2017-2018学年高考英语北师大版一轮复习课时作业：语言朋友(19)

2017-2018学年语言朋友(27)完形填空My husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse (松鸡)．It's __1__for a grouse to have any contact (接触) with people.In fact, they're hard to spot, __2__ they usually fly off when they hear humans approaching.This grouse came into our lives in__3__.Tom was working out in the field when he__4__ her walking around at the edge of the field.She was __5__unafraid and seemed to be __6__ about what he was doing.Tom saw the __7__bird several times, and she got more comfortable around him.We quickly grew__8__of the bird and decided to call her Mildred.One day, as Tom was working, Mildred came within a few feet of him to watch.Tom__9__he didn't see her and kept working to see what she would do next.Apparently, she didn't like to be __10__.She'd run up and peck (啄) at Tom's hands, then __11__ off to see what he would do.This went on for about 20 minutes, until Mildred became tired of the __12__and left.As spring went and summer came, Mildred started to __13__ more and more often.__14__Mildred felt comfortable enough to jump up on Tom's leg and stay long enough for me to get a__15__ of the two of them together.This friendly grouse soon felt__16__ not just with our family, but with anybody who walked or drove by.When hunting season opened, we put a __17__ at the end of our driveway asking __18__ not to shoot our pet grouse.My father, who lived down the road, __19__warned people not to shoot her.__20__，hunters would stop and take pictures, because they had never seen anything like her.解题导语：作者的丈夫与一只松鸡成了朋友！在狩猎季节，大家一起提醒猎人不要猎杀那只松鸡，事实上，猎人们对这只和人类成为好朋友的松鸡非常好奇。

2017-2018学年语言朋友(46)阅读理解An idea that started in Seattle's public library has spread throughout America and beyond.The concept is simple: help to build a sense of community in a city by getting everyone to read the same book at the same time.In addition to encouraging reading as a pursuit (追求) to be enjoyed by all, the program allows strangers to communicate by discussing the book on the bus, as well as promoting reading as an experience to be shared in families and schools.The idea came from Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl who launched the “If All of Seattle Read the Same Bo ok ” project in 1998.Her original program used author visits, study guides and book discussion groups to bring people together with a book, but the idea has since expanded to many other American cities, and even to Hong Kong.In Chicago, the mayor appeared on television to announce the choice of To Kill a Mockingbird as the first book in the “One Book, One Chicago”program.As a result, reading clubs and neighborhood groups sprang up around the city.Across the US, stories emerged of parents and children reading to each other at night and strangers chatting away on the bus about the plot and characters.The only problem arose in New York, where local readers couldnot decide on one book to represent the huge and diverse population.This may show that the idea works best in medium-sized cities or large towns, where a greater sense of unity can be achieved.Or it may show that New Yorkers rather missed the point, putting all their energy and passion into the choice of the book rather than discussion about a book itself.Ultimately, as Nancy points out, the level of success is not measured by how many people read a book, but by how many people are enriched by the process or have enjoyed speaking to someone with whom they would not otherwise have shared_a_word．解题导语：西雅图一名图书管理员发起了一项全城读书的运动，希望可以帮助人们充实自己，加强与别人的沟通。

高考英语一轮复习语言朋友（19）课时作业（含分析）北师大版完形填空It was already half past seven and I was running late again for the dinnerappointment with my wife, Eleanor.We had __1__ to meet at the restaurant at seveno'clock.I felt a little uneasy, but to my __2__I had a good excuse: A business meeting had __3__ and I'd wasted no time getting to the dinner.When I arrived at the __4__ I apologized and told Eleanor I didn't mean to belate.She screamed, “You never mean to. ” Well, I__ 5__ tell she was angry. “I'm sorrybut it was not __6__，”my explanation seemed to Several weeks later, I said.Thenmake thingswhen I__9__I told her about the business meeting.__7__，worse, which started to drive__8__ mad as well.the situation to my friend Ken Hardy, he smiled,“You__10__ a classic mistake.You're stuck __11__ your own way of thinking.Youdidn't __12__ to be late.But that's not the point.What is__13__ in your communication is how your lateness affected Eleanor.” He pointed out that I focused on theintention__14__Eleanor focused on the result.Thus,__15__of us felt misunderstood and crazy.Thinking more about Ken's words, I __16__recognized the root cause of such disagreement.It's the result of the action that really__17__.I should have started the conversation by expressing __18__ my actions affected Eleanor and __19__thediscussions about my intention for later, much later and even never.Later on, after talking to Eleanor and really__20__her experience of the results of my lateness, I've managed to be on time a lot more frequently.解题导语：人与人之间为何会产生误会？作者经过自己的经历告诉我们：那是由于我们思虑的出发点不同样，有些人只关注原由忽略了自己的行为对他人的影响，而有些人只关注结果，没有去考虑原由。

