天津市耀华中学高考英语冲刺导练(37)

天津市耀华中学2017届高考英语冲刺导练（37）
【读写应用综合训练】
一、完形填空Cloze 6
In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my 36 , it was the same score.
Later that evening, I 37 told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agreed that we knew our 38 much better than an IQ test. We 39 that Michael's score must have been a 40 and we should treat him 41 as usual.
We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got 42 grades in the school, especially 43 biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.
Michael 44 Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student. Soon afterwards, his teacher permitted him to take more courses than 45 . In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.
On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I 46 the ceremony(典礼) at Yale. After the ceremony, We told Michael about the 47 IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say 48 , “My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn't be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!”It is his special way of thanking us for the 49 we had in him.
Interestingly, Michael then 50 another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had 51 the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be 52 .
Children often do as 53 as what adults, particularly parents and teachers, 54 of them. That is, tell a child he is “55 ,”and he may play the role of a foolish child.
36. A. joy B. surprise
C. dislike
D. disappointment 37. A. tearfully B. fearfully
C. cheerfully
D. hopefully
38. A. student B. son C. friend D.
doctor
39. A. argued B. realized
C. decided
D. understood
40. A. joke B. mistake C. warning D. wonder
41. A. specially B. strictly
C. naturally
D. carefully
42. A. poor B. good C. average D. standard
43. A. in B. about C. of D. for
44. A. visited B. chose C. passed D. entered
45. A. allowed B. described
C. required
D. offered
46. A. missed B. held C. delayed D. attended
47. A. high B. same C. low D. different
48. A. curiously B. eagerly
C. calmly
D. jokingly
49. A. faith B. interest C. pride D. delight
50. A. looked for B. asked for
C. waited for
D. prepared for
51. A. received B. accepted
C. organized
D. discussed
52. A. imperfect B. impossible
C. uncertain
D. unsatisfactory
53. A. honestly B. much C. well D. bravely
54. A. hear B. learn C. expect
D. speak
55. A. wise B. rude C. shy D. stupid
二、阅读理解Reading Comprehension Test
☑ Reading Skills阅读理解能力考查6理解主旨和要义
[能力解析]：一段独立完整的文字材料有其主旨和
大义，有时在开头就点明，有时则分解表述，有时在篇尾总结点出，有时则需要读者从字里行间领会推断而得。

包括标题（title）、主旨（main idea）等，考查整体理解和对主旨的归纳、概况能力。

Passage 1
All too often, a choice that seems sustainable(永续的) turns out on closer examination to be problematic. Probably the best example is the rush to produce ethanol (乙醇) for fuel from corn. Corn is a renewable resource—you can harvest it and grow more, almost limitlessly. So replacing gas with corn ethanol seems like a great idea .
One might get a bit more energy out of the ethanol than that used to make it, which could still make ethanol more sustainable than gas generally, but that’s not the end of the problem. Using corn to make ethanol means less corn is left to feed animals and people, which drives up the cost of food. That result leads to turning the fallow land—including, in some cases, rain forest in places such as Brazil—into farmland, which in turn gives off lots of carbon dioxide（CO2）into the air. Finally, over many years, the energy benefit from burning ethanol would make up for the forest loss. But by then, climate change would have progressed so far that it might not help.
You cannot really declare any practice “sustainable” until you have done a complete lift-cycle analysis of its environmental costs. Even then, technology and public policy keep developing, and that development can lead to unforeseen and undesired results. The admirable goal of living sustainable requires plenty of thought on an ongoing basis.
57. What might directly cause the loss of the forest according to the text?
A. The growing demand for energy to make ethanol.
B. The increasing carbon dioxide in the air.
C. The greater need for farmland.
D. The big change in weather.
58. The underline word “it” in the second paragraph refers to “_______”.
A. the energy benefit
B. the forest loss
C. climate change
D. burning ethanol
59. The author thinks that replacing gas with corn ethanol is _______.
A. impractical
B. acceptable
C. admirable
D.
useless
60. What does the author mainly discuss in the text?
A. Technology.
B.
Sustainability. C. Ethanol energy.
D. Environmental protection.
Passage 2
Every day we experience one of the wonders
of the wor ld around us without even realizing it. It is not the amazing complexity of television, nor the impressive technology of transport. The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise without mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other’s minds. This ability comes so naturally that we tend to forget what a miracle
it is.
Obviously, the ability to talk is something that marks humans off from animal.
Of course, some animals have powers just as amazing, Birds can fly thousands miles by observing positions of the stars in the sky in relation to the time of day and year. In Nature’s tale nt show, humans are a species of animal that have developed their own special act. If we reduce it to basic terms, it’s an ability for communicating information to others, by varying sounds we make as we breathe out.
Not that we don’t have other powers of communication. Our facial expressions convey our emotions, such as anger, or joy, or disappointment. The way we hold our heads can indicate to others whether we are happy or sad. This is so-called “body language”. Bristling (直立的) fur is an unmistakable warning of attack among many animals. Similarly, the bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness
to take second place in any animal gathering.
Such a means of communication is a basic
mechanism that animals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display. Is the ability to speak just another sort of instinct? If so, how did human beings acquire this amazing skills? Biologist can readily indicate that particular area of our brain where speech mechanisms function, but this doesn’t tell us how that part of our bodies originated in our biological history.
72. According to the passage, the wonder we take for granted is _______.
A. our ability to use language
B. the miracle of technology
C. the amazing power of nature
D. our ability to make noises with mouth
73. What feature of “body language” mentioned in the passage is common to both human and animals?
A. Lifting heads when sad.
B. Keeping long faces when angry.
C. Bristling hair when ready to attack.
D. Bowing heads when willing to obey.
74. What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?
A. Body language is unique to humans.
B. Animals express emotions just as humans do.
C. Humans have other powers of communication.
D. Humans are no different from animals to some degree.
75. This passage is mainly about _______.
A. the development of body language.
B. the special role humans play in nature
C. the power to convey information to others
D. the difference between humans and animals in language use
☑话题6 健康生活 Health & Lifestyle
[话题解析] 健康和生活方式是高考阅读选材中的高频题材，因为与人们的生活紧密相关，传递正确的生活价值观和方式。

