2013年高考英语一轮复习课时作业17 Unit 2 Working the land 新人教版必修4（湖北专用）

用心 爱心 专心1 课时作业课时作业 十七十七 必修必修 4 4 UnitUnit 2 2 WorkingWorking thethe land land 限时 30 分钟 多项选择 1 The father has been for many years in order that his only son can be equipped with higher education A fighting B struggling C working D laboring 2 Pictures on TV show the quake hit capital to ruins and helpless survivors waiting eagerly for relief A decreased B destroyed C returned D reduced 3 You ll become more confident and stronger after you finish your senior school lessons You see hard work character A puts up B builds up C sets up D turns up 4 It is ill health that she is now not so active in the movement A instead of B in place of C due to D in face of 5 We have every reason to believe that progress in new technology will a more comfortable life A lead to B refer to C turn to D stick to 6 He didn t believe the explanation of the detective and determined to get to the of the case on his own A occasion B discovery C root D condition 7 John worked hard at his lessons and gained to a famous university last year A permission B admission C agreement D freedom 8 People should open the window in the morning to make air in order to keep the indoor air fresh A spread B remove C float D circulate 9 The population of Africa is so rapidly as to cause concern of the whole world A expanding B stretching C extending D spreading 10 At times the balance in nature is resulting in a number of possibly unforeseen effects A confused B puzzled C disturbed D troubled 阅读理解 A A Jackie Heinricher s love affair with bamboo started in her backyard As a child I remember playing among the golden bamboo my dad had planted and when there was a slight wind the bamboos sounded really musical A fisheries biologist Heinricher 47 planned to work in the salmon industry in Seattle where she lived with her husband Guy Thornburgh but she found it too competitive Then her garden gave her the idea for a business She d planted 20 bamboo forests on their 用心 爱心 专心2 seven acre farm Heinricher started Boo Shoot Gardens in 1998 She realized early on what is just now beginning to be known to the rest of the world It can be used to make fishing poles skateboards buildings furniture floors and even clothing An added bonus Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen First she had to find a way to mass produce the plants a tough task since bamboo flowers create seed only once every 50 to 100 years And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it Heinricher appealed to Randy Burr a tissue culture expert to help her People kept telling us we d never figure it out says Heinricher Others had worked on it for 27 years I believed in what we were doing though so I just kept going She was right to feel a sense of urgency Bamboo forests are being rapidly used up and a United Nations report showed that even though bamboo is highly renewable as many as half of the world s species are threatened with dying out Heinricher knew that bamboo could make a significant impact on carbon emissions 排放 and world economies but only if huge numbers could be produced And that s just what she and Burr figured out after nine years of experiments a way to grow millions of plants By placing cuttings in test tubes with salts vitamins plant hormones and seaweed gel they got the plants to grow and then raised them in soil in greenhouses Not long after it Burr s lab hit financial difficulties Heinricher had no experience running a tissue culture operation but she wasn t prepared to quit So she bought the lab Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimillion dollar company working on species from all over the world and selling them to wholesalers 批发商 If you want to farm bamboo it s hard to do without the young plants and that s what we have she says proudly 11 What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely A They didn t have enough young bamboo B They were short of money and experience C They didn t have a big enough farm to do it D They were not understood by other people 12 What does Heinricher think of bamboo A Fragile and affordable B Productive and flexible C Useful and earth friendly D Strong and profitable 13 The underlined word renewable in Paragraph 6 probably means A able to be replaced naturally B able to be raised difficultly C able to be shaped easily D able to be recycled conveniently 14 What do you learn from the passage A Heinricher s love for bamboo led to her experiments in the lab B Heinricher s determination helped her to