高中英语新教材人教第二册Test of Unit 3
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分35分)
第一节(共10小题;每小题2.5分,满分25分)
A
When I was about twelve, I headed to a restaurant for dinner with my family. It was a windy winter night. As my mom and I headed towards the restaurant from our car, a girl about my age and her mother came up to us. They asked if we had any spare dollars. My mom immediately asked where they kept their things. They pointed to an old car in the parking across the street. The girl said there were six of them living in that car, the same size as my own family.
My mom said she had something to do after handing the people a few dollars. She sent me inside the restaurant with my dad and my three siblings (兄弟姐妹).But she didn't come.
Later, I found out she had gone home and emptied our cupboards into a few bags. Then, she brought that food over to the car and handed the bags to the family. I wasn't there when that part happened, but I can imagine the joy it brought to their faces.
A few days later, when I actually found out about what she had done, I asked her why she helped those people. She told me that they were not lucky. I remember the face of that girl who had asked us for dollars; she was the same age as me, yet our lives were so different.
Here I stood, dressed in almost new clothes, headed to a restaurant and then back home to the bedroom I shared with my younger sister. I remember thinking that the girl didn't have any food to eat and that she was heading back to a cold car shared with five other people.
After painting this picture in my mind, I understood my mom. I will never forget what she did that night. And that night I also learned one of the best lessons she taught.
21.We learn from the passage that the girl about the writer's age ________.
A.lived a hard life B.had her own bedroom
C.received a good education D.made friends with the writer
22.Which of the following is the right order of the story
a.My mom gave the girl a few dollars.
b.My family was on the way to a restaurant.
c.My mom went home and brought some food.
d.We met with a girl and her mother asking for dollars.
A.b d a c B.b a c d C.d a c b D.d c b a
23.Which of the following words can best describe the writer's mother
A.Patient. B.Strict. C.Proud. D.Kind.
24.It can be inferred from the passage that the writer will ________.
A.visit the girl in the near future
B.learn from her mother
C.save as much money as possible
D.deal with the world's food problem
B
The unusual whistle language used as a means of communication by villagers in the remote and mountainous northern Turkey has been added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The language is a highly developed high-pitch system of whistling to communicate in rugged(崎岖的)areas where people mostly cannot see each other. It can allow people to communicate across great distances, up to 5 pared with other similar whistle languages in Spain’s Canary Islands, in Mexico, or in Greek villages, it has a higher tone and larger vocabulary.
This unusual form of communication, which dates some 500 years ago, to the Ottoman Empire, was born from sheer necessity and widespread across the Black Sea regions.
But 50 years ago, it suffered the impact of the progression of technology and nowadays the rapid growth of cellular mobile systems has put this cultural heritage under serious threat.
For centuries, the language has been passed on from grandparent to parent, from parent to child. Now, though, many of its most skilful speakers who use their tongue, teeth and fingers are aging all becoming physically weak. Young people are no longer interested in learning the language or in finding ways to update its vocabulary with new words, and in a few generations it may be gone for good.
“Our bird language is very convenient and efficient to communicate across the valleys. It has many benefits over yelling, which is bad for our throats.” said Avni Kocek, head of the bird village adding that despite setbacks because of technology, “Bird language is still used by many of us. Whistle language is transmitted from our elders to us and we have the duty to transmit it to our children. We are making efforts to keep our culture alive through the annual Bird Language Festival.”
Besides, the bird language has been required to be taught at primary schools since 2014 by district authorities in order to instil(逐步实施)the practice in younger generations.
25.What is the bird language’s advantage over other similar whistle languages
A.It is used as a means of communication.
B.It is older and has a larger number of users.
C.It can send more messages to farther places.
D.It is a completely different system of whistling.
26.What’s the biggest threat to the bird language
A.Other whistle languages are more effectively protected.
B.The need to use it in everyday life is disappearing.
C.Many of its most skilful speakers are growing old.
D.Young people find it too difficult to learn well enough.
27.Which of the following can be the best title for the text
A.Preserving the Endangered Bird language
B.The Story of a Bird Language Speaker
C.Celebrating the Bird Language Festival
D.The Disappearance of Bird Language
C
An estimated 5.7 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer's disease-the most common type of dementia(痴呆)-and that number is expected to more than double by 2050. Early diagnosis is crucial for patients to benefit from the few therapies available. But no scans can deliver a conclusive diagnosis while a person is alive; instead doctors have to conduct numerous and complicated clinical and neuropsychological tests. So there is growing interest in developing artificial intelligence to identify Alzheimer's based on brain imaging.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have now successfully trained an AI algorithm(算法) to recognize one of the early signs of Alzheimer's-a reduction in the brain's glucose(葡萄糖)consumption-in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging.
The algorithm accurately predicted an eventual Alzheimer's diagnosis in nearly all the test cases, according to the study. In PET imaging, a very small amount of a radioactive compound are injected into the body, producing three-dimensional images of metabolism(新陈代谢)。circulation and other cellular activities. PET is well suited for an AI diagnostic tool because Alzheimer's leads to subtle changes in the brain's metabolism that begin years before neural(神经的) tissue starts to go downhill, says study co-author Jae Ho Sohn, a radiologist at UCSF. These changes are "very hard for radiologists to pick up," he notes.
