《2025年红对勾高考一轮复习金卷英语》

Test 4（2024·江西重点中学二模）
Alexander Graham Bell hated spending summertime in Washington, DC. He usually 1 to his farm in Nova Scotia, but one year he had to stay in the capital.
“Why humans have 2 how to warm a house but not how to cool one—until now,” he wondered, and in 1872, he 3 a cold - air - producing device and brought the temperature in his room down to 21℃.
When 69 - year - old Bell told that 4 in a speech to the 1917 graduating class of McKinley Manual Training School, the students went 5 . The clapping lasted so long that he was 6 to say something more surprising.
“Could postage stamps be used in 7 of persons?” asked Bell, who had thought of 8 a low price for public transport, but the cost of building additional roads was too high. “Perhaps, the flying machine will be the 9 .”
In the speech, Bell also 10 on a century of progress and looked ahead with remarkable foresight. In the reflection, he was amazed by the 11 made in the past century: Gas lighting had evolved into electric bulbs and automobiles 12 horse - drawn vehicles. He then went on to 13 the commercial airplane, solar panels, and the 14 for renewable resources.
Gilbert Grosvenor, the editor of National Geographic magazine, asked for the 15 and published a revised version in the February issue. Now, more than one hundred years later, Bell’s predictions still remain prescient (预见性的).
1. A. wandered
B. escaped
C. flew
D. applied
2. A. agreed on
B. insisted on
C. figured out
D. ruled out
3. A. designed
B. bought
C. saw
D. borrowed
4. A. accident
B. loss
C. problem
D. story
5. A. wild
B. hungry
C. disappointed
D. silent
6. A. allowed
B. forced
C. paid
D. chosen
7. A. favor
B. memory
C. transportation
D. case
8. A. cutting
B. raising
C. avoiding
D. charging
9. A. pollution
B. solution
C. discovery
D. issue
10. A. relied
B. switched
C. reflected
D. called
11. A. profits
B. advances
C. materials
D. failures
★12. A. replaced
B. destroyed
C. attacked
D. missed
13. A. sell
B. rent
C. invent
D. predict
★14. A. deadline
B. competition
C. need
D. balance
15. A. text
B. book
C. contract
D. interview

答案： 1.B 2.C 3.A 4.D 5.A 6.B 7.C 8.D 9.B 10.C
11.B 12.A 13.D 14.C 15.A