高中英语 Unit 3《Inventors and inventions》同步练习1 新人教版选修8

Unit3Inventorsandinventions单元测试一、英语知识运用 （共两节，满分45分）第一节 单项填空 （共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）1. Could I speak to Mr Smith, please? _. Ill go and ask him to answer the call.A. Please hold the line B. Please hang offC. Sorry, he isnt here now D. Sorry. Im afraid you have the wrong number2. He went to the library _ last night, but you broke your word.A. in time B. in need C. on earth D. in truth3. What time would it be _ for me to come round? Any time will do as long as you are free.A. convenient B. fair C. easy D. comfortable4. When I walked past the street and saw the children playing happily, their happy laughter _ memories of my childhood.A. called in B. called for C. called on D. called up5. Mrs Black isnt in and Ill have to ring _. I would appreciate it if you ring _ after 6 oclock.A. off; back B. up; off C. out; up D. back; off6. When I returned to my study, I found the floor thoroughly _ and all my books _ according to the types of books.A. cleaning; ranging B. cleaned; rangedC. have cleaned; ranged D. has cleaned; ranged7. He was left out when they _ choosing a new manager, which came as a complete surprise to him.A. set out B. set about C. set off D. set up8. Unfortunately the restaurant he recommended fell short of our _.A. expectations B. advantages C. opportunities D. contributions9. She doesnt play the piano, but she likes singing and dancing. _.A. So I am B. So it is with my sisterC. So am I D. Neither do I10. Who do you intend to have _ your computer? I havent decided yet. I wonder if you could help me.A. to repair B. repaired C. to be repaired D. repair11. The local economy is now _ a mess and the government is _ a loss for what to do now.A. at; at B. down; at C. in; in D. in; at12. There is only three days left, but we still have a pile of papers to deal with. Dont worry. We have already _ two thirds of them after all.A. got over B. got through C. given up D. given away13. The book represents a wonderful love story, so once_,it will be popular with young people.A. publishes B. publishingC. published D. having published14. They have a beer together _, talking about their separate life, but not often.A. by and by B. now and then C. all the time D. more or less15. Its your decision you must _ the responsibility if things go wrong.A. bear B. take down C. put up with D. stand第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）A hospital is needed by every living person at the time of birth, death, physical injuries, or sickness. It is always a 16 place where family members can gather around the person who needs the 17 of well trained medical doctors and nurses.As Nicole Hagen and Ricky Beebe were born into the Hagen family in 1998, the parents were both in the delivery (分娩) room. This is a 18 as the tradition has been for the father to be in the next room. 19 hospitals have a birthing room where there is an extra sofa and a chair for the father to either sit or even to sleep on next to his wife. Many 20 are taken of the new baby within a few minutes of his or her 21 . Even a video can be made with the proud father taking pictures of the doctor, nurses, mother, and baby. A nurse may take a 22 picture of the father, mother, and baby. Young children will not see the baby 23 the doctor and nurses allow them into the room many hours later.At the death of Grandma Hagen, the adult children 24 at her bedside. As she was dying, her children talked to her, read the Bible, and even sang some of her 25 songs. The nurses would check on her very often and the doctor came as his time 26 . She was given pain pills 27 her last few hours would be as 28 as possible. When she died the family cried together in sorrow for the loss of their mother. Grandpa Hagen had died fourteen years 29 . Grandma Hagen was 82 when she died.Doctors operate on broken bones 30 by accidents in factories or car accidents. Children sometimes fall down stairs where an arm is 31 . Athletes get hurt in 32 of football, basketball, baseball, track, and soccer. Most injuries are repaired very successfully 33 the great skill of the doctor.Illness from disease, alcohol, or smoking often requires a person to stay a long period in the hospital. People like to recover 34 . However, if medical care is needed, a hospital may be the 35 home for some patients.16. A. beautiful B. big C. quiet D. nice17. A. operation B. help C. check D. medicine18. A. development B. fact C. question D. try19. A. Modern B. New C. Many D. Large20. A. things B. gifts C. people D. pictures21. A. chance B. falling C. birth D. sight22. A. valuable B. necessary C. family D. hospital23. A. until B. as C. if D. when24. A. gathered B. looked C. pointed D. smiled25. A. old B. favorite C. own D. new26. A. went by B. arrived C. remained D. allowed27. A. so that B. even though C. as if D. that28. A. happy B. pleased C. comfortable D. lucky29. A. ago B. faster C. later D. earlier30. A. made B. caused C. controlled D. brought31. A. broken B. raised C. pained D. stretched32. A. cases B. conditions C. games D. playground33. A. in the form of B. thanks to C. out of D. from34. A. at once B. at home C. easily D. as well35. A. usual B. common C. second D. free二、阅读理解（第一节15小题；第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分40分）第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。