1、1Unit 9 Wheels课时练(一) 阅读理解组块专练练速度(限时：35 分钟).阅读理解A(2019名校原创预测卷三)A tale of two dynastiesThe exhibition The Civilizations of Qin and Han celebrates the glory of the Qin and Han dynasties in terms of politics, economics, art and culture. More than 300 artworks from 30 museums and institutions across the
2、country are on show.Time: 9 am5 pm, through Nov. 30 (closed on Mondays)Place: National Museum of ChinaTicket: FreeDigital exhibition at Palace MuseumTo celebrate the Palace Museums 92nd anniversary, the exhibition, Discovering the Hall of Mental Cultivation: A Digital Experience, opens at Duanmen Di
3、gital Gallery. Visitors can enter the Hall of Mental Cultivation and view precious relics (遗迹 ) using advanced technologies, such as AI and VR, as well as voice and image recognition.Time: 9 am4 pm, through Nov. 30 (Mondays closed)Place: Palace MuseumTicket: Free (Online booking is needed before ent
4、ry. Upper limit of daily booking is 700)German new media artThe rise of new media art is attracting more people to museums these days. Arrested Time, an ongoing exhibition at Today Art Museum, is showing the development of Germanys new media art with six representative artists of different ages.Time
5、: 10 am6 pm, through Nov. 12 (closed on Mondays)Place: Today Art MuseumTicket: 20 yuanExpressing Belarus beauty and soulThe peaceful landscape of Belarus and the artists of this country are 2little known to most Chinese people. An exhibition of 57 paintings of the Republic of Belarus is now being he
6、ld in Beijing.Time: 9 am5 pm, through Dec. 17 (closed on Mondays)Place: National Art Museum of ChinaTicket: Free语篇解读：本文是一篇应用文，主要介绍了在北京可以参观的几个展览。1Where should you go if you have great interest in history?APalace Museum.BToday Art Museum.CNational Museum of China.DNational Art Museum of China.解析：选 C 细
7、节理解题。根据 A tale of two dynasties部分中的“The exhibition The Civilizations of Qin and Han celebrates the glory of the Qin and Han dynasties in terms of politics, economics, art and culture”可知， The Civilizations of Qin and Han这一展览呈现的是秦朝和汉朝时期政治、经济、艺术和文化方面的辉煌成就。故对历史感兴趣的人可以来参观这一展览，其展出地是 National Museum of Chi
8、na。故选 C。2Which activity may be attractive to painting lovers?AGerman new media art.BA tale of two dynasties.CExpressing Belarus beauty and soul.DDigital exhibition at Palace Museum.解析：选 C 细节理解题。根据 Expressing Belarus beauty and soul部分中的“An exhibition of 57 paintings of the Republic of Belarus is now
9、being held in Beijing”可知，该展览中会展出 57幅白俄罗斯的绘画作品，因此它对绘画爱好者会有一定的吸引力。故选 C。3What do the four activities have in common?AThey all set a number limit to daily visits.BThey are all inaccessible on Mondays.CThey all require prebooking online.DThey all charge no admission fees.解析：选 B 细节理解题。根据文中的“closed on Mond
10、ays”、 “Mondays closed”、“closed on Mondays”和“closed on Mondays”可知，这四个展览在周一均不对外开放，也就是说人们在周一是不能参观这四个展览的。故选 B。3B(2019名校原创预测卷四)Georgina, known as Georgie, will turn 16 later this week and organized the party with two friends.Her mother said they had originally looked at the option of booking a nightclub,
11、 but decided the 1,000 fee was too steep. She said, “It seemed that realistically the only place Georgina could have her party was at home.”Georgie Hobdays parents had grownups to be in charge, a proper guest list, and a ban on alcohol. So they thought they had her 16th birthday party under control.
