高三英语二轮精品卷语法填空和完形填空（17）.doc

2014届高三英语二轮精品卷：语法填空和完形填空（17）ii. grammar and vocabularysection adirections: after reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. for the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. (a)last august susan and forty-two other students got wet and dirty while removing six tons of garbage (25)_ the river running across their city. (26)_ cleaned up the river as part of a weeklong environmental camp. like one in three american rivers, this river is so polluted that its unsafe for swimming or fishing. still, susan, (27)_ has just completed her third summer camp on the river cleanup, sees a change in this river. “since we started three years ago, the river is getting a lot (28)_(clean),” she says. environmental scientists praise the teenagers for removing garbage (29)_ can harm wild life. water birds, for example, can die of plastic bottle rings and get cut by tiny metals. three years ago, when the cleanup started, garbage was everywhere. but this year the teenagers can row their boats fast. by the end of the six-hour cleanup, they (30)_(remove) enough garbage to fill more than two large trucks. “(31)_(see) all that garbage in the river makes people begin to care about environmental issues,” susan says. she hopes that when others read that, she and her peers care enough (32)_(clean) it up, maybe they would think twice before they throw garbage into the river.(b)dave fuss lost his job (33)_(drive) a truck for a small company in west michigan. his wife, gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria, and the price of everything was rising. the fusses were at risk of joining the millions of americans who have lost their homes in recent years. then dave and gerrie received a timely gift-$7,000，a legacy（遗产） from their neighbors ish and arlene hatch, who died in (34)_ accident. “it really made a difference (35)_ we were going under financially.” says dave. but the fusses werent the only folks in alto and the neighboring town of lowell to receive unexpected legacy from the hatches. dozens of other families (36)_(touch) by the hatches generosity. in some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in others, it was more than $100,000. it surprised nearly everyone that the hatches had so much money, more than $ 3millionthey were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on (37)_ was left of the family farm. (38)_ _ the financial crisis, ish and arlene developed the habit of saving. they were fond of comparison shopping and would routinely go from store to store, (39)_(check) prices before making a new purchase. through the years, the hatches paid for local children to attend summer camp when their parents (40)_ not afford it. “ish and arlene never asked whether you needed anything,” says their friend sand van weelden, “they could see the things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.”section bdirections: complete the following passage by using the words in the box. each word can only be used once. note that there is one word more than you need. a. cultivationb. farmedc. constantd. machinerye. plungedf. lightningg. envyh. preciousi. uncomfortablej. aircraftsk. consequencemodern inventions have speeded up peoples loves amazingly. motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, _41_ cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at _42_ speed. indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts of saving _43_ seconds in handling tasks.all this saves time, but at a price. when we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. we get the _44_ feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may send harmful radiation into our brains, a _45_ we do not like to think about.however, what do we do with the time we have saved? certainly not relax, or so it seems. we are so accustomed to _46_ activities that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.there was a time when some peoples lives were devoted simply to the _47_ of the land or the care of cattle. no multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. there is much that we might _48_ a way of life like this. yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they _49_ with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. modern _50_ has freed people from that primitive (原古的) existence.iii. reading comprehensionsection adirections: for each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked a, b, c and d. fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. its believed that intelligent people are better at learning languages. most language learning skills, _51_, are habits, which can be formed through a bit of discipline and self-awareness. but, some of them are not good enough. here are the three most common _52_ language learners make and how to correct them.not listening enough theres a school of language-teaching experts that believe language learning _53_ a “silent period”. just as babies learn to produce language by hearing and parroting sounds, language learners need to practise listening in order to learn. this can develop learned vocabulary and structures, and help learners see patterns in language. listening is the communicative skill we use most in daily life, but it can be _54_ to practise unless you live in a foreign country or attend language classes. the solution? find music, podcasts, tv shows and movies in the _55_ language, and listen, listen, listen, as often as possible. a single method some learners are most comfortable with the listen-and-repeat drills of a language lab. some need a grammar textbook to _56_ a foreign tongue. each of these approaches is fine, but its a mistake to rely on only one. language learners who use _57_ methods get to practise different skills and see concepts explained in different ways. whats more, the _58_ can keep them from working in a situation that never changes. when choosing a class, learners should seek a course that _59_ the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking). for self-study, try a _60_ of textbooks, audio lessons, and language learning apps. _61_it doesnt matter how well a person can write in foreign script, or finish a vocabulary test. to learn, improve, and truly use our language, we need to speak. this is the stage when language students should calm down, and feelings of _62_ or insecurity hinder (阻碍) all their hard work. in eastern cultures where saving face is a strong social value, efl teachers often complain that students, despite years of studying english, simply will not speak it. theyre too _63_ making mistakes of the grammar or mispronouncing words in a way that would _64_ them. the key is that those mistakes help language learners by showing them the limits of language, and correcting errors _65_ they become deep-rooted. the more learners speak and practise, the more quickly they improve. 51. a. howeverb. moreoverc. furthermored. therefore52. a. successesb. wondersc. mistakesd. contributions53. a. picks upb. begins withc. takes upd. meets with54. a. efficientb. difficultc. easyd. ideal55. a. nationalb. officialc. signd. target56. a. make sense ofb. make use ofc. make profit ofd. make fun of