1、ADay in the Clouds 同步练习同步练习（答题时间：（答题时间：40 分钟）分钟）一、阅读理解People like different kinds of vacations. Some go camping. They swim, fish, cook over a fireand sleep outside. Others like to stay at a hotel in an exciting city. They go shopping all day andgo dancing all night. Or maybe they go sightseeing to p
2、laces such as Disneyland, the Tai Mahan orthe Louver.Some people are bored with sightseeing trips. They dont want to be “tourists”. They want tohave an adventurea surprising and exciting trip. They want to learn something and maybe helppeople too. How can they do this? Some travel companies and envi
3、ronmental groups are planningspecial adventures. Sometimes these trips are difficult and full of hardships, but theyre a lot offun. One organization, Earth watch, sends small groups of volunteers to different parts of theworld. Some volunteers spend two weeks and study the environment. Others work w
4、ith animals.Others learn about people of the past.Would you like an adventure in the Far North? A team of volunteers is leaving fromMormons, Russia. The leader of this trip is a professor from Alaska. Hes worried about chemicalsfrom factories. He and the volunteers will study this pollution in the e
5、nvironment. If you likeexercise and cold weather, this is a good trip for you. Volunteers need ski sixteen kilometers everyday.Do you enjoy ocean animals? You can spend two to four weeks in Hawaii. There, you canteach language to dolphins. Dolphins can follow orders such as “Bring me the large ball.
6、” Theyalso understand opposites. How much more can they understand? It will be exciting to learn aboutthese intelligent animals. Another study trip goes to Washington State and follows orcas. We callorcas “Killer Whale”, but theyre really dolphinsthe largest kind of dolphin. This beautifulanimal tra
7、vels together in family groups. They move through the ocean with their mothers,grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Ocean pollution is chasing their lives. Earth watch isstudying how this happens.Are you interested in history? Then Greece is the place for your adventure. Thirty-fivehundred years ago
8、 a volcano exploded there, on Santorum. This explosion was more terrible thanKarate or Mount Saint Helens. But today we know a lot about the way of life of the people fromthat time. There are houses, kitchens, and paintings as interesting as those in Pompeii. Todayteams of volunteers are learning mo
9、re about people from the past.Do you want a very different vacation? Do you want to travel far, work hard and learn a lot?Then an Earth watch vacation is for you.1. The Tai Mahan may be _.A. a shopping centerB. a hotelC. a dancing hallD. a place of interest2. From the passage, on an adventure trip,
10、people _.A. may not spend much time on sightseeingB. wont meet some difficulties or hardshipsC. cant enjoy themD. cant learn something3. If you want to learn something about people of the past, you can _.A. join the team to HawaiiB. join the team to the Far NorthC. join the team to WashingtonD. join
11、 the team to Greece4. The word “intelligent” in Paragraph 4 means _.A. excitingB. beautifulC. largeD. clever5. Which of the following is false?A. Some people find sightseeing trips boring.B. Earth watch is planning all these special adventures.C. The number of orcas is decreasing.D. 3 volcano explos
12、ions in all broke out 3, 500 years ago in Greece.二、语法填空In 1863 the first underground passenger railway in the world opened in London. It ran forjust under seven kilometers and allowed people to avoid terrible 1. _ (crowd) on the roadsabove as they travelled to and 2. _ work. It took three years to c
13、omplete and was builtusing an interesting method. This included digging up the road, 3. _ (lay) the track andthen building a strong roof over 4. _ top. When all those had been done, the road surfacewas replaced.Steam engines 5. _ (use) to pull the carriages and it must have been 6. _(fair) unpleasan
14、t for the passengers, with all the smoke and noise. However, the railway quicklyproved to be a great success and within six months, more than 25,000 people were using 7._ every day.Later, engineers 8. _ (manage) to construct railways in a system of deep tunnels (隧道） , which became known as the Tube.
15、 This development was only possible with the 9. _(introduce) of electric-powered engines and lifts. The Central London Railway was one of themost 10. _ (success) of these new lines, and was opened in 1900. It had white-paintedtunnels and bright red carriages, and proved extremely popular with the pu
16、blic.三、写作假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。 你的英国笔友 Jim 在给你的邮件中提到他很想了解你的职业规划，请你给 Jim 回信，内容包括：1. 你希望从事的职业;2. 你选择该职业的原因;3. 你打算为之做何准备。注意：信的开头、结尾已经给出，请补全缺失信息。Dear Jim，How is everything going? I am glad to receive your email，in which you asked me aboutmy career plan for the future. Now I am writing to share it with you in d
17、etails._That is all about my career plan. What do you think of it? I am looking forward to hearingyours if you have got one.Yours,Li HuaADay in the Clouds 同步练习参考答案同步练习参考答案一、阅读理解1. D 解析： 推理判断题。 从 Or maybe they go sightseeing to places such as Disneyland, the TaiMahan or the Louver，及 go sightseeing“观光
18、”，可知 Tai Mahan 是一个风景名胜地，即答案选 D。2.A解析：推理判断题。从 Some people are bored with sightseeing trips. They dont want tobe “tourists”. They want to have an adventure 可知喜欢冒险的游客不喜欢观光，即答案选 A。3. D解析：事实细节题。从 Are you interested in history? Then Greece is the place for youradventure(如果你对历史感兴趣的话，你可以去希腊)可知答案 D 正确。4. D解析
19、：词汇猜测题。从倒数第 3 段作者教海豚说话，海豚能学会一些，可见作者口中的海豚是很聪明的(intelligent)，即答案选 D。5. D解析：事实细节题。从 Thirty-five hundred years ago a volcano exploded there, onSantorum. This explosion was more terrible than Karate or Mount Saint Helens 可知文章并没说Karate 和 Mount Saint Helens 火山是什么时候爆发的，所以 D 不对。二、语法填空1. crowds 考查名词，crowd 前没有
20、冠词，且它是可数名词，故填 crowds。2. from 考查介词，to and from 来回，故填 from。3. laying 考查动词，这里是由 and 连接的三个动词-ing 形式，故填 laying。4. the 考查名词，top 是名词，前要用冠词，故填 the。5. were used 考查被动语态，根据句意：蒸汽发动机“被用于”拉货物，故填 were used。6. fairly 考查副词，这里 fair 是形容词，pleasant 也是形容词，所以需要将 fair 变为副词来修饰形容词，故填 fairly.7. it 考查代词，这里用 it 指代前句的 railway，故填
21、 it。8. managed 考查动词，本文全篇都是一般过去时，所以这里也应用一般过去时，故填managed。9. introduction 考查词性转换，空格前是 the，后面应该是名词，故填名词 introduction。10. successful 考查形容词， 空格前是 most，其后要跟形容词构成最高级， 故填 successful。三、写作参考范文：Dear Jim，How is everything going? I am glad to receive your email，in which you asked me aboutmy career plan for the fu
22、ture. Now I am writing to share it with you in details.I made up my mind to be a journalist when I visited the Xinhua News Agency, the top one inChina，last year. I chose it as my career based on the following two reasons. First，it is a job thatcan get me exposed to new things every day and thus keep
23、 me energetic and passionate all thetime since I really hate to follow the same routine every day. Second，working as a journalist canhelp realize my childhood dream of being a hero by fighting against evil and spreading justice.To achieve this goal，I plan to apply for the Communication University of
24、 China，whosemajor, Journalism，has been ranked the first for many years in a row across the whole country.After getting my Bachelor Degree of Journalism，I will continue my study in a world-famousuniversity to broaden my horizons to better fit my future post.That is all about my career plan. What do you think of it? I am looking forward to hearingyours if you have got one.Yours,Li Hua
