2020-2021学年新教材英语外研版选择性必修第二册单元测试卷（四） Unit 4　Breaking boundaries Word版含解析

1、单元测试卷(四)选择题部分第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的a、b、c三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1where are the speakers?ain a restaurant. bat home.cin an office.2what does the man mean?ahe has never trusted susan.bhe believes that susan is telling

2、 the truth.che is not sure if susan is telling the truth.3how many injured children have the speakers found?atwo. bthree.cfour.4what is the woman busy doing?alooking for a new job.bspending every minute relaxing.cpreparing for the coming exam.5whats the relationship between the two speakers?ahusband

3、 and wife. bboss and employee.ccolleagues.第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的a、b、c三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟； 听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6when did the man arrive in beijing?atoday. blast week.cyesterday.7what will the man eat in the en

4、d?achicken. bdumplings.cpeking duck.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8what are the speakers doing?atravelling.benjoying exhibitions in a museum.cvisiting a new house.9why does the woman want to go shopping?ato buy something for the man.bto buy something for mary and john.cto buy something for her own house.听第8段材料，回答第

5、10至12题。10what kind of job is the man looking for?aa parttime job in a restaurant.ba fulltime job in the student job center.ca parttime job in a computer company.11what is the man?aa waiter. ba worker.ca student.12what is the womans suggestion?agoing to the student job center for a job.bsigning up fo

6、r advice on the jobs on the list.cwalking around in the street to find a job.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13whats the probable relationship between the two speakers?aboss and employee. bhusband and wife.ccolleagues.14who is mr. black?athe womans friend. bthe mans boss.cthe womans husband.15why was the man late?

7、athere was something wrong with his bus.bthere was a car accident on his way to the meeting.che got injured on his way to work.16when did the same thing happen to the woman?athis morning. byesterday evening.clast weekend.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17what did cullen do in 1929?ahe moved to new york.bhe wrote

8、a letter to his boss.che opened his own supermarket.18how did cullens boss react to his idea?ahe refused it at once. bhe accepted his idea.che made no reply to it.19where did michael cullen open his first supermarket?ain someones garage.bin his own garage.cnext to the store he once worked for.20how

9、many stores does king kullen have now?a6. b17.c47.第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)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。agerman has a word “ wanderlust” which means “the desire to travel” if its translated into english. nowadays the opportunity to travel is endless. thanks to lowcost airfare

10、s, travelling abroad is very accessible and sometimes its even cheaper to fly out of the country than to travel within your own. so, yes, travelling is cheap but there have to be other reasons to travel and youre right, there are plenty! i have always had this feeling of wanderlust. it started from

11、me wanting to explore my local woods at the back of my garden as a young girl and as i have grown, so has my sense of adventure. and i found my local woods being replaced with the brazil wetland. the thing with travelling is that its always different. even if you go to the same country, to the same

12、town and stay in the exact same hotel, it will be a completely different experience. the people you meet will be different, and they will tell you their own travelling stories: stories of holiday romances, holiday horror stories and stories that seem so unbelievable that you can hardly believe them

13、until something ridiculous happens to you and you find yourself becoming one of those people telling you tales. maybe you have changed since last time you were there. and thats the thing with travellingit changes you. when you travel you are forced into immersing yourself in a new culture and whethe

14、r its eating delicious food, or staying with a family where neither of you speak a common language and you have to communicate by gesture and smiles, the experience gives me itchy_feet to do it all again. and although wanderlust is originally a german word, the english idiom “ to have itchy feet” ca

15、ptures a similar idea. someone who has itchy feet needs to leave or travel. this sensation is found not only in languages but also in us.21in the writers opinion, travelling can help _. aget lowcost airfares bchange peoples thoughts cmeet many friends dlearn a foreign language22what do the underline

16、d words “itchy feet” mean? awanting to go travelling. btelling your travelling stories. ctravelling abroad at once. dcommunicating by gesture.23whats the passage mainly about? areasons to travel. bthe desire to travel a lot. cthe writers ridiculous experiences. dthe german word “ wanderlust”b being

17、blind at birth is tough in any case. but things were even harder for srikanth bolla who was born in a small village in india, where the common belief was that kids with disabilities were “of no use” and therefore, better off dead. fortunately, srikanths parents loved their son and refused to give hi

18、m up. instead, they encouraged the blind boy to dream big and reach for the star. srikanth did not disappoint his parents. the now twentyfouryearold is the founder and ceo of bollant industries. of course, getting here was not easy. being both blind and poor meant that srikanth had to face hard chal

19、lenges. as a young boy, srikanth attended a regular school near his home. unfortunately, the students and teachers didnt quite like him because of his disability. as a result, the young boy was largely ignored and often spent the entire day alone. concerned this would hold back srikanths development

