阅读新视野结课测评卷

1、阅读新视野”结课测评卷说明：本试卷满分50分，考试时间40分钟。第一部分：阅读理解（共四篇，满分 30分）AMalls are popular places for America ns to go. Some people spe nd so much time at malls that they are called mall rats. Mall rats shop un til they drop in the hun dreds of stores un der one roof.People like malls for many reasons.They feel safe b

2、ecausemalls have police stati ons or private security guards. Parking is usually free, and the weather in side is always fine. The n ewest malls have beautiful rest area with waterfalls and large gree n trees.The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 mi

3、lli on square feet. It has 350 stores, eight ni ght clubs, and a seve n-acre park! There are parking spaces for 12,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop every week.The first in door mall in the Un ited States was built in 1965 in Edi na, Minn esota. People loved doing all their shopp ing in one place.

4、 More malls were built all over the coun try. Now, malls are like tow n cen ters where people come to do many thin gs. They shop, of course. They also eat in food houses that have food from all over the world. They see movies at theatres. Some people even get their daily exercise by doing the new sp

5、ort of mall walking. Others go to malls to meet friends.In some malls, people can see a doctor or a den tist and eve n atte nd church. In other words, people can do just about everyth ing in malls. Now reside nts can actually live in their favorite shopp ing cen tre.1. Nowadays, malls are.A. large s

6、hopp ing cen ters which also act as tow n cen tersB. large parks with shopsC. the most popular place America ns go toD. tow n cen ters2. Why have malls become so popular?A. Because people can do everyth ing there.B. Because people can do many other thi ngs besides shopp ing for all they n eed.C. Bec

7、ause people believe that malls are much safer places.D. Because people enjoy the fresh air and can have a good rest there.3. Malls have to be large places because.A. many people drive their cars to go to mallsB. there have to be some restaurants, clinics and theatresC. many people hope to do sports

8、in the mallsD. they have to meet differe nt n eeds of so many people4. Thoseare called mall rats.A. who are busy stealing in the mallB. who have visited the biggest mallsC. who are ofte n found busy shopp ing in mallsD. who live un der the roof of the mall5. Accordi ng to the passage, people CANNOT

9、findin a mall in America.A. a police stati onB. a churchC. a restaura ntD. a sports centreBA soldier named John Blanchard struck up （建立） a pen pal friendship with a woma n, Sally Mayn ell, who he had n ever met in the mon ths before World War II. When the fighting began, their correspondence still c

10、ontinued.Over the n ext year or so the two got to know each other through their letters. Even so, when Blanchard asked for a photograph, the woman refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn t matter what she looked like.When the day fin ally came for him to return from Europe, they schedul

11、ed their first meet ing 7:00 pm at Grand Centra Stati on in New York.“ecoghiileme,”she wrote, thy red rose I ll be wearing on my suit.”At the station a beautiful young woman approached him. She was wearing a gree n suit and was everyth ing that he hoped Miss Mayn ell would be. But there was no red r

12、ose. There was ano ther woma n. She was well past 40 and had her hair tuck塞） under a worn hat. She was more than plump, her fat feet thrust（挤）into shoes. Her pale face was gentle and her gray eyes had a warm twinkie闪光）.On her coat, there was a red rose.He did not hesitate. His fin gers gripped the s

13、mall worn copy of the book that was to identify him to her. “ Thiswill not be love, but it will be something precious, someth ing perhaps eve n better tha n love, a feeli ng for which I have bee n and must ever be grateful. ” he thought.“I m John Blanchard, anylou must be Miss Maynell. I am so glad

14、you could meet me. May I take you to dinner?” he asked.“I don hist iknabowthabti.The woma n s face broade ned in to a smile.she an swered, “ Butyto ung lady in the gree n suit who just went by begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and t

15、ell you that she is wait ing for you in the big restaura nt across the street. She said it was a kind of test! ”6. According to the first three paragraphs, which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Miss Mayn ell did n t think herself beautiful eno ugh.B. Miss Maynell didn t turn up at the meeting

16、 place.C. Mr. Bla nchard lost con tact with the woma n duri ng the war.D. Mr. Bla nchard and the woma n kept in touch by writi ng to each other.7. When Mr. Blanchard saw the middle-aged woman, he probably felt a littleA. disappo in tedB. excited C. in differe ntD. expecta nt8. The “feeling ” of Mich