succeed in her work C Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing D Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream B B All over my garden I ve planted nothing but roses because I especially love the flower A close friend came for a visit the other day I told her that she should pick a bunch of roses to beautify her bedroom I promised that the smell of the roses would be wafted far far away That girl friend of mine walking into the garden in high spirits smelt here and there but in the end she didn t pick a single rose I said that she could pick many flowers I 用心 爱心 专心3 told her that I was not a flower farmer and didn t make a living out of them Saying so I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers but she stopped me crying no no no To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one she said With her hands seizing at my sleeves she told me that by no means should they be cut Roses are the smiling face of the earth and who could be so iron hearted as to destroy such a charming smile My mind was shocked the ugly earth the tough earth the plain earth it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people 15 The writer plants nothing but roses in her garden probably because A she can make money out of them B her friends like them C she enjoys the roses very much D the roses sell well 16 The underlined word wafted in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to A given off B lost C destroyed D thrown away 17 Why did the writer s close friend refuse to pick a single rose A Because the roses were not beautiful B Because she loved the roses very much C Because she did not like this kind of roses D Because the writer did not want to give her any 18 What is the best title for the passage A The Pity of People to the Roses B A Lover of Flowers C A Lovely Rose Garden D The Smiling Face of the Earth 完成句子 阅读下列各小题 根据每句后的汉语提示 用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子 19 A number of new machines were installed in the factory thus in production result 工厂安装了大量的新机器 因而使得产量增加 20 Who do you think my homework hand 你认为是谁帮我交了作业了呢 21 The living room of this house is of the bedroom which suits the family pretty well length 这个房子的起居室是卧室长度的两倍 这很合家庭成员的意 22 Victor apologized for his inform me of the change in the plan beforehand able 维克多为他没能提前通知我计划有变而道歉 23 It is generally believed that the more fertile a piece of field is grain it produces output 人们普遍认为土地越肥沃 谷物的产量就越高 24 How often I have regretted advice 我常常后悔没听他的建议 25 they set out to break the record for cross Channel swimming equip 装备好了之后 他们就出发去打破游泳横渡英吉利海峡的纪录了 26 I am of opera I d rather not sit through the Ring of the Nibelungs cycle this weekend though 尽管我喜欢歌剧 但这个周末我不想一直坐等 尼伯龙根的指环 的结束 27 People were perhaps more honest a long time ago when life was very different from be 很久以前 生活与今天的样子大不相同 那个时候的人们可能更加诚实一些 用心 爱心 专心4 28 is to carry out all we have planned during the last month thing 要做的最后一件事是在最后一个月里执行我们的全部计划 用心 爱心 专心5 答案答案 课时作业 十七 1 B 考查动词词义辨析 句意 为了让自己唯一的儿子接受更高等的教育这位父亲打拼了好多 年 struggling 此处是一种形象化的表达 2 D 考查动词词义辨析 句意 电视上的图片向我们展示了被地震袭击的这座都市沦为废墟 无 助的地震幸存者焦急地等待着救济 reduce sth to rubble ashes 表示 把某物夷为废墟 化为灰烬 因此这里用 be reduced to ruins 表示 被夷为废墟 3 B 考查动词短语辨析 后一句句意 你知道 艰苦的工作可以培养性格 build up 逐渐增强 put up 建起 提出 set up 创立 建立 turn up 出现 调高 4 C 考查介词短语辨析 due to 因为 由于 此句用了强调句型 It is that 强调 due to ill health instead of 代替 而不是 in place of 代替 取代 in face of 面对 5 A 考查动词短语辨析 句意 我们完全有理由相信 新的技术进步将会通向更加舒适的生活 lead to 导致 造成 通向 refer to 查阅 参考 turn to 转向 stick to 坚持 6 C 考查名词词义辨析 句意 他不相信侦探的解释 决心亲自去寻找案件的根源 root 意为 根源 7 B 考查名词词义辨析 admission 意为 准许进入 admission to university 指 被大学录 取 permission 许可 agreement 同意 freedom 自由 特权 8 D 考查动词词义辨析 circulate 表示 空气 液体等的 流通 spread 传播 remove 去掉 float 漂浮 句意 为了室内空气清新 人们应该在早晨打开窗子让空气流通 9 A 考查动词词义辨析 expand 不仅指尺寸的 增加 还可指范围和体积的 扩大 stretch 一般指由曲变直 由短变长的 伸展 extend 指空间范围的 扩大 或长宽的向外 延伸 也可指时 间的 延长 spread 一般指向四面八方 扩大 或 传播 10 C 考查动词词义辨析 句意 有时候 自然界的平衡受到了扰乱 导致了很多未能预见的后果 confuse puzzle 困惑不解 迷惑 trouble 麻烦 disturb 扰乱 干扰 A A 本文是一篇记叙文 其大意是说 Jackie Heinricher 创办了一家生意独特的公司 出售对地球环 境有很大好处的植物竹子 文章还介绍她栽种竹子的艰辛历程 11 A 细节理解题 根据文章的最后一句 If you want to farm bamboo it s hard to do without the young plants and that s what we have 可知没有小竹子很难广泛地栽种竹子 12 C 推理判断题 根据第三段最后两句 It can be used to make fishing poles skateboards buildings furniture floors and even clothing An added bonus Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen 可推知竹子是 有用的 以及 环保的 13 A 词义猜测题 由 renewable 的构成可知其词根是 new 加后缀 able 意思是 能够更新的 加前缀 re 意思是 再 又 重新 由此可知本题选 A 14 B 推理判断题 通读最后一段可知 Heinricher 的生意很成功 前几段讲了她的艰辛的历程 故本题选 B B B 本文为夹叙夹议文 主要讲述了