20、, his family decided to send him to a special school in hyderabad. sure enough, the young boy soon rose to the top of his class, winning awards in speech and debate competitions. but srikanth was prevented from studying sciences when he reached 10th grade, because it was thought too “dangerous” for

21、a blind student. not wanting to give up, srikanth took legal action and became the first blind student in the country allowed to study sciences. later, after graduating from the massachusetts institute of technology, srikanth set up bollant industries in 2012.for just four years, it became a powerho

22、use with over 450 employees,70% of whom are physically challenged. being disabled doesnt mean being unable. “if the world looks at me and says，srikanth, you can do nothing. i will look back at the world and say，i can do anything.” the young man says.24why was srikanth sent to a special school? ahis

23、parents became richer than before. bhe could be treated equally there. cthis school was free for disabled students. dhe was sent away by the regular school.25what can we know about srikanth from the text? ahe was born in a poor village. bhe cared about disabled people. chis parents were strict with

24、him in his study. dhe was loved by the villagers when he was young.26what words can best describe srikanth? aintelligent and determined. bactive and honest. cpatient and careful. dkind but stubborn.27what can be the best title for the text? achances are everywhere bno challenges, no success cbig dre

25、am makes a difference ddisability doesnt mean being unablec just in a few years out of law school, i decided that i wanted to write fiction. the only thing i had ever published before was a lawreview article. i had made great efforts to write when i came home at night after work, but i was too tired

26、. i decided to quit my job. i began my new life on a february morning. i sat down at my kitchen table at 7：30 am and made a resolution. every day i would write until lunchtime. then i would lie down on the floor for 20 minutes to rest my mind. after that, i would return to work for a few more hours.

27、 in my first year, i sold two stories. then i wrote a novel, but i thought it wasnt good enough, so i ended up putting it in a drawer. my second novel, billy lynns long halftime walk, was published with glowing (热情赞扬的) reviews and received the national book critics circle award for fiction. my succe

28、ss sounds like a familiar story, but actually it was far from suddenness. i quit my job, and for every story i published in those years, i had at least 30 rejections. the novel that i put away in the drawer took me four years. my breakthrough came in 2006, 18 years after i first sat down to write at

29、 my kitchen table. sometimes genius (天赋) is just the thing that comes out after 20 years of working at your kitchen. also, doing something truly creative requires the energy of youth. orson welles made his masterpiece, citizen kan, at 26.t. s. eliot wrote the love song of j. afred prufrock at 27.28w

30、hen did the author decide to devote himself fulltime to writing fiction?awhen he was tired of his work.bstraight after graduation from law school. con being informed his lawreview article came out.dwhen his hobby was disturbed by his work.29we can infer from the second paragraph that the author _.al

31、ed a wealthy lifebarranged his life reasonablycwas too hardworking to relax himselfdremained single30what does the author mainly intend to tell us in paragraph 4?afailure is the mother of success.ba bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.cit is never too old to learn.dit is the first step that co

32、sts troublesome.31why does the author give the examples of orson welles and t. s. eliot?ato make a comparison between them and himself.bto show creativity needs energy.cto persuade the readers of their great talents.dto recommend their two masterpieces.d from the moment you open your eyes in the mor

33、ning, you can feel sweat running down your body, even if youre barely moving at all. thats what most people in china felt like this summer. in fact, the entire northern hemisphere (半球) saw high temperatures in july. the arctic circle was no exception. temperatures in the city of norilsk, which is in

34、 the arctic circle, reached a record high of 32， the atlantic reported. temperatures there are usually just 10 at this time of the year. the heatwave in the arctic is mainly a longterm result of global warming, according to the chinese academy of meteorological sciences. in fact, while the whole wor

35、ld is getting warmer, the arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. this is called the polar amplification effects(极地放大效应) . the most direct impact of arctic warming is the melting of arctic ice. according to nasa, arctic sea ice is now disappearing at a rate of 13.2 percent every 1

36、0 years. nasa said that if this continues, the arctic will have no ice by the year 2040. this has put some arctic animals, like polar bears, in danger. the ice that the bears live on has shrunk(缩小), the toronto star reported. melting ice can also cause sea level to rise in the long term. since 1993,

37、 sea level has risen at a rate of 3.2 cm every 10 years, the guardian reported. some countries, such as tuvalu (图瓦卢) in the south pacific ocean and maldives(马尔代夫) in the indian ocean, are at risk of disappearing into the sea.32which of the following is true?asome countries in the ocean will disappea

38、r in 10 years.bchina is the hottest in the northern hemisphere this summer.cthe temperatures in norilsk used to be lower than this summer.dthe world gets warmer because of the heatwave in the arctic.33what does the underlined word “this” in the third paragraph refer to?athe heatwave in the arctic.bt

39、he result of global warming.cgetting warmer in the world.dthe arctic getting warm faster.34what may be the result of the melting of arctic ice?athe polar bears will become dangerous.bsea level rises in the long term.cthere will be an end of water shortages.dthere will be no ice in the world by 2040.