The algorithm was trained and tested on 2,100 PET brain images from about 1,000 people 55 years and older. The images came from a 12-year study that tracked people who would ultimately be diagnosed with Alzheimer's, as well as those with mild memory declines and healthy control participants. The algorithm was trained on 90 percent of the data and tested on the remaining 10 percent. It was then retested on a second, independent data set from 40 patients monitored for 10 years. The algorithm was highly sensitive and was able to recognize 81 percent of the patients in the first test group and 100 percent in the second who would be diagnosed with Alzheimer's six years later, on average. The findings were published in February in Radiology.
The algorithm is based on "deep learning ,a machine-learning technique that uses artificial neural networks programmed to learn from examples. "This is one of the first promising, preliminary(初步的) applications of deep learning to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's," says Christian Salvatore, a physicist at Italy's National Research Council, who was not involved in the study. “The model performs very well when identifying patients with mild or late diagnoses", he says, “but catching it in the earliest stages remains one of the most critical open issues in this field."
28·People are increasingly interested in using AI to identify Alzheimer's because
A. the number of people suffering from dementia is more than doubling
B. diagnostic methods that are both reliable and convenient are in need
C. there are only a limited number of effective therapies for the patients
D. diagnosing Alzheimer's disease through AI is still an unexplored area
29. What can we learn about PET imaging
A. It recognizes the worsening of the neural tissue.
B. It reduces the glucose consumption in the brain.
C. It changes the pattern of the brain's metabolism.
D. It photographs various kinds of cellular activities.
30. What can be inferred from Paragraph 5
A. The algorithm serves as a promising treatment of Alzheimer's.
B. Deep learning has been widely applied in diagnosing Alzheimer's.
C. To detect Alzheimer's in its earliest stages calls for more exploration.
D. Whether to use the model to detect Alzheimer's remains a critical issue.
第二节 七选五(共5题,每题2分,共10分)
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
No matter how much we try to be smart, life has its own ways of teaching us the valuable lessons. __31__ Here are some of the life lessons that all of us learn the hard way:
Lying is harmful. Everyone, at some point in life, must have certainly realized that lying is a very dangerous thing for the mind, which finally affects our health too. __32__ And also he would lose the trust of others.
Sometimes, moving on is the only choice. __33__ But sometimes, circumstances and situations align (排整齐) in such a way that it is better to leave something and move ahead. At times, it is better to move on with the memories, rather than stay there and live in a blank space with no possible future.
__34__ It is rightly said that to err is human. We all are humans and nobody knows everything. So it is fine to accept the things that went wrong, and try to avoid repeating them or doing wrong intentionally.
Happiness is the key to everything. __35__ Things cannot bring happiness, but happiness can bring many things in life. And the most important person who should be happy with you is yourself. If you do not feel cheerful from the inside, you certainly cannot make others happy.
A.It is natural to make mistakes.
B.Sales are not always profitable.
C.It makes a man lose confidence and trust in himself.
D.Nothing in the world would make sense if you are depressed.
E.It is always good to be considerate about one's views about things.
F.Though at first we are hurt, we eventually learn from the experiences.
G.Some things are dear to us, and we cannot imagine life without them.
第三部分 语言运用
第一节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
My father never kept anything for emotional purpose ---except once. I was the only one in my family who cared about baseball and I always ____1_____watching my heroes at Yankee Stadium. One winter, I wrote down a ____2_____ of the summer dates and dreamed every night. To my surprise, one evening I saw my father ____3_____it before going out to work.
The following Sunday, he told me, “Let’s put away some money into a____4_____ each week, and maybe we can go to Yankee Stadium this summer.” I ____5_____ washed out a jar and____6_____ a label: YANKEE STADIUM FUND, 1960. Each of us ____7_____ to the jar weekly. ____8_____, we still hadn’t gone to a game because my father had had to work every Saturday. So one day, I ____9_____ him of the remaining time, and then he ____10_____ me, “Don’t worry and we’ll have a ____11_____ Saturday.”
On the morning of the last game, I sat waiting hopelessly with no ____12_____ of my father who had been to work suddenly appeared and yelled, “I got two ____13_____!”
I could hardly ____14_____ when we finally sat together, father and son, ____15_____ my New York Yankees. I sat cheering, but for my father, all I could see is a face____16_____tiredness from working all week.
In 1963, my father died suddenly while working. In his bedroom, I noticed a ____17_____ ticket in his yellowed book, which ____18_____, October 1, 1960, General Admission. My father, who ____19_____nothing for emotional reasons, had decided to keep this, a(an) ____20_____ of our afternoon together.
