贵阳市2024高考英语（新人教版）一轮阅读训练（8）附答案

　　课时作业(八)　[必修2　Unit 3 Computers](限时：35分钟)My husband and I were cleaning windows together yesterday. We have the double-hung(双吊钩)______1 that you can pull forward and flip(翻转)， allowing us to ___2____ the inside and the outside surfaces.

　　My husband was_____3 one window---and it popped out(跳出) of its frame! Well, our _____4 is for sale and the last thing we needed was for something to_______5.

　　He was so__6___

　　and tried with all his strength to get it ___7___

　　together, using a few less than pleasant words(I am sorry to say). After twenty minutes he still could not get it___8___ . that’s when my 23-year-old___9____

　　told his dad to ___10__

　　for a minute and he would try to fix with me.

　　It’s amazing how you can see things more clearly and do things more_11_____

　　when you are ___12__ . He and I fixed the window in three minutes! I called my husband in to see! He couln’t___13__

　　it!

　　I know this isn’t really a gift___14___ , in a way, it was. My son___15__

　　my husband to leave, to cool down, and___16___

　　him from

　　the worry for a moment. And my son fixing it with me was a ___17___

　　to me, because I saw him as a man

　　18

　　the kid he always seems to be in my____19__ .

　　Calm is good. Breathe through difficult times and maybe even take a break from stressful times. Return with a clear mind and things will usually___20__ much better!

　　1. A. doors

　　B. instruments

　　C. tables

　　D.windows

　　2. A. destroy

　　B. form

　　C. clean

　　D. dry

　　3. A. washing

　　B. painting

　　C. repairing

　　D. changing

　　4. A. furniture

　　B. house

　　C. home

　　D. car

　　5. A. break

　　B. attach

　　C. lose

　　D. fly

　　6. A. interested

　　B. confident

　　C. worried

　　D. excited

　　7. A. up

　　B. away

　　C. out

　　D. back

　　8. A. separated

　　B. performed

　　C. fixed

　　D. added

　　9. A. son

　　B. nephew

　　C.passer-by

　　D. daughter

　　10. A. take up

　　B. break up

　　C. break away

　　D. take away

　　11. A. fortunately

　　B. difficulty

　　C. slowly

　　D. easily

　　12. A. calm

　　B. equal

　　C. nervous

　　D. sensitive

　　13. A. hate

　　B. doubt

　　C. believe

　　D. earn

　　14. A. or

　　B. so

　　C. and

　　D. but

　　15. A. asked

　　B. forced

　　C. ordered

　　D. promised

　　16. A. kept

　　B. freed

　　C. saved

　　D. protected

　　17. A. surprise

　　B. wonder

　　C. gift

　　D. devotion

　　18. A. because of

　　B. in charge of C.

　　with the help of D.instead of

　　19.

　　A. power

　　B. hand

　　C. turn

　　B. eyes

　　20. A. break out

　　B. turn out

　　C. pull out

　　D. make out

　　1.D考查名词。由文章第一句话“My husband and I were cleaning windows together yesterday.”可知，“我们”有双吊钩“窗户”，这样“窗户”便于你能向前推并翻转。C 考查动词。第一段提到：昨天“我”和丈夫一起擦窗子。由此可知是便于“我们”“擦洗”窗户里面和外面。故clean“把……弄干净”符合语境。A考查动词。由文章第一段可知，夫妻二人正在擦洗窗户，此处指应该是“我”丈夫正在“洗”一扇窗户。故wash“冲；洗”符合语境。B考查名词。由语境可知应该是“我们”“房子house）”要出售。A考查动词。由前面“…and it popped out of its frame!”可知，窗子坏了。故此处应该表示“我们”最不需要事情就是东西“坏了”。break“打破、弄坏”符合语境。C考查形容词。由下文中“…, using a few less than pleasant words (I am sorry to say).”可知，丈夫感到那么不安(worried)。D 由上文中提到“it popped out of its frame!”应该使窗户恢复原样。get …back意为“恢复”符合语境。C 考查动词。由下文中“…and he would try to fix it with me.”可知，丈夫尽力把窗户“安装”在一起。A考查名词。由倒数第二段中“And my son fixing it with me”可知答案。B 考查动词短语。由下文中“I called my husband in to see!”可知，儿子告诉他父亲走开一会……。walk away“走开”符合语境。D 考查副词。由前面“clearly”及后面语境可知应该用“easily”合适。A 考查形容词。由最后一段中第一句话“Calm is good.”可知当你“镇定”时候，看事情更清晰，做事情更容易。C 考查动词。由上一段中“After twenty minutes he still could not get it….”可知丈夫二十分钟后仍没能把窗户安装好。再由下文中“He and I fixed the window in three minutes!”可知，他无法“相信”！D 考查连词。由上下文语境可知是转折关系。故选but。A考查动词。由上下文语境可知，应该是儿子“让”自己父亲走开一会……。B考查动词辨析。儿子帮助父亲从焦虑中摆脱出来。free …from …意为“使……摆脱……”符合语境。而keep…from…，阻止某人……；protect …from…，保护……免受；save …from…，从……挽救……均不符合语境。C考查名词。由本段第一句知，“我”知道这并不真是一份礼物，但是在某一方面，它又是。故推知，“我”儿子和我一起修理窗户，对“我”而言是一份“礼物”。D考查介词短语。由上文中“a man ”可知下文中与之对应应该是“the kid”，故选instead of“而不是”。D考查名词。在母亲眼中儿子。故用“in one’s eyes”。其它三项均不符合语境。B 考查动词短语。turn out结果是，证明是。语境为：带着清醒头脑返回并且事情将通常产生更好结果。break out pull out

