1、第一单元过关检测第一单元过关检测 (时间:90 分钟 满分:120 分) 第一部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分 40 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 Welcome to find and book the very best summer camps.Your children are precious so we offer the highest quality of camps that will meet each childs needs and interests. Cat
2、alina Sea Camp Sea Camp offers three one-week sessions to boys and girls aged 8-13 and two three-week sessions to teens aged 12-17.Our hand-picked instructors create an atmosphere of fun and excitement while leading campers to a host of ocean adventures,marine(海洋的) biology,and social summer camp act
3、ivities. Address:Toyon Way,San Bruno,California 94066 Phone:800-645-1423 Camp Cayuga Camp Cayuga is a private summer camp for children aged 6 to 16.The camp is on a 350-acre land in the Pocono Mountains of Northeast Pennsylvania,just outside the village of Honesdale.Its a 3-hour drive from New York
4、City and Philadelphia. Address:321 Niles Pond Road-Suite ISC,Honesdale,Pennsylvania 18431 Phone:908-470-1224 Camp Rockmont Camp Rockmont is a Christian summer camp for boys,aged 6-16,in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.Rockmonts duty of developing boys into healthy young men is accomplishe
5、d through age-appropriate skills,activities,and challenges that help campers to know themselves better. Address:375 Lake Eden Road,Black Mountain,North Carolina 28711 Phone:828-686-3885 Primitive Pursuits Overnight Camps Primitive Pursuits Overnight Camps offer week-long Summer Adventure Overnight C
6、amps in New Yorks Finger Lakes to your children aged 11-15.Campers experience a week of nature-based skills training,inspiring challenges,and fun activities under the guidance of skilled instructors. Address:611 County Rd 13,Van Etten,New York 14889 Phone:607-272-2292 1.Where should a girl of 7 go c
7、amping? A.Toyon Way,San Bruno. B.611 County Rd 13,Van Etten. C.375 Lake Eden Road,Black Mountain. D.321 Niles Pond Road-Suite ISC,Honesdale. 答案: D 解析: 细节理解题。根据 Camp Cayuga 下面的“Camp Cayuga is a private summer camp for children aged 6 to 16.”可知,七岁的女孩可以参加这个私人夏令营,其对应的地址是 321 Niles Pond Road-Suite ISC,Ho
8、nesdale,故选 D 项。 2.What is special about Camp Rockmont? A.Its targeted at young men. B.It provides skills training. C.It is located in the mountains. D.It has something to do with religion. 答案: D 解析: 细节理解题。 根据 Camp Rockmont 下面的“Camp Rockmont is a Christian summer camp for boys”可知,该夏令营是为信仰基督教的男孩们准备的,也
9、就是说,这个夏令营带有宗教色彩, 故选 D 项。 3.Who is the text most likely intended for? A.Campers. B.Educators. C.Parents. D.Children. 答案: C 解析: 推理判断题。根据第一段中的“Your children are precious so we offer the highest quality of camps that will meet each childs needs and interests.”可知,本文的读者针对人群是父母,故 选 C 项。 B Mary is a nice gi
10、rl,but she is a little shy and she doesnt like to meet new people.As a daughter,she has no secrets from her mother.But recently she has become a little strange,and not so open as before.She has a diary that she keeps under lock and key.Her mother cannot help worrying about her:what if she falls in l
11、ove,which is too early for a girl of her age. One weekend Mary came to tell her mother that she was going to the cinema with her schoolmate and would return late.This was the first time her mother agreed,and she couldnt help worrying because her daughter had never been away at night before.The mothe
12、r waited till nine and her uneasiness got the upper heart over her.She decided to go out to meet her daughter.Just at that moment the noise of a car pulling up drew her to the window and there was her daughter,waving goodbye to a boy.Her heart missed a beat.When Mary came in,the mother was watching
13、TV,pretending nothing had happened. “Mum,Im back.” “Yeah.” “Sorry to be late.Still sitting up?” “Yes,oh,that.Whos that boy?” Mary was stunned for a moment.“Ah.Its my monitor.He gave me a lift on his way home.Mum,Im going to bed.” Next morning when the mother went to the daughters room to do some tid
14、ying,she found her diary left at her pillow.After a few minutes hesitation she finally opened it to the entry of the night before.It reads:Mum,its love that made you ask,but it would show your understanding of me if you hadnt.Holding the diary,the mother fell into thought. 4.Why did Mary leave the d
15、iary under the pillow? A.She forgot to hide it when she left. B.She didnt want her mother to see it. C.She wanted her mother to read it. D.She hoped to read it when she was back. 答案: C 解析: 推理判断题。根据 Mary 前一天晚上写的日记内容“Mum,its love that made you ask,but it would show your understanding of me if you hadn
16、t.”可知,她是故意把日记放在枕头 下面让妈妈看的。 5.Which is the correct order according to the story? a.She took a lift back in her monitors car. b.She went to see a film with her classmate. c.She wrote something in her diary. d.Her mother pretended to watch TV. e.Her mother worried about her daughters returning late. A.
