第一部分 选修 7 Unit 3
Ⅰ.完形填空
(2014江西)
“Mum，can I invite my classmate Brett over to stay tomorrow night，please？It's Friday，and we don't have any__1__.Can I，please？”Mum was sitting at the kitchen table.Dad was__2__next to her，resting his head on his arms.Mum could__3__that James wanted so badly to have his friend over.
“I'm so sorry，James，”she said.
“I'm never allowed to have friends come to the house？Why，Mum？”James asked sadly，almost in__4__.
“I know it's__5__for you，”Mum said softly.“But I'm just worried other people might think we're a little…strange.And then they would make fun of you.”
“No，they wouldn't，Mum，”James protested.“We're not__6__at all.We're just ordinary people.”
Mum sighed heavily.“To tell you the truth，James，my neck has been so painful that it's given me a heavy__7__.And your poor father—he doesn't feel__8__.He really needs a rest.”
“I can help，Mum！”James said.“__9__I can make you and Dad feel better，can Brett come over？Please？”
“Well…”Mum began.
“Great！Thanks，Mum！”James almost shouted.“Just sit there，don't move.”He rushed over to the kitchen drawer and__10__what he needed—two spanners(扳手)．“Hang on，Mum，”he said.“This won't take a second.”After some__11__，James was finished.With a smile of__12__on his face he said，“There！How does that feel？”“Oh，James，”Mum said.“That's much better！How did you do it？”
“Easy，”James said__13__.“Dad had tightened your neck bolts(螺栓)too much！I just__14__them slightly！I learned that in robotic science at school.”
“What about your father？Can you__15__him？”asked Mum.
“I'll try，”James replied.He__16__up Dad's hair at the back of his neck，and plugged the electric wire into Dad's head.Then he turned the__17__on.Dad opened his eyes and__18__immediately.“He just let his__19__run too low，that's all，”James said，“Shall I tell Brett to come over straight after school tomorrow？”
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“I guess so，”replied Mum.“Your friends will just have to__20__that we are a very unusual family.Thanks，son！”
( )1.A.chance C．homework ( )2.A.asleep C．alone ( )3.A.explain C．agree ( )4.A.terror C．surprise ( )5.A.fair C．good ( )6.A.strange C．popular ( )7.A.headache C．task ( )8.A.ill C．sorry ( )9.A.As C．Since ( )10.A.kept C．found ( )11.A.requests C．repairs ( )12.A.sympathy C．bitterness
( )13.A.embarrassedly C．impatiently ( )14.A.adjusted C．produced ( )15.A.greet C．help ( )16.A.lifted C．gave
B．message D．difficulty B．reading D．standing B．see D．doubt B．tears D．silence B．easy D．hard B．normal D．anxious B．loss D．day B．funny D．well B．If D．Before B．controlled D．returned B．thoughts D．instructions B．satisfaction D．politeness B．gratefully D．proudly B．collected D．covered B．accompany D．ask B．caught D．filled
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( )17.A.television C．light ( )18.A.grew up C．broke down ( )19.A.food C．battery ( )20.A.prove C．suspect
B．power D．gas B．lay down D．sat up B．temperature D．blood B．expect D．accept
【主旨大意】詹姆斯恳求他妈妈让他的朋友Brett周六到他们家玩。妈妈说他们的家与别人的不同，爸妈是机器人并且身体都不好。为了能够获得妈妈的同意，詹姆斯运用在学校里学到的机器人知识对他的爸妈进行了“修理”。最终，詹姆斯得到了妈妈的同意。
1．【答案】C
【解析】根据上文“It's Friday”可知明天是周六不上课，没作业。 2．【答案】A
【解析】根据下文的“resting his head on his arms”可知爸爸正在休息睡觉。 3．【答案】B
【解析】根据上文詹姆斯的“Can I，please？”的语气，妈妈可以“看出”詹姆斯很迫切想让他的朋友过来。
4．【答案】B
【解析】根据上文“I'm so sorry，James”妈妈拒绝了詹姆斯的请求，所以他很伤心，几乎都哭了。
5．【答案】D
【解析】根据上文可知“这对你来说比较难”。 6．【答案】A
【解析】根据上文“But I'm just worried other people might think we're a little…strange.”可知选A。
7．【答案】A
【解析】根据上文妈妈的脖子疼以至于引发了头疼。 8．【答案】D
【解析】根据下文詹姆斯对他爸爸也进行了“修理”可知爸爸也感觉不舒服。 9．【答案】B
【解析】如果“我”能让你和爸爸感觉好点，能让Brett来吗？ 10．【答案】C
【解析】找到了他需要的东西——两把扳手。
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11．【答案】C
【解析】根据下文可知，詹姆斯对妈妈进行了“修理”。 12．【答案】B
【解析】干完了活，詹姆斯带有满意的表情。 13．【答案】D
【解析】妈妈感觉好多了，对詹姆斯进行了夸奖，他当然感到很自豪。 14．【答案】A
【解析】螺栓太紧了，詹姆斯对它们进行了调节。 15．【答案】C
【解析】妈妈问他能帮爸爸吗。 16．【答案】A
【解析】詹姆斯掀起爸爸后脑勺的头发，把电线插入爸爸的脑中。 17．【答案】B
【解析】把电线插入爸爸的脑中，之后要打开电源。 18．【答案】D
【解析】刚才爸爸在睡觉，现在他坐起来了。 19．【答案】C
【解析】爸爸电池的电量太低了。 20．【答案】D
【解析】你的朋友们要接受“我们”是不同寻常的家庭。 Ⅱ.阅读理解
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(2014广东，D)
Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流)．Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment.However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way—by studying movements of random floating garbage.A scientist with many years' experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of the United States.There were so many shoes that people were setting up swap_meets to try and match left and right shoes to sell or wear.
Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes—about 60,000 in total—fell into the ocean in a shipping accident.He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back.As expected, the company told him that they
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