2017-2018学年语言朋友(11)阅读理解For years we have been dieting strictly after the year-end overeating, afraid that when summer comes, the bigger size we have accumulated will betray how we ate.Now scientists say, it's a little bug that causes obesity(肥胖)．As the holiday season with its abundant feasting arrives, millions of food lovers are keeping an eye on their figures.But scientists have found that weight gain is not about too much Christmas turkey or hot chocolates, but some bacteria in your guts(肠)．Chinese scientists recently discovered a type of bacteria in guts that may be to blame for obesity.A research team led by Zhao Liping, a professor in Shanghai, has identified a precise link between a particular kind of bacteria and unusual weight gain.“The endotoxin(内毒素) released by the bacterium can activate(激活) a gene that helps produce fat.And it also deactivates a gene that consumes fat，” Zhao says.Scientists have long believed that microscopic organisms in the gut, microbiota, may play a very important role in weight gain, but they had never been able to prove it.In 2004, American microbiologist Jeffrey Gordon and his colleagues discovered a general link between obesity and gut microbiota in mice.While a link was believed to exist, proving it was another matter.“The list of diseases that they may play a role in is just growing and growing，” says Lita Proctor, director of the US National Institutes of Health.“But the problem is that we're only able to look at associations and aren't yet able t o conduct cause­and­effect studies.”In the clinical study, researchers found a growth of too much endotoxin-producing bacteria, leading to 35 percent of the gut bacteria, in an obese patient whose initial weight was 175 kg.Based on this information, researchers tried to cure the patient by feeding him a specialized nutritional liquid food to decrease the bacteria in his guts to ignorable amounts.After 23 weeks, the patient lost 51.4 kg, with his fatty liver disease having almost disappeared.解题导语：科学家们发现肥胖与肠道里的一种细菌有关。

2017-2018学年语言朋友(100)阅读理解Do you know anything about the history of weather? Don't look at the sky.Don't look for old weather reports.Looking at the tree rings is more important.Correct weather reports date back only one century, but some trees can provide an exact record of weather even further back.It is natural that a tree would grow best in a climate with plenty of sunlight and rainfall.It is also expected that little sunlight or rainfall would reduce the growth of a tree.The change from a favorable to an unfavorable climate can be found out by the reading pattern of rings in a tree trunk.To find out the weather of ten years ago, you can count the rings of a tree trunk from the outside to the inside.If the tenth ring is far from the other rings, then it is certain that plenty of sunny and rainy weather occurred.If the rings are close together, then the climate was bad for the tree.Studying trees is important not only for the history of weather，but also for the history of man.In an area of New Mexico you can find only sand－no trees or people.However，many centuries ago a large population lived there.They left suddenly.Why?A scientist studied the pattern of the rings of dead trees that hadgrown there.He made up his mind that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees.Trees were necessary to make fires and buildings.So, after the people destroyed the trees, they had to move.In this example studying tree rings uncovered an exciting fact about the history of man.解题导语：研究树的年轮不但对研究气候史有重要作用，还有助于研究人类历史。

2017-2018学年语言朋友(33)阅读理解Organic food, once considered something that only health fanatics desired, is now a regular feature at most supermarkets.And that has created a bit of a dilemma.On the one hand, you have a conventionally grown apple.On the other, you have one that's organic.Both apples are firm, shiny and red.Both provide vitamins and fiber, and both are free of fat, sodium and cholesterol.Conventionally grown food generally costs less, but is organic food a better choice? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and sold food products are now being debated on a large scale.Supporters of organic foods－a term whose meaning varies greatly－are frequently telling the world that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.The growing interest of consumers in the safety and nutritional quality of daily foods is a welcome development.However, much of this interest has been aroused by sweeping claims that the conventional food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs.Almost daily, the public is surrounded by claims for “no­aging”diets, new vitamins and other wonder foods.There are numerousunsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to man­made ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than those treated with insect spray and the like.Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, large amounts of written material about the benefits of organic foods makes it difficult for people to separate fact from fiction.As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely advertised and form the basis for people's opinion.One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods.But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods.So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the conventional food supply and buy only expensive organic foods instead.解题导语：近年来，人们争相吃有机食品，但作者认为有机食品花费大且不一定比传统食品更有营养价值。

