人教新课标英语必修二Unit 4 Wildlife protection Learning about Language & Using Language（同步测试）

Unit 4　Wildlife protection
Learning about Language & Using Language
Ⅰ.单句填空
1．It suddenly rained when the mayor ________(inspect) our new school last week.
2．The boy was sent to a hospital because he ________(bite) by a dog.
3．His books never fail to attract the readers with those surprising ________(end)．
4．A new law that protects the disabled people's right has been passed so that they can ride buses ________ free.
5. By working ________(faith) eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
6. All of a sudden, a mouse rushed out of the hole, ________ (disappear) into the darkness.
7．Joe, don't give up now; you're improving all the time.It won't be long ________ you can speak English well.
8．According to the researchers, passive smokers ________(harm) even more than the smokers themselves.
9．She could find no reasonable explanation for the ________(disappear) of the money in the locked safe.
10．He was becoming angry, and was staring ________(fierce) at me as if he was about to lose control.
Ⅱ.短语填空
come into being; according to; so that; do harm to; be employed in; long before; a number of; come after; for sure; die out
1．Just as the brightness will ________________the darkness, the end of the hard way is sure to be happy forever.
2．I'm afraid you must get out of the habit, for it'll ________________ your health.
3．Some reports said he had left the camp only a couple of hours earlier, but we never knew ____．
4．The company has a free long?distance telephone number ________________consumers can call with any questions they have about the products.
5．The examination was coming and the school students __________ preparing their lessons.
6．When the expression first ________________， people refused to use it but gradually they began to accept it.
7．Don't be so upset.It won't be ________________your children can return to school again.
8．________________ the weather forecast, there will be a heavy rain tomorrow morning.
9．In recent years, ________________wild animals have been found in the forest.
10．If too many of these rare animals are killed, their kind will________________．
Ⅲ.句型训练
1．The middle school students should learn how to protect themselves _____________ unexpectedly.(harm)
中学生应学会如何保护自己免遭意外伤害。
2．He was very excited, and it was long__________________________________．(calm)
他很激动， 心情久久不能平静。
3．The lady is looking after the children ____________________________in the factory during the daytime.(employ)
这位女士正在照看孩子，这些孩子的父母们白天在工厂里工作。
4．Lucy was having a holiday with her friends in a national park____________________________________________ on the foot by a snake.(bite)
露西正和朋友们在一个国家公园度假，这时她的脚被蛇咬了。
5．When you enter or leave a country, the customs office is the place_______________．(inspect)
当你进入或离开一个国家时，海关检查处是检查你的行李的地方。
6．We don't know when the river here ____________________________．(come)
我们不知道这儿的这条河是何时形成的。
7．Society tends to look at a woman by the way________________________， whether that is appropriate or not.(look)
不管那么说是否合适，这个社会对女性往往以貌取人。
8．He ________________________ for fun，but now he has no time to do so.(used)
过去他经常去钓鱼玩，但是现在没时间这样做了。
9．Everyone lent a hand, _______________________________________ahead of schedule.(so)
每个人都帮了忙， 所以工作提前完成了。
10．Schoolchildren spend too much time on video games, ______________ ________________________their eyes and affect their school achievements.(harm)
学生花太多的时间玩电子游戏，这既伤害他们的眼睛又影响他们的学习成绩。
Ⅳ.阅读理解
Elephants are able to differentiate between ethnicities(种族) and sexes, and can tell an adult from a child—all from the sound of a human voice.
This is according to a study in which researchers played voice recordings to wild African elephants.
The animals showed more fear when they heard the voices of adult Maasai men.
Livestock?herding Maasai people do come into conflict with elephants, and this suggests that animals have adapted to specifically listen for and avoid them.
The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Karen McComb and Dr Graeme Shannon from the University of Sussex led the study.They explained that in previous research they had used similar playback experiments to show that elephants could tell—from the sound of a lion's roar—whether the animal was a female or a more dangerous male.
Prof. McComb wanted to find out if the animals used their very sharp sense of hearing to identify a potential danger from humans.
The scientists recorded Maasai men, women and children saying, in their own language, “Look, look over there, a group of elephants are coming.”
They also recorded Kamba men saying this phrase.
While cattle?herding Maasai people often come across free?ranging elephants, which can result in violent conflict, the Kamba people's more agricultural lifestyle does not generally bring them into aggressive touch with the animals.
When the team played recordings of these different voices through a hidden loudspeaker, they found that elephant family groups reacted more fearfully in response to the voice of a Maasai man, than to a Kamba man's voice.
And the adult male Maasai voices encouraged far more of these defensive reactions than the voices of women or boys.
1．How did the researchers get to know the elephants' special ability of identification?
A．By observing the elephants in the zoo.
B．By playing voice recordings to them.
C．By recording the behaviours of elephants.
D．By communicating with them in a special way.
2．We can learn from the passage that elephants are especially afraid of ________．
A．Maasai men
B．Maasai women
C．Kamba men
D．Kamba women
3．What is the best title for the passage?
