第三单元测试题

Part 2 Vocabulary and Structure(Each item: 1)Directions:Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.11.The football match had to be _________ owing to (由于) the bad weather.A. cancelledB. advancedC. arrangedD. held12.The starter (赛跑发令员) gave the ________ for the race to begin.A. adviceB. signalC. glowD. attention13.This lovely old town has a _________ you couldn't find in a big city.A. conditionB. standardC. situationD. charm14.They were under the _________ that the company was doing well, but in fact it was inserious trouble.A. conclusionB. expressionC. enjoymentD. illusion15.We watched the plane _________ behind the clouds.A. disappearingB. disappearedC. divingD. dived16.The local government tried its best to ensure each of its citizens a _________ supply of foodat regular intervals (时间间隔).A. consistentB. continualC. continuousD. numerous17.It was difficult to guess what her ________ to the news would be.A. reactionB. excitementC. impressionD. opinion18.Sally has made a complete _______ influenza (流行性感冒).A. pass byB. decision againstC. recovery fromD. care of19. A teacher should always be thoughtful _______ what's best for his pupils.A. inB. byC. ofD. at20.To increase our working efficiency, it is necessary to _______ every moment we have.A. include inB. keep fromC. take advantage ofD. look up toPart 3 Cloze (with Options)(Each item: 1)Directions:Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer from thechoices.Questions 21 to 40 are based on the following passage.I didn't marry for love, money, or looks; I married for my parents. I was 21.22.parents. It is common 23.unmarried and 24.25."catch a man".I didn't even 26.that a 27.twenty-five, I fell in love with a good man —this is all a secret my husband doesn't 28.29.have the same 30.31.resistance when I 32.33.her 34.asked me to run away with him I 35.36.37.idea. It wasn't 38.39.marriage after that.I am now thirty and have a child. My husband is a lawyer and a 40.man. Occasionally, I email the man I didn't marry.Part 4 Translation from English to Chinese(Each item: 1)Directions:Translate the following sentences from English to Chinese.41.Children are never too afraid to tell the truth.42.Lucy, a daughter of a poor and ignorant miner, was born in a small town of North America.43.We need to work out how much money we'll need to take with us.44.These are things to be proud of, but they have nothing to do with rank or class.45.They are protected from head to toe with face masks, caps, and white clothing.Part 5 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)(Each item: 1)Directions:Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.Questions 46 to 50 are based on the same passage or dialog.Coffee is one of the most popular (流行的) drinks throughout the world today. In fact, according to some estimates, over 30% of all adults in the world drink coffee at least once a day on the average.Coffee contains a kind of drug called caffeine (咖啡因). Caffeine is a chemical that stimulates (刺激) the nerves of the body. Drinking coffee tends to make people a little bit more awake-at least for a short time―because of this stimulating effect on th e nervous system (系统). A cup of coffee has, on the average, about 3% caffeine in it.One story of the discovery of the coffee plant relates to this effect of caffeine. According to the story, coffee was discovered in East Africa. The story says that coffee was first found by a goat farmer named Kaldi. This was about the year 850.Kaldi was leading his animals through the mountains and the goats were stopping repeatedly to eat the plants near the path. Suddenly, some of the goats started jumping up and down in a very strange way.Kaldi figured out that the goats were acting this way because of the plants they were eating. Kaldi himself tried eating some of the green beans (豆荚) that the goats had been eating. He, too, felt the stimulating effect of the beans.Kaldi wanted to prove what had happened, so he picked some of the beans and took them back to his home village, where he told his story. The green bean got the name "Kaffa" and later "coffee" because the beans were discovered in a place called Kaffa in Africa.Then for years, people used to eat a few of the green Kaffa beans when they were in the mountains and needed extra energy to do their work. It was later found that the coffee beans could be picked and then dried until they turned brown, and then they could be stored. If the beans were dried and stored, they could be used at any time.46.What is caffeine?A. A kind of seed.B. A kind of plant.C. A kind of drug.D. A kind of nut.47.What is the purpose of drinking coffee?A. To become more awake.B. To become more healthy.C. To become more happy.D. To become more clever.48.Coffee was first found by a __________.A. doctorB. farmerC. druggist（药剂师）D. chemist（化学家）49.How did the goats react after eating the plants?A. They fell asleep.B. They could not find their way home.C. They started jumping up and down.D. They wanted to eat more.50.Why did the green bean get the name "Kaffa"?A. Because Kaldi loved his home village very much.B. Because Kaldi's goats loved the green bean very much.C. Because the beans were discovered in a place by this name.D. Because the beans could be picked and dried.Questions 51 to 55 are based on the same passage or dialog.A little noticed change has been taking place in our time-world. The arrival of digital (数字的) time has been changing the way we act and think. I believe that it has put us to a higher level of anxiety, with greater expectations of efficiency.The old, round, hand-moved time still kept a certain connection to the natural flow of things, to the