《创新设计》2015高考英语（北师大版）一轮活页训练（提升版）：3.9 UNIT 9　WHEELS.doc

1、Unit 9Wheels.完形填空When I moved to Los Angeles，I had no apartment，no car，and no job.I _1_ to buy a car first，which will help me get around and find the other two！This was my first car，so I had very little _2_ in carbuying.Without much _3_，I wanted to keep the price low.Also I set some _4_：nothing olde

2、r than 2003 and nothing over 70，000 miles.I love negotiating，so I was a little _5_ to start the process.I went online，found several used car dealers in the area that had reasonable prices，and _6_ visiting some dealers.I _7_ that fees were going to add another 1011% to the price，so Id either have to

3、go with a lower quality car，or _8_ my price point.Over the past few years，fewer people have been buying _9_ cars and more people want to _10_ by buying used ones，so theres been a lot of _11_ but a lower supply.As a result，the price of used cars has _12_ as much as 25% over the past year.One dealer w

4、as selling cars that had salvage(救援)titles.This means that there is enough _13_ to the car at some point that an insurance company _14_ that the price to fix it would be higher than the value of the vehicle.The dealer took these cars in，fixed them up，and then _15_ them.Now，not all salvage title vehi

5、cles are _16_In fact，Lauren bought a car five years ago from this same guy and her car is _17_ in excellent condition.After about two weeks of looking at cars，on Thursday evening，I testdrove a 2006 Nissan Sentra.I wanted to be _18_ of my purchase instead of possibly regretting it.It was a smooth dri

6、ve and I _19_ loved it.Immediately I became the _20_ of the car！I felt very proud of it.【语篇解读】 本文记叙了作者买车的经历。1A.afforded BexpectedCdecided Dagreed答案C根据后文买车的经历可知，作者决定先买车。2A.importance BexperienceCinterest Dimagination答案B根据句中This was my first car可知，作者没有买车方面的经验。 3A.money Bwarning Cstrength Deffort答案A根据句

7、中I wanted to keep the price low可知，作者没多少钱。 4A.dreams Bgoals Cplans Dlimits答案Dnothing older than 2003 and nothing over 70，000 miles是作者所设的限度。 5A.surprised Bexcited Ccalm Dafraid答案B根据句中I love negotiating可推断，作者很兴奋。 6A.started BrememberedCsuggested Dforgot答案A根据句中found several used car dealers可知，作者接下来开始拜访经

8、销商。 7A.made out Bmade sureCfigured out Dpointed out答案Cadd another 1011% to the price是作者计算得出的数据。 8A.follow Breach Ccreate Dincrease答案D价格要涨，因此总钱数也要增加。 9A.similar Bforeign Cnew Dcheap答案C根据句中used ones的并列关系可知，很少有人买新车。 10A.appear Bsave Cimprove Dremain答案B根据句中by buying used ones可知，此处指买旧车省钱。 11A.demand Bcom

9、petitionCadvice Dpossibility答案A根据句中but a lower supply可知，供不应求。 12A.remained Benlarged Crisen Dchanged答案C由于供不应求，结果价格涨了。 13A.sign Battraction Creaction Ddamage答案D根据句中the price to fix it would be higher than the value of the vehicle可知，那辆车多次遭到损坏。 14A.imagined BdeterminedCpermitted Dregretted答案B修车的费用高于车本身

10、的价值，这是保险公司判定的。 15A.resold BdestroyedCremoved Ddecorated答案A根据句中took these cars in，fixed them up可推断，销售商再把车卖出去。 16A.expensive BefficientCterrible Dugly答案C根据后句中in excellent condition可得出答案。 17A.still Beven Cyet Dotherwise答案A用了好几年，车况仍然不错。用still表示强调。 18A.doubtful Bcritical Canxious Dsure答案D根据句中instead of p

11、ossibly regretting it可得出答案。 19A.absolutely Bprobably Chardly Drelatively答案A根据句中It was a smooth drive可知，作者很喜欢这辆车。 20A.dealer BdesignerCadvertiser Downer答案D根据后句I felt very proud of it可推断，作者成为了那辆车的主人。 .阅读理解体裁题材词数难度建议用时夹叙夹议文社会生活3968分钟The Highways Agency has made plans to switch off lights on the M1 betw

12、een junction 10 at Luton and junction 13 at Milton Keynes between midnight and 5 am.The move to turn lights off on the lightlyused Britains motorway network was one of the first ideas to appear after the agency asked the public for moneysaving ideas.“We think there will be a number of operational is

