高三英语巩固练习b.doc

高三英语巩固练习b
一、单选：
1. The woman she acted in the film is _______ of the woman in the 1930s.
A. special B. common C. typical D. general
2. Though ______ money, his parents managed to send him to university.
A. lack B. lacking C. lacking of D. lacked
3. There should be no ______ in sending the blood and medicine to the injured.
A. hurry B. wait C. time D. delay
4.The flowers_____ sweet in the garden attract the visitors to the beauty of nature.
A. to smell B. smelling C. smelt D. to be smelt
5. Come and see me whenever ______.
A. you are convenient B. you will be convenient
C. it is convenient to you D. it will be convenient to you
6. _____ is known to us, Thomas Edison invented the bulb.
A. It B. What C. As D. That
7. It was in the university ______ they fell in love with each other, _____ brought both of them happiness.
A. when, which B. that , which C. where, that D. which , that
8. _______to radiation too often does harm to people’s health.
A. Exposing B. To be exposed C. Being exposed D. Exposed
9. Mother received a letter from her son, telling her that he had _______ the money and food.
A. run out of B. ran out of C. run out D. ran out
10. If ________ in wet sand, the vegetables can _______ fresh for a long time.
A. being buried; remain B. buried; be remained
C. buried; remain D. burying; remain
11.We should protect the environment, for fresh air ________ to good health.
A. adjusts B. contributes C. distributes D. appeals
12.To his delight, he ________ got what he had been looking forward to.
A. eventually B. normally C. especially D. carefully
13. Their house ________ mine in having no garage.
A. different from B. differs in C. differs from D. differs
14.Though we have been staying up for days, there’s still ________ work remaining to be done.
A. a good sum of B. a large amount of C. a plenty of D. a large number of
15. ---Should we eat out or stay in?
---______.
A. It depends on you. B. It’s up to you.
C. Well, I’m looking forward to it. D. Good idea.

二、阅读理解
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Arthur Miller (1915-2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream，” However, he experience severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early 1930s.
Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with this system. Willy is “burnt out” and in the true world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can’t do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the face that he has failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949,the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
1. Why did Arthur Miller’s Father move to the USA?
A. He still is from severe hunger in his home country.
B. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream.”
C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.
D. His family business failed.
2. The play Death of a Salesman__________.
A. exposes the cruelty of the American business world
B. discuss the ways to get promoted in a company
C. talks about the business career of Arthur Miller
D. focuses on the skills in doing business
3. What can we learn about Willy Loman?
A. He treats his employer badly.             B. He runs the Wagner Company.
C. He is a victim of the American system.    
D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Arthur Miller and his family             
B. The awards Arthur Miller won.
C. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.  
D. Arthur Miller and his best-known play

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