1. A. dreamed of B. worried about C. tried out D. lived on
2. A. schedule B. note C. letter D. novel
3. A. exploring B. checking C. tearing D. examining
4. A. bottle B. jar C. bowl D. cup
5. A. slowly B. patiently C. immediately D. unwillingly
6. A. attached B. identified C. created D. bought
7. A. referred B. contributed C. donated D. attended
8. A. However B. Moreover C. Therefore D. Furthermore
9. A. accused B. informed C. inquired D. warned
10.A. rescued B. scolded C. comforted D. encouraged
11. A. grey B. terrible C. boring D. free
12. A. signal B. sign C. reply D. company
13. A. balls B. coins C. tickets D. flags
14. A. breathe B. imagine C. stand D. jump
15. A. greeting B. watching C. hearing D. playing
16. A. lined with B. decorated with C. equipped with D. coupled with
17. A. pretty B. plain C. used D. faded
18. A. spoke B. wrote C. read D. mentioned
19. A. created B. abandoned C. produced D. saved
20.A. impression B. gift C. present D. memory
第二节:语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15 分)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或者括号内单词的正确形式。
One's attitude towards life 56.______(have) a great impact on his or her life quality. Therefore, if you want to live a better life, a positive attitude is 57.______must. It is the single biggest thing 58._____can make a difference in many aspects. It brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worries and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it would bring constructive 59._______(change) into your life, and make you happier, brighter and more successful. With a positive attitude you see the bright side of life,become optimistic, and expect the best 60.______(happen). It is 61.________(certain) a state of mind that is well worth developing. A positive mind can help you in many ways. It leads to 62.________(happy) and success and can change your whole life. If you look at the bright side of life, your whole life becomes 63._______(fill) with light. This light affects not only you and the way you look at the world, 64._________affects your environment and the people around you. So, always keep this 65. __________mind:Life is very much like a mirror, if you smile upon it, it smiles back upon to you, if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a similar look in return.
第三部分:应用文写作(20分)
假定你是李华,你校将举办外国学生中文演讲比赛,请给你的英国朋友 George写封邮件邀请他参加内容包括:1.比赛时间;2.演讲话题;3.报名方式。注意:1.词数80左右;2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯
Yours love,Li Hua
Answer Sheet
语法填空(共10题,每题1.5分,共15分)
56. 57.
58. 59.
60. 61.
62. 63.
64. 65.
阅读理解(共10题,每题2.5分,共25分)
A:______________________ B: ______________________
C:______________________
七选五(共5小题,每题2分,共10分):______________________
完形填空(共20题,每题1.5分,共30分)
36-40:________________________ 41-45:______________________
46-50:______________________ 51-55:_____________________
应用文写作(20分)
参考答案
阅读理解
A:_____AADB___ B: _____CBA______
C:____BDC________
七选五:___ FCGAD
完形填空
1. 选A。 此空是依据上下文复现,下文中出现dreamed,所以此空应该是dreamed of.
2. 选A。 因为后面说summer dates,所以可以得知是一个语义场的词,schedule,行程表。
3. 选D。 其它三个动词意思上都不对,这里用examining, 表示look over carefully ,体现出父亲对于我这个梦想很上心,从而映射出父亲对儿子的爱。
4. 选B。 这一题利用原词复现,发现下文有提到,所以是选jar。
5. 选C。 immediately这个副词体现出儿子的兴奋之情,迫不及待。
6. 选A。 attach a label贴上标签。
7. 选B。 四个选项都可以和to搭配,但是意思不同contribute to贡献。考察词组搭配。
8. 选A。However,表示转折,依据上下文逻辑关系选。
9. 选B。inform sb of sth. 告知某人某事,其它几个语义不符合。
10. 选C。通过上下文语境可以得出,后面父亲说“don’t worry”,所以应该是comforted 安慰。
11. 选D。 利用上下文语境,上文都在说父亲周六都要上班,所以这里应该利用对立统一关系得出 “free.
12. 选C。上文说I sat waiting hopelessly,所以可以得知并没有父亲的迹象,所以这里选sign
13. 选tickets。利用原词复现
14. 选A。 I could hardly breathe表现出作者亲眼看球赛的激动之情。
15. 选B。 watching,上下文原词复现
16. 选A。考察语义,line with布满了疲惫,刻画出父亲的形象与其对儿子的爱。
17. 选D。 根据语义场,faded和下文的yellowish都表现出时间过了很久。物品褪色,情感愈深。
18. 选C。这个时候通常都用read这个词,表示“写着”。
19. 选D。 近义词,save和下文的keep是近义词
20. 选D。 最后一句深化主题,通过一个memory表现出父亲对儿子深深的爱。
语法填空:
56.has 57.a 58.that 59.changes 60.to happen 61.certainly 62.happiness 63.filled 64.but 65.in
应用文写作:
Dear George,
Learning that you're very interested in the Chinese language, I'm writing to invite you to participate in the Chinese Speech Contest for foreign students.
The contest, which is scheduled to be held in our school hall on January 18th,will focus on the traditional Chinese culture. There is no doubt that you are qualified enough and experienced in presenting your ideas because of your abundant skills. If you are available and have the eagerness, please sign up for it by email.
I am looking forward to your involvement and do wish you a success.
Yours
Li Hua
Score: ______________
Class: ______________
Name: ___________________