高三英语上学期第四次月考试题
巢湖市柘皋中学2016—2017学年高三第四次月考
英语试卷
考试时间：120分钟卷面分数：150分
第I卷
第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的（A、B、C）三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话只读一遍。
1.How long does the man have to wait for the next train?
A.5 minutes.
B.45 minutes.
C.50 minutes.
2.Where are the two speakers?
A.At a bus stop.
B.In a shop.
C.In a hospital.
3.What does the man suggest the woman do?
A.Be stricter with her son.
B.Have confidence in her son.
C.Ask the teacher for help.
4.What is the woman’s problem?
A.Her husband has hearing problem.
B.Her husband doesn’t share the housework.
C.She seldom has time to talk with her husband.
5.What do we know about the pianist?
A.She was blind at birth.
B.She became deaf at the age of 16.
C.She was blind when becoming a concert pianist.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的（A、B、C）三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6.What did the man do yesterday?
A.He went to see his friends.
B.He visited his brother.
C.He watched a play.
7.Why was the man late?
A.He had to leave school.
B.He talked with his friends.
C.He had to finish his homework first.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8.What does the man plan to do this weekend?
A.Go to work.
B.Write a paper.
C.Visit his parents.
9.Who has an exam next week?
A.Martin.
B.The man.
C.The woman.
10.What can we learn about the man?
A.He doesn't like reading.
B.He is hard to get on with.
C.He can't help the woman.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11.Where does the conversation probably take place?
A.In a auditorium.
B.In the bookstore.
C.In a library.
12.What has the woman been doing at night?
A.Watching the sky.
B.Reading astronomy.
C.Working night shift.
13.What does the woman major in?
A.Physics.
B.Drama.
C.Chemistry.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14.What is the relationship between the two speakers?
A.Friends.
B.Strangers.
C.Colleagues.
15.What happened to the man?
A.He quarrelled with his wife.
B.He was tired of his job.
C.He was out of job.
16.Where did the man stay for the last three days?
A.At his new company.
B.At a coffee store.
C.At a bar.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17.What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A.Changes in the country.
B.Cities in the past and at present.
C.Differences between the city and the country.
18.What separated cities from the countryside in the past?
A.Walls.
B.People.
C.Buildings.
19.What is the country like in the past?
A.Buildings and people looked different from those in the city.
B.Little land was covered with farms.
C.There were too many people.
20.What can we learn about cities today from the talk?
A.They are quite noisy.
B.The re are more people.
C.It's hard to tell cities from the countryside.
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项。
A
Choose Your One-Day Tours!
Tour A—Bath & Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge—￡37 until 26 March and ￡39 thereafter.
Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum. Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.
Tour B—Oxford & Stratford including entrance fees to t he University St Mary’s Church Tower and Anne Hathaway’s house—￡32 until 12 March and ￡36 thereafter. Oxford: Includes a guided tour of England’s oldest university city and colleges. Look over the “city of dreaming spires(尖顶)”from St Mary’s Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder. Tour C—Windsor Castle & Hampton Court including entrance fees to Hampton Court
Palace—￡34 until 11 March and ￡37 thereafter.
Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VIII’s favourite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle(entrance fees not included).With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze(迷宫)where it is easy to get lost!
Tour D—Cambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great—￡33 until 18 March and ￡37 thereafter.
Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.
21.W hich tour will you choose if you want to see England’s oldest university city?
A.Tour A.
B.Tour B.
C.Tour C.
D.Tour D.
22.Which of the following tours charges the lowest fee on 17 March?
A.Windsor Castle & Hampton Court.
B.Oxford & Stratford.
C.Bath & Stonehenge.
D.Cambridge.
23.Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction?
A.It used to be the home of royal families.
B.It used to be a well-known maze.
C.It is the oldest palace in Britain.
D.It is a world-famous castle.