12、Unfortunately, it was advertised on Facebook.Around 400 uninvited guests stormed into the familys townhouse in Brighton on Saturday and gatecrashed (擅自参加) the event.They violently forced their way past the adults on duty, breaking light bulbs, knocking over plants and tearing up the garden.Twelve po
13、lice cars had to be called in to send them on their way.The troublemakers were the Facebook Republican Army, a group who look for teenage parties to crash through social networking sites.Yesterday Georgies mother, Sylvia Meli, said to the newspaper reporter, “It was an absolute horror show.The garde
14、n has been ruined and the grass is just mud.Ill never have a party for my daughter here again.I think Facebook is a major cause, as well as texting.”A gatecrasher said this is just the kind of party they like to gatecrash. Theyre in their late teens and early 20s and they are quite intimidating.When
15、 they turn up at a teenage party they know that no one will dare to say anything to them so they can do what they want.Once theyve found a party they put the word out through texts and news spreads fast.A Sussex police spokesman said, “There was a sea of people, and it was difficult to move, which w
16、as a major safety problem that required a lot of police time and resources.” Mrs Meli added, “I do understand at that age they have nowhere to go because they couldnt go to clubs.But invading (蜂拥而入) someone elses party and wasting police time and money is not the answer.”语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。即将 16岁的 Georgi
17、e在家里举办了生日聚会，但“脸书共和军”在她生日当天不请自来，不仅破坏了她的生日聚会，而且把她家弄得乱七八糟。4What made Georgies parents give up holding the party at a nightclub?AThe high cost. BThe limited time.4CThe safety problem. DThe noisy atmosphere.解析：选 A 细节理解题。根据第一段中的“Her mother said they had originally looked at the option of booking a nightcl
18、ub, but decided the 1,000 fee was too steep”可知，Georgie 的父母原打算预订一家夜总会为她举办 16岁生日聚会，但是他们觉得 1 000英镑的费用太贵，最终决定在家里给她举办生日聚会。故选 A。5What can we know about Georgies mother?AShe arranged the party with Georgie.BShe has disadvantaged backgrounds.CShe regretted holding the party at home.DShe throws a birthday pa
19、rty for Georgie yearly.解析：选 C 推理判断题。根据第四段中的“It was an absolute horror show.The garden has been ruined and the grass is just mud.Ill never have a party for my daughter here again”可知， Georgie的妈妈认为这完全是个恐怖秀，她再也不在家里为女儿举办聚会了。由此可推知，Georgie 的妈妈很后悔在家里为女儿举办生日聚会。故选C。6What does the underlined word “intimidating
20、” in Paragraph 5 mean?AAmbitious. BFrightening.CThoughtless. DCurious.解析：选 B 词义猜测题。根据倒数第二段中的“When they .they know that no one will dare to say anything to them so they can do what they want”可知，参加聚会的不速之客认为当他们出现在青少年的聚会上时，这些青少年不敢对他们说什么，于是他们就可以为所欲为。由此可推断画线词的意思为“可怕的，令人害怕的” ，与frightening的意思相近。故选 B。7Whats
21、Mrs Melis attitude towards the Facebook Republican Army?AConcerned. BSupportive.CDoubtful. DNegative.解析：选 D 观点态度题。根据最后一段的“But invading (蜂拥而入) someone elses party and wasting police time and money is not the answer”可知，Georgie的妈妈认为“脸书共和军”闯入别人的聚会的行为是在浪费警方的时间和金钱，是不可取的。由此可知，她对“脸书共和军”持否定的态度。故选 D。C(2019名校原
22、创预测卷七)This school year, instead of registering in regular gym class, Erika Brann, a senior at Alan B. Shepard High School in Illinois in the US, applied to be a guider in the schools Power Physical Education program.5Special education programs are designed for students who suffer from development is
23、sues such as mental, physical or social disorders. Students of these programs are normally educated separately from other students, meaning they dont often get the chance to communicate with those from the “general education” group.Erika explained why she wanted to be involved. “I wanted the chance
24、to connect with special education students who dont really get the opportunity to really connect with general education students and I hope in the end the chance can also be their chance to improve themselves, which was the most important part， ” she said, “people always like to define (给下定义) someon