阅读话题内容涉及人们的穿衣、饮食、居住、出行等，休闲娱乐，旅游健身，心理、生理健康及相关的科学研究成果的报道，生活经历、生活环境等等。

文体多为说明、记叙、散文等，偶尔也有针对生活方式或健康健身的议论，但总体而言话题内容较轻松。

命题内容多为中低档的细节事实、数字计算、词义句义理解等。

同时，此话题也是书面表达常常选用的内容范围。

阅读中积累表达有益于写作。

Passage A
People aren’t w alking any more—if they can figure out a way to avoid it.
I felt superior about this matter until the other day I took my car to mail a small parcel. The journey is a matter of 281 steps. But I used the car. And I wasn’t in a hurry, either, I had merely become one more victim of a national sickness: motorosis.
It is an illness to which I had thought myself immune (免疫的), for I was bred in the tradition of going to places on my own two legs. At that time, we regarded 25 miles as a good day’s walk and the abi lity to cover such a distance in ten hours as a sign of strength and skill. It did not occur to us that walking was a hardship. And the effect was lasting. When I was 45 years old I raced—and beat—a teenage football player the 168 steps up the Stature of Liberty.
Such enterprises today are regarded by many middle-aged persons as bad for the heart. But a well-known British physician, Sir Adolphe Abrahams, pointed out recently that hearts and bodies need proper exercises. A person who avoids exercises is more likely to have illnesses than one who exercises regularly. And walking is an ideal form of exercise—the most familiar and natural of all.
It was Henry Thoreau who showed mankind the richness of going on foot. The man walking can learn the trees, flowers, insects, birds and animals, the significance of seasons, the very feel of himself as a living creature in a living world, He cannot learn in a car.
The car is a convenient means of transport, but we have made it our way of life. Many people don’t dare to a pproach Nature any more; to them the world they were born to enjoy is all threat. To them security is a steel river
thundering on a concrete road. And much of their thinking takes place while waiting for the traffic light to turn green.
I say that the green of forests is the mind’s best light. And none but the man on foot can evaluate what is basic and everlasting.
51. What is the national sickness?
A. Walking too much
B. Traveling too much
C. Driving cars too much
D. Climbing stairs too much.
52. What was life like when the author was young?
A. People usually went around on foot.
B. people often walked 25 miles a day.
C. People used to climb the Statue of Liberty.
D. people considered a ten-hour walk as a hardship.
53. The author mentions Henry Thoreau to prove that ______.
A. middle-aged people like getting back to nature
B. walking in nature helps enrich one’s mind
C. people need regular exercise to keep fit
D. going on foot prevents heart disease
54. What is compared to “a s teel riv er” in Paragraph6?
A. A queue of cars.
B. A ray of traffic light.
C. A flash of lightning.
D. A stream of people.
55. What is the author’s intention of writing this passage?
A. To tell people to reflect more non life.
B. To recommend people to give up driving
C. To advise people to do outdoor activities
D. To encourage people to return to walking
Passage B
The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). After immigrating form England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous fire of 1871. In those days, it was nicknamed “the Garden City”, almost certainly the source of Howard’s name for his later building plan of towns. Returning to London, Howard developed his design in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were popular at the time, but creating a unique combination of designs.
The nineteenth-century poor city was in many ways a terrible place, dirty and crowded; but it offered economic and social opportunities. At the same time, the British countryside was in fact equally unattractive: though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor much social life. Howard’s idea was to combine the best of town and country in a new kind of settlement, the garden city. Howard’s idea was that a group of people should set up a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the depressed countryside; far enough from existing cities to make sure that the land was bought at the bottom price.
Garden cities would provide a central public open space, radial avenues and connecting industries. They would be surrounded by a much larger area of green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely farms but also some industrial institutions. As more and more people moved in, the garden city would reach its planned limit-Howard suggested 32,000 people; then, another would be started a short distance away.
Thus, over time, there would develop a vast planned house collection, extending almost without limit; within it, each garden city would offer a wide range of jobs and services, but each would also be connected to the others by a rapid transportation system, thus giving all the economic and social opportunities of
a big city.
66. How did Howard get the name for his building plan of garden cities?
A. Through his observation of the country life.
B. Through the combination of
different ideas.
C. By taking other people’s advice.
D. By using the nickname of the reconstructed Chicago.
67. The underlined phrase “drawing on ”in Paragraph 1 probably means______.
A. making use of
B. making comments on
C. giving an explanation of
D. giving a description of
68. According to Howard, garden cities should be built______.
A. as far as possible from existing cities
B. in the countryside where the land was cheap
C. in the countryside where agriculture was developed
D. near cities where employment opportunities already existed
69. What can we learn about garden cities from the last paragraph?
A. Their number would continue to rise.
B. Each one would continue to become larger.
C. People would live and work in the same place
D. Each one would contain a certain type of business.
70. What could be the best title for the passage?
A. City and Countryside
B. The Invention of the Garden City
