高二英语外研版选修10自我小测:Module2Australia and New Zealand—SectionⅠ Word版含解析

  • 格式:doc
  • 大小:57.00 KB
  • 文档页数:5

自我小测Ⅰ.单项选择1—What you like may not be what I like.—Yes,one man's meal is another man's ______.A.poison B.medicineC.meal D.food2As______ mountains beyond our hometown are becoming greener and greener,they have become______ home to a large amount of wild life.A.the;/ B.the;aC./;a D.the;the3While the sea has offered people food for thousands of years,it______ thousands of people in one day in the tsunami in Southeastern Asia.A.swallowed B.ateC.cheated D.wasted4We must do whatever we can to help those who are ______.A.in addition B.in troubleC.in advance D.in charge5The Chinese ship,Tiunyu 8,was reported______ off the east coast of Kenya in November,2008.A.to be attackedB.to have been attackedC.to be attackingD.to have been attacking6Whether ways will be found to help China ______ the current world financial crisis is just ______ worries the public.A.prevent;that B.survive;whatC.forbid;that D.quit;whatⅡ.根据句意和首字母或汉语提示写出单词的正确形式1Some mushrooms are extremely p______.2He swallowed some type of ______(毒物).3The bell is ______(巨大的),weighing over 40 tons.4The outline of the mountains was clearly ______(看得见的).5He ______(移居) to Australia when he was young.6Algeria was formerly a French ______(殖民地).7This kind of poison is d______.8He ______(咽下) the last of his coffee and asked for the bill.Ⅲ.用所给词或短语的适当形式填空visible by comparison in trouble meet with be responsible foron the bottom of be home to markput together1It is a __________ star in the sky.2Xishuangbanna __________ Golden Monkeys.3He __________ an old friend at the meeting.4It was a bad year for films,__________ both quantity and quality.5__________,trips by sea offer a great variety of civilized comforts.6You'll be __________ if you don't watch your step.7She is my child,and I __________ her.8The potter carved his name __________ the pot.9For oil __________ try a proprietary dry cleaner.10Your department spent more last year than all the other departments __________.Ⅳ.阅读理解The Maori are Polynesians living in New Zealand ever since the 11th century.Their exact origin is unknown.They call the islands Aotearoa,‘The Land of the Long White Cloud’.Their own name comes from Ma-Uri,which means ‘Children of Heaven’.Their nickname is ‘Vikings of the Sunrise’,because they are fierce warriors.Originally they were hunters,but soon became peasants,living on agriculture.Today about 300 000 Maori are mainly living in the cities,but they remain closely connected to their tribes.Their tribal groupings are derived from the people of each canoe,settling in New Zealand in the early times.Their villages are consolidated with in the centre of the marae,an open space on which the meeting house is located.This building is the symbolic body of the ancestor.Around the fort sites a palisade(木栅栏) with watch tower is built.In these watch towers ‘pahu’,huge wooden plates,functioning as ‘alarm gongs’,were suspended.The Maori religion is closely related to nature and to the ancestors.Nature itself is considered a living being and thus the interaction between man and nature is bound by rules and ceremonies.The notion(概念) tapu (sacred),from which the word tabu is deduced,is still a centralnotion in contemporary Maori society.Despite the western influences a good part of the Maori religion remained intact(完整的).Many ceremomies are still carried out and are often associated with traditional visual arts and traditional music.We mainly discuss here the traditional ‘revival’music and not the commercial modern Maori music.1Where did the Maori exactly come from?A.The islands Aotearoa. B.Asia.C.Australia. D.It is unknown.2The Maoris' watch tower is called “______”.A.Tiki B.pahuC.tapu D.Ma-Uri3From the passage we know that______.A.the Maori are mainly living a hunting life nowB.the Marois' watch towers are mainly made of stonesC.the Maori religion is closely related to nature and to their ancestorsD.the western influences have greatly changed the Maoris' life4In the next part,the author would most probably discuss ______.A.agricultureB.the commercial modern Maori musicC.the traditional ‘revival’ musicD.the Maoris' costume参考答案Ⅰ.1解析:one man's meal is another man's poison是句英语谚语,字面意思是“一个人吃的饭是另一个人的毒药”,即“人各有所好”。

答案:A2解析:第一个空用the表示特指“我们家乡那儿的群山”;home表示“家园,栖息地”时,前面不用冠词。

答案:A3解析:swallow吞没,吞并;eat吃;cheat欺骗;waste浪费。

句意:数千年来,尽管大海一直给人类提供食物,但是在东南亚的海啸中它一天之内就吞没了数千人。

答案:A4解析:in addition另外,加之;in trouble 在困境中;in advance提前,预先;in charge 负责,主管。