2010-2011学年高中英语选修8：Units 1-2 测试（译林牛津版）（译林牛津版）.doc

2010-2011学年高中英语选修8：Units 1-2 测试（译林牛津版）第一部分 单项填空 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)1. Do you think an advertisement is _ help when you look for a college? Well, it all depends. Anyway, it gives me more of _ chance. A. a; aB. 不填; a C. 不填; theD. a; the2. He died in 1870 and his tomb reads, _ his death, one of the Englands greatest writers _ to the world. A. At; is lost in B. By; is lost to C. For; is a loss to D. As; gets lost to3. How do you find the oil price now? It _ up all the time and no one knows when it will become stable.A. had gone B. has been going C. has gone D. had been going4. Few people will admit to _ others.A. have prejudice against B. be prejudiced againstC. having prejudiced againstD. being prejudiced against5. The great damage which the destructive earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011 _ made a great many people homeless.A. brought in B. brought about C. brought up D. brought out6. Recently, to maintain national balance, the Chinese government has _ a policy of encouraging college graduates to take positions in rural areas.A. adapted B. admired C. adopted D. admitted7. The South Pole isnt _ people could find a comfortable place to live, for the average winter temperature there is below-40.A. which B. that C. what D. where8. David is unwilling to find a job and spends too much time playing games in the net bar. He is sure to regret it. As the saying goes, “_”.A. A little learning is a dangerous thing B. A still tongue makes a wise headC. Lost time is never found again D. Every minute seems like a thousand9. China replaced Japan in 2010 as No. 2 economy, _ Chinas continuing rise in economic and political influences.A. reflecting B. reflected C. having reflected D. to have reflected10. from the operation, the patient was advised to stay in hospital for another two weeks.AHaving not fully recoveredBBeing not fully recoveredCNot having fully recovered DNot fully recovering11. Johnnys uncle promises that the boy _ get a nice present on Christmas Eve.A. should B. must C. can D. shall12. _ the moment they heard the starting signal given by the teacher. A. Ran the children down the hill B. Down the hill did the children runC. Down the hill the children ranD. Down the hill ran the children 13. It is said that _ to classic music may be helpful in improving teenagers taste. A. exposedB. exposingC. being exposed D. having exposed14. Many people tend to buy things from big store, _ they believe the qualities are good. A. at which B. of which C. which D. where15. Frank, Ive learned your plan. Could I make some suggestions? _.A. Just for fun B. Go right ahead C. With pleasure D. Take it easy第二部分 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)Just recently I had been wondering if there was much point in doing little acts of kindness. So often they get 16 , and occasionally they come back to bite you!Then, just last week, after a long travel, I found myself 17 at a bus station. The bus was four hours late! So, I guess I wasnt in a good 18 .Thats when a woman asked me if I had any spare 19 to help her get a bus ticket.“Oh, sure,” I said sarcastically (挖苦地). “How much would you like?”As I spoke, I mentally kicked myself for my 20 and reached into my bag for some money. As I handed her five dollars, I heard low sounds from her stomach because of real 21 .I reached back into my bag and brought out a 22 I had bought earlier. I handed it to her with a(n) 23 that I hoped would make up for my earlier tone of voice. Getting a 24 look at her now, I realized she was extremely tired, like she had had several months of 25 days! As she took the food, a look of 26 washed over her. In return, she tried to give me a Milwaukee bus ticket! I dont live in Milwaukee and the ticket will probably 27 be used, but I took it.A few minutes later she came back over, apologized, and told me she was still 28 of five dollars. I took some singles out of my bag and slipped a twenty in there as well. 29 , the voice in my head told me I was being a fool. Five minutes later she came back again and tried to 30 my twenty. When I said it was for her so she could get something else to 31 , and that I was completely serious and I wasnt taking it 32 , she started crying and hugged me.From now on, when I wonder if it is 33 trying to help someone, I will remember that woman. Maybe I am really making a 34 for someone. So, sure, sometimes my efforts might not be noticed, and sometimes they might come back to bite me, but they might actually 35 another human being!16. A. ignored B. appreciated C. acknowledged D. forgiven17. A. examined B. trapped C. confused D. delayed 18. A. habit B. place C. mood D. situation19. A. change B. timeC. handD. energy20. A. appearanceB. attitude C. selfishness D. experience21. A. painB. anxietyC. hungerD. fear22. A. souvenirB. ticketC. giftD. cake 23. A. shoutB. smileC. apology D. praise24. A. quickB. gentleC. good D. cold25. A. dark B. toughC. mysteriousD. special26. A. reliefB. regretC. doubtD. anger27. A. onceB. often C. sometimes D. never 28. A. ashamedB. awareC. short D. proud 29. A. EventuallyB. HoweverC. ThereforeD. Besides30. A. return B. showC. shareD. earn31. A. doB. tradeC. add D. eat 32. A. awayB. outC. backD. over33. A. hardB. funC. uselessD. worth 