高中英语学习材料***鼎尚图文理制作***Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained检测题（本检测题满分：100分，时间：90分钟）I.单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）1. In communication, a smile is usually _______ strong sign of a friendly and _______ open attitude.A. the; /B. a; anC. a; /D. the; an2. Once _______, this science fiction will be popular among the students.A. printingB. printC. printsD. printed3. He threw away his book, and _______ away from her, walked rapidly away.A. turningB. turnedC. turnD. to turn4. (2012·白银高一检测) My father is so full of _______ that he works without stop day and night.A. forceB. energyC. powerD. strength5. (2012·连云港高一检测) He had no choice but to _______ an excuse to explain his being late.A. make outB. make upC. make up forD. make over6. A group of tourists reached a remote small village, at the west end of which _______.A. stood an old templeB. standing an old templeC. did an old temple standD. an old temple stood7. It was reported that a plane crash happened last night and that most of the passengers were badly _______ and that some 10 died.A. damagedB. injuredC. destroyedD. harmed8. Your electricity bill _______ on time, or they will cut you off.A. is due to payB. is due to be paidC. due to payD. due to be paid9. (2012·成都高一检测)—Do you think we shouldaccept that offer?—Yes, we should, for we _______ such bad luck up till now, and time _______ out.A. have had; is runningB. had; is runningC. have; has been runningD. have had; has been run10. The building around the corner caught fire last night. The police are now _______ the matter.A. seeing throughB. working outC. looking intoD. watching over11. (2012·哈尔滨高一检测) Bell is considered _______ the first phone in 1896.A. inventingB. having inventedC. to inventD. to have invented12. (2012·济宁高一检测) The film is _______ on the book by Mao Dan, and it is well worth _______.A. basing; seeingB. based; being seenC. basing; being seenD. based; seeing13. It never occurred to me _______ you could succeed in persuading him to change his mind. A. which B. whatC. thatD. if14. Facing the _______ situation, the sales manager looked _______.A. puzzling; puzzledB. puzzling; puzzlingC. puzzled; puzzledD. puzzled; puzzling15.—Who told you about Dad’s illness?—The doctor in _______.A. connectionB. returnC. publicD. chargeII.完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）I first went to hear a live rock concert when I was eight years old. My brother and his friends were all 16 of a heavy metal group called Black Wednesday. When they 17 that BlackWednesday were going to perform at our local theatre, they all bought 18 for the performance. However, at the last minute, one of the friends couldn’t go, so my brother19 me the ticket. I was really 20 !I remember the buzz(嘈杂声) of excitement inside the theatre as we all found our 21 . After a few minutes, the lights went down and everybody became 22 . I could barely make out the stage in the 23 . We waited. Then there was a roar from the crowd, like an explosion, as the first members of the band 24 the stage. My brother leaned over and shouted something in my ear, but I couldn’t25 what he was saying. The first song was already started and the music was as 26 as a jet engine. I could 27 the drum beats and bass notes in my stomach.I can’t recall any of the songs that the band played. I just 28 that I really enjoyed the show and didn’t want it to 29 . But in the end, after three encores(加演), the show finished. We left the30 and walked unsteadily out onto the pavement.I felt a little dizzy, as if I had just 31from a long sleep. My ears were still 32 with the beat of the last song.After the 33 , I became a Black Wednesday fan too for a few years before getting into other kinds of music. Once in a while, 34 , I listen to one of their songs and 35 I’m back at that first show.16. A. members B. friendsC. fansD. volunteers17. A. guessed B. discoveredC. thoughtD. predicted18. A. flowers B. drinksC. clothesD. tickets19. A. booked B. offeredC. returnedD. found20. A. relaxed B. embarrassedC. excitedD. encouraged21. A. seats B. entranceC. spotsD. space22. A. comfortable B. quietC. seriousD. nervous23. A. silence B. noiseC. darknessD. smoke 24. A. fell upon B. got throughC. broke intoD. stepped onto25. A. forget B. hearC. repeatD. bear26. A. loud B. hardC. sweetD. fast27. A. feel B. touchC. enjoyD. digest28. A. realize B. understandC. believeD. remember29. A. continue B. delayC. finishD. change30. A. party B. theatreC. operaD. stage31. A. escaped B. traveledC. benefitedD. woken32. A. aching B. burningC. ringingD. rolling33. A. competition B. performanceC. interviewD. celebration34. A. though B. otherwiseC. insteadD. besides35. A. decide B. regretC. concludeD. imagineIII.阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）(A)It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re about 40 years old! Welcome to your future life.Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror.“Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics(智能电子元件) are re-arranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you’re 40. You look much younger.With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may liv e to be 150 years old. You’re not even middle-aged! As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear, “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that.” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can Ihave for breakfast?” A list of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies.