高中英语选修八新课标人教版单元课时质量测试（带解析）：unit 5 meeting your ancestors

(选修八·Unit 5)
Ⅰ.单项填空
1．—Why don't you do some shopping in the second-hand store?
—Well，the goods there are ________，but ________.
A．more expensive; worse
B．more expensive; not as bad
C．cheaper; good enough
D．cheaper; not as good
答案与解析：D　考查形容词的用法。由语境结合常识可知，和新货比起来，二手店里的货物价格便宜，但是质量不如新货好。很显现这是把两种店里的货从价格和质量方面进行了比较，后面省略比较状语。
2．He has a terrible toothache.So his mother has to________all his food for him.
A．cut out　　　　　　　 B．cut off
C．cut up D．cut away
答案与解析：C　cut up 切碎。句意：因为他牙痛的要命，所以他母亲不得不为他将所有的食物切碎。cut out 切掉，停止；cut off 切断；cut away 切掉，砍掉，均不符合句意。
3．There is not much time left，but________we must get there in time.
A．somehow B．somewhat
C．however D．anyway
答案与解析：D　anyway“不管怎样”。句意：剩下的时间不多了，但是不管怎样，我们必须按时到达那里。somehow“不知怎么地”；somewhat“有点”；however“然而”。
4．As time goes by，the________between the various classes of society are not so sharply marked as they used to be.
A．divisions B．gaps
C．separations D．intervals
答案与解析：A　division“区分”。句意：随着时间的推移，现在社会上各阶层的区分不像过去那样明显了。gap“隔阂”；separation“分开；分离”；interval“间隔”。
5．It's reported that thousands of people are going back to school online for career________or just for fun.
A．development B．advancement
C．promotion D．relief
答案与解析：B　advancement“进步，提高”，此处表示为了改进工作，很多人上网校。development当“经济、社会等的发展”讲；promotion“晋升；推广”；relief“(痛苦，负担等的)缓和”。
6．To our________，computers，far from getting rid of jobs，can create employment.
A．anxiety B．relief
C．view D．judgment
答案与解析：B　to one's relief使某人欣慰的是。根据句意，空白处应填入一个名词构成表示“使我们感到放心”之意的介词短语。anxiety意为“焦虑”；view意为“观点”；judgment意为“判断”。句意：使我们欣慰的是，电脑完全不是消除工作，而能创造工作。
7．Not having enough to eat，many died from________in the search for the new land.
A．hungry B．thirst
C．strategy D．starvation
答案与解析：D　根据not having enough to eat可知许多人死于饥饿，可排除B、C项；A项hungry为形容词，所以选D项。
8．________his wife's strong objection，the husband insisted on putting all the money they had into the stock market，which almost drove her crazy.
A．Regardless of B．In relation to
C．On behalf of D．In memory of
答案与解析：A　regardless of“不管，不顾”。
9．She tried to explain what had happened but he________her several times.
A．bothered B．spoiled
C．cut D．interrupted
答案与解析：D　interrupt“打断；插话”。bother“麻烦”；spoil“宠坏”；cut“切”。
10．Let's________that there is a selection this month.What is the result likely to be，given the latest opinion polls?
A．assume B．announce
C．assist D．approve
答案与解析：A　assume“假定；设想”，符合题意。
11．He was________when customs officers found drugs in his bag.
A．argued B．fought
C．persuaded D．arrested
答案与解析：D　arrest“逮捕”符合题意。argue“争论”；fight“打架”；persuade“说服”。
12．—I wonder if you are satisfied with my proposal.
—But I prefer to see an________one before making a decision.
A．alternative B．another
C．other D．others
答案与解析：A　根据句子意思可知回答者希望能有选择的余地再做决定，可与one搭配的只有alternative。another前不需要冠词。
13．The origin of Chinese culture________more than 5,000 years ago.
A．is dated back to B．dates back to
C．is dated from D．dates back
答案与解析：B　more than 5,000 years ago是时间点而不是时间段，故排除D项。date back to还可以用date from来表示，它们都无进行时态和被动语态，故选B项。
14．Everyone should________and save a little money each year for when he retires.
A．look forward B．look up
C．look ahead D．look into
答案与解析：C　look ahead“为将来打算”，符合题意。look forward“期望”；look up“向上看”；look into“调查”。
15．—I just hear the tickets for tonight's film had been sold out.
—Oh，no！________.
A．It's not at all interesting
B．It doesn't matter
C．I was looking forward to that
D．I know
答案与解析：C　题意：“今天晚上的电影票已经卖完了。”“哦，不！我一直盼着呢！”只有C项能表达说话者的迫切的心情。
Ⅱ.阅读理解
Starbucks coffee shops can be found all over America and in more than thirty countries around the would.Many people think they are great places to enjoy a cup of hot coffee or tea.But others dislike the company.
If you are in any major city in America，the chances are great that you are not far from a Starbucks.In fact，you might be very close to several of these coffee shops.The company started in the West Coast city of Seattle，Washington，in 1971.Starbucks was named after a character in the famous American novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.Today，there are more than 12 000 Starbucks around the world.Sales in 2008 were almost eight billion dollars.
