1、【 精品教育资源文库】Unit 1 Cultural relics .阅读理解A(20179 月浙江金丽衢 12 校高三联考)Life is not always easy.One day you wake up feeling like you can take over the world,and the next day you wake up feeling like all you want to do is to lie in bed and hide from everything.People walk into your life,grab your hand,and lea
2、d you through the most beautiful path youve known,but sometimes the same people let go of your hand without warning,and you become stranded at a place where you never thought youd feel lost.Lets be honest,sometimes everything is going so great and it seems like nothing could go wrong,but right when
3、you begin to think that,something so horrible comes crashing down and all of a sudden more problems come drowning around you and you just feel so hopeless because its so bad.Its so hard to understand why such things happen in life,and I personally wish I had an answer to that “why” you always ask yo
4、urself,but all I can say is no matter how hard life gets,you have to keep going.The life around you will never stop going on.Ill be honest and say that sometimes I feel a little bit worried and all I can think is “Will I be able to keep up?What if everything goes too fast?” But I realize that being
5、scared and living with that burden of running away from problems only slow me down even more.And Ive come to the point where I believe that because life never stops,I shouldnt stop either.Its okay to take a break and to give yourself time to heal,but you cannot give up and you cannot quit.Keep posit
6、ive,fill your heart with gratitude for what you already have,and always remind yourself to be humble and true to who you are!【语篇导读】本文是一篇议论文。生活并不总是一帆风顺的,生活中的困难和挫折有时会让我们感到无助。无论何时都不要轻言放弃,要坚信风雨之后便是彩虹。1.How does the author illustrate “Life is not always easy”?A.By making comparisonsB.By using some famous
7、 sayingsC.By presenting his own experienceD.By listing statistics答案 A解析 推理判断题。本题是对作者写作手法的考查。根据文章前两段,作者对比了生活中同一情况截然相反的两种境遇,可知作者运用了对比的写作手法阐明了生活的不易。故选 A 项。【 精品教育资源文库】2.According to the author,it is to try running away from problems. A.pointless B.reasonableC.helpful D.considerate答案 A解析 细节理解题。根据文章第五段“Bu
8、t I realize that being scared and living with that burden of running away from problems only slow me down even more.”可知,面对困难,害怕和逃避是没有意义的,故选 A 项。3.Which saying can exhibit the authors attitude towards life?A.Save against a rainy day.B.Constant dripping wears away the stone.C.A good medicine tastes bi
9、tter.D.Think it over before you leap.答案 B解析 主旨大意题。文章主要讲生活并不总是一帆风顺的,不要轻言放弃,要锲而不舍,坚持到底,坚信风雨之后便是彩虹。可知 B 项“滴水穿石”正确。A 项“未雨绸缪”,C 项“良药苦口”,D 项“三思后行”都不符合作者的意图。?导学号 29402053?BOil and gas have made Qatar(卡塔尔) the richest country in the worldrich enough to be ready to spend $200 billion for the 2022 World Cup.B
10、ut has limitless wealth brought the country happiness?“We have become urban,”says Dr Kaltham Al Ghanim,a professor at Qatar University.“Our social and economic life has changedfamilies have become separated;consumption culture has taken over.”From desperate poverty less than a century ago,this,after
11、 all,has become the richest nation in the world.Whats less well understood is the influence of such rapid change on Qatari society itself.You can feel the pressure in Doha,the capital city of Qatar.The city is a building site,with whole districts either under construction or being destroyed for rede
12、velopment.The local media report that 40% of Qatari marriages now end in divorce.More than two-thirds of Qataris,adults and children,are overweight.Qataris benefit from free education,free healthcare,job guarantees,even free water and electricity,but abundance has created its own problems.“Its confu
13、sing for graduates to be faced with 20 job offers,”one academic at an American university campus in Qatar says.“People feel huge pressure to make the right decision.”【 精品教育资源文库】In a society where Qataris are outnumbered roughly seven-to-one by foreigners,long-term residents(居民) speak of a growing fr
14、ustration among graduates that the most satisfying jobs go to foreigners.The sense is deepening that,in the rush for development,something important has been lost.Qatari family life is atomising.With children almost universally being raised by nannies(保姆) from the Philippines,Nepal or Indonesia,diff
15、erences in culture and opinions are widening between the generations.The 2022 football World Cup will be held in Qatar.Mariam Dahrouj,a journalism graduate,speaks of a sense of threat.“People in Qatar are afraid,”she says.“Suddenly all the world wants to see us.We are a closed community,and they wan
16、t to come and bring their differences.How can we express our values?”【语篇导读】本文是议论文。卡塔尔是世界上最富有的国家,然而巨大的财富并未带给卡塔尔人民无比的幸福。4.What can we learn about Qatar?A.Its capital is neat and modern.B.Its experiencing great changes.C.Most Qataris are rich and healthy.D.Great wealth brings Qataris great happiness.答案
17、 B解析 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“We have become urban”和“Our social and economic life has changed”及第三段中的“From desperate poverty.has become the richest nation in the world”和“such rapid change”等可知,卡塔尔如今处于巨变时期。5.Whats young graduates problem in Qatar?A.They have to work with foreigners.B.They can hardly find an inter
18、esting job.C.They have difficulty in making a choice.D.They have become lazy because of abundance.答案 C解析 细节理解题。根据第四段中的“Its confusing for graduates to be faced with 20 job offers.People feel huge pressure to make the right decision”可知,面对很多就业机会,毕业生很难做出正确的抉择。6.The underlined word “atomising” in Paragra
19、ph 6 probably means . A.losing meaning B.gaining supportC.being improved D.becoming divided答案 D解析 词义猜测题。根据第六段内容可知,如今卡塔尔的小孩主要由来自其他国家的保姆带大,导致几代人之间的文化、观念相差很大,这些无疑意味着家庭的“分化”。7.Facing the outside world,Qataris . 【 精品教育资源文库】A.feel frightenedB.express no interestC.ignore the differencesD.want to adjust the
20、ir values答案 A解析 细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“a sense of threat”及“People in Qatar are afraid”可知答案。?导学号 29402054?.七选五We all,at one time or another,have pretended to be a rock star,singing and dancing along to our favorite song.Most of us have done this in the privacy of our own rooms when we were kids and as adults
21、,in the privacy of our homes. 1 !I turn on the radio,find a song that I can sing along too and pretty soon my arms are in the air and I am moving along to the rhythm.Most of the time,I do this on my way to work. Yes,that is true.I will be in my nice work clothes,jamming while driving or stopped at a
22、 traffic light. 2 .Personally,I love to get lost in the rhythm of a song which leads me to share with you the importance of being silly! The definition for the word silly,according to the dictionary is:stupid,foolish and nonsensical. 3 .So they walk around all seriously,which in all honesty,is fooli
23、sh! No one is perfect,I repeat,no one is perfect.I dont care how educated,how thin,how beautiful,how simple,how frugal,how rich,and so on.No one is perfect! 4 ?Life is so short.You never know when this beautiful journey will be over,so why waste a single second on being so full of rigidity(刻板,僵化)?He
24、re is a quote,which I think says it all and is a great recipe for life: “Dance as though no one is watching you.Love as though you have never been hurt before.”5 ,and we had no care in the world so we could do things without worrying about how we appeared to others.However,as we grew up,we lost that childlike innocence.What a pity! A.