　　离开，撤离； make out理解，辨认出。

　　阅读理解smiling as you come across a swimming pool filled with chocolate. And then, your wonderful dream becomes a nightmare(噩梦) when someone is screaming, “Get up！” It's just what every teenager goes through each morning!there seems to be one school that finally understands that requiring teens to show up at 9 am is not just cruel but also harmful to both the kids and the school.

　　Monkseaton High School in North Tyneside, Britain, recently decided to experiment to see if there is any difference in student behavior if they just pushed back the start of their day by one hour, from 9 am to 10 am. And the results are surprising.

　　Since carrying out the later start, Monkseaton has seen a 28% drop in truancy,_even hardly any lateness, and best of all, higher test scores. One of the reasons is that the teenagers are much happier to have the extra hour of sleep, but there is also a scientific reason behind why they need the extra sleep.

　　The school's decision to push back the time was based on the research done by Oxford Professor Russell Foster, who pointed out that teenagers and adults have different sleep cycles，explaining why teenagers go to bed late and wake up late.teenagers are not fully awake until 10 am, sometimes even noon. Teachers may argue that their students perform better in the morning, but in fact, it is because they are in the zone while their students are still sleepy, making the students easier to control.Memory tests prove that the more difficult classes should be in the afternoon when teenagers are most wide awake.

　　The Monkseaton school officials are encouraged by the results and plan on voting to make it a permanent change.

　　36．What's the meaning of the underlined word “truancy”？Classes.

　　C．Absence.

　　D．Practice.

　　37．What can we learn from the passage?

　　A．Teenagers and adults have the same sleep cycle.

　　B．Teenagers are fully awake at 10 am as a whole.

　　C．Teenagers are much happier to sleep than study.

　　D．Teenagers need the extra sleep also for a scientific reason.

　　38．Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

　　A．Monkseaton High School is satisfied with the result of the experiment.

　　B．It is very cruel for the teenagers to show up in class at 9 am every day.

　　C．Monkseaton High School plans to change the school time forever.

　　D．In fact, teenagers perform better in the morning than in the afternoon.

　　39．What's the best title for this passage?

　　A．Get up early, teenagers!

　　B．Finally, a school understands teenagers

　　C．Why do teenagers stay up late?

　　D．Differences between teens and adults

　　Ⅳ.短文填词the computer was both large 40.________ expensive and the networks were unable to 41.w________ well. If one of the computers broke down, the whole networks would be unable to run. At the 42.b________， the Internet was just ________ by the government. By the 1970s, it had been used in universities, banks and 44.________ (医院). In the early 1990s, computers became ________ (便宜) and easier to operate. Now it is very ________ (方便) to log on the Internet. It is said that each day tens ________ millions of people log on the Internet. Sending e-mails is becoming 48.________ and more popular. The Internet has become the most important 49.p________ of people's life.

