高中英语人教版 (新课标)必修3&4必修4Unit 3 A taste of English humour复习练习题

双基限时练(八)　Unit 3　Part Ⅱ

Ⅰ.用所给动词的适当形式填空

1．The ________ (miss) boy was last seen ________ (play) near the East Lake.

答案与解析　missing; playing　句意：那个失踪的男孩最后被人看见时正在东湖附近玩。missing失踪的；现在分词短语playing near the East Lake作主语补足语，与主语the missing boy存在逻辑上的主谓关系。

2．I'm really tired of Jim. I won't have him always ________ (play) a trick on others.

答案与解析　playing　句意：我真的很厌烦吉姆。我不能容忍他总是取笑别人。have sb. doing此处意为“容忍某人做某事”。

3．Before becoming a pilot, he spent quite a long time ________ (train)．

答案与解析　being trained　spend time (in) doing sth.花费时间干某事，根据句意，“他”是被培训，故用being trained。

4．— Why did you go back to the shop?

— I left my friend ________ (wait) there.

答案与解析　waiting　leave sb. doing sth.使/让某人做某事。waiting作宾语补足语，与宾语my friend存在逻辑上的主谓关系。

5．Who did you see ________ (sit) in the middle of the front row make that much noise?

答案与解析　sitting　sitting in the middle of the front row为现在分词短语作宾语补足语，与宾语who存在逻辑上的主谓关系。

6．— Come on, please give some ideas about the project.

— Sorry, with so much work ________ (fill) my mind, I almost break down.

答案与解析　filling　根据句意“由于我的头脑中充满了太多的工作，我几乎崩溃了”可知，工作正充满着我的头脑，故用现在分词filling。

7．The old couple often take a walk after supper in the park with their pet dog ________ (follow) them.

答案与解析　following　句意：这老两口常常在晚饭后到公园里散步，他们的宠物狗则在后面跟着。在with复合结构中， dog与follow是逻辑上的主谓关系，因此这里用现在分词表主动。

8．I found the man ________ (lie) on the ground, dead.

答案与解析　lying　表示“这个人正躺在地上”，因为是表示当时的状态，故填lying。

9．He was deeply ________ (move) because the story was ________ (move)．

答案与解析　moved; moving　第一空为“他感动”，表示“人的情感状态”，应用过去分词moved；后一个空表示“这个故事令人感动”，“令人……”表示一个事物的特征，特性，应用现在分词moving。

10．I looked up and noticed a snake ________ (wind) its way up the tree to catch its breakfast.

答案与解析　winding　句意：我抬头看，注意到一条蛇正沿树蜿蜒而上，捕捉它的早餐。此处用现在分词表示正在进行的动作。

11．The student was caught ________ (cheat) in the exam and would be punished.

答案与解析　cheating　catch sb. doing sth.意为“抓住某人在做某事”。

12．________ (sense) some danger ________ (draw) near, he slipped back into the cave.

答案与解析　Sensing; drawing　sense“觉察到”，主动，应用­ing形式。现在分词短语作宾语补足语。“危险在逼近”，表示主动和进行，故填drawing。

Ⅱ.语法填空

Once I was lucky enough to watch Charlie Chaplin __1__(make) one of his famous films. I observed him __2__ (direct) as well as __3__(act) in it. He had a particular method of film making. He planned the story and then performed and filmed each scene many times. I saw him making each scene a little different. Then I found him __4__(pick) out the scenes he liked best and __5__(join) them together to make the film more __6__(entertain). It was an__7__(interest) experience as it was clear that he did not keep to a strict budget.

答案　1.making　2.directing　3.acting　4.picking

5．joining　6.entertaining　7.interesting

Ⅲ.阅读理解

A

Several years ago, a television reporter was talking to three of the most important people in America. One was a very rich banker, another owned one of the largest companies in the world，and the third owned many buildings in the center of New York.

The reporter was talking to them about being important.

“How do we know if someone is really important？” the reporter asked the banker.

The banker thought for a few minutes and then said, “I think anybody who is invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States is really important.”

The reporter then turned to the owner of the very large company. “Do you agree with him？” she asked.

The man shook his head，“No. I think the President invites a lot of people to the White House. You'd only be important if while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the president of another country, and the President of the US said he was too busy to answer it. ”

The reporter turned to the third man. “Do you think so？”

“No, I don't.” he said. “I don't think that makes the visitor important. That makes the President important.”

