Unit1 Great explorations 单元测试卷及解析

Unit 1 Great explorations 检测题
I. 选择题。
1. The girl is tall enough _____ the apples on the tree.
A. reaching B. to reaching
C. reach D. to reach
2. —What are you ________ ?
—I’m looking for my book.
A. looking for B. finding
C. finding out D. seeing
3. With a microscope, a whole new world of investigation _________.
A. turns up B. makes up
C. opens up D. calls up
4. We should ________ a new school here.
A. take up B. pick up
C. set up D. make up
5. That film is not ________ as interesting as this one.
A. nearly B. near
C. almost D. mostly
6. We have lots of things in common _________ music.
A. besides B. except
C. except for D. beside
7. That ________ a good idea.
A. smells B. tastes 2-1-c-n-j-y
C. sounds D. feels
8. My mother told me not _____ out at night.
A. go B. going C. to go D. goes
9. It is summer now in China, _____ it is winter in Australia.
A. before B. until C. while D. since
10. The book is very ________.
A. interesting B. interested
C. interest D. interests
11. Early in the morning he ________Beijing.
A. set off for B. set up
C. set about D. set off
12. When Tim ___ why he was late for school, he just kept silent. A. was asked????? B. asked???? 21*cnjy*com
C. was asking???? D. is asked
13. My?cousin?went?abroad?at?______?age?of?eighteen.?21世纪教育网版权所有
A.?a? B.?an?? C.?the?? ?D.?不填
14. —Do?you?come?to?South?Korea?for?the?____of?seeing?your?family?or?doing??business?
—I?come?here?on?business.?
A.?interest????B.?benefit???C.?purpose??D.?though
15. In?our?school,?______?students?like?English,?but?____?of?them?can?speak?English?smoothly.???
A.?a?little;?a?few????B.?a?few;?few????
C.?a?few,?little? ???D.?a?little;?few
II. 完形填空。
Have you ever been to the Great Wall in China? It’s 1 of the wonders of the world and is 2 to people all over the world.
The Great Wall 3 long ago. Everybody in China will tell you that it was built in the Qin Dynasty (秦朝). In fact, it 4 a long period of time in China’s 5 .We can 6 tell how many years it took. We don’t know how many stones 7 build the wall. We don’t know how many people died in building the Great Wall.
We 8 can say that it was built 9 the blood and sweat of the Chinese nation. If you have a chance to go to China some day, 10 to go there and have a look at the great wonder.
1. A. the only one B. one C. a D. ones
2. A. unknown B. satisfied C. strange D. known
3. A. built B. has been built C. was built D. had been built
4. A. paid B. used C. spent D. took21·cn·jy·com
5. A. history B. books C. stories D. drawings
6. A. never B. hardly
C. almost D. no longer
A. are used to B. were used to
C. use to D. used to
8. A. alone B. there
C. then D. only
9. A. of B. in C. with D. at
10. A. sure B. be sure
C. want D. being sure
III. 情景交际
从方框中选择合适的语句完成对话。
A: Do you know about Zheng He?
B: ________1____________
A: _________2___________
B: He was born in Yunnan in 1371.
A: __________3___________
B: He went on his trips from 1405 to 1433.
A: _________4____________
B: They encouraged the exchange of cultures and technologies, set up routs between and other countries and made the relationships between countries stronger.
A: ________5____________
B: Yes, He also visited the Middle East and even the east coast of Africa.
A: He was great.

A. Where and when was he born?
B. What effects did his trips on China and the world?
C. Yes. He was a famous Chinese explorer.
D. Did he visited South-East Asia?
E. Yes. He was a famous Chinese artist.
F. When did he go on his trips?
Ⅳ. 阅读理解
A
阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳选项。
Here is some information about some of the wonders of the world. I am sure you will be interested in them. 2·1·c·n·j·y
The Pyramids of Egypt
There are about eighty pyramids known today. The most well-known was for Pharaoh（法老） Khufu. It is known as the “Great Pyramid”. It’s also the largest one. Workers used about 2.3 million blocks of stone to build it. (A) 用了20年的时间才把它建成。【版权所有：21教育】
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The garden sat on a hill. It was a large and wonderful structure(建筑物). Many parts of the garden were high up on large columns(支柱). There were many big and green trees with lovely flowers. Although there are many different ideas about the garden, we are not sure whether this wonder ever existed(存在) ! 【来源：21·世纪·教育·网】
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Lighthouse of Alexandria was designed about 2,000 years ago. It was in Egypt, too. (B) It was one of the ancient wonders of the world , about 135 metres high. It was once the highest building in the world. Although it doesn’t exist now, many people come to see its relic(遗址) every year. www-2-1-cnjy-com
1. The passage has talked about _____ wonders of the world.
A. one B. two C. three D. four
2. “_____” has the same meaning as Sentence A.
