天津市耀华中学2017届高考英语冲刺导练37201704211115

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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
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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
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