手惰市安逸阳光实验学校课时作业19 Body languageⅠ.阅读理解(2015·质检Ⅰ)If you are sending a text, watching the TV or listening to the radio, you may want to stop and give this your full attention. Multi­tasking shrinks(萎缩) the brain, research suggests.A study found that men and women who frequently used several types of technology at the same time had less grey matter in a key part of the brain.University of Sussex researchers said：“simultaneously using mobile phones, laptops and other media devices could be changing the structure of our brains.” Worryingly, the part of the brain that shrinks is involved in processing emotion.The finding follows research which has linked multi­tasking with a shortened attention span (持续时间)，depression, anxiety and lower grades at school.The researchers began by asking 75 healthy men and women how often they divided their attention between different types of technology. This could mean sending a text message while listening to music and checking email, or speaking on the phone while watching TV and surfing the web. The volunteers were then given brain scans which showed they had less grey matter in a region called the anterior cingulate cortex(ACC)．The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, is the first to make a link between multi­tasking and the structure of the brain.Researcher Kep Kee Loh said：“Media multi­tasking is becoming more prevalent in our lives today and there is increasing concern about its impacts on our cognition and social­emotional well­being.” “He added that more research is needed to prove that multi­tasking shrinks the brain. This is because it is also possible that people with less grey matter in the ACC are more drawn to using lots of gadgets simultaneously.” Experts have also warned of the harmful impact technology can have on our memory and attention span. The University of California team commissioned a survey of more than 18,000 people aged between 18 and 99 and found 20 percent had problems with memory. Researchers were taken aback by the 14 percent of 18 to 39­year­olds who also worried about their memories.Multi­tasking with gadgets may shorten attention span, making itharder to focus and form memories, the researchers said, adding that youngsters may be particularly affected by stress.1．What's the main idea of this passage?A．Multi­tasking shortens attention span.B．Multi­tasking makes your brain smaller.C．Multi­tasking has harmful effects on our memory.D．Multi­tasking is becoming more and more popular.2．What does the underlined word “simultaneously” (in Par agraph 3) mean?A．frequentlyB．now and thenC．in the meantime D．for a long time3．What's the opinion of Kep Kee Loh on media multi­tasking?A．people with less grey matter are more willing to use gadgets lots.B．Whether multi­tasking shrinks the brain remains to be studied further.C．Multi­tasking with gadgets makes it harder to focus and form memories.D．Media multi­tasking affects on our cognition and social­emotional well­being.4．Researchers believe that multi­tasking may cause people to be ________.A．attentive B．addictedC．absent­minded D．intelligent答案与解析1．B 主旨大意题。

2017-2018学年语言朋友(54)完形填空The world always makes way for the dreamer.When I was twelve years old, my father took me to see Zig Zigler.I remember sitting in that dark hall listening to Mr.Zigler__1__everyone's spirits up to the ceiling, I__2__ there feeling like I could do anything.When we got to the car, I turned to my father and said, “Dad, I want to__3__ people feel like that.”My father asked me what I __4__.“I want to be a motivational speaker just like Mr.Zigler.”I replied.A(An)__5__ was born.Recently, I began seeking my dream of __6__ others.After a four year relationship with Fortune 100 Company__7__as a sales trainer and ending as a regional sales manager, I left the company at the height of my __8__.Many people were __9__ that I would leave after earning a six figure income.And they asked why I would risk everything for a __10__.I made my __11__to start my own company and leave my worryingless position after __12__ a regional sales meeting.The vice president of our company delivered a __13__that changed my life.He asked us, “If a god would offer you three wishes, what would they be？”After giving us a __14__to write down the three wishes, hethen asked us, “Why do you need a__15__？” I would never forget the power I felt at that moment.I realized that__16__ I had accomplished in the past had prepared me for this moment.I was ready and didn't need a god's help to become a motivational speaker.A motivational speaker was__17__ .Having made that decision, I was immediately__18__.One week after I gave notice, my husband was laid off from his job, and now we had no__19__.But I held fast to my dream.The wonder really began to happen.In a short time my husband found a better job.And I was able to book several __20__engagements with new customers.I discovered the incredible power of dreams.解题导语：作者通过自己的亲身经历告诉我们：只要有梦想，就能做自己想做的事。