选修九 Unit 3《Australia》单元测试1
笔试部分：
I. 单项选择
1. He is a highly _________ doctor in the through out the town.
A. respective B. respected C. respectful D. respecting
2. The concert has been canceled __________ lack of support.
A. as B. owing to
C. was because of D. lead to
3. There are strict limits on ____________ the country because a lot of social problem could arises and the country can't take in a lot of new blind comers. .
A. emigration ito B. immigration into
C. emigration out of D. emigration into
4. It's not by any means a brilliant salary but it's ________for our needs.
A. adequate B. abundant C. accurate D. attached
5. They are purely __________ weapons, not designed for attacks.
A. offensive B. defensive
C. offence D. defensible
6. The cancer risks ___________ smoking have been well documented.
A. involved with B. involving with
C. associating with D. associated with
7. ---Why do you look so upset?
---There are so many troublesome problems _____.
A. remaining to be settled B. remained settled C. remaining to settle D. remained to be settled
8. ________ a vocation, and you'll forget unhappy things
A. Going on B. To go on
C. Go on D. If you go on
9. The boss appeared ______ the accident and was not surprised at the news.
A. to know B. to have known C. knowing D. having known
10. Sorry, I haven't got enough cash to pay for the bill. I have __________ 10 yuan with me. Can I pay for it with my a credit card?
A. no less than B. no fewer than
C. no more than D. much more than
11. ______ surprised the family most was ________ the girl played basketball very well.
A. That; that B. That; what C. What; that D.What; what
12. She decides to climb the high mountain _________ as she is a _________ person.
A. alone , determined B. lonely, determined
C. alone, determining D. lonely, determining
13. I remember _______ this used to be a very small village.
A. when B. how C. where D. what
14. Since she left home, I have been worried about her and _____ well at all.
A. was sleeping B. wasn't sleeping
C. haven't been sleeping D. have been sleeping
15. You must __________for catching colds for the weather is so changeable at
this time every year
A. look up B. look into C. look for D. look out
II 完形填空
I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly 16 . I fumbled(摸索) in my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which had 17 their search. I found one. But I had no matches, for they had taken those. I 18 the bars at the jailer(狱卒). He did not make eye contact with me. I 19 out to him, “Have you got a 20 ?” He looked at me, shrugged (耸肩) and came over to light my cigarette. As he came close, I 21 . I don't know why I did that. It was as though a spark jumped across the 22 between our two hearts. My smile leaped through the 23 and generated a smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but stayed 24, looking at me directly in the eyes.
I kept 25 at him, and his looking at me seemed to have a new dimension(方面) too. “Do you have 26 ?” he asked. “Yes, here, here.” I took out my wallet and 27 fumbled for the pictures of my family. He, 28, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for 29 . My eyes filled with tears, I said that I 30 that I'd never see my family again, never have the 31 to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too. 32 , without another word, he 33 my cell and silently led me out. Out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town.
My life was saved by a smile. Yes, the smile―the 34 , unplanned, natural connection between people. I really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could recognize each other, we wouldn't be enemies. We couldn't have 35 or envy or fear.
16. A. excited B. lonely C. impatient D. nervous
17. A. escaped B. attracted C. confused D. misled
18. A. broke off B. bent down C. looked through D. fixed up
19. A. called B. let C. reached D. ran
20. A. light B. watch C. cigarette D. key
21. A. cried B. laughed C. smiled D. whispered
22. A. size B. gap C. weight D. rate
23. A. prison B. bars C. noise D. silence
24. A. far B. calm C. near D. angry
25. A. smiling B. shouting C. staring D. pointing
26. A. pictures B. kids C. time D. strength
27. A. freely B. strongly C. unwillingly D. nervously
28. A. finally B. however C. too D. accidentally
29. A. them B. me C. fun D. pleasure
30. A. promised B. intended C. insisted D. feared
31. A. idea B. chance C. desire D. hope
32. A. Suddenly B. Gradually C. Politely D. Skillfully
33. A. broke B. blocked C. unlocked D. left
34. A. impossible B. invisible C. unknown D. unaffected
35. A. hate B. dream C. competition D. poverty
III阅读理解???
A
One answer to the question of land shortage was suggested by an organization some years ago. A city was to be built at sea, housing 30,000 people.
