高中英语外研版必修3习题3-2Reading(2)

Module 3 第2课时

Ⅰ.单词拼写

1．The accident o________ at 5 o'clock.

2．I have never seen such a v________ storm. 3．The electric c________ was getting weaker.

4．They bought much f________ for their new house. 5．He was b________ himself in study when I came in. 6．What's your________(纬度)now?

7．His death was lighter than a________(羽毛)． 8．Can we go to the________(赤道)in the future? 9．The clock was________(敲钟)12 when they left. 10．At the foot of the tower is a________(墓地)．

答案：1.occurred 2.violent 3.current 4.furniture 5.burying 6.latitude 7.feather 8.equator 9.striking 10.cemetery

Ⅱ.单项填空

从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 1．—You must taste some of her home-made wine.

—It's quite an unforgotten________. A．experiment B．experience C．skills D．effort 答案：B

解析：experiment“实验”；skills“技能”；effort“努力”；均与句意不符。 2．A lot of new houses________here(in)the last three years. A．built up B．were built up

C．have been built up D．have built up 答案：C 解析：句意：近三年来，这里建起了很多的新房子。(in)the last＋时间名词，表示“近……来”，谓语动词要用现在完成时，house与build up之间是被动关系。

3．I was about to________a match when I remembered Tom's warning. A．put B．strike C．rub D．hit 答案：B

解析：句意：我正要划火柴这时想起了汤姆的警告。strike a match表示“划火柴”，为固定搭配，其他选项无此用法。

4．There was five minutes________when he got to the station. A．left B．leaving C．to leave D．to be left 答案：A

解析：句意：他到车站时，还剩5分钟时间。leave“剩下；留下”是及物动词，此处应用过去分词left作后置定语。

5．We are interested in the weather because it________us so directly—what we wear, what we do, and even how we feel.

A．benefits B．affects C．guides D．effects 答案：B

解析：句意：我们对天气感兴趣，因为天气对我们穿衣、做事、甚至心情有着直接的影

响。affect“影响”；benefit“对……有利”；guide“指导；引导”；effect“产生；造成”。

6．Think it over more. The situation is not________so simple as you think. A．near B．nearby C．nearly D．almost 答案：C

解析：句意：再好好想想，情况远不是你想的那么简单。not nearly“远非；根本不”；almost常放在no, nothing, nobody等词前。此外，nearly, almost常可互换。

7．Careless driving________a lot of highway accidents. A．affects B．makes C．causes D．results 答案：C

解析：affect是“影响”的意思；result是不及物动词，若接in也可以选，result in意为“产生”。

8．I don't know what I'll do if something________to him. A．occurs B．takes place C．is happened D．happens 答案：D

解析：句意：假如他出了事，我不知道该怎么办。happen, occur, take place都是不及物动词，不能用被动结构。happen多指偶然、突发事件的发生；happen to sb.指不幸的事突然发生在某人身上；occur to sb.指“某人突然想起(主意等)”；take place不与to连用。

9．If anybody calls, tell them I'm out, and ask them to________their name and address. A．pass B．write C．take D．leave 答案：D

解析：在电话里留下姓名和地址当然不能用write“写”、pass“通过”或take“拿”，而应该用leave“留下”。

10．Our maths teacher always tells us________make the same mistakes again. A．don't B．not C．to not D．not to 答案：D

解析：句意：我们的数学老师总是告诫我们不要再犯相同的错误。句中same意为“相同的；同样的”。

Ⅲ.阅读理解

阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

Every year landslides (滑坡) cause 25 to 50 deaths and $1.5 billion in damage in the United States. They account for 15 percent of the deaths from natural disasters in Europe. And in December, a single event killed more than 200 people in the Philippines. Sending workers to stabilize (加固) mountainsides using steel bars and cement (水泥) can help prevent disaster, but it introduces new difficulties. Shaking drills produce harmful dust and loosen heavy, dangerous debris (岩屑). “It's quite a risky job，” says Giorgio Pezzuto of D'Appolonia, an engineering pany in Italy.

D'Appolonia, working with eight other panies, may have an answer: a three-ton robot called

Roboclimber. “The idea is to operate a machine far away that can drill without a human being on board，” says Pezzuto, manager for the project, which is supported by the European mission. Engineers claim that the machine will be faster and cheaper than manual labor. The robot, a large radio-controlled four-legged mechanical spider (蜘蛛), has cost at least $2 million so far. The final

product should be able to climb unstable mountainsides, drill holes, insert bars and cement, and collect data on the slope's stability. Testing should begin in May.

