人教版 (新课标)必修1&2Unit 3 Travel journal测试题

Unit 3 Travel journal reading课时作业

第一节 阅读理解

A

    Jane Austen, a famous English writer, was born at Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16,

1775, and died on July 18, 1817. She began writing early in life, although the prejudices（偏见） of her times forced her to have her books published anonymously （匿名）.

    But Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous local people and visitors. She paid two long visits here during the last five years of the eighteenth century and from 1801 to 1806, Bath was her home. Her deep knowledge of the city is fully seen in two of her novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which are largely set in Bath. The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it, keeping in its streets and public buildings the well-ordered world that she described so well in her novels. Now the pleasure of learning Jane Austen's Bath can be enhanced （增强）by visiting the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street. Here, in a Georgian town house in the heart of the city, you can find out more about Bath in Jane Austen's time and the importance of Bath in her life and work.

The Centre has been set up with the help and guidance of members of the Jane Austen Society. After your visit to the Centre, you can look round the attractive shop, which offers a huge collection of Jane Austen related books, cards and many specially designed gifts. Jane Austen quizzes are offered to keep the children busy.

    You can also have walking tours of Jane Austen's Bath, which is a great way to find out more

about Jane Austen and discover the wonderful Georgian city of Bath. The tour lasts about one and a half hours. The experienced guides will take you to the places where Jane lived, walked and

shopped.

  56. Jane Austen paid two long visits to Bath________.

    A. in her early twenties                  B. in her early teens

    C. in her late twenties                   D. in her late teens

  57. What can we learn about Bath from the passage?

    A. Bath has greatly changed since Jane Austen's death.

    B. The city has changed as much as Jane Austen knew it.

    C. Bath remains almost the same as in Jane Austen's time.

    D. No changes have taken place in Bath since Jane Austen's time.

  58. The author（作者） writes this passage in order to________.

    A. attract readers to visit the city of Bath

    B. ask readers to buy Austen's books

    C. tell readers about Jane Austen's experience

    D. give a brief introduction to the Jane Austen Society

  59. It takes you about one and a half hours________.

    A. to get to the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street

    B. to buy Jane Austen related books, cards and gifts

    C. to find a guide to take you to the Centre

D. to look around the city of Bath on foot

【参考答案】ACA D

B

She is one of mankind’s oldest ancestors and is more than three million years old. New analysis of the arm bones of Lucy, an early hominid, suggests she was a tree climber. Lucy’s remains were uncovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s, with the 3.18 million-year-old skeleton(骨骼）being the most complete of any upright, walking human ancestor. Since she was discovered, researchers have debated whether she spent her life in the trees or spent time walking on the plains as well.

The new evidence from scans of her arm bones proves she spent time climbing and used her arms to pull herself up. The scans were compared with cross sections of humans and chimpanzees, which spend a mixture of time in trees and walking on all fours on the ground. They found that the arm bones were more heavily built, similar to those of chimps, while her lower limbs(下肢）would have meant she walked less efficiently than modern humans. Professor John Kappelman, at University of Texas, believes the advantage of his study was that it focused on characteristics that reflect actual behavior during life, suggesting that even when Lucy walked upright, she may have done so less efficiently than modern humans, limiting her ability to walk long distances on the ground.

Previous studies suggested that Lucy was just 4 feet tall and weighed just 65 pounds. Combining the new data paints a picture of an ancestor who may have spent a great amount of her time in trees. It also expands on evidence from earlier this year which claimed that Lucy may have died from a fall, most likely from a tree. The evidence suggests Lucy may have spent time on the ground, returning to the safety of the trees for food and to sleep, to avoid her enemies.

5. What did the researchers argue about after Lucy was discovered?

A. Where she lived.      B. How long she lived.

C. What she ate.      D. How she worked.

6. How could people tell Lucy spent time climbing?

A. By her walking style.     B. By her heavily built arm bones.

C. By her strong lower limbs.     D. By her large cross sections.

7. When Lucy walked, she may______.

A. have walked with bigger steps   B. have walked at a faster speed

C. have walked more efficiently than us   D. have walked a shorter distance than us

8. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. Guesses about Lucy’s characteristics.   B. Some evidence of Lucy’s health.

C. The safety of Lucy.     D. The ancestor of Lucy.

【参考答案】ABDA 

C

    Hi, everybody !

    Welcome to our newly-opened Richards Cinema Bookstore!

    Now let me introduce to you some of the new film books in our store.

