课时跟踪检测52(B8Unit 3)
Ⅰ.单项填空
1．In preparation for the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, our government has ________ a series of measures to improve the city's air quality.
A. set out
B. set aside
C. set down
D. set up
答案与解析：C考查动词短语辨析。set down制定，规定(规则、原则等)。句意：为了准备2014年南京青奥会，政府制定了一系列措施以改善城市的空气质量。
2．Some miners were trapped when the local mine was flooded, but luckily, 400 kilograms of milk ________ to them during the rescue.
A．got through B．brought down
C．gave away D．gave out
答案与解析：A句意：当地的矿井被洪水淹没时，一些矿工被困井下，幸运的是，在救援过程中输送给了他们400公斤的牛奶。get through“到达；通过”，符合句意。bring down“降低；击落；打倒”；give away“泄露；分发；出卖”；give out“分发；用尽；发表”。
3．She always ________ the smell of fresh bread with her grandmother, who loved baking.
A．associated B．remembered
C．acknowledged D．attributed
答案与解析：A考查动词辨析。句意：她总是把新鲜面包的香味和她喜欢烤面包的祖母联系在一起。associate...with“把……与……联系起来”，符合句意。acknowledge“承认”；remember“记得”；attribute“把……归因于”，常和to搭配构成attribute...to...。根据题意可知选A项。
4．Now please have a cup of tea while I ________ these people and make a schedule.
A．call up B．take up
C．call off D．take off
答案与解析：A句意：请先喝杯茶，我来给他们打个电话确定时间。call up“给……打电话”，符合句意。
5．The silent girl ________ herself in the English Speech Competition, which attracted the attention of the whole school.
A．recovered B．distinguished
C．compared D．occupied
答案与解析：B句意：那个安静的女孩在英语演讲比赛中表现出色，引起了整个学校的关注。distinguish oneself in sth.“使杰出；因……而出名，使自己出名”，习惯用法。recover“恢复”；compare“比；对照”；occupy“使忙碌；占领”。
6．—Have you decided which house to buy?
—No, not yet. I must find a house that is ________ for all kinds of transportation.
A．convenient B．appropriate
C．available D．content
答案与解析：A convenient“方便的；便利的”，其主语通常是物，符合题意。appropriate“适当的，适合的”；available“可得到的”；content“满足的；满意的”。
7．Teachers pay more attention to the ________ skills and show students the way to catch the main ideas.
A．meaningful B．careful
C．practical D．acceptable
答案与解析：C句意：教师们更侧重教授学生实用的技巧，告诉他们怎样弄明白文章大意。practical“实用的”，符合句意。meaningful“有意义的”；careful“仔细的”；acceptable“可接受的”。
8．—What can I do now?
—________ the chance, otherwise you'll regret it.
A．Arrest B．Seize
C．Catch D．Hold
答案与解析：B句意：——我现在该做什么呢？——抓住这个机会，否则你会后悔的。seize“抓住”，强调突然的猛烈动作，语气比catch强。arrest“逮捕，拘留”；catch“抓住”；hold指一般的“手持，握住”。
9．Anyone in my position would have been ruined if he had attempted to ________ depths which not even a lifetime of study could plumb (探索)．
A．dive into B．look up
C．agree on D．date back
答案与解析：A句意：任何一个处于我这样地位的人，要想深入钻研这种穷毕一生之力也无法钻透的问题时，一定会累死的。dive into“一心投入”，符合句意。look up“向上看；查阅”；agree on“达成一致”；date back“追溯”。
10．I call him ________，even there is not much to say.
A．now and then B．by and by
C．step by step D．more or less
答案与解析：A now and then“不时，偶尔”。句意：我不时给他打个电话，尽管也没有太多的话要说。by and by表示“不久，马上”；step by step表示“逐步地”；more or less 表示“大约”。
11．Water can absorb and give off a lot of heat without big changes in temperature, thus creating a ________ environment.
