Module 11 Unit 3 The secret of success &
Unit 4 The next step
Ⅰ.单句填空
1.Rather than ride on a crowded bus,he always prefers (ride)a bicycle. 2.I smell something (burn)in the kitchen.Can I call you back in a minute? 3.By the time Jack returned home from England,his son (graduate)from college. 4.Your promise is meaningless you do something to show you mean it. 5.If he (work),there would have been no one to support the family.
6.The way the guests (treat)in the hotel will influence the evaluation of the service. 7.In recent years,there have been numerous reports of film or TV crews polluting the environment around they are shooting, ,I think,must be counter to their intentions. 8.Drive straight ahead and you’ll see two roads,one (lead)to the wildlife preserve,the other to the theme park.
9.To pursue his dream of becoming a pilot,he chose to go to flying school, he could have gone to a key university in Hong Kong.
10. (force)to do what I dislike always upsets me.How I wish I were growing up in another family!
11.These exercises (design)to develop and strengthen muscles are popular with the players.
12.The news reporters hurried to the airport,only (tell)the film stars had left. 13. makes the book so extraordinary is the creative imagination of the writer. 14.Whom do you want to have (put)together a model plane?
15.When I entered the room,I saw them talking with each other,but they pretended (read)the minute they saw me. Ⅱ.阅读理解
No one is sure how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids near Cairo.But a new study suggests they used a little rock‘n’roll.Long-ago builders could have attached wooden poles to the stones and rolled them across the sand,the scientists say.
“Technically,I think what they’re proposing is possible,”physicist Daniel Bonn said.
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People have long puzzled over how the Egyptians moved such huge rocks.And there’s no obvious answer.On average,each of the two million big stones weighed about as much as a large pickup truck.The Egyptians somehow moved the stone blocks to the pyramid site from about one kilometer away.
The most popular view is that Egyptian workers slid the blocks along smooth paths.Many scientists suspect workers first would have put the blocks on sleds(滑板).Then they would have dragged them along paths.To make the work easier,workers may have lubricated the paths either with wet clay or with the fat from cattle.Bonn has now tested this idea by building small sleds and dragging heavy objects over sand.
Evidence from the sand supports this idea.Researchers found small amounts of fat,as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths.
However,physicist Joseph West thinks there might have been a simpler way,who led the new study.West said,“I was inspired while watching a television program showing how sleds might have helped with pyramid construction.I thought,‘Why don’t they just try rolling the things?’”A square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides,he realized.That,he notes,should make a block of stone“a lot easier to roll than a square”.
So he tried it.
He and his students tied some poles to each of four sides of a 30-kilogram stone block.That action turned the block into somewhat a wheel.Then they placed the block on the ground.
They wrapped one end of a rope around the block and pulled.The researchers found they could easily roll the block along different kinds of paths.They calculated that rolling the block required about as much force as moving it along a slippery(滑的)path.
West hasn’t tested his idea on larger blocks,but he thinks rolling has clear advantages over sliding.At least,workers wouldn’t have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.
1.It’s widely believed that the stone blocks were moved to the pyramid site by . A.rolling them on roads B.pushing them over the sand
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C.sliding them on smooth paths D.dragging them on some poles
2.The underlined part“lubricated the paths”in Paragraph 4 means . A.made the paths wet B.made the paths hard C.made the paths wide D.made the paths slippery
3.What does the underlined word“it”in Paragraph 7 refer to? A.Rolling the blocks with poles attached. B.Rolling the blocks on wooden wheels. C.Rolling poles to move the blocks. D.Rolling the blocks with fat.
4.Why is rolling better than sliding according to West? A.Because more force is needed for sliding. B.Because rolling work can be done by fewer cattle. C.Because sliding on smooth roads is more dangerous. D.Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling. 5.What is the text mainly about?
A.An experiment on ways of moving blocks to the pyramid site. B.An application of the method of moving blocks to the pyramid site. C.An argument about different methods of moving blocks to the pyramid site. D.An introduction to a possible new way of moving blocks to the pyramid site. Ⅲ.阅读补全(七选五)
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Seeing with Sound
According to a British news report, some blind people may finally get a chance to“see”. 1 Dr. Peter Meijer, a scientist at Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands, has developed a new system called the vOICe. The three middle letters in vOICe stand for“Oh, I see.”Meijer’s groundbreaking technology may change the lives of visually impaired people all over the world.
