2020-2021高考英语总复习题答案解析系列 (24)

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必修3 Unit 7 The Sea

第2课时

Ⅰ.完形填空

(2020·盐城市第二次调研) There are going to be moments in life when you must make very important decisions.You will find many people__1__to offer you advice if you ask for it (and even if you don’t)，but always remember that the life you__2__is yours and nobody else’s.It’s important to decide for yourself what’s important to you and what you want before you__3__others.Because while there will be times__4__outside advice proves wise，there will be at least as many times when it proves completely__5__.The only way to really evaluate other folks’ advice is to first learn everything that you can about whatever challenge you are__6__.Once you’ve done that，in most cases you should be able to make a wise decision__7__anyway.

You were__8__with the ability to decide what is and what isn’t in your best interest.Most of the time，you will make the right decision and__9__the appropriate actions，and in thinking for yourself，you will become far more successful than if you had gone against your own__10__.

Early on in my investment career，I made the mistake of__11__a few important business decisions on colleagues’opinions instead of conducting the__12__necessary to make a wise decision.It wasn’t due to__13__on my part；no one could ever accuse me of that.But，being__14__to Wall Street，I intended to assume that my more senior__15__knew more than I did，and so I__16__too much significance to their opinions.

You know what happened? Each of those investments ended in__17__.Eventually I stopped allowing myself to be influenced

by__18__and began doing the work myself and making my own decisions.It took me until I was almost 30 years old to__19__this—it’s never too late for a person to change his approach both to__20__and to life.

1．A.easy B．ready

C．unwilling D．hard

2．A.lead B．lend

C．take D．earn

3．A.look at B．pick up

C．turn to D．learn from

4．A.that B．since

C．when D．while

5．eless B．useful

C．priceless D．clever

6．A.getting B．making

C．suffering D．facing

7．A.on one hand B．on your own

C．on the whole D．on all sides

8．A.born B．tired

C．satisfied D．covered

9．A.enjoy B．step

C．plan D．take

10．A.assumption B．judgment

C．condition D．fortune

11．A.basing B．depending

C．relying D．focusing

12．A.research B．search

C．resources D．activity

13．A.poverty B．laziness

C．fear D．diligence

14．ed B．accustomed

C．new D．old

15．A.students B．brothers

C．colleagues D．classmates

16．A.owed B．paid

C．gave D．held

17．A.disaster B progress

C．failure D．success

18．A.either B．another

C．each D．others

19．A.think B．remember

C．realize D．recall

20．A.payment B．dreams

C．happiness D．business

Ⅱ.阅读理解

(2020·湖南六校4月联考) Doctors recognize obesity as a health problem.So why is it so hard for them to talk to their patients about it?

The results of two surveys，one of primary care physicians and the other of patients，found that while most doctors want to help patients lose weight and think it is their responsibility to do so，they often don’t know what to say.

So while doctors may tell patients they are overweight，the conversation often ends there，said Christine C．Ferguson，director of the Stop_Obesity_Alliance.Without being told about options for diabetes，she said.“Doctors don’t feel they have good information to give.They felt they didn’t have adequate tools to address this problem.”

The lack of dialogue hurts patients，too.The patient survey，of over 1,000 adults，found that most overweight patients don’t even know that