北师大版(2019)高中英语必修第三册Unit 9 Learning单元能力提升测试卷(含答案解析)

第 1 页 共 15 页 北师大版（2019）高中英语必修第三册Unit 9

Learning单元能力提升测试卷

第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）

第一节 （共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

I was taking in the breathtaking view at the top of Sydney Harbour Bridge when I sensed I was

about to witness something even more dramatic right in front of me. Although we were all tied to

lines running along the steel girders, a fellow climber called Mike had somehow managed to drop

to one knee and turn to face his girlfriend, Wendy. I knew what was coming. "Wendy, will you

marry me?" he asked. There was a quick smile and an attempted kiss and then a big beam. Mike

had the answer he hoped for and all of us burst into a round of applause.

Apparently more than 2,000 couples have become engaged at the summit since 1998, when it

became possible to climb it in organised tour groups. The bridge, perhaps the most recognised

symbol of this beautiful city, opened in 1932. It's still the world's largest steel-arch bridge.

We returned to the fantastic view; the famous Sydney Opera House, ferries and sailboats

making their way through the harbour, the city skyline—but I had to force myself to look down.

We had climbed 1,423 steps to the top of the bridge and I didn't know whether to be delighted or

scared.

Nicole Kidman has done it. So have Bruce Springsteen, Prince Harry and scores of other

celebrities. But climbing to the top clearly isn't just for the rich and the famous. On the contrary ,

Australian youngsters do it to celebrate their 12th birthdays. (You have to be at least 12 years old

to do the climb.) A 100-year-old woman climbed it and told guides it was on her list of things to

do before death.

You can climb during the day, at twilight, or even after dark with headlamps. People climb in

all weathers except when there's lightning in the area. In fact, over two million people have made

the three-and-a-half-hour climb to the top of the famous bridge—an adventure that cannot be

done anywhere else in the world on a bridge this big. That's probably why this climb has won a

lot of tourism awards. Today, the climb is firmly on the "to-do list" for locals as well as tourists.

1.What can we learn about the bridge?

A.Getting engaged on the bridge is quite rare.

B.People climb the bridge at climbers' age.

C.There are no limitations on climbers' age.

D.Many famous people have done the climb.

2.How did the author feel when he climbed to the top of the bridge? 第 2 页 共 15 页 A.Bored and tired. B.Fearful and confused.

C.Excited and nervous. D.Relieved and relaxed.

3.What is the author's purpose of writing the passage?

A.To introduce the popularity of the bridge.

B.To emphasise the importance of the bridge.

C.To explain the functions of the bridge.

D.To describe the fantastic view from the bridge.

B

We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively. We achieve it actively by direct

experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.

We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that

takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or

magazines is passive. We are used to passive learning, and it's not surprising that we depend on it

in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers. Unfortunately, passive learning has

a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than

hearsay and rumour.

Did you ever play the game Rumour? It begins when one person writes down a message but

doesn't show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That

person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game.

The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two

written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed.

That's what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words

changes the story. Then, too, most people listen to improve on it, stamping(打上标记) it with

their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.

This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer

may be restated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process

may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer

based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.

1.According to the passage, what situation may passive learning occur in?

A.Doing a medical experiment. B.Solving a math problem.