1、单元整合训练单元整合训练 .阅读理解(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 Teens For Planet Earth This is a social networking site for teenagers who want to get involved in protecting our planet.They can connect with other greenminded teens ,choose a project or create their own.Teens For P
2、lanet Earth encourages young people to get busy in their own communities.They offer guidance on local projects with categories such as habitats,animals,water and education.Awards are given to active members. Meez At Meez,teens can create their own avatars(头像),rooms and virtual pets.It is a social co
3、mmunity of creative people that combines avatars , virtual worlds and games.Meez offers contests and chat as well as homework help,a fashion central and a writers corner.A chat area for younger teens is available.Other areas are music, geek(极客)central,art and sports. Cyberteens Cyberteens is another
4、 cool site that celebrates the teen years.Here teenagers can find community,games,and news.There is a link called creativity where teens can share their poems,stories,photos and artwork.The cool links section offers a huge variety of options to the curious teens.This site also has surveys and helps
5、with jobs and school work. S S is a resource site for teens and high school students.Its social network has over 900, 000 members.Members earn points to win prizes just by browsing and they offer several multiplayer games.Points are used to buy items at auction(拍卖会)S is filled with useful informatio
6、n and articles. 【语篇解读】本文是一篇应用文。主要介绍了四个在社会生活方面提供给 年轻人各种帮助的网站。 1What is Teens For Planet Earth aimed to? ASet up a project. BGive awards to teens. CGet young folks busy. DGive advice on local projects. D细节理解题。 根据文章第一段“They offer guidance on local projects with categories such as habitats,animals,water
7、 and education.Awards are given to active members.”他们为当地项目提供指导,包括栖息地、动物、水和教育。奖励给积 极的成员。可知,他们给当地项目提供建议,故选 D。 2What makes S special among these websites? AIt has the most members. BTeens can read articles on it. CIt offers help on school work. DTeens can buy things on it. D细节理解题。 根据文章第四段“Members earn
8、points to win prizes just by browsing and they offer several multiplayer games.Points are used to buy items at auction(拍卖会)”会员只要浏览网页就可以获得积分赢取奖品,而且他们还提 供多种多人游戏。积分可以用来在拍卖会购买物品。在这些网站中,S 特别之处在于青少年可以在上面买东西。故选 D。 3What can we infer about the websites mentioned in the text? AThey provide game platforms. BT
9、hey benefit teens in their social life. CThey award outstanding teens. DThey offer various study guidance. B推理判断题。根据文章每段的第一句可知这四个都是关于青少年的网 站。结合文章主题,可以推断这四个网站使青少年在社交生活中受益。故选 B。 B A while back I caught a news report on something called couchsurfing and the net work of trusting souls who make this phen
10、omenon possible.They offer to put up travelers free of charge and help them on their ways.At first, it sounded unbelievable.I mean,inviting strangers into ones home for one or two nights? Give me a break. However,I was intrigued. I decided to investigate.The only way to truly learn about this phenom
11、enon was to dive in.So I planned a trip to Finland,a country Ive always wanted to explore.I would couchsurf at every stop there. If ever any anxiety existed when stepping into the unknown, it disappeared when my first host met me at the train station.Ari looked like my idea of a typical Finn: tall a
12、nd blueeyed.Finns were also supposed to be famously reserved(寡言少语的)Ari was anything but.He was a live wire,giving me an enthusiastic welcome and hiking with me to his apartment,where he showed me the sleeping sofa,served me tea and engaged me in warm conversations.He also handed me a key to come and
13、 go as I pleased. If this was what couchsurfing was all abouttrust and friendshipthen I had gotten off to a good start.As I boarded my next train to continue my journey I began to think about this couchsurfing idea.What urged these people to open their homes to strangers? I concluded that there was
