高三英语大一轮复习 Book 3 Unit 5 Canada— “The True North” Word单元知识练习（含解析）.doc

2014届高三英语大一轮复习单元知识练习unit 5canada “the true north”.单项填空1i hate it when it rains._！ it will be sunny tomorrow.acheer up btoo badcno way dim sorry答案a解析考查交际用语。由答语的第二句可以看出，这里是在鼓励对方振作起来，所以用cheer up。句意为：我讨厌下雨天。振作起来，明天就是晴天。2you_either go with her or stay at home.it all depends on yourself!awill bmust cshould dmay答案d解析考查情态动词辨析。may可以。句意为：你可以和她一块去，也可以呆在家里，这完全取决于你自己。3when does your plane take off?about 300 pm.tomorrow.ill call the airport to_it.aconfirm bargue corganize dintend答案a解析答句句意为：大约明天下午3点起飞，我给机场打电话“证实(confirm)”一下。4seen from space，the earth looks like a blue ball，with_75% of its surface covered with water.aentirely bexactly cslightly dapproximately答案d解析句意为：地球表面“大约(approximately)”有75%被水所覆盖。5the city，_by mountains and lakes，is recognized as the most beautiful city in the country.astood bconnected cblocked dsurrounded答案d解析考查动词辨析。句意为：这座城市被群山湖水环绕着，被公认为是这个国家最美的城市。surround意思是“包围，环绕”，这里用的是其过去分词形式。connect连接；block阻挡，挡住，在意思上与语境不符。6the earth is so heavily polluted.it is time for us to take_to protect the environment.aways bmeans cwarnings dmeasures答案d解析考查短语搭配。take measures to do sth.采取措施做某事。7by _，people in western countries can play jokes on others on april 1st.asystem bhistory chabit dtradition答案d解析句意为：按照传统风俗，西方人在4月1日可以开他人的玩笑。tradition传统，符合句意。system系统；history历史；habit习惯。8they offered you a job，right?yes.but i prefer to be jobless_work in such poor conditions.ainstead of bmore thancexcept for drather than答案d解析prefer to do a rather than do b宁愿做a也不愿做b。 9the senior three students in our school received word last week_some excellent students had been admitted to peking university without taking the exams.athat bwhich chow dwhat答案a解析考查同位语从句。word在此意为“消息”，空后对word的具体内容进行说明，是它的同位语从句，故用that引导。10the whole nation was_by the young generations excellent performances when the disaster happened.aremembered bforgottenchonoured dimpressed答案d解析考查动词辨析。句意为：当灾难降临时，年轻一代的出色表现给全国人民留下了深刻印象。impress使钦佩，给留下深刻印象。honour尊敬，给予荣誉。11they went_the ship just before it started to leave.aaboard bboard caboard on dboard on答案a解析go aboard the ship或go on board the ship是固定说法，意为“上船”。12polar bears live mostly on _ sea ice，which they use as _ platform for hunting seals.aa；a ba；the c/；a dthe；/答案c解析sea ice为物质名词，因此其前不加冠词；platform讲台；平台，为可数名词，在此为泛指“一个平台”。13your story is perfect；ive never heard _ before.athe better one bthe best oneca better one da good one答案c解析否定词与比较级连用表示最高级。句意为：你讲的故事太精彩了；我以前从没听过一个更好的(即这是最好的)。14its getting dark.wed better find a hotel and _.aset out bsettle downcmake out dmove down答案b解析考查短语辨析。句意为：天渐渐黑了，我们最好找个宾馆住下来。settle down安定下来，在此指“住下来”。15almost all the buildings were destroyed and many people were killed in this _ earthquake.what a _ scene!aterrible；terrified bterrible；terrifyingcterrifying；terrified dterrified；terrifying答案b解析this terrible earthquake这次可怕的地震；a terrifying scene令人恐怖的一幕，都用形容词表示事物的性质。因此两空都不能用terrified。.阅读理解the year is 2094.it has been announced that a comet(彗星) is heading towards the earth.most of it will miss our planet，but two pieces will probably hit the southern half of the earth.on 17 july，a piece four kilometers wide enters the earths atmosphere with a massive explosion.about half of the piece is destroyed，but the remaining part hits the south atlantic at 200 times the speed of sound.the sea boils and a huge hole is made in the sea bed.huge waves are created and spread outwards from the hole.the wall of water，a kilometer high，rushes towards southern africa at 800 kilometers an hour.cities on the african coast are totally destroyed and millions of people are drowned.before the waves reach south america，the second piece of the comet lands in argentina.earthquakes and volcanoes are set off in the andes mountains.the shock waves move north into california and all around the pacific ocean.the cities of los angeles，san francisco and tokyo are completely destroyed by earthquakes.millions of people in the southern half of the earth are already dead，but the north wont escape for long.because of the explosions，the sun is hidden by clouds of dust，and temperatures around the world fall to almost zero.crops are ruined.the sun wont be seen again for many years.wars break out as countries fight for food.a year later，no more than 10 million remain alive.could it really happen？in fact，it has already happened more than once in the history of the earth.the dinosaurs were on the earth for over 160 million years.then 65 million years ago they suddenly disappeared.many scientists believe that the earth was hit by a piece of object in space.the dinosaurs couldnt live through the cold climate that followed and they died out.will we meet the same end?1what is mainly described in the passage?aa historic discovery. ban event of imagination.ca research on space. da scientific adventure.答案b解析主旨大意题。文章主要描述了2094年如果一颗彗星的碎片撞向地球，人类可能面临终结。这只是想象中的事情，故b项正确。2when the first piece hits the south atlantic，it causes _.aan earthquake bdamages to citiescan earth explosion dhuge waves答案d解析细节理解题。由第二段中的“huge waves are created and spread outwards from the hole.”可知d项正确。3why cant the northern half of the earth escape for long?abecause the land is covered with water.bbecause the light and heat from the sun cannot reach the earth.cbecause people there cannot live at the temperature of zero.dbecause wars break out among countries.答案b解析细节理解题。由第三段的“.the sun is hidden by clouds of dust，and temperatures around the world fall to almost zero.”可知。4by giving the example of dinosaurs，the author tries to prove _.aanimals could not live in the cold climatebwhat happened 65 million years ago was an invented storycthe human beings will die out in 2094dthe earth could be hit by other objects in space答案d解析推理判断题。恐龙的灭亡可能与彗星碎片有关，这说明作者想证明这种情况是可能的。.书面表达书是恩师，书是良友。书籍开启我们的智慧，书籍丰富我们的思想。请以“books are friends and teachers”为题，谈谈你对书的认识。词数：100左右。参考范文books are friends and teacherspeople often say that gold and silver are valuable because they are wanted by everybody.but i say that books are