B
The freezing Northeast hasn’t been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter, so when the chance came for a weekend to Sarasota, Florida, my bags were packed before you could say “sunshine”. I left for the land of warmth and vit amin C(维生素C), thinking of beaches and orange trees. When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness. Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets(at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon)filled the weekend, but the best part—particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold-weather root vegetables—was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasota farmers’ market that proved to be more than worth the early wake-up call.
The market, which was founded in 1979,sets up its tents every Saturday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. Baskets of perfect red strawberries; the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.
Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened(蔓上成熟的)promise, I’ve refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they’re unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown’s Grove Farm’s stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist. These were the real deal—and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn’t be experiencing again for months.
Delighted as I was by the tomatoes in sight, my happiness deepened when I learned that Brown’s Grove Farm is one of the suppliers for Jack Dusty, a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where—luckily for me—I was planning to have dinner that very night. Without even seeing the menu, I knew I’d be ordering
every tomato on it.
24.What did the author think of her winter life in New York?
A.Exciting.
B.Boring.
C.Relaxing.
D.Annoying.
25.What made the author’s getting up early worthwhile?
A.Having a swim.
B.Breathing in fresh air.
C.Walking in the morning sun.
D.Visiting a local farmers' market.
26.What can we learn about tomatoes sold in New York in winter?
A.They are soft.
B.They look nice.
C.They taste great.
D.They are juicy.
27.What was the author going to do that evening?
A.Go to a farm.
B.Check into a hotel.
C.Eat in a restaurant.
D.Buy fresh vegetables.
C
Would it surprise you to learn that, like animals, trees communicate with each other and pass on their wealth to the next generation?
UBC Professor Simard explains how trees are much more complex than most of us ever imagined. Although Charles Darwin thought that trees are competing for survival of the fittest, Simard shows just how wrong he was. In fact, the opposite is true: trees survive through their co-operation and support, passing around necessary nutrition “depending on who needs it”.
Nitrogen(氮)and carbon are shared through miles of underground fungi(真菌)networks, making sure that all trees in the forest ecological system give and receive just the right amount to keep them all healthy. This hidden system works in a very similar way to the networks of neurons(神经元)in our brains, and when one tree is destroyed, it affects all.
Simard talks about “mother trees”, usually the largest and oldest plants on which all other trees depend. She explains how dying trees pass on the wealth to the next generation, transporting important minerals to young trees so they may continue to grow. When humans cut down “mother trees” with no awareness of these highly complex “tree societies” or the networks on which they feed, we are reducing the chances of survival for the entire forest.
“We didn’t take any notice of it,” Simard says sadly. “Dying trees move nutrition into the young trees before dying, but we never give them chance.” If we could put across the message to the forestry industry, we could make a huge difference towards our environmental protection efforts for the future.
28.The underlined sentence “the opposite is true” in Paragraph 2 probably means that trees .
https://www.360docs.net/doc/7317454634.html,pete for survival
B.protect their own wealth
C.depend on each other
D.provide support for dying trees
29.“Mother trees” are extremely important because they.
A.look the largest in size in the forest
B.pass on nutrition to young trees
C.seem more likely to be cut down by humans
D.know more about the complex “tree societies”
30.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to.
A.how “tree societies” work
B.how trees grow old
C.how forestry industry develops
D.how young trees survive
31.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.Old Trees Communicate Like Humans
B.Young Trees Are In Need Of Protection
C.Trees Are More Awesome Than You Think
D.Trees Contribute To Our Society
D
Working with a group of baboons(狒狒)in the Namibian desert, Dr. Alecia Carter of the Department of Zoology, Cambridge University set baboons learning tasks involving a novel food and a familiar food hidden in a box. Some baboons were given the chance to watch another baboon who already knew how to solve the task, while others had to learn for themselves. To work out how brave or anxious the baboons were, Dr. Carter presented them either with a novel food or a threat in the form of a model of a poisonous snake.
She found that personality had a major impact on learning. The braver baboons learnt, but the shy ones did not learn the task although they watched the baboon perform the task of finding the novel food just as long as the brave ones did. In effect, despite being made aware of what to do, they were still too shy to do what the experienced baboon did.
