云南省名校2012届高三英语一轮复习单元测试38 Unit3 Inventors and inventions 新人教版选修8

用心 爱心 专心 1 3838 选修选修 8Unit8Unit 3Inventors3Inventors andand inventionsinventions 1 Color blind people often find it difficult to between blue and green A separate B distinguish C compare D contrast 2 Our new house is very for me as I can get to the office in five minutes A adaptable B comfortable C convenient D available 3 Come and see me whenever A you are convenient B you will be convenient C it is convenient to you D it will be convenient to you 4 Why did Bob cry He couldn t bear like that before the whole class A making fun of B being made fun of C to be laughed at D being made fun 5 He wished to forget everything with his former life and start a new life A joined B associated C buried D carried 6 Your letter the days we worked together on the farms fifteen years ago A calls up which B call in when C calls up when D calls in that 7 After breakfast my classmates and I set out Hong Xing Farm and received a warm welcome A to B on C for D towards 8 The moment she came back from work she to clean the kitchen thoroughly 用心 爱心 专心 2 A set out B set about C set off D set up 9 Have you No I had the wrong number A got in B got away C got off D got through 10 I shall stay in the hotel all day there is news of the missing child A in case B no matter C in any case D ever since 11 Leave your key with a neighbor you lock yourself out one day A ever since B even if C soon after D in case 12 Some parents don t allow their children to go online they are affected by something unhealthy A for fear that B unless C in only D in case 13 Bought by his father and to serve as his maid the young girl fell in love with him A intending B to intend C being intended D intended 14 Can you help me Yes your teacher s advice in my opinion and everything will be OK A Follow B Following C To follow D Followed 15 The boss said we had only three days to finish the work Don t worry We have already two thirds of it A got down B got through C given in D given away 16 Hardly could he this amount of work in such a short time A get through B get off C get into D get down 用心 爱心 专心 3 17 The earthquake has destroyed most houses in the village How are they going to the winter A get on B get across C get over D get through 18 It s a good idea but who s going to the plan I think Tom and Grey will A get through B carry out C go through D carry on 19 The performance of the host to please the audience and draw their attention was greeted with a cold silence however A had intended B intended C intending D to intend 20 The Olympic Games in 776BC didn t include women players until 1912 A first playing B to be first played C first played D to be first playing 21 The murderer was brought in with his hands behind his back A being tied B having tied C to be tied D tied 22 Most of the artists to the party were from South Africa A invited B to invite C being invited D had been invited 23 in her most beautiful skirt the girl tried to make herself at the party A Dressed noticed B Dressing noticed C Dressed noticing D Dressing being noticing 24 As the fierce war broke out in the Gaza Strip people there felt as if they were from the outside of the world A cut out B cut off C cut up D cut through 25 The traditional friendship between our two peoples ancient times 用心 爱心 专心 4 A is dated back to B dates at C dates back to D is dated from Part two 完形填空 The sun was shining when I got on No 151 bus We passengers sat jammed in heavy clothes No one 26 That s one of the unwritten rules 27 we see the same faces every day we prefer to 28behind our newspapers People who sit so close together are using them to keep 29 distance As the bus came near the Mile a 30 suddenly rang out Attention This is your 31 speaking We looked at the back of the driver s head Put your 32down all of you The papers came down Now turn and 33 the person next to you Surprisingly we all did it Still no one smiled I faced an old woman I saw her 34 every day We waited for the next 35 from the driver Now repeat after me Good morning neighbor But our voices were a little 36 For many of us this was the 37 word we had spoken that day When we said them together like 38 to people beside us we couldn t help 39 There was the feeling of relief Moreover there was the sense of ice being 40 To say the three words was not so 41 after all The bus driver said nothing more He didn t 42 Not a single newspaper went back up I heard laughter a 43 sound I had never heard before in this bus When I 44 my stop I said goodbye to my seatmate and then 45 the bus That day I was starting happily 26 A spoke B said C stood D told 27 A as B because C when D although 28 A read B sit C talk D hide 29 A ours B your C their D its 30 A call B noise C sound D