2017-2018学年高中英语 Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained单元加餐练（一-二） 牛津译林版必修2.docVIP

单元加餐练（一~二） 完形阅读组合练 加餐练(一)　完形阅读组合练 Ⅰ.完形填空 Mickey Mouse recently celebrated his 85th birthday. Now its time for another mouse to party. The computer mouse will __1__ its 45th birthday this week. It was the __2__ of Douglas Engelbart and his team at the Stanford Research Institute in California. They needed a simple way of __3__ their computers. The result was a wooden block with __4__. There was a long cable trailing __5__ the back. One researcher nicknamed it a mouse, and the name __6__. “We thought that when it __7__ out to the world it would have a(n) __8__ name，” said Engelbart. “But it didnt.” The mouse first __9__ at a presentation (演讲) in San Francisco in 1968. Before the invention of the mouse, people __10__ on computers used a special pen to __11__ around on screen. The research team at the Institute __12__ through a few different designs before finally __13__ on the mouse. “We set up our experiments and the mouse __14__ in every category, even though it had never been used __15__，” said Engelbart. “It was faster and with it people made __16__ mistakes. Five or six of us were __17__ these tests, but no one can remember who started calling it a(n) __18__.” The mouse was developed by Xerox during the 1970s. In the 1980s, Apple got the __19__ for the mouse for $40,000 from the Stanford Institute. That was when the technology really __20__ off. The mouse became a part of most computers for the next two decades. 语篇解读：本文叙述了鼠标的诞生故事。前不久，米老鼠庆祝了它的85岁生日，现在轮到另一只“老鼠”来庆祝了。本周，电脑鼠标将庆祝它45岁的生日。鼠标的首次出现是在一次演讲中，名字的由来也非常具有偶然性。 1．A.celebrate　　　　　　　 B．congratulate C．honor D．use 解析：选A　根据文章第一段的内容可知，此处应该是庆贺鼠标45岁生日。celebrate意为“庆祝，祝贺”，宾语常为生日、胜利等物质名词，符合语境。congratulate意为“祝贺”，宾语常为人；honor意为“向某人/某事物致敬；表扬某人”；use意为“使用”。 2．A.finder B．creature C．creation D．discovery 解析：选C　这是道格拉斯·恩格尔巴特和他的团队发明的。表示“发明创造物”应该用creation。finder意为“发现者；探测器”；creature意为“生物；(尤指)动物”；discovery意为“发现”。故选C。 3．A.controlling B．using C．creating D．working 解析：选A　根据常识可知，鼠标是用来操控电脑的。此处指他们需要一个简单的方法来操控电脑。control意为“控制，操作”，符合语境。use意为“使