（优化版）2017年高考英语一轮复习 Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note（测）（含解析）新人教版必修3.docVIP

Unit 3　The Million Pound Bank Note 单元检测卷（时间50分钟；满分100分） 班级_________________姓名_____________考号_________________得分_______________________ I 语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分45分) 第一节 完形填空 (共小题；每小题分，满分30分) 【】阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑After a decade at the publishing company, I was fired. I had worked so hard for so long. I was always doing my job 1 , clawing my way up the ladder. And 2 ? Doing these things had 3 me in the end, very little of lasting value. I wondered what would happen if I let it all go—didn’t look for a job, didn’t keep my 4 ambition. My husband thought it was a great idea. “Just 5 .” he said. As a serious windsurfer, he suggested I try the sport as a path to clarity. I had windsurfed before , but only in 6 water. I didn’t like high winds. I didn’t like going fast—that was 7 . But I wanted to abandon the past. My 8 was to do nothing but read and windsurf every day. I wanted to feel the fear and do it anyway. I wanted to learn how to ride the currents, and I couldn’t think of a better way than to 4 myself to the invisible, ever-shifting wind. I decided to sail at Swell City, a favorite outpost on the Washington side of the Columbia. That July 10 to be one of the windiest months on record. I grew to find that what I was doing did 11 for my standing in the world. It won me no friends．Then againI was 12 . One day, a friend and her l5-year-old son came, and after I explained my 13 , he said the simplest but most profound thing: “It’s all in the 14 . ” This kid had windsurfed only three times , 15 he knew the secret. “If you go out there knowing you’re going to 16 it, you will, ”he continued. “But if you go out there afraid you’ll get hurt , you will. ” I smiled at him. Wasn’t that 17 the same problem I’d encountered in life? I’d always been terrified l wouldn’t reach the goal or 18 the job. I knew I had to let that fear go. And slowly I did. The wind wanted nothi