第13練　完形填空＋閱讀理解

　　Ⅰ.完形填空

　　體裁：記敘文　話題：愛心傳遞　詞數(shù)：290　時間：15′

　　A year ago，my friend and I went to a nearby town to attend a wedding.After the reception(招待會)，we were __1__ for a public bus to go back home.It was already nine o'clock at night.And although there were many buses passing by，__2__ of them stopped.We waited and waited there.An hour laterwe were getting __3__．We wouldn't be able to stay there for the night，because it was a(n) __4__ and we both needed to work the next day.How __5__ we were!

　　It was almost 10 pm when a family—who had attended the same __6—passed by in their car.__7__ sensing that we were waiting for some means of transport，they stopped and offered to give us a __8__．I was so happy by their kindness，and I expressed my __9__ to them in time.When we __10 my hometown，the family dropped us at the __11__ point from where we could catch a public rickshaw(三輪車) to get straight to our home.On the way，a laborer(工人)__12__ the rickshaw.The driver saw his clothes and asked him __13__ he had money to pay the fare.The man __14__ his head and said，“No”．On hearing this，the driver __15__ to take him.Just at that time，I remembered my own __16__ a few minutes earlier.So I told the driver to __17__ him to sit with us，as I would pay his fare.

　　What an immediate chance to __18__ the act of kindness！That night，I felt lightness in my heart.I went to sleep happily，filled with __19__ about what I had done.I wish this chain(一系列) of kindness could __20__！

　　【語篇解讀】　一年前，“我”和朋友去參加婚禮。回家的時候太晚了而等不到車，正在我們焦急之時，一個陌生人主動要求載“我們”一程。后來，“我”又幫助另一個陌生人付車費。就這樣，愛心一個一個地傳遞下去。

　　1．A.applying

　　B．waiting

　　C．heading

　　D．making

　　答案　B　[根據(jù)下文“We waited and waited there.”可知，當時“我”和朋友正在等公共汽車回家。]

　　2．A.none

　　B．some

　　C．each

　　D．a(chǎn)ny

　　答案　A　[根據(jù)上下句“And although there were many buses passing by，...We waited and waited there.”可知，雖然有很多車經(jīng)過，但是沒有一個愿意停下來載“我們”。]

　　3．A.curious

　　B．a(chǎn)ctive

　　C．hopeless

　　D．careful

　　答案　C　[根據(jù)上文內(nèi)容可知，等了1個小時已經(jīng)是晚上10點了，都沒有等到車，“我”和朋友感覺沒有希望了。]

　　4．A.festival

　　B．holiday

　　C．a(chǎn)ppointment

　　D．weekday

　　答案　D　[根據(jù)下文“we both needed to work the next day”可知，那天是個工作日，第二天還要上班。]

　　5．A.relaxed

　　B．worried

　　C．bored

　　D．excited

　　答案　B　[根據(jù)上文內(nèi)容可知，等不到車又不能在這里過夜，所以“我”和朋友非常著急。]

　　6．A.bus

　　B．meeting

　　C．wedding

　　D．class

　　答案　C　[根據(jù)第一段“A year ago，my friend and I went to a nearby town to attend a wedding.”可知，“我們”是去參加同一個婚禮的。]

　　7．A.Generally

　　B．Strangely

　　C．Probably

　　D．Finally

　　答案　C　[他們可能感覺到“我們”在等公共汽車，所以停下來讓“我們”搭便車。]

　　8．A.lift

　　B．car

　　C．letter

　　D．chance

　　答案　A　[根據(jù)上文“sensing that we were waiting for some means of transport，they stopped”可知，他們可能感覺到“我們”在等公共汽車，所以停下來讓“我們”搭便車。]

　　9．A.concern

　　B．thankfulness

　　C．surprise

　　D．disappointment

　　答案　B　[他們善良地讓“我們”搭便車，所以“我”上車后及時表達謝意。]

　　10．A.missed

　　B．built

　　C．left

　　D．reached

　　答案　D　[根據(jù)下文“the family dropped us”可知，車到“我”和朋友的家鄉(xiāng)時，好心人才讓“我們”下車。]

　　11．A.nearest

　　B．furthest

　　C．highest

　　D．lowest

　　答案　A　[根據(jù)下文“where we could catch a public rickshaw to get straight to our home”可知，好心人把“我們”送到離站點最近的地方，在那里可以乘坐人力車直接回家。]

　　12．A.parked

　　B．climbed

　　C．stopped

　　D．moved

　　答案　C　[根據(jù)下文內(nèi)容可知，那個工人也想搭車，所以他叫停了這輛人力車。]

