1、Unit2 Wild life protection 单元自主综合测试单元自主综合测试 时间：100 分钟满分：120 分 选择题部分 第二部分第二部分阅读理解阅读理解(共两节，满分共两节，满分 40 分分) 第一节(共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A The Fennec fox is also known as the desert fox since it survives in the Sahara Desert (沙哈拉沙漠). It is the smallest of the speci
2、es of foxes, and quite a few people wish to raise it as a pet because of its appearance. However, this is very rare, as it needs special care and attention. Lets take a look at the basic information on the Fennec fox, including its physical appearance, natural habitat, and diet. PhysicalAppearance T
3、he Fennec fox is the smallest type of fox, with a body length of about 9.516 inches, and 6inchlong ears. It weighs only around one kilogram. It has a creamcolored, furry body, with a blacktipped tail. Their ears are the largest among all foxes relative to the body size, which not only provide them w
4、ith great hearing, but also radiate the extreme desert heat and thus help to keep the body cool. Moreover, in order to walk on the hot sand, a Fennec foxs feet are covered with thick fur. Not only that, the feet also help in digging, as this animal lives under the ground. Habitat and Lifestyle The h
5、abitat of this animal is mainly in the Sahara Desert, and also in other parts of North Africa. The Fennec fox is usually active during the night. This character helps it deal successfully with the extreme heat in the desert. As an extremely social animal, it often lives in groups of ten and each gro
6、up has its own land. This animal is, however, aggressive too, ready to attack, especially in the mating (交配) season, when they all compete with each other for a mate. Diet The Fennec fox is an omnivore (杂食动物). While it can survive on plants, it also needs other items such as insects, rabbits, birds
7、and eggs. Getting used to living in the desert allows it to survive for long periods without any water. They are known to take in water when eating food, but will drink water if available. 1What helps the Fennec fox survive in the desert? AThe small body size.BThe great hearing. CGetting active at n
8、ight.DLiving in groups. 2The word “radiate” (Paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to _. Asend outBtake in Csuffer fromDturn down 3What can we learn about the Fennec fox in the passage? AIt seldom attacks others. BIts difficult to raise it as a pet. CIt can survive without any water. DIts the smallest
9、animal in the desert. B Elephants are able to know the difference between a man and a woman, and can tell an adult (成年人) from a childall from the sound of a human voice. This is according to a study in which researchers played voice recordings to wild African elephants. The animals showed more fear
10、when they heard the voices of adult Masai men. Usually Masai people hunt elephants, and this suggests that animals have grown to listen for and avoid them. Prof. Karen McComb and Dr Graeme Shannon from the University of Sussex led the study. They explained that in former research they had used simil
11、ar experiments to show that elephants could tell from the sound of a lionwhether the animal was a female (雌性) or a more dangerous male (雄性) Prof. McComb wanted to find out if the animals used their very sharp sense of hearing to recognize danger from humans. The scientists recorded Masai men, women
12、and children saying, in their own language, “Look, look over there, a group of elephants are coming.” They also recorded Kamba men saying this phrase. Masai people often come across elephants, which can result in violent (暴力的) hunting. Kamba people, however, mainly feed on agriculture, which does no
13、t generally bring them into violent touch with the animals. When the team played recordings of these different voices through a hidden speaker, they found that elephant family groups showed more fear in response to the voice of a Masai man than to a Kamba mans voice. And the adult male Masai voices
14、encouraged far more of these defensive reactions than the voices of women or boys. 4An elephant can tell a man from a woman by sense of _. AtouchBsight CsmellDhearing 5How did the researchers get to know the elephants special ability? ABy watching the elephants in the zoo. BBy playing voice recordin
15、gs to them. CBy recording the behaviors of elephants. DBy communicating with them in a special way. 6 We can learn from the passage that elephants are especially afraid of _. AMasai menBMasai women CKamba menDKamba women 7What is the best title for the passage? AElephants and Human Beings BDifferenc
16、es Between Human Voices CElephants Recognize Human Voices DElephants at War with Human Beings C The loneliest chimp (黑猩猩) in the world just got the best surprisea hug from a new friend. Ponso has been by himself for nearly three years, finding himself alone after his wife and children died on the is
17、land where they were abandoned by a medical testing company many years ago. For years a nearby villager named Germain has been Ponsos only company, visiting him so often to bring bananas and breadthe chimps only source of food on the tiny island. It was clear how much Ponso missed companionship when
