Unit2 Learning about language 综合练素养提升
一、完形填空
I have a home away from home—my school,Hamden High. Sometimes after 13 hours of study and sports, I consider staying there overnight, sleeping in the band room. I feel most at home at Room Cl03,the costume (服装)shop, which my acting friends and I call home. The couch there has been a second 1 for me.
I have been on the costume crew for four years. I 2 my first play set in Italy in the 1960s. With the help of my costume teacher, I 3 my first costume successfully. On stage, it sparkled and made the 4 of the queen come to life. I felt 5 , realising that I’d do this forever and help create characters through cloth and colours.
My costume teacher 6 my abilities to select designs, colours and fabrics that will suit each character. So she asks me to take charge of the ensemble (全套服装). 7 it is a hard task, I welcome it! I 8 the long nights spent cutting the patterns. I feel like an older sister to the younger 9 . Through my four years of theater, I have 10 my theater family and the young actors treat me as their older sister. I feel 11 each time a family member leaves and we will cry. I will leave my Hamden High theater family and make my new 12 at UCONN, a school where I can 13 these feelings again. I look forward to learning new 14 in something I truly love and wish to do for the rest of my life. In UCONN, I will also help the actors on stage 15 as if their characters come to life.
1. A. desk B. bed
C. world D. furniture
2. A. encourage B. accept
C. fail D. remember
3. A. saved B. wore
C. created D. afforded
4. A. character B. custom
C. dream D. power
5. A. nervous B. curious
C. proud D. shy
6. A. gives away B. believes in
C. holds back D. takes off
7. A. If B. Until
C. Though D. Unless
8. A. fear B. love
C. ignore D. count
9. A. directors B. students
C. actors D. teachers
10. A. built B. visited
C. phoned D. left
11. A. calm B. upset
C. excited D. satisfied
12. A. promise B. theater
C. home D. research
13. A. correct B. remove
C. forget D. experience
14. A. requests B. skills
C. uses D. opinions
15. A. attempt B. look
C. choose D. agree
II. 课文语法填空
China’s first artificial intelligence (AI) textbook for high school students 1. _______(bring) out last week, following a plan by central government 2. _______ (include) AI courses in primary and secondary schools. The nine-chapter textbook, 3. _______ (name) “Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence”, was written by outstanding 4. _______ (scholar) from well-known schools nationwide, under the joint efforts by the research center for MOOC at East China Normal University and AI startup Sense Time. It includes the history of AI and how the technology can be applied in areas such as facial recognition, auto driving and public security.
“The textbook focuses not only on basics of AI, but on 5. _______ (practice) use of AI in daily life,” said Chen Yukun, a professor at East China Normal University, 6. _______is also a contributor to the book.
Up till now, about 40 high schools across the country 7 . _______ (undertake) the task of being the first group of the AI high education pilot program 8. _______introducing the textbook in the curriculum. “ The AI sector is facing a talent shortage 9. _______(global). The publication of the book is 10. _______breakthrough as it takes AI technology out of the “Ivory tower,and makes it part of high school learning,” said Lin Dahua,a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
参考答案:
一、完形填空
【语篇导读】本文是一篇记叙文。作者讲述了在哈姆登高中(Hamden High)和服装老师、年轻演员们相处的经历。
1. B【解析】根据上文可知,作者把服装间当成了另一个家,再联想沙发的功能可知,作者把这张沙发当成睡觉的床。
2. D【解析】根据空后的“my first play set in Italy in the 1960s”和下文的内容可知,作者在回忆过去的学校生活,因此用 remember。
3. C【解析】根据上下文可知,作者所设计的第一套服装非常成功,因此选C。create在此表示“设计”。
4. A【解析】根据空前的 on stage和下文中的“help create characters through cloth and colors”可知,此处应用 character,character在此表示“角色”。
5. C【解析】根据上文可知,作者所设计的服装非常成功,因此她感到自豪。
6. B【解析】根据下文中的“So she asks me to take charge of the ensemble. "可知,老师对作者的能力很有信心,故选B。
7. C【解析】根据空后的 a hard task和“I welcome it”可知,此处应表示让步,故选C。
8. B【解析】根据第二段中的“I'd do this forever and help create characters through cloth and colors”可知,作者喜欢设计服装,故选B。
9. C【解析】根据下文中的“the young actors treat me as their older sister”可知,这里指年轻的演员。
10. A【解析】根据空后的 my theater family可知,作者建立了她的剧场家庭。build在此表示“建立(机构、社团、关系等)”。
11. B【解析】根据空后的 leaves和cry可知,每当有人离开时,作者会感到难过。upset在此表示“难过的,沮丧的”。
12. C【解析】根据第一段可知,作者把哈姆登高中看成是她的家,因此康涅狄格大学(UCONN)将会是她的新家。
13. D【解析】空后的 these feelings指的是作者在哈姆登高中经历的情感,她在新学校也会经历这些。experience经历。
14. B【解析】根据上下文可知,作者期待在新学校学习新技能。
15. B【解析】根据第二段中的“it sparkled and made the the queen come to life”可知,在康涅狄格大学,作者也会帮助舞台上的演员设计服装,让他们的角色看起来像活了一样。
二、语法填空
【语篇导读】本文是一篇说明文,主要介绍了人工智能教科书即将进2中国高中课堂。
1. was brought【解析】句意:继中央政府计划把人工智能课程纳人中小学课程之后,中国第一本供高中生使用的人工智能教材上周出版了。分析句子结构可知,此处是谓语动词,根据 last week判断应用一般过去时;主语 textbook和 bring out之间是被动关系,故用般过去时的被动语态;主语是单数,应用第三人称单数形式。故填was brought。
2. to include【解析】句意参见上一题解析。根据句意可知,此处指“…的计划”,所以用不定式作名词plan的后置定语。故填to include。
3. named【解析】分析句子结构可知,此处用非谓语动词作后置定语,textbook和name之间是逻辑上的动宾关系,应用过去分词形式。故填 named。
4. scholars【解析】 scholar是可数名词,联系语境可知此处应是很多学者编写了这本书,故用复数形式。故填 scholars。
5. practical【解析】分析句子结构可知,句中use是名词,应用形容词修饰。故填 practical。
6. who【解析】分析句子结构可知,设空处引导非限制性定语从句先行词是人,从句中缺少主语,故用关系代词who
7. have undertaken【解析】根据时间状语 up till now(到目前为止)可知应用现在完成时,主语 high schools是复数,故填 have undertaken。
8. by【解析】根据句意可知,设空处指“通过”,表示“通过”的常用介词是by。
9. globally【解析】分析句子结构可知,此处是修饰整个句子,应用副词形式。故填 globally。
10. a【解析】breakthrough是可数名词,此处指“一个突破”,且该词的发音是以辅音音素开头的,故填不定冠词a。