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　　课时作业(八)

　　本文介绍英国一所学校大胆推迟早上学生的到校时间，结果学生迟到、旷课现象减少，成绩明显提高。学校准备投票决定是否永久将这项举措保持下去。　词义猜测题。根据文章可知，自实行了这项措施后，在truancy方面下降了28%，甚至几乎没有人迟到。这C。D　推理判断题。依据第五段可知学校推迟学生到校时间是有科学依据的，学生在早上需要更多的睡眠时间。　正误判断题。依据第六段最后一句推断学生下午状态更佳。学生在上午更易管理(貌似专心听讲)，是因为他们在此时还没有完全清醒。　主旨概括题。本文讲了一所学校根据青少年的睡眠研究改变学生上学时间的事。结合文章内容可知B项作为标and　41.work　42.beginning　43.employed　45.cheaper　46.convenient　47.of　49.part

　　课后阅读----------- Modern cavemen

　　现代洞穴人

　　Cave exploration, or pot-holing, as it has come to be known, is a relatively new sport. Perhaps it is the desire for solitude or the chance of making an unexpected discovery that lures people down to the depths of the earth. It is impossible to give a satisfactory explanation for a pot-holer's motives. For him, caves have the same peculiar fascination which high mountains have for the climber. They arouse instincts which can only be dimly understood.

　　Exploring really deep caves is not a task for the Sunday afternoon rambler. Such undertakings require the precise planning and foresight of military operations. It can take as long as eight days to rig up rope ladders and to establish supply bases before a descent can be made into a very deep cave. Precautions of this sort are necessary, for it is impossible to foretell the exact nature of the difficulties which will confront the pot-holer. The deepest known cave in the world is the Gouffre Berger near Grenoble. It extends to a depth of 3,723 feet. This immense chasm has been formed by an underground stream which has tunneled a course through a flaw in the rocks. The entrance to the cave is on a plateau in the Dauphine Alps. As it is only six feet across, it is barely noticeable. The cave might never have been discovered had not the entrance been spotted by the distinguished French pot-holer, Berger. Since its discovery, it has become a sort of pot-holers' Everest(珠峰). Though a number of descents have been made, much of it still remains to be explored.

　　A team of pot-holers recently went down the Gouffre Berger. After entering the narrow gap on the plateau, they climbed down the steep sides of the cave until they came to narrow corridor. They had to edge their way along this, sometimes wading across shallow streams, or swimming across deep pools. Suddenly they came to a waterfall which dropped into an underground lake at the bottom of the cave. They plunged into the lake, and after loading their gear on an inflatable rubber dinghy, let the current carry them to the other side. To protect themselves from the icy water, they had to wear special rubber suits. At the far end of the lake, they came to huge piles of rubble which had been washed up by the water. In this part of the cave, they could hear an insistent booming sound which they found was caused by a small water-spout shooting down into a pool from the roof of the cave. Squeezing through a cleft in the rocks, the pot-holers arrived at an enormous cavern, the size of a huge concert hall. After switching on powerful arc lights, they saw great stalagmites -- some of them over forty feet high -- rising up like tree-trunks to meet the stalactites suspended from the roof. Round about, piles of limestone glistened in all the colours of the rainbow. In the eerie（可怕的） silence of the cavern, the only sound that could be heard was made by water which dripped continuously from the high dome above them.

　　洞穴勘查——或洞穴勘探——是一项比较新的体育活动。寻求独处的愿望或寻求意外发现的机会的欲望吸引人们来到地下深处。要想对洞穴探险者的动机作出满意的解释是不可能的。对洞穴探险者来说，洞穴有一种特殊的魅力，就像高山对登山者有特殊魅力一样。为什么洞空能引发人的那种探险本能，人们对此只能有一种模模糊糊的理解。

　　探测非常深的洞穴不是那些在星期日下午漫步的人所能胜任的。这种活动需要有军事行动般的周密布署和预见能力。有时需要花费整整8天时间来搭起绳梯，建立供应基地，然后才能到一个很深的洞穴里。作出这样的准备是必要的，因为无法预见到洞穴探险者究竟会遇到什么性质的困难。世界上最深的洞穴是格里诺布尔附近的高弗.伯杰洞，深达3,723英尺。这个深邃的洞穴是由一条地下暗泉冲刷岩石中的缝隙并使之慢慢变大而形成的。此洞的洞口在丹芬阿尔卑斯山的高原上，仅6英尺宽，很难被发现。若不是法国著名洞穴探险家伯杰由于偶然的机会发现了这个洞口的话，这个洞也许不会为人所知。自从被发现以后，这个洞成了洞穴探险者的珠穆朗玛峰，人们多次进入洞内探险，但至今尚有不少东西有待勘探。最近，一队洞穴探险者下到了高弗.伯杰洞里。他们从高原上的窄缝进去，顺着笔直陡峭的洞壁往下爬。来到一条狭窄的走廊上。他们不得不侧着身子往前走，有时过浅溪，有时游过深潭。突然，他们来到一道瀑布前，那瀑布奔泻而下，注入洞底一处地下湖里。他们跳入湖中，把各种器具装上一只充气的橡皮艇，听任水流将他们带往对岸。湖水冰冷刺骨，他们必须穿上一种特制的橡皮服以保护自己。在湖的尽头，他们见到一大堆一大堆由湖水冲刷上岸的碎石。在这儿，他们可以听见一种连续不断的轰鸣声。后来他们发现这是由山洞顶部的一个小孔里喷出的水柱跌落到水潭中发出的声音。洞穴探险者从岩石缝里挤身过去，来到一个巨大的洞里，其大小相当于一个音乐厅。他们打开强力弧光灯，看见一株株巨大的石笋，有的高达40英尺，像树干似地向上长着，与洞顶悬挂下来的钟乳石相接。周围是一堆堆石灰石，像彩虹一样闪闪发光。洞里有一种可怕的寂静，唯一的可以听见的声响是高高的圆顶上不间断地滴水的嘀嗒声。