The same held true for anxious baboons compared with calm ones. The anxious individuals learnt the task by observing others while those who were relaxed did not, even though they spent more time watching.
This mismatch between collecting social information and using it shows that personality plays a key role in social learning in animals, something that has previously been ignored in studies on how animals learn to do things. The findings are significant because they suggest that animals may perform poorly in cognitive(认知的)tasks not because they aren’t clever enough to solve them, but because they are too shy or nervous to use the social information.
The findings may impact how we understand the formation of culture in societies through social learning. If some individuals are unable to get information from others because they don’t associate with the knowledgeable individuals, or they are too shy to use the information once they have it, information may not travel between all group members, preventing the formation of a culture based on social learning.
32.What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A.The design of Dr.Carter’s research.
B.The results of Dr.Carter’s research.
C.The purpose of Dr.Carter’s research.
D.The significance of Dr.Carter’s research.
33.According to the research,which baboons are more likely to complete a new learning task?
A.Those that have more experience.
B.Those that can avoid potential risks.
C.Those that like to work independently.
D.Those that feel anxious about learning.
34.Which best illustrates the“mismatch”mentioned in Paragraph 4?
A.Some baboons are intelligent but slow in learning.
B.Some baboons are shy but active in social activities.
C.Some baboons observe others but don’t follow them.
D.Some baboons perform new tasks but don’t concentrate.
35.Dr.Carter’s findings indicate that our culture might be formed through.
A.storing information
B.learning from each other
C.understanding different people
D.travelling between social groups
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
This Way to Dreamland
Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing. Daydreamers have a bad reputation for being unaware of what’s happening around them. They can seem forgetful and clumsy.
36 They annoy us because they seem to be ignoring us and missing the important things.
But daydreamers are also responsible for some of the greatest ideas and achievements in human history. 37 Can you imagine what kind of world we would have without such ideas and inventions?
So how can you come up with brilliant daydreams and avoid falling over tree roots or otherwise looking like a fool?
First, understand that some opportunities for daydreaming are better than others. Feeling safe and relaxed will help you to slip into daydreams. 38 And if you want to improve your ch ances of having a creative idea while you’re daydreaming, try to do it while you are involved in another task—preferably something simple, like taking a shower or walking, or even making meaningless drawings.
It’s also important to know how to avoid daydr eams for those times when you really need to concentrate. “Mindfulness”, being focused, is a tool that some people use to avoid falling asleep. 39
Finally, you never know what wonderful idea might strike while your mind has moved slowly away. 40
Always remember that your best ideas might come when your head is actually in the clouds.
A.Having interesting things to think about also helps.
B.They stare off into space and wander by themselves.
C.Without wandering minds, we wouldn’t have relativity, Coke or Post-it notes.
D.At one time, daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses.
E.It involves slow, steady breathing for self-control that helps people stay calm and attentive.
F.Daydreams are often very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand.
G.Therefore, it’s a good idea to keep a notebook or voice recorder nearby when you’re in the daydream zone.
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Dale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame because he found a way to fill a universal human need.
It was a need that he first 41 back in 1906 when young Dale was a junior at State Teachers College in Warrensburg. To get an 42 ,he was struggling against many difficulties. His family was poor. His Dad couldn’t afford the43 at college, so Dale had to ride horseback 12 miles to att end classes. Study had to be done 44 his farm-work routines. He withdrew from many school activities 45 he didn’t have the time or the 46 .He had only one good suit. He tried 47 the football team, but the coach turned him down for being too 48 .During this period Dale was slowly 49 an inferiority complex(自卑感), which his mother knew could 50 him from achieving his real potential. She 51 that Dale join the debating team, believing that 52 in speaking could give him the confidence and recognition that he needed.
Dale took his mother’s advice, tried desperately and after several attempts 53 made it. This proved to be a 54 point in his life. Speaking before groups did help him gain the 55 he needed. By the time Dale was a senior, he had won every top honor in 56 .Now other students were coming to him for coaching and they, 57 ,were winning contests.