AMichael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.One day I went up to Michael and asked him, “I dont get it. You cant be positive all the time. How do you do it?” Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself Mike, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining（抱怨） I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.”I often thought about that when I made a choice about life. Several years later, Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling off 60 feet from a communication tower. After l8 hours of operation, and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.I asked him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.“The first thing that went through my mind was the well being of my soon-to-born daughter,” Michael replied. “Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. In the operation room, I told the doctors and nurses, Im choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.36. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 really means that Michael is a person _. A. people would fall in love withB. people would easily get tired ofC. people would envy for his positive life attitudeD. people wouldnt take seriously37. Each time something bad happens, Michael chooses to _.A. be in a good mood B. learn from itC. complain about it D. ignore the negative side of it38. From the passage we can infer that _.A. most people manage to lead a positive life at any timeB. most people cant lead a positive life at any timeC. only Michael can be so positiveD. the author is always a sad personBWith another invention in use, viewers will be also able to watch TV while walking to the office, taking a bus or simply waiting in line for lunch.A Beijing-based company named Innofidei Inc. claims to have developed the first mobile TV chip for the market, which can change hundreds of thousands of mobiles into micro-TVs.With this chip, people can receive TV signals on their phones and watch programs without any time or space limitations.“As long as the handset terminal（接收终端设备） has a colored screen and a battery, our chip can turn it into a mobile TV,” said Meng Fei, director of Innofideis business development department. The chip can be placed into a cell phone, a PDA, an MP4, a digital camera or even a laptop. He said that this, together with plans by Chinas state broadcaster, would ensure the 2020 Games lives up to its promise as a “Peoples Olympics”.“Our chips are cheap so that cell phones with them will not be much different in price from regular phones,” Meng said. “CCTV will offer some free channels during the Games, so people can enjoy the Olympics for free.”SARFT（国家广播电影电视总局） is planning to build a regional test network in Beijing and hopes to start trials as soon as possible. The goal is to deploy CMMB (部署中国移动多媒体广播) on a national level by the first half of 2020.Innofidei is now busy selling their chips to cell phone makers so that the new generation of phones reaches the market in early 2020.“Our invention successfully combines the good points of the two best-selling consumer products in historyTV sets and cell phones, ” said Meng. “In the near future, soccer fans wont be tearing their hair out because they are stuck in traffic and missing the chance to see their favorite teams play.”Local baseball fans, meanwhile, will be able to draw comfort from the knowledge thatboth at the Olympics and afterwardstheir teams will be playing on a field designed to help recycle water.39. Which of the following CANNOT be turned into a mobile TV according to the passage?A. A cell phone. B. A PDA. C. An MP3. D. A laptop.40. Which of the following would possibly happen with the invention of the chip?A. Sports fans watch Olympic Games on cell phones in 2020.B. People watch video CDs on the MP4.C. A game addict plays 3D games on a PDA.D. Listening to news broadcast on radio.41. We can infer from the passage that _.A. we cannot buy a mobile TV before the 2020 Olympic Games.B. soccer fans will be angry when they miss the chance to see a TV program.C. the baseball field will play a part in helping recycle water.D. the invention of the chip successfully combines TV sets and cell phones.42. The best title for this passage would be “_”.A. A new invention for Olympics B. A new generation of cell phonesC. Watching live games on TV for free D. Peoples OlympicsCWhy do we call the sounds of birds, whales and insects songs? Because something about what we hear seems to have beauty, and some mellifluous (动听的) structure that touches us more than any possible message. Though for many years science has cautioned against hearing too much of what we humans would like to hear when we are trying to understand animal sounds, the musicality in some sounds is now starting to have an effect on the science of animal communication itself.Many specific animal sounds express aggression(进攻), warning, or food, but such practical explanations are tough to apply to the long songs. Some whale songs can go on for up to 24 hours. The usual explanation for birdsong is that the birds are singing to attract mates or to announce the limits of their area. But the audience is not always evident for these long love songs, which have many of the elements related to human music: rhythm, melody (旋律), themes, repeating patterns, organization, variety, interest all adding up to something humans have found beautiful for thousands of years. “Birds taught man,” wrote Roman poet and philosopher (哲学家) Lucretius, “and taught them songs before their art began.”What is the scientific value of such sounds? The advantage of hearing music in nature and trying to reach out to nature through music is that though we dont fully understand it, it is so accessible.Music refuses explanation, but it clearly expresses something deep and important, which humans cant live without. Finding music in the sound of birds, whales and other animals makes the farther frontiers(边缘) of nature see much closer to us.43. The underlined phrase “cautioned against” in Paragraph 1 probably means “_”.A. warned against B. fought againstC. been filled with D. been satisfied with44. