2017届高考英语一轮复习课时训练：Unit 11 The Media_高考复习指南

2017届高考英语一轮复习课时训练：Unit 11 The Media

　　B. It interrupted the business of the hotel.

　　C. It involved Pullman turning ten jackscrews.

　　D. It separated the building from its foundation.

　　答案与解析　A　考查推理判断。根据第五段最后一句“Astonishingly, the Tremont Hotel stayed open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening”可推断出Tremont Hotel的移动工程进行得很顺利。

　　5．The passage is mainly about early Chicago's ________.

　　A. popular lifestyles and their influences

　　B. environmental disasters and their causes

　　C. engineering problems and their solutions

　　D. successful businessmen and their achievements

　　答案与解析　C　考查主旨大意。根据整篇文章可知，本文主要讲的是芝加哥早期(关于城市规划)的工程问题以及解决方案。

　　三、完形填空

　　(2016•河北唐山模拟)

　　Beginning to learn gymnastics even before she could barely walk, Svetlana had always dreamed to enter the Olympics scene some day.

　　However, her __1__ ended in the car on the winding road when a lorry appeared out of nowhere. The last thing she __2__ was a blinding flash of light. In hospital, when told she would never __3__again, she couldn't believe it. Three months later, she was __4__out of hospital on a wheelchair. Then a friend came to her house to visit her with an old children's storybook. A bookmark in it made her __5__ to page 117. The name of the __6__ was “The Day Clara Walked”. She was determined to return to stage whatever it might cost.