Out of this early struggle to 58 his feelings of inferiority, Dale came to understand that the ability to 59 an idea to an audience builds a person’s confidence. And, 60 it, Dale knew he could do anything he wanted to do—and so could others.
41.A.admitted B.filled C.supplied
D.recognized
42.A.assignment https://www.360docs.net/doc/7317454634.html,cation C.advantage D.instruction
43.A.training B.board C.teaching D.equipment
44.A.between B.during C.over D.through
45.A.while B.when C.because D.though
46.A.permits B.interest C.talent D.clothes
47.A.on B.for C.in D.with
48.A.light B.flexible C.optimistic D.outgoing
49.A.gaining B.achieving C.developing D.obtaining
50.A.prevent B.protect C.save D.free
51.A.suggested B.demanded C.required D.insisted
52.A.presence B.practice C.patience D.potential
53.A.hopefully B.certainly C.finally D.naturally
54.A.key B.breaking C.basic D.turning
55.A.progress B.experience https://www.360docs.net/doc/7317454634.html,petence D.confidence
56.A.horse-riding B.football C.speech D.farming
57.A.in return B.in brief C.in turn D.in fact
58.A.convey B.overcome C.understand D.build
59.A.express B.stress C.contribute D.repeat
60.A.besides B.beyond C.like D.with
第II卷
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
In the 19th century, newspapers often published novels in parts. Chapters were
printed once at a time. 61. (tell) the whole story took several weeks or months. At the start of the 21st century, the cell phone novel was born. 62. married an old idea to new technology.
There are several ways to read a cell phone novel. Readers may go to special websites to read a chapter 63. download it to their phone. 64. (chapter) may be sent to a person’s phone via e-mail or short messages. They are short—often no 65. (many) than a few hundred words long.
The first cell phone novel, Deep Love, was written by Yoshi, 66. Japanese writer. It was very popular. In fact, the story was later published as a
book and it then 67. (make) into a movie. Other Japanese authors, like Naito
and Chaco, have also been 68._______ (success) in the field.
The first Chinese cell phone novel was Distance, 69. was written in 2004
by writer Xuan Huang. The story contains 1,008 characters and is divided into 15 chapters.
There are also cell phone novels 70. French, English, and other languages. Romance and horror stories are growing in popularity. Thousands of these
mini novels are on the market. It’s a fast, easy and convenient way to read a great
story.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中
共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
My grandfather is very kind to me. He loved me very much. I am the apple of his
eye, and when it comes to my study, he is very strict and will never let me to be
lazy. Every day he spends more than one hour examine my homework. With his help,
I have been doing well my studies.
My grandfather is also warm-hearted to people whom are his neighbours or complete strangers and is always ready to help them. One day, the girl, one of his neighbour,
injured her leg carelessly. My grandfather took the girl to the hospital immediate
and paid the fees with her own savings.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
目前青少年压力过大，为排解压力一些青少年染上了一些恶习，如吸烟、饮酒等。请
你以学生会的名义参照以下提示，用英语写一封倡议书，呼吁中学生要“养成好习惯，健康
过生活”。写作要点如下：
1．青少年中存在的恶习及它们的危害；
2．好习惯的重要性和必要性；
3．呼吁你校学生养成好习惯，过健康生活。
注意：
1．词数100—120；
2．开头结尾已为你写好，不计入总数；
3．适当增加细节，使文章内容充实、连贯。
Dear students,
In the present world, we teenagers are living under great stress.
That’s all. Thank you.