The suggestion was to shape the city like a harbor(港口).The outer wall of the harbor would stand on steel columns resting on the sea-bed. Naturally this could only be where the water was fairly shallow. The people would like to live in flats in the fifty-metre high outer wall. The flats would be all face inwards, and would be made of concrete(混泥土) and glass. The glass would be specially made and colored to control the heat and strong light from the sun. The planners called this man-made harbor would be calm. On it would be floating islands carrying more building: a hospital, two theaters, museum, an art exhibition hall and a church. On one of the islands would be a special factory to take the salt out of sea water and turn it into fresh water.
People living in the city could move around on small boats driven by electricity, so there would be no air pollution from the burning of gas. There would be platforms outside the man wall for ships bringing supplies. People could also travel to the mainland by motorboat or water plane.
36. What was suggested about the construction of a new city at sea?
A. The city was to be designed together with a harbor.
B. The walls around the city would be made of steel and glass.
C. The building of the city would rest on a floating island.
D. The people would live in tall building surrounded by a wall.
37. How would fresh water be supplied to the city?
A. By treating sea water.
B. By getting it from the surrounding islands.
C. By building a small lake of fresh water inside the city.
D. By transporting it from the mainland.
38. The suggestion made by the organization is to solve the problem that _______.
A. there is not enough space for building cities on land
B. land transportation has became increasingly difficult
C. there are too many people on land
D. present cities are heavily polluted by cars
39. The purpose of the writer is _______.
A. to suggest how new type of harbor could be built at sea
B. to give a description of a new-type city
C. to draw people's attention to the problem of air pollution
D. to introduce a new way of building harbor-cities
B
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A. in a newspaper B. in a magazine
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A. who have forgotten their BooksFirst account numbers
B. who haven't got their BooksFirst account numbers
C. who have experienced BooksFirst online shopping before
D. who have never done online shopping before
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B. You can find your Shopping Basket nowhere but in View Basket.
C. You will pay less if you are an overseas customer and buy over three books.
D. You can get an account number only after you place an order online
43. The purpose of this advertisement is________.
A. to promote the sale of books
B. to show the procedure of ordering books online
C. to help readers apply for account numbers
D. to supply account numbers to readers
C
More than 6000 children were expelled(开除) from US school last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US Department of Education said on May 8.
The department gave a report to the expulsions(开除) as saying handguns accounted for 58 percent of the 6093 expulsions in 1996---97, against 7 percent for rifles(步枪) or shotguns and 35 percent for other types of firearms.
“The report is a clear sign that our nation's public schools are cracking down(严惩) on students who bring guns to school,” Education Secretary Richard Riley said in a statement. “We need to be tough-minded about keeping guns out of our schools and do everything to keep our children safe.”
In March1997, an 11 years old boy and 13 years old boy using handguns and rifles shot dead four children and a teacher at a school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. In October, two were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at a Mississippi school. Two months later, a 14-year-old boy killed three high school students and wounded five in Dasucah, Kentucky.
Most of the expulsions, 56 percent, were from high school, which have students from about age 13. 34 percent were from junior high schools and 9 percent were from elementary schools, the report said.
44. The main idea of the passage is that in the US schools _______.
A. students enjoy shooting
B. students are eager to be soldiers
C. safety is a problem
D. students can make guns
45. From what Richard Riley said we can infer that ________.
A. the number of the expulsions is not large
B. the number of the expulsion is wrong
C there are soldiers hiding among the students
D. guns are out of control in US schools
46. The main idea of paragraph four shows us ______.
A. some examples of shoot in US schools.
B. the American's feeling.
C. some famous schools.
D. that some teachers were killed by students.
47. From this passage we get to know that ________.
A. every American cannot have guns
B. only soldiers and police can have guns
C. every American citizen can own guns
D. teachers have no money to buy guns
D
All over the world, libraries have begun the Herculean(巨大的) task of making faithful digital copies of the books, images and recordings that preserve the intellectual effort of mankind. For armchair scholars, the work promises to bring such a wealth of information to desktop that the present Internet may not match.
Librarians see three clear benefits to going digital. First, it helps them preserve rare and fragile objects without refusing the demands of those who wish to study them. The British Library, for example, holds the only medieval manuscript（手稿）of Beowulf in London. Only qualified scholars were allowed to see it until Kevin S. Kiernan of the University of Kentucky scanned the Manuscript with three different light sources and put the images up on the Internet for anyone to use.