A．peaceful B．sensitive
C．common D．stable
答案与解析：D考查形容词词义辨析。peaceful“平静的”；sensitive“敏感的”；common“普通的”；stable“稳定的”。句意：水能吸收和放出大量的热而不会引起太大的温度变化，这样营造了一种稳定的环境。
12．Nobody knows exactly how many years it will be ________ the Chinese football team enters the final stage of the World Cup.
A．when B．before
C．since D．until
答案与解析：B“It will be＋时间段＋before＋从句”结构表示“要过多长时间之后才……”。
13．I always take something to read when I go to the doctor's ________ I have to wait.
A．in case B．so that
C．in order D．as if
答案与解析：A句意：我去看病时总是带些能读的东西，以防不得不等待。由句意可知用in case“以防”最佳。
14．Most air pollution is caused by the burning of ________ like coal, gas and oil.
A．fuels B．articles
C．goods D．products
答案与解析：A句意：大部分空气污染是像煤、燃气、油等燃料的燃烧造成的。由题干中的“coal, gas and oil”可知这里指的是燃料，故选A项。article“物品”；goods“货物，商品”；product“产品”。
15．She ________ great importance ________ regular exercise.
A．ties; to B．puts; to
C．attaches; to D．lays; on
答案与解析：C句意：她非常重视定期锻炼。attach importance to“重视”，符合句意。
Ⅱ.完形填空
In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things have come to represent, in fact, what I call __16__ and love.
I don't remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did __17__ the water. Any kind of __18__ ride seemed to give him pleasure. __19__ he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father __20__. I liked being at the water, moving through it, __21__ it all around me. I was not a strong __22__，or one who learned to swim early, for I had my __23__. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father's office and __24__ those summer days with my father, who __25__ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the __26__ person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go __27__ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me __28__ anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk __29__ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn't be playing with his __30__. But my father always __31__ and said easily, “Oh, no, it's __32__.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get __33__ an ice cream...
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is __34__.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood”that determines our memories, __35__the person who, in that childhood, looks at us.
16. A. desire B. joy
C. anger
D. worry
17. A. avoid B. refuse
C. praise
D. love
18. A. boat B. bus
C. train
D. bike
19. A. But B. Then
C. And
D. Still
20. A. expected B. desired
C. wished
D. did
21. A. having B. leaving
C. making
D. getting
22. A. swimmer B. rider
C. walker
D. runner
23. A. hopes B. faiths
C. fights
D. fears
24. A. spending B. saving
C. wasting
D. ruining
25. A. should B. would
C. had to
D. ought to
26. A. next B. only
C. other
D. last
27. A. away from B. out of
C. by
D. inside
28. A. put up B. break down
C. play with
D. work out
29. A. the moment B. the first time
C. while
D. before
30. A. fishing net B. office things
C. wooden chair
D. lab equipment
31. A. stood up B. set out
C. showed up
D. turned out
32. A. fine B. strange
C. terrible
D. funny
33. A. the student B. the assistant
C. myself
D. himself
34. A. memory B. wealth
C. experience
D. practice
35. A. as B. but
C. or
D. and
答案与解析：
本文讲述了作者在孩提时代与父亲之间的一些故事。浓浓的父爱使作者对童年有着美好的回忆。
16．B并列连接词“and”暗示空格处的词语应与后面的“love”同属褒义词，所以可先排除C项和D项；再结合文章开头和下文可知文章讲的是美好的回忆，所以答案为B项。
17．D下文“Any kind of __18__ ride seemed to give him pleasure.”和“he loved to fish”暗示父亲非常喜欢水上活动，故选love。
18．A根据上文可知应选A项，与水有关的活动是乘船。
19．C上句提到乘船能给父亲带来乐趣，后面提到父亲喜欢钓鱼，所以用and表示递进关系。
20．D前文谈到父亲喜欢水上活动，“the way my father did”相当于“my father liked being on the water”。“我”喜欢在水中嬉戏而父亲喜欢水上活动。
