【三维设计】（江苏专用）2016届高考英语一轮复习 Unit 2 The environment课时跟踪检测B卷（必修5）.docVIP

The environment　课时跟踪检测B卷 Ⅰ.完形填空 (2015·扬州中学高三4月检测)Thanks to a combination of young businessmen, large numbers of university students and revitalization (新生) efforts by the local and national governments, todays Nanjing has an __1__ of youthful exuberance (繁茂) that would have been __2__only a few decades ago.__3__， the city, a booming city of 6. 5 million on the banks of the Yangtze River some 185 miles west of Shanghai, bears __4__resemblance to the former capital of China that suffered the worst cruelty and violence of World War Ⅱ. __5__Nanjing has shown a remarkable capacity for reinvention during its 2,500-year history. And in recent years, the city has moved __6__its tragic past to become a vital engine of China’s economic growth, thanks __7__to its position in the middle of China’s prosperous eastern seaboard. Growth has also __8__thanks to improved ground transportation: A new bullet train linking Nanjing and Shanghai started service last year，__9__travel time between the cities from several hours to just 75 minutes, and a Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line is __10__to open later this year, with a stop in Nanjing. Within the city, two metro lines were built in the last few years; 15 more are planned to begin service by 2030. Signs of Nanjing?s __11__wealth and optimism can be seen everywhere. In the heart of the downtown Xinjiekou district, a bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen，__12__the father of modern China, looks __13__over a busy __14__area. There is perhaps no more __15__symbol of the city’s transformation than the Zifeng Tower, a 1,480-foot skyscraper that opened its doors last May.__16__offices, restaurants and an InterContinental hotel, the tower is the second tallest building in China and billed as the seventh tallest in the world. Underlying all this development is a large Chinese and __17__student population — there are several major universities, plus a branch of Johns Hopkins?s international studies school. In fact，art and music __18__in all sorts of place