34. A. differenceB. profitC. decisionD. suggestion 35. A. exciteB. helpC. educateD. inspire第三部分 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)ABest High School Band Plays Turner Field The North Cobb High School Band routinely takes the field every Friday night during football season. The band plays at North Cobb football games. This week, the band had to get ready a little earlier in the week. Thats because they played before the Atlanta Braves baseball game at Turner Field. North Cobb won s Best High School Band Tournament (锦标赛) last season. The prize for winning was a chance to play on the field at Turner Field before a Major League Baseball game. Tuesday night, the band collected the prize. “We were excited,” North Cobb High School Band drum major Madison Hall said. “Growing up in Atlanta, the Braves have always been such a famous figure in Atlanta, so we were really exited to have the opportunity to perform in front of a lot of people and in front of our community.” The tournament featured 64 high school bands from across Georgia. W users determined the top four bands through voting with the Atlanta Braves entertainment staff selecting the winner from the final four. They selected North Cobb. “We have a number of great students at North Cobb,” director Greg Williams said. “Weve got the best parents in the world,” he said. “The kids are so amazing, they are really bright, talented, and they work hard. They do anything we ask them to do and I really think thats a lot of keys to our success.” Under the leadership of Williams and assistant band director Scott Pannell, the band made its way onto the outfield grass just as Atlanta Braves catcher Brian McCann was warming up. “It was amazing,” said Pannell. “Just going out in the tunnel and going into the stadium. And just looking at the Braves players on the left and seeing them over by our kids, its just unbelievable.” The Atlanta Braves have once again partnered with to reward this years winner of the Best High School Band Tournament a chance to play at Turner Field. 36. What did the band do on Tuesday night? A. They performed at a football game. B. They won s tournament. C. They played before a baseball game. D. They got a sum of money as a reward.37. The North High School Band turned out the best mainly due to _. A. the support of the school B. the huge reward from C. the hard work of its members D. the encouragement from McCann38. We can infer from the passage that _. A. the North High School Band is the pride of the Braves B. the competition between the school bands is very fierce C. the Atlanta Braves have been admired all over the USA D. only bright kids can be admitted to the North High SchoolBSmart phones that react to your moods and televisions that can tell its you whos watching are in your future as Intel Corporations top technology expert sets his sights on context-aware computing.Chief technology officer Justin Rattner showed how personal devices will one day offer advice. “How can we change the relationship so we think of these devices not as devices but as assistants or even companions?” he asked.Handheld devices could combine already common geographic location technology with data from microphones, cameras, heart and body monitors and even brain scans to offer their owners advice that today only a friend or relative could give.“Imagine a device that uses a variety of sensors to determine what you are doing at an instant, from being asleep in your bed to being out for a run with a friend, ” Rattner said, “Future devices will constantly learn about who you are, how you live, work and play.Rattner also demonstrated a television remote control that figures out who is holding it based on how it is held, and then learns the viewers entertainment preferences.As the world leader for decades in microchips for servers and desktop computers, Intel is hurrying to catch up in the profitable market for smart phones like Apples iPhone and Research in Motions Blackberry.Telephones with e-mail, global positioning and media players are pointing the way to a future where ever more functions are packed into ever smaller mobile devices.The smart phone industry, including technology giants like LG and Samsung, is likely to sell 270 million phones this year and grow 25 percent in 2011, according to market research company IDC.“I think you can expect to see features that support context-aware computing starting to appear in Intel products in the near future,” Rattner said.But analysts say Intel faces an uphill battle getting its microchips into new phones as Nvidia, Marvell and Qualcomm have already made headway with cheap, lower-power processors based on designs by ARM Holdings.Rattner recognized that questions about privacy and peoples willingness to be intimate with their computers will have to be settled before the future generation of smart phones he described takes off.