人教新课标 必修一Unit 4 Earthquakes单元检测 包含答案

Unit 4 Earthquakes单元检测第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）略第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

AMy Favourite BooksJo Usmar is a writer for Cosmopolitan and coauthor of the This Book Will series of lifestyle books. Here she picks her top reads.MatildaRoald DahlI once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl’s writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful worlds. Matilda’s battles with her cruel parents and the bossy headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, are equally funny and frightening, but they’re also aspirational.After DarkHaruki MurakamiIt's about two sisters -Eri, a model who either won’t or can’t stop sleeping, and Mari, a young student. In trying to connect to her sister, Mari starts changing her life and discovers a world of diverse night people who are hiding secrets.Gone GirlGillian FlynnThere was a bit of me that didn’t want to love this when everyone else on the planet did, but the horror story is brilliant. There’s tension and anxiety from the beginning as Nick and Amy battle for your trust. It’s a real whodunit and the frustration. when you realize what’s going on is horribly enjoyable.The StandStephen KingThis is an excellent fantasy novel from one of the best storytellers around. After a serious flu outbreak wipes out 99. 4% of the world’s population, a battle unfolds between good and evil among those left. Randall Flagg is one of the scariest characters ever.21. Who does “I” refer to in the text?A. Stephen King.B. Gillian Flynn.C.Jo Us1smar.D. Roald Dahl.22. Which of the following tells about Mari and Eri?A. Cosmopolitan.B. Matilda.C. After Dark.D. The Stand.23. What kind of book is Gone Girl?A. A folk tale.B. A biography.C. A love story.D.A horror story.BEarthquakes are something that people fear. There are some places that have few or no earthquakes. Some places in the world, however, have them regularly. Countries that have a lot of earthquakes are usually quite mountainous.The most talked about earthquake in the United States was in San Francisco in 1906. Over 700 people died in it. The strongest one in North America was in1964. It happened in Alaska.Strong earthquakes are not always the ones that kill the most people. In 1755, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded was felt in Portugal. Around 2 ,000 people died.In 1923, a very strong earthquake hit Tokyo,Yokohama area of Japan. A hundred and forty thousand people died. Most of them died in fires which followed the earthquake.One of the worst earthquakes ever was in China in 1976. It killed a large number of people. The worst earthquake ever reported was also in China, in which 830, 000 people were killed. This earthquake happened in 1556.Earthquakes worry people a lot. The reason is that we often do not know when they are coming. People cannot prepare for them.24. We can infer from the passage that .A. people are not afraid of earthquakesB. only strong earthquakes kill a large number of peopleC. a large number of earthquakes often happen next to mountainsD. earthquakes happen only in a few places along the coast25. How many people died in the earthquake which happened in Portugal in 1755?A.500.B.140,000.C.830,000.D. About 2,000.26. When and where was the worst earthquake ever reported?A.1964 ; Alaska.B. 1556; ChinaC.1923; Japan.D.1976 ; China.27.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?A. The stronger the earthquake is, the more are killed.B. Earthquakes often come unexpectedly.C. Earthquakes can cause fires.D. People still don’t know when an earthquake will come.C“Earthquake!” The word flashed in my brain. A roaring sound filled my ears. I tried to slide beneath my desk. The desk did a wild tap dance, slipping and sliding towards the centre of the room. I twisted my body and grabbed at the windowsill behind me, somehow kicking free of my dancing chair. I tried to stand. My legs skated away as if on a bucking escalator.My fingers shook, grasped and held the windowsill tightly. Somewhere through the roar sounded the terrified scream of some wounded animal. I looked behind me and tried to steady my gaze on the other kids but the scene was a dizzy nightmare. Some of the class .were sitting in the middle of the room, surrounded by chairs and desks. One girl was screaming. A boy was trying to claw his way across the floor to the door in a crazy overarm crawl.My grip froze me to the windowsill.I cried aloud, “I’m going to die. I’m going to die. Save me. I’m not ready to die. I’m not ready!”I hunched forward on my knees and pressed my face against my clenched fingers.I looked at the backs of my fingers and stupidly noticed the fragile pale hairs growing out of the pores. The fingers would soon cease to exist. Somehow the impending horror of my death was too terrible to even cry about.Suddenly, I became aware that the rocking had ceased. Perhaps I wasn’t going to die.28. The roaring sound was made by .A. a wounded animalB. people screamingC. children runningD. an earthquake29. When the narrator clenched his fingers he was .A. AfraidB. angryC. injuredD. impatient30. Paragraph 2 describes the .A. injuries suffered by the narratorB. effects of a bad nightmareC. disorder in the classroomD. narrator's fear of death31. At the end of the passage there is a feeling of his .A. panicB. hopeC. sorrowD. excitementDAngus, Doris,Gabriel and Kamil are some of the 21names that have been chosen to be given to storms in the UK in the 2016/17 season.The Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, decided to give storms boys’and girls’ names in 2015 in the same way as they did in America.The Met Office hopes that naming big storms will mean people are more aware of them and how dangerous they can be. Derrick Ryall, from the Met Office, said, “We have seen how naming storms elsewhere in the world raises people’s awareness of storms before they break.”In the past, the same UK storm could be given different names by different organisations. “We noticed that many organisations during the last couple of winters, when we have had bad storms, started giving names to them. Think back to the St Jude’s Day storm 2013, and the so-called Hurricane Bawbag in Scotland in 2011. But it led to confusion,” a Met Office spokeswoman said.According to the Met Office, there is a name for each letter of the whole alphabet,except for Q, U, X, Y and Z. That is the same as the naming tradition used in America. And not all storms will be big enough to get names only those expected to cause great damage.If there are more than 21 storms in a year, the Met Office will start again with another name beginning with “A”. However, according to Met Office spokeswoman Lindsay Mears, “It’s unlikely we would get through the whole alphabet in one season. We had 14 storms in the very bad winter of 2013/14, and if the naming system had been in operation then we wouldn’t have used the whole alphabet.32. Why are storms in the UK named?A. To increase public awareness of them.B. To remind people of their short stay.C. To follow what other countries did.D. To meet the needs of its people.33. Examples are given in Paragraph 4 to show .A. there’re many storms to name in a yearB. organisations named storms differentlyC. some storms’ names are similar to others’D. some storms' names are hard to understand34. What do we know about the names given to storms?A. Storms will be given names whatever their sizes.B. Serious storms will be given boys’ names.C.21letters will be used to begin the names.D.21 names will be given at most in a year.it35. What can be learned from Lindsay Mears?A. There are not too many big storms yearly.B. Action will be taken to prevent storms.C. There are usually 14 storms in a year.D. The naming system will not change.第二节(共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分)根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。