周六高三英語(yǔ)提優(yōu)

1、高 三 英 語(yǔ) 周 六 提 優(yōu) 練 習(xí)一、單項(xiàng)選擇1. The little boat is _ safe. Dont you think so, Mike ? No worries! Ive been on this boat dozens of times.A. something but B. nothing but C. anything but D. everything but2. What do you think of Peter? He _ be really difficult to get along with even though hes a nice person

2、in general.A. shall B. should C. must D. can3. However occupied you are with study, try to _ at least 15 minutes each day to have some exercise.A. put out B. put through C. put off D. put aside4. _, a small advertisement held my attention, which read “Easy job. Good wages. No experience necessary.”

3、A. Looking through the newspaper B. While I was looking through the newspaper C. To look through the newspaper D. I was looking through the newspaper 5. Owing to the popular South Korean drama Man from the Stars, a new mix-and-match food trend, beef and fried chicken, has _ among young audiences des

4、pite its unhealthy nature. A. set off B. caught on C. come out D. broken in6. In societies where social roles are determined, boys usually copy the behavior of their fathers, and girls _ of their mothers. A. that B. those C. one D. the ones 7. For sustainable development, the government has decided

5、to give _ to thoseenergy-conserving and environment-friendly businesses in many aspects.A. profit B. interestC. preference D. advantage8. _, I have never seen anyone who's as capable as John. A. As long as I have traveled B. Much as I have traveled C. Now that I have traveled so much D. As I hav

6、e traveled so much 9. All the citizens here strongly insist those caught _ “harmful” advertisements in the streets _ punished strictly.A. putting up; will be B. to put up; should be C. being put up; shall D. putting up; be 10.If I hadnt been caught in the heavy rain, I could have been back by 7 oclo

7、ck.What a pity！Stella _ here to see you.A. is B. was C. would be D. has been11.They felt _ it was high tax and low income _ contributed to the extreme misery of the working people at the bottom of the ladder.A. /；that B. that; which C. that; what D. /; which12. On hearing the news, the girl rushed o

8、ut without hesitation, _ the luggage _ on the floor, and _ in the dark. A. left, lied, disappeared      B. leaving, lying, disappearedC. leaving, lie, disappeared      D. left, lay, disappear13. The manager has come back from his business trip. He is

9、 asking you for the report. Oh，my god ! I havent finished it yet. But he _ back at the company tomorrow.A. was expected B. will expect C. expected D. will be expected14. Its a long time _ I saw you last.Yes，and what a pity！It will be a long time _ we see each other again.A. since; before B. when; wh

10、en C. since; when D. before; since15. -Hows your experiment going, Tom? -_. Im half finished with it.A. So far so good B. It's right. C. It all depends D. Forget it二、閱讀理解 ASpace exploration has always been the province of dreamers：The human imagination readily soars where human ingenuity (創(chuàng)造力）st

11、ruggles to follow. A Voyage to the Moon, often cited as the first science fiction story, was written by Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649. Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly. In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that America would send a

12、 man to the moon by the decade's end, those words, too, had a dreamlike quality. They resonated with optimism and ambition in much the same way as the most famous dream speech of all, delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. two years later. By the end of the decade, both visions had yielded concrete

13、 results and transformed American society. And yet in many ways the two dreams ended up at odds with each other. The fight for racial and economic equality is intensely pragmatic (講求實(shí)用的）and immediate in its impact. The urge to explore space is just the opposite. It is figuratively and literally othe

14、rworldly in its aims. When the dust settled, the space dreamers lost out. There was no grand follow-up to the Apollo missions. The technologically compromised space shuttle program has just come to an end, with no successor. The perpetual argument is that funds are tight, that we have more pressing

15、problems here on Earth. Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxuryas if saving one-thousandth of a single years budget would solve our problems. But human ingenuity struggles on. NASA is developing a series of robotic probes that will ge

16、t the most bang from a buck. They will serve as modern Magellans, mapping out the solar system for whatever explorers follow, whether man or machine. On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plotting a bottom-up assault on the space dream by making it a reality to the public. Private spa

17、ceflight could lie within reach of rich civilians in a few years. Another decade or two and it could go mainstream. The space dreamers end up benefiting all of us-not just because of the way they expand human knowledge, or because of the spin-off technologies they produce, but because the two types

18、of dreams feed off each other. Both Martin Luther King and John Kennedy appealed to the idea that humans can transcend what were once considered inherent limitations. Today we face seeming challenges in energy, the environment, health care. Tomorrow we will transcend these as well, and the dreamers