“Ready for your trip to space?” you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doct or said you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots(防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines. With the strawberries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office, Autopilot,” you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film rather than read it.36. What changes the color of your shirt?A. The mirror.B. The shirt itself.C. The counter.D. The medicine.37. How do the shoes know that you shouldn’t eatthe breakfast cereal?A. By pouring the breakfast into a bowl.B. By listening to the doctor’s advice.C. By testing the food supplies in the kitchen.D. By checking the nutrition details of the food.38. The strawberries the children eat serve as_______.A. breakfastB. lunchC. vaccinesD. nutrition(B)My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More importantly, I earned my pay; it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work.I was only six years old, but I was do ing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $18 a week. Our home was a three-roomed wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person can have.When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dreamt of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.The more I dreamt, the more I thought. Why not?I made my first golf club out of guava limb(番石榴树枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field—except now I was driving golf balls with a club, not oxen with a broomstick.39. The writer’s first job was _______.A. to stand down the fairway at a golf courseB. to watch over the sugar-cane plantationC. to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fieldsD. to spot the balls as they landed so the golferscould find them40. The underlined word “tedious” in Paragraph 2 most probably means _______.A. difficultB. boringC. interestingD. unusual41. The writer learned that_______ from his first job.A. he should work for those who he liked mostB. he should work longer than what he wasexpectedC. he should never fail to say hello to his ownerD. he should be respectful and faithful to thepeople he worked for42. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. The writer wanted to be a successful golfer.B. The writer wanted to run a golf course near hishouse.C. The writer was satisfied with the job he got on aplantation.D. The writer wanted to make money by guidingoxen with a broomstick.(C)A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say, so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.43. The author considers that a fairy story is moreeffective when _______.A. it is repeated without any changeB. it is treated as a jokeC. some changes are made to it by a parentD. it is set in the present44. According to the passage, great fear can takeplace in a child when the story is _______.A. in a realistic settingB. heard for the first timeC. repeated too oftenD. told in a different way45. The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairystories to young children is that it _______.A. makes them less fearfulB. develops their power of memoryC. makes them believe there is nothing to beafraid ofD. encourages them not to have strange beliefs46. One of the reasons why some people are not infavor of fairy tales is that _______.A. they are full of imaginationB. they are just made up of the stories which arefar from the truthC. they are not interestingD. they make teachers of history difficult to teach(D)BEIJING—Lu Na thinks that the 4,000 yuan ($630) she spent in traveling to the Republic of Korea(ROK) was worth every penny.“Apart from the exotic outfits and tasty kimchi, I really appreciated local people’s friendliness and the convenient language environment there,” said the 27-year-old woman, who traveled to the country in October 2011 and came back with bags of fashionable dresses and cosmetics.“We have provided many services to Chinese visitors, including free transport cards, handbooks for individual tourists, and more liberal visa polici es.”“We believe that no country can compare with the ROK in providing services for individual Chinese travelers,” said Zhu Linlin, media manager of the Korea Tourism Organization’s Beijing branch.Favorable visa policies contribute to thepopularity of the ROK as a destination for Chinese tourists. Only a passport and an ID card are needed for a Chinese citizen to get a visa to the ROK.However, some suggest that ROK hotels should provide special dining rooms for Chinese customers due to different eating habits. “ROK people often cross their legs when they have meals, but for most Chinese people, especially those who are elderly or fat, it’s very hard for them to sit cross-legged without feeling numb.”In 1998, China granted the ROK approved destination status, which allowed Chinese citizens to travel to the country in tour groups.According to statistics from China Tourism Academy, the number of Chinese tourists visiting the ROK reached more than 2 million by the end of October 2011, up 19. 9 percent compared with that of the same period last year. China recently became the Republic of Korea’s main source of foreign tourists in both number and spending.47. What can we infer from the first paragraph?A. Lu spent $4,000 on her travel to ROK.B. Lu is satisfied with her travel to ROK.C. Lu thinks her travel to ROK cost her too muchmoney.D. It is a waste of money to travel to ROK.48. Lu came back with _______.A. bags of fashionable dresses and cosmeticsB. exotic outfitsC. tasty kimchiD. free handbooks49. A Chinese citizen can get a visa to the ROK with_______.A. a passportB. an ID cardC. a transport card and an ID cardD. a passport and an ID card50. The underlined phrase in Paragraph 5 is closest inmeaning to “_______”.A. object toB. lead toC. devote toD. belong toⅥ.任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个．．最恰当的单词。
