2017届高三英语一轮单元检测：必修4 Unit1《 Women of achievement》_高考复习指南

2017届高三英语一轮单元检测：必修4 Unit1《 Women of achievement》

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　　__6__ station that’ll give you a chance__7__there were no radioannouncing

　　jobs in Dixon，my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage __8__ sports department.Since Dixon was __9__ I had played high school football，I __10__．The job __11__just right for me.But I wasn’t hired.

　　My disappointment __12__have shown.“Everything happens for the best，”Mom reminded me.Dad __13__ me the car to hunt the job.I tried WOC in Davenport.The program director，a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur，told me they had already hired a(n) __14__．__15__ boiled over.I asked aloud，“How can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station？”was waiting for the elevator __16__ I heard MacArthur calling，“__17__ was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football？”Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an __18__home，as I have many times since，I thought of my mother’s words.I often __19__ what direction my life might have taken if I__20__the job at Montgomery Ward.

　　【文章大意】　本文是记叙文。妈妈经常在我失意时告诉我“Everything happens for the best.”而我后来一系列找工作的经历很好地验证了妈妈的话。B．realize解析：选B。你会认识到要不是以前的失望现在的一切就不会发生。realize“认识到”符合语境。解析：选B。参见上题解析。if it wasn’t/weren’t for sb./sth.“要不是某人/某物”文中省略了it was。解析：选A。mother was right，故用as表示“如同”用于所说的话已为人所知或已经说过。解析：选C。我已决定试着在电台找个事儿做然后争取做体育节目的播音员。up to“能胜任”符合语境。解析：选D。我搭便车到了Chicago到各个电台推销自己但每次都被拒绝了。从下文语境可知我在Chicago被拒绝了。故选D项。turn down“拒绝”。6．A.small