　　13．A.if

　　B．which

　　C．when

　　D．how

　　答案　A　[拉人力車的司機問那個工人是否有錢付車費。]

　　14．A.nodded

　　B．touched

　　C．washed

　　D．shook

　　答案　D　[根據(jù)下文“said，‘No’”可知，工人搖頭說沒有錢付車費。]

　　15．A.agreed

　　B．refused

　　C．pretended

　　D．decided

　　答案　B　[根據(jù)上文可知，工人沒有錢付車費，所以拉人力車的人拒絕載他。]

　　16．A.mystery

　　B．secret

　　C．trouble

　　D．wealth

　　答案　C　[根據(jù)上文內(nèi)容及下文“a few minutes earlier”可知，“我”想起了剛剛在等公共汽車的困境。]

　　17．A.allow

　　B．help

　　C．a(chǎn)dvise

　　D．encourage

　　答案　A　[根據(jù)下文“as I would pay his fare.”可知“我”讓司機允許那個工人同我們一起坐車，因為“我”會替那個工人付車費。]

　　18．A.believe in

　　B．go through

　　C．stand for

　　D．pass on

　　答案　D　[根據(jù)上文內(nèi)容可知，別人幫助了“我”和朋友，“我”又去幫助了其他人，可見這是愛心的傳遞。]

　　19．A.relief

　　B．hope

　　C．puzzle

　　D．joy

　　答案　D　[根據(jù)上文“I went to sleep happily”可知，當晚“我

　　20．A.increase

　　B．continue

　　C．change

　　D．succeed

　　答案　B　[“我”希望這種愛心的傳遞能繼續(xù)下去。]

　　Ⅱ.閱讀理解

　　A

　　體裁：說明文　話題：人與科技　詞數(shù)：365　時間：5′

　　You don't need to get in a time-traveling machine to see how technology will reshape our lives, such as the way we shop. Several new technologies that are to change your buying habits already exist.Let's see what's in store for your future shopping.

　　Try it on, virtually (虛擬地). Want to shop online for a new pair of eyeglasses? You don't need to guess which pair looks best on you—use the eBay Fashion iPhone app(程序) to try a pair of eyewear you're checking out on a picture of your face. But what if you want to buy something bigger? Thanks to Microsoft Kinect's motion tracking camera, you can cover clothes on your screen body.

　　You can even choose the background of your virtual fitting room to enrich your shopping experience.

　　Get a perfect, custom fit. Everyone's body is shaped differently. To get a perfect fit, you sometimes have to get your clothes changed. But by using 3D scanning technology, all the clothes you buy will fit your body perfectly.Some companies scan your body using High-tech to get the most accurate measurements,

　　so they can make special clothes just for you.

　　High-tech shopping carts and checkout counters. Hightech shopping carts could, in time, be a common sight in malls and supermarkets. Microsoft Kinect-enabled carts are currently under test.

　　The cart can follow you along the aisles (通道), controlled merely by your movement and your voice. In China, a supermarket chain introduced tablet-equipped carts that guide shoppers around the stores' aisles.

　　In the United States, several supermarkets use a device called Scan It that gives buyers the freedom to scan purchases on their own while they shop.

　　While it's great not having to line up at a checkout counter, we wouldn't mind it if the store used Toshiba's new Object Recognition Scanner. The machine identifies a product as soon as it's placed in front of a camera just by its shape and color, even if it has no bar code.

　　【語篇解讀】　本文是一篇說明文，主要介紹了幾種未來的購物方式。

　　21．What's the best title for this text?

　　A．Ways for future shopping

　　B．Influence of new technology

　　C．Inventions to change habits

　　D．A new time-traveling machine

　　答案　A　[標題歸納題。根據(jù)文章第一段的最后一句“Let's see what's in store for your future shopping”可推知，答案A未來的購物方式，最適合做文章標題。]

　　22．According to Paragraph 2，the eBay Fashion iPhone app can ________．

　　A．make vivid pictures of our face

　　B．help us sell more clothes online

　　C．create us a virtual dressing room

　　D．choose suitable eyeglasses for us

　　答案　D　[推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第二段中“You don't need to guess which pair looks best

　　on

　　you—use

　　the

　　eBay

　　Fashionl iPhone app(程序)to try a pair of eyewear you're checking out on a picture of your face.”可推知，答案D為你選擇一副適合的眼鏡，符合文意。]

　　23．Which of the following can get the most accurate shape of our body?

　　A．Object Recognition Scanner.B．The eBay Fashion iPhone app.C．3D scanning technology.

