1、It is never too late to spread your wings and try something new.You are never too old to try to make your dreams come true.1.Why was Mary Moes dream difficult to come true?A.She had no enough time and money in the past.B.She did nothing for flying lessons.C.No pilots were willing to help her.D.Her f
2、amily did not support her wish.2.What do we know about Wish of a Lifetime?A.It can make much money every year.B.Ms Moe did much for its development.C.It is popular with the young Americans.D.It encourages many old adults to succeed.3.From Mary Moes success,we can know she is.A.determined B.stubbornC
3、.unrealistic D.delicate4.What does the passage mainly tell us about?A.One should try to be successful when young.B.You are never too old to try to make your dreams come true.C.Old people should not be looked down upon.D.Flying lessons are more difficult to learn.【文章大意】本文是记叙文,讲述了一位91岁的老太太锲而不舍,努力实现飞行梦
4、想的故事。1.A细节理解题。根据第一段中的“But Mary Moe could not find time to make her dream come true. Lessons were costly.”可知,她没有足够的时间和金钱去实现自己的飞行梦想。2.D细节理解题。由第四段第一、二句“Wish of a Lifetime helps older people to enjoy a dream.It also sends the message that it is never too late for a dream.”可看出,该组织的宗旨就是帮助老年人实现梦想,D项符合文意。3.
5、A推理判断题。由第二段“Mary Moe has done a lot during the past 91 years.For much of that time,she wanted to fly.”可知,玛丽莫伊对儿时的梦想矢志不渝,是一位意志非常坚定的人。determined“坚定的,决意的”;stubborn“顽强的;顽固的”;unrealistic“想象的,不切实际的”;delicate“优美的,优雅的”。4.B主旨大意题。最后一段点明主题:努力实现梦想永远不晚。故B项正确。BThe oddness of life in space never quite goes away.He
6、re are some examples.First consider something as simple as sleep.Its position presents its own challenges.The main question is whether you want your arms inside or outside the sleeping bag.If you leave your arms out,they float free in zero gravity,often giving a sleeping astronaut the look of a funn
7、y ballet(芭蕾)dancer.“Im an inside guy,”Mike Hopkins says,who returned from a six-month tour on the International Space Station.“I like to be wrapped up.”On the station,the ordinary becomes strange.The exercise bike for the American astronauts has no handlebars.It also has no seat.With no gravity,its
8、just as easy to pedal violently.You can watch a movie while you pedal by floating a microcomputer anywhere you want.But station residents have to be careful about staying in one place too long.Without gravity to help circulate air,the carbon dioxide you exhale(呼气)has a tendency to form an invisible(
9、隐形的)cloud around your head.You can end up with what astronauts call a carbon-dioxide headache.Leroy Chiao,54,an American retired astronaut after four flights,describes what happens even before you float out of your seat.“Your inner ear thinks youre falling.Meanwhile your eyes are telling you youre s
10、tanding straight.That can be annoyingthats why some people feel sick.”Within a couple of daystruly terrible days for someastronauts brains learn to ignore the panicky signals from the inner ear,and space sickness disappears.Space travel can be so delightful but at the same time invisibly dangerous.F
11、or instance,astronauts lose bone mass.Thats why exercise is considered so vital that National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)puts it right on the workday schedule.The focus on fitness is as much about science and the future as it is about keeping any individual astronaut healthy.NASA is w
12、orried about two things:recovery time once astronauts return home,and more importantly,how to maintain strength and fitness for the two and a half years or more that it would take to make a round-trip to Mars.(2015湖北高考)1.What is the major challenge to astronauts when they sleep in space?A.Deciding o
13、n a proper sleep position.B.Choosing a comfortable sleeping bag.C.Seeking a way to fall asleep quickly.D.Finding a right time to go to sleep.2.The astronauts will suffer from a carbon-dioxide headache when.A.they circle around on their bikesB.they use microcomputers without a stopC.they exercise in
14、one place for a long timeD.they watch a movie while pedaling3.Some astronauts feel sick on the station during the first few days because.A.their senses stop workingB.they have to stand up straightC.they float out of their seats unexpectedlyD.their brains receive contradictory messages4.One of NASAs
