2019年高考英语一轮精选练 Unit 1 Friendship试题 新人教版必修1.docVIP

PAGE PAGE PAGE 1 Unit 1 Friendship 李仕才 一、阅读理解。 (2018·湖北武汉调研测试) Elon Musk was born in South Africa, in 1971. A crazy fan of computers, by the age of twelve, Musk had written the code(代码) for his own video game, which he sold for a profit. He attended Queen’s University in Canada, and transferred(转到) to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned two bachelor’s degrees, economics and physics. He was admitted to Stanford University in California, intending to earn a PhD in energy physics. First Company—Zip2 Corporation In 1995, at the age of 24, Musk dropped out of Stanford University Online Banking In 1999, Elon Musk started X．com with $ 10 million dollars from the sale of Zip2. X. com was an online bank, and he was credited with inventing a method of securely transferring money using a receiver’s e-mail address. PayPal In 2000, X. com bought a company called Confinity, which had started an Internet money-transfer process called PayPal. Elon Musk dropped the online banking focus to concentrate on becoming a global payment transfer provider. In 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $ 1.5 billion. Space Exploration Technologies In 2002, Elon Musk started SpaceX. He is a long-standing member of the Mars Society, a non-profit organization that supports the exploration of Mars, and Musk is interested in building a greenhouse on Mars. SpaceX has been developing rocket technologies to enable Musk’s project. Tesla Motors In 2004, Elon Musk cofounded Tesla Motors, of which he is the only product architect. Tesla Motors builds electric vehicles. The company has built an electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster. SolarCity In 2006, Elon Musk cofounded SolarCity, a photovoltaic(光电的) products and services company with his cousin Lyndon Rive. 【解题导语】　本文是一篇记叙文，主要介绍了埃隆·马斯克的人生经历和伟大成就。 1．What was Elon Musk gifted in when he was young? A．Economics.　　　　　 B．Physics. C．Energy. D．Coding. D　解析：细节理解题。根据第一段的第二句可知，Musk是一位疯狂的电脑迷，十二岁时他就为自己的视频游戏写代码并获利了；据此可知，他小时候就有写代码的天赋，故D项正确。 2．Which of the followi