1、单元达标测评 (满分:120 分;旪间:100 分钟) 第一部分 阅读(共两节,满分 50 分) 第一节(共 15 小题;每小题 2.5 分,满分 37.5 分) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Whats the best way to stay awake in meetings? The right time Morning is best for things like status updates and logical thinking, when sharpness and enthusiasm are at their height,
2、while closer to the end of the day is a really good time for brainstorming. And of course, never do meetings in the period right after lunch. Ensuring a meeting has a clearly stated finish time is more important. We often fall asleep in meetings out of boredom, not tiredness. The right place Meeting
3、 in unconventional locations can help boost creativity. Standing meetingswhere participants talk without sitting downhave also been praised by many efficiency experts for keeping things efficient. Be prepared One recent study found American workers felt just 33% of leaders were well-prepared for mee
4、tings. Ensuring a clear agenda is a common piece of advice from productivity experts. An agenda is essential, because if you dont know why were in a meeting, then theres no reason for the meeting. One of the ways that people stay awake is that theyre in a meeting thats interesting to them and releva
5、nt to their work. To snack or not to snack? The right kind of snacks can help improve the meeting culture. Snacks can keep people alert, for one thing, but are also a “symbol of caring”. Of course, avoiding loud or smelly snacks is important. Engage To put it simply, you cant fall asleep if youre pa
6、rticipating. Speaking up during the first three minutes allows you to feel like a contributor, not a listener. Taking notes can also be helpful in keeping your brain alert. For leaders, make sure to stick firmly to the agenda and only the agenda. Tacking on other business is when the bores kick off.
7、 Fidget away When all else fails, keeping your hands busy can help. Doodling is another longstanding method for bored meeting goers, but it can make you even sleepier. Sometimes, it may just take a piece of skin on your own arm instead. And if you do happen to nod off? If you continue to sleep, it m
8、ay be best to leave. Make a swift excuse that doesnt sound offensive, get up quietly, apologize and leave. 1.As the main organizer of the conference, what suggestions should you probably focus on? A. B. C. D. 2.As an illustration, which part of the content is the most likely to match the following p
9、icture? A. B. or C. or D. 3.Whats the authors last trick for avoiding a meeting nap? A.Keeping your hands busy. B.Participation. C.Squeezing your own arms. D.Finding a suitable reason to leave. B In the earliest days of the United States, Americans began their days by eating whatever was most easily
10、 available. These foods often included bread, eggs or leftoversfood left over from the night before. Today, ease is still an important factor when it comes to breakfast. However, what people eat has changed over time. And some of todays common breakfast foods, such as cereals(谷类食品), are the result o
11、f very effective marketing. “Advertising was practically invented to sell cereals,” says Heather Arndt Anderson, the writer of the book Breakfast: A History. Arndt Anderson adds, “One of the first ways advertising was successfully or effectively used was to convince mothers that it was okay for thei
12、r children to eat these instant cereals. It sort of offered working mothers a chance to let kids take care of themselves in the morning.” Advertising also played an important part in orange juice becoming a morning drink. In 1916, farmers grew more oranges than usual, so advertisers began saying, “D
13、rink an orange.” They aimed to persuade people that drinking orange juice was a healthy way to start the day. Two years later, a worldwide flu epidemic caused people to drink more orange juice for its health benefits. As for coffee, it might have the 1773 Boston Tea Party to thank for its popularity
14、 in the United States. In that year, American colonists protested British taxation by throwing tea into Boston Harbor. In time, coffee became so popular that people traveling to the American West in the 1830s made sure to carry coffee beans on the journey. Americans still eat breakfast foods like br
15、ead and eggs as their ancestors did. Writer Heather Arndt Anderson notes that peoples concerns about healthy food choices have also stayed the same. She says the idea of clean eating and healthy eating has been around for hundreds of years. She adds, “The only thing thats changed has been the detail
16、s with which we define what these things arewhat clean eating is, and being healthy.” Heather Arndt Anderson hopes more Americans will see leftovers as a breakfast food. She adds that leftovers taste good and are a great way to reduce waste. 4.As breakfast foods, what is the common feature of bread,
17、 eggs and leftovers? A.Convenience. B.Delicious taste. C.Health choice. D.Low price. 5.According to the passage, how did advertisement come into being? A.By selling instant cereals. B.By growing orange. C.By asking people to drink orange juice. D.By changing mothers traditional ideas. 6.What is the