voice 31 A conductor B driver C neighbor D seatmate 32 A papers B bags C books D clothes 用心 爱心 专心 5 33 A see B meet C face D greet 34 A still B nearly C even D hardly 35 A turn B talk C order D remark 36 A loud B neat C slow D weak 37 A first B last C best D only 38 A passengers B citizens C patients D school children 39 A shouting B crying C smiling D wondering 40 A formed B heated C broken D frozen 41 A sad B hard C ordinary D shy 42 A need B want C like D begin 43 A different B warm C loud D sad 44 A arrived B reached C left D found 45 A jumped off B left for C got on D waited for Part three 阅读理解 A 篇 LONDON Reuters Life Forget about talking your children into considering life as a doctor or a teacher and start training them for the talent show A survey of British parents showed the aspirations 志向 of their children are greatly different from what they dreamed about when considering who they wanted to be when they grew up Although astronaut 宇航员 still remains fairly high on the list of careers 事 业 kids dream about these days others like doctor and teacher have been taken the place of by the desire 欲望 to win good name and money as a sporting hero pop star or actor The parents of children aged 5 to 11 said the choice of lawyer had dropped by only one place on a top 10 list to sixth while teacher had dropped to ninth from top in the last 25 or more years The survey for British TV channel Watch found a great difference between the genders 性别 of today s young people when compared with their parents dreams 25 years or more ago 用心 爱心 专心 6 Playing professional football being an astronaut and joining the firefighting service topped the boys choices while girls are more likely to be dreaming of taking to the stage as a pop star or actress or joining the medical profession When asked what they would like their children to do for a living today s parents still like the academic 学术的 professions 职业 with law and medicine scoring highly while being a boss came third Parents also praised job happiness above wealth 财富 when it comes to their hopes for their children Nearly 70 percent of the parents surveyed thought that they failed to follow their dreams when it came to their career with 37 percent thinking it was caused by a lack of aspiration and not having the necessary conditions 46 From the passage we know that most parents still hope that in the future their children can take up A jobs such as musicians singers and dancers B jobs related to academic professions like lawyers and doctors C jobs in which they will not be endangered D jobs which will be well paid only 47 The first paragraph is to advise parents to A change their children s dreams B correct their children s dreams C follow their children s dreams D forget their children s dreams 48 According to the survey for British TV channel Watch which of the following is the boys best career choice A A pop star B An actor C A doctor D A firefighter 49 What can be learnt from the passage A Parents hope for their children s career did not change too much B Parents pay much attention to the income of their children C Less than half of the parents who were surveyed didn t follow their dreams D Most parents didn t have the necessary conditions to realize their dreams 50 What is the main idea of the passage 用心 爱心 专心 7 A Many reasons cause the change of children s dreams B Parents dreams are different from children s C Parents are changing their own dreams D Children s dreams are always changing B 篇 About twenty years ago I had the pleasure of teaching a disabled young woman Not only was she good at math and science but she was also extremely talented in art She could draw and paint beautifully When Audrey graduated from university she got two degrees one in fine arts and one in chemistry Not too many people do well in two such different areas of study Just before her high school graduation Audrey gave me a wonderful gift It was a watercolor painting of a mother and her baby A tear fell from the mother s eye as she looked lovingly at her child Beneath the painting Audrey had written these words The deep love from Mother through me touches another What a beautiful gift I had the piece of art framed 给 做框 and hung in my office Years passed with many moves from one office to another and I lost the painting Last year after about eight years of not knowing where it was I received a phone from a former colleague who said she had something of mine It was the picture Audrey had painted for me 18 years ealier When cleaning out a storage room she had discovered my gift I was struck that the precious gift came back I knew Audrey very well When she was four years old Audrey had a serious disease What s worse her father left the house It was her mother who brought he