A second benefit is convenience. Once books are changed to digital form, readers can find them in seconds rather than minutes. Several people can read the same book or view the same picture at the same time. Clerks are spared the chore of reshelving. And libraries could use the Internet to lend their collections to those who are unable to visit in person.
The third advantage of electronic copies is that they occupy millimeters of space on a magnetic disk rather than meters on a shelf. The cost of library buildings is increasingly high. The University of California at Berkeley recently spent $ 46 million on an underground addition to house 1.5 million books----an average cost of $30 per volume. The price of disk storage, on the contrary, has fallen to about $ 2 per 300-page publication and continues to drop.
48. What is the message in the first paragraph?
A. More people can read precious books.
B. The Internet provides more information.
C. Libraries are making efforts to preserve books.
D. Libraries are making digital copy of books.
49. Which words in the second paragraph help you to identify the supporting points?
A. three, First, for example B. benefits, manuscript, scholars
C. helps, holds, scanned D. clear, qualified, different
50. Which of the following is mentioned in the text as benefits of going digital?
A. Fewer staff will be required in libraries.
B. Libraries will be able to move underground.
C. Borrowers need not go to the library building.
D. Old manuscripts can be moved more easily.
51. How is the text organized?
A. Opinion – Description B. Message – Explanation
C. Main idea – Comparison D. Introduction – Conclusion
E
Well, when the huge wave hit the boat, my safety belt broke and I was swept overboard. I don't really understand how it happened, but it did. I heard someone yell out, but then my boat, Wild One, went off into the darkness and I was alone in a very rough sea. I then spent five and a half hours in the water. The place where it happened was, oh, about 50 kilometers from shore. It was likely that I wouldn't see another day, but I always thought I'd overcome the difficulties. At first I was watching out for Wild One. The rest of the crew knew I was gone, so they were sure to come back and look for me. After a while, I saw the boat's lights when it came looking for me. They were within about 300 meters of me, but the spotlight just missed me. The reason why they didn't see me was because of the huge waves. You know, I started sailing when I was seven, and started ocean racing when I was about eighteen, but I'd never been overboard before. I believed I was going to survive, but it was very cold, and as the hours passed I started to get desperate——and frozen! It was around 5 am when I saw the lights of a tanker coming towards me. I figured it was probably my last chance. At first, I thought they were going to miss me, and then they made a slight turn and I yelled out “Help!” and they heard me. Then another yacht appeared. These guys were terrific. They gave me dry clothes, and then one jumped into the bunk and hung onto me. They covered us with as much dry clothing as they could, and the guy in with me stayed to transfer his body heat to me.
52. The author of the passage was alone in the sea NOT because ______.
A. the wind was too strong B. the wave hit the boat
C. the safety belt was broken D. his boat was in the darkness
53. He was not saved by his crew because _______.
A. he didn't yell out “Help!” B. 300 meters was long distance
C. he was not found D. he didn't see the spotlight
54. It was inferred from the passage that _______.
A. he was swept overboard at about midnight
B. Wild One was the name of a crew member
C. he started ocean racing at about seven
D. he was too hopeless to take the last chance
55. One of the guys who saved him jumped into the bunk in order to ________.
A. cover him with more dry clothes
B. warm him with his body heat
C. comfort him
D. congratulate him
IV 短文改错
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误.对标题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边的横线上划（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉. 此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（︿），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词.此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词. 注意：原行没有错的不要改.
Last night I was getting ready for the coming examination 56.
when the noise from my neighbor interrupts me. The noise 57.
went on and on. It was too loudly that I could hardly pay 58.
attention to my study any longer. So I went to my neighbor's houses 59.
and said to him：“Excuse me, would you please turn up the 60.
TV？I'm preparing for tomorrow's examination.”Hear these 61.
words, his face turned red. But he said, “OK,I will. 62.
I'm very sorry have made so much noise. Just now, the football 63.
game was very wonderful. I was too exciting to control 64.
myself. I won't do that again. Good luck in the your coming 65.
examination.” After that, I got down to my study.
V 书面表达
假如你是某报社“Heart to Heart” 栏目的编辑，专门负责解答读者生活中这样或那样的困惑。仔细阅读下面Xu Ling同学的这封信，然后以栏目编辑的身份写一篇回复，对Xu Lin 同学存在的问题给以解答或提供建议。
参考答案：
1—5 BBBAB 6—10 DACBC 11—15 CABCD
16—20 DACAA 21—25 CBBCA 26—30 BDCAD 31—35 BACDA
36—40 CAABC 41—45 CDBCD 46—50 ACDAC 51—55 BDCAB
56．√ 57．interrupts→interrupted 58．too→so
59．houses→house或houses 60．up→down 61．Hear→Hearing
62．But→And 63．sorry∧have to 64．Exciting→excited
65．the或your
A possible version:
Dear Xu Ling,
It is important to have a sense of yourself. But you must learn how to care about others as well. Check yourself to see whether you were selfish sometimes.
