1、单元素养评估单元素养评估(二二)Unit 2 (120 分钟150 分) 第一部分听力(共两节，满分 30 分) 第一节(共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分) 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、 C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话 后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对 话仅读一遍。 1What does the woman want? ACoffee.BOrange. CTea. 2When will Jim return? AOn July 10.BOn July 11. COn July
2、12. 3What is the woman going to do next? AAttend a meeting.BSee the manager. CDo some translation. 4What are the speakers talking about? AAn animal.BApaper. CA teacher. 5What color was the womans bedroom before? APink.BBlue. CGreen. 第二节(共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分) 听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中 所给的
3、 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。 听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听 完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。 6How old is the man? A16.B17. C18. 7How does the man improve his English now? ABy seeing the movies.BBy watching TV shows. CBy reading English books. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8What does the
4、 man think of Frank Jones? AHumorous.BSerious. CSmart. 9What kind of questions is the woman good at? AOnes about music or stars.BOnes about math or science. COnes about history or geography. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10What did the club send to each member last month? AAmagazine.BApen. CA video. 11How
5、 often does the club hold a competition? AOnce a week.BOnce a month. COnce a year. 12How much should a member pay half a year? AFive pounds.BFour pounds. CThree pounds. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13What day is it today? AFriday.BThursday. CWednesday. 14Who forgot the words during the play? APeter.BHarr
6、y. CMark. 15What was Freds problem? AHe fell over a chair.BHe caused lights to be off. CHe gave up the play midway. 16How does the woman feel about the situation on the mans first night? AIts normal.BIts funny. CIts surprising. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17Where is Kate now? AIn London.BIn Edinburgh.
7、CIn Paris. 18What was the weather like when the speaker was camping? ASunny.BRainy. CCloudy. 19What did the speaker do on the fourth day of the holiday? AShe visited a village school.BShe sailed on the lake. CShe went to a museum. 20Where does Kate work now? AAt a library.BAt a gym. CAt a supermarke
8、t 第二部分阅读理解(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 Stories ofAnimalsActing Just Like Humans Monkeys do math If monkeys manage the world, we might have stayed away from the recent banking hardship. In an experiment led by Keith Chen at Yale, monkeys showed
9、an understanding of pricing and planning the money, as well as a wish to stay away from losses when required to buy food with money. This one is very intelligent. Its checking its stocks (股票) on a smart phone. Think thats impressive? Camel eats breakfast with people The first time Joe ate with Briti
10、sh farmers, he was uninvited. The fouryearold Bactrian camel stuck his head through their open kitchen window, and emptied a fruit bowl. Now the couple, who rent out reindeer, camels, goats, and other creatures for television shows, movies, and photo shoots, set a place at their table for the confid
11、ent doublehumped creature, where Joe eats grain food and his favorite : bananas on toast. Marmots (土拨鼠) befriend a boy A group of marmots in the Austrian Alps have made friends with eightyearold Matteo Walch by chance, whose family vacations there in summer. Typically, they beat their tails , chatte
12、r, and whistle to warn other marmots of danger, but with Matteo, they behave much differently, allowingtheboytofeed ， pet,andeventouchnoseswith them.“Watching them makes me feel a connection with nature，” says Matteo. How sweet! 21In what way do monkeys behave like humans according to the text? AIn
13、character.BIn intelligence. CIn communication.DIn the way of lifestyle. 22Why do the British couple raise the animals? ATo make money.BTo have dinner with them. CTo protect endangered animals.DTo train them to act as humans. 23Why did Matteo Walch go to theAustrianAlps? ATo warn marmots of danger.BT
14、o develop interest in nature. CTo make friends with marmots.DTo go on a holiday with his family. B I have a neighbor who is a capable, fashionable, seventyyearold, single woman. Her name is Grace. Grace was laid off from her job a little over two years ago and has been living off her savings ever si
15、nce but not officially “retired”. Grace called me up one day about this time last year and asked if I had a ladder. She needed to clean out her gutters (水槽) on the roof and wanted me to hold the ladder. She didnt want me to climb up and clean the gutters. She just wanted me to hold the ladder. As it
16、 happened I did have a ladder. I said, “The leaves are going to fall off the trees in a month, why dont we wait till they finish and do it then？” She agreed and naturally we didnt talk about it again until spring. Spring in Tennessee is wild and we talked about it over the course of three weeks in w
17、hich it rained nearly every day, then I got busy and Grace went into seclusion (隐居) A couple of weeks ago, she told me shed been spending too much money and decided to apply for a bar tending job at a local hotel. “Now I dont know about you all but Id never considered what it would be like to apply
18、for and begin a new job at the age of seventy. Im fiftythree and the older I get, the more I think about how great itll be if I can just get out of bed when Im seventy.” Anyway, she got the job, serving the bar and tending banquets at the hotel. The day when she left for her training at 6 am, I walk
19、ed across the street with my ladder and cleaned out her gutters. 24What did Grace want the author to do? AMake a ladder.BRetire completely. CLend her a ladder.DGive her suggestions. 25When did the author advise Grace to clean her gutters? AIn early spring.BIn rainy season. CIn time of leaves falling
20、.DIn time of few leaves on trees. 26What was the authors neighbor doing when the author wrote the text? AWorking at a hotel.BTraining for her job. CCleaning out her house.DWalking with the author. 27What did the author think of her neighbors reemployment? AValuable.BImpossible. CReasonable.DUnbeliev
