高考英语一轮选练习题 Unit 4 Pygmalion(含解析)新人教版选修8(1)

选修8Unit 4

李仕才

考点规范练(选修8 Unit 4)

【短文语法填空】

在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

An old man and his son were taking a donkey to the market. The man rode the donkey

and the son walked behind __1__. A man saw them and asked the son why __2__ wasn't

riding the donkey. Then the father let __3__ ride it. __4__ man saw them and told

__5__ that they should __6__ ride the donkey. So __7__ both got on it. A woman who

saw them said, “Tell __8__， why are you both riding that poor animal?

__9__ looks

so weak and tired. __10__ are so cruel ！” Then, the father and son got off the

donkey and started carrying it across a bridge. When they were halfway across the

bridge, the donkey struggled loose and fell into the river.

1．______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______

6．______ 7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______

答案：

1.it 2.he 3.him 4.Another 5.them

6.both 7．they 8.me 9.It 10.You

Ⅰ.阅读理解

I am a volunteer teacher in our local middle school.Recently,while working with

my excellent student,I wrote him a note regarding an assignment he needed to work

on.“Here,”I said,“keep this with you so you don’t forget.”

He took the piece of paper and stared at it for a moment before commenting,“I

can’t read this.”I wasn’t sure what he meant,so I examined the note.It was my

best cursive(草书).

It’s true,then.The news about schools no longer teaching handwriting.But I

believe it is necessary for students to learn cursive.

First,there continues to be a need to sign “hard copies”of documents.There

is a sense of ceremony and a seriousness of purpose about the act of signing

something.It calls to mind the signers of the Declaration of Independence.Just look

at those signatures!John Hancock’s was so robust (遒劲的) and original that,more

than 200 years later,it still serves as the logo (标识) of a namesake (同名者)

insurance company.And why not?It is a work of art.

Second,a great part of the history of the United States is recorded in

handwritten documents,including personal letters.If one has not been taught to write

in cursive,it is unlikely that one will be able to read it.

Third,and perhaps most important,when one is trying to learn

something,somewhere in the process there must be a slow step.Writing in longhand

is a means of slowing down enough to be able to think deeply about what one is penning.

In times of budgetary trial,schools often

jettison music and art instruction

but keep dangerous football.If cursive joins those victims from the curriculum,then

it will be the loss of yet one more outlet (发泄途径) through which students are

able to say,“This is my mark.This is me.”

I still remember in fifth grade,I once handed my finished work to Mrs.Shaw,my

handwriting teacher.She looked at it,caught her breath,and said,“Oh,my.I think

you’re going to be a writer someday.”

Thank you,Mrs.Shaw,for seeing so much in my handwriting.I needed that push.

1.The author’s student

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A.knew few words

B.didn’t study hard

C.had poor eyesight

D.couldn’t read cursive

2.What do we know about John Hancock’s signature?

A.It is hard to recognize.

B.It is really appreciated.

C.It is used illegally by a company.

D.It was discovered in a personal letter.

3.Which can best replace the underlined word “jettison”in Paragraph 7?

A.Focus on. B.Get rid of.

C.Depend on. D.Look down upon.

4.To the author,Mrs.Shaw’s words were

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A.quite interesting

B.really confusing

C.very encouraging

D.pretty disappointing

B

It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some

point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly

as he has planned. Fortunately, such moments are usually not obvious to the listeners.

Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only

what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the

order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will

be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as

if nothing happened.

Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn’t really matter.

If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech — ＂I Have a Dream＂,

you may notice that he stumbles (结巴)over his words twice during the speech. Most

likely, however, you don’t remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on

his message rather than on his way of speech-making.

People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard

speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They

feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, in fact, the

listeners are not looking for a perfect performance. They are looking for a

well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly.

Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making