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A wearable setup of vOICe system consists of a head-mounted camera, stereo headphones and a notebook PC.The system translates visual images from a camera into complex sounds. 2
The program is based on the theory that people can hear certain sounds and learn to translate them into meaningful mental images. Everything has its own unique sound. 3 The height of an object or person could be determined by pitch. And a built-in color identifier speaks out color names when it is turned on. What the vOICe users have to learn is which sound goes with which object. Meijer says that he is counting on the brain’s ability to adapt.
4 Within two weeks, most people who experiment with the vOICe system are able to identify objects such as walls and doors. They are also able to identify certain situations, including whether the lights in a room are on or off. 5 Meijer thinks that translating will eventually become automatic for many users of the vOICe, bringing a form of vision to them for the very first time.
A.Brighter areas sound louder than darker areas.
B.It then sends these sounds to a person through headphones.
C.However, they are not learning to see with their eyes;they are learning to see with their ears.
D.The vOICe system is aiming to treat blindness by translating images from a camera into audio signals.
E.Meijer supposes that the brain is interested in the information“content”,but not the information“carrier”.
F.To evaluate the new system’s effectiveness, a number of visually impaired people were chosen to test the vOICe.
G.Over time, some users have even learned to“watch”television or“recognize”the outlines of buildings as they walk. Ⅳ.书面表达
积极的心态、坚定的信心是战胜困难的重要力量。请用英语写一篇词数100左右的短文,举一实例说明信心的作用,并略加评论。
答案全解全析
Ⅰ.单句填空
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1.to ride 句意:他总是宁愿骑自行车也不愿乘坐拥挤的公共汽车。
2.burning 句意:我闻到厨房有东西烧焦的味道。我等会再给你打回去好吗?burning在句中作宾语补足语,补充说明something。
3.had graduated 句意:当Jack从英格兰回到家的时候,他的儿子已从大学毕业了。
4.unless 句意:你的承诺没有任何意义,除非你做一些事情表明你是说真的。前后构成逻辑上的条件关系,用unless表“除非”。
5.hadn’t worked 句意:如果他不工作,就没有人来支撑整个家庭。根据主句部分的时态可知整个句子是对过去情况的虚拟,故从句中用过去完成时。
6.are treated 句意:酒店里招待客人的方式会影响到服务质量的评价。先行词way之后为定语从句,guests和treat为被动关系。
7.where;which 句意:最近几年,有无数关于电影或电视剧剧组污染拍摄地周围环境的报道,我认为,这应该是违背他们的初衷的。where 引导的从句作around的宾语;而第二空则为关系代词which引导的非限制性定语从句,which指代剧组污染环境一事。
8.leading 句意:径直朝前开,你会看到两条路,一条通往野生动物保护区,另一条通往主题公园。“one leading to the wildlife preserve”为独立主格结构,one和lead to之间构成逻辑上的主动关系,故用v.-ing形式。
9.when/while/though 句意:尽管他本可以去香港上一所重点大学,但为了追求当一名飞行员的梦想,他选择了去上航空学校。
10.Being forced 句意:被迫做我所不喜欢的事总是让我烦恼。我是多么希望自己成长在另一个家庭啊!force和I之间构成逻辑上的被动关系,又要充当句子主语,故填being forced。
11.designed 句意:这些为了增强肌肉力量而设计的训练很受运动员的欢迎。designed to develop and strengthen muscles是过去分词短语作后置定语,表被动。
12.to be told 句意:那些新闻记者匆匆赶到机场,却被告知那些影星们已经走了。“only to do/be done”表示一种出乎意料的结果,而v.-ing常表示一种顺其自然的结果。
13.What 句意:让这本书如此不凡的是作者的创新想象力。本题考查主语从句。从句中缺少主语用what引导。
14.put 句意:你想让谁组装飞机模型?have sb do sth “使/让某人做某事”,whom为have的宾语。 15.to be reading 句意:当我进入房间的时候,我看见他们正在说话,但是他们一见到我就装作在读书。pretend to be doing sth装作正在做某事。 Ⅱ.阅读理解
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2017高考英语一轮复习Unit3Thesecretofsuccess
