[配套K12]2018高考英语大一轮复习 Module 2 Highlights of My Senior Year检测 外研版选修7

Module 2 Highlights of My Senior YearⅠ.语法填空Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia’s biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top 1. (attract).So it was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research, I 2. (allow)to get close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador. The title will be 3. (official) given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas goes back 4. my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, 5. I was the first Western TV reporter 6. (permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial duties will include 7. (introduce) British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.On my recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by 8. (it) mother. The nursery team switches him every few 9. ( day) with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed,10. other is with mum —she never suspects.答案及剖析:1.attraction 考查名词。

形容词top后面跟名词形式。

2.was allowed 考查时态和语态。

根据句意可知作者是被允许走近这些动物,be allowed to do sth.“被允许做某事”。

3.officially 考查副词。

修饰动词用副词形式。

4.to 考查介词。

固定搭配:go back to“回到,追溯到”。

5.when 考查定语从句。

此处引导非限制性定语从句,从句缺少状语,因为先行词是时间,故填when。

6.permitted 考查非谓语动词。

被修饰的名词和permit之间是被动关系,用过去分词。

7.introducing 考查非谓语动词。

此处用动名词作include的宾语。

8.its 考查代词。

修饰名词用形容词性物主代词,故填its。

9.days 考查名词复数。

few修饰复数名词。

10.the 考查冠词。

固定短语:one...the other“一个……另一个”。

Ⅱ.阅读理解AELMONT, N. Y. (AP)——Elmont High School senior Harold Ekeh had a plan—he would apply to 13 colleges, including all eight Ivy League schools, figuring it would help his chances of getting into at least one great school.It worked, and then,the teenager from Long Island was accepted at all 13 schools, and now faces his next big test: deciding where to go.“I was stunned, I was really shocked, ”Ekeh told The Associated Press during an interview Tuesday at his home near the Belmont Park racetrack, his four younger brothers running around.He found out last week he had been accepted to Princeton University. That made him eight for eight in the Ivy League—he had already been accepted to Yale University, Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania. His other acceptances came from Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Stony Brook University and Vanderbilt University.“We are so proud of him, ” said his mother, Roseline Ekeh.“Hard work, dedication, prayer brought him to where he is today. ”Born in Nigeria, Harold was eight years old when his parents brought the family to the United States.“It was kind of difficult adjusting to the new environment and the new culture, ” he said. But he saw his parents working hard, “and I took their example and decides to apply myself”.He referenced that effort in his college essay, writing, “Like a tree, uprooted and replanted, I could have withered in a new country surrounded by people and languages I did not understand. Yet, I witnessed my parents persevere despite the potential to give in. I faced my challenges with newfound zeal; I risked insults, spending my break talking to unfamiliar faces, ignoring their sarcastic remarks. ”Harold “is tremendously focused in everything he does.” said John Capozzi, the school’s principal, “He’s a great role model. All the students and faculty are so proud of him. ”Harold is the second Long Island student in as many years to get into all eight Ivies. Last year, William Floyd High School’s Kwasi Enim chose to go to Yale.Harold, who has a 100. 51 grade-point average and wants to be a neurosurgeon, said he was leaning toward Yale, and had heard from Enin, offering congratulations. Like Enin, he’s likely to announce his college choice at a press conference later this month. The deadline to decide is May 1.1.Which is closest in meaning to the underlined phrase“apply myself”?A.Work hard.B.Write to the college.C.Make a formal request.D.Make an adjustment.2.Which of the following is true about Harold?A.He was born into a Nigerian family in the US.B.He planted a tree once he moved to the US.C.He was always welcome and popular in his schools.D.He paid a lot to make his way to offers from all Ivies.3.Harold is probably going to .A.Harvard universityB.Princeton universityC.Yale universityD.MIT4.What can we infer from this passage?A.Too many cooks spoil the soup.B.He who laughs last laughs best.C.One can kill two birds with one stone.D.Chance favors only the prepared mind.语篇解读:这是一篇新闻报道。