Try to have a heart-to heart talk with your former friends, telling them how much you value their friendship.
Remember that the more effort you make, the more friends you will gain.
However, there are other possibilities for your friends' leaving. Maybe their personalities no longer match yours. Maybe their goals differ from yours. It is very common to have friends come and go throughout your life.
选修九 Unit 3《Australia》单元测试2
笔试部分：
I. 单项选择
1. Some parents are just too protective. They want to ____ their kids from every kind of danger, real or imaginary.
A. benefit B. remove C. shelter D. distinguish
2. More and more people in that country are losing their jobs. In addition, no one knows how long it will be before the nation ____ from its economic crisis.
A. suffers B. disappears C. returns D. recovers
3. While all the audience were listening attentively, the speaker suddenly ____ his lecture and went out of the hall.
A. broke out B. broke off C. broke into D. broke down
4. Some kids ____ to peer pressure because they want to be liked, to fit in, or because they worry that other kids may make fun of them if they don't go along with the group.
A. give away B. give out C. give in D. give up
5. The twelve-year-old girl told the reporter, “My father has been ____ for half a year and we have no money to rent a house. It is why we have to live in an abandoned car at present.”
A. out of place B. out of order C. out of touch D. out of work
6. With more and more earthquakes happening, it is necessary for scientists to find out how human beings can predict earthquakes ____.
A. obviously B. permanently C. exactly D. punctually
7. Owens doesn't think that there's anything too special about him, “I think everyone has business sense; they just need to gain experience and be ____ to make it.”
A. free B. determined C. afraid D. hesitant
8. The findings can be important for producers, and they can be of ____ importance for public health experts trying to persuade people to make healthier choices.
A. complex B. proper C. equal D. suitable
9. Being a parent, you should give positive comments, appreciation and ____ when you see your kid seek new things or even try with full passion.
A. advantages B. rewards C. benefits D. profits
10. The course is designed to provide ________ on how to relieve pressure for students who will take the College Entrance Examination in the near future.
A. impression B. distinction C. assumption D. guidance
II 完形填空
Recently I went into retreat (静修) in a foreign country with some friends. We were all given duties to 11 , such as cleaning and cooking. I was in the team serving 12 . On the first day I tried hard to please everyone, but it was hard to know how. Some people 13 it when you were fast and just gave them their food, some people preferred it 14 and steady so that they could choose exactly how much they 15 , and some didn't know what I was serving and didn't speak English. If they weren't 16 in the way they wanted, some grew annoyed. As you can imagine, after an hour of this it started to get cold.
So the next day, we tried a 17 way. I learnt how to say “Would you like...” in several 18 and tried to see everyone's name badge (证), which also 19 where they were from, to make sure that they 20 what I was saying to them. I was serving beans so when people came up to me, I 21 them and said, “Would you like beans?” If they said they did I smiled more and said, “Yeah, you want some beans!”
I was so 22 that we actually ran out of beans before everyone got served! To be honest, I wasn't sure if I was making them smile, or 23 them!
After a few days of this though, whenever I saw people I had served they smiled and 24 me, saying how it had brightened up their 25 that we hadn't just put food on their plates. We 26 got an award for the 27 servers at the end!
We did other things that weren't our 28 too, like cleaning up, or washing dishes. At first people were confused when we did this, then they 29 they were getting a favor without 30 anything in return and they would be thankful to us.