　　.阅读理解

　　Rachel Carson was born on May 27,1907 in Pennsylvania.Her mother bequeathed her a deep love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology.Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929 and studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.She received her master’s degree in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.

　　She worked for the U．S.Bureau of Fisheries，writing radio scripts during the Depression(经济大萧条) to increase her income writing feature articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun.She began a 15-year career in the federal service as a scientist and editor in 1936 and rose to become Editor-in-Chief of all publications for the U．S.Fish and Wildlife Service.

　　She wrote books on conservation(保护) and natural resources and edited scientific articles，but in her free time turned her government research into prose(散文)，first as an article Undersea(1937)，and then in a book，Under the Sea-Wind(1941)．In 1952 she published her prize-winning study of the ocean，The Sea Around Us，which was followed by The Edge of the Sea in 1955.These books made up a biography(传记) of the ocean and made Carson famous as a naturalist and science writer for the public.Carson resigned in 1952 to devote herself to her writing.

　　She wrote several other articles designed to teach people about the wonder and beauty of nature，including Help Your Child to Wonder(1956)and Our Ever-Changing Shore(1957)，and planned another book on ecology.In Carson’s writing，she expressed her view that human beings were only part of nature.

　　Disturbed by the overuse of chemical pesticides(杀虫剂) after World War Ⅱ，Carson changed her focus in order to warn the public about the long term effects of misusing pesticides.In Silent Spring(1962) she challenged the practices of agricultural scientists and the government，and called for a change in the way humankind viewed the natural world.

　　Carson was attacked by the chemical industry，but she still called for new policies to protect human health and the environment.

　　Rachel Carson died in 1964 after a long battle against breast cancer.

　　16．The underlined word “bequeathed” in Paragraph 1 probably means “________”．

　　A．passed onB．gave lessons

　　C．brought upD．set an example

　　17．What do we know about Rachel Carson during the Depression?

　　A．She was working as a full-time editor.

　　B．She wrote for radio stations.

　　C．She devoted most of her energy to writing.

　　D．She was in charge of the U．S.Bureau of Fisheries.

　　18．By publishing her prose and books，Rachel Carson________.

　　A．accumulated considerable wealth

　　B．arouse people’s social awareness

　　C．rose to fame as a naturalist and writer

　　D．showed concern about endangered species

　　19．Why did Rachel Carson change the theme of her writing?

　　A．World War Ⅱ caused a lot of suffering.

　　B．Modern technologies improved nature.

　　C．The environment was greatly damaged.

　　D．Too many chemical pesticides were used.

　　20．The text is mainly about________.

　　A．how to protect marine animals

　　B．the life story of Rachel Carson

　　C．environmental protection in the U．S.

　　D．the side effects of chemical pesticides

　　Ⅲ.任务型读写

　　A smart card is a card that is carried with either a microprocessor and a memory chip or only a memory chip that is not programmable.The microprocessor card can add, delete, and deal with the information on the card, while a memory-chip card can only do one thing.

　　Smart cards, unlike magnetic stripe cards, can do many different things and hold a lot of information.In this way, they do not need to get information from a faraway place when they are used.

　　Today, there are several kinds of smart cards, all of which are very popular in the market: IC (Integrated Circuit) Microprocessor Cards (Chip Cards) offer a larger memory and better security than the traditional magnetic stripe cards do.Chip cards can also hold data. These cards are used for many things.Thus, chips have been the main platform for cards that hold a secure digital identity.Some examples of these cards are：