高考英语(新人教)必修3Unit5课时训练

高考英语考点聚焦自测闯关

Ⅰ.单句语法填空

1．I would rather you ____________(not buy) the house last year.Now house prices are falling sharply.

答案：hadn’t bought

2．We listened to the news with a ____________(mix) of surprise and happiness.

答案：mixture

3．As for me, I prefer ____________(tradition) shopping although it takes more time than shopping on line.

答案：traditional

4．I had planned to help you, but it was not ____________ my power.

答案：within

5．Their daughter has ____________ gift for language while their son is a ____________(gift) pianist.

答案：a; gifted

6．The bridge ____________(measure) as long as 200 meters needs repairing.

答案：measuring

7．We should consider the students’ request ____________ the school library should provide more books on popular science.

答案：that

8．Your house is always so neat—how do you manage ____________ with three children?

答案：it

9．—Have you finished the report?

—Oh, sorry.It was so noisy in the office that I couldn’t settle down to ____________(write) anything.

答案：writing

10．Robert left his hometown as a poor boy and returned as an extremely ____________(wealth) man.

答案：wealthy

Ⅱ.阅读理解

(2016·哈尔滨第六中学二模)Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy—they’re given after all. Choice can be hard.

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turn ed 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t

work since most start­ups don’t, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go fo r it.As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor, I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea f or someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately, I decided I had to gi ve it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And_I_suspected_I_would_always_be_haunted_by_a_decision_to_not_try_at_all.

After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choice.

【解题导语】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文，主要介绍了亚马逊网上书店开创者的创业故事。

1．What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?

A．His dream if being an inventor.

B．The support of his wife.

C．The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.

D．Millions of exciting titles.

C解析：细节理解题。根据文章第二段第二、三句“I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me.”可推知，网络的快速发展激发了作者开办一家网上书店的欲望。故答案选C。

2．Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?

A．The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.

B．He would be very excited if he tried it out.

C．He would be always having a doubt if he didn’t try.

D．The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him.

D解析：句意理解题。根据文章第三段倒数第二句“I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing.”与画线句的对比可推知，画线句句意为：我怀疑我会一直为自己根本都不去尝试一下而烦心不已，即作者会为自己不去尝试开网店的决定感到恐慌。故答案选D。

3．We can know from the passage that ________.

A．the boss thought the idea was suitable for the author

B．the author wanted someone else to try the idea

C．the author might not regret if he failed the idea

D．the author might go back to his boss if he failed

C解析：细节理解题。根据文章第三段倒数第二句“I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing.”可推知，即使尝试失败了，作者也不会后悔。故答案选C。