11. A. compete B. perform C. improve D. observe
12. A. tables B. interests C. goods D. meals
13. A. checked B. invented C. liked D. realized
14. A. hot B. fresh C. soft D. slow
15. A. wanted B. afforded C. spared D. divided
16. A. comforted B. served C. admired D. encouraged
17. A. different B. familiar C. right D. secret
18. A. orders B. directions C. languages D. places
19. A. remembered B. achieved C. admitted D. indicated
20. A. explained B. heard C. understood D. imagined
21. A. looked for B. depended on C. thought of D. smiled at
22. A. enthusiastic B. aware C. sure D. confident
23. A. shocking B. scaring C. annoying D. cheating
24. A. convinced B. trusted C. paid D. thanked
25. A. house B. day C. voice D. hair
26. A. just B. even C. occasionally D. frequently
27. A. daily B. professional C. best D. fastest
28. A. duty B. promise C. point D. action
29. A. realized B. noticed C. showed D. hoped
30. A. expressing B. giving C. changing D. producing
III 阅读理解
A
There is no question that teenagers need rules, which is often not a difficult thing for parents to give. What can be more challenging is giving teenagers their freedom. It can be difficult to draw the line between the two. However, some issues cannot be changed by discussion and require firm rules. For instance, rules should be established concerning driving the family car.
I will admit that I have no problem coming up with rules. To me they make life easier and they leave no room for questioning. What can be more difficult, however, is giving my teens their freedom. I guess there are really two primary reasons for this. One is that I sometimes am afraid to give them freedom. The second is that I'm not always so sure what the freedom should be.
It helps that I have a husband with whom I can discuss these problems. We talk about them, give our thoughts and then we come up with an agreement. Sometimes one of us might be more unwilling but we know that there comes a time when we really do have to learn how to let go of the reins (缰绳) a bit.
If we try to make life have nothing but rules, we are more likely to see our teen's rebelling (反抗). They need to know that while we do have certain expectations, we also trust them to begin making their own choices and decisions. How else can they do that unless they are given the space and room to do it?
It's really all about balance and I will be the first to admit that it can be a challenge to carry out. However, it is a necessary part of growing up. Yes, teens definitely need rules but they also need freedom.
31. According to the first paragraph, it is difficult to decide .
A. whether the children need rules
B. whether the children should be given freedom
C. how much freedom should be given to children
D. what issues require non-negotiable rules
32. According to the text, we can infer that the author .
A. refuses to give her children freedom
B. finds it difficult to make rules
C. doesn't have a good relationship with her children
D. has trouble in giving freedom to her children
33. According to the author, only rules without freedom will make the children .
A. strong-willed B. rebellious C. weak D. independent
34. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Rules are difficult to make for parents.
B. Rules and freedom are similarly important.
C. We should give children freedom as much as possible.
D. Rules are more important than freedom.
B
If there ever was a study that people shouldn't get too little sleep, it's this one. People deprived (剥夺) of a good night's rest are more likely to experience changes in brain activity that can increase the urge to eat high-calorie foods.
Matthew Walker at the University of California in Berkeley and his colleagues conducted the first study of brain activity in relation to food among sleep-deprived people. The team used fMRI (功能磁共振成像) to study brain patterns of 23 people, first after a night of peaceful sleep and then after a night without sleep.
Sleep deprivation reduced activity in three areas of the brain that helps process flavor signals. It also led to more activity in the amygdala (扁桃腺), which helps govern the motivation for eating. The team also found that volunteers considered the pictures of high-calorie foods more desirable after no sleep than after a good rest.
When the researchers compared people allowed to sleep as much as they wished with those who slept just two-thirds of their normal time, they found that sleep deprivation had direct effects on eating behavior. “When people were sleep deprived, they ate an extra 549 calories per day,” say the researchers.
“It may make evolutionary sense,” says Laurent Brondel at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France. The long summer days at higher latitudes deprive animals of sleep, but animals use their time awake to eat more, which helps them get through the short days of winter when there is not enough food.
“That's only part of the story, though,” says Stephanie Greer, another member of the team. The body does need more energy if someone remains awake for longer, but the high-calorie foods that become more desirable after sleep deprivation would more than meet this additional need. The changes in food desirability encouraged by the sleep-deprived brain may originally have been important adaptation but today they no longer benefit our health.
Brondel agrees with this conclusion. “Sleep deprivation could, by an unknown mechanism, modify the pleasant sensation and change eating behavior,” he says. Whatever the mechanism is, there's one clear message from the study. “These findings provide opportunities to adjust our behavior in new ways to handle such health issues,” says Greer. “Specifically, our study indicates that one choice people can make is to regularly obtain enough amounts of sleep.”