高三年级第四次段考英语试卷（答案）
听力
1—5 BBBBC 6—10 CBCAC 11—15 CABAC 16—20 BBAAC
阅读理解
A本文是篇应用文，介绍了四条一日游旅行线路的具体信息。
21.B 细节理解题。根据Tour B部分的第二段第一句可知B项正确。
22.D 细节理解题。根据Tour D部分的“￡33 until 18 March"可知，3月18日前剑桥的收费最低。
23. A 细节理解题。根据Tour C部分的“Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen"可知A项正确。
B 本文为记叙文,题材是个人经历。纽约寒冷的冬天很是无趣,所以当有机会去佛罗里达州的Sarasota过周末时,我马上就收拾好行李出发了。在那里的经历真是让人回味无穷,在那里还见到了与纽约不一样的西红柿。
24.B 推理判断题。根据第一段中的“The freezing Northeast hasn't been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter"以及第三段中的“back home in New York. . . ”可知，纽约寒冷的气候使作者感到乏味。
25.D 细节理解题。根据第一段结尾“a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasota farmers' market that proved to be more than worth the early wake-up call"可以知道，到当地的农贸市场去买菜，让作者觉得早起是很值得的。
26.B 推理判断题。根据第三段中的“No matter how attractive they look in the store... "可以知道，在纽约的商店里，冬天的西红柿只是看上去好看。
27.C 推理判断题。根据最后一段中“a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where一luckily for me一I was planning to have dinner that very night"可以知道，那天晚上，作者要到一家新开张的饭店吃饭。
C 本文主要讲述了与达尔文的“适者生存论”相反的how tree societies work这一新发现。
28.C 细节理解题。文中第二段提到Charles Darwin thought that trees are competing for survival of the fittest(达尔文的适者生存),而UBC Professor Simard却认为“正好相反”,下文接着论述树木是如何相互依赖以达到生存目的的。故C项表述正确。
29.B 细节理解题。根据文章第四段中的Simard talks about “mother trees”, usually the largest and oldest plants on which all other trees depend.可知,mother trees 是其他树木的依靠,下文接着提到...how dying trees pass on the wealth to the next generation, transporting important minerals to young trees so they may continue to grow.故B项“给幼树提供营养”正确。
30.A 词义猜测题。“We didn’t take any notice of it,” Simard says sadly.是对上面一个段落中提到的mother trees如何传递营养给幼树的一个解释和说明,是承接上段的内容,故it指的是“树木家族如何运转、传递营养”这一内容。
31.C 主旨大意题。本文主要讲述how “tree societies” work这一新发现。故C项正确。
D 对动物行为的研究折射人类文化的形成。
32.A 段落大意题。通过第一段最后一句“To work out how brave or anxious the baboon s
were,Dr.Carter presented them either with a novel food or a threat in the form of
a model of a poisonous snake.”可知第一段主要论述了Dr.Carter进行的研究计划。
33.D 细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“The anxious individuals learnt the task by observing others while those who were relaxed did not,even though they spent more time watching.”可知选择Those that feel anxious about learning。
34.C 词义猜测题。根据第四段第一句得知这种mismatch的行为应在上文第三段已经提及,因此可以定位到第三段“The anxious individuals learnt the task by observing others while those who were relaxed did not,even thoug h they spent more time watching.”所以答案选C。
35.B 推理判断题。根据最后一段最后一句可知文化是人们在相互学习、交流中形成的。七选五
文章介绍了做白日梦的人有时健忘、笨拙,但是伟大的思想和成就是和白日梦分不开的。
36.B 前后句讲的都是做白日梦者的特点，故选B项。
37.C 上文提到做白日梦者也会产生一些伟大的想法，C 项列举了三样由做白日梦者发明的事物，与上文衔接恰当。