A．Elephants and human beings
B．Differences between human voices
C．Elephants recognize human voices
D．Elephants conflict with human beings
Ⅴ.阅读七选五
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Sharks are among the oldest animals on Earth.There are hundreds of kinds of sharks.Most are about two metres long.The dogfish shark, however, is less than twenty centimetres in length.A shark has an extremely good sense of smell.It can find small amounts of substances in water, such as blood, body liquids and chemicals produced by animals. __1__ Sharks eat fish, other sharks, and plants that live in the ocean.
Sharks grow slowly.About forty per cent of all sharks lay eggs. __2__ Some sharks carry their young inside their bodies as humans do.Some sharks are not able to reproduce until they are twenty years old.Most reproduce only every two years.And they give birth to fewer than ten young sharks.For this reason, overfishing of sharks is of special danger to the future of the animal.
Sharks are important for the world's oceans.They eat injured and diseased fish.Their hunting activities mean that the numbers of other fish in ocean waters do not become too great. __3__
People hunt sharks for sport, food, medicine and their skin.Experts say the international market for some kinds of sharks has increased because many parts of a shark are valuable.
Collectors pay thousands of dollars for the jaws of a shark. __4__ The skin of a shark can be used like leather.
In Asia, people enjoy a kind of soup made from shark fins.Experts say a fisherman can earn a lot of money for even one kilogram of shark fins.Sharks are among the oldest animals on Earth, but some sharks are in danger of disappearing from Earth. __5__
A．Shark liver oil is a popular source of vitamin A.
B．This protects the plants and other forms of life that exist in the oceans.
C．Sharks are valuable to us and we can make full use of them.
D．These powerful senses help sharks find their food.
E．If too many sharks in one area are killed, that group of sharks may never return to normal population levels.
F．They are a threat to other forms of life in the ocean.
G．The others give birth to live young.

















参考答案Answer:
Learning about Language & Using Language
Ⅰ.1.was inspecting　2.was bitten　3.endings　4.for　5.faithfully
6．disappearing　7.before　8.are (being) harmed　9.disappearance　10.fiercely
Ⅱ.1.come after　2.do harm to　3.for sure　4.so that　5.were employed in
6．came into being　7.long before　8.According to　9.a number of　10.die out
Ⅲ.1.from being harmed　2.before he calmed down
3．whose parents are employed　4.when she was bitten
5．where your luggage is inspected　6.came into being
7．(that/in which) she looks　8.used to go fishing
9．so that the work was finished　10.which will do harm to
Ⅳ.【文章大意】 研究表明大象能根据人类说话的声音判断出说话者的种族和性别以及说话者是成年人还是小孩子。
1．B　细节理解题。从文中第二段“This is according to a study in which researchers played voice recordings to wild African elephants.”可知，研究者是通过给野生非洲象播放录音发现其有这种能力的。故选B项。
2．A　细节理解题。根据倒数第二段“…more fearfully in response to the voice of a Maasai man, than to a Kamba man's voice.”可知，当大象听到成年的Maasai男人的声音时，它们就显得更加害怕。又根据最后一段“And the adult male Maasai voices encouraged far more of these defensive reactions than the voices of women or boys.”可知，成年的Maasai男人的声音比女人或男孩的声音会引发大象更多防御性的反应。故选A项。
3．C　主旨大意题。结合全文可知，研究表明大象可以根据人类说话的声音来判别说话者的种族和性别以及说话者是成年人还是小孩，这足以说明大象能识别人的声音。故选C项。
Ⅴ.【文章大意】 本文主要介绍了地球上最古老的生物之一——鲨鱼以及鲨鱼现在所面临的危险情况。
1．D　根据上文“It can find small amounts of substances in water, such as blood, body liquids and chemicals produced by animals.”可知鲨鱼灵敏的嗅觉可以使它们找到水里的如血、体液以及动物产生的化学物质。这种能力让它们迅速找到食物。故D正确。
2．G　本段前两句是在叙述鲨鱼的繁衍方式。根据“About forty per cent of all sharks lay eggs.”可知大约百分之四十的鲨鱼产卵，其余的鲨鱼直接生出小鲨鱼。故G正确。
3．B　根据上文“Their hunting activities mean that the numbers of other fish in ocean waters do not become too great.”可知，鲨鱼可以保持海洋的生态平衡，不让某些生物的数量太大。这间接地保护了海洋里的其他生物。故B正确。
4．A　根据“Collectors pay thousands of dollars for the jaws of a shark.”和“The skin of a shark can be used like leather.”可知本段是在叙述鲨鱼各部位的价值，选项里只有A项符合语境。故A正确。
5．E　根据“Sharks are among the oldest animals on Earth, but some sharks are in danger of disappearing from Earth.”可知某些鲨鱼已经面临着灭绝的危险。那么一旦大量的鲨鱼被捕杀，这种鲨鱼就很难恢复到正常的数量。故E项正确。