1．The underlined word “event” (in Paragraph 1) refers to ________. A．landslide B．machine C．earthquake D．flood

答案：A 解析：词义猜测题。结合上下文可知，event此处指的是发生在12月的一次landslide (滑坡)。

2．What does the robot look like? A．A human being. B．A spider. C．A truck. D．A drill. 答案：B

解析：细节理解题。由第二段倒数第三句“The robot, a large radio-controlled four- legged

mechanical spider (蜘蛛), has cost at least $2 million so far.”可知，这款机器人的外形像蜘蛛。

3．The biggest advantage of this product is that ________. A．it will be faster and cheaper than manual labor

B．it can climb mountainsides, drill holes, insert bars and cement C．it can collect data on the slope's stability D．it can drill without a human being on board 答案：D

解析：细节理解题。由第二段第二句“The idea is to operate a machine far away that can drill without a human being on board”可知，本产品最大的优点是可以无人操作。

B

Wind, water, fire and ice—these powerful natural forces have shaped the land of America in the past. They are still changing it today.

The Colorado River slowly cut down through stone to make the Grand Canyon (大峡谷)． Long ago, ice sheets cut Yosemite Valley and the Great Lakes, and glaciers (冰川) are still on the move in Alaska.

Wind and rain storm hit the land from time to time. Fires sometimes burn down forests and destroy the homes of wild animals: This happened in Yellowstone Park in 1988.

Dead volcanic (火山的) mountains such as Haleakala on Maui and Carter Lakein Oregon are beautiful to look at. But there are several active volcanoes in the US，especially along the Pacific Coast. There are also many earthquakes in this area. Scientists can do nothing to control Mount St Helens in Washington state broke out. The top of the mountain was blown off.

Over 60 people—campers, scientists, journalists, forest workers—were killed. Hundreds of square miles of forests were knocked down. In towns over 100 miles away, day suddenly became night. An ash cloud hid the sun for many hours. Towns and fields in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho were covered with dirty gray ash.

Scientists knew that Mr St Helens might erupt (爆发) soon. But no one could say when. And no one expected the terrible strength of the eruption. Many people were surprised and unready. Harry R. Truman, 84, owned a small hotel in Mt St Helens. Scientists had asked people to move away because the volcano was being dangerous.

But Harry Truman would not leave his home. Now it is covered with many feet of dirty ash. A small cross stands above the place where Harry probably died. Perhaps it is better that he did not see the destruction of Mt St Helens, the once beautiful lake, and the forests.

But slowly, life is returning to the dead area around the mountain. Grass and small plants are beginning to grow again. Deer and birds have been seen. The land will never be the same as it once was. Perhaps Mt St Helens will erupt again. But this is all part of nature's pattern of change, and man has little power to control it.

4．Which would be the best title for the passage? A．Wind, Water, Fire and Ice B．Volcano's Beauty and Danger C．The Power of Nature

D．Natural Force Shapes Beautiful Land for America 答案：C

解析：主旨大意题。作者在此想通过the Grand Canyon的形成过程告诉我们“自然的力量”。

5．After the eruption of volcano, what makes the sky turn dark? A．The smoke. B．The clouds. C．The fog. D．The ash. 答案：D

解析：细节理解题。从第六段倒数第二句“An ash cloud hid the sun for many hours.”可知，火山爆发之后，“灰尘”使得天空变暗。

6．The underlined word “it” means ________. A．the body of old Harry

B．the location of Harry's home

C．the opening on top of Mt St Helens D．the place where Harry probably died 答案：B

解析：词义猜测题。倒数第二段“But Harry Truman would not leave his home.”接下来文章说“Now it is covered with many feet of dirty ash.”，因此it在这里指Harry's home。

7．We can infer from this article that ________. A．Washington and Oregon are neightboring states B．Colorado River runs through Yosemite Valley

C．the eruption of Mt St Helens also caused trouble with the Yellowstone Park D．scientists never knew Mt St Helens was active 答案：A 解析：推理判断题。当华盛顿州的圣劳伦斯火山爆发时，“Towns an fields in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho were covered with dirty gray ash.”由此我们可推断Washington, Oregon以及Idaho是三个相邻的州。

Ⅳ.书面表达

现在你以一名学生记者的身份，请根据以下提示，用英语为某报社写一篇有关四川大地震的当日新闻报道。

时间 2008年5月12日14时28分 震级 8级 至12日22时，已有7,651人死亡，数万人受伤，许多人被困；造成停电，通讯损失 中断，房屋、桥梁倒塌，交通受阻。 严重性 近30年来最强烈的地震。 注意：1.词数120左右 2．参考词汇：8级 magnitude 8

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．m. on May 12, 2008, a terrible earthquake of magnitude 8 shook Sichuan. By

0 p．m., the number of the killed in the earthquake had reached 7,651. As many as tens of thousands of people were injured. And more people were trapped in the fallen buildings or still missing. The earthquake had the electricity cut off, the munication broken off, the traffic stopped and a great many buildings and bridges destroyed. The earthquake caused heavy loss of lives and economy, which is the worst in China during the past three decades.