25、e by their abilities.” But, she added, friendships are not based on abilities.Since she and her partner began working together, the two have become good friends. So good, in fact, that Erika recently asked him to the party. The invitation is evidence that the districts ongoing attempts to blur the d
26、ivide between specialneeds students and standard education kids are working, Power PE teacher Ashley Lythberg said.Illinois two other schools also offer the class, which invites general education students to work with kids registered in any specialneeds program. Under the watchful eye of the guider
27、Grace Betz, sophomore (二年级学生) Trevor Thompson ran the obstacle course (障碍赛跑道). Dan Hennigan, who also works parttime at the sports equipment store, said specialneeds students “are in a silent and lonely setting”， adding, “we wanted our kids to be around their peers. Some may look different on the ou
28、tside but they want to have friends. The hard part is that some of our students lack the social skills to start a conversation or meet a friend. But now, were starting to see kids visiting each other after school. Its expanding more than we ever expected.”语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。在美国的伊利诺伊州，一些学校的接受普通教育的学生通过一些特殊
29、教育项目帮助有发展障碍的学生。8What can be inferred about the students of special education programs?AThey mostly have language disorders.BThey often enjoy onetoone guidance.CThey generally have limits to sociability.DThey usually develop severe mental illness.解析：选 C 推理判断题。根据第二段中的“Students of these programs are 6n
30、ormally educated separately . those from the general education group”可知，参加这些特殊教育项目的学生接受教育时会和其他学生分开，这意味着他们通常缺乏同接受普通教育的学生交流的机会，由此可推断，他们的社交能力受限，故选 C。9. Why does Erika join the Power Physical Education program?ATo develop her social abilities.BTo help special education students.CTo make more likeminded
31、friends.DTo change prejudice against friendships.解析：选 B 细节理解题。根据第三段 Erika说的话可知，Erika 想要参与进去的目的是想让这些接受特殊教育的学生能从中受益，即帮助这些接受特殊教育的学生，故选 B。10Which word can best replace the underlined word “blur” in the fourth paragraph?AStrengthen. BWiden.CBalance. DNarrow.解析：选 D 词义猜测题。根据第四段的内容可知，作者以 Erika的经历为例说明了让接受普通教
32、育的学生参与一些特殊教育项目来帮助有发展障碍的学生的好处，故画线词所在句指的是这种邀请证明了这个地区为了缩小特殊需要学生和接受普通教育的学生之间的差距所做的努力有了效果，blur 本意为“(使)难以区分” ，在此处指“缩小的差距” ，故选 D。11Whats Dan Hennigans attitude towards the program?AOptimistic. BDisapproving.CCautious. DDoubtful.解析：选 A 观点态度题。根据第五段中 Dan Hennigan所说的话，尤其是“But now, were starting to see kids vis
33、iting each other after school. Its expanding more than we ever expected”可知，他对于该项目是持乐观的态度，故选 A。D(2019名校原创预测卷六)Before the invention of air conditioning, it was really hard to cool things.You had to take something that was very cold and move it to places that were hot.The early 19thcentury business of
34、New England companies shipped large carved ice cubes around the country.And there were fascinating problems.For example, when the bodies of water that supplied the ice started getting polluted, the pollutants would be trapped in the pieces of ice.When they melted at their destination, the air was fi
35、lled with unpleasant smells.There were even scarcities of ice during mild winters.7In the beginning, it wasnt the heat but the humidity that started the invention of air conditioning.In 1902, the workers at the Printing Company in New York City were fed up with the warm and damp summer air, which ke
36、pt their paper out of shape and ruining their print.To fix the problem, they needed a humiditycontrol system.The challenge fell to a young engineer named Willis Carrier.He designed a system to circulate (循环) air.The machine worked beautifully, relieving the humidity and allowing New Yorks printing c
37、ompanies to print without fear of sweaty pages and runny (过稀的) ink.But Carrier had a bigger idea.He recognized that a weathermaking device to control humidity had even more potential to control heat.He went on to manufacture the first modern air conditioning unit at the Carrier Corporation, which is