17、e,b,a,d,c B.b,e,a,d,c C.b,a,e,d,c D.b,e,a,c,d 答案: B 解析: 细节理解题。根据文章内容可知,正确顺序为:Mary 去看电影;妈妈担心;Mary 回来;妈 妈假装看电视;Mary 写日记。 6.From the diary we can see Mary . A.thanked her mother for asking her B.thought her mother cared about her very much C.thought it was her mothers duty to ask D.thought her mothers
18、understanding is better than simple love 答案: D 解析: 推理判断题。根据“.but it would show your understanding of me if you hadnt.”可 知,Mary 想得到的是妈妈的理解。 7.Which can be the best title for this story? A.Mothers True Love B.Worries Between Students C.To Ask or Not to Ask D.Dangerous Age 答案: C 解析: 主旨大意题。对于女儿的隐私,问是对女儿
19、的爱,不问是对女儿的理解,那么“是该问还 是不该问呢?”,所以选 C 项作标题可以引起读者的好奇心。 C Alpha 2,the “worlds first family robot”,has attracted a large number of people at Consumer Electronics Show(CES).The voice-controlled robot can do everything from turning on the lights,organizing your day and reading your children bed-time stories
20、.Thanks to its 20 small machines that control its body,the robot can also move around like a human. The 17 by 19 inch robot is the work of a Chinese company,UBTech.The robot uses voice and facial recognition(面部识别) to tell who its talking to and what its asked to perform.A front-facing camera can als
21、o take photos and post them on social media of itself.The company uses its own software,but it is now asking developers to make apps that will improve its abilities even further. It can do the following jobs:Organizing weekly calendars and providing alarms for daily tasks.Having conversations and fo
22、llowing instructions.Controlling the security system(安全系统) and raising an alarm if there are any thieves.Entertaining children and guests.Reporting the weather,searching the web and downloading apps.Teaching yoga and languages. “Alpha 2 is just like a smart phone but without a screen,so you can down
23、load apps from an app store,”a spokesman of the company said.“So you can make Alpha 2 do anything.For example,if you want it to be a nurse,you can download health management,or if you want it to be an English teacher,you can download an app to teach English.Alpha 2 can also learn from languages and
24、habits to be smarter.” At CES in Las Vegas,the company showed that it began selling Alpha 2 for around $1,300 when it was released in March.An Alpha 2 can communicate with other Alpha 2 robots. 8.At Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, . A.people were attracted by Alpha 2 B.people were served by
25、Alpha 2 C.a number of people bought Alpha 2 D.Alpha 2 read bed-time stories to children 答案: A 解析: 细节理解题。根据第一段的“Alpha 2,.has attracted a large number of people at Consumer Electronics Show(CES).”可知,在拉斯维加斯的消费电子产品大展中 Alpha 2 吸引了 很多参观者。 9.Which job is this kind of robot able to do? A.Predicting weather.