14、a desire to lend a hand to likeminded folks who might enrich their own lives. Seven cities in 14 days.Seven hosts.Seven new friends.If couchsurfing taught me anything,its this: Most people are good and generous.Where will couchsurfing take me next? Who knows? But I cant wait to find out. 【语篇解读】本文为一篇
15、记叙文。记叙了我在探索“沙发冲浪”时获得了 友情和信任。 4What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean? ARelaxed.BDisgusted. CInterested.DEmbarrassed. C词义猜测题。根据画线后一句“I decided to investigate.”,推断出作者应 该对沙发冲浪很感兴趣,才会决定去调查,所以 “intrigued”与“interested”具有相 同含义。故选 C。 5What can we know about Ari? AHe was reserved like mos
16、t Finns. BHe talked less but he was friendly. CHe treated the author as a friend. DHe saw off the author at the train station. C推理判断题。根据第三段“He was a live wire,giving me an enthusiastic welcome and hiking with me to his apartment,where he showed me the sleeping sofa,served me tea and engaged me in wa
17、rm conversations.He also handed me a key to come and go as I pleased.”可知,作者认为作者和 Ari 已经有了信任与友谊, Ari 把作者当作朋友。故选 C。 6Why did people offer couchsurfing to strangers? ATo take an adventure with strangers. BTo exchange houses for a short time. CTo learn more about others family lives. DTo enrich their ow
18、n lives by helping others. D细节理解题。根据倒数第二段“What urged these people to open their homes to strangers? I concluded that there was a desire to lend a hand to likeminded folks who might enrich their own lives.”作者得出结论向陌生人提供“沙发冲 浪”是为了通过帮助别人来丰富自己的生活。故选 D。 7What can be the suitable title for the text? ATrave
19、l on Trust and Couches BAFree Travel in Finland CExperiences in Strangers Houses DAPlan for Couchsurfing A标题归纳题。 通读全文可知, 本文主要讲述了作者从初步了解到亲身体 验“沙发冲浪”这种旅游模式在旅游时, 由一个陌生的当地人提供免费吃住 并担当导游,基于相互信任共同趣味建立起来的一种旅游模式,再到得出感悟的 全过程。全文围绕两个关键词 couch 和 travel 展开,故选 A。 C My son was entering Grade 1.He was a bit nervous
20、because he knew his best friend would not be in his new class.I explained to him that even though his best friend would not be in his class,he would still have some of his old classmates. On the first day of school when the class list was posted,I was shocked! My son had zero former classmates in hi
21、s class.None.Not one. How could this happen? I asked my friend who works with the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board.She explained, “Many largely populated schools often shuffle ( 弄 混 ) the kids around each year to encourage new friendships.” If schools are actively trying to place two best fr
22、iends in different classes simply to shake things up,I think it is a blunder I was lucky enough to attend the same primary school all the way through.It was a small class and our group of students moved through each grade together.We felt like brothers and sisters.It was wonderful. While it may be g
23、ood to shake things up a bit in the older grades, it seems almost cruel to separate good friends in the younger grades without good cause. One mom named Karen says that her son is always starting a new grade without any close friends.At first,she thought it was a good idea.Then she realized one thin
24、g her son does not have a“best friend”,which makes her pretty worried.In fact,she thinks that he does not have any close friends because his classmates are always changing. Part of a schools responsibility is to provide a safe and comfortable space for children to learn and grow.If that environment
25、is always changingcausing terrible resultsperhaps it is time to rethink this practice. 【语篇解读】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。作者以儿子上一年级所在班里没有 一个好朋友和老同学的故事, 探讨了学校对孩子们熟悉的朋友和同学分到不同的 班级的做法是错误的,不利于孩子的成长。 8How did the author bring up the topic? ABy telling a story. BBy using other peoples words. CBy making comparisons. DBy sho
