山西省大同市高考英语学生自选练习（2）.doc

山西大同市2015高考英语学生自选练习（2）及答案完型填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从以下题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出最佳选项。说明文型完形填空uk households are cutting back on spending at the fastest rate since 1980. this is _1_ to the worst economic slowdown in three decades.figures from the office for national statistics (ons) showed _2_ spending fell by 1.2% in the first three months of the year. people spent less on housing, household goods and services, _3_ those who went on holiday abroad also spent _4_ less.consumers tightened their belts in the face of job losses, pay _5_ or freezes and sharply reduced city bonuses. the figures _6_ employees compensation(补偿金) falling by 1.1% in the quarter, the largest fall _7_ records began in 1955. wages and salaries declined, with lower bonus payments in the financial sector than normal, while _8_ also fell.the data was _9_ as part of the onss latest assessment of the uk economy, which _10_ that gross domestic product (gdp) shrank by 1.9% in the first quarter, its sharpest decline since 1979. gdp stood 4.1% _11_ than a year ago, the biggest annual fall since 1980.“the breakdown of firstquarter gdp gives a pretty _12_ picture of weakness right across the _13_ in the early months of this year，” said jonathan loynes of capital economics.“with key parts like household spending and investment set to fall considerably further in _14_ to the weakness in the housing market, the labour market and bank lending, we _15_ unconvinced that recentgreen shoots will translate into a return to decent growth next year.”1. asubmitting bresortingccontributing dextending2a.personnel bconsumercfolk dclient3. awhile balthoughcbecause dbut4. ainstantly bsimultaneouslycsignificantly dactively5. adives bpauseschalts dcuts6. acalculated baccumulatedcexpressed dshowed7. asince bwhencas duntil8. acompetition bemploymentcachievement dattraction9. areleased brelievedcrelated drelaxed10. apromoted bjustifiedcconfirmed dadvocated11. apoorer bslimmercweaker dlower12. aamazing bdepressingcsurprising dpuzzling13. aeconomy bfinancecbusiness dcommerce14. aopposition bresponsecregard dcontrast15. aremain bprovecfeel dmaintainb【要点综述】 本文讲述了经济危机导致居民消费开支产生了自1980以来的最大幅度的下滑这一现象。1c这促成了近三十年来最严重的经济下滑。submit to 服从；resort to 求助，诉诸；contribute to 有助于，促进；extend to 延伸到。2bconsumer spending表示“消费性支出”。3a上半句说人们在住房、日用品及服务上的支出减少了，下半句说出国度假的人花费也减少了，由此可见前后分句是并列的关系，所以用while。although 表示让步；because表示原因；but 表示转折。4cinstantly 立即，马上；simultaneously 同时地；significantly 显著地，重要地；actively积极地，活跃地。不难看出这里是说出国度假的人花费也明显减少了，因此选significantly。5dpay cuts表示“减薪”，pay freezes表示“工资冻结”。dive潜水；halt停止；pause暂停，间歇。6dcalculate计算；accumulate 积累；express表达；show表明。这里表示“数据表明”，故选择d项。7asince 表示“从以来”，上文提到员工们的补偿金本季度下降了1.1%，这个下降的幅度是自1955年有记录以来最大的，所以用since。8bcompetition 竞争；employment 就业；achievement 成就，成绩；attraction吸引，吸引力。伴随着工资的下降，竞争肯定越来越激烈，失业的人也就越来越多，所以就业率就会下降。9arelease 发布，释放；relieve 解除，减轻；relate 联系，叙述；relax 放松。这里release表示“发布”。句意：这份数据是作为英国国家统计局这个组织对英国经济评估报告的一部分来对外发布的。10cpromote促进，提升；justify证明是合法的；confirm确认，证实；advocate 提倡，主张。句意：这份数据证实了第一季度国内生产总值下降了1.9%这一事实。11d从后半句“the biggest annual fall since 1980”可以得出gdp肯定是比去年降低了4.1%，所以用lower。poor贫穷的；slim苗条的；weak虚弱的。12bamazing令人惊异的；depressing令人沮丧的；surprising令人惊讶的；puzzling令人费解的。 13aeconomy经济；finance财政；business商业；commerce贸易。这里应该是对整个宏观经济的展望，所以用economy，其他三个选项太过片面了。14bin response to表示“响应，反应”，这里表示由于房地产市场、劳动力市场以及银行借贷的疲软，导致家庭支出以及投资的大幅下降。15aremain表示“依然，保持”，后面大多跟形容词。maintain表示“维持，保持(已有的水平、标准)”，这里表示“虽然由于房地产市场、劳动力市场以及银行借贷的疲软而导致家庭支出以及投资的大幅下降，但是我们仍然不相信”，所以这里用remain。阅读理解。 blogging may have psychological（心理的）benefits for teens suffering from social anxiety, improving their self-esteem（自尊）and helping them relate better to their friends, according to the new research published by the american psychological association. research has shown that writing a personal diary and other forms of expressive writing is a great way to reduce emotional stress and just feel better, said the studys lead author, meyran boniel-nissim, phd, of the university of haifa, israel.teens are online anyway, so blogging enables free expression and easy communication with others.blogging has a stronger positive effect on troubled students well-being than merely