A. We built it for twenty years.
B. It spent twelve years building it.
C. It took twenty years to build it.
D. Workers took twelve years to build it.
3. _____ raised high up the parts of the garden.
A. Big green trees B. Lovely flowers
C. Stones D. Large columns
4. The Chinese meaning of Sentence B is “_____”.
A. 它是世界奇迹之一
B. 它是世界古代奇观之一
C. 它是世界古代奇观
D. 它是世界自然奇观之一
5. Which is NOT true?
A. The Great Pyramid used many stones to build.
B. Scientists can prove that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon has ever existed.
C. The Lighthouse of Alexandria was in Egypt.
D. The Lighthouse of Alexandria was about 135 metres high. 【出处：21教育名师】
B
阅读短文，根据内容回答问题。
Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa of Italy. His father was a wool merchant.When he was 26 years old, he became to make merchant voyages. The farthest countries he reached were Iceland and Guinea. At that time, many European countries became stronger and stronger. Their ships reached Africa and Asia. They got gold, silver, silk, tea and other things from the orient. Columbus wanted to make another way to China and India. On August 2,1492, Columbus left Spain and began his first voyage. He had three ships. After two months’ hard sailing, on October 12, they got to an island in the Bahamas. On October 29, they reached Cuba. But a few days later, one of his ships left them. And on December 25, his flagship sunk.
Fortunately, the ship that left them rejoined him again. They went back to Lisbon on March 4,1943. Although they didn’t get to rich orient countries and look back wealth, they found a new place that nobody had gone to. Columbus thought it was India and called the islands the West Indias. From 1493 to 1504, he sailed to America three times. He reached most of the coast of southern America and set up many colonies.On May 20,1506, Columbus died because of disease.
1. Who was Columbus?
_______________________________
2. Where and when was Columbus born?
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3.When did Columbus begin his first voyage?
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4. What did they get when their ships reached Africa and Asia?
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5. How many times did Columbus sail to America from 1493 to 1504?21教育网
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Ⅴ. 短文填空。阅读短文，然后从方框中选出可以填入文中空白处的单词。（注意正确的形式）
check?? China?? easy?? farm?? forget
?little?? many?? other?? peace??amazing??
?Look?at?the?picture,?what?do?you?see???
?1???,?some?people?say?it’s?an?old?man,?while?others?say?it’s?a?young?woman?and?an?old??2???.?It?is?a?problem?with?many?answers.?Why??
When?you?look?at?a?problem?from?different?
views,?you?get?different?answers.?Just?turn?it?in?your?mind??3??bit,?and?you?may?see?it?in?a?completely?new?way.?www.21-cn-jy.com
Some?people?only?form?an?idea?in?their?mind?“A?problem?has?only?one?answer,?and?all?the??4???are?wrong.”?
Some?even?laugh?at?the?different?answers?others?come?up?with.?Well,?they’re?wrong!?If?people?only?believed?in?one?answer,?we?might?still?think?the?world?is?square(方形的)!?
What’s?one?plus?one??That’s?easy,?two!?Right??Well,?that’s?one?right?answer,?but?not?the?only?answer.?You?might?think?of?11,?or?some??5?
characters?like?“二”?or?“十”!?What’s?a?mom?plus?a?dad??You?might?think?of?two?people,?or?a?man?and?a?woman,?or?a?whole?family!?So,?
even?the??6???questions?can?have?many?answer.?
Of?course,?some?problems?do?only?have?one?answer.?If?each?of?the?questions?in?a?math?test?had??7???than?one?answer,?it?would?be?quite?a?problem?for?teachers??8?.?
Look?at?things?in?different?ways,?face?your?life?with?a??9??mind,?and?you’ll?see?a?completely different?world.?
After?reading?my?article,?if?I?ask?you?again:?“What?do?you?see?in?this?picture?”,?will?you?still?give?the?same?answer?now??I’m?sure?this?picture?will?be??10??to?you.?