26、wing research findings. A细节理解题。根据第一段“My son was entering Grade 1.He was a bit nervous because he knew his best friend would not be in his new class.I explained to him that even though his best friend would not be in his class,he would still have some of his old classmates.”可知,作者以自己儿子班级里既没有自己的好朋友也 没有
27、老同学这个故事为例,提出本文的话题,他认为学校不应该这样做,故 A 项符合题意,故选 A 项。 9What does the underlined word “blunder” in Paragraph 5 probably mean? AProgress.BReason. CMistake.DFailure. C词义猜测题。结合下文第七段“it seems almost cruel to separate good friends in the younger grades without good cause”,以及本文最后“perhaps it is time to rethink th
28、is practice”可知,如果学校积极尝试把两个最好的朋友安排在不同的 班级,只是为了让事情发生变化,我认为这是一个错误,由此推知,画线词所在 句句意为“我认为这是一个错误”, 即划画词与 C 选项“Mistake ”意思接近。故 选 C 项。 10Why did the author mention her own primary school experience? ATo prove that smaller classes are better. BTo discuss the importance of good friends. CTo explain how friendsh
29、ips are developed at school. DTo show the advantage of having familiar classmates. D推理判断题。根据第六段“It was a small class and our group of students moved through each grade together.We felt like brothers and sisters.It was wonderful” 和最后一段“Part of a schools responsibility is to provide a safe and comfort
30、able space for children to learn and grow” 可知,作者上小学时与他班级的同学一直在 同一个班集体里,同学们之间互相熟悉(familiar)。他认为,在熟悉的班集体里, 能让孩子有安全感,有利于他们的成长。 因此 D 选项符合推测,故选 D 项。 11Whats Karens attitude toward the practice of her sons school? AShe supports it. BShe is against it. CShe isnt interested in it. DShe is uncertain about it
31、. B推理判断题。根据最后一段“Part of a schools responsibility is to provide a safe and comfortable space for children to learn and grow.If that environment is always changingcausing terrible resultsperhaps it is time to rethink this practice(学校的责任之一是为孩子们提供一个安全舒适的学习和成长空间。如果 环境总是在变化,导致可怕的结果,也许是时候重新考虑这种做法了)”,由此 判断出
32、她对儿子所在学校的做法持反对的态度, 因此 B 项符合题意, 故选 B 项。 D Roughly the size of a soda can,sitting on a bookshelf,a relatively harmless device may be turning friends away from your home.The elephant in your living room is your Internetconnected camera, a device people are increasingly using for peace of mind in their
33、homes.But few stop to think about the effect these devices may have on house guests.Should you tell your friends,for instance,that theyre being recorded while you all watch the big game together? “ Its certainly new territory ( 领 地 ) , especially as home security cameras become easier to fix, ” says
34、 Lizzie Post,president of the Emily Post Institute, Americas distinguished manners advisors.“I think it will be very interesting to see what manners appear in terms of whether you tell people you have a camera or not, and whether guests have a right to ask that it be turned off,if its not a security
35、 issue.” Post wants to make clear that shes not talking about legal rights,but rather personal preference. When it comes to security cameras,Post says its a hosts responsibility to make sure guests feel comfortable within their home.If the host casually acknowledges that there is a camera in the roo
36、m by telling a story about, it that may be enough to provide an opening for a guest to say if they are uncomfortable. However,if a contractor (合约工) is working in your home,you dont need to tell them that there are cameras watching.Then again,the camera can also work in contractors favor.“If anything
37、 does go wrong while theyre in the house,they dont want to be blamed for it, ” she says.“In fact,the camera could be the thing that proves that they didnt steal the DS| 20,or knock the vase off the table.” 【语篇解读】本文是一篇议论文。文章介绍了美国很多家庭安装安全摄像 头这一现象,美国著名的礼仪顾问齐波斯特分析了安全摄像头对客人的影响。 12 What is Lizzie Post mai
38、nly discussing about the use of home security cameras? ALegal rights. BMoral issues. CThe possible impact on health. DLikes and dislikes of individuals. D细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Post wants to make clear that shes not talking about legal rights,but rather personal preference.”可知,波斯特想表明, 她谈论的不是法律权利,而是个人偏好。由此可知,
