M2U3 Amazing people 单元测试一、英语知识运用第一节单项选择：1．I know that when he looks at his watch，it's a ________for us to start the attack.A．sign B．expression C．meaning D．signal2．Now a lot of new technologies can ________problems in industry.A．be applied to solve B．be applied to solvingC．apply to solve D．apply to solving3．The________bodies ________ the world________mummies.A．preserving, are known to, asB．preserved, are known as, toC．preserving, are known as, toD．preserved, are known to, as4．Many of them will try their best to finish the project as soon as possible，________they know it to be difficult.A．as though B．now thatC．even though D．so that5．He was robbed last night，but ________he didn't have much money on him then.A．fortunately B．eventuallyC．certainly D．surprisingly6．Don't always think you yourself are ________ to the others；in fact，you are just an ordinary person.A．inferior B．superior C．sensitive D．sensible7．He is a great teacher.All the students________him.A．look up to B．look outC．look down on D．look on8．Our efforts resulted ________a failure.I think I'm also responsible ________it.A．in；to B．from；toC．in；for D．from；for9．It is ________that interest rates should be reduced.A．desiring B．desire C．desirable D．to desire10．—Have you been teaching here since graduation?—No，I ________on a farm for 5 years.A．had worked B．have workedC．was working D．worked11．All the injured in the disaster are believed ________in time.A．treating B．to treatC．to be treated D．to be treating12．When________for his views about his teaching job，Philip said he found it very interesting and rewarding.A．asking B．askedC．having asked D．to be asked13．—Are you happy with this laboratory?—Not a little.We can't have ________.A．a worse one B．a nicer oneC．so bad one D．so nice one14．The police were seeking more information to find out ________the rich merchant.A．who was it that killed B．who it was that killedC．it was who killed D．who was it killed15．—Do you mind if I smoke?—________.A．Why not? B．Yes，help yourselfC．Go ahead D．Yes，but you'd better not第二节完形填空：Many of you will be surprised to learn that I was never really interested in writing when I was young. Yes, it is true! I, a __1__ writer, did not enjoy writing, __2_, that is, I met my Sixth Form English teacher, Mr. Sullivan.I still remember our first lesson. Mr. Sullivan __3__ us a piece of paper and told us to choose the name we wanted to be __4__ in his class. He said it did not have to be our real name. It could be __5__ we wanted. I wrote ‘Bozo the Clown’ as a __6__. Let me tell you, I regretted doing that for the rest of the year!We learnt the rules quickly. __7_ we showed up late for a lesson, we would be __8__ out. If we forgot to do our homework, he would tell us to leave and not come back until we did it. He was __9__, but he was also the most interesting teacher I ever had.Mr. Sullivan made us write in our journals every __10__. At first, I would only write down a few sentences. __11__ he started giving us all these interesting questions. I began writing whole pages of thoughts. He told me I was a __12__ writer when I really tried.Sometimes he would bring in __13__ for us to watch, which were __14__ on some of the stories we read in class. Before then, I thought most books were __15__, but watching the films really brought the stories to __16__. I started to __17__ how good the original stories were. I decided that I wanted to be able to write as __18__ as those authors one day.__19__ we arrived at our lesson and Mr. Sullivan was not there. We locked the door and waited for him. When he arrived ten minutes later, we told him he could not come in because he was late. He laughed and said, ‘OK. That’s __20__.’Recently, I returned to my hometown to give a speech at my old school. I saw Mr. Sullivan in the audience. After my speech, I went and talked to him. He had a copy of the first book I ever wrote and asked me to sigh it. I wrote, ‘Dear Mr. Sullivan. Thank you for helping me become what I am today. From your old student, Bozo the Clown.’AIf you are sitting down listening to our program, stand up. Move your legs. Touch your toes if you can. Do anything but sit. If you cut down on the time you spend sitting, you might live longer live longer. New research shows that sitting less than three hours a day might make you live longer by two years.The human body is designed to move. But modern lifestyles and office jobs rarely give us the chance to move around. Just the opposite, says Peter Katzmarzyk, a scientist at the University of Louisiana in the southern United States , he says that sitting is ubiquitous in our lives today. We sit while we watch TV .And many of us sit while we’re eating, we sit in the car. And many of us sit for many hours at work. Americans report that they sit between four and a half to five hours a day.Mr. Katzmarzyk says you may exercise often. But, he says even that does not mean you can sit for the rest of your waking hours. “We can’t throw away physical activity. It’s extre mely important, but moving is also important. Even if you exercise for 30 minutes