高中英语人教版（2019）必修第二册Unit 4 History and traditions-Reading and Thinking同步检测练（含答案和解析）

Unit 4 History and Traditions——Reading and Thinking
一、单句语法填空
1. Last week, I attended the opening ceremony ____(design)for Senior Three students in our school.
2. When I came in, I found some judges ______(seat) in the front.
3. A farewell meeting ________(organize) by our school union will be held in the school hall.
4. With many brightly colored flowers ________(plant) around it, her house looks like a beautiful garden.
5. Our school will organize an activity _______(call) “Read Classics and Learn Chinese”.
二、完形填空
It was Tom’s first visit to England, and he was looking forward to his first journey on London’s Underground Railway. And against his friends’　1　, he was determined to travel alone. He entered the station shortly after five o’clock in the afternoon. This is a 　2　time to travel in London, 　3　 crowds of people go home from work at this hour. He 　4　 to join a long line of people waiting for tickets. When at last his 　5　 came, he had some difficulty in making himself understood by the ticket seller. However, he got the right ticket in the end and by asking people the 　6　, he also found the right platform. It was 　7　with people. He did not 　8　 to get on the first train, but he was able to move nearer to the platform so as to be in a better position to get on the next one. When this train came in, Tom was 　9　forward onto the train by the 　10　 of people from behind. The doors closed and the train moved off. He was unable to see the 　11　 of the stations where the train stopped, but he knew that the station he wanted was the sixth 　12　 along the line. When the train reached the sixth station, Tom got off, feeling 　13　that his journey had been so easy. But he suddenly realized that he had come to a station he had never 　14　of. He explained his 　15　to a man who was standing on the platform. With a smile on his face, he told Tom that he had caught a train going in the opposite direction.
1. A. thought　　 B. advice　　 C. relation　 　D. favor
2. A. short B. certain C. possible D. bad
3. A. for B. and C. so D. but
4. A. planned B. had C. happened D. hoped
5. A. luck B. time C. chance D. turn
6. A. question B. way C. place D. condition
7. A. packed B. caught C. covered D. seized
8. A. manage B. try C. agree D. expect
9. A. fought B. swept C. drawn D. brought
10. A. speed B. support C. strike D. push
11. A. signs B. points C. names D. numbers
12. A. part B. pause C. stop D. arrived
13. A. glad B. sick C. sorry D. tired
14. A. heard B. talked C. thought D. missed
15. A. result B. mistake C. difficulty D. ticket
三、阅读理解
Lajamanu is a dry town in Australia. Can you imagine how surprised people were when live fish rained down from a dark gray cloud It happens that there are similar cases in England and Honduras.
How do clouds make fish The simple answer is that they don’t. There is a particular weather phenomenon called a waterspout. A waterspout is just like a tornado, which only forms above oceans, lakes, or rivers. Like a tornado, a waterspout moves in a circle at high speeds. When it moves above the water, it tends to carry the fish with it, as well as frogs or other small plants or animals.
Scientists couldn’t work it out at first. To make matters stranger still, the fish in Honduras were very much alive when they rained down to the ground, but they were all blind. In England and Australia, it rained fish and snakes, and none were blind. It was difficult to puzzle out, but the blind fish gave them a place to start.
Scientists knew that some fish that lived in deep, underground caves with no light sources often lost their eyesight. So when blind fish rained down on Honduras, scientists began to connect some dots. Clearly, these particular fish were pulled from an underground water source by force.
Historically, villagers thought the “fishes from the heavens” might be answers to prayers for food. But in 1990, a group of scientists in England happened to record what was happening when it rained fish from the sky and finally proved the fact of rains of fish. This huge breakthrough changed legends into true stories and provided scientific explanations for how fish came to live in deep caves.
1. According to the passage, a waterspout _______.
A. can make animals blind
B. is difficult to catch on film
C. can carry items with it
D. is a dangerous sea creature
2. The blind fish made the scientists start to think that _______.
A. raining fish was a warning of natural disasters
B. animals changed to match their environments
C. the weather system differed from place to place
D. the waterspout theory seemed more possible
3. The author writes the passage to _______.
A. tell us it may rain fish sometimes
B. explain what caused the fishy weather
C. persuade people to protect the environment
D. encourage people to do scientific research
答案和解析
一、单句语法填空
1.designed
2.seated
3.organized
4.planted
5.called
二、完形填空
1.B。against one’s advice 没有听取某人的建议, 根据上下文, 他没有听从朋友的建议, 跟他们一起出门。
2.D。根据下文“crowds of people go home from work at this hour”, 这个时间正是人们下班回家的高峰, 因此不是旅游的好时间。
3.A。本分句解释上一分句的原因。for因为。
4.B。have to do不得不做……。
5.D。根据上下文, 轮到他买票了。
6.B。通过问路, 他找到了站台, way路。
7.A。根据语境, 站台上满是人, pack充满。
8.A。manage to do设法做成, 他没能上去第一班车。
9.B。他被人流推挤到了车上, sweep横扫, 形容人多拥挤的样子。
10.D。“people from behind”后面的人们应该是往前推(push)。
11.C。他看不到车站的名字, name名字。
12.C。根据上下文, 他知道自己在第六站下车, stop车站。
13.A。该下车了, 顺利到达, 他的心情应该是高兴的, glad高兴的。
14.A。他突然发现, 他到了一个之前从来没有听说过的车站, hear of听说。
15.C。根据上下文, 他向站台上的人求助, 应该是说出他的“困难”。
三、阅读理解
1.C。推理判断题。根据第二段中“When it moves above the water, it tends to carry the fish with it, as well as frogs or other small plants or animals. (当它移动到水上, 它可能会卷起一些鱼、青蛙, 或者其他小的动植物。)”可知, 水上龙卷风可能会卷起一些物品。故选C。
2.D。推理判断题。根据第三段最后一句“It was difficult to puzzle out, but the blind fish gave them a place to start. ”可知, “盲鱼”让科学家们开始认为龙卷风理论似乎更有可能。故选D。
3.B。写作意图题。纵观全文, 特别是第一段中“Can you imagine how surprised people were when live fish rained down from a dark gray cloud ”及下文的研究和结论可知, 作者写这篇文章是为了解释为什么会出现这种雨中下活鱼的天气。故选B。