35. Matthew Walker conducted the study on sleep-deprived people to _____.
A. learn more about sleep patterns
B. warn of the danger of high-calorie foods
C. show the importance of getting enough rest
D. find the relation between brain activity and food
36. It can be inferred from the passage that _____.
A. sleep-deprived people lost the motivation for eating
B. sleep deprivation sped up the processing of flavor signals
C. sleep deprivation had effects on the appetite for high-calorie foods
D. sleep-deprived people were uninterested in the pictures of tasty food
37. Which of the following is the correct cause-and-effect relationship?
A. Sleep deprivation → Eating behavior → Brain activity
B. Sleep deprivation → Brain activity → Eating behavior
C. Brain activity → Sleep deprivation → Eating behavior
D. Eating behavior → Brain activity → Sleep deprivation
38. What does the author mean by saying “That's only part of the story” in Paragraph 6?
A. High-calorie foods can provide extra energy.
B. Sleep deprivation is not good for human health.
C. Sleep-deprived people are in need of more energy.
D. Sleep deprivation is helpful in the evolution of animals.
C
Personal growth can be understood in a variety of ways. Type “personal growth” into a book search and you will find thousands of books to choose from to help you reach your full potential. It's so easy to treat personal development as something that is optional and so few people ever take the time to actively improve themselves. On the other hand, you may have been developing as a person, but never consider it as something that can be named.
Personal growth and self-development are some of the most important activities you can do. Rather than regarding this as a selfish act, working on yourself to become a better person benefits those around you, as well as those in your community and workplace.
Many of your actions may already be fit for “self-improvement”. This self-improvement, however, is mostly unconscious and for most people it's a case of pursuing “things” and “stuff” with the all-too-common assumption that when we get enough stuff, we will be happy. You don't have to search too far to find how wrong this theory is.
Every day we read about seemingly successful people, those who “have it all” and find themselves in a chain of unhappy relationships or life events, which sadly end in tragedy. Charles Atlas, the famous body builder, said, “True success lies in the development of the self.” This is a surprising philosophy (哲理) for someone who spent his life developing the physique (体格).
Materially, we may be wealthy or poor, but if your inner life is not fulfilled, you will feel out of balance with the rest of your life and may try to make for this by seeking substance elsewhere — alcohol, over-working, drugs and unhealthy relationships.
What does my true self look like when I take away my house, car, etc.? Note down your goals as a person. Do you recall what they were 10, 20, or even 30 years ago? Have they changed or got lost on the way? Now imagine yourself as an older person. What do you want to look like, sound like and feel like? Is this OK with you or would you like to change this picture? Answering these questions will give you clues regarding where you could work on your personal growth.
Personally speaking, I see my own personal growth as developing my creativity and spirituality, while building a healthy body as my 40s progress. It sounds like a big task, but I break this down to bite-sized pieces, such as making some specific changes in eating and exercise patterns, going to a yoga class, picking up one of my many unused paintbrushes and just painting something rather than taking an art school course, and suddenly that's achievable.
Set out your goals, first steps and plan of where and how you are going to carry them out. Get the support of a friend or family member to encourage you and review your progress every three months or so to keep you on track. Just start with small but meaningful changes that you notice, and if it feels strange, remember that change often does. Remember you're making these changes for long-term personal gain, so it's quite natural to feel a little uncomfortable at first, but be persistent, review your plan and adapt. This is your plan for growth, which can be changed and adapted to your circumstances.
39. As for the self-improvement, .
A. most people do it well in their daily life
B. most people in fact regard it as a selfish act
C. most people consider it means building a healthy life
D. most people think it is trying to achieve enough stuff
40. According to the passage, a real successful person is one .
A. who has spent his life doing business
B. who does feel happy in his inner world
C. who has gathered a great amount of wealth
D. who has made friends with many famous people
41. How does the author develop his personal growth?
A. He is always imagining himself as an old person.
B. He spares his time to take an art school course.
C. He improves himself both in creativity and spirituality.
D. He manages to collect many second-hand paintbrushes.
42. We can conclude from the passage that .
A. personal growth is important in our life
B. most people don't believe personal growth
C. the author is the most successful man
D. personal growth determines your goals
D
We will one day be able to talk to animals using cellphone-sized equipment, says a leading expert in animal behavior. Professor Slobodchikoff is developing new technology that translates the calls of the prairie dog (草原犬鼠) and says the technology can be used to translate other animals' “languages”. He also suggested that the technology could one day be improved to enable humans to talk back to animals.
In an interview, Professor Slobodchikoff explained he was using the new artificial intelligence (AI) software to record the calls of prairie dogs. He was then using the AI techniques to analyze the barks and translate them into English.