21、able. C A mother goat is able to pick out her own baby from its voice alone by the time the kid is just five days old. Researchers from University of London played kids bleats to female goats and studied their responses. They were surprised to find that the animals were able to pick out their own ki
22、ds voices. “A mother and the kid rely a lot on smell to recognize one another and, in the wild, during the first week of their lives, the animals hide in grass and dont call much. Its a strategy they use to avoid enemies，” Dr Elodie Briefer, who led the research, explained to BBC News. “The mother c
23、alls to the kids when she wants them to come and feed, so we expected that kids would recognize the mothers voices.” In fact, this was the case for deer, which also use this hiding strategy, although they do not belong to the same family of species as goats. She and her team recorded and played back
24、 young kids calls to the female goats and recorded their responses. She explained, “Even when the calls came from kids that are five to six days old, we could see the mothers responding more to the voices of their own babies.” Hearing the voices of their own kids, the females would look towards the
25、speaker that the sound was coming from, moving around and calling in response. The scientists say that understanding how goats behave and communicate is very important. “This helps us understand just how smart these animals are，” said Dr Briefer. “Farmers might be able to change their way to raise g
26、oats considering this natural behaviour.” 28 What does the underlined word “bleats” in Paragraph 2 mean ? AHabits.BVoices. CResponses.DVideos. 29During the first few days of the baby deer, the mother and the kid mainly depend on _ to recognize each other when they are hiding in grass. AvoiceBtouch C
27、videosDsmell 30In the experiment, what does a mother goat do when hearing her kids voices? AMaking voice in response.BJumping over and over. CHiding herself somewhere.DBehaving just as usual. 31The passage is mainly written for _ to read. AteachersBwriters CfarmersDlawyers D Animals are natural reso
28、urces that people have wasted all through our history. Animals have been killed for their fur and feathers，for food，for sport, and simply because they were in the way. Thousands of kinds of animals have disappeared from the earth forever. Hundreds more are on the danger list today. About 170 kinds i
29、n the United States alone are considered in danger. Why should people care? Because we need animals. And because once they are gone，there will never be any more. Animals are more than beautiful or interesting or a source of food. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature. Destroying one ki
30、nd of animal can create many problems. For example，when farmers killed large numbers of hawks (鹰), the farmers stores of corn and grain were destroyed by mice. Why? Because hawks eat mice. With no hawks to keep down their numbers, the mice multiplied quickly. Luckily, some people are working to help
31、 save the animals. Some groups raise money to let people know about the problem. And they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger. Quite a few countries have passed laws. These laws forbid the killing of any animal or plant on the danger list. Slowly，the number of some a
32、nimals in danger is growing. 32Animals are important to us mainly because _. Athey give us a source of food Bthey are beautiful and lovely Cthey keep the balance of nature Dthey give us a lot of pleasure 33What is the meaning of the underlined word “multiplied” in the passage? ABecame more.BBecame l
33、ess. CTurned black.DAte food. 34Which of the following is NOT true? APeople care much about animals because they need them. BPeople must not kill any animal or plant. CKilling all mice may cause some new problems. DOnce a certain kind of animal is gone forever, there will never be any more. 35We can
34、 infer from the passage that _. Apeople have known the importance of animal protection since a long time ago Banimals play an important role in peoples life Cthe number of hawks is on the decrease Dmany countries passed laws forbidding the killing of any animal 第二节(共 5 小题，每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分) 阅读下面短文
35、， 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。 I had just got off work from a 10hour shift, so I wasnt planning on anything too tiring.About 2 miles of biking down the trail (小路) I passed another group of cyclists, and almost directly after them, I saw a key in the middle of the road. _36_ I turned around a
36、nd attempted to catch up with the group, but Im out of shape. Its uphill, and they had cycled far away. I made it all the way, asking people who walked along the way if they had dropped a key. No luck. _37_ But soon I picked it back up and started down the trail again, thinking they went the other d
37、irection. I went about 4 miles down the trail asking everyone I saw. No luck. I had to turn around and went all the way back uphill 3 miles. _38_ I gave up at this point and decided I would post it online. I headed back down the mountain. I passed where I had cycled earlier and passed all the vehicl
38、es I had seen while on my bike. _39_ I slammed on my brakes, and pulled up right behind the Jeep while holding the key out of the window. I could tell she had been crying, and her face lit up the second she saw me. It was obvious that she was the owner of the key. _40_ I just said, “No problem, I wa
39、s hoping I would find you, and have a great day！” AI picked it up, and its a newer style Jeep key. BI finally made it back, looking for Jeeps, but no luck. CKindness to others means benefits to ourselves. DThe very last stop, I saw a girl sitting beside a Jeep. EI found the owner just at the moment
40、I wanted to give up. FShe was so grateful, and she gave me a hug through the window. GI was pretty tired at this point, so I set the key at the beginning of the trail. 第三部分语言运用(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。 On Tuesday, I was having a hard day.
