2018-2019学年高考英语一轮复习 Unit 13 People高考试卷分块专练 北师大版必修5.doc

1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Unit 13 People 高考试卷分块专练 练 一 阅读理解提速练 限时 35分钟 第一节 (共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分 ) A (2018 湖南省重点名校联考 )The best folk music albums of 2016, regularly updated with picks from Culture Editor Martin Chilton. The albums are listed purely in order in which they have been reviewed. Songs of Separation

2、 Collective: Songs of Separation Jenny Hill has brought 10 female musicians to create songs around the issues of “separation” emotional, political, and social. Literary influences abound, including Robert Frost. Andy Bell coproduced the album. The harmonies are beautiful and the lyrics are thoughtpr

3、ovoking. A good start to the year for folk music. Mortal Tides: Light In/Light Out The musicians that make up Mortal Tides are still teenagers and there is unspoilt musical enthusiasm for their debut (首次推出的 ) album. Lead singer Noah Bevington gels well with drummer George Brignal. Jed Bevington has

4、a nice tone to his violin playing and Fergus Quill, on bass, helps things hum along. Ciaran Algar: The Final Waltz There are some really fine tracks on Ciaran Algars debut solo (独唱的 ) album, especially Popcorn Behaviour and Morrisons. He has the ability to capture a song and make it sweet. Its good

5、to see Algar growing in musical ambition, and he also plays mandolin, banjo, guitar, bouzouki and percussion. Boreas: Ahoy Hoy Ahoy Hoy is an attractive musical union of Scotland and Norway, featuring Lori Watson, Britt Pernille Frholm, Irene Tillung and Rachel Newton. The driving beat of the track

6、showcases Newtons elegant playing. There is fine instrumental playing, Gaelic singing and the pure joy of Happy Set. 语篇解读：本文是一篇应用文。文章是四张专辑的简单评论。 21 Which may a person loving different performing styles on the same topic choose? A Songs of Separation. B Light In/Light Out. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 C The Final W

7、altz. D Ahoy Hoy. 解析：选 A 细节理解题。从第一张专辑的介绍中可知，它是关于同一主题“separation” 的不同风格的演唱的，而且专辑中的歌曲由不同的歌手演唱，所以本题选 A。 22 What do we know about Mortal Tides? A It consists of teens and adults. B Therere three members in it. C Jed Bevington is the lead singer. D Its a folk band. 解析：选 D 推理判断题。从第二张专辑中的 “The musicians th

8、at make up Mortal Tides are still teenagers . Lead singer . drummer .” 可以看出， Mortal Tides应该是一个乐队。再结合文章开头的 “The best folk music albums” 可知，它是一个民俗乐队。 23 How is The Final Waltz different from the others? A It features mainly one singer. B The players are from different countries. C It includes some lit

9、erary elements. D It shows Ciaran Algars harmony skills. 解析：选 A 细节理解题。从该专辑的介绍中的 “There are some really fine tracks on Ciaran Algars debut solo (独唱的 ) album” 可以看出，这是一张单人专辑，而其他三张专辑都收录了多个歌手的歌曲，故选 A。 24 What type of writing is this passage? A An advertisement for albums. B An album review. C An introduc

10、tion to singers. D A musical record. 解析：选 B 推理判断题。根据全文内容，尤其是第一段中的 “The albums are listed purely in order in which they have been reviewed” 可知，文章是有关四张专辑的简单评论，故选 B。 B In the traffic lights, red means “stop” ， green means “go” ， and yellow means “hurry”. Why those colors, though? Why not blue, purple,

11、and brown? The following are transponded from others WeChat. ?Red is an inherited symbol from railroads 【 精品教育资源文库 】 Red symbolizes danger in many cultures, which makes sense, considering it has the longest wavelength of any color, meaning you can see it from a greater distance than other colors. R

12、ed has meant “stop” since long b efore cars existed, with railway signals use of red dating back to the days when mechanical arms lifted and lowered to indicate whether the rail ahead was clear. So that ones simple. ?Green meant “caution” at first Greens role in lights has actually changed dramatica

13、lly over time. Its wavelength is next to (and shorter than) yellows, meaning its still easier to see than any color other than red and yellow. Back in the early days of railway lights, green originally meant “caution” ， while the “allclear” light was, well, clear or white. Trains, of course, take an

14、 unlimitedly long time to stop, and legend has it that several disastrous collisions happened after an engineer mistook stars in the night horizon for an allclear. Thus, green became “go” ， and for a long time, railways used only green and red to signal trains. ?Yellow means “caution” because its al

15、most as easy to see as red From the earliest days of motoring up until the mid1900s, not all stop signs were red many were yellow, because at night it was all but impossible to see a red stop sign in a poorly lit area. The yellow stopsign craze began in Detroit in 1915, a city that five years later

16、installed its first electric traffic signal, which happened to include the very first amber traffic light, at the corner of Michigan and Woodward Aves. 语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。交通信号灯为什么要用红、黄、绿三种颜色呢？作者通过转载来的几个微信的内容来告诉大家其缘由及相关的知识。 25 What are the earliest traffic signals designed for from the passage? A Cars. B

17、Trains. C Motor cars. D Not mentioned. 解析：选 B 细节理解题。从第 二段的第二句和第三段的第三句可知最早的信号灯是用在铁路上的，故答案为 B 项。 26 Which statement is TRUE according to the passage? A Green means “go” all the time. B Red is the easiest color to be noticed. C All yellow things need dealing with carefully. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 D All the thre

18、e colors were once used as “caution” 解析：选 B 细节理解题。从第二段的内容判断，红色的波长最长，最容易被看到。故答案为 B 项。 27 Whats the main idea of the passage? A What is your favorite color? B Why are “Red, Yellow, Green” used as traffic signals? C How can we figure out the wavelength of colors? D What color can green, yellow and red

19、make? 解析：选 B 主旨大意题。根据第一段的描述以及每段的首句可知，本文主要讲述的是“ 红、黄、绿三种颜色作为交通灯颜色的原因 ” ，故选择 B 项。 28 Where is the passage from? A A diary. B A scientific magazine. C A newspaper. D The Internet. 解析：选 D 文章出处题。从第一段的 “The following are transponded from others WeChat.” 可判断，本文来自网络。 C (2018 陕西黄陵中学模拟 )Elon Musk is a man of b

20、ig ambition. He says his goal is to save humanity. And as strange as that sounds, the South Africanborn, CanadianAmerican inventor might actually be doing it. On December 22nd, SpaceX, the company Musk founded, successfully launched its reusable Falcon 9 rocket. The moment furthered Musks goal of ma

21、king space travel more affordable and eventually colonizing Mars for humanitys longterm survival. As if this wasnt enough, Musk, 44, is also the founder of Tesla, an electric car company. He has also helped to create three Internet startups including the online payment company PayPal. All of them co

22、uld be said to have turned their industries upside down. The companies Musk started cover three areas: the Internet, sustainable energy and exploring space. Since college, Musk has believed that those areas will most affect the future of humanity and that he should spend his life working on them. “T

23、heres no shortage of people with a vision for the future ， ” M icrosoft founder Bill Gates said to Vogue magazine. “What makes Elon special is his ability to make his vision come true.” Nothing showed this ability better than the crisis Musk faced in 2008. In 2008, 【 精品教育资源文库 】 both SpaceX and Tesla were in real danger. SpaceXs three launch