He explained that from his research, he knew that prairie dogs warn other members of the group about potential dangers in great detail — even describing a threat as being “a thin, brown wolf approaching quickly”.
The professor, who had spent the past 30 years analyzing the behavior of animals, added, “I think the equipment we are developing will allow us to talk to our dogs and cats. So the dog says ‘bark!' and the equipment analyzes it and says, ‘I want to eat chicken tonight.' Or the cat can say ‘meow', and the equipment says, ‘You haven't cleaned my litter box recently.'” He predicted that it would take between five and ten years of wide-ranging research to get to this point.
He believed that if such technology became a reality, it would change the world. Consider that 40 percent of all households in America have dogs, 33 percent have cats. And consider that four million dogs are killed every year because of the problems of behavior. Most problems are caused by the lack of communication between animals and human beings. Human beings can't get across to animals what they expect, and animals can't get across to human beings what they are experiencing. If we had a chance to talk back and forth, the dog could say, “You're scaring me.” And you could say, “Well, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that I was scaring you. I'll give you more space.”
“What I'm hoping, actually, is that down the road, we will form partnerships with animals rather than exploit (利用) them,” Professor Slobodchikoff said. He added that many people are afraid of animals or they have nothing to do with them because they don't think that animals have anything to contribute to their lives.
He says, once people are able to talk to animals, they will realize that animals are living, breathing, thinking beings, and that they have much to contribute to people's lives.
Previous attempts to help human understand animals include the BowLingual. The Japanese equipment claims to translate barks from dozens of different breeds (品种) of dogs. The equipment was successful enough to be brought to the American market. But reports of the BowLingual's accuracy have been mixed, with popular product-review website Epinions giving it a low 1.5 star average. Later the same company developed a following product for cats called Meowlingual although this was less successful.
43. Professor Slobodchikoff is developing the new technology by .
A. recording prairie dogs' barks with a tape recorder
B. talking to prairie dogs using cellphone-sized equipment
C. teaching prairie dogs to speak English via advanced software
D. recording and analyzing prairie dogs' barks with AI technology
44. What does the underlined part “this point” in the fourth paragraph refer to?
A. Detailed analysis of animals' behaviors.
B. Effective communication between dogs and cats.
C. Humans using the equipment to talk with dogs and cats.
D. Humans using AI technology to communicate with all animals.
45. According to the passage, Professor Slobodchikoff expects people to .
A. make full use of animals
B. treat animals as good partners
C. experience what dogs must experience
D. contribute a lot to the protection of animals
46. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Humans aren't able to talk to animals now.
B. Some people think the Bowlingual is not very accurate.
C. Professor Slobodchikoff has full confidence in his research.
D. Large quantities of dogs are killed due to the increase in number.
E
Glaciers in the Alps of Europe pose a scientific mystery. In a span of about 50 years, some of the biggest glaciers retreated more than half a mile. But nobody could explain the glaciers' rapid decline.
Scientists trying to understand Europe's climate for the past several hundred years have turned to the glaciers in the Alps because they kept records of temperature and precipitation (降雨量) during that time.
“If you look back through the 1600s and the 1700s, the glaciers were big and quite stable,” says Tom Painter. That's probably because Europe was in a prolonged cold spell, known as the Little Ice Age. “And then around the 1860s, the glaciers all started to retreat to the length that they had not in the previous few hundred years,” he says.
Some historians think that retreat marks the end of the Little Ice Age. But there's a problem: Europe didn't actually heat up until the 1910s or the 1920s. In fact, if you go by just air temperature and precipitation, the glaciers should have advanced, not retreated. So why did the glaciers start to melt?
“It dawned on me that industrialization was starting then,” Painter says. “We have these visions from Charles Dickens and others of that time — the mid-1800s — of a huge amount of soot (煤烟) being pumped out into the atmosphere, not just in England but in France and Germany and Italy.”
Painter's previous research has shown that dust blowing onto the Rocky Mountains is making the snow melt much faster there because dark snow absorbs more sunlight. He found a record of soot from ice samples higher up in the mountains. And he thinks there was human influence.
“Industrial pollution from Europe wasn't blowing onto Iceland or Norway, which remained cold and frosty,” says Gifford Miller. “Maybe it gave the Alpine folks in Switzerland and the Italian Alps a head start in cultivating highlands again,” he says. Could that be why we have Swiss milk chocolate today instead of Norwegian chocolate? “Could be,” Miller says, with a chuckle. Actually, it turns out that the Swiss did invent milk chocolate a decade or two after the glaciers started to give way to more pastureland (牧场), so the soot idea is not an entirely crazy idea.