41、I went to _41_ in Philadelphia about 5 hours away from my hometown. Going to college so far away is really hard on me _42_， especially when I get upset. I hadnt seen my own family in months, _43_ imagining something like that happening to my parents or sisters was a (n) _44_ feeling. This sense of s
42、adness _45_ me and stayed with me for a couple of days. I felt more and more homesick( 想 家 ) the more I thought about the tragedyit really made me _46_ my family. On top of this _47_ ，was the stress of coming exams and homework assignments. On Tuesday, I just couldnt shake my feeling of _48_. I call
43、ed my mom and she made me feel instantly better. She always seems to have the perfect _49_ for me in any situation.“You cant _50_ your happiness in the hands of anyone or anything outside yourself, Amelia，” she told me. She was so _51_ and so concerned. She sent me a few inspirational _52_， and call
44、ed 3 more times that day to check in on me. It became evident to me later that day how amazing my moms _53_ for me was. I just felt so _54_ to have a person who cares for me so much. I _55_ that no one else I meet in my life will ever love me so much. 41 A.hospitalB college CprisonDchurch 42A.at tim
45、esBin chargeCat warDunder attack 43A.andBbutCsoDor 44A.optimisticBhiddenCflexibleDunbearable 45A.called forBchecked inCcame overDreferred to 46A.contactBpraiseCshowDmiss 47A.feelingBpictureCdecisionDrequest 48A.surpriseBsadnessCshameDachievement 49A.challengeBadviceCmemoryDdream 50A.pickBsearchCputD
46、quit 51A.greedyBcuriousCboringDhelpful 52A.cardsBemailsCphotosDtalks 53A.abilityBcomfortCloveDthought 54A.upsetBgratefulCspecialDalone 55A.knowBrecognizeCdoubtDneed 第二节(共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分) 阅读下面短文， 在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正 确形式。 Im not sure 56._ is more frightened, me or the female gorilla (大猩猩)
47、 that suddenly appears out of nowhere. Im walking on a path in the forest in the Central African Republic. Unexpectedly, Im facetoface with the gorilla, who begins screaming at 57._ top of her lungs. That makes her baby scream，and then a 400pound male appears. He screams the 58._ (loud) of all. The
48、noise shakes the trees as the male beats his chest and charges toward me. I quickly lower myself, ducking my head to avoid 59._ (look) directly into his eyes so he doesnt feel 60._ (challenge) My name is Mireya Mayor. Im a 61._ (science) who studies animals such as apes and monkeys. I was searching
49、62._ these three western lowland gorillas Id been observing. No one had seen them for hours, and my colleagues and I were worried. When the gorillas and I frightened each other, I was just glad to find 63._ (they) alive. True to a gorillas unaggressive nature, the huge animal 64._ (mean) me no real
50、harm. He was just saying: “Im king of this forest, and here is your reminder！” Once his message was delivered, he allowed me 65._ (stay) and watch. 第四部分写作(共两节，满分 40 分) 第一节应用文写作(满分 15 分) 根据下列要点，写一篇关于保护北极熊的海报。 1数量：大约 20,000 只 2家园：主要生活在北冰洋； 3濒危原因：森林砍伐，气候变暖，冰层融化。 注意：1.词数 80 左右。 2可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 _ _ _ _