　　D．Microsoft Kinect-enabled carts.

　　答案　C　[細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段中“But by using 3D scanning technology，all the clothes you buy will fit your body perfectly.”可知，3D掃描技術最精確，答案C符合文意。]

　　24．The Object Recognition Scanner can identify a product more quickly by ________．

　　A．the customer's voice

　　B．its shape and color

　　C．the customer's movement

　　D．the bar code on it

　　答案　B　[細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章最后一段的最后一句“The machine identifies a product as soon as it's placed in front of a camera just by its shape and color,

　　even if it has no bar code”可知，此處the machine指的是Toshiba's new object Recognition Scanner，故答案B符合文意。]

　　25．What can we infer from this text?

　　A．Checkout counters will disappear from supermarkets in future.

　　B．Buyers can use Scan It to go around the supermarket by themselves.

　　C．High-tech shopping carts will be widely used in malls and supermarkets.

　　D．The new technologies are only dreams that are impossible to come true.

　　答案　C　[推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段的第一句“High-tech shopping carts could，in time，be a common sight in malls and supermarkets”中in time(遲早)可推知，高科技購物未來將廣泛地應用到商場和超市中，故答案C符合文意。]

　　B

　　體裁：影評　話題：電影故事　詞數(shù)：370　時間：8′

　　Few of us haven't read Cinderella，the story of a young woman living in poverty who meets the prince of her dreams.Some might not want to admit it，but there is a hidden Cinderella in everyone's heart—we all wish we could achieve recognition or success after a period of obscurity(默默無聞)．

　　Mary Santiago has that secret dream，too.Her story is featured in Another Cinderella Story，a film set in a U．S.high school.

　　Mary is shy but loves to dance.Compared with other girls，she is invisible.However，her world changes completely when a famous teenager pop singer，Joey Parker，appears.

　　Joey is everything the rest of the boys in her class are not—kind，handsome and desirable.Mary and Joey's paths cross at a ball.They meet and fall in love with each other.But when Mary has to rush back home，she leaves behind her MP3 player，which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl of his dreams.Of course，there

　　is a wicked stepmother，who turns out to be Dominique Blatt and she takes in Mary after her dancer mother dies.Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesn't get into the top dance school.Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey falling for Mary，even if that means embarrassing her.

　　The story，though it mostly follows Cinderella，does add a few modern day twists to the classic fairy tale.Refreshingly，the film，unlike many high school films，does not focus on looks，although the actors are all beautiful.There is also a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.

　　“The movie takes the Cinderella fairy tale as its jumping-off point，” writes the movie critic Amber Wilkinson.“Yet the focus is firmly on following your dream.”

　　【語篇解讀】　本文是一篇影評。講述的是一部以灰姑娘的童話故事為藍本的新電影——《灰姑娘之舞動奇跡》。

　　26．In the movie，Mary Santiago is the main character who ________．

　　A．is brave in expressing her love

　　B．is badly treated by the stepmother

　　C．has a dream of meeting a prince

　　D．is embarrassed by the pop singer

　　答案　B　[細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段第五句中的．..there is a wicked stepmother...可知答案為B項。]

　　27．What can we infer from the passage?

　　A．Joey is just like other boys in Mary's class.

　　B．The MP3 player helps Joey in finding Mary.

　　C．Not many people have a dream to be realized.

　　D．Mary's mother influences her a lot in singing.

　　答案　B　[推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第四段第四句中的．..MP3 player，which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl...可知答案。由第四段第一句可排除A項；由第一段可排除C項；由第四段第五句可排除D項。]

　　28．What does the movie critic Amber Wilkinson mean by his words about Another Cinderella Story?

　　A．The movie is exactly another copy of the Cinderella fairy tale.

　　B．The movie is as good as the story Cinderella.

　　C．The movie and Cinderella both focus on following your dream.

　　D．The movie is based on the story Cinderella while a little different from it.

　　答案　D　[細節(jié)理解題。在安伯·威爾金森所說的話：The movie takes the Cinderella fairy tale as its jumping-off point...Yet the focus is firmly on following your dream.中，jumping-off point意為“出發(fā)點”。說明了這部電影源于灰姑娘的故事，都以追逐夢想為主題，但這部新電影又略有不同。]

　　29．The passage is mainly about ________．

　　A．a(chǎn)n introduction to Mary Santiago

　　B．a(chǎn) review about a film

　　C．a(chǎn)n essay about dreams

　　D．a(chǎn)n advertisement of Cinderella

　　答案　B　[主旨大意題。通讀全文可知這是一篇影評。]