C. A New City in Chicago
D. A Famous Garden City in England Passage C How Room Designs Affect Our Work and Feelings
Architects have long had the feeling that the places we live in can affect our thoughts, feelings and behaviors, But now scientists are giving this feelings an empirical (经验的, 实证的) basis. They are discovering how to design spaces that promote creativity, keep people focused, and lead to relaxation.
Researches show that aspects of the physical environment can influence creativity. In 2007, Joan Meyers-Levy at the University of Minnesota, reported that the height of a room’s ceiling affects how people think. Her research indicates that the higher ceilings encou rage people to think more freely, which may lead them to make more abstract connections. Low ceilings, on the other hand, may inspire a more detailed outlook.
In addition to ceiling height, the view afforded by a building may influence an occupant’s ability to concentrate. Nancy Wells and her colleagues at Cornell University found in their study that kids who experienced the greatest increase in greenness as a result of a family move made the mos t gains on a standard test of attention.
Using nature to improve focus of attention ought to pay off academically, and it seems to, according to a study led by C. Kenneth Tanner, head of the School Design ＆Planning Laboratory at University of Georgia. Tanner and his team found that students in classrooms with unblocked views of at least 50 feet outside the window had higher scores on tests of vocabulary, language arts and maths than did students whose classrooms primarily overlooked roads and parking lots.
Recent study on room lighting design suggests that dim (暗淡的) light helps people to loosen up. If that is true generally, keeping the light low during dinner or at parties could increase relaxation. Researchers of Harvard Medical School also discovered that furniture with rounded edges could help visitors relax.
So far scientists have focused mainly on public buildings. “We have a very limited number of studies, so we’re almost looking at the problem through a straw (吸管), ”architect David Allison says. “How do you take answers to very specific questions and make broad, generalized use of them? That’s what we're all struggling with. ”
64. What does Joan Meyers-Levy focus on in her research?
A. Light
B. Ceilings
C. Windows
D. Furniture.
65. The passage tells us that______.
A. the shape of furniture may affect people's feelings
B. lower ceilings may help improve students’ creativity
C. children in a dim classroom may improve their grades
D. Students in rooms with unblocked views may feel relaxed
66. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that _______.
A. the problem is not approached step by step
B. the researches so far have faults in themselves
C. the problem is too difficult for researchers to detect
D. research in this area is not enough to make generalized patterns
67. Which of the following shows the organization of the passage?
CP: Central Point P: point Sp: Sub-point
（次要点）C: Conclusion
Passage D
I was in a rush as always, but this time it was for an important date I just couldn’t be late for! I found myself at a checkout counter behind an elderly woman seemingly in no hurry as she paid for her groceries. A PhD student with not a lot of money, I had hurried into the store to pick up some flowers. I was in a huge rush, thinking of my upcoming evening.
I did not want to be late for this date.
We were in Bost on, a place not always known for small conversation between strangers. The woman stopped unloading her basket and looked up at me. She smiled. It was a nice smile—warm and reassuring—and I retuned her gift by smiling back.
“Must be a special lady,” whoever it is that will be getting those beautiful flowers,” she said.
“Yes, she’s special,” I said, and then to my embarrassment, the words kept coming out. “It‘s only our second date, but somehow I am just having the feeling she’s the one,’”jokingly, I added, “The only problem is that I can’t figure out why she’d w ant to date a guy like me.”
“Well, I think she’s very lucky to have a boyfriend who brings her such lovely flowers and who is obviously in love with her,” the woman said .”My husband used to bring me flowers every week-even when times were tough and we d idn’t have much money. Those were incredible days; he was very romantic and—of course—I miss him since he’s passed away.”
I paid for my flowers as she was gathering up her groceries. There was no doubt in my mind as I walked up to her. I touched her on the shoulder and said “You were right, you know. These flowers are indeed for a very special lady.” I handed the flowers and thanked her for such a nice conversation.
It took her a moment to realize that I was giving her the flowers I had just purchased. “You have a wonderful evening,” I said. I left her with a big smile and my heart warmed as I saw her smelling the beautiful flowers.
I remember being slightly late for my date
that night and telling my girlfriend the above story. A couple of years later, when I finally worked up the courage to ask her to marry me,
she told me that this story had helped to seal
it for her-that was the night than I won her heart .
41. Why was the writer in a hurry that day?
A. He was to meet his girlfriend.
B. He had to go back to school soon.
C. He was delayed by an elderly lady.
D. He had to pick up some groceries.
42. What does the underlined phrase “her gift” (Paragraph 2 ) refer to?
A. Her words.
B. Her smile.
C. Her flowers.
D. Her politeness.
43. Why did the writer give his flowers to the elderly lady?
A. She told him a nice story.
B. She allowed him to pay first.
C. She gave him encouragement.
D. She liked flowers very much.
44. What is the message conveyed in the story?
A. Flowers are important for a date.
B. Small talk is helpful.
C. Love and kindness are rewarding.
D. Elderly people deserve respecting.
三、书面表达 Guided Writing 3 话题写作
假设你是星光中学的李华，将参加主题为
“Let’s Ride Bicycles”的英语演讲比赛。

