few words like “a” or “the”.Only about one-sixth of today’s English words have an Old English root (词根),with the rest having foreign influences.
Gradually Old English turned into the Middle English that Chaucer wrote in—but still the official language of England was French!It was only in 1362,during Chaucer’s lifetime,that English was used at the opening of Parliament (议会) for the first time.During the same year a law called the Statute of Pleading was passed,making English the official language in Parliament.In 1399,King Henry Ⅳ became the first king of England after the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue was English.
English was still a language of low status—especially when it came to writing poetry.During the 14th century,the Italians and French were creative.Great poets like Dante were writing in totally new ways.But English had no such great writers.This was where Chaucer made a difference.He took the language of the
2020版高考英语(译林版)大一轮复习高考题型规范练：模块一Unit1Schoollife含答案