26、 B.Cooking in the kitchen. C.Helping children with homework. D.Improving itself and making itself smarter. 答案: D 解析: 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段的“Alpha 2 can also learn from languages and habits to be smarter.”可知,这种机器人可以自我学习语言和习惯,使自己变得更机灵。 10.What can we learn about Alpha 2? A.It can raise an alarm if unexpected
27、guests come in. B.It is a smart phone with some small computers inside. C.It can help teachers to make their class interesting. D.Alpha 2 robots can communicate with each other. 答案: D 解析: 细节理解题。根据最后一段的“An Alpha 2 can communicate with other Alpha 2 robots” 可知,这种名为 Alpha 2 的机器人可以和其他的 Alpha 2 机器人互相交流。
28、11.This passage is written mainly to tell readers . A.the CES in Las Vegas this year B.the first family robot in the world C.a great achievement in technology D.the most useful and safest robot 答案: B 解析: 主旨大意题。 根据文章内容尤其是第一段的“Alpha 2,the worlds first family robot” 可知,作者在本文主要介绍了这个中国制造的世界上的第一个家用机器人。 D
29、When the child dug the first egg,the possibilities were endless,but not all of them were frightening.Maybe a little chick was inside;that would be fun.The eggs were dug from the sandpit(沙坑) outside St.Josephs Catholic school on the east coast of Australia. When volunteers from a wildlife protection
30、group arrived at the school,they decided the 43 eggs were those of reptiles(爬行动物),and thought they might be water dragons:pretty lizards(蜥 蜴) that are sometimes kept as pets.But when wildlife volunteer Rod Miller shone a light through one of the eggs,he saw no bird or lizard,but a baby snake.Then Mi
31、llers group,Fawna,looked into that,and announced these 43 eggs contained the deadliest snakes:eastern brown snakes.They can grow more than six feet long and have killed two-dozen Australians since 2000,usually when one slithers(滑行) into someones home,and that is an increasingly common sight even in
32、cities. The groups volunteers spent three days digging at the school to find more.They said maybe Mommy and Daddy brown snakes were slithering around behind the sandpit,and the volunteers took the eggs away and reburied them in nearby bushes.Fawna is a wildlife protection group,after all. Soon skept
33、icism came about.Bryan Fry,a biologist at the University of Queensland,who had at first told the “Guardian” the eggs were of snakes,began to reconsider.Others also told the “Telegraph” much the same thing. Fawna was forced to say sorry in public,but Miller pushed back.With his own eyes,he said,he ha
34、d seen inside an egg what looked like a small pink worm(蠕虫) with a couple of eyes which he could only think it was a snake.He insisted,“Whatever theyre,they have the right to come out.” 12.What did the volunteers think of these eggs at first? A.They were of hens. B.They were of snakes. C.They were o
35、f birds. D.They were of lizards. 答案: D 解析: 细节理解题。根据第二段的“When volunteers from a wildlife protection group arrived at the school,they decided the 43 eggs were those of reptiles,and thought they might be water dragons:pretty lizards that are sometimes kept as pets.”可知,当来自一个野生动物保护组织的志 愿者来到学校时,他们认为这 43 个
36、蛋是属于爬行动物的,他们认为它们可能是水龙:漂亮的蜥 蜴,有时被当作宠物饲养。由此可知,起初,志愿者认为这些蛋是蜥蜴蛋。 13.About the eastern brown snakes,we can learn that they . A.are fond of wandering in the forest B.are so dangerous for human beings C.dislike the environment in big cities D.are always raised as pets in Australia 答案: B 解析: 细节理解题。 根据第二段的“T
37、hen Millers group,Fawna,looked into that,and announced these 43 eggs contained the deadliest snakes:eastern brown snakes.They can grow more than six feet long and have killed two-dozen Australians since 2000,usually when one slithers into someones home,and that is an increasingly common sight even i
