Unit5 Into the unknown——Understanding ideas
一、单句语法填空
1. You must grow these ______ (tropic)flowers in a glasshouse.
2. In the Pacific such storms are called _____(cyclone), but in the Atlantic are typically called hurricanes.
3. Acknowledge your successes along with your ______( downfall).
4. He _____(abandon)by his father when he was three months old.
5. If you don’t concentrate more on your work, you’ll _______(dismiss).
二、阅读理解
The ruins of a Maya city have been discovered in Guatemala with the help of the remote sensing technique LiDAR. This lost city envelops sites like Tikal, Holmul, and Witzna, but shows that these famous areas are a small part of this lost urban network.
Hidden under the jungles of the Maya Biosphere Reserve site, more than 60, 000 human-made features—homes, canals, highways, and more — have been identified in aerial images collected by some international researchers headed by the PAGUNAM Foundation, a Maya cultural and natural heritage organization. Those have experts rethinking the outlines and complexity of the Maya Empire.
These ancient peoples obviously created these imaginative cultures based on their known relics (遗迹), but the new research has suggested that the size of this lost society is far beyond what experts imagined. The findings will be explored in a one-hour documentary called Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings, to be broadcast on the National Geographic Channel.
This breakthrough was possible thanks to LiDAR sensors, which can survey lands in 3D by bouncing pulses off the ground from unmanned air vehicles and others. LiDAR is exceptionally useful for detecting archeological(考古的)sites, as it gets through jungles and other features that hold up exploration on the ground. The technique has made many discoveries become a reality in recent years. For instance, major finds at Angkor, Cambodia and Caracol, Belize can explain what it did. The final goal is to survey Guatemala’s lowlands with it.
“There are entire cities we didn’t know about now showing up in the survey data, ” Francisco Estrada-Belli, one of the lead archeologists on the project, said in Nat Geo’s coming documentary. “There are 20, 000 square kilometres more to be explored and there are going to be hundreds of cities about the mysterious people who built this urban network there that we don’t know about, and we will push back the frontiers with the technology, ” he added.
1. What does the underlined word “Those” in Paragraph 2 refer to
A. Jungles. B. Human-made features.
C. Researchers. D. Aerial images.
2. What does the author want to convey in Paragraph 4
A. The working principle of LiDAR sensors.
B. The process of researching Maya civilization.
C. Great importance of Guatemalans lowlands.
D. LiDAR’s contribution to discovering the relics.
3. Which words can best describe the lost Maya city
A. Small and hidden.
B. Famous and high-tech.
C. Vast and complex.
D. Fully-explored and imaginative.
4. What will the archeologists do next
A. Continue to explore the unknown.
B. Upgrade the LiDAR technology.
C. Study the documentary carefully.
D. Build a massive urban network.
三、阅读填句
Different Cultures
The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish themselves from each other a lot. 1 .
The origin of the Eastern culture is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are developed by rivers — the Yellow River in China and the Indus River in India. 2
When the two mother rivers gave birth to the Eastern culture, another famous culture was brought up on the Mesopotamian plain(美索不达米亚平原)—the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greek. 3 Like the Chinese culture, the European culture also crossed waters. When the British settled down in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn’t distinguish itself from the European culture a lot.
4 Take the language system for example. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic language while the Western languages are mostly based on the Latin system. Other causes like human race differences count as well. But what’s more, due to the far distance and the steep areas between the East and the West, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference(干预)from the other.
The differences are everywhere. 5 But different cultures make the world in the 21st century more varied. The cultural gap should not be the obstacle to the civilization of human beings. It ought to be the motivation for our going farther.
A. Let us work together to keep a variety of cultures.
B. One important thing is to learn about the other’s culture.
C. And these two are well-known as the base of the European culture.
D. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems on the whole.
E. They helped the two cultures develop for centuries and form their own styles.
F. They are obvious and affect people’s ways of thinking and their views of the world.
G. At the same time, some other differences add to the cultural differences.
四、语法填空
阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Do you want to learn a foreign language Choose one of the most1.________ (use) languages suggested below to learn.
In most countries all over the world, English is the most widely used second language.Whether a person is travelling to a foreign country or communicating 2.________ people from other 3.________ (country) for business purposes, English is one language which will come in handy at every step.
Spanish is the language of business in about twenty countries.There are many jobs in the United States as well as in many other countries, which specially ask for people 4.________ know how to speak and write Spanish.
The Chinese economy is booming! In the future,China 5.________ (become) the leader of the world economy, which makes 6.________ the perfect time to learn Mandarin,a language 7.________ (speak) by millions of people.
French 8.________ (recognize) as one of the top languages to learn, 9.________ (simple) because it is a chief language in northern and western Africa.Anyone trying to understand European history can benefit a lot from10.________ (learn) this language.
