【高中英语人教课标高二选修8】Unit3单元测试题

Unit 3 Inventors and inventions

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第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

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For many Koreans, kimchi is a food that they cannot live without! Kimchi is not just tasty food. It’s also a part of Korean history. Experts believe that people began making kimchi around the seventh century. The farming communities created kimchi to provide vegetables all year round. At that time, however, kimchi was just a salted vegetable. It was not until five centuries later that people started adding tasty seeds and other plants. And it was not until the eighteenth century that people began adding the hot red pepper. This gave kimchi the red colour that it often has today. The nineteenth century saw the introduction of the Chinese cabbage to Korea. Koreans then started to use this vegetable to make kimchi. And they developed the kimchi that people know and love today.

Kimchi is such an important part of Korean culture that there is a yearly kimchi event. It happens every year in October and lasts for several days. People travel from all over South Korea to the event — in the city of Gwangju. At the event, different types of kimchi are made to see which one tastes best, and many food products are on show. Besides, there is beautiful traditional music. If you want to learn more about kimchi’s culture and history, come to visit the Kimchi Field Museum in Seoul. It was started by a large food company in 1986. In the museum, historians have documented almost 200 different kinds of kimchi.

In April, 2008, Yi So-Yeon became South Korea’s first person to go into space. The 29-year-old took kimchi with her and spent ten days in space. There, she performed a series of science tests. It was such an unusual trip for all Koreans!

21. In the twelfth century, kimchi _____.

A. was made of the Chinese cabbage

B. tasted much better than before

C. was only a salted vegetable

D. began to appear in Korea

22. During the kimchi event, people _____.

A. usually get together in Seoul

B. can compete in making kimchi

C. often come from all over the world

D. can see many foreign food products

23. Yi So-Yeon was mentioned to show _____.

A. kimchi means a lot to the Koreans

B. she is very popular among the Koreans

C. women play an important part in modern society

D. the aircraft industry is developing rapidly in Korea

B

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All American dollar bills (纸币) weigh the same, they’re the same size, and they’re made of the same material. “There are no physical marks for those with vision (视力) loss, who need an effective means of knowing how much it is, a $1 or a $100?” explains Vencer Cotton, director of technology and training at the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind in Washington, D.C.

Now there is something that comes pretty close. Meet the iBill, a piece of plastic about the size of a large cigarette lighter. Equipped with one AAA battery, a couple of buttons and a speaker, the iBill is designed to be simple. A narrow opening allows for a U.S. bill to be placed inside and upon scanning, it will say the amount the bill is worth. However, even though the iBill can do that job for you, it doesn’t mean ittell you if a bill is real or even how much you have.

Created by Orbit Research, it will be the first money reader distributed by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). The bureau will soon be shipping iBills, free of charge, across the country. “It is my No. 1 choice,” Cotton says of the iBill, especially when it comes to sorting money as fast as possible.

There are actually a bunch of apps (应用程序) that can do what the iBill can, made convenient by the iPhone’s voiceover functions. In particular, EyeNote was also developed by the U.S. BEP to help distinguish bills. Another app, called LookTel, offers recognition for a large number of countries’ bills and VisionHunt distinguishes different kinds of bills and offers many tools to the blind. “But a lot of blind peopcan’t afford an iPhone,” says Shawn Callaway, president of the National Federation of the Blind of Washington, D.C.

24. The iBill was invented to _____.

A. pay for things at certain shops

B. help children sort out their money

C. help the blind recognize their money

D. tell whether a dollar bill is real or not

25. What can we learn about the iBill?

A. It is unbreakable. B. It can’t calculate.

C. It can light a cigarette.

D. It costs a lot of money.

26. Compared with other apps, the iBill _____.

A. is much easier for poor people to accept

B. offers more useful functions to the blind

C. is the only one developed by the U.S. BEP

D. can tell the differences between many foreign bills