38. A 空前一句“Feeling safe and relaxed will help you to slip into day dreams.”中的“will help”和A项中的“also helps”正好属于逻辑上的递进关系。故选A项。
39.E 上文讲的是有关集中注意力的，故选E项。
40.G 上文提到当你在缓慢神游的时候，你不知道你会有什么样的好想法，所以G项“因此，记笔记或录音是好主意”承接上文。
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本文讲述了一个人如何克服困难,获得信心的成长经历。男孩小时候家里很穷,家里只能支付他的学费而无力支付他参与学校社团活动所需的费用。后来参加足球队,因为体重太轻被拒绝,因此失去了自信心。但妈妈意识到自卑感会阻碍孩子潜能的发挥,于是建议他参加演讲和辩论,男孩最终拥有了自信,获得了美好的人生。
1.D 词语辨析题。句意:在1906年,Dale首次这个需求。recognize意识到,符合语境。admit承认,准许进入;fill填满;supply提供。
2.B 逻辑推理题。下文都是关于Dale大学及上课的相关信息,故选education。
3.B 词语辨析题。后半句提到结果他必须每天骑马去上学,由此推断他父亲支付不起住宿(board)的费用。
4.A 逻辑推理题。此处表达他必须在农场工作间隙来学习。between在……之间,符合语境。
5.C 逻辑推理题。没有时间和不参加学校活动之间是因果关系,故选because。
6.D 词汇复现题。clothes与下句的suit同义。
7.B 词语搭配题。try for争取加入,试图获得,他试图加入足球队。
8.A 词语辨析题。教练拒绝了他加入足球队的申请肯定是因为自身条件不好,只有A符合语境。light轻的,在此指体重。
9.C 词语辨析题。自卑感是一个慢慢形成发展的过程,故选developing(发展)意思合适。gain,achieve,obtain指通过努力或计划获得想要的东西(如经验、目标、成功等)。
10.A 固定搭配题。prevent sb.from...阻止某人……,此处表示母亲清楚这种自卑感会阻止Dale发挥自己的潜能。
11.A 词汇复现题。根据后文Dale took his mother’s advice可知这是母亲对Dale的建议,故选suggested。
12.B 词语辨析题。结合句意不难得出“Dale通过练习演讲获得自信。”故选practice(练习)合适。presence出席;patience耐心;potential潜力。
13.C 逻辑推理题。不断努力之后最终(finally)成功。
14.D 固定搭配题。turning point转折点。
15.D 逻辑推理题。前面说Dale很自卑,他缺乏自信,所以母亲建议他参加演讲,此处表达在公众面前讲话使他获得了自信(confidence)。
16.C 逻辑推理题。演讲给了他自信,他赢得了在演讲(speech)方面的每一个最高荣誉。
17.C 介词短语辨析题。其他学生也一个又一个地赢得了比赛。in turn依次,一个接一个地,符合语境。in return作为回报;in brief简言之;in fact事实上。
18.B 词语辨析题。此处是描述Dale克服(overcome)自卑感的努力历程。convey传达;understand理解;build建立。
19.A 逻辑推理题。演讲使Dale获得了自信,演讲就是在公众面前表达(express)自己的观点。
20.D 介词词义辨析题。该空后的it代指前文的confidence。句意:有了自信,Dale知道他能做任何他想做的事情——而其他人也同样可以。with拥有,带有,符合语境。
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1. Telling／To tell 根据后面的“took”可知，这里应用动名词或动词不定式作主语。
2. It 指代前面的“the cell phone novel”。
3. or 空格前后是选择关系，故填or。
4. Chapters 根据后面的“They are short”可知，此处应用名词复数。
5. more 根据后面的“than”可知,应用比较级。no more than是固定短语，意为“仅仅，不超过”。
6. a a Japanese writer表示“一位日本作家”。
7. was made 根据and前面的“was later published”可知，此处应用一般过去时，又因为“it”与“make”之间是动宾关系，故此处应用被动语态。
8. successful 根据语境可知，这里应用形容词作表语。
9. which which在这里引导非限制性定语从句，修饰先行词Distance。
10. in
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My grandfather is very kind to me. He loved me very much. I am the apple of his eye, and
loves but when it comes to my study, he is very strict and will never let me to be lazy. Every day he spends
more than one hour examine my homework. With his help, I have been doing well ^ my studies.
examining in My grandfather is also warm-hearted to people whom are his neighbors or complete strangers
who/that
and is always ready to help them. One day, the girl, one of his neighbor, injured her leg carelessly.
a neighbors