18、reason for the popularity of coffee in the United States? A.The Boston Tea Party. B.Traveling to the American West. C.Low tax on coffee. D.Advertising from American colonists. 7.Whats the best title for the passage? A.Tips for choosing American breakfast B.A review about a food book C.The most popul
19、ar American food D.The history of American breakfast C The headmaster of his school asked students to put three books by the bedside: the Bible, a prayer book and an atlas. Looking at the map of China in the atlas one night,William Lindesay came across the saw-tooth-like line that wound through the
20、vast expanse of north China. “I fell in love with it immediately,” he said in an interview. “I thought it would be a great journey and adventure if one day I could travel along it, from end to end.” In 1987, William Lindesay, 30, began the challenge of climbing the Great Wall on foot. He measured 24
21、70 kilometers of the Great Wall in 78 days. William estimated that he spent about 1600 days of his life on the Great Wall, or four years. Walking on the Great Wall for more than 30 years, William Lindesay found that the Great Wall had been increasingly damaged by natural weathering and man-made dest
22、ruction. He resolutely decided to stay in China, taking the research and protection of the Great Wall as his lifelong aim. Lindesay is the winner of the 1998 Friendship Award and 2008 Beijing Great Wall Friendship Award, according to the website of Chinas State Administration of Foreign Experts Affa
23、irs. He also received the Order of the British Empire from the Queen in 2006 for his contribution to cultural exchanges between China and Britain. “Some people say it will take generations to change; I say we dont have generations of time. Its got to be much quicker,” he said. Lindesay always carrie
24、s a garbage bag with him in the wilderness, picking litter along the way. The cloth bag bears a set of nine simple guidelines in Chinese, which calls on people to observe while traveling or camping outdoors: “Take your own garbage home”,“Pick up litter left by others”, and lots more. “Every person c
25、an make a difference. If we can get a billion Chinese people to be environmentalists, China will be a green, beautiful and healthy country to live in,” he said. 8.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to . A.the saw-tooth-like line B.the three books C.the Great Wall D.the north of China 9.W
26、hat made Lindesay take the research and protection of the Great Wall as his lifelong aim? A.The first great journey and adventure. B.Love and worry about the present situation of the Great Wall. C.The dream in his childhood. D.His contribution to cultural exchanges between China and Britain. 10.Acco
27、rding to the passage, which of the following titles does not describe Lindesays identity? A.An explorer. B.A goodwill messenger. C.An environmentalist. D.A diplomat. 11.Which is the best title for the passage? A.An Englishmans journey of more than 30 years along the Great Wall B.The Great Wall in th
28、e eyes of foreigners C.A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step D.Environmental protection starts with me D Two years ago, when Tinazsha joined a sixth-grade class at a new school, she was mourning the death of her mother. Her father had been in and out of jail. Tinazsha witnessed vio
29、lence near her home in Baltimore, Maryland. She also felt pressure to help her grandparents raise her younger siblings. But after spending two years at a new “trauma(创伤)-sensitive” school, she is learning how to control the effects of pressure and sorrow. Together, these feelings have made her brain
30、 feel like a racing engine. In Baltimore and other U.S. cities with high crime, school officials are realizing that long-lasting trauma in childhood affects brain development. It can create the risk of physical and behavioral health problems in the future, when the children become adults. School off
31、icials have reacted by setting up the trauma-sensitive schools, both in big cities such as Chicago and San Francisco, and in states such as Iowa and Wisconsin. The trauma-sensitive schools are made possible in part with money from the government. The schools can help only some of those who need them
32、. Officials have turned 13 public schools in West Baltimore into trauma-sensitive schools. Students there have access to full-time mental health workers, mindfulness, breathing exercises and “peace corners”, where they can go and calm down. School officials have reached out into the community to get
33、 to know the people raising children. The school district will have a full-time social worker in all schools for the upcoming school year. The city also has created “calming spaces” and “wholeness” places for students in schools that are not official trauma-sensitive centers. Patrick Sharkey,a socio
34、logist at Princeton University in New Jersey, says many children go to school carrying the weight of violence with them, and that harms their ability to get a good nights sleep and think clearly. Programs like those in Baltimore can help. He adds it is important to recognize the most effective way t