15、major concerns about astronauts is.A.how much exercise they do on the stationB.how they can remain healthy for long in spaceC.whether they can recover after returning homeD.whether they are able to go back to the station【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文,作者通过举例介绍在太空中生活是什么样的。根据第二段第二句“Its position presents its own challe
16、nges.”以及下文的介绍可知,应选A项。2.C细节理解题。根据第三段倒数第三句和最后一句“You can end up with what astronauts call a carbon-dioxide headache.”可知应选C项。3.D推理判断题。根据第四段中的“Your inner ear thinks youre falling.Meanwhile your eyes are telling you youre standing straight.That can be annoyingthats why some people feel sick.”可知应选D项。4.B细节理
17、解题。根据第五段最后一句“NASA is worried about two things.how to maintain.to Mars.”可知应选B项。二、语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)Rene Laennec was a French doctor who learned to tap on peoples chests to find out illness from an Austrian doctor 1.(name) Leopold Auenbrugger.As a boy,Leopold used to tap wine containers in his
18、fathers inn to see how much wine they held.A full one made a different sound 2. an empty one.When he became a doctor,he tapped peoples chests to see how much liquid was in their lungs.Laennec did 3. same and learned to tell by tapping carefully on a chest 4. it was diseased or not.But he was even mo
19、re interested in diseases of the heart,and he wished that he could hear heartbeats 5.(clear).In those days,a doctor would place his head on a patients chest to listen,but if the patient was extremely fat it was 6.(possible) to hear any heartbeat at all.One day when Laennec was walking in the park,he
20、 saw some girls 7.(play) with a see-saw(跷跷板).One of them scratched the end of the board while the others placed their ears against the other end.On walking up,the doctor 8.(ask) why the sounds traveled along the wood.“The sounds are magnified(放大),girls,er.”Suddenly he turned and rushed back to the h
21、ospital.Quickly taking some thick paper,he rolled it up like a tube and 9.(begin) listening to patients chests.He heard the heartbeats and their breathing.Laennec soon made a better instrument of wood,10. he called a stethoscope.Later,they were made of steel and rubber.山东济宁一模)1.named。空前的doctor是name的
22、动作承受者,应用过去分词表示动宾关系,故填named。2.from。different from.“不同于”。3.the。same必须与定冠词the连用。4.whether。空后是telling的宾语从句,由“it was diseased or not”可知,应填表“是否”含义的连词。5.clearly。此处应用副词修饰动词hear,故填clearly。6.impossible。根据前文的but可知,这里是语意的转折,应表示“太胖而不可能听到心脏的跳动”。故填impossible。7.playing。see sb.doing“看到某人正在做某事”,为固定搭配。8.was asked。doct
23、or是ask的动作承受者,再联系上下文语境可知,应用一般过去时的被动语态,故填was asked。9.began。begin与前文的rolled是并列的谓语动词,应用过去式began。10.one/which。此处是非限制性定语从句,从句中缺少called的宾语,应用which引导;或者填one作wood的同位语,后跟省略了引导词that的定语从句。Part B一、完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)One day an old man and his son were going with their donkey to market.As they walked throug
24、h a village,the man was 1 the donkey and the boy was walking behind.A countryman said the old man was a 2 for not riding,so he 3 up on the animals back.Soon they passed a group of men,one of whom said the old man was 4 to let the child walk while he 5 the ride.Hearing this,he got off and 6 the boy o
25、n the animals back.But they hadnt gone far when people 7 the child of being lazy for making the old man walk,and the 8 was made that they both ride.9,the man climbed on and they set off 10.By the time they had come to the town,the passers-by all took 11 on the donkey.Some were even 12 about the crue
26、lty to the donkey because he was made to carry two people.13,the discouraged man and his son were seen 14 the donkey on their shoulders down the road.Trying to 15 everyone is impossible,and will result in 16 to satisfy anyone.If youre trying to 17 all the expectations that crowd in on you from peopl
27、e and society at largeyoull end up carrying a 18 burden because youre not living the 19 you want to,and youll necessarily not 20 to meet all the competing demands.1.A.driving B.leadingC.training D.riding2.A.pioneer B.pilotC.fool D.loser3.A.flew B.restedC.marched D.climbed4.A.cruel B.generousC.fair D.energet
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