a day, what goes on in the other 23.5 hours a day is also very important.”He found that cutting television time to lessthan two hours a day could add 1.4 years to life.Mr. Katzmarzyk and his co-workers are part of a new generation of researchers studying how sitting all day affects length of life. This is a relatively new area of study—studies that have assessed the relationship between sitting and mortality(死亡) or television viewing and mortality.Making uses of the few studies available to them, they found that cutting television time to less than two hours a day could add one-point four years to lChange is already coming to some offices, especially in the design of desks. A “standing desk” lets people stand while they work. Another new design is called the “treadmill desk.”A treadmill is an exercise machine that lets you walk in one place. Even some U.S. schools are beginning to experiment with desks that are part bicycles to keep children moving.Mr. Katzmarzyk says studying this problem has inspired his team to make a few changes in their own lives. "As a university professor, you know, it is a very sedentary occupation. We're chained to a desk in terms of writing papers and doing research. We really try to limit the amount of time we spend doing that."If you work in office job, Mr.Katzmarzyk and his team suggest a few simple changes:(1) get up from your desk as often as you can(2) take walks at lunch time(3) instead of emailing colleagues, walk to their offices and talk directly.All these activities may help you live longer.1. Which of the statement is true according to the passage?A. Mr. Katzmarzyk and his team are the first to study how sitting affects length of lifeB. Standing desks and treadmill desks will replace common desks eventuallyC. Physical activities weigh as much as enough exercise so as to live longerD. The new research draws a complete opposite conclusion from former studies2. The underlined word “ubiquitous “in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to_____A. uniqueB. commonC. continuousD. unavoidableBFor as long as humans have existed, there has been a need to keep in touch with, For as longas humans have existed, there has been a need to keep in touch, to send information between people in different places. Before writing was invented, spoken messages were carried from one person to another and it was not easy to send longer messages. Writing changed the situation, but it was still difficult to make sue that your message got to the right place.The Romans created an organized system of mail delivery, called Cursus Publicus. This was used by the Emperor and officials to send information throughout the Empire(帝国) Staging posts and a relay system with horses and carriages meant that messages could move quickly, by using many riders instead of one. However, the Romans were not (as many people think) the first to realize this. In 2000 BC the Egyptians used a similar system to keep people informed about the laws in the country. The Chinese and Persian empires also used systems of horses and riders more than 500 yeah before the Romans.After the Roman postal service disappeared, other systems were created in Europe, but never again as large as the Roman's. Rulers of countries or regions and even churches created their own official mail network. It was also very important to business between countries that good communication existed. International traders set up many unofficial postal links. There was one such link between V enice and Constantinople in the 14th century.Until the mid-1600s in Europe, only official messages could be carried by the state networks; everyone else had to we less secure, unofficial networks. However. as more roads were built. unofficial networks became safer, more reliable and very profitable. Realizing they could make money, governments in most countries took control of their own public postal system, making the unofficial networks illegal.A number of countries claim to have invented the idea of stamps-placing a piece of paper on the letter showing that the postage had been paid for. But the first widely-available stamp was the Penny Black, introduced in Britain by a man called Rowland Hill in 1840. It was a black stamp with a white picture of the Queen's head on it. Hill changed the idea of payment from distance to weight. The year before its introduction, about 75 million letters had been posted in Britain, yet only 10 years later over 340 million letters were sent using stamp. It was a very important invention and completely changed the postal system. To buy a first-edition of this stamp today can cost over £1000.Until the 1870s it was still very expensive to send mail to other countries. The Universal Postal Union was created in 1874 to make sure that "all people in the world have affordable and reliable access to postal services". It cannot tell countries how much to charge. but it helps countries work together and set reasonable international mail prices.With the creation of airmail, it's now cheap and quick to send