“Then what would make the visitor important？” the reporter and the other two men asked.

“Oh，I think if the visitor to the White House was talking to the President and the phone rang, and the President picked up the receiver, listened and then said, ‘It's for you. ’”

1. This story happened in ________.

A. England   B. America

C. Japan   D. Australia

答案与解析　B　细节理解题。答案即是短文首段的第一句Several years ago, a television reporter was talking to three of the most important people in America.

2. There are ________ in this passage.

A. two men and two women

B. three men and one woman

C. three women and one man

D. four women

答案与解析　B　细节理解题。记者和三个重要人物，共三男一女。从文中“to the third man”及“the other two men asked”可以判断出被采访者是三个男士；第五段“She asked”可判断reporter是女性。

3. The banker thought ________.

A. he was really important because he was a rich banker

B. the visitor to the White House was really important

C. the visitor who met the President of the United States was important

D. the reporter was really important

答案与解析　C　细节理解题。由I think anybody who is invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States is really important.这句可知。

4. The owner of the very large company thought ________.

A. he was really important because he owned one of the largest companies

B. the banker was really important

C. the owner of many buildings in the center of New York was really important

D. the visitor would be really important if while he was visiting the President, the President would not answer any telephone call

答案与解析　D　细节理解题。同上题一样，本题也属表层理解题。答案就在You'd only be important if while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the president of another country, and the President of the US said he was too busy to answer it.中。

5. The owner of many buildings thought ________.

A. he was really important because he owned many buildings in the center of New York

B. the owner of the very large company was really important

C. the visitor was really important if he was talking to the President and the President received a telephone call for the visitor

D. the person who worked in the White House was really important

答案与解析　C　推理判断题。文章最后一段即是本小题答案之所在。

B

What is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined(定义) jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of triumph by showing we're better than someone else in a certain way. According to Aristotle and many other philosophers, all jokes depend mainly on showing inferiority in another person or group of persons — that is, putting it clearly, on showing that they are worse off than ourselves. Jokes raise our good opinion of ourselves at someone else's expense.

Showing how much better than other people we are is only one reason why we like jokes. Someone may also use a joke to express their anger or their cruelty or any other kind of action that is not acceptable to us. We feel free to laugh when we hear about someone sliding on a banana skin. The joke lets us express those attitudes which are usually unacceptable to society. This is probably the reason why some of the jokes, especially those involving cruelty, are so popular with certain people.

Besides, all jokes depend on our enjoyment of laughing at something that is strange and out of place because it's different from things which are happening around it. The same situation can be either sad or pleasant, depending entirely on how strange and out of place it is. If a girl in a bathing suit falls into a swimming pool, we don't laugh because nothing unusual has happened. But if a man in a smart suit falls in, the situation is at once unusual in a pleasant way and we laugh. A good joke­teller will always try to build up a situation in which one thing is expected until something unexpected suddenly happens，and so we laugh.

6．The underlined word “inferiority” in Paragraph 1 means ________.

A. something that is not as good as something else

B. something that is better than something else

C. someone that is not as good as someone else

D. someone that is better than someone else

答案与解析　A　由后面的“... in another person or group of persons ...”可排除C项和D项；由“... showing that they are worse off than ourselves.”可知应选A项，同时排除B项。inferiority意为“下等；劣等；下级”。

7．According to Aristotle, all jokes depend mainly on ________.

A. showing inferiority in another person or group

B. resulting in a sense of success

C. having a good opinion of other people

D. making people laugh unexpectedly

答案与解析　A　由第一段第三句可知。

8．What's the main idea of Paragraph 2?

A. Showing we are better than other people is the only one reason why we like jokes.

B. When people are angry, they would like to hear jokes.

C. People who like jokes are usually cruel.

D. To express those attitudes usually unacceptable to society is one of the reasons why we like jokes.

答案与解析　D　A项是承上启下的句子，是对第一段的概括总结；B、C两项文中并未提到；由第二段第二、四句可知应选D项。

9．What will a good joke­teller always try to do?

A. Make a sad situation into a pleasant one.

B. Make different things happen at the same time.

C. Make an unexpected thing happen in an expected situation.

D. Make people laugh at something unusual and out of place.

答案与解析　C　根据文章最后一句可知正确答案。