roundness of the earth, and to the changes of light and seasons. Old, round time was outside ourselves, far enough removed from us so we could ignore it if we so chose.It is not so with digital time, which is a beat. It beats instead of turning. It makes a sound like the sound of the heart and thus places itself smoothly into the body. More and more, we mistake its regular beat for our own, thus mistaking the demands of the world for our wishes.Before wrist watches, time used to live in towers in the centers of towns. At that distance, it could be seen by everybody, but only if they so wished. It took an effort, an actual visit to "time". But then something happened. Time began to live with us, and now it is beginning to live in us.I remember what it was like to be a child, absorbed in the endlessly changeable thing of time. For me there was only child time, divided meaninglessly and quite painfully by the orders of the parents into Bedtime, Wakeup Time, and School Time. But within each of those divisions (分割), Eternity still ruled. Later, of course, they managed to infect me with the anxious demands of clock time. Very soon, all that remained was the anxiety of that which was exact. The fast beats of the timepiece (时钟) cut Eternity to pieces.Occasionally, I stop long enough to recall the times of childhood, but not often enough. Like everybody else, I am helpless before the new technologies. Time is a virus, and it is growing stronger.51.Digital time has changed how we act and think by ____________________.A. allowing us to work with more efficiencyB. giving us more time to do what we likeC. causing us to be more anxiousD. having us expect more of others52.The author thinks that the old clocks ____________________.A. are somehow linked with the seasonal changesB. stay closer to people than a digital watchC. are connected with human's handsD. work better than a wrist watch53.Before watches, clocks were located __________________.A. everywhere for everyone to seeB. wherever a person wishedC. on the wristD. in the center of town54.In the author's early childhood memory, _________________.A. time was a concrete thingB. time seemed to have no endC. he fought against his parents' idea of timeD. he enjoyed the anxiety of precision (精确)55.The author's attitude towards time in the modern world is ____________.A. positiveB. unclearC. negativeD. in the middleQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the same passage or dialog.Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females. However, this number changes a great deal, and by the age of maturity (成熟), the number of young men is about the same as that of young women. And among 70-year old people, there are twice as many women as men. But this great universal (普遍性) truth is changing. Now, boy babies survive almost as well as girls do. This means that for the first time there will be too many boys in those crucial (至关紧要的) years when boys are searching for a mate. What is even more troubling is that the survival of so many boys has removed a chance for natural selection (选择) to do its work. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the difference in weight is due to genes (基因), a force of change has gone.There is another way to commit evolutionary (进化的) suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Except in some religious communities, very few women have 15 children. Nowadays the number of births, like the age of death, has become average. Most of us have roughly the same number of children. Again, differences between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have disappeared.For us, this means that people will no longer experience the physical changes that other living things do; our bodies are as perfect as they are ever going to be. Strangely, we have been able to make great advancements without physical change. In the past 100,000 years—even the past 100 years—our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not. We managed to make such changes because of technology and social systems.Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of the process of change; they "look at living beings like a dog looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond their comprehension." No doubt we will be shocked at the ugliness of the 20th century way of life. But however amazed future people may be at how far from perfection we were, those future people will look just like us.56.According to the author, what was the danger a man had to face in the past?A. Lack of mates.B. Strong competition.C. Lower chance of living to maturity.D. Genes.57.The sentence "There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide" perhaps means_______________________________________.A. there is another way to stop the society from making progressB. you can kill yourself by another meansC. there is another factor to prevent us from evolvingD. we have to find a way to do something58.Women except _______________ are having relatively small numbers of children.A. those who live to be very oldB. those who live in religious communitiesC. those who have the advantage of technologyD. those who live in poor countries59.The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving because____________________________.A. life has been improved by technological advancementB. the number of female babies has been decliningC. we have reached the highest stage of evolutionD. the difference between wealth and poverty (贫穷) is disappearing60.What is this passage mainly about?A. The change in the numbers of boys and girls.B. Ways of continuing man's evolution.C. The evolution future of nature.D. Human evolution going nowhere.。