“If you think identity threat is a problem today, imagine when your whole context is readily available on the Net.”, he said.39. The future smart phones can do all of the following except _.A. giving responses to the moods of the ownersB. giving proposals like assistants or companionsC. offering advice to their owners friends or relativesD. telling the phone holders or carriers where they are40. Which of the following are smart phones according to the passage?A. iPhone and Blackberry B. LG and SamsungC. Marvell and Qualcomm D. Nvidia and ARM Holdings41. From the passage we can infer that _.A. Intel Corporation has become the world leader in the smar tphone marketB. Intel Corporation has fallen behind in the profitable market for smart phonesC. more functions packed into mobile phones will make mobile devices largerD. the smart phone industry is likely to grow 25 percent in the year of 201142. The best title for the passage is likely to be _.A. Smart phones and Televisions B. Context-aware ComputingC. Personalized Televisions D. Personalized Smart phonesC“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right,” says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollies opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing. “If you arent telling a story, youre a very dead writer indeed,” she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快), Mollie is indeed an entertainer. “I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,” she says. “This love goes back to early childhood. Ive told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said Nonsense, Mollie, dear, youll be a writer. So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.”This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollies ambition (理想) and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地)brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fieldssadly now covered with modern houses.“I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. Ill never go back,”she said. “Never.”“When I set one of my books in Scotland,”she said,“I can recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work. And thats important, because children now know so much so early that romance cant exist for them, as it did for us.”43. In Mollie Hunters opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?A. Being poor in life experience. B. Being short of writing skills.C. The weakness of description. D. The absence of a story.44. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?A. She didnt expect to become a writer.B. She didnt enjoy writing stories.C. She didnt have any particular ambitions.D. She didnt respect her teachers views.45. In comparison with children of earlier years, Mollie feels that modern children are .A. more intelligent B. better informedC. less eager to learn D. less interested in reality46. Whats the writers purpose in this text?A. To describe Mollie Hunters most successful books.B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunters books.C. To introduce Mollie Hunters work to a wider audience.D. To provide information for Mollie Hunters existing readersDRays wedding had gone off smoothly. Everyone seemed to have had a good time. A few people had too good a time; they went home with designated (指派的) drivers. All evening, the gift table remained unguarded. Who would steal anything, Ray thought. He had never heard of such a thing happening at a wedding. But his best friend Aaron said there was a first time for everything. He strolled out regularly from the inside festivities (庆祝) to check on the gift table, making sure no one suspicious was hanging around it. Ray and Julia went on a 3-week honeymoon to Italy right after the wedding. When they got back, they opened all the gifts and sent out thank-you notes. But there was one problem. A married couple that used to be good friends had apparently given nothing. This surprised Julia, because Walt and Mary said they were thrilled to be invited. And, they actually seemed to have had a great time at the wedding. Frankly, Ray didnt even care if they hadnt given a gift. He just needed to know whether to send a thank-you note. Ray called Aaron. Aaron said maybe Walt had left an envelope on the gift table like Aaron had. “Yes, but we got your envelope with the cash inside,” Ray said. “Maybe my envelope looked too thin, and some thief thought Walts envelope looked nice and fat.” Aaron asked Ray if he had looked everywhere for Walts gift. Had he called up the wedding site to see if anything had been left behind? Ray said that he had looked everywhere and made a lot of calls that were fruitless. Ray didnt know what to do. If he sent Walt and Mary a thank-you note for a gift they hadnt given, they would be insulted. If he didnt send them a thank-you note for a gift they had given, they would get angry. “What would you do?” Ray asked. Aaron said he would call Walt up and tell him the problem. “You cant go wrong with simply being honest,” Aaron said. “Oh, yes, you can,” Ray contradicted him. “Sometimes its best to let sleeping dogs lie.” But he thought about it, and finally decided that Aaron was right. He called Walt and told him the problem. Walt said that yes, he had given an envelope. In fact, the envelope contained $500 cash. “$500?!” Ray asked. “Thats a lot of cash, Walt!” Walt admitted that it was, but he had gotten a fat raise early that year and Rays was the only wedding hed been to in quite a while. Ray thanked him very much, and apologized sincerely for someone stealing Walts generous gift. Walt told him that it was “only money”. When Ray told Aaron about Walts gift, Aaron laughed. “The only thief at the wedding was Walt! I quit pla