2020届高考艺考(艺术生)英语复习作业：必修五Unit 3 Life in the future

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1．After the explosion the army blocked the surrounding(surround) area and forbad anyone to enter it.

2．He did not finish his schooling for lack of money.

3．His fluent English and profound knowledge make a deep impression on others.

4．The accident caused 3 deaths and 20 got injured，which happened previous to his arrival there.

5．How did the accident come about since he drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour?

6．For miles around me，there was nothing but a desert，without a single plant or tree in sight.

7．Those air conditioners are our best-selling products because they are easy to_handle (handle) and work with little noise.

8．The dustman swept up all the fallen leaves on this street yesterday.

9．Guided(guide) by the sun，they walked towards their destination through the woods.

10．Nowadays people are more concerned about the environment where they live.

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Ⅰ.阅读理解

We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively.We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else.Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines are passive.Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it's not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.

Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem.It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor (谣言)．

Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn't show it to anyone.Then the person whispers it, word for word，to another person.That person，in turn，whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game.The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it.Then the two written statements are compared.Typically, the original message has changed.

That's what happens in daily life.The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story.Then, too, most people listen imperfectly.And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping it with their personal style.Yet those who hear it think they know.

This process is also found among scholars and authors：A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as a fact by another，who may in turn be quoted by yet another，and this process may continue，unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.

[语篇导读]本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了被动获得知识所存在的一个严重的问题——被告知的可能是谣言，并用现实生活中简单的事例加以说明。

1．According to the passage，passive learning may occur in ________.

A．doing a medical experiment

B．solving a math problem

C．visiting an exhibition

D．doing scientific reasoning

解析：C[推理判断题。由文章第一段中We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else...in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines are passive可知被动学习是指由别人告知所获得的知识。A、B、D都是主动学习。故选C。]

2．The underlined word “it”in Paragraph 1 refers to ________.

A．active learning B．knowledge

C．communication D．passive learning

解析：D[代词指代题。根据it所在句可知这个代词指代的是前半句所提的被动学习。] 3．The author mentions the game Rumor to show that ________.

A．a message may be changed when being passed on

B．a message should be delivered in different ways

C．people may have problems with their sense of hearing

D．people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor

解析：A[推理判判题。通过第三段最后一句可知，A项为正确项。]

4．What can we infer from the passage?

A．Active learning is less important.

B．Passive learning may not be reliable

C．Active learning occurs more frequently.

D．Passive learning is not found among scholars.

解析：B[推理判断题。A、C两项未提，而由最后一段第一句可知D项不正确。由文章第二段加后几段的例证可推知B项正确。]

Ⅱ.完形填空

One autumn morning，I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond.The beautiful sight caught