21．A句子的主干是“I liked being at the water”，后面的moving through it和having it all around me为现在分词短语作状语，表示伴随。have后带介词短语作宾语补足语，表示使某人或某物处于某种状态。
22．A由语境可知，这里指“我”并不十分擅长游泳，故选A项。
23．D前文提到“我”没有很早地学游泳，根据常理推测小孩子害怕水。
24．A句意：“我”喜欢在离父亲办公室很近的那个游泳池里游泳，与父亲一起度过夏日。
25．B这里would表示“过去常常(做某事)”。should意为“应该”，had to“不得不”，ought to“应该”。
26．B通常出现在游泳池里的人都穿着泳装，而“我”父亲则穿着西服，因此他是唯一(only)不穿泳装的人。
27．D由下文“我”在父亲办公室里玩耍可知应选D项。游泳结束后，“我”总是到父亲的办公室里玩耍。
28．C put up“张贴，搭建，为某人提供食宿”；break down“机器出故障，身体垮掉，感情失去控制，分解”；work out“计算出，想出”；play with“与……一起玩，玩弄”。由下文“...I shouldn't be playing with his...”可知此处应选C项。
29．C the moment“一……就……”；the first time“第一次……”；while“在……期间”；before“在……之前”。在父亲去实验室工作期间，“我”就一个人呆在他办公桌旁。
30．B上文提到“我”从父亲的办公室抽屉里找东西玩，故选B项。
31．C stand up“站起来”；set out“出发，开始”；turn out“结果是，被证明是”；show up“出现，到场”。只有C项符合语境。
32．A“Oh，no，it's fine.”表示“没关系”，由句首的but可知父亲允许“我”玩他办公室的东西。
33．C此处指父亲给“我”钱，让“我”给自己买冰淇淋吃。
34．A文章开头的“my memory”和下文的“our memories”暗示这里应填memory。
35．B此处构成not only... but (also)结构，且最后一句为强调句。
Ⅲ.阅读理解
I stole your dog. No, I didn't set foot in your house, but from the condition of your dog, I can imagine what it looks like—the word “rubbish” comes to mind.
I found her along a road, with a heavy chain wrapped around her neck, still attached to rotten boards from her doghouse. Not only did I know that most of the town's people had already ignored her, judging by the place where I found her, but I knew that if she had gotten into the woods, the “cross” that she dragged behind her would have wrapped itself around a tree until starvation or thirst killed her.
She has a beautiful name now. Already in the first week she has come to look more like what she should. Her eyes sparkle and she has learned to wag her tail in greeting. She has stopped flinching (畏缩) when I make a sudden movement, because she knows now that I won't beat her. In fact, she rarely leaves my side. She's even become brave enough to bark at a cat and today as I looked out of the window she attempted to play with other dogs. No, it's clear that she does not
miss you or her former life on a chain.
It's not clear yet whether she'll remain here or whether I'll find her a loving home where she can count on more individual attention than I can give her, but one thing is certain, this is a bit of stolen “property” which is never returning to you. So sue me, accuse me, and plead with the court that she is rightfully yours... I'm convinced that this is the best “crime”I've ever committed. Hardly anything has pleased me more than the day when I stole your dog. I need only look into her beautiful brown eyes to know that she'd defend my decision with her life. If we have one prayer, it is that you will not replace her, and if we have one special day to celebrate together, it is the day I stole your dog and the day she stole my heart.
36．What's the author's attitude towards the former owner of the dog?
A．Puzzled. B．Angry.
C．Shocked. D．Satisfied.
37．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A．the dog is not lovely
B．the dog tried to find a kind master
C．the dog was treated badly by its former master
D．the author will be charged with stealing the dog
38．What did the author think of his theft?
A．He was afraid of being punished.
B．He thought he had to do it.
C．He believed that the law would allow him to do so.
D．He did it with pride.
答案与解析：
作者用愤慨的口吻指责了一只流浪狗的主人，因为这个狗的主人经常虐待他的狗。
36．B推理判断题。由文中对小狗的遭遇的描述和最后一段第一句话可知，作者对小狗的前主人的行为感到很气愤。
37．C推理判断题。由第二段中对小狗遭遇的描述可知，小狗的前主人对小狗非常不好。
38．D推理判断题。根据最后一段倒数第四句话“I'm convinced that this is the best ‘crime’ I've ever committed.”可知答案。