【学海导航】高考英语一轮复习 Unit2 Getting a job同步训练（含解析）牛津译林版选修11.docVIP

M11 Unit 2　Getting a job Ⅰ.单项填空(5 min.)1. A polite gesture can ______ other job applicants when you are interviewed. A. give the edge over B. take the edge off C. hold the edge in D. be at the cutting edge of 2. My brother is an actor. He ______ in several films so far. A. appears B. appeared C. has appeared D. is appearing 3. Wearing a pair of shorts and a vest is definitely not ______ when youre going for an interview! A. respectable B. changeable C. admirable D. acceptable 4. ______ is now widely accepted that a gap year is more than just a year away from studying. A. It B. As C. That D. What 5. Im telephoning ______ your advertisement in 21st Century for an English editor. A. in reply to B. in response to C. respond to D. in reply for 6. Every time he had the chance, he would talk about the great difficulty he had ______ in the new country. A. settled B. settling C. to settle D. settle 7. The world ______ never needed mutual understanding, mutual toleration and mutual cooperation as much as it ______ today. A. have; is B. had; has C. had; will D. has; does 8. As is known to us all, ______， the situation will get worse. A. not if dealt carefully with B. if not dealt carefully with C. if dealt not carefully with D. not if carefully dealt with 9. — Does Jim do his new job well? — ______ his old job. How stupid! I fear theres no hope for him. A. No better than B. Not better than C. Not so well as D. No as well as 10. ______， I have to focus my attention on study this week. A. However playing is amusing B. No matter amusing playing is C. However amusing playing is D. No matter how playing is amusing Ⅱ. 阅读理解(8 min.)The man who invented Coca-Cola was not a native Atlanta, but on the day of his funeral every drugstore in town shut up the shop in honor of him. He was John Styth Pemberton, born in 1833 in Knoxville, Georgia, eighty miles away. Pemberton was a chemist, sometimes known as doctor, who, during the Civil W