【三维设计】（江苏专用）2016届高考英语一轮复习 Unit 2 The universal language课时跟踪检测B卷（选修8）.doc

The universal language　课时跟踪检测B卷 Ⅰ.完形填空 (2015·宿迁市第二次质量检测)I have been through every one of the 17 toll booths (收费亭)on the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge on thousands of occasions.Usually I hand over some __1__ ；I might get change；I drive off.I never had an exchange with anybody worth __2__. One morning I headed for lunch with a friend and I __3__toward one of the booths.I heard loud __4__.It sounded like a party.I looked around.No other cars with their windows __5__.I looked at the toll booth.Inside it, the man was __6__. “What are you doing？”I asked.“I’m having a party，” he said.“What about the other __7__？”I looked over at other __8__；nothing moving there.“Theyre not __9__.”I had a dozen other questions for him，__10__somebody in a big __11__ to get somewhere started pushing his horn (喇叭) behind me and I __12__.But I made a note to myself：Find this guy again.There is something in his eyes that says theres magic in his toll booth. Months later I did meet him again, __13__with the loud music.Again I asked, “What are you doing？”“Dancing.Im going to be a dancer someday.”he said, “What do those look like to you？”He pointed down the row of toll booths.“They look like toll booths.”I said.“No __14__！”he laughed，“I think they are vertical coffins (竖起的棺材)．At 8：30 every morning，__15__people get in.Then they are __16__for eight hours.At 4：30, coming to life, they reemerge (重新出现) and go home.For eight hours, brain is on hold, dead on the job. Sixteen people dead on the job, and I am the seventeenth, in precisely the __17__situation, but I figure out a way to __18__.” He and I did have lunch later, and he said, “I don?t understand why everybody would think my job is __19__.I have a corner office, glass on all sides.I can see the Golden Gate, San Francisco, the Berkeley hills; half the Western world vacations are here and I just come every day and __20__dancing.” 1．A.permission　　　　　　 　B．gifts C．money D．tickets 2．A.remembering B．discussing C．talking D．arguing 3．A.walked