【三维设计】（江苏专用）2016届高考英语一轮复习 Unit 3 Back to the past课时跟踪检测B卷（必修3）.docVIP

Back to the past　课时跟踪检测B卷 Ⅰ.完形填空 (2015·淮安考前信息卷)My brother and I were in Orlando Florida to witness our first Space Shuttle Launch.The Discovery was__1__to soar at 10：14 am on a blue sky September day. Id seen it__2__so many times on television，__3__now I was only minutes away from seeing it launch. And its the final demonstration of the__4__of success: Success Takes Off Like a Rocket. Witnessing the Take Off： Standing close to the Space Shuttle__5__home one unforgettable point — the Shuttle is the height of a 15-story building — it __6__4. 5 million pounds — and NASA is trying to lift it 200 miles off the ground. On TV the accomplishments look so much __7__， so much easier. Crowds of people are standing around with you to watch the Shuttle go. The countdown begins through the small __8__of hundreds of portable radios all tuned to the NASA station. It?s enough to get your heart beating __9__. When time is up, the side booster rockets are lit up and the eight explosive bolts __10__.The first things you see are large white __11__clouds exploding away. Through the steam, you see the fire power. Then the Space Shuttle begins to inch off the pad and climb its way __12__.Thousands upon millions of pounds of __13__can hardly lift the shuttle at all. But with ever increasing ease, the shuttle picks up and roars into the sky, headed into space attaining a __14__of over 17,000 mph. It is within the first two minutes to launch the Space Shuttle that the great success lesson is __15__.Fact: 85% of the shuttle?s fuel is consumed within the first 2 minutes just to get the 15-story super structure to its orbital __16__. And that?s exactly how success __17__： The first steps you take towards launching a successful career are the __18__and will require an enormous consumption of energy — a great big push. However，__19__you persist through the launch period, which can seem almost __20__for quite some time, everything gets easier and easier and your results get bigger and bigger. 1．A.a