高二英语选修8单元测试Unit3Inventorsandinventions含解析

学必求其心得，业必贵于专精

单元测试

Ⅰ。单项填空

1.Steve goes to call on his English teacher________,who retired from

school last year.

A。now and then B。from now on

C。up till now D。by now

答案：A now and then 有时；from now on从今以后；up till now一直到现在;by now到目前为止。

2。The fat boy_________ cleaning the classroom with the persuasion of

his teacher.

A.set out to B.set aside

C。set down D。set about

答案：D set out to do sth.着手干某事；set about doing sth.开始做某事;set sth.aside 把……放到一旁； set sth。down 写下；记下。

3.He is such a man who doesn’t like to_________ by his success。

A。distinguish B.distinguished

C。distinguishing D.distinguish himself

答案:D distinguish oneself 使自己扬名.

4.A teacher who always has __________ideas will be popular with his

students。

A。noveling B。novels

C。novel D。a novel

答案：C novel在此处是“新奇的，新颖的，异常的”。

5。 We should solve the problem on the well-beaten______. 学必求其心得，业必贵于专精

A.track B.area

C.subject D.lesson

答案：A wellbeaten track 惯例。

6。The passage without new words is not easy to understand。

A.truly B。in truth

C.from fact D.fact

答案：B in truth 事实上。

7。The new recorder that I bought yesterday is _________，which makes

me very angry。

A.out of order

B。in order that

C。in order to

D。of the order

答案:A out of order坏了。

8.Linda worked for the Minnesota Manufacturing and Mining Company,

________as 3M。

A.knowing B。known

C。being known D。to be known

答案：B known作Minnersota Manufacturing and Mining Company的定语，表示被动.

9.A metal _________ uranium gives off a kind of radiation.

A。calling B.called

C。is called D.which is calling 学必求其心得，业必贵于专精

答案:B 本句的意思是“一种被叫做’铀’的金属能发射出一种射线"。call表示“把……叫做……”,call必须带有复合宾语。当把定语从句变为分词短语作定语时，要把关系代词和助动词均去掉，只保留过去分词和主语补足语.

10。As early as 1649 Ohio made a decision that free，tax supported schools

must be established in every town _________50 households or more.

A。having B。to have

C。to have had D。having had

答案：A 后面由分词作定语，而且town本身有50或以上人家，故town与分词间为主谓关系，应该用现在分词.

11。 Most of the artists _________ to the party were from South Africa.

A.invited B.to invite

C.being invited D。had been invited

答案：A 句中的most of the artists与invited之间是被动关系,故应选用过去分词,相当于who were invited。

12.The computer centre， last year,is very popular __________among the

students in this school.

A。open B。opening

C。having opened D。opened

答案：D 根据句中的last year可知the computer centre去年就开业了,表示完成的动作；而且open与the computer centre又存在被动关系,句意为：“去年开办的计算机中心在这所学校里受到学生们的欢迎。” 学必求其心得，业必贵于专精

13。The Olympic Games， __________in 776 BC,did not include women

players until 1912。

A.first playing

B.to be first played

C。first played

D。to be,first playing

答案：C 根据题意可知，the Olympic Games与play之间是被动关系,因此可以排除A和D项，另外B项表示将来的动作，也应排除，它可还原成一个非限制性定语从句:which was first played in 776 BC.

14。Five people won the “China’s Green Figure” award，a title

_________ to ordinary people for their contributions to environmental

protection.

A.being B.is given

C.given D.was given

答案：C 本题考查过去分词作定语。根据句子结构，句中没有引导从句的连词，所以后半部分不会是一个完整的句子，排除B、D项.这里a title 是award 的同位语，由前面谓语won可知,这个称谓已经被给，而不是正在被给，故排除A选项。

15. There have been several new events __________ to the program for

the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games。

A。add B。to add

C。adding D。added

答案：D 本题考查非谓语动词作定语的用法。句意：已经有好几学必求其心得，业必贵于专精

个新的比赛项目被添加到2008年北京奥运会的项目中。被修饰的名词events与动词短语add to 之间是被动关系，此处应用表示被动概念的过去分词形式，B项和C项表示主动，不符合题意，A项是动词原形，不合乎语法要求。

Ⅱ.语言结构

仔细阅读下面的短文,短文中有10个空格或画线句子.请按照每小题括号内的具体要求完成语法填空、词形变化、句子合并、句子改写以及病句改正等。

More and more people are using ［1］ （冠词）kind

of

new-developed phone; ［2] it is called the mobile phone（改为定语从句）。It has [3] （否定词）

wires and can be carried in your pocket

easily [4］ （关系副词）you go.With the phone you may [5] （谓语动词）or make phone calls.People ［6] （carry）mobile phones [7］are the most businessmen(改正错误）。 Now with the [8］

（比较级） development [9］ （介词） modern technology, ［10]they serve

like secretaries；so they become popular（改为结果状语从句）。

答案：［1］a

［2]which is called mobile phone

［3]no

［4]wherever

［5］receive

[6］carrying

［7］去掉the 学必求其心得，业必贵于专精

［8]further

[9］of

［10］they serve like secretaries so that they become popular

Ⅲ。阅读理解

A

“My kids really understand solar and earthheat energy,” says a secondgrade teacher in Saugus,California,“Some of them are building

solar collectors for their energy course.“These young scientists are part of

City Building Educational Program （CBEP),a particular program for

kindergarten through twelfth grade that uses the stages of city planning to

teach basic reading，writing and math skills，and more.

The children don’t just plan any city.They map and analyze(分析）the

housing，energy,and transportation requirements of their own district and