40、35what is the main idea of this passage?aheat hits the arctic.barctic animals are in danger.cthe world becomes hotter than before.dsome countries may disappear into the sea.第二节(共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。 things you should stop doing to be successful are you a happ

41、y person? how often do you think of reasons why everyone around you is successful though they are not better than you in general? what do you do wrong? here are some things you should stop doing to be successful.1_36_ different people may explain “success” in different ways: some of them measure it

42、in money; other ones in positive changes to people around them and the world. _37_ dont worry about what other people think but come after what makes you happy. 2.do not believe anything without questioning it._38_ they are critical thinkers, and they understand that we all are ruled by our prejudic

43、es(偏见), so they will always question new information. 3.do not worry about all unpredictable things that may happen to you. if you want to be successful, stop thinking about everything that may happen to you._39_ be ready to improve and change your deeds and decisions when things suddenly dont go ac

44、cording to your plan. 4.do not care about what other people think of you. as far as we all know, its impossible to please all the people who surround us. your attempts to become “good” for everyone will turn into nothing but new worries, stresses, and problems._40_ but they worry about their quality

45、 and focus on developing friendships with people they really care about.ado not wait for the “ right time” to do anything.bdo not let others decide what “ success” is for you.csuccessful people do not just accept any new information to be true.dsuccessful people do not concentrate on the quantity of

46、 people to please.etry to feel comfortable with the reality and accept the fact that your future cant be predicted.fif you want to be successful, do not let others force their explanation of success on you.g. successful people never ignore or avoid problems，no matter how big and awful they seem.第三部分

47、语言知识运用(共两节，满分30分)第一节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)阅读下面短文，从每题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。there came bryans favorite game time. he sat back on the sofa and began to _41_. as bryan was playing, his mom walked through the room to see what he was doing. “dont let the video game turn you into a couch potato，” mom

48、said. bryan didnt reply and _42_ his eyes on the flashing television screen. he gripped (紧抓) his controller and pushed the buttons hard.soon, bryans _43_ began to hurt.he was having trouble moving his fingers. bryan tried to stretch out his hand, _44_ it felt like his fingers just wanted to curl bac

49、k around the controller. bryan _45_ back into the couch. it was so comfortable that he felt like he was sinking deeper into the cushions (靠垫). he felt a little thirsty, but it would be too much trouble to get up and _46_ the game. then bryan thought about _47_ mom had said. was his body really becom

50、ing part of the couch? he tried to concentrate _48_ his back and legs to feel where his body ended and the couch began, but he _49_ feel much of anything at all. bryan looked down at his hands. they felt stiff now, and it seemed like they were stuck around the controller. bryan felt _50_.could he re

51、ally be turning into a video game controller? would he just disappear into the couch before supper? suddenly, bryan _51_ the controller and made himself stand up. he stretched his arms up toward the ceiling and then reached his hands down to touch his toes. his body tingled (感到刺痛) as he moved. bryan

52、 ran to the kitchen to tell his mom what had happened. “well, at least we know that video games havent _52_ your mind，” mom said. she smiled, but bryan still felt very serious. “i think ill take a break from video games and go outside _53_，” bryan said. and thats just what he did. that day bryan got

53、 a _54_. its wise to make playing video games a way of relaxation and keep a balance between video games and suitable exercise. otherwise a man will end up with a couch potato, or even, a _55_ of video games.41a.eat bwatchcplay dwrite42a.moved bleftckept dclosed43a.hand bheadceyes dneck44a.or bsocbu

54、t duntil45a.turned bwalkedclooked dsettled46a.sell bpausecstart drun47a.where bwhichchow dwhat48a.on bwithcfrom dto49a.shouldnt bmustnt cwouldnt dcouldnt50a.worried bdisappointed cexcited dangry51a.fixed bobservedcdesigned ddropped52a.ruined bopenedcrelaxed dread53a.though btoocinstead dstill54a.des

55、ire blessoncbelief dchallenge55. asuspect bslavecmaster dloser非选择题部分第三部分语言知识运用(共两节，满分30分)第二节(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 mr. watson lived with his family in the woods. he owned a farm, which looked almost 56._ (desert). fortunately, he also had a cow producing milk every day. he exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby 57._ other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what 58._ (leave). the cow was their only means of support, in fact. one day, the cow was eating grass 59._ it began to ra