【创新设计】2015高考英语(湖南专用)大二轮总复习高考倒计时第7天精练一刻钟

Ⅰ.常考句型

【句型1】spare no effort to＋v.“不遗余力地”

仿写：我们应该不遗余力地美化我们的环境。

We should spare no effort to beautify our environment.

【句型2】bring home to＋人＋事“让……明白……事”

仿写：我们应该让人们明白努力的价值。

We should bring home to people the value of working hard.

【句型3】be closely related to...“与……息息相关”

仿写：做运动与健康息息相关。

Taking exercise is closely related to health.

Ⅱ.完形填空

Today，February twenty-ninth，is leap day(闰日)．This date only appears on the calendar once every four years.But why?

Everyone knows the Earth takes three hundred sixty-five days to travel around the sun.Well，that is not exactly correct.The Earth really takes three hundred sixty-five days，five hours，forty-eight minutes and forty-six seconds to complete its orbit around the sun.

The problem for people developing calendars was what to do with the extra five hours，forty-eight minutes and forty-six seconds.

People needed calendars to help them know when to plant crops and when to celebrate religious holidays.The ancient Greeks and Chinese had a solution.They produced calendars that included extra months every nineteen years.

The ancient Romans had a different solution.In the year forty-six，the Roman ruler Julius Caesar made a new calendar.The Julian calendar included an extra day every four years.But there was a problem.The Julian year was just over eleven minutes longer than the cycle of the seasons.In 1582，Pope Gregory the Thirteenth established a new calendar to keep a better recorder of the days.Pole Gregory was the religious

leader of most of Europe.He decided that years that could be divided by four would add a day.However，years that ended in two zeros and that could not be evenly divided by four hundred would not be leap years.For example，the years 1700,1800 and 1900 were not leap years.But the years 1600 and 2000 were leap years.

So leap years are years with three hundred sixty-six days，instead of the usual three hundred sixty-five.This extra day is added to the calendar on February twenty-ninth，sometimes known as leap day.People born on leap day may be called “leapings.”They usually celebrate their birthday on February twenty-eight or March first.

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5.People

6.extra months

7.Julius Caesar

8.every four years

9.by four

10.came into being/began to exist/was accepted

Ⅲ.阅读简答

It's strange that a man born on Labor Day has had to work so hard to succeed in life.Jacob seems like a normal person.He likes music，art and photography.His parents both got college degrees.He used to go to a beach house in Portland every summer.He

is a big fan of Mexican food.Reading these facts about him may lead to the opinion that he had a great childhood.However，behind all of these is a past that would be terrible for many kids growing up.

It started when he was only two years old.His parents divorced and then remarried.Going through elementary school and middle school，he was frightened a lot.This may have led to the worst thing that could have happened to a young man.

He developed deep depression.Doing the smart thing，he talked to his parents about his problem.His parents decided that this issue was very serious and Jacob was admitted to West Hills Hospital.He stayed there for two weeks and had his depression diagnosed.Serious insomnia caused the problem.

The solution was daily medication.The medication took care of Jacob's depression problem.However，it contained a substance with lithium(锂)．The side effect he suffered from lithium was that he got spoonfuls of sugar and ate it with anything else that was on his plate.This led to a weight gain of 25 pounds while he was on medication.So he decided he had to lose some weight and stop the medication.

Now he has lost a big part of the weight and he has managed to solve his problem he had in high school.Now he is a happy human being.

Many people would have had a very hard time coming back from depression.Many people probably would have given up their dreams.But Jacob is not like this.He took what was a mess of his life and turned it around to become a great man and a person with a very bright future.

1. When was Jacob possibly born according to the passage? (No more than 3 words)

答案On Labor Day.

2. Why did Jacob suffer from deep depression? (No more than 4 words)

答案Because of serious insomnia.

3. How did Jacob gain the weight of 25 pounds while on medication? (No more than

14 words)

答案By eating spoonfuls of sugar with anything else that was on his plate.

4. What can we know from Jacob's story? (No more than 10 words)

答案He had a hard time but never gave up.