2017届高考英语一轮复习Module5NewspapersandMagazines课时作业外研版必修2

Module 5 Newspapers and Magazines一、单元扣点Ⅰ.根据句意，用所给单词的适当形式填空found review aboard achieve belief economicalamateur evidence1．He is not professional, just an ________ painter.2．The great scientist was awarded by the government for his great ________.3．In the last few years, the ________ of our country has been steadily developing.4．He was always late for work, so this time the boss listened to his excuse with ________.5．After saying goodbye to his parents, the boy went ________ the plane.6．There is still no ________ to suggest that he was the murderer.7．The film got excellent ________ the first time it was seen.8．I telephoned my good friend to give my ________ on his passing the driving test.9．They should be ________ to have you as one member of the football team.10．The People's Republic of China was ________ on October 1, 1949.答案 1.amateur 2.achievements 3.economy4．disbelief 5.aboard 6.evidence 7.reviews8．congratulations 9.delighted 10.foundedⅡ.完成句子1．课堂上电脑永远不会取代老师。

Teachers will never __________________ computers in the classroom.答案be replaced by2．你相信中国传统的中草药吗？Do you __________________ China's traditional herbal medicine?答案believe in3．我们祝贺她在考试中考了第一。

We ________ her ________________ in her exams.答案congratulated; on having got first4．我欣然接受了邀请。

I was ________________ the invitation.答案delighted to accept5．那是我在南方第一次见到雪。

It was ________________ that I ________________ snow in the south.答案the first time; had seen二、阅读理解(2015·湖南卷)In its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs h elp, he replies, “No, thanks. I've got a good horse under me.”The city planners decided to build an underground drainage (排水) system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice butto build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the city's streets by as much as 12 feet.This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street l evel. Small wood­frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like the Tremont Hotel, which was a six­story brick building?That's where George Pullman came in. He had developed some house­moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like the Tremont Hotel, Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews (螺旋千斤顶) beneath the building's foundation. One man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10 jackscrews. At Pullman's signal each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly, the Tremont Hotel stayed open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening.Some people like to say that every problem has a solution. But in Chicago's early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem. Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.语篇解读芝加哥早期城市规划不合理，一遇洪灾路面就会十分泥泞，后来在工程师Ellis Chesbrough和George Pullman的努力下，成功将城市路面以及建筑物提高，避免路面受洪灾影响，但这又导致了另外一个问题的出现。

1．The author mentions the joke to show ________.A. horses were fairly useful in ChicagoB. Chicago's streets were extremely muddyC. Chicago was very dangerous in the springD. the Chicago people were particularly humorous答案与解析 B 考查细节理解。

从文章第一段的内容可知，作者讲这个笑话是为了证明芝加哥的路面十分泥泞。

2．The city planners were convinced by Ellis Chesbrough to ________.A. get rid of the street dirtB. lower the Chicago RiverC. fight against heavy floodsD. build the pipes above ground答案与解析 D 考查细节理解。

从文章第三段第一句“An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt”可得出答案。

3．The underlined word “hoist” in Paragraph 4 means “________”．A. changeB. liftC. repairD. decorate答案与解析 B 考查词义猜测。