一、单句语法填空
1.tropical
2.cyclones
3.downfalls
4.was abandoned
5.be dismissed
二、阅读理解
1.B。词义猜测题。根据第二段“隐藏在玛雅生物圈保护区的丛林之下, 由帕格纳姆基金会(一个玛雅文化和自然遗产组织)领导的一些国际研究人员收集的航拍图像中发现了6万多处人类活动场所——房屋、运河、公路等。”可知, 代词those指的是人造景观, 包括房屋、运河、公路等, 故Those指Human-made features。故选B。
2.D。段落大意题。根据第四段“这一突破之所以成为可能, 是因为激光雷达传感器, 它可以通过无人机和其他设备发射的脉冲从地面反弹, 以3D方式测量地面……近年来, 这项技术的许多发现已成为现实。可知, 本段主要介绍了LiDAR技术在发现遗址方面起到的重大作用, 旨在突出这一技术的贡献和重要性。故选D。
3.C。推理判断题。根据第一段“这个失落的城市包围着像蒂卡尔、霍尔木尔和威茨纳这样的地方, 但也表明这些著名的地区只是这个失落的城市网格的一小部分”, 第三段“但新的研究表明, 这个失落的社会的规模远远超出了专家的想象”; 以及最后一段“还有2万平方千米的土地有待探索, 将会有数百个城市, 神秘人在那里建立了我们不知道的城市网络。”可判断, 玛雅城是广袤的; 根据第二段中Those have experts rethinking the outlines and complexity of the Maya Empire. 这些让专家们重新思考玛雅帝国的轮廓和复杂性。可判断出, 玛雅城是复杂的。因此, 玛雅城是广袤和复杂的。故选C。
4.A。推理判断题。根据最后一段“还有2万平方公里的土地有待探索, 将会有数百个城市; 神秘人在那里建立了我们不知道的城市网络, 我们将利用这一技术开拓新的领域。”由此判断出, 这些考古学家们将继续利用这一技术开拓新的领域, 探索未知的地方。故选A。
三、阅读填句
1. D。考查过渡句。上文说东西方文化真的有很大不同, D项说明了原因, 符合语境。故选D项。
2. E。考查承上启下句。根据“Both of the two cultures are developed by rivers—the Yellow River in China and the Indus River in India”可知, 中国的母亲河是黄河, 而印度的母亲河则是印度河。E项与上句为承接关系, 其中They指代的是黄河和印度河。故选E项。
3. C。考查承上启下句。C项中的these two与上文中提到的古罗马文化和古希腊文化相对应。故选C项。
4. G。考查主旨句。空处为本段段首句。空后内容讲述的是东西方文化采用了不同的语言体系。这是两种文化的又一不同之处。综合选项可知, G项符合语境, 引出下文。
5. F。考查承上启下句。根据上一句“The differences are everywhere”可知, 本句应进一步论述它们的影响。分析选项可知, F项符合语境。
四、语法填空
1.useful 考查形容词。句意:选择下面建议的最有用的语言之一来学习。该空修饰名词languages,应用形容词,故填useful。
2.with 考查介词。句意:无论一个人是去外国旅游,还是出于商业目的和其他国家的人交流,英语是迟早会派上用场的一门语言。communicate with sb.意为“与某人交流”,是固定搭配,故填with。
3.countries 考查名词复数。句意同上。country是可数名词,前面有other修饰,故用名词复数,所以填countries。
4.who/that 考查定语从句关系词。句意:美国和很多其他国家都有许多工作岗位,特别需要会说西班牙语和写西班牙语的人。本句为定语从句修饰先行词people,且关系词在从句中作主语,指人,应用关系代词who或that。故填who/that。
5.will become 考查动词时态。句意:在未来,中国将成为世界经济的引领者,这使其成为学习汉语普通话的最佳时机,汉语普通话是无数人使用的语言。根据时间状语In the future可判断出设空处指发生在将来的事情,用一般将来时,故填will become。
6.it 考查it作形式宾语。句意同上。make后面跟it作形式宾语,不定式to learn Mandarin是真正的宾语,故填it。
7.spoken 考查非谓语动词。句意同上。分析句子结构可知,speak在句中作非谓语动词,且a language与speak 之间是被动关系,所以设空处用过去分词作定语,故填spoken.
8.is recognized 考查动词时态、语态和主谓一致。句意:法语被认为是最好的语言之一,确实因为它是北非和西非的主要语言。分析时态可知,此处介绍的是一般事实,应用一般现在时,又因French和recognize之间是被动关系,故用一般现在时的被动语态,主语为French,谓语动词用第三人称单数形式,故填is recognized。
9.simply 考查副词。句意同上。该空修饰because 引导的整个句子,用副词,故填simply。
10.learning 考查非谓语动词。句意:任何试图了解欧洲历史的人都能从学习这种语言中受益良多。from是一个介词,后面接动词 ing 形式作宾语,故填learning。第1页(共3页)