18、 he was recently visited by Chimpanzee Conservation Centre Director Estelle Raballand. The chimp immediately embraced Estelle Raballand in a huge hug and laughed as she reached out for him，with his smile from ear to ear. For those who know Ponsos backstory, his immediate ease and trust in humans mig
19、ht be surprising. Ponso was one of 20 chimps, all between the ages of 7 to 11 years old, relocated to an island off the Ivory Coast after being used for testing by the New York Blood Centre. After the tests were completed in 2005, the lab reportedly transferred the chimps to a string of islands, occ
20、asionally dropping off food and water because there was none in the chimps new homes. Disease and hunger soon left only Ponso, his mate and their two children standing. But at the end of 2013 they died within days of each other and Ponso was now completely alone. A group called SOS PONSO is trying t
21、o raise money for the poor lonely chimp, already achieving its goal of $20,000all of which will be used for Ponsos care. 8What do we know about the chimp Ponso? AHe was deserted by his family. BHe found many sources of food. CHe came to the island for a test. DHe suffers from loneliness greatly. 9Ho
22、w did Ponso feel about the visit of Estelle Raballand? AExcited.BFrightened. CEmbarrassed.DConfused. 10What is Paragraph 3 mainly about? AThe chimps new settlement. BHow Ponso came to the island. CWhy Ponso was used for a test. DThe medical test about chimps. 11What can be inferred from the text? AG
23、ermain wont visit Ponso any more. BAnew lab will be built on the island. CMany people show concern for Ponso. DMore chimps will be brought to the island. D Four animalsa wildcat, a mongoose, a mouse and an owlhad made their home in a huge tree. The mouse and the mongoose lived at the foot of the tre
24、e in two different holes. The cat lived in a large hole halfway up the tree and the owl lived in the branches. The cat feared none of its neighbours and moved about, afraid of nothing. The owl and the mongoose were afraid of the cat and kept a safe distance from it. The mouse was extremely afraid of
25、 all three neighbours. One day the cat was caught in a trap laid by a hunter. Its three neighbours watched with joy as it tried extremely hard to get out of the net in which it had been trapped. They knew it was a hopeless task. Soon the hunter would come and they would never see their enemy forever
26、. The mouses joy, however, was shortlived because even as it watched the cat, it found that the mongoose was moving towards it. Looking up, it saw that the owl too was getting ready to move down. The mouse understood that it was in great danger and that the only one who could save it was its enemy,
27、the cat. It jumped onto the net in which the cat was caught and began biting at it. Within a short time it had made a hole big enough for the cat to come out. Seeing the cat come out, the owl and the mongoose escaped. The mouse ran away too. It knew it could not expect any thanks from the cat, but i
28、n saving it, it had saved its own life. 12Which of the four neighbours had the most power over the other three? AThe wildcat.BThe mouse. CThe mongoose.DThe owl. 13The mouse bit at the net to save the cat because _. Athey were good friends Bthey both hated the hunters Cthe mouse was too kind to see t
29、he cat die Dthe other two neighbours were to attack it 14From the passage we can learn that the mouse is _. AkindBbrave CcleverDstupid 15The mouse lived in extreme fear every day because _. Ait lived at the foot of the tree Bhunters set traps everywhere Call its three neighbours might eat it at any
30、time Dits food might be taken away by its neighbours 第二节(共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分) 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有 两项为多余选项。 Every animal sleeps, but the reason for this has remained foggy. When lab rats are not allowed to sleep, they die within a month._1_ One idea is that sleep helps us strengthen
31、new memories. _2_ We know that, while awake, fresh memories are recorded by reinforcing (加强) connections between brain cells, but the memory processes that take place while we sleep have been unclear. Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved so that connections between neurons (神经元) in the
32、 brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day. _3_ Now we have the most direct evidence yet that he is right. _4_ The synapses in the mice taken at the end of a period of sleep were 18 per cent smaller than those taken before sleep, showing that the connection
33、s between neurons weaken while sleeping. If Tononis theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a nights sleep, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new informationour brains may have smaller room for new experiences. Their research also suggests how we may build lasting m
34、emories over time even though the synapses become thinner. The team discovered that some synapses seem to be protected and stayed the same size. _5_ “You keep what matters，” Tononi says. AWe should also try to sleep well the night before. BIts as if the brain is preserving its most important memorie
