毛额市鹌鹑阳光实验学校【优化指导】（新课标全国）2013高考英语总复习 课时作业38 Unit3选修8
一、单项填空
1．All the efforts that the Chine government is making will certainly lead to ______ more peaceful and more advanced world，______ place where everyone enjoys his life and freedom.
A．the；a B．/；the
C．the；the D．a；a
解析：考查冠词的用法。当world前有形容词修饰时，常与不定冠词连用，表示“一个……的世界”；第二个空a place作前面a...world的同位语。
美国简介答案：D
2．It was a matter of ______ would take the position.
A．who B．whoever
C．whom D．whomever
解析：句意：那是一个谁当选的问题。who would take the position在句中作介词of的宾语。
答案：A
3．He forgot the work his manager had told；______，he was scolded verely by the manager and fined heavily.
A．luckily B．however
C．therefore D．besides
解析：考查副词辨析。前后两个分句之间是因果关系，所以应该用表示因果关系的副词therefore。luckily“幸运地”；however“然而”；besides“除此之外(还有)”，均不符合语境。
答案：C
4．He must have finished the work by the end of last month，______ he?
A．mustn’t B．hadn’t
C．didn’t D．hasn’t
largely
解析：主句的时间状语by the end of last month是过去完成时的时间状语，因此B项符合。
答案：B
5．He is so good a teacher in this school ______ is loved by almost all the students.
A．that B．which
C．than D．as
6．—Do you think our basketball players played very well in the last match?
—Yes.______.
A．They are not nervous at all
B．They couldn’t have done better
C．They played naturally
garage怎么读D．They were still young
解析：考查比较级表示最高级的用法。此处They couldn’t have done better.是一句赞扬的话。说明他们已经尽了最大努力，不会打得比这再好了。这是最好的。
答案：B
7．We should try every effort to prevent violence from happening at school，______ more and more students would drop out of school ______ their personal safety could not be guaranteed.
A．for；now that B．for；if
C．though；so long as D．though；if only
解析：考查连词。第一个空用for，表原因；第二个空用if，表条件。句意：我们必须竭尽全力阻止校园暴力的发生，因为如果人身安全得不到保障，就会有越来越多的学生辍学。
答案：B
8．What we can e there is ______ remained of the city after the strong earthquake.
校泵A．/ B．that
C．what D．it
解析：考查名词性从句。ained of“……所剩下的东西”。what引导的是表语从句，在从句中what作remained of的主语。句意：我们所能看到的那边的东西是大地震过后所剩下的东西。
答案：C
9．He went up the stage with his head ______ high.
A．held B．holding
女的英文名C．rin D．raising
杭州java培训解析：在with ＋ n．＋...的复合结构中，用过去分词表示被动。hold one’s head high“高昂着头”。句意：他高昂着头走上了舞台。
答案：A
10．—Oh，dear，you’re back home at last!
—You can’t imagine all the difficulty I had ______ home in the heavy rain.
A．walked B．walk
C．to walk D．walking
解析：考查固定搭配。have difficulty in doing sth.“干某事很困难”。
答案：D
11．It remains ______ whether the patient can survive the major operation or not.
A．to obrve B．to be obrved
C．obrving D．being obrved
解析：考查非谓语动词。It remains to be 意为“是否……还有待观察”。
答案：B
12．It was late at night ______ the Red Army arrived at that small mountain village，___
___ it was raining hard.
A．when；that B．when；which
C．that；when D．that；whichevite
解析：考查强调句和定语从句。第一个空选用强调句型中的that，被强调部分是时间状语late at night；第二个空用when引导定语从句，先行词是late at night。
答案：C
13．Reading fills our mind only with materials of knowledge；only ______thinking can we make ______ we read ours.
A．by；it B．with；that
C．through；anything D．by；what
解析：第一个空考查only＋介词短语作状语放于句首引起倒装的用法；第二个空考查what引导的名词性从句，what在宾语从句中作read的宾语，ours作宾语的补足语。
款式英语答案：D
14．The government must do more ______ pollution ______ more happily.
A．to prevent；from living B．to stop；living
C．to prevent；to live D．to keep；living
解析：第一个空是do something 后跟不定式表示“采取措施干某事”；第二个空是不定式短语作目的状语，不要看成是from doing结构。此题易错选A项。
答案：C
15．The door burst open and ______.The room soon became crowded.
A．in rushed the children B．in did the children rush
C．in the children rushed D．rushed in the children
解析：考查倒装。在一些副词如 out，in，off，down，up等开头的句子中，如果主语是名
词，句子用完全倒装语序。
答案：A
二、阅读理解
A
The climate crets of the deepest part of the ocean，the Marianas Trench(壕沟)in the western Pacific Ocean，have been explored by scientists.
vivian leighThe international team ud a submersible，designed to withstand great pressure，to study the bottom of the 10.9kmdeep underwater canyon.Their early results reveal that ocean trenches are acting as carbon sinks.This suggests that they play a larger role in regulating the Earth’s chemistry and climate than was thought.
Although two explorers，Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh，reached the deepest part of the Marianas Trench—a point called the Challenger Deep—in 1960，no humans have been back since.And the scientific missions，including this recent visit to this deepest spot，have been carried out using unmanned underwater vehicles.
Lead rearcher Professor Ronnie Glud，from the University of Southern Denmark and the Scottish Association for Marine Science，said that working at more than 1,000 atmospheres of pressure was challenging，but advances in technology had made it possible.danger是什么意思
