高考英语一轮巩固达标练题 Unit 4 Sharing(含解析)新人教版选修7

1 Unit 4 Sharing

李仕才

***阅读理解。

When people find out that I am a journalist, they often ask me: What do you think

about the future of newspapers?

I tell them that I think the future of communications is moving online. People

expect me to be fearful for the future of print. After all, in some people’s minds

I wouldn’t be able to build a career in journalism if it all moves online. However,

strangely enough, I’m actually comforted by the fact that online journalism is

becoming usual. I am a blogger who has always been able to find a home for my writing

online.

Since I began writing blogs, I have become aware of how many people you can reach

with online writing. Compare this to the newspapers’ circulation base, and you will

have a strong reason for online journalism.

In her successful blog post titled The job I have spent the last year learning

is not the one I will have, author Jenny Surane states, “Print is an expensive product

to love. And general managers, publishers and editors must now figure out a

profitable way to get their news into readers’ heads.”She goes on to state that

people don’t feel like picking up a newspaper now and would rather scroll(滚屏)

through their Twitter feed, and get news from many different sources.

If print is dying, then a new form of communicating information is being born.

The need for information has not died. If anything, it has increased. What has died,

rather, is the way in which information is presented.

Now more than ever, in this age of information, there is a desire for stories

on the same topic from different points of view. The printing industry can keep pace

with the need of providing a variety of sources, if it chooses to. 2 Is the future of print grim? Maybe. But is the future of journalism of

communicating information to people grim as well? Definitely not.

【解题导语】 作者是一名记者。文章从多个角度探讨新闻业的未来走向。

1．According to Paragraph 2, the author feels ．

A．confident about the future of his career

B．worried about the future of print

C．tired of being a newspaper journalist

D．embarrassed about online writing

A 解析：细节理解题。根据文章第二段最后两句可知，作者对他的职业前景感到有信心。故选A项。

2．What information is conveyed in Jenny’s blog post?

A．Twitter is not very popular.

B．It is hard to manage online journalism.

C．Print still has its own advantages.

D．People have more options to get information.

D 解析：推理判断题．根据文章第四段最后一句可知，现在人们不想看报纸，而更愿意通过手机或电脑来看“推特”上的回复，还可以从许多不同的来源获得新闻。由此可推测，如今人们可以有更多的选择来获取信息。故选D项。

3．What does the underlined word “grim” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A．Promising. B．Depressing.

C．Unforgiving. D．Encouraging.

B 解析：词义猜测题。结合上文中提及的内容可知，作者认为印刷业有可能消失，但是对新闻业的未来还是很有信心的，再结合最后一段可知，此处指“印刷业的将来会萧条吗？可能。但是传播信息给人们的新闻业的未来也会萧条吗？肯定不会。”由此可猜测，grim意思是“令人担忧的”。故选B项。promising意为“有希望的；有前途的”；unforgiving意为“不原谅人的；不宽容的”；encouraging意为“鼓舞人心的”。

4．What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To explore the future of journalism.

B．To analyze the cause of print decline.

C．To explain the bright future of a journalist. 3 D．To introduce a successful blog post about print.

A 解析：写作意图题。通读全文可知，本文从不同角度探讨了新闻业的未来走向，这也是本文的写作目的。故选A项。

***语法填空。

Nobel Prize－winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez was praised as the most

popular Spanish－language writer since Cervantes, creator of Don Quixote. He died

__1__ April 17 in Mexico City at the age of 87, which people consider __2__ great

loss to the world of literature.

Garcia Márquez was born in Colombia but lived in Mexico

__3__ more than 30 years.

He is best known for his 1967 masterpiece, the epic novel One Hundred Years of

Solitude, about the trials and __4__ (suffer) of one family over several generations.

Widely taught in

college, it __5__ (sell) about 50 million copies in more than 25

languages.

__6__ are worth mentioning are two other novels including The Autumn of the

Patriarch (1975), about a cruel Caribbean ruler, and Love in the Time of Cholera

(1985), about two lovers forced to separate in their youth __7__ find each other

again when they are close to 80. __8__ Garcia Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize

in 1982, the Swedish judges praised both his novels and short stories “in which

the fantastic and the __9__ (reality) are combined in a richly composed world of

imagination, __10__ (reflect) a continent's life and conflict” .

1．________ 2.________ 3.________ 4.________

5.________ 6.________ 7.________ 8.________

9.________ 10.________

篇章导读：本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍已故诺贝尔文学奖获得者Gabriel Garcia

Márquez的作品及小说上的成就。

1．on 考查介词。空后是具体日期，所以用on。

2．a 考查冠词。a great loss “一个巨大的损失”，作此意讲时常用单数，a在此处表泛指。

3．for 考查介词。more than 30 years是个时间段，所以用for。

4．suffering(s) 考查词性转换。由空前并列的名词“trials”可知，此空需要填suffer的名词形式，作“苦难”讲时，既可认为是可数，也可认为是不可数名词。