letters to most parts of the world. Unfortunately, the growth of new technology (the Internet, emails, fax machines) meansthat traditional postal services are becoming less popular. Many people now call traditional post "snail mail". because it does not have the speed of an email or a text message. Remember. though it has been here for over 2000 years, and is still a way of delivering a personal message.3. Sending longer messages became easier because of .A. the invention of paperB. the invention of writingC. the invention of languageD. the need of communicating4. According to the passage. Cursus Publicus .A. was the largest mail network in EuropeB. was the first mail network in human historyC. provided postal service for everyone in RomeD. was 500 year earlier than the similar system in Egypt5. The postal link between V enice and Constantinople was built to .A. help official managementB. promote international tradeC. compete against official licksD. improve cultural exchanges6. It can be learned from Paragraph 5 that before 1840 .A. the stamp was very expensiveB. most people in Europe had no idea of stampsC. Britain had the best postal system in the worldD. the postage on a letter was decided by how far it traveled7. What can be Inferred from the last paragraph?A. The airmail system grows rapidly.B. The postal system will become more popular.C. The speed of traditional post will be improvedD. The traditional postal services remain important in mail delivery.CWhen I was quite young I sometimes dreamt about a city. It was odd, because the dreambegan before I even knew what a city was. But I could see this city, by a big bay, with boats on the water and houses all around. Sometimes I saw silver things flying in the sky. It was a pretty place.Once I asked my sister, Mary, where the city was. She told me that there was no such place. She said that long ago there might have been a city like that, but not now. Then she told me not to talk about the dream to anyone.Mary did not want me to talk about anything that might make people think I was different from them. Where we lived, people were always looking out for strange things. They even thought it was strange that I was left-handed. So I did not talk about my dream to anyone, and as I got older I did not have it so often.And I never told anyone that I could talk to my cousin Rosalind without seeing her. I wasn't sure if talking like that was strange. After some time I thought perhaps I was just like everyone else. Until the day I met Sophie.One day I had done off by myself as I often did. I went down a cart track from our farm until I came to a high ridge. This ridge was very long, and ran all the way round the land, as far as you could see. I had often gone along the top of it, but I hadn't been down the other side. Somehow the land on the other side seemed strange, like another country. But today I played a game.The rain had worn away some of the bank on the other side and I could push myself down the path made by the rain. I did this twice, rushing down the ridge and landing in the soft sand at the bottom. The third time I landed, a voice said, “Hello.”8. The sentence “It was odd, because the dream began before I even knew what a city was.” suggests that________.A. the dream began as soon as I fell asleepB. my dream was always the sameC.I had not seen a cityD. my dream always started in a city9. David believed that people thought he was strange because he____.A. played on the cart-trackB. talked to SophieC. was left-handedD. had dreams about a city10. The underlined part “I did not have it so often” in paragraph 4 means______.A. I didn’t often talk about my dream to peopleB. I was not often left-handedC. I didn’t often talk with Rosalind without seeing herD. I didn’t often dream about a cityDSix years ago, a Miami woman walking through the hall of an office building casually noticed two men standing together. Several minutes after her leaving, the men murdered a person working in the building. Police investigators determined that the woman was the only witness who had seenthe two suspects, and could possibly describe them. In an interview with police, her memory of the men proved disappointingly unclear.Several days later, psychologist Ronald P. Fisher was brought in to obtain a more complete account from the woman. Fisher’s interview produced a breakthrough-the woman reported a clearpicture of one of the suspects. She then recalled several details about his appearances. This information gave police important leads that enabled them to arrest the suspects and close the case.Police investigators sought the help from Fisher because of his rich knowledge in conducting theso-called cognitive (认知的) interview, a kind of memory-rebuilding process. In its original form, the cognitive interview focuses on guiding witnesses through four general recalling techniques: thinking about physical surroundings and personal feelings that existed at the time of past events, reporting everything that comes to mind about those events no matter how broken or