2016届高三一轮英语大一轮复习题库：选修8 Unit 22 Environmental Protection.docVIP

　Unit 22　Environmental Protection Ⅰ.完形填空 When I was 6 years old, my parents got me a used__1__for Christmas. A year or so later, I badly wanted a Sting-Ray，a tricked-out bike that was__2__ in the 1960s. So my father took my old bike, slapped a new coat of paint on it, and__3__it with a banana seat, monkey handlebars and a sissy bar(保护杠)．__4__didnt matter to me that some friends had new Sting-Rays straight from the Schwinn factory. Or even that my dad put the sissy bar on backward，__5__exposed me to some teasing(嘲笑) before we__6__it. I loved that bike. So it was for my__7__. We werent poor. But we always had modest Christmases. And I__8__ to do the same when I got married 27 years ago. My wife, Clarissa, had different__9__. She, too, had some__10__Christmases growing up. She vividly remembers when she was 14 or 15 years old and her father lost his__11__in the construction industry. She overheard her__12__talking about how__13__they were. So when her parents asked her what she wanted that year, she said, “Nothing.” When her mother insisted she had to get__14__，Clarissa asked for socks. “I felt very good about myself afterward，” she recalls. But as her familys finances__15__， Christmas went back to being a__16__bigger production. By the time I arrived on the scene, the__17__family—more than 20 people—would gather at her grandmothers house in Mexicali, Mexico, on Christmas Eve. Around 10 p．m., Santa(my future brother-in-law in a costume) showed up with an enormous bag of__18__and stepped into a roomful of children crying with__19__. “It was all about the children，” says Clarissa, who thought the experience was__20__. And she has spent hundreds of dollars on presents every year to duplicate(重温)it. 【语篇解读】 本文记叙的是作者自己过圣诞节的不同经历，表达了对过去生活的怀念和对未来生活的憧憬。 1．A.car B．bike C．book D．coat 答案　B　[从下文可知应是自行车。] 2．A.popular B．ordinary C．common D．regular 答案　A　[作者非常渴望得到，所以应该是很时髦的车型。ordinary“普通的”，common“常见的”，regular“常规的”，均不符合语境。popular“时髦的”，符合语境。] 3．A.added B．equipped C．placed D