高考英语大一轮复习Module4WhichEnglish检测外研版选修

Module 4 Which English?

Ⅰ.语法填空

I have been teaching music for 37 years. Since my retirement from teaching music

in 2001,I have spent a good deal of time 1.

(paint)as an artist. I 2.

(actual) began drawing in the summer of 1995 when my father died,so perhaps I

was trying to recover from the loss of my father, or maybe it was just paintings

that brought back memories of him. In any case,I drew pen and ink animals and

landscapes much 3. (influence)by Krenkel and St.John for five years.

For some strange reason,I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing

watercolors(水彩画)again,but as soon as I walked out of the school door for the last

time,I picked up my brushes and rediscovered Andrew Wyeth,4.

quickly became

my favorite artist. I had looked through all the art books I had on my shelves and

found his watercolors to be closest to how I thought good watercolors should look.

So I 5. (paint) landscapes around Minnesota for three years and tried out

many other 6. (type)of painting. However,watercolors remained 7. (I)

first choice, and I would try my 8. (good)to work there, displaying my

paintings at 9. huge number of art shows.

It is wonderful to have some time doing 10. I want to do. As Confucius

once said,“At seventy I can follow my heart’s desire.”

答案及剖析:

1.painting 考查非谓语动词。spend time doing sth.花费时间做某事。

2.actually 考查副词。此处修饰动词began,应用副词形式。

3.influenced 考查非谓语动词。从句意可知我的画风受两位画家影响。由介词by可以看出,句子主语与influence之间为被动关系,故用过去分词。

4.who 考查连词。分析句子结构可知,此处为非限制性定语从句。修饰先行词Andrew Wyeth,在从句中充当主语,故用who。

5.painted 考查动词时态。该动作与下文的tried并列,表示过去发生的动作,应用过去时。

6.types 考查名词。type为可数名词,因其前有many other修饰,故用其复数形式。other

types “其他类型”。 7.my 考查代词。修饰名词choice,应用I的形容词性物主代词形式。

8.best 考查形容词的最高级。此处为固定短语,try one’s best to do... “尽某人最大努力做……”。

9.a 考查冠词。此处修饰art shows,表示“在许多画展中展示我的画”。a number of许多,大量。

10.what 考查名词性从句。引导词what在此引导名词性从句,作do的宾语。

Ⅱ.阅读理解

A

(2017四川资阳高考模拟)

Are you trying to learn a new language in a foreign land? You might be better

off if you stopped looking at that picture of your family and friends.

New research from Columbia University found that prompting (提示) someone who

is learning a new language with images and reminders of their own culture could

temporarily ruin everything that the brain was trying to build.

When native Chinese students were asked to talk with a Caucasian avatar (白种人的虚拟头像) and a Chinese avatar, their English skills were so different. Simply

exposing students to a Chinese person affected their ability to speak English.

Subjects who talked with the Chinese version felt more comfortable in their speech,

but they produced 11% fewer words per minute. They actually became less fluent

speakers.

To make sure it wasn’t just the avatar, researchers also showed people random

images of China while the participants told a story. When pictures of their homeland

appeared, fluency dropped 16% and volunteers were 85% more likely to use a literal

(照字面的) translation, for example, calling pistachios “happy nuts”, because

that’s literally what the Chinese word for pistachio means.

When the students were shown pictures of fish with one swimming ahead of the

others, their culture would change how they look at the photo. With Chinese prompt,

like photos of the Great Wall or Chinese Dragon, etc. they saw more students thinking

that the fish was being chased, while an American prompt, like pictures of Marilyn

Monroe or Superman, saw those students believing that it was a leader fish. The bottom line is: when attempting to learn a new culture it is far better to

surround yourself with that culture than create an island of the old one.

1. Why does the author use a question in the first paragraph?

A.To raise a question.

B.To arouse readers’ awareness.

C.To introduce the topic.

D.To tell a story.

2.The underlined word “pistachios” in the fourth paragraph refers to

.

A.pictures B.volunteers

C.an image D.a kind of food

3.From the passage we can infer that .

A.different images would change with different people

B.different cultures would affect how students look at the photo

C.with Chinese prompts, more students thought that it was a leader fish

D.with an American prompt, more students thought that the fish was being chased

4.According to the research, which is a better way for a student in a foreign land

to learn a new culture?

A.To surround himself with that culture.

B.To create an island of the old one.

C.To see random images of China.

D.To talk with a Caucasian avatar.

语篇解读: 学习新语言需要什么?哥伦比亚大学的最新研究发现,在熟悉的旧文化环境里,人们说外语的能力会比在新文化的环境里差。熟悉的环境会让人产生原有的思维方式,从而阻碍对新语言的学习。

答案及剖析:

1.C 推理判断题。文章主要讲了哥伦比亚大学的新研究让人们在学新语言的时候尽量避免原有文化的影响,因此是为了引出主题。故选C。