Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? 单元阅读拓展练（含答案）

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Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world
单元阅读拓展练
话题分析: 本单元的主题为“talk about geography and nature(谈论地理和自然)”，通过复习形容词和副词比较级等级，进一步学习英语中较大数字的表达方式，同时引导我们了解周围一些地理和自然常识，激发我们探索大自然的兴趣，增强征服世界，改造大自然的决心。本单元包括四个子课题：1. 动物和植物（animals and plants）2. 山川与河流（mountains and rivers）3. 环境保护（environment protection）4. 人与自然（man and nature）以上四个子话题中，针对自然环境和濒危动物谈论环境保护是各地中考中最常考的话题之一。 在本单元的阅读训练中，阅读材料多涉及自然环境、地理概况等，文体以说明文和议论文为主。
背景导读 你喜欢亲近大自然吗？你对动植物感兴趣吗？关于雪豹你知道多少？你想了解鹰这种长寿动物背后“成长的代价”吗？你对保护濒危动物有什么好的建议吗？你想了解更多大自然的奇观吗？答案就在后面的阅读练习中，等着你去揭晓！
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Snow leopards (雪豹) are large cats. They usually weigh between 27 and 55kg. Some of them can even 1 75kg. They have a 2 body. It’s only 75 to 150 cm from the 3 to the tail. 21·cn·jy·com
Snow leopards are used to living in cold and high mountains. Their bodies are fat and their fur (毛皮) is 4 . These help them lose 5 heat (热). Their tails are also very thick. When they sleep, the tails can 6 their faces. Snow leopards eat whatever meat they can find. They can kill animals two to four times heavier than 7 . 2·1·c·n·j·y
Now, snow leopards are endangered and their living places are getting smaller and smaller. Two of the main 8 are mining (采矿) and climate (气候) change. “However, the snow leopard still has a 9 ,” says Dr. Charu Mishra, a researcher. 21*cnjy*com
Cat lovers all over the world celebrate World Snow Leopard Day 10 October 23rd. They hope that more and more people will know about these beautiful animals and help improve their situations.【来源：21cnj*y.co*m】
( ) 1. A. reach B. stop C. miss D. leave
( ) 2. A. long B. short C. strong D. weak
( ) 3. A. head B. leg C. foot D. arm
( ) 4. A. thin B. thick C. new D. old
( ) 5. A. much B. fewer C. more D. less
( ) 6. A. hurt B. wake C. protect D. shake
( ) 7. A. itself B. himself C. yourselves D. themselves
( ) 8. A. reasons B. names C. answers D. replies
( ) 9. A. future B. home C. problem D. weight
( ) 10. A. in B. on C. for D. at
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Romero has already reached the top of six other world famous high mountains. He climbed the first –Africa’s Kilimanjaro (乞力马扎罗山) – with his parents when he was 10.
Jordan said he had the idea of climbing those mountains when he saw a painting in his school. The painting showed all seven mountains.www-2-1-cnjy-com
“I just wanted to do something big, and this was something I wanted to do for myself,” he said.
His father, Paul, is an experienced mountain climber. But he said the idea was his son’s. “We’re just packing (收拾) the bags, going after him around the world,” Paul said.
Mount Qomolangma is 8,844 meters high. Jordan would climb with his parents and two guides. He said they would not take big risks (冒险).They would turn around if they saw problems such as bad weather. He hopes to reach the top by May.【版权所有：21教育】
“This may be the first of many tries,” he said, “It could take a few years, but I’ve made up my mind to do it. If I don’t reach the top this time, I will try next time.”21教育名师原创作品
The youngest person to climb Qomolangma until now was Temba Tsheri, 16, from Nepal (尼泊尔), in 2001.
( ) 1. Jordan had his first mountain climbing experience at the age of ________.
A. 10 B. 13 C. 16 D. 20
( ) 2. Jordan decided to climb Qomolangma with _________.
A. his teacher B. Temba Tsheri C. two guides D. his schoolmates
( ) 3. From the passage, we know that Jordan _________.
A. has reached the highest mountain in the world
B. began to like climbing because of a painting
C. will get to the top in spite of terrible weather
D. would climb the mountain by himself[]
( ) 4. In the passage, Jordan wanted to _______.
A. try his best to reach the top of the mountain B. make his dream come true after May
C. spend several weeks climbing the mountain D. take big risks to find the mountain
( ) 5.The passage mainly talks about __________.
A. some famous high mountains B. the youngest mountain climber
C. a wonderful adventure D. a boy’s dream of climbing
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The eagle has the longest life of its group. It can reach up to 70 years. But to reach this age, the eagle must make a hard and painful decision.
When an eagle reaches near 40, its short sharp beak becomes bent（弯曲的）. Its long and once flexible（灵活的） talons can no longer catch animals or birds for food. And its old and heavy wings with thick feathers on its body make it difficult to fly. Then, the eagle has only tow choices: to die or to go through a painful time of change which needs five months.