expressing their social anxieties and concerns in a private diary, according to the article published online in the apa journal psychological services.opening the blog up to comments from the online community strengthens those effects.the researchers randomly surveyed high school students in israel,who had agreed to fill out a questionnaire about their feelings on the quality of their social relationships. a total of 161 students - 124 girls and 37 boys, with an average age of 15 - were selected because their scores on the survey showed they all had some level of social anxiety or stress. all the teens reported difficulty in making friends or relating to the friends they had. the researchers assessed the teens self-esteem, everyday social activities and behaviors before, immediately after and two months after the 10-week experiment.four groups of students were assigned to blog. two of those groups were told to focus their posts on their social problems, with one group opening the posts to comments; the other two groups could write about whatever they wanted and, again, one group opened the blog up to comments. the number and content of comments were not evaluated for this experiment. the students could respond to comments but that was not required. two more groups acted as controlseither writing a private diary about their social problems or doing nothing. participants in the writing and blogging groups were told to post messages at least twice a week for 10 weeks.four experts, who held masters or doctoral degrees in consulting and psychology, assessed the bloggers social and emotional condition by way of their blog posts. students were assessed as having a poor social and emotional state if they wrote a lot about personal problems or bad relationships or showed evidence of low self-esteem.self-esteem, social anxiety, emotional stress and the number of positive social behaviors improved significantly for the bloggers when compared to the teens who did nothing and those who wrote private diaries.bloggers who were instructed to write specifically about their difficulties and whose blogs were open to comments improved the most. all of these results agreed with the two month follow-up.the authors admitted that the skewed（有偏向的）sex rate was a limitation to the study. however, the researchers analyzed the results separately by sex and found that boys and girls reacted similarly to the experiment and there were no major differences. they said future research should attempt to control the subjects for sex.50the selection of students for the experiment was largely based on. atheir social relationships btheir self-esteem ctheir problems in social lifedtheir willingness to fill out a question naire51whats the function of“controls” (paragraph 4) in the experiment? ato write down some social problems in a private diary. bto post messages to the blog and respond to comments. cto help evaluate the number and content of blog comments. dto offer a comparison for checking the experimental result.52from the experiment we can know that. awriting private diaries makes no difference to the relief of ones emotional stress bteenagers opening their blogs up to comments have more psychological benefits cthe positive effects of expressing ones emotions by blogging dont last very long dthose describing bad relationships on blogs tend to develop more mental problems53what can be inferred from the last paragraph? athe authors insisted that all the research findings were accurate. bsexrate had been taken into account before the survey was conducted. cthe authors were intended to improve the experiment in the future. dsimilar reactions of boys and girls indicated the failure of the experiment.54what is the main idea of thepassage? ablogging can help reduce social stress and anxiety. bthe research into blogging attracts public attention. cblogging provides a simple way for communication. dblog comments have a positive effect on teenagers.【参考答案】79.cdbca 短文改错。假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同学写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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。attention please，everyone.we ac