35、s. CSimilarly, when people go for a few days without sleeping, they get sick. DThe processes take place to stop our brains becoming loaded with memories. EThats why students do better in tests if they get a chance to sleep after learning. F“Sleep is the price we pay for learning，” says Giulio Tononi
36、, who developed the idea. GTononis team measured the size of these connections, or synapses, in the brains of 12 mice. 第三部分第三部分语言运用语言运用(共共三三节，满分节，满分 40 分分) 第一节完形填空(共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分) 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以 填入空白处的最佳选项。 A thousand years ago Hong Kong was covered by a thick fores
37、t like the forests we now find in Malaysia and Thailand. As more and more _1_ came to live in Hong Kong, these trees were cut down and burnt. Now there is no forest left, _2_ there are still some areas covered with trees. We call these _3_. Elephants, tigers, monkeys and many other animals used to l
38、ive in the _4_ forests of Hong Kong, and there were even crocodiles in the _5_ and along the coast. When people came to live in Hong Kong, the animals began to _6_ out. Early farmers grew rice and kept pigs and chickens in the valleys. They _7_ the trees and burnt them. They needed fires to keep the
39、mselves _8_ in the winter, to cook their food, and to keep away from dangerous animals. Elephants quickly disappeared because there was not enough _9_ for them. So did most of the wolves, and tigers. Monkeys, squirrels and many other animals soon died out in the same _10_. You might think that there
40、 are _11_ any animals in Hong Kong, except in the _12_. You might think there cant be any wild animals in such a _13_ place with so many cars and buildings. But there is _14_ a good deal of countryside in Hong Kong and New Territories, and there are still about thirtysix different kinds of animals l
41、iving there. One of the most interesting of Hong Kongs _15_ is the barking deer. They are beautiful little creatures with rich, brown coat and a white patch under the tail. They look like deer but they are much _16_. They are less than two feet high. The male barking deer has two small horns but the
42、 female has none. They make a _17_ rather like a dog barking. Barking deer live in thick shrub (灌木) country and are very good at _18_. They eat grass and shrubs, mainly in the very early morning and late afternoon and evening. This is when you are most likely to see one but you will need to be very
43、quiet and to have very _19_ eyes. In Hong Kong the barking deer has only one _20_man. Although it is illegal, people hunt and trap these harmless little animals. As a result there are now not many left. There are a few on Hong Kong Island but none in the New Territories. 1A.peopleBchildren CladiesDw
44、omen 2A.asBsince CthoughDbecause 3A.desertBshades CfieldsDwoods 4A.thinBthick CshortDdying 5A.riversBhills CskyDmountains 6A.dieBlook CcomeDget 7A.put upBlooked after Ccared forDcut down 8A.coldBcool CwarmDhot 9A.airBfood CwaterDclothes 10A.wayBroad CstreetDrail 11A.neverBalways CnoDno longer 12A.zo
45、osBshops CkitchensDparks 13A.freeBbusy CbigDlarge 14A.no moreBnearly CstillDhardly 15A.animalsBplants CfishesDbirds 16A.greatBlarger CsmallerDheavier 17A.noiseBvoice CsongDliving 18A.barkingBeating CplantingDhiding 19A.commonBsharp CclearDbig 20A.neighborBbrother CenemyDfriend 非选择题部分 第二节语篇语法填空(共 10
46、小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分) 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1 个单词)或括号内单词的正确形 式。 The polar bear is found in the Arctic Circle and some big land masses as far south as Newfoundland. While they are rare north of 88， there is evidence _1_ they range all the way across the Arctic, and as far south as James Bay in Canada.It i
47、s difficult to figure out a global population of polar bears as much of the range has been _2_ (poor) studied; however, biologists calculate that there are about 20,000 25,000 polar bears worldwide. Modern methods _3_ tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid1980s, and ar
48、e expensive _4_ (perform) consistently over a large area. In recent years some Inuit people in Nunavut _5_ (report) increases in bear sightings around human settlements, leading to a _6_(believe) that populations are increasing. Scientists have responded by _7_ (note) that hungry bears may be congre
49、gating (聚集) around human settlements, leading to the illusion (错觉) that populations are _8_ (high) than they actually are.Of _9_nineteen recognized polar bear subpopulations, three are declining, six _10_ (be) stable, one is increasing, and nine lack enough data. 1_2._3._4._ 5_6._7._8._ 9_10._ 第四部分第
50、四部分写作写作(满分满分 40 分分) 第一节应用文写作（15 分） 假定你是李华，当前濒临灭绝的动物数量日益增长，你作为校报小记者，刚 刚进行了一次动物生存状况的调查， 发现日常生活中我们有很多东西都与杀戮动 物有关。请你根据以下要点在校报刊物上给全人类写一封英文信，号召大家保护 动物。 1很多人使用皮毛制品，靠猎杀动物挣钱； 2为保护动物提出自己的建议； 3发出倡议，号召大家一起行动起来保护动物。 注意：1.词数 100 左右； 2可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 3开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 Dear human beings， It is known that at presen