19、will deserve a lot of the credit. The more evidence we collect that our species is capable of greatness, the more we will actually achieve it. 1. How did the general public view Kennedys space exploration plan? A. It symbolized the American dream. B. It was as urgent as racial equality. C. It sounde

20、d very much like a dream. D. It made an ancient dream come true. 2. What does the author say about America's aim to explore space? A. It may not bring about immediate economic gains. B. It cannot be realized without technological innovation. C. It will not help the realization of racial and econ

21、omic equality. D. It cannot be achieved without a good knowledge of the other worlds. 3. Which of the following is the closest to the underlined phrase “feed off” in the last paragraph?A. supportB. contradictC. weakenD. substitute forB“To be or not to be”O(jiān)utside the Bible, these six words are the mo

22、st famous in all the literature of the worldThey were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but for every thinking man and womanTo be or not to be-to live or not to live, to live richly and abun

23、dantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcelyA philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionallyHe answered it by saying, “I think, therefore I am”But the best definition of existence I ever saw was one wr

24、itten by another philosopher who said, “To be is to be in relations” If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is aliveTo live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity （強(qiáng)度） of our relationsUnfortunately, we are so constituted that we get to love our

25、routineBut other than our regular occupation, how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extentSo far as other things are concerned-poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs-you are d

26、eadOn the contrary, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest-even more, a new accomplishment-you increase your power of lifeNo one who is deeply interested in different kinds of subjects can remain unhappyThe real pessimist is the person who has lost interestBacon said that a man dies a

27、s often as he loses a friendBut we gain new life by contacts with new friends, and new ideas and thoughts, tooWhere your thoughts are, there will be your life alsoIf your thoughts are limited only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to your narrow circle of the town in which you li

28、ve, then you live in a narrow restricted lifeBut if you are interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interested people; if you listen intently to fine music, you are always away from immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imaginationTo

29、be or not to be - to live intensely and richly, or merely to exist, that depends on ourselvesLet us widen and intensify our relationsWhile we live, let us live4.What does the author mainly want to do by this passage?AArgue against an ideaBPut forward an ideaCIntroduce some famous sayingsDExplain som

30、e famous sayings5.What does the underlined word “pessimist” most probably mean?ASomebody who always expects the worst to happenBSomebody who is always interested in making new friendsCSomebody who always lives in a world of passion and imaginationDSomebody who likes to live a rich and abundant life6

31、.Which of the following behaviors is most probably NOT encouraged by the author?AThinking more than your own business BCaring only about your physical welfareCReading good novels DListening to fine music7.What is the main idea of the passage?ATo be or not to be, that is a question BI think, therefor

32、e I amCTo be is to be in relationsDA man dies as often as he loses a friendCWhat Is Todays American DreamThey may not have called it the American Dream, but for centuries people have gone to America in search of freer, happier, and richer lives. But is today's American Dream a mythical concept o

33、r still a reality?Isabel Belarskys tiny Brooklyn apartment fills with the sound of her father's voice. Sidor Belarsky sings an Aria in Russian and 90-year-old Isabel, her lips painted an elegant red, sways gently to the song coming from her stereo.Isabel speaks with pride about her father's

34、talent and his success as an opera singer: Albert Einstein was such a fan she says that he invited Sidor to accompany him on his speaking engagements and would ask him to sing to the audience.How the Belarskys came to be in America is an extraordinary tale that Isabel loves to tell. It was the offer

35、 of a six-month job by a Mormon college president, who had seen Sidor singing in Leningrad, that enabled the Belarskys to escape from Stalins Russia in 1930. “Our dream was being in America,” Isabel says. “They loved it. My mother could never think of Russia, it was her enemy and my father, he made

36、such a wonderful career here.”Like generations of immigrants before them, the Belarskys came to America in search of freedomto them the American Dream meant liberty. But Isabel says it promised even more. “The dream is to work, to have a home and to get ahead. You can start as a janitor and become t

37、he owner of the building.”The American Dream is not written into the constitution but it is so ingrained in the national psyche that it might as well be. Many point to the second sentence in the Declaration of Independencethe “certain unalienable rights” that include “l(fā)ife, liberty and the pursuit o

38、f happiness” as the “official” version of the phrase. But it was actually in 1931 that the term was popularized, when historian James Truslow Adams wrote in The Epic of America that the Dream means “a better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank”.The concept of the American Dr

39、eam has not stayed static. For European immigrants, like Isabel, fleeing persecution in the first half of the last century, the Dream was about a life without persecution. But somewhere in the middle of the last century the dream changed. As Americas post war economy boomed, the new arrivals wanted