38、 still one of the largest HVAC manufacturers in the world.Air conditioning went on to change far more than modern printing it shaped global productivity, migration, and even politics.Places like Singapore and Shanghai are miserable when theyre hot and humid, but today they are large and important ci
39、ties in the world.There are studies saying that human productivity peaks around 70 degrees.That means that air conditioning made us more productive and it allows people to work longer and keep making the world a rich place.However, there is also the dark side of air conditioning.语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了空
40、调的由来。12What does the underlined word “scarcities” in Paragraph 1 mean?ABlocks. BSupplies.CThreats. DShortages.解析：选 D 词义猜测题。根据上文提到的人们借助冰块来使物体降温的内容和“there were fascinating problems”及画线词后面的 “of ice during mild winters”可知，此处说的应该是人们遇到的某个问题，冬季比较暖和的话，水就很难结成冰，冰块自然就会短缺。由此可知，画线词的意思应是“缺乏，不足” ，与 shortage的含义相似，故
41、选 D。13What is the second paragraph mainly about?AWhat led to the invention of air conditioning.BHow Carrier invented the first air conditioning.CThe poor working conditions without air conditioning.DThe difficulties Carrier faced when inventing air conditioning.8解析：选 A 段落大意题。根据第二段的内容可知，纽约印刷公司的员工为潮湿闷
42、热的天气使他们的纸变形、字迹模糊不清而苦恼，为了解决这个问题，Carrier 设计了使空气流通的系统。由此可知，本段主要讲是什么使得 Carrier研发了空调。故选 A。14Which statement about air conditioning may the author agree with?AIt couldnt control heat in the early 20th century.BIt gives out unpleasant smells when functioning.CIt reshapes the US and even the world.DIt was i
43、nvented in the 19th century.解析：选 C 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段的最后一句及最后一段中的“keep making the world a rich place”可知，空调影响着人们生活的许多方面，它不仅重新塑造了美国，甚至重新塑造了世界。故选 C。15What may be discussed in the following paragraph?AThe disadvantages of air conditioning.BThe working principles of air conditioning.CHow air conditioning inve
44、nts the modern world.DWhy air conditioning improves human productivity.解析：选 A 推理判断题。根据最后一段的最后一句话“However, there is also the dark side of air conditioning”可知，接下来作者可能会谈及空调的消极影响。故选 A。.阅读七选五(2019名校原创预测卷八)Tolerance means tolerating or putting up with differences. _16_ This concept means different things
45、to different people, but it is when something is disagreeable that tolerance is expected, and in more politically correct cultures, demanded._17_ A person might fully disagree with others on any issue, while at the same time respecting those with different opinions and treating them with dignity. Di
46、sagreement alone does not equal intolerance.One problem is the fact that this respect is sometimes onesided. Those who disagree with a particular issue must respect the opinions of those who support it, but some supporters feel reasonable in labeling those who disagree with hateful terms, and vice v
47、ersa. _18_When it comes to controversial issues, tolerance may also represent a “lets agree to disagree” attitude. It does not mean that a person has to accept actions or ideas that are against his or her values or beliefs. _19_ 9When both parties have expressed their opinions, and it is obvious tha
48、t neither is likely to change position, agreeing to disagree is often the ideal outcome.Some degree of tolerance is necessary in any civilized society. _20_ It goes against human nature. Putting up with differences is a virtue that requires honest effort on the part of every person. It takes time to
49、 develop.AThere are many different ways to show tolerance.BTherefore, both parties should change opinions if necessary.CPeople on both sides of an issue must be tolerant of each other.DIt means showing respect for the race, religion and opinions of other people.EIt is widely accepted that tolerance is a critical step towards a peaceful world.FBut it is not realistic to believe that all people can achieve it completely on every issue.
