新视野视听说unit9单元测试

新视野视听说unit9单元测试

Part I

Directions: Listen to the short dialogs, then choose the

correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording

twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose

the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your a

nswers.

1. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. Valentine's Day should be done away with.

B. The man's girl friend is asking for too much.

C. The man should buy gifts for his girl friend.

D. The man is cheap.

2. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. Stories about monsters.

B. Stories about pirates.

C. Children not afraid of fighting.

D. Children in strange costumes. 3. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. He is happy.

B. He is exceptionally sad.

C. He misses those who died in war.

D. He celebrates the victory.

4. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. A housewife.

B. A housekeeper.

C. A president.

D. It is not known.

5. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. A king.

B. A queen.

C. Those who want to sell gifts. D. Those who employed servants.

Part II

Directions: Listen to the passage(s) three times. When the

passage is read for the first time, listen for the general idea. When

the passage is read for the second time, fill in the blanks

numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you hear. For

blanks numbered from S8 to S10, write down either the exact

words you hear or the main points in your own words. When the

passage is read for the third time, check your answers.

Many Americans buy an evergreen tree for Christmas. They

put the

small lights and colorful objects on it. The evergreen is us

ually a pine or a fir tree. It

green during the cold, dark months of winter

of everlasting life.

The Christmas tree may have developed in part from a

popular play

hundreds of years ago in

is now Germany. Traditionally, the play was held on December twenty-fourth, the day before Christmas. The God created--Adam and Eve. People put apples on an

evergreen tree to

the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.

members and friends after the holiday season.

Some people say the German religious reformer Martin

Luther was the first person to add lighted candles to a tree. S9

In the early 1800s, German settlers in the state of

Pennsylvania were the first to celebrate the holiday with

Christmas trees in the United States.

Christmas tree. It represents the star that led the three wise

men to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem.

Part III

Directions: Listen to the following recording, then choose the

correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording

twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose

the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your

answers. 1. On what day was the beginning of the new year first

observed

in 16th-century France?

A. On January 1st.

B. On February 1st. C. On March 1st.

D. On April 1st.

Your answer Correct answer

A D

2. On whom did people play tricks after Pope Gregory

introduced

a new calendar?

A. Those who celebrated New Year's Day on April first.

B. Those who celebrated New Year's Day on January first.

C. Those who followed Gregory's idea.

D. Those who accepted the new calendar.

Your answer Correct answer

A A

3. How do French children fool their friends?

A. By hiding a fish in their friend's bag.

B. By putting a paper fish on their friend's back.

C. By saying, "School has been canceled."

D. By saying, "Look! A flock of geese!" 4. What is mentioned as a common trick in the United States?

A. Telling a classmate that the teacher has fallen ill.

B. Telling a friend that a bird is flying past.

C. Saying "Your shoelace is untied."

D. Saying "Your pants are unzipped."

5. What is considered the most clever April Fool joke?

A. One that is played with a large audience around.

B. One that is first played on April Fool's Day.

C. One that makes everyone laugh except the victim.

D. One that makes everyone laugh, including the victim.

Part IV

Directions: Choose the right answer.

1. I used to love giving my mother a present on Mother's Day.

It always made her cry, then she'd hug me hard enough to