unconnected, retelling events in a variety of time orders, beginning to end, end to beginning, forward or backward, and adopting different perspectives while recalling events.Usually, an interviewer begins the cognitive approach by encouraging the witness to take an active role in recalling information rather than giving answers only to someone else’s questions. The witness first describes what happened in his or her own words, with no interviewer interruptions. The interviewer then goes further with specific techniques, such as having the witness tell the details of what happened from different perspectives.Experiments with police detectives trained in this demanding interview method find that they get nearly 50% more information from witnesses than before training, while error rates remain about the same.11. What is the purpose of writing this passage？A. To give an account of a murder case in an officeB. To explain why Fisher was invited to a police interview.C. To describe how cognitive method helps the woman to recall.D. To give the readers an idea of cognitive interview.12. The cognitive interview helped the woman to recall more by______.A. strengthening her memoryB. giving her encouragementC. rebuilding her memoryD. giving her more time13. It can be inferred from the passage that in a cognitive interview, the interviewer mainly plays a_______role.A. directingB. questioningC. passiveD. secondary14. What is the key point of the cognitive interview？A. The interviewer should interrupt the witness from time to time.B. The witness is encouraged to take an active role in recalling information.C. The interview should take place outside the police station.D. The witness should recall details at the scene of the event.15. Police trained in the cognitive interview method can ________.A. get more information from the witness than beforeB. decrease the error rateC. solve the cases more quicklyD. use the method more skillfully than the psychologists三、任务型阅读A best friend is someone you can trust with your deepest secrets, depend on in case of emergency and celebrate meaningful life events with. But developing the skills in being your own best friend means you can depend on your own judgment and be your won source of comfort when you need advice or support. Being your own best friend can also be a great way to work through feelings of loneliness and insecurity in your life. By cultivating productive and positive self, you can learn to trust yourself in on a continuous basis.There are two effective ways that can help you be your own best friend, one of which is to create a healthy relationship with yourself. For this, you need to spend time getting to know yourself. Think aboutwhat drives and motivates you, what you like and dislike, and what you are good at or need to improve. The more y ou understand yourself on an honest and real level, the easier it’ll be to like and respect yourself for who you are.In addition, thinking about your relationships with other people in your life can also help you create a healthy relationship with yourself because good relationships in your life can serve as models for how to be your own best friend. You can write down the names of the people you consider important in your life, and why they are important to you. Think about questions like, “why am I grate ful to have these persons in my life?”The other effective way is enjoying your own company. To achieve this, you can take a trip to a foreign country or place alone. This trip is a great way to develop strong independence and self-reliance as well as openness to different attitudes and customs of others. Cultivating a hobby you can enjoy alone or taking up an activity that involves just you are also good ways to get used to your own company and like it. With the upset of someone else sitting across from you, you may find you pay less attention to the movie or the band, or that you are less aware of your own opinions on the environment around you.More importantly, when you do something you are proud of, praise yourself for it. By admitting your self-worth and cultivating inner value, you’re taking control of what makes you feel good. However, rather than try to make your choices and decisions into what someone else defines as successful or powerful, turn inward and admit that you have value and meaning in t he world. Don’t wait for someone else to recognize your self-worth.四、单词拼写（10题）1．Little Tom was ________(好奇的) about how the computer worked.2．The two murder cases were so similar to each other；it was not a ________(巧合) at all. 3．The earth seemed to ________(吞没) them up.4．The new law will increase the ________(处罚) for overloaded trucks.5．His question has no direct ________(联系) with our discussion.1．There were a large number of ________(申请人) for the job.2．What is the ________(品质) you most admire in others?3．They felt very l ucky because of their ________(幸存)．4．She said she was ________(乐观的) about the future of the company.5．Socialism is ________(优越的) to capitalism.五、完成句子第一节根据汉语提示完成句子1. 万一遇到紧急情况时，击碎玻璃，按下按钮。