40、more than freedomthey wanted a share of the prosperity as well. In the 1950s, TV commercials featured housewives proudly showing off kitchens filled with gleaming appliances. The quest for liberation became a quest for Coca Cola. As the century wore on, the materialistic slant of the dream overtook

41、the political side. Dallas and Dynasty suggested this was a country where it was possible to become not just rich, but filthily rich.Cheyanne Smith was shocked at the deprivation that greeted her in America. She arrived in New York from the Caribbean seven years ago. Having watched endless American

42、TV shows as a child, she thought she knew what to expect when her family moved to Brooklyn. Instead, the deprivation of one of New Yorks poorest neighbourhoods shocked her.“I thought this is not America because this is not what I see on television,” she says. Like Cheyanne, 18-year-old Franscisco Cu

43、riel is also ambitious. He came from Mexico City three years ago to go to college here but he's worried that Brooklyn's schools aren't going to give him a good enough education. “The system is broken; we cant get the superior education that they supposedly want to give us,” he says.Throu

44、gh the centuries America's immigrants have endured terrible hardship and sacrifice so that they and their children can get ahead. Perhaps its not surprising to hear the members of the Bushwick youth group lament the multiple, low paid jobs that their parents must do simply to get the rent paid a

45、nd put food on the table. What is startling is that these bright, ambitious youngsters just don't believe that talent and hard work are enough to ensure they will ever have a shot at that mythical American Dream.8. Why did the Belarskys come to the US according to the passage?A. To seek freedom.

46、B. To seek wealth.C. To seek good education.D. To seek a good job.9.What is the meaning of “the materialistic slant of the dream overtook the political side” in Paragraph 9?A. The American Dream means both material success and political freedom.B. The American Dream means material success rather tha

47、n political freedom.C. The American Dream means more material success than political freedom.D. The American Dream means more political freedom than material success.10. What is Cheyanne Smith and Franscisco Curiels attitude toward American Dream?A. Hopeful.B. Disappointed.C. Optimistic.D. Neutral.1

48、1. What can we know about the Bushwick youth group according to the last paragraph?A. They feel grateful that their parents did low paid jobs to raise the family.B. They doubt that talent and hard work will make them realize their American Dream.C. They have endured great hardship and sacrifice.D. T

49、hey are willing to do the low paid jobs to help pay their education.12. What can be inferred from the passage?A. The American Dream is deeply-rooted in the national psyche.B. The concept of the American Dream has gone through changes throughout the time.C. American Dream is still firmly believed by

50、the majority of the immigrants.D. The concept of American Dream will remain unchanged in the next two decades.DRosemary sat at her kitchen table, working a crossword puzzle. Crosswords were nice; they filled the time, and kept the mind active. She needed just one word to complete this mornings puzzl

51、e; the clue was “a Swiss river,” and the first of its three letters was “A”. Unfortunately, Rosemary had no idea what the name of river was, and could not look it up. Her atlas was on her desk, and the desk was in the guest room, currently being occupied by her grandson Victor.Looking up over the to

52、ps of her glasses, Rosemary glanced at the kitchen clock: it was almost 10 a.m. Land sakes! Did the boy intend to sleep all day? She noticed the pain in her wrist again, and put down her pen. Anyhow, at 87 years of age, she was glad she could still write at all. She had decided long ago that growing

53、 old was like slowly turning to stone; you couldnt take anything for granted. She stood up slowly, painfully, and started walking to the guest room.The trip, though only a distance of about 25 feet, seemed to take a long while. Rosemary arrived at the door to the guest room. It stood slightly open,

54、and she looked through the opening. Victor lay sleeping on his side, his arms bent, his expression slightly pained. Get up, lazy bones, she wanted to say. Even in childhood, Rosemary had never slept past 4 a.m.; there were too many chores to do. How different things were for Victors generation! Her

55、youngest grandson behaved as if he had never done a chore in his life. Twenty-one years old, he had driven down to Florida to visit Rosemary in his shiny new car, a gift from his dear parents. Victor would finish college soon, and his future appeared bright if he ever got out of bed, that is.Somethi

56、ng Victor had said last night over dinner had disturbed her. Now what was it? Oh yes; he had been talking about one of his college courses a “gut”，he had called it. When she had asked him to explain the word, Victor had said it was a course that you took simply because it was easy to pass. Rosemary,

57、 who had not even had a high school education, found the word unpleasant. If she had been allowed to continue her studies, she would never have taken a “gut” .The memory flooded back then, still painful as an open wound all these years later. It was the first day of high school. She had graduated from grammar school the previous year, but her father had forbidden her to go to high school that autumn, saying she was needed on the farm. Afte