    Are you Chinese film fans? OK, here comes the latest 25 New Takes about Chinese films. It is a collection of 25 fresh readings of different Chinese films from the 1930s to the present. In recent years, Chinese films are very popular in the States, such as Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, Hero, and Flowers of Shanghai.

    Do you like French films? Well, here is The French Cinema Book. It covers French films from the 1890s to the beginning of the 21st century. It is written for all lovers of French cinema: students and teachers, specialists and fans, and so on.

    Maybe you are Indian film fans and star-chasers. Then here is Encyclopedia （ 百科全书 ） of Indian Cinema. The book is a complete introduction to all the best Indian films. It also offers a full list of names of the famous and successful film stars in the past ten years. You know, the Indian film industry is the largest in the world after our Hollywood.

    If you like British films, we have The British Cinema Book. It is a good review of British

cinema. This book contains a good many nice pictures.

    In our bookstore, you can also find books about Mexican, Japanese, Australian, German and Italian films..

    Well, please help yourselves to some coffee or tea, and have a good time here!

 9. The speaker of the passage is most probably _______.

    A. the author of 25 New Takes

    B. a tourist in the cinema bookstore

    C. the manager of the cinema bookstore

    D. a reader of Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema

10. How many Asian countries does the speaker refer to when he talks about the film books?

    A. Two.             B. Three.            C. Four.              D. Nine.

11. Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage？

    A. Indian cinema is second only to Hollywood.

    B. The British Cinema Book includes a complete list of names of stars.

    C. Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon is well received in the States.

    D. The French Cinema Book covers over a century's French films.

 12. The purpose of the speaker is_______.

    A. to satisfy the customers' various tastes

    B. to keep the authors in the cinema bookstore

    C. to offer the tourists chances to meet the film stars

    D. to turn the readers into film producers

【参考答案】CBBA

第二节  完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I had been swimming competitively for about five years and was ready to quit because I felt I was horrible at it. I kept ___1___“Honorable Mentions”(安慰奖). Any ___2___ knows that you don’t want to have a bookshelf full of “Honorable Mentions”, which you get just because you___3___.

One summer day, the day____4__ a big swim meet, I decided to tell my grandma that I was quitting the swim team, but she said, “ Baby, ___5___ these words: ‘A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.’ You go to that swim meet tomorrow.”

The next day we arrived at the swim meet late, ___6___ my group of swimmers in the 15/16 age group. My ___7___ insisted that I be allowed to swim with the___8___ group. I knew that she was ___9___ me in the race so that our long drive would not be ___10___.  As I got on the board, I quickly noticed that these girls were here to do one thing — to ___11___ me! All of a sudden my grandma’s words___12___ in my head, “Quitters never win and winners never quit; quitters never win and winners never quit.”

SPLASH!

I was swimming ___13___ than I’d swum before. As I drew my right arm back, I noticed I was tied with one person. I assumed we were battling for the eighth place and I refused to finish dead last, so I added more kick on the___14___ 200 yards. I hit the wall and ___15___ to the left and to the right for the swimmers who had beaten me, but no one was there. They must have gotten out of the ___16___ already. I raised my head to see my coach ___17___ hysterically(歇斯底里). My eyes ___18___ her pointing finger and I couldn’t believe what I saw. The other swimmers had just reached the half point of the ___19___!  That day, at age 11, I broke the national 17/18-year-old 400-freestyle record. I had hung up my honorable mentions. That day, I ___20___ them with a huge gold medal.

1. A. quitting B. receiving C. refusing D. wishing

2. A. reader B. swimmer C. learner D. athlete

3. A. show up B. get out C. come around D. give off

4. A. during B. after C. in D. before

5. A. remember B. write C. have D. learn

6. A. winning B. losing C. missing D. considering

7. A. friend B. coach C. fan D. grandma

8. A. smarter B. younger C. older D. stronger

9. A. including B. calling C. forgetting D. teaching

10. A. seen B. dropped C. taken D. wasted

11. A. hate B. love C. beat  D. praise

12. A. shouted B. rang C. sang D. heard

13. A. faster B. longer C. later D. harder

14. A. most B. first C. last D. over

15. A. looked B. swam C. jumped D. came

16. A. time B. water C. race D. breath

17. A. smiling B. encouraging C. running D. screaming

18. A. followed B. held C. grasped D. got

19. A. road B. pool C. board D. field

20. A. admired B. joined C. replaced D. helped

【参考答案】

1—5 B D A D A        6—10 C B C A D

11—15 C B D C A   16—20 B D A B C