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?A. We call the songs of birds sounds because there is beauty that sounds pleasant to the ears.B. It is believed that birds are singing to attract mates or to warn the limits of their areas.C. The songs of a bird really carry an emotional message such as “aggression and caring”.D. It is not very long for people to know that birdsong does have something beautiful.45. By saying “Birds taught man”, what did Lucretius mean?A. People teach rhythm, melody, themes, repeating patterns to birds.B. Birds can teach people how to go on singing a song up to 24 hours.C. Human music has, in fact, come from the sounds of birds in nature.D. Humans learned something beautiful from the sounds of many animals.46. From the passage we know that music in nature _.A. cant be explained at all B. is very easy to pick up and listen toC. cant be understood at all D. is of no scientific valueDTry imagining what the world will be like in the year 3000. Some serious thinkers are starting to imagine just that.Bart: I dont know that present-day electronic chips are, but some sort of chips Id guess maybe plastic. Our three-pound brain is definitely a wonder, perhaps the greatest wonder of natural biology. In this coming century, well be re-engineering the brain a piece at a time, first with implants（植入物） and finally engineering an complete replacement. Theres no question that in the distant future well play the music of the mind on instruments different from the current ones. So, yes, chips are our destiny (命运).Edward: In 3000 perhaps the biggest difference from today is that there will be no more men. Females can have female children, without any need for men. In about ten years, well find the cocktail that women can take to have female children. Therell be no need for men at all.Greg: What is Heaven? Heavens a place where you can create worlds at will, and the ideal Heaven is where you run the whole thing yourself. The current means of getting to Heaven involve various supernatural systems for which, at this point, theres no scientific evidence. So I think we can reduce Heaven to an engineering project which were doing. The demand for Heaven is greatwitness the desire of every human heart, from the people who built the ancient pyramids to modern society, to live beyond ones given time. Our plan is to change human consciousness from the brain to bits of information in a computer chip, or some other kind of computational medium, so that just by thinking well be able to create our own personal world. And I think the first stage of Heaven will be the feeling world, and beyond that I think wed find a higher, more spiritual plane.47. According to Bart, the brain may be the greatest wonder in the future because _.A. it may weigh as much as 3 pounds B. it may be driven by plastic chipsC. it may be replaced by robots D. it may play the music of the mind48. What does Bart refer to by saying “chips are our destiny”?A. Chips are our last choice in the future.B. Chips are on the way to controlling mind.C. Chips are the production of future technology.D. Chips are the implants in the distant future.49. In 3000, what about the population of the world?A. It will be all made up of females. B. It will be larger than that of present.C. It will mainly consists of children. D. It will be reduced by a drink of cocktail.50. According to Greg, Heaven in the future is a place where _.A. your scientific idea exists B. you have once traveledC. your own thought travels D. your material world is formed第二节 Readers Digest在网上公布了2020年Hero 的候选人的事迹。A. After the September, 11 Event, Rossmiller began to identify would-be terrorists in e-mail exchanges. So far, she has tracked down a few arms dealers. Faced with death threats, the mother of three says, “With anything important, you have to take risks.”B. “Stop them!” a passer-by yelled. “They stole a ladys purse!” Kevin Croskey ran after two young men. One of the teenagers pulled a weapon. He threw himself on the kids and sent them to the police station.C. In 2020, Mark and three other family members started to clean up the worsening bay in California. So far, theyve poured $100,000 of their own money into this campaign and enlisted 1,100 others to try to return the bay to a safe, clean environment.D. A tornado struck a nursery school in Alabama and trapped teachers and kids in the game area. Minutes later, Justiss and a line of gathering volunteers rushed into the area and saved 31 kids they knew nothing about.E. Phillips searched for five years before she finally found her missing sister. In the process, she learned more about the missing people and their fami