But Miller learns a much bigger lesson from understanding how soot and dust can bring about quick changes to the world's glaciers. “Things that impact on the climate system in an abrupt way are the things that people should be concerned about for the future.”
47. The underlined phrase “go by” in Para.4 probably means “_____”.
A. get back to B. look for
C. obey the rules of D. judge from
48. It can be learned from the passage that _____.
A. Alpine glaciers had melted before industrialization
B. snow on the Rocky Mountains melted faster because of dust
C. the melting of glaciers has nothing to do with human influence
D. Charles Dickens described glacial melt water in the Alps in his novels
49. Miller mentioned Swiss milk chocolate to prove _____.
A. milk chocolate was invented first in Switzerland
B. Swiss chocolate was better than Norwegian chocolate
C. the Alpine folks didn't benefit from rapid industrialization
D. the melting of glaciers had a great impact on the life of the Swiss
50. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Pollution may have melted Alpine glaciers
B. Pollution may have advanced Alpine glaciers
C. Pollution may have raised temperatures in the Alps
D. Pollution may have caused soot to gather in the Alps
IV 完成句子
阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。
51. The computer has been widely used in teaching. As a result, not only ____________________________ the teachers, but students become more interested in learning. (convenient)
电脑已经被广泛应用于教学中，结果，不仅方便了老师，也让学生对学习更感兴趣。
52. She came with her three friends, ____________________________ I had ever met before. (none)
她是和三个朋友一起来的，没有一个是我之前见过的。
53. It was not until they took out the black box ___________________________ why the plane crashed. (find)
他们取出黑匣子后，才弄清飞机坠毁的原因。
54. The reason why we pull up in the middle of our route is _________________________.(run)
我们在半路停下来的原因是汽油用完了。
55. She got caught in a terrible traffic jam on the freeway to Shanghai. Otherwise, she ____________________________ dinner with her family now. (enjoy)
她在去上海的高速公路上遇到了严重的交通阻塞。否则，她现在正和家人尽情享受晚餐呢。
56. A modern child finds ____________________________ a time when there is no TV or Internet. (it)
现在的孩子觉着很难想象既没有电视也没有网络的时代。
57. ____________________________ was a charming girl aged about seventeen or eighteen. It seemed that she was reading something. (sit)
坐在树下的是一个漂亮的女孩子，年纪大约十七八岁。看样子她在读着什么东西。
58. I think these kinds of laptop computers are all good both in their design and quality, so I really can't make up my mind ____________________________. (choose)
我觉得这些种类的笔记本电脑在设计和质量方面都很好，所以确实决定不了选哪台好。
59. We all know that, ____________________________, the situation will get worse. (deal)
我们都知道，如果处理得不小心，形势会变得更糟。
60. In a room above the store, where a meeting ________________________, people were discussing something heatedly. (hold)
在这个店上面的一个房间正在举行一个会议，人们在激烈地讨论着。
V 短文写作
We cooperate with others to be more competitive; we compete to earn a better environment for cooperation. Therefore, we can make progress continuously. Only competition with cooperation leads us to realize our goals and satisfy our needs.
注意：
①无须写标题；
②除诗歌外，文体不限；
③内容必须结合你生活中的一个事例；
④文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；
⑤词数不少于120；如引用提示语则不计入总词数。
参考答案：
1-10 CDBCD CBCBD
11-30 BDCDA BACDC DACDB BCAAB
31-50 CDBBD CBBDB CADCB DDBDA
51. is it convenient for 52. none of whom
53. that they found out 74. that the gas has run out
55. would be enjoying 56. it difficult to imagine
57. Sitting under the tree 58. which one to choose
59. if not dealt with carefully 60. was being held
One possible version:
Wang Hai was my classmate in junior school. For a time we both wanted to be on the top ten list. But it was hard; he did better in math than me while I was better at English.
At first, we each saw the other as a competitor and competed with each other and we never exchanged learning experience, and even didn't talk to each other. As time went on, we both found we didn't make any progress. The teacher knew that and had a talk with us. She told us to cooperate by helping each other at the weak point. We did so, and several months later, our “weak subjects” improved a lot and at last we realized our dreams.
This experience made me realize the importance of cooperation even in a competitive situation.
