高一英語(yǔ)小練

1、高一年級(jí)英語(yǔ)完型與閱讀專項(xiàng)訓(xùn)練（63） 命題人：蘇成兵班級(jí)_ 姓名 _ 得分_一、完形填空閱讀短文，從每題所給選項(xiàng)中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。（20）One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. Its like looking at the tiled(鋪瓦) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is 1 . Once I heard a bald man

2、said, “whenever I enter a room 2 I see is hair.” Once youve 3 what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will 4 make you happy. Then do one of the three things: Get it, replace it with a different 5 , or forget about it and 6 the tiles in your life that are not missing.We all know peopl

3、e who have a relatively 7 life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but 8 remain happy. The first 9 is gratitude. All happy people are 10 . Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to 11 , but its truer to say that compla

4、ining leads people to becoming unhappy. The second secret is 12 that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The most obvious_13_are those pursuits that give our lives purposeanything 14 studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are 15 to experience.

5、Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our _16_ has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We _17_ a spiritual faith, or a philosophy; it should 18 this truth: if you choose to find the _19_ in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find th

6、e awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is _20_ your decision to make.【1】AdifferentBmissingCshortDbroken【2】AnothingBnoneCallDanything【3】AdeterminedBpredictedCassumedDimagined【4】AcompletelyBnaturallyChopefullyDreally【5】AtileBbrickCceilingDhouse【6】Alook onBfocus onCcount onDrely on

7、【7】ApeacefulBdifficultCeasyDordinary【8】AcertainlyBmerelyChardlyDgenerally【9】AsecretBfactorCruleDkey【10】AwealthyBgrateful CproudDgenerous【11】AupsetBquarrelCcomplainDdepress【12】AadmittingBassumingCprovingDrealizing【13】AsourcesBresultsCanswersDgoals【14】AamongBfromCthroughDfor【15】AprobableBpossibleClike

8、lyDcapable【16】AvalueBdestinationCsurvivalDexistence【17】AneedBlackCdemandDexpect【18】AinvolveBinclude CabsorbDmean【19】AworstBbestCpositiveDnegative【20】AabsolutelyBtotallyCexactlyDlargelyBCADA BCDAB CDABC DABCD二閱讀理解AMany people think of the brain as a mystery. They dont know much about intelligence and

9、 how it works. When they do think about what intelligence is, many people believe that a person is born smart, average, or dumb and stays that way in the whole life. But new research shows that the brain is more like a muscle it changes and gets stronger when you use it. And scientists have been abl

10、e to show just how the brain grows and gets stronger when you learn.Everyone knows that when you lift weights, your muscles get bigger and you get stronger. A person who cant lift 20 pounds when he/she starts exercising can get strong enough to lift 100 pounds after working out for a long time. That

11、s because the muscles become larger and stronger with exercise. And when you stop exercising, the muscles shrink and you get weaker. Thats why people say “Use it or lose it！”But most people dont know that when they practice and learn new things, parts of their brain change and get larger a lot like

12、muscles do when they exercise. Inside the cortex (皮層) of the brain are billions of tiny nerve cells, called neurons. The nerve cells have branches connecting them to other cells in a complicated network. Communication between these brain cells is what allows us to think and solve problems. When you

13、learn new things, these tiny connections in the brain actually multiply and get stronger. The more you challenge your mind to learn, the more your brain cells grow. Then, things that you once found very hard or even impossible to do like speaking a foreign language or doing algebra (代數(shù)) seem to beco

14、me easy after learning them for a period of time. The result is a stronger, smarter brain.Scientists started thinking that the human brain could develop and change when they studied animals brains. They found out that animals that lived in a challenging environment were more “perspicacious” they wer

15、e better at solving problems and learning new things.1According to the first paragraph，_.Athe function of our brain is like that of the muscleBuntil now its impossible to explain the brains mysteryCmany people believe ones intelligence is naturally determinedDones brain grows stronger as the age inc

16、reases解析：選C推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段中的“many people believe that a person is born smart, average, or dumb and stays that way in the whole life”可知C項(xiàng)正確。2Training muscles is compared to _.Ausing the brainBconnecting things in your brainClifting weightsDdoing research about the brain解析：選A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段中的“But new research