请撰
写一份演讲稿，主要内容包括：
1.目前汽车带来的空气污染和交通堵塞等问
题。

2.骑自行车的益处，如能环保、有利健康等。

参考词汇：低碳生活（low-carbon life）节能(energy saving)
注意：1.词数：不少于100词；
2.演讲稿开头和结尾已给出，请将其抄写在
答题卡上且该部分不计入总词数。

Good morning, everyone,
I am Li Hua from Starlight Middle School.
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Thank you!
2017届高考英语冲刺导练37答案
【读写应用综合训练】一、完形填空记叙文 -6
36-40DABCB 41-45CBADC 46-50DCDAB 51-55ABCCD
二、阅读理解
考查6主旨要义P1 57-60CAAB P2 72-75ADDC
话题6 健康生活 Health & Lifestyle
A) 51-55 CABAD B) 66-70DABAB C) 64-67BADC D) 41-44ABCC
三、书面表达 Guided Writing 3 话题写作见卷
【书面表达】例文：
Good morning, everyone,
I am L i Hua from Xingguang Middle School. The topic of my speech is “Let’s Ride Bicycles”.
As is known to all, with the improvement of people’s living standards, cars have become a popular means of transport, bring great convenience to our life. However, they have also some problems such as air pollution and traffic jams.
How can we solve the problems then? As far as I’m concerned, riding bicycles is a good solution. For one thing, bicycles don’t need any petrol and they are energy-saving. For another, bicycles are environmentally friendly because that they won’t give off waste gas. What’s more, riding bicycles is a good way for us to exercise and it is beneficial to our health.
Therefore, let’s take the responsibility to build up a low-carbon city by riding bicycles. Come on and join u s!
Thank you!。