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1、湖北省十堰市2016高考英语单项选择和阅读能力练习（5）.单项填空 1The boys new bike was_envy of his friends.Aa Bthe C/ Dan解析 考查冠词。本句中envy为of his friends所限制，表特指。答案 B2How I_him the pleasure he had during the vacation!Aenvy Badmire Cappreciate Denjoy解析 句意：我多么忌妒他在假期间的快乐。admire“羡慕”后接for；appreciate欣赏；enjoy喜欢。答案 A3I was about to_the pho
2、ne when it was_.Areply；rung off Breceive；rung upCanswer；rung off Danswer；rung up解析 answer the telephone“接电话”；ring off“挂断电话”。句意：我正要接电话，这时电话挂断了。答案 C4We feel sympathy_the deaths in the earthquake.Ain Bfor Cwith Don解析 feel sympathy for“对某人深感同情”。答案 B5Out of_for the homeless children，he gave them shelter
3、for the night.Apity Bshame Csympathy Dmercy解析 考查sympathy的用法。句意：出于对无家可归的孩子们的同情，他给他们提供了住处。out of sympathy for是固定短语，意为“出于对的同情”，符合句意。pity“怜悯；惋惜”；shame“可惜；羞愧”；mercy“仁慈”；三者皆不合句意。答案 C6Many couples_to adopt the baby which survived the earthquake.Aare desiring Bhave been desiringChave desired Ddesire解析 考查时态。
4、desire“想要，渴望”，不用进行时，分析句子可知，此处不表示动作的先后，所以选项D合适。答案 D7Try to _ at least an hour each day for learning new vocabulary.Aset off Bset outCset aside Dset down解析 句意：争取每天至少抽出1小时时间学习新词汇。set aside为某种目的留出、拨出(金钱、时间)等，符合句意。答案 C8Tomorrow the mayor is to_a group of Canadian businessmen on a tour of the city.Acoordi
5、nate BaccompanyCcooperate Dassociate解析 从“a tour of the city”，“the mayor”和“Canadian businessmen”可确定答案为accompany陪伴，陪同。coordinate调和，协调；cooperate合作；associate联合。句意：明天市长将陪同加拿大商人游览本市。答案 B9At 3：30 pm.the chairman_the meeting closed.Adecided BdeclaredCannounced Dinformed解析 考查动词的基本意思。根据句子意思，应该为“宣布”会议闭幕。答案 B10
6、Gathering clouds_the coming storm.Adeclared Bturned outCconnected Dannounced解析 announce此处表示“显示，预告”。答案 D11_that_；you might break it.ALeave；off BLeave；outCLeave；alone DLeave；over解析 leave off“停止，结束”；leave out“忘掉，漏掉”；leave alone“不管，不打扰”；leave over “留下；剩下”。句意：别动它，否则你会把它弄坏的。答案 C12Its unnatural for a mothe
7、r to leave her child_to enjoy herself.Aalone Blonely Clone Dloneliness解析 leave.alone表示“丢下不管”，是一个固定短语。答案 A13The escaped prisoner，_，looked up and stared in the direction where the noise came from.Aalarming BalarmedChaving alarmed Dto be alarmed解析 由语境可知，这里描述的是越狱的囚犯听到声音的样子，所以应该用alarmed，意思是“惊恐的”。答案 B14If
8、 asked，I _ his opinion of going abroad for further study.After all，it is a good chance to train himself.Adeclared for Bdeclared againstCagreed on Dprotected against解析 考查短语辨析。由下文的After all，it is a good chance to train himself可推知，“我”是赞成他出国留学的，故选择declare for，其意为“宣布赞成”。declare against表态反对，声称反对；protect a
9、gainst“使免受”。答案 A15At the bad news，she was so sad _ I had to stay here keeping her _.Athat；companion Bthen；companiesCthat；company Dand；accompany解析 考查结果状语从句及固定搭配。句意：听到这个不好的消息，她如此悲伤以至于我得留下来陪她。此句采用了“so.that”结构，that引导的是结果状语从句；keep pany为固定表达，意思是“陪伴某人”或“为某人作伴”。答案 C。阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A re
10、cent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is divided into two distinct (不同的) species. The discovery was made by researchers at York and Harvard Universities when they were examining the genetic relationship between the ancient woo
11、lly mammoth and mastodon to modern elephantsthe Asian elephant, African forest elephant, and African savanna elephant. Once they obtained DNA sequences (序列) from two fossils (化石), mammoths and mastodons, the team compared them with DNA from modern elephants. They found to their amazement that modern
12、 forest and savanna elephants are as distinct from each other as Asian elephants and mammoths. The scientists used detailed genetic analysis to prove that the African savanna elephant and the African forest elephant have been distinct species for several million years. The divergence of the two spec
13、ies took place around the time of the divergence of Asian elephants and woolly mammoths. This result amazed all the scientists. There has long been debate in the scientific community that the two might be separate species, but this is the most convincing scientific evidence so far that they are inde
14、ed different species. Previously, many naturalists believed that African savanna elephants and African forest elephants were two populations of the same species, despite the elephants significant size differences. The savanna elephant has an average shoulder height of 3. 5 metres while the forest el
15、ephant has an average shoulder height of 2. 5 metres. The savanna elephant weighs between six and seven tons, roughly double the weight of the forest elephant. But the fact that they look so different does not necessarily mean they are different species. However the proof lay in the analysis of the DNA. Alfred Roca, assistant professor in the Department of Anim
