(江苏专用)2016届高考英语一轮复习Unit1Schoollife课时跟踪检测B卷(必修1)

1 School life 课时跟踪检测B卷 Ⅰ.完形填空 (2015·南京第一中学一模)True leadership is not just the ability to identify the talent and skill of the polished individuals around you. It involves being able to dig beneath the surface and discover __1__. Once there was a boy who constantly sat and talked in his math class, and seemed __2__ in group activities. Most teachers would __3__ think of him as a problem student. However, Anna was different. She believed the student was above __4__ in other areas so she created a strategy to find out. Anna didn’t __5__ the parents. Instead, she organized a handful of activities in the class to get more information. In place of calling out for volunteers in class she created a __6__ for each Friday: Girls vs. Boys. The first week the class was totally __7__. Everyone wanted to win. Even the boy had his hand up the whole time trying to get a turn. __8__， Anna waited, and waited, and waited. Finally the __9__ teacher paired the boy with the most __10__ girl student in class. Now the two teams had a __11__ score, all the students sat back eager to see the result. As the teacher placed the question on the board, most of the students began to __12__ their heads: this was a question they had never __13__ in class. “__14__！” the teacher yelled. Both students started doing it __15__thinking of how to solve the complex question. Their classmates, full of __16__， exclaimed, “Hurry, hurry, hurry！”The boy finished it just seconds before the girl and spun around with his __17__ raised, “I won！”Almost nobody could believe the student they admired failed until Anna __18__ the result. This was what Anna tried to get — it turned out that the student wasn’t bad, he was __19__. So we can see that __20__ hidden abilities is not always easy but the end results can be magical. Try your hand at this quality of leadership now and report your results. 1. A．truth B．treasure C．potential D．motivation 2. A．active B．cautious C．discouraged D．disconnected 3. A．immediately B．appropriately C．abnormally D．scarcely 4. A．limit B．average 2

C．prejudice D．value 5. A．contact B．comfort C．warn D．blame 6. A．dilemma B．debate C．game D．competition 7. A．creative B．noisy C．enthusiastic D．curious 8. A．Yet B．Still C．Somehow D．Therefore 9. A．arbitrary B．wise C．ridiculous D．puzzled 10. A．elegant B．careless C．hard­working D．considerate 11. A．rare B．close C．poor D．different 12. A．turn B．lift C．shake D．nod 13. A．raised B．feared C．overlooked D．covered 14. A．Go B．Hurry C．Look D．Try 15. A．skillfully B．slowly C．casually D．abruptly 16. A．chaos B．anxiety C．courage D．excitement 17. A．arms B．hopes C．confidence D．eyes 18. A．obtained B．analyzed C．confirmed D．adjusted 19. A．upset B．bored C．tired D．spoiled 20. A．foreseeing B．assessing C．appreciating D．recognizing Ⅱ.阅读理解 3

(2015·扬州中学4月检测) Is the “Go to College”Message Overdone? Even in a weak job market, the old college try isn’t the answer for everyone. A briefing paper from the Brookings Institution warns that “we may have overdone the message” on college, senior fellow Isabel Sawhill said. “We’ve been telling students and their families for years that college is the only way to succeed in the economy and of course there’s a lot of truth to that，” Ms. Sawhill said. “On average it does pay off...But if you load up on a whole lot of student debt and then you don’t graduate, that is a very bad situation.” One comment that people often repeat among the years of slow job growth has been the value of education for landing a job and advancing in a career. April’s national unemployment rate stood at 7.5%, according to the Labor Department. The unemployment rate for high­school graduates over 25 years old who hadn’t attended college was 7.4%, compared with 3.9% for those with a bachelor’s degree or more education. The difference is even bigger among those aged 16～24. The jobless rate for those with only a high school diploma in that age group is about 20%. At the same time, recent research by Canadian economists cautions that a college degree is no guarantee of promising employment. Ms. Sawhill pointed out that among the aspects that affect the value of a college education is the field of one’s major：Students in engineering or other sciences end up earning more than ones who major in the arts or education. The cost of tuition and the availability of financial aid are other considerations, with public institutions generally a better financial bargain than private ones. She suggested two avenues for improving the situation: increasing vocational (职业的) technical training programs and taking_a_page_from Europe’s focus on early education rather than post­secondary learning. “The European countries put a little more attention to getting people prepared in the primary grades，” she said. “Then they have a higher bar for whoever goes to college — but once you get ]into college, you’re more likely to be highly subsidized (资助)．” She also is a supporter of technical training — to teach students how to be plumbers, welders and computer programmers — because “employers are desperate” for workers with these skills. 1．People usually think that__________. A．the cost of technical schooling is a problem