高考英语第一轮复习单元测试试题17.docVIP

必修4 Unit 2 Working the land 能力演练 一、语法填空 There was once a boy who had a temper.His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper,he 1 hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy 2 (drive)37 nails into the fence.Over the next few weeks as he learned to control his anger,the number of nails hammered 3 (gradual)decreased.He discovered 4 was easier to hold his temper than to drive nails into the fence. Finally the day came 5 he didn,t lose his temper.He told his father and his father suggested that the boy now 6 (pull)out one nail for each day so that he was able to hold his anger.The days passed and the boy told his father that all the nails were gone. The father took the boy 7 the hand and led him to the fence.He said,“Look at the holes in the fence.The fence will never be the same.When you say things in anger，they leave a scar(疤痕)just like the 8 on the fence.It won,t matter how many times you say I am sorry, 9 wound is still there.A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.Friends are very rare.They make you smile and encourage you 10 (success).They lend an ear,and always want to open their hearts to us.”  二、完形填空 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 Tired and hungry,two boys walked painfully into a big city on October 16,on their feet that had just carried them 300 kilometres. For nine days they lived as oldfashioned travellers, 1 somewhere new to sleep every night as they walked from one place to another.The boys slept in tents and 2 six yuan a day.“I learned more in those nine days than I had in the last nine years,”said 17yearold Li Zhao 3 .Li and 15yearold Li Xuemeng 4 their journey on October 7,with three teachers from the Educational Motivation Research and Service Centre.The purpose of the 5 was for the two troubled boys to develop a more 6 attitude to school and life. With two 7 and some instant noodles for the first day,the five 8 mainly