题目内容
完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中，选出最佳选项。
“Who can ever have imagined that someone like me would make it this far?” asked Chad Wood last week during his high school graduation speech as the best student. Chad offered 1 to his fellow classmates to never give up—and the words 2 much more to himself. That’s because Chad is deaf, and he told the story of the serious troubles he 3 to graduate first in his class at Harrison High school in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Chad didn’t start to 4 until he was 5, according to his mother, Pam Wood. Although her son was 5 a disadvantage, she was determined not to treat him 6 .“I’ve expected him to do everything every other kid does, and I saw no 7 why he couldn’t,” she told ABC News. “And if he 8 the first time, we just tried again.”
Chad, 17, worked hard throughout school, 9 no special treatment but sitting at the front of the class and using a special audio system so he could hear the teacher. All his hard work 10 . He received full school fare to Vanderbilt University. “Deafness had taught me a lesson to never 11 ,” he said in the speech. “Not when the experts tell you it cannot be done. Not when you have 12 so far behind that escaping seems the only way 13 . Not when achieving your dreams seems an entire 14 .”
Chad spoke for about four minutes, after which he received a standing applause from the class and 15 messages from family, friends and strangers. “They’ve been sending me messages on Facebook, email; they’ve been talking to me in person telling me how it had a 16 on their lives and how they’re really 17 by it,” Chad told ABC News. “It feels 18 . Seeing that my words 19 have a power on someone and that they want to work harder 20 my words makes me feel wonderful.”
1.A. warning B. description C. advice D. information
2.A. analysed B. meant C. recognized D. persuaded
3.A. needed B. faced C. consisted D. foresaw
4.A. cry B. write C. smell D. hear
5.A. at B. for C. under D. by
6.A. deadly B. kindly C. differently D. similarly
7.A. harm B. reason C. trouble D. conclusion
8.A. failed B. organized C. succeed D. blamed
9.A. receive B. receiving C. to receive D. received
10.A. set off B. dropped off C. took off D. paid off
11.A. give in B. give up C. give out D. give away
12.A. waited B. walked C. fallen D. gone
13.A. up B. off C. in D. out
14.A. impossibility B. success C. victory D. possibility
15.A. scientific B. negative C. supportive D. cautious
16.A. reward B. power C. source D. detail
17.A. defeated B. exposed C. educated D. puzzled
18.A. unwilling B. amazing C. shocking D. embarrassing
19.A. actually B. suddenly C. strangely D. extremely
20. A. apart from B. according to C. instead of D. because of
选词填空
根据语境，用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空。（每个短语仅使用一次）
under construction be absorbed into apart from become interested in die of look into expose...to… (be) suspected of put forward slow down |
1． ____________ stopping water pollution by law, it is everyone’s responsibility to make good use of water.
2． I like watching English programmes so I ____________ English.
3． We consider it quite necessary to __________ the failure before doing anything else.
4． The train _________ suddenly, the lights went off, and then there was fire and smoke.
5． My mother ____________ cancer when I was 10 years old, so I have to learn to live alone.
6． Potatoes turn green when they ______________ the light.
7. With the development of economy, our countryside is increasingly __________ the large cities.
8． The naughty boy was ____________ having damaged the computer.
9． Many people are likely to accept any idea __________ by experts on TV.
10． A new eight-kilometer road is ____________ that links the airport with the city.
Passage 3（2017届江西省上高二中高三考）
体裁 | 话题 | 词数 | 难度 | 正确率 |
说明文 | Jake Beckman呼吁出版商应对读者负责 | 361 | ★★★☆☆ |
The Internet is full of headlines that grab your attention with buzzwords (流行词). But often when we click through, we find the content hardly delivers and it wastes our time. We close the page, feeling we’ve been cheated. These types of headlines are called ＂click bait＂.
A headline on Businesslnsider.com reads: ＂This phrase will make you seem more polite＂. First, when you click through, you find another headline: ＂Four words to seem more polite.＂ Then, on reading the article, you find it’s actually an essay about sympathy. And what are the four words? They’re ＂Wow, that sounds hard.＂ On some video websites, you might encounter headlines such as ＂Here’s what happens when six puppies visited a campus＂. Turns out it’s just some uninteresting dog footage (镜头).
Nowadays, with the popularity of social media, many news outlets tweet (推送) click bait links to their stories. These tweets take advantage of the curiosity gap or attempt to draw the reader into a story using a question in the headline. These click bait headlines are so annoying that someone is attempting to save people time by exposing news outlet click bait through social media. The Twitter account @SavedYouAClick, run by Jake Beckman, is one such example.
Beckman’s method is to grab tweets linking to a story and retweet them with a click-saving comment. For example, CNET tweeted ＂So iOS 8 appears to be jailbreakable but...＂, with a link to its coverage of Apple’s product announcements. Beckman retweeted it with this comment attached: ＂... it hasn’t been jailbroken yet.＂
Since founding the account, Beckman’s Twitter experiment has brought him more than 131,000 followers. Beckman said that @SavedYouAClick is…＂just my way of trying to help the Internet be less terrible.＂ Asked about his goal, he said, ＂I’d love to see publishers think about the experience of their readers first. I think there’s an enormous opportunity for publishers to provide readers with informative updates that include links so you can click through and read more.
1.The article on Businesslnsider.com turns out to be___________.
A. useful suggestions on politeness
B.an essay about another topic
C.an article hard to understand
D. a link to a video website
2.Why are readers often cheated by tricky headlines?
A. Social media has become more popular.
B. Readers have questions to be solved.
C. Such headlines are fairly attractive.
D. There’re always stories behind them.
3.Beckman attached his comment to CNET’s tweet to __________.
A. criticize CNET B. save readers’ time
C. advertise apple’s new product D. tell readers something about iOS 8
4.In the last paragraph, Beckman appeals that _________.
A. publishers be more responsible for the link
B. readers think about their needs before reading
C. publishers provide more information for readers
D. people work together to make the Internet less terrible
