单元限时训练(2) B卷 Unit 2 Out of This World（Word练习）-【优化指导】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第三册（译林版2020）

单元限时训练(二)　B卷 [对应学生用书P146] (限时40分钟) Ⅰ.语法填空 The Guardian View on Academic Publishing: Disastrous Capitalism Scientific publishing has long been a licence 1. (print) money.Scientists need journals in 2. to publish their research，so they will supply the articles without monetary reward.Other scientists perform 3. skilled and specialized work of peer review also for free，4. it is a central element in the 5. (acquire) of status and the production of scientific knowledge. With the content of papers 6. (secure) for free，the publisher needs only to find a market for its journal.7. this century，university libraries were not very price sensitive.Since academic careers depend on publication，the demand for scientific publications is unbounded except by the price that scholarly libraries can 8. (force) to pay.Scientific publishers 9. (routine) report profit margins approaching 40% on their operations，at a time when the rest of the publishing industry is in an 10. (exist) crisis. [语篇解读]　本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了学术出版的相关情况。 1．to print　[考查不定式。句意：科学出版一直是印钞的许可证。分析可知，此处应用不定式作名词licence的后置定语，a licence to print money“印钞的许可证”。故答案为to print。] 2．which　[考查定语从句的关系词。句意：科学家需要期刊来发表他们的研究，所以他们会无偿提供文章。此处考查定语从句，先行词为journals，此处为方式状语，应用in which来引导，故填which。] 3．the　[考查冠词。句意：其他科学家也免费从事有技术和专门的同行评审工作，因为这是获得地位和生产科学知识的核心因素。此处表示特指含义，需要用定冠词the，表示有技术和专门的同行评审工作，故填the。] 4．because　[考查连接词。句意：其他科学家也免费从事有技术和专门的同行评审工作，因为这是获得地位和生产科学知识的核心因素。根据语境，可知“it is a central element in the 5 of status and the production of scientific knowledge”是前一句“Other scientists perform 3 skilled and specialized work of peer review also for free”的原因，此处要用because连接，表示原因，故填because。] 5．acquisition　[考查名词。句意同上。根据the以及of可知填空处的词性为名词，而动词acquire的名词为acquisition，表示获得地位和生产科学知识的核心因素，且acquisition是不可数名词，故答案为acquisition。] 6．secured　[考查过去分词。句意：由于论文的内容是免费的，出版商只需为自己的期刊找到一个市场。在with伴随状语中，“the content of papers”与动词“secure”之间是被动关系，即论文的内容被免费获得，因此这里要用动词secure的过去分词secured，故填secured。] 7．Until　[