课后限时自测（二）(对应学生用书第297页).语法填空阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。(2014黑龙江省哈师大附中高三第一次月考)Patient：Thank you for agreeing to see me on such short notice, doctor.Doctor：Anything for my favorite patient! Now, what seems to be 1._ matter?Patient：Its my vision.I cant see well at night, and 2._I wake up in the morning, it takes me a few minutes before I can see clearly.Doctor：OK.Im going to take a 3._(close) look.Just relax.How 4._has this been going on?Patient：A couple of weeks.I guess.wow, thats right!Doctor：Does 5._ hurt when I do that?Patient：Not exactly, its just really bright.Doctor：OK.Please, go on.Patient：Well, I 6._(walk) down to the basement in my house about three weeks ago when I slipped and bumped my head pretty hard on the steps.Doctor：Where exactly did you hit 7._ head?Patient：Right on the back.I heard a loud sound when I hit it, but there was no blood and everything seemed to be okay.Doctor：You didnt get it 8._(check) out then?Patient：My wife said I should, but nothing was wrong, so I thought, why bother? Well, a week passed and all of a sudden I started to have problems with my sight.I first noticed it when I was driving back home 9._ work.Its gotten worse over the past week or so.Doctor：Im glad you came to see me.Im going to order some tests, and I want to make an appointment for you to see a specialist tomorrow morning. 10._(hope), its nothing too serious.【答案】1.the2.when3.closer4.long5.it6.was walking7.your8.checked9.from/after10.Hopefully.阅读理解(2014石家庄二中高三暑假开学英语试卷)When you make a mistake, big or small, cherish it like its the most precious thing in the world.Because in some ways, it is.Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, get mad at ourselves.And thats only natural：most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, and we should try to avoid mistakes.Weve been scolded when we make mistakesat home, school and work.Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow.If you think about it that way, mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world：they make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.By trial and errortrying things, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakeswe have figured out how to make electric light, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to fly.Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler,_make speech possible, make works of genius possible.Think about how we learn：we dont just consume information about something and instantly know it or know how to do it.You dont just read about painting, or writing, or computer programming, or baking, or playing the piano, and know how to do them right away.Instead, you get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing, then you make mistakes and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until youve pretty much learned how to do something.Thats how we learn as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults.Mistakes are how we learn to do something newbecause if you succeed at something, its probably something you already knew how to do.You havent really grown much from that successat most its the last step on your journey, not the whole journey.Most of the journey was made up of mistakes, if its a good journey.So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes.They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.【语篇解读】本文主要是告诉我们错误的价值，错误可以让我们从中学到很多的东西，可以让我们成长，让我们进步。1Why do most of us feel bad about making mistakes?ABecause mistakes make us suffer a lot.BBecause its a natural part in our life.CBecause weve been taught so from a young age.DBecause mistakes have ruined many peoples careers.【解析】细节理解题。根据第三段中 And thats only natural：most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, and we should try to avoid mistakes.可知C项正确。【答案】C2According to the passage, what is the right attitude to mistakes?AWe should try to avoid making mistakes.BWe should owe great inventions mainly to mistakes.CWe should treat mistakes as good chances to learn.DWe should make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.【解析】推理判断题。根据第四段中mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world：they make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.说明错误是我们学习的好机会，我们要好好珍惜，故C项正确。【答案】C3The underlined word “toddler” in Paragraph 6 probably means _.Aa small child learning to walkBa kindergarten child learning to drawCa primary pupil learning to readDa school teenager learning to write【解析】词义猜测题。根据Mistakes make walki