Ⅵ. 书面表达
袁隆平被称为“杂交水稻之父”。由于他的努力，中国的水稻产量大幅度提高。请根据以下提示对他进行介绍。
提示：Father of Hybrid Rice, finished university in the 1960s，developed hybrid rice in 1973
要求：1. 语法正确，表达流畅；
2. 拼写正确；
3. 词数：70左右。
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Unit 1 Great explorations 检测题答案
I. 1.D 此题考查“形容词 + enough + for sb.+ to do”结构，意为“对某人来说够……能做……”。句意：这个女孩够高，能够到树上的苹果。21*cnjy*com
2. A look for意为“寻找”，强调“找”的动作。 find意为“找到，发现”。强调“找”的结果，其宾语是丢失的东西或人。 find out 着重表示通过查询、理解、分析、思考等“弄清楚，查明”一件事情，其后的宾语常常是某种情况或事实。see 意为“看见”。句意：“你在找什么？”“我在找我的书。”故答案选A。
3.C open up“开辟，（机会、新情况）出现，打开，开启”。turn up “开大；升高（音量、热量等）”； make up “组成，编造”；call up “打电话”。句意：显微镜开创了科学研究的崭新世界。故C项符合题意。
4.C 句意：我们应该在这儿建一座新学校。set up意为“建立，设立”，符合题意。pick up“捡起，拾起”；take up“开始从事”；make up “组成，编造”。
5.A 句意：那部电影远不及这部有趣。nearly与almost在多数情况下可换用。但almost 所表达的程度比nearly更接近一些。nearly 可与not 连用，但不能与其他否定词连用；almost可与no， none，never， nothing，nobody等否定词连用。
6.C 句意：除了音乐之外，我们还有很多共同点。besides“除……之外（还）”，有附加的含义。except “除……之外”，含有排他的含义。except for“除……之外，只是”。beside
“在……旁边”。
7.C smell“闻起来”；taste“尝起来”；sound“听起来”；feel“摸起来”。句意：那听起来是一个好主意。故C项符合题意。21·世纪*教育网
8.C tell sb. (not) to do sth.意为“告诉某人（不要）做某事”，是固定结构。故选C。句意：我妈妈告诉我夜间不要出去。
9.C 由句意可知，前后两句在意思上表转折，应选表示转折含义的while。
10.A 句意：这本书很有趣。interesting形容词，意为“有趣的”，可以作定语，也可以作表语，常指物。interested形容词，意为“感兴趣的”，常指人。interest作动词，意为“使……感兴趣”；作名词，意为“兴趣，爱好”。
11. A 考查词汇辨析 set off for 动身去、出发去 set up建立 set about开始、着手 set off from 从...出发 根据句意A 符合题意
12. A 考查被动语态 由句子结构可知Tim与ask之间是被动的关系，主句是一般过去时，故选A
13. C 考查冠词的用法及词组搭配 at the age of意为：在...岁时
14. C 考查名词辨析 由句意可知表示目的，故选C
15. 考查词组辨析 a little一点，修饰不可数名词，表肯定，little几乎没有，修饰不可数名词，表否定 a few几个，修饰可数名词，表肯定，few几乎没有，修饰可数名词，表否定 由句意可知B 符合题意
II. 1. B one of… 表示“……之一”。
2. D be known to 意为“为……所熟知”。
3. C 由语境可知此处为一般过去时的被动语态。
4. D 表示“花费（时间）”，且it 作形式主语，故只能用take。
5. A in China’s history意为“在中国的历史上”。
6. B hardly意为“几乎不”。
7. B stones作主语，谓语动词用复数；且由句意可知应用一般过去时的被动语态。
8. D only意为“只有”，符合句意。alone意为“单独的”；there意为“在那里，往那里”；then意为“那时”。
9. C 介词with表示手段或工具，意为“用”。
10. B if引导条件状语从句，主句为祈使句。句意为“如果某一天你有机会去中国，一定要去看一看这个伟大的奇观”。
III. C A F B D
Ⅳ. A
1. C 由小标题内容可知，文章共介绍了三处世界奇观。
2. C 本题实际上是考查对汉语的翻译。由“20年”可知B、D两项不符合，由汉语意思知应用被动语态，故选C项。21教育名师原创作品
3. D 由“Many parts of the garden were high up on large columns（支柱）.”可知。
4. B 由one of“……之一”可知C项不正确，由ancient wonders“古代奇观”知A、
D两项不正确，故选B项。
5. B 由“…we are not sure whether this wonder ever existed（存在）!”可知选B。
B
1. He was a famous Italian explorer.
2. Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa of Italy.
3. He began his first voyage on August 2,1492.
4. They got gold, silver, silk, tea and other things from the orient.
5. Columbus sailed to America three times from 1493 to 1504.
Ⅵ. One possible version:
Yuan Longping is called “Father of Hybrid Rice”. He is one of the most famous scientists in China. In the 1960s, he finished university. Since then， he has spent plenty of his time developing the new type of rice. In 1973, together with other scientists, he developed hybrid rice. It was a great success. Because of Dr Yuan’s hard work, China now produces enough rice every year to feed its people. What a great man he is!【来源：21cnj*y.co*m】