17、Saihin the underlined sentence perhaps can be referredto as a kind of.A. friendshipB. loveC. brotherhood D. memory9. Miss Mayn ell set up such a test because she.A. was too shy to see Mr. Blanchard directlyB. won dered whether Mr. Bla nchard would keep his word to meet herC. wan ted to play a trick

18、on Mr. Bla nchardD. wan ted to know Mr. Bla nchard cared more about her looks or her pers on ality10. Which of the following words can be used to describe the Maynell?A. Beautiful but shyB. Beautiful and wiseC. Young but sly （狡猾）D. Young and amusingCIn 1952, on the island of Koshima （越谷，日本某地）,scient

19、ists were providing mon keys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The mon key liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant. An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her

20、 mother. Her playmates also lear ned this new way and they taught their mothers too. This cultural inno vati on was gradually picked up by various mon keys before the eyes of the scie ntists.Betwee n 1952 and 1958 all the young mon keys lear ned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more pal

21、atabl（美味的）.Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.Let us suppose that whe n the sun rose one morning there were 99 mon keys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes. Let s further suppose th

22、at later that morni ng, the hun dredth mon key learned to wash potatoes. The n it happe ned. By that eve ning almost every one in the tribe was wash ing sweet potatoes before eati ng them. The added en ergy of this hun dredth mon key somehow created an ideological breakthrough!But notice: A most sur

23、prising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of wash ing sweet potatoes the n jumped over the sea colonies of mon keys on other isla nds and the mainland troop of mon keys at TakasakiyamO高岐山）bega n washi ng their sweet potatoes. Thus, when a certain critical （关键的） number achieves an

24、 aware ness, this new aware ness may be com muni cated from mind to mi nd. Although the exact nu mber may vary, this Hun dredth Mon key Phe nomenonj 现象）means that whe n only a limited nu mber of people know of a new way, it may rema in the conscious property （个人意识性属性）of those people.But there is a p

25、oint at which if only one more pers on comes to a new aware ness, a field （能量场）is stre ngthe ned so that this aware ness is picked up by almost every one!Your aware ness is n eded. You may be the“ hun dredth mon key ”11. The passage may be adapted from.A. a text book B. a n ewspaper C. an advertisem

26、e nt D. a scie ntific report12. It wasthat found the way to make potatoes clea n by washi ng them.A. a young clever female mon key B. an old experie need mon keyC. an 18-year-old mother mon key D. a mon key finding a potato in the river13. The last sentence of Paragraph 1“This cultural innovation wa

27、s gradually pickedup by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists. ” implies that .A. monkeys have learnt the new way unconsciousl（y 下意识地）B. monkeys like picking up things on the groundC. it is very difficult for monkey to learn a new wayD. monkeys learnt the new way from scientists14. Accor

28、ding to the writer, the hundredth monkey .A. is the last one to learn to wash potatoesB. is the most stupid in learningC. makes a great difference in spreading a new wayD. plays a small part in the breakthrough15. The write wrote the last paragraph .A. to draw a conclusion that one day monkeys will

29、become human beingsB. to predict that one day every reader can turn into the hundredth monkeyC. to encourage people to learn more knowledgeD. to emphasize the importance of each persons contribution to spreading a newmethodWhy did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.Most people know

30、 this joke. But recently, some people have been much more worried about how the grizzly bear and mountain lion can cross the road.“ Millions of animals die each year on U.S. roads, ”the Federal Highway Administration reports. In fact, only about 80 ocelots, an endangered wild cat, exist in the U. S.

31、 today. The main reason? Road kill.Ec-opassages ” may help animals cross the road without being hit by cars. Theyare paths bothover and under roads.Th-epsaesseacgoes can be extremely useful, sothat wildlife can avoid road accidents, s”aid Jodi Hilty of the Wildlife ProtectionSociety.But do animals a

32、ctually use the eco-passages? The answer is yes. Paul Beier of Northern Arizona University found foot marks left by mountain lions on an eco-passage that went under a highway. This showed that the lions used the passage. Builders of eco-passages try to make them look like a natural part of an area b

33、y planting trees on and around them. Animals seem to be catching on. Animals as different as salamanders（火蜥蜴）and grizzly bears are using the bridges and underpasses.The next time you visit a park or drive through an area with a lot of wildlife, look around. You might see an animals overpass!16. The writer uses the example of“ocelots ” to s how_t_