39、波斯特主要讨论的是使用家 庭安全摄像头是人们的个人喜恶,故 D 项正确。 13According to Post,what is a hosts responsibility concerning the security camera? AIndicating its position. BTurning it on all the time. CMaking their guests feel at ease. DHaving a casual talk with guests. C细节理解题。根据第三段中的“When it comes to security cameras,Post s
40、ays its a hosts responsibility to make sure guests feel comfortable within their home.”可知,谈到安全摄像头,波斯特说,确保客人在家里感到舒适是主人的 责任,故 C 项正确。 14How can the home security camera help contractors working in your home? AIt can prove their innocence. BIt can record their working progress. CIt can prevent the accid
41、ents happening. DIt can make their work more enjoyable. A细节理解题。 根据第四段中的“In fact, the camera could be the thing that proves that they didnt steal the DS| 20,or knock the vase off the table.”可知,事实 上,摄像头可以证明他们没有偷那 20 美元,也没有把花瓶从桌子上摔下来。由 此可知,摄像头可以帮助合约工证明自己的清白,故 A 项正确。 15Whats the authors attitude towards
42、 the security camera? ANegative.BPessimistic. CFavorable.DObjective. D推理判断题。 通读全文可知, 本文主要介绍了美国很多家庭安装安全摄 像头这一现象, 著名的礼仪顾问齐波斯特分析了家庭安全摄像头对客人的影响, 在整个论述过程中, 作者只是客观地阐述家庭安全摄像头的使用及其对客人的影 响,并没有掺杂个人感情。由此可知,作者对使用家庭安全摄像头的态度是客观 的,故 D 项正确。 .阅读七选五(共 5 小题;每小题 2.5 分,满分 12.5 分) 根据短文内容,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
43、选项。 Enjoyable Family Picnics Going for a picnic is great at any age.It can either be a simple lunch in the park or a family barbecue at the beach.Whether with little kids or just as a romantic afternoon date, picnics can be fun and relaxing.Just remember to prepare. Check the weather forecast.16Picn
44、ics are never much fun when it gets too hot or starts to rain.If it is likely to rain, but you still make up your mind to go, think about bringing umbrellas. Pick a location suitable for your familys needs.Different locations are for different types of picnics.17Choose one with a playground for them
45、, and perhaps some bathrooms nearby.Do you want a quiet afternoon to read, or a park with a big field to play soccer on? 18Food is the most important part of a picnic, so dont forget it! Remember to bring any utensils (器皿) you might need, as well as napkins and a garbage bag to clean up afterwards.B
46、ring some books, balls or anything else that could be fun.Finally, dont forget your camera. Other ideas.If it gets hot in the afternoon, why not try a morning picnic to enjoy the songs of birds in the fresh morning air?19It can be fun to have a picnic in your backyard.If youre going on a hike, pack
47、a lunch and turn it into a picnic.But remember to bring extra water! Remember to prepare, and youll soon be enjoying picnics wherever you are.But keep in mind that not everything always go as planned.20 AWhat to bring. BDo you have little kids? CJust learn to laugh and enjoy it anyway. DAnother idea
48、 is to stay at home. ENot everybody likes eating outside. FIt may seem obvious but its often forgotten. GDo you need big trees to keep the heat off on a sunny day? 【语篇解读】本文是一篇说明文。在任何年龄段去野餐都是很好的。它可 以是公园里的简单午餐,也可以是海滩上的家庭烧烤。无论是带着小孩,还是像 一个浪漫的下午约会,野餐都是有趣和放松的,只需记得做好准备。本文介绍了 一个好的野餐应该注意的事项。 16F本段第一句为本段中心句,根
49、据句意“Check the weather forecast.” 可知本段即将谈论查看天气预报这一事件。 选项 F 中的“It”可用来指代这一事件, 且句意也符合上下文逻辑。故选 F。 17 B根据后句“Choose one with a playground for them, and perhaps some bathrooms nearby.”可知这是为小孩准备的。选项 B 符合句意。故选 B。 18A根据文章结构可知,空格处所缺的是本段中心句。根据本段中多次 出现的“dont forget”及“Remember to bring”可知本段是讲述野餐需要带的东西。 选 项 A 与段落内容
50、一致。故选 A。 19D本段内容讲述关于野餐地点的选择。根据空格后句“It can be fun to have a picnic in your backyard.”可知这句话是说在家里野餐也是一个选择。 选项 D 与下句内容一致,故选 D。 20C根据上句“But keep in mind that not everything always go as planned.” 可知下句讲如果事情没有按照计划进行怎么办。选项 C 与上下句意思一致,故 选 C。 .完形填空(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