高2019届高2016级高三英语一轮复习三维设计学案Unit 4课时跟踪练(一)

课时跟踪练(一) Warming Up & Reading —Pre reading

Ⅰ.阅读理解

A

If the crust (外壳) of the earth were not pretty solid (坚固的), it would be shaking about and moving up and down frequently (频繁地). However, there are places in the rocks of the earth's crust where it isn't strongly held together — where faults exist.Along the faults, one rock might push against another with great force.The energy is changed to vibration in the rocks, so they begin to shake and we have an earthquake!

The most famous one in North America was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

Seven hundred people died and property (财产) damage

amounted to about $425,000,000.The greatest destruction came from

the fires that followed the quake.

One of the most famous earthquakes in Europe took place in

Lisbon, Portugal, in 1755. The city was destroyed and at least thirty

thousand people were killed. In 1908, in Calabria and Sicily, a quake killed about seventy-five thousand people. In 1915,in central Italy, hundreds of towns and villages were damaged and thirty thousand people were killed.

Two great earthquakes that caused great damage in Asia took place in Tokyo, Japan, and in Gansu Province in China. The Tokyo quake of 1923 killed more than one hundred thousand people and destroyed the city and the city of Yokohama, too. The Chinese quake in 1920 covered more than three hundred square miles and killed about two hundred thousand people.

语篇解读：本文介绍了地震起因及历史上几次大地震。

1.The underlined word “vibration” in the first paragraph probably means “________”.

A.shaking

B.force

C.energy

D.losing

【解析】:选A词义猜测题。一块岩石有可能用力挤压另一块岩石,地壳的能量发生了改变导致岩石晃动,于是地震发生了。vibration意为“晃动”,故A项正确。

2.Which of the following is the correct order of the years when the earthquakes happened?

①the San Francisco earthquake

②the earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal

③the earthquake in Calabria and Sicily

④the earthquake in central Italy

⑤the earthquake in Gansu Province

⑥the Tokyo quake

A.③④⑤⑥②①

B.⑤⑥②①③④

C.②①③④⑤⑥

D.①③④②⑤⑥

【解析】:选C细节排序题。由文章地震发生的时间顺序可知C项正确。

3.According to the passage, the earthquake that killed the most people happened in________.

A.Portugal

B.Italy

C.Japan

D.China

【解析】:选D细节理解题。由地震伤亡数字可知,1920年在中国发生的地震伤亡人数最多。

4.We can infer from the passage that________.

A.the earth's crust in Europe is weaker than that in other places

B.the fires following the San Francisco earthquake caused more damage than the earthquake did

C.there were 75,000 people killed in the San Francisco earthquake

D.the city of Yokohama was not greatly influenced by the Tokyo quake

【解析】:选B推理判断题。由第二段“The greatest destruction came from the fires that followed the quake.”可知B项正确。

B

Having lived in California until 1970, my family has felt a number of earthquakes. We have been fortunate, however, to have suffered no bodily harm or property damage.

There is a website that lists all California earthquakes recorded from 1769 to the present. The site lists the dates and times as well as the magnitude (震级) and the exact location of any quake that measured more than 6.0. There are only a few quakes that stand out in my memory and, luckily, none is shown in the website. So, my personal experience with earthquakes might be considered insignificant.

There are three earthquakes that are difficult to forget. The first one was in 1955 and our oldest daughter was walking with me in our backyard in Redwood City in California. As the shaking became stronger I held her to me with one arm as I held on to one of our fruit trees with the other. All three of us (my daughter, I and the tree) shook for two or three minutes that to us felt like hours.

The second one was in 1963. Our entire family was visiting Disneyland in Southern California. The earth started to shake just as we were beginning to walk from our hotel toward the_famous_landmark.

My third experience with an earthquake was a lonely one in California. It was in my sixties and I was alone in an old church. As the building started to shake, I quickly headed for the door to go outside. I remember I said a little prayer — something like, “Help me get out of here in time, Dear Heavenly Father”. Minutes later, I was safe outside.

语篇解读：本文为记叙文,作者回忆了自己经历的三次地震。

5.The author writes the passage mainly to tell us about ________.