38、n cities.”可知,然后,Miller 的团 队,Fawna,研究了这一问题,并宣布了这 43 个蛋中包含了最致命的蛇:东棕蛇。 它们可以长到 6 英尺长,自2000年以来已经杀死了20多名澳大利亚人,通常是爬进住宅,即使在城市里,这也是 一个越来越普遍的现象。由此可知,东棕蛇对人类来说是十分危险的。 14.The underlined word “skepticism” in Paragraph 4 refers to “ ”. A.the worrying voice B.the special warning C.the doubtful attitude D.the strang
39、e reason 答案: C 解析: 词义猜测题。根据第四段的“Bryan Fry,a biologist at the University of Queensland,who had at first told the Guardian the eggs were of snakes,began to reconsider.Others also told the Telegraph much the same thing.”可知,起初告诉卫报这些是蛇蛋的昆士兰大学生物学 家 Bryan Fry 开始重新考虑这个问题。其他人也对每日电讯报说了同样的话。由此可推 知,此处是说很快怀疑论就出现
40、了,故可知答案。 15.According to the passage,Miller might saw . A.a small pink worm in the egg B.pretty lizard babies in those eggs C.a kind of dangerous water dragons D.what he had never seen before 答案: A 解析: 细节理解题。根据最后一段的“With his own eyes,he said,he had seen inside an egg what looked like a small pink wo
41、rm with a couple of eyes which he could only think it was a snake.”可 知,Miller 说他亲眼看到像是有一双眼睛的粉色小蠕虫在蛋里面,他只能认为那是一条蛇。由 此可知,Miller 可能看到了蛋中的粉色小蠕虫。 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。 Surprising Reasons Youre Not Losing Weight Whats the biggest enemy to a weight-loss plan
42、?Truthfully,there are plenty of habits that could be stopping your progressyou just may not realize them.Below are a few surprising reasons your weight-loss goals are failing. 1.Youre sticking to your chair. A sedentary(久坐的) workday could be destroying your weight-loss goals without you even realisi
43、ng it.Studies show that sitting for a huge amount of time at work can lead to weight gain. 16 There are huge benefits to gain from the activity as well. 2. 17 Getting proper rest can improve every part of your lifeincluding your weight.Research shows that sleep deprivation can lead to weight gain.Sl
44、eep a little more to help drop pounds. 3.Youre choosing diet soda. Diet soda will give you a healthier choice,but thats hardly the case.Research shows that calorie-free,artificially-sweetened(人工加糖的) drinks may actually increase longing(渴望) for real sugar and lead to weight gain. 18 4.Youre watching
45、your favourite show while you eat dinner. Sorry,soap opera fans. 19 People like to eat more when theyre distracted(分心) than they would if they were mindfully focusing on their meal,according to Harvard Health.It all comes down to your brain processing whats going on in your body. 5.Youre stressed. 2
46、0 Studies suggest that stress is connected to weight gain thanks to the bodys production of cortisol(皮质醇),which may lead to unhealthy food choices. A.Youre not sleeping enough. B.Therefore,choose water instead. C.Youre not eating enough. D.You may have to turn off your TV when youre eating. E.Too mu
47、ch worry can do great damage to any health plan. F.Try taking breaks and going for a longer walk at lunchtime. G.You can read some books to learn something about it. 答案: 1620 FABDE 第二部分 语言知识运用(共两节,满分 45 分) 第一节(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。 As a much-old
48、er sister,17-year-old high school student,Parish is used to helping out. A family emergency(紧急情况) prevented both Mum Curry and her husband from being able to 21 her 3-year-old son,James.So they asked Parish for 22 .In fact,they had 23 had Parish get him from school other than that day.But it was an
49、emergency.Later,Curry saw a picture online and 24 that Parish had taken him back to 25 .Little James quickly fell 26 in his big sisters arms at the high school. Parish didnt want to miss any work. 27 ,the school didnt mind James being in class with his big sister.Her teacher 28 welcomed her little brother in.The