When the eagle feels weak and is about to die, it goes to a place far away on the top of a mountain and sits on a nest. For a new life, the eagle knocks its beak against a rock until it pulls its beak out. After pulling it out, the eagle waits for a new beak to grow. And then it pulls out its talons and old feathers. 3 It takes the eagle five months to complete its change and get a new life.
We can call it its rebirth. So it can live for 30 more years. 4 Like the eagle, we human beings sometimes need to make some change to get out of our difficulty. In difficult conditions, we have to change our ways of life. The changing may be very painful. But sometimes we have to throw off our old habits, memories and traditions. We can’t go on with all our past burdens（重负）.
阅读短文，根据其内容完成下列任务。
任务一：根据短文内容， 回答下列问题。
1. If the eagle wants to reach up to 70,what should it do
_____________________________________________________________________________.
2. When an eagle reaches near 40, it often has two choices. What are they 21cnjy.com
_____________________________________________________________________________.
任务二： 将短文中划线的句子翻译成汉语。
3.____________________________________________________________________________.
4.____________________________________________________________________________.
任务三：请给短文你一个适当的标题。
5.____________________________________________________________________________.
【考纲词汇积累】feather ['fe (r)] n. 羽毛②nest [nest] n.（鸟）巢③rebirth [ ri 'b θ] n. 重生 【好句美文采撷】In difficult conditions, we have to change our ways of life.在困难的条件下， 我们不得不改变我们的生活方式.
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阅读短文， 在文中空白处填入适当的词或用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空（每空不多于3个词）
The Andes Mountains are the longest and one of the__1__ (high) mountain ranges (山脉) in the world. They run through seven countries in South America. __2__ life is never easy there, the Inca (印加) people lived in the Andes Mountains for hundreds of years. The old and famous Inca Empire began around the__3__(thirteen) century (世纪) and didn’t come to an end __4__the late 16th century.21世纪教育网版权所有
Corn was the Inca people’s main food __5__ it could grow very well in the high mountains. Tomatoes, potatoes and another grain (谷物) called quinoa were also popular. When the Inca people mixed peppers__6__ quinoa, they could make a kind of delicious soup.
The llama (无峰驼), a kind of animal, is another __7__why the Inca people could live in such a terrible environment. It provided the Inca people with milk and meat. At the same time, it could __8__( use) to carry lots of heavy things.【来源：21·世纪·教育·网】
Most Inca people were farmers and the villages they lived in were very small. Even Cuzco, the capital (首都), was not a large city. In Cuzco, the Inca people built walls with huge stones. Some of the walls were more than seven __9__(meter) high. Even today, centuries later, the stones fit together __10__ well that you can’t even put a ruler between them. 21·世纪*教育网
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6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke from his gun before the sound reaches your ears.www.21-cn-jy.com
This great speed of light produces some strange facts Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reached you The nearest star is so far away that the light that you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km. per minute. In some cases, the light from one of tonight's stars had started on its journey to you before you were born.
Thus, if we want to be honest, we can't say, "The stars are shining tonight" We have to say instead, "The stars look pretty They were shining four years ago, but their light has only just reached the earth."【出处：21教育名师】
( )1．Light speed is ________ sound speed
A．as fast as B．a million times slower than
C．about millions of times faster than D．about a million times faster than
( )2．If you stand 200 metres away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you will find out that _______
A．you can hear the sound before you see the smoke
B．the sound does not travel as fast as light
C．the sound will reach you before the man fires
D．sound travels about a million times faster than light2-1-c-n-j-y
( )3．Sunlight obviously（明显地）_________ than the light of the moon
A．has to travel a greater distance B．moves less quickly
C．travels much more quickly D．is less powerful（有力的）
( )4.The scientific way of saying "The stars are shining tonight" should be ________
A．the stars have been shining all the time
B．the stars seen tonight will shine four years later
C．the stars were shining long ago but seen tonight
D．the starlight seen today could be seen four years ago
( )5. The Main idea of the article is __________.
A. the speed B. the light C. the speed of the light D. the speed of the sound
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A: ABABD CDAAB
B: . ACBAD
C: 1 The eagle must make a hard and painful decision.由文中第一段第三句“But to reach this age, the eagle must make a hard and painful decision.”可知，为了活到70岁，鹰必须做一个艰难且痛苦的决定。21*cnjy*com
2 To die or to go through a painful time of change。由文中第二段末句“Then,the eagle has only
tow choices: to die or to go through a painful time of change which needs 21教育网
five months.”可知，鹰的两个选择一是死亡，二是经历5个月的令它痛苦的改变。
3 鹰得话费5个月的时间去完成它的改变获得新生。It takes sb. Some time to do sth.表示“某人花费多长时间做某事”
4 像鹰一样，我们人类有时候需要作出一些改变来摆脱困境。
5 The rebirth of the eagle.
D: 1. highest 2. Although 3. thirteenth 4. until 5. because 6. with 7. Reason 8. be used 9. meters 10. so
E：1-5 D BAC C
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