2018-2019年高中英语吉林高考摸底试卷【21】含答案考点及解析

2018-2019年高中英语吉林高考摸底试卷【21】含答案考点

及解析

班级:___________ 姓名：___________ 分数：___________

1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息

2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上

一、单项选择

1.—The owner of the small shop fought to stop the big corporation from knocking it down.—Yes, and he finally made it. It was indeed ______.

A．a catch-11 situation B．a Pandora’s box

C．a David and Goliath battle D．a Jekyll and Hyde existence

【答案】C

【解析】考查英语俚语。a catch-11 situation：第11条军规（善待俘虏）；a Pandora’s box潘多拉的魔盒；a David and Goliath battle 大卫与歌利亚之战（比喻实力悬殊）；a Jekyll and Hyde existence 杰基尔和海德的结合（比喻双重人格）；从对话可知，小商店的老板成功阻止了大公司让其破产的企图，这是一场实力悬殊的对抗，选项C a David and Goliath battle符合语境，故选C。

二、完形填空

2.

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Do you remember last summer, when angry travelers were urging the government to do something about airline customer service? Airlines 3 6 to improve，and they adopted (采用) new standards just before Christmas． 37 as another summer nears，plenty of 38 travelers don’t see much improvement in customer 39 overall．

This month，the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) office will publish its first critical 40 on whether airlines are 41 their promises．One survey suggests problems：the number of 42 to the DOT about the top 10 airlines in the first 43 rose 89％ from a year ago．

Hit last summer by passenger complaints and the threat of consumer-protection laws by the 44 ，14 airlines 45 to adopt a set of basic customer-service standards called Customers First．The“12 promises”to passengers were introduced 46 a major effort to improve service．Since then，airlines have been redesigning websites，retraining employees and upgrading technology．Recently，DOT inspector general Kenneth Mead，a t McCain’S request，sent 20 examiners to airports to 47 whether each airline is doing what it promised．Mead warns travelers

shouldn’t 48 too much．Most of the promises are 49 better communication with customers，not problems with flights．

“Pass engers should show more understanding to airlines about their 50 to better air service．”Spokeswoman Shelly Sasson says．“And when 51 are made．it takes a long time for them to be noticed．”she says．

Now，the efforts may be working．During the first quarter，Delta had the second-lowest rate of complaints among the 52 10 carriers． 53 ，its rate，along with other carriers’，is up from last year．McCain and other lawmakers say there may be a 54 to pass new consumer-protection 55 ．

36．A．promised B．managed C．hoped D．refused

37．A．So B．But C．Merely D．Even

38．A．skilled B．experienced C．tired D．puzzled

39．A．flight B．opinion C．service D．travel

40．A．news B．information C．doubt D．article

41．A．honoring B．making C．giving D．improving

42．A．problems B．travelers C．passengers D．complaints

43. A．quarter B．year C．month D．summer

44. A. customer B．company C．government D．public

45．A．wished B．agreed C．remembered D．failed

46．A．to B．for C．as D．by

47．A．explain B．discuss C．discover D．check

48．A．travel B．expect C．complain D．suggest

49．A．aimed at B．considered as C．joined to D．made from

50．A．difficulty B．situation C．reality D．efforts

51．A．suggestions B．rules C．decisions D．improvements

52．A．1arge B．first C．top D．bad

53．A．Still B．Therefore C．Instead D．Meanwhile

54．A．possibility B．need C．chance D．use

55．A．examinations B．service C．1aws D．reports

【答案】

36-40ABBCD 41-45 ADACB 46-50 CDBAD 51-55DCABC

【解析】略

三、阅读理解

After more than a year of bitter political debate, President Obama sat down in the White House East Room on March 23 and signed the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law with a pen，and then another pen，and another. Obama used 22 pens to sign the $938 billion health care bill.

The practice of using different pens to sign important legislation（法规）dates at least as far back as Franklin Roosevelt. The reason is fairly simple. The pen used to sign historic legislation itself becomes a historical artifact. The more pens a President uses, the more thank-you gifts he can offer to those who helped create that piece of history. The White House often give pens to supporters of the newly signed legislation. When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he reportedly used more than 75 pens and gave one of the first ones to Martin Luther King Jr. And in 1996, President Clinton gave the four pens he used to sign the Line-Item Veto bill to those most likely to appreciate the bill's consequence.

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