Starbucks sells more than just plain coffee.It started a whole coffee culture with its own special language and coffee workers called“baristas”．It sells many kinds of hot and cold coffee drinks；like White Chocolate Mocha and Frappuccino.It also sells music recorders，coffee makers，food，and even books.But most of all，it sells the idea of being a warm and friendly place for people to sit，read or talk.
Starbucks is a great successful story.Buiers are willing to pay as much as five dollars for coffee drink.Many people say they go to Starbucks because they can depend on it to have exactly what they want and it is nearby.Some say Starbucks has helped to educate people about coffee from many countries.
However，some people do not like the company's expansion.Owners of independent coffee stores cannot compete with Starbucks.Some small coffee sellers even took the company to court，saying Starbucks controls the market and forces out competition.
1. Which of the following may be the best title of the passage?
A．Starbucks，the Coffee Giant(巨人)
B．The World's Starbucks
C．Starbucks，Selling Ideas
D．Starbucks，In or Out
答案与解析：A 　确立文章标题。文章主要介绍拥有众多连锁店的咖啡店巨无霸Starbucks，B、C、D三项都只是介绍Starbucks coffee shops的某一个侧面，较片面。
2. People will go to Starbucks for coffee drink because of________.
A．the sense of satisfaction there
B．the highly educated baristas
C．the plain taste of the drink
D．the low price there
答案与解析：A　细节理解题。由第四段第三句“Many people say they go to Starbucks because they can depend on it to have exactly what they want”由此推断人们去Starbucks是由于一种满足感。
3. What do you think takes the most important role in Starbucks' success?
A．Selling their ideas.
B．The coffee culture they have created.
C．Their great economic power.
D．All kinds of their coffee drinks.
答案与解析：B　判断推理题。由第三段中“Starbucks sells more than just plain coffee.It started a whole coffee culture with its own special language...But most of all it sells the idea of being a warm and friendly place for people to sit，read or talk”可推断Starbucks成功之处在于他们创立的咖啡文化。
4. The writer's attitude towards Starbucks is________in writing the passage.
A．supportive B．critical(批评的)
C．objective D．doubtful
答案与解析：C　判断作者态度题。本文介绍Starbucks咖啡连锁店特有的文化经营理念，所以作者的态度是客观的。
Ⅲ.篇章结构
“__1__It all depends on your personality，”said British naturalist Richard Mabey.“Personality shapes your view of the season，”he said.“You may see it as a fading away，a packing up(结束)，or as a time of packing in another sense –the gathering of resources before a long journey.”
__2__ About November，he wrote：
No warmth，no cheerfulness，no healthful ease
No shade，no shine，no butterflies，no bees
November!
On the other hand，another English poet John Keats，already sensing he was seriously ill，was inspired by a late September day to pen one of the most famous poems in the English language，To Autumn.__3__
According to Richard Mabey，Keats has the biological evidence on his side.__4__ For example，just at the moment that Keats's“gathering swallows”(in To Autumn) are departing for Africa，millions of creatures are fleeing from the frozen north like Iceland，Greenland and Russia to winter along the east and south coasts of Britain.People might argue that it is the coloring of the leaves and their eventual fall that make people feel sad about autumn.But no one is sure why trees drop their leaves in the first place.It may be likely to rid the poisonous material trees collect over the summer.__5__
A century after Keats，the American poet Loren Eiseley wrote in his journal：“Suppose we saw ourselves burning like maples in a golden autumn.And suppose we could disintegrate(瓦解) like autumn leaves...Would not our attitude towards death be different？”
A. Autumn is not a time of slowing down，but a time of new beginnings and great movements of creatures.
B．He wrote to a friend afterwards that there was something comforting and healing about autumn.
C．Keats thought we should take a negative attitude towards death.
D．Autumn means different to different people.
E．If this is true，perhaps it tells us a little about，for instance，Thomas Hood，the 19th Century English poet.
F．More likely，it is a way of reducing the loss of water，which tree roots find hard to take in from cold soil.
G．The fall of tree leaves is more likely to make people sad.
答案： 1.D　2.E　3.B　4.A　5.F
Ⅳ.短文改错
On a snowy winter night，a bus with 45 passenger had an accident because the slippery road.And all of them were trapping in the bus and what was worse，the bus ran out of gas and it is very cold in it.They could do nothing but to wait for help.A man who lived nearby saw what had happened.He and some villagers tried to open the door and helped all of whom out of the bus.He took them to his home but offered them food and water and even some warm clothes for children.They spent two days in his home and finally help came.All of them were thankfully for his kind help.
答案：
On a snowy winter night，a bus with 45 had an accident because the slippery road.And all of them were in the bus and what was worse，the bus ran out of gas and it very cold in it.They could do nothing but to wait for help.A man who lived nearby saw what had happened.He and some villagers to open the door and helped all of out of the bus.He took them to his home offered them food and water and even some warm clothes for children.They spent two days in his home and finally help came.All of them were for his kind help.