13、sues，”said Andrew Howard，the AAs head of road safety.“Where you can and cant be is controlled by signals and without lights there is a greater chance that people will make a mistake.”Brake，the road safety charity(慈善团体)，also voiced concern.“Although there are fewer accidents on our motorways due to t

14、he way these roads are engineered，when accidents do happen on these roads，they are much more likely to involve multiple deaths and serious injuries because of the high speeds involved，”a spokesman said.“Road casualties are not only a disaster for the families involved，but a huge economic burden，so t

15、urning lights off has safety risk and it could turn out to be an inhumane experiment.”The Department for Transport has been keen to cut running costs and turning off the lights has been successfully tested on parts of the M2，M4，M5 and M27.Switching the lights off is also seen as having the additiona

16、l advantage of cutting carbon emissions.Similar initiatives have been tried by a number of local authorities on local roads with mixed results.Powys Council in Wales was forced to ditch its experiment of turning off more than half its 1，400 lights off at night after a wave of protests from the publi

17、c.Elsewhere many councils have chosen to install equipment which dims lights rather than switching them off altogether.However，Derek Turner，the Highways Agency director，defended the move and insisted motorists would not be put at risk.“Since 2009 weve switched lighting off between the hours of midni

18、ght and 5 am on 14 carefullyselected motorways and evidence so far shows that switching off the lights hasnt had an impact on safety，”he said.“In March this year we also began permanently switching off motorway lights at three sites.The money saved could then be used for other measures on the strate

19、gic road network where it would have a more significant safety benefit and potentially save more lives.”【语篇解读】 在英国，有关部门打算从午夜到凌晨五点期间关闭部分高速公路上的灯，对于这种做法，众说纷纭。1What do we know from Paragraph 1?AAll lights on Britains motorways will be off between midnight and 5 am.BThe British motorway network is busy d

20、uring night hours.CMost British people support the move of turning off motorway lights.DCutting costs is the main purpose of turning lights off on motorways.答案D细节理解题。根据第一段The move to turn lights off. after the agency asked the public for moneysaving ideas可知，答案为D。 2What is Andrew Howards attitude tow

21、ards the move of turning lights off on motorways?AWorried. BIndifferent.CSupportive. DNeutral.答案A推理判断题。根据第二段Where you can and cant be is controlled by signals and without lights there is a greater chance that people will make a mistake可推断，答案为A。 3The underlined word “ditch”in Paragraph 5 can be repla

22、ced by “_”Atake the place of Bstick toCget rid of Dcarry out答案C词义猜测题。根据第五段. after a wave of protests from the public和后句内容可推断，ditch意为“抛弃”，故答案为C。 4We can conclude from the last paragraph that Derek Turner _Athinks they should dim the lights instead of turning lights off on motorwaysBis confident about

23、 the measure of turning lights off on motorwaysCdoubts whether turning lights off on motorways had an impact on safetyDask for more evidence to test the safety of turning lights off on motorways答案B推理判断题。根据末段. defended the move and insisted motorists would not be put at risk和他说的话可推断，答案为B。 .书面表达最近，很多中

24、学生都纷纷开起了自己的博客。一方面，博客可以作为展示自己的窗口，可以释放学习的压力，因此已经被越来越多的中学生所接受。但是，另一方面，很多家长和老师都认为管理个人博客要花相当多的时间和精力，会耽误学习。请对这一现象进行简要介绍。并发表自己的看法。注意：词数100左右。参考词汇：开博客open ones blog开头已给出：Nowadays，it is a common phenomenon that more and more high school students open their own blogs on the Internet._【参考范文】Nowadays，it_is_a_co

25、mmon_phenomenon_that_more_and_more_high_school_students_open_their_own_blogs_on_the_Internet.There are advantages and disadvantages about this matter.For one thing，the blog provides them a colorful window to show their talents and a way for them to relax，which makes it more and more popular among hi

26、gh school students.But many parents and teachers are worried about it.They fear that managing a blog will take a lot of time and energy，which will have a side effect on their lessons.In my opinion，I do approve of this activity because the Internet is playing a more important and essential part in ou

27、r daily life.In an age of information，we high school students have to learn and make the most of this useful tool to communicate and display ourselves.More importantly，opening and organizing an eyecatching blog needs various abilities such as writing，designing，being skillful at computer and so on.Only if we master those abilities can we make a successful blog，thus improving ourselves during the course of maintaining our blogs.