35、o improve school performance is to deal with the problem of community violence. 12.In the first paragraph the author implies Tinazsha . A.was an orphan B.was forced to drop out of school C.experienced sad events and a lot of pressure D.was an ambitious child 13.What is the purpose of “trauma-sensiti
36、ve” schools? A.To improve the brain development and achievement. B.To increase students physical exercise. C.To help poor families and ease family contradiction. D.To guide and solve the problems of students in trouble. 14.What does Paragraph 6 mainly talk about? A.The number of trauma-sensitive sch
37、ools. B.How the program of “trauma-sensitive” schools works. C.This kind of program is very popular in communities. D.Mental health plays an important role. 15.In Patrick Sharkeys view, what is the most effective way to improve academic performance? A.The program of “trauma-sensitive” schools. B.The
38、 ability to get a good nights sleep. C.The thorough solution to the problem of community violence. D.The recognition of the weight of violence. 第二节(共 5 小题;每小题 2.5 分,满分 12.5 分) 阅读下面短文,从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Marketing is the process of teaching consumers why they should choose your produc
39、t or service over your competitors. 16 Its that simple! The key is finding the right marketing method and defining the right marketing message to use to educate and influence your consumers. When promoting a product internationally, it benefits companies to understand local cultures in detail. Knowi
40、ng what appeals to customers can help a product to be successful. 17 For example, Coca Cola tried to write their product name in Chinese as Ke-dou Ke-la. Because this sounded silly, the company had to take down all the posters! The name was later changed into the Chinese characters“可口可乐”, meaning “T
41、he more you drink, the more fun youll have.” 18 Different traditions mean that even simple factors like colors and numbers can affect a products sales. For example, in some countries therere unlucky colors, such as black in Japan or white in China. Some cultures believe that certain numbers are unlu
42、cky and some are lucky. 19 Finally, since different cultures have different concepts about the relationships between men and women, certain pictures are unsuitable in some cultures. 20 Many businesses want to appropriately and effectively appeal to people in different countries. Knowing these is a p
43、art of the field of global marketing. A.Therere other considerations, too. B.It is how and where products are sold. C.If you are not doing that, you are not marketing. D.Posters showing couples kissing make some people embarrassed, for example. E.It would be unwise to use unlucky colors or numbers i
44、n product packaging and advertising. F.Successful companies know how important the right brand names are for their development. G.When it comes to the name of a product, one important consideration is the customers language. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 第二部分 语言运用(共两节,满分 30 分) 第一节(共 15 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 15 分) 阅读下
45、面短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 The rose bushes were finally in full bloom on that spring morning. The 21 of roses always brings to mind Wandas childhood memories. Then the family had no 22 to buy extra things, so even a tired rose was something to 23 . Currently, to have a backyard full of
46、different roses is pure 24 . And her husband, Dale, devotedly tends the roses. 25 that she loves the very first blooms, he picked some on this particular morning. But as Dale returned, he came across a neighbor who had 26 for a quick visit. As the woman turned to go, Dale generously gave the roses t
47、o her. And even though their visitor 27 she didnt want to take them, she was repeatedly assured(确信)that the flowers were hers to keep. Seeing her precious blooms go out the door 28 Wanda with regret, and a bit of 29 . She knew it was “better to give than to receive”. 30 , she wished she could have k
48、ept the roses for herself. Later that day, the couple headed to the post office, where Wanda waited outside in the car. Then, without 31 , an elderly woman suddenly appeared at the open window, and gave her a bunch of fresh roses! “These are for you. Theyre my first blooms this spring.” Completely 3
49、2 ,Wanda thanked the woman and bent for a moment to breathe in the rich fragrance. When she looked back, the mysterious visitor was gone. That 33 changed Wanda. It made her understand the true meaning of 34 gifts. Now, she always 35 her precious blooms to others, as a reminder that someone is thinki
50、ng of them. 21.A.sight B.thought C.gift D.sort 22.A.energy B.desire C.stuff D.money 23.A.value B.raise C.observe D.water 24.A.business B.enjoyment C.imagination D.memory 25.A.Anxious B.Aware C.Afraid D.Ashamed 26.A.turned out B.settled down C.stopped by D.broken into 27.A.recommended B.insisted C.cr