17、 shows that the brain is more like a muscle it changes and gets stronger when you use it.”可知答案。3What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?AThe complex structure of the brain.BHow changes in the muscles affect the brain.CThe importance of the brain.DHow the brain becomes stronger by learning new things.解析：選D段

18、落大意題。本段詳細(xì)描述了大腦如何通過(guò)練習(xí)和學(xué)習(xí)新事物而發(fā)生變化，從而變得更敏捷。4What does the underlined word “perspicacious” in the last paragraph probably mean?AStrong.BSmart.CPopular. DActive.解析：選B詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)最后一段破折號(hào)后面的“they were better at solving problems and learning new things”可知，該詞應(yīng)為“敏銳的”之意。BApple TV, Fire TV or Roku?Making the most o

19、f television viewing no longer means watching what programs TV stations are showing now.Apple TV, Fire TV and Roku give you more to watch than just stations. But with all of the choices, the important thing is to find the one that works best for you.Apple TVThe new Apple TV has been available for ab

20、out a month. The App Store has some apps for videos, gaming, travel and more. But not many apps are available for the Apple TV yet. You can link up your Mac computer, iPhone or iPad to Apple TV so that your television can show the program running on them.Apple TV has a remote (遙控器) which helps you c

21、ontrol what you watch. Apple TV does not run video in 4K.Apple TV is best for those who have other Apple devices, such as Mac computers, iPhones and iPads.Apple TV is available for $149 with 32 GB, and $199 wtih 64 GB of storage.Fire TVFire TV is a player from the American company Amazon. You can us

22、e the Fire TV app as a remote. Amazon says Fire T V has over 3,000 apps available. The Fire TV comes with a feature (特點(diǎn)) called Advanced Streaming and Prediction, or ASAP. This feature recognizes what kinds of movies and shows you like and loads（加載）them onto your Fire TV so they are ready for you to

23、 watch without waiting.Fire TV is best for those who like to watch videos from Amazon.Fire TV is available for $99.99 with 8 GB. Fire TV with games is available for $139.99 with 40 GB.Roku4Roku4 has 4K and a useful feature called Remote Finder. It is a button on the player that makes a sound on the

24、remote control. No more lost remotes! You can connect your headphones into the remote control and listen to the TV without anyone else hearing the sound.The Roku4 offers over 2,500 channels（頻道）to watch videos. You can use voice search on the remote or Roku app to find your shows. Although the Roku4

25、has a few games and apps, the player is mostly for streaming videos.The Roku4 is best for those who want to watch shows, not use apps, on their TV. Roku4 is $129.99 with 128GB.5. According to the article, Apple TV, Fire TV and Roku4 are similar in that _.A. they have a lot of apps B. they can broadc

26、ast 4K filmsC. they can link up your computersD. they can be controlled from a distance6. _ has more apps and is best for game lovers.A. Fire TV with 40GB B. Fire TV with 8GBC. Roku4 with 128GB D. Apple TV with 64GBCSir Edmund Hillary was born in 1919 and grew up in Auckland. Hillary was educated at

27、 Tuakau Primary School and then Auckland Grammar School. He finished primary school two years early and at high school achieved average marks. He was smaller than his classmates there and was very shy so he buried himself in his books and daydreams of a life filled with adventure. At 16 his interest

28、 in climbing started during a school trip to Mount Ruapehu. Edmund Hillary joined in Everest reconnaissance (勘測(cè)) in 1951 and again in 1952, as well as an unsuccessful act of trying to climb Cho Oyu in 1952. The New Zealander made history when he succeeded in climbing Mount Everest with his Nepalese

29、partner in May 1953. He was the first man to climb the worlds tallest mountain. After climbing the 8,850 meter peak, Hillary led a number of expeditions (探險(xiǎn)) to the South Pole and devoted his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepals Khumbu region. He spent two years in India, and founded the Hima

30、layan Trust in 1964. The Trust helped build hospitals and schools. He was made an honorary Nepalese citizen in 2003.At home in New Zealand, the famous explorer was a simple beekeeper. Speaking in 2003, he said he was just an ordinary man who did not deserve celebrity (名人) status. “I never permitted

31、the climb of Everest to make me regard myself as a heroic figure,” he said. “I knew I was no heroic figure.”The explorer, one of the 20th centurys greatest adventurers died in an Auckland hospital of a heart attack after a long illness. The death prompted an outpouring of sympathy, with messages of