2021学年1 No limits巩固练习

Unit 1  Nature

单元素养评估测试卷

第I卷  

I. Listening Comprehension

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

When I was in junior high school, darkness began filling my mind. I don’t know the day or the reason (31)__________ it began. All I know is that I started feeling hopeless and worthless. I hid in my room, (32)__________ (stare) out of the window, thinking about all my failures. I even questioned (33)__________ being alive was worthwhile. My dark mood wasn’t constant. It would fade at times, but it always returned.

It was my parents that helped me identify the shadow (34)__________ hung over my life — depression. Depression is (35)__________ mental illness that drains your energy and prevents you from enjoying life. It can keep you from succeeding at school or work or from connecting with others. At its (36)__________ (bad), depression can even lead to suicide.

When your mood is dark, how do you know whether you are depressed or just sad? Think about how long the feelings (37)__________ (last). If they have persisted for weeks or months, get help.

No one (38)__________ face depression alone. If you’re depressed, find someone — a friend, parent, teacher or pastor — and tell them your feelings. Consider seeing a doctor or psychologist, if they are getting worse.

When I was depressed, I was (39)__________ (embarrass) to tell anyone. I didn’t want to seem weak or needy. But when I told my friends, they supported and encouraged me.

In fact, (40)__________ depression affects many people worldwide, treatments are available and can bring hope and joy back into their life.

Section B

Man is a land animal, but he is also closely tied to the sea.  Throughout history the sea has___41___ the needs of man. The sea has provided man with food and a __42____ way to travel to many parts of the world. Today, nearly two-thirds of the world’s population live within 80 kilometers of the sea coast.
     In the modern ___43___ world, the sea offers many resources to help mankind survive .Resources on land are beginning to be used up. The sea, however, still can be hoped to ___44____ many of man’s needs.
     The list of riches of the sea yet to be ____45____ by man’s technology is impressive. Oil and gas ___46____ have been carried out for nearly 30 years. Valuable amounts of minerals exist on the ocean floor ready to be mined (开采).
     Fish farming promises to be a good way to produce large ____47___ of food. The culture of fish and shellfish (贝类动物) is an ancient skill practised in the past mainly by Oriental people.
     Besides oil and gas, the sea may offer new sources of energy. Experts believe that the warm temperature of the ocean can be used in a way ____48____ to the steam in a steamship. Ocean currents (水流) and waves offer possible use as a source of energy.
     Technology is enabling man to explore  ever more ___49___ under the sea. The development of strong, new materials has made this possible. The technology to harvest the sea continues to improve. Experts believe that by the year 2000 the problems that prevent us from ___50___ fully the food, minerals, and energy sources of the sea will be largely solved.

II. Reading Comprehension

Section A 

What’s your earliest childhood memory?  Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk?  The first time you heard thunder or watched a television programme?  Adults seldom ___51___ events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four ___52____ retain(记住) any specific, personal experiences.

A variety of explanations have been ___53___ by psychologists for this “childhood amnesia”(儿童失忆症).  One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which is responsible for forming memories, does not mature ___54___ about the age of two.  But the most popular theory maintains that, since adults do not think like children, they cannot ___55___ childhood memories.  Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or ___56___ -- one event follows another as in a novel or film. ___57___ when they search through their mental ___58___ for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fit the __59___.  It’s like trying to find a Chinese work in an English dictionary.

Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new __60___ for childhood amnesia.  She argues that there simply aren’t any early childhood memories to recall.  According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use __61___ spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short-term ___62___of them into long-term memories. In other some else , children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about ___63___ -- Mother talking about the afternoon __64___ looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park.  Without this ___65___ reinforcement（强化）, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form permanent memories of their personal experiences.

51. recall          B. resolve            C. involve            D. interpret
52. merely         B. really             C. largely             D. rarely
53. proposed       B. witnessed          C. canceled           D. figured
54. after          B. since              C. until               D. once
55. access         B. refer              C. reflect             D. attain
56. regulations     B. descriptions        C. narratives           D. forecasts
57. Otherwise      B. While             C. So                D. But
58. flashes         B. files              C. outputs            D. dreams
59. frame          B. landscape         C. footstep            D. pattern
60. explanation     B. factor             C. emphasis           D. arrangement
61. impressions    B. expectations        C. experiences         D. implications
62. words         B. means             C. senses             D. cases
63. it             B. them             C. him                D. theirs
64. processed      B. spent             C.rewarded           D. destroyed
65. delicate        B. mutual            C. habitual            D. verbal

Section B

 (A)

People living on parts of the south coast of England face a serious problem. In 1993, the owners of a large hotel and of several houses discovered, to their horror, that their gardens had disappeared overnight. The sea had eaten into the soft limestone （石灰岩） cliffs on which they had been built. While experts were studying the problem, the hotel and several houses disappeared altogether, sliding down the cliff and into the sea.

  Erosion（侵蚀）of the white cliffs along the south coast of England has always been a problem but it has become more serious in recent years. Dozens of homes have had to be abandoned as the sea has crept farther and farther inland. Experts have studied the areas most affected and have drawn up a map for local people, forecasting the year in which their homes will be swallowed up by the hungry sea.

  Angry owners have called on the Government to erect sea defenses to protect their homes. Government surveyors have pointed out that in most cases, this is impossible. New sea walls would cost hundreds of millions of pounds and would merely make the waves and currents go further along the coast, shifting the problem from one area to another. The danger is likely to continue, they say, until the waves reach an inland area of hard rock which will not be eaten as limestone is. Meanwhile, if you want to buy a cheap house with an uncertain future, apply to a house agent in one of the threatened areas on the south coast of England. You can get a house for a knockdown price but it may turn out to be a knockdown home.

66. What is the cause of the problem that people living on parts of the south coast of England face?  ____________.

1. The disappearance of hotels, houses and gardens.      
2. The experts’ lack of knowledge.
3. The rising of the sea level.                        
4. The washing-away of limestone cliffs.

67. The erosion of the white cliffs in the south of England ___________________.

A. will soon become a problem for people living in central England

B. has now become a threat to the local residents

C. is quickly changing the map of England

D. can be stopped if proper measures are taken

68. The experts’ study on the problem of erosion can _____________________.

A. lead to its eventual solution               

B. provide an effective way to slow it down

C. help to prevent it from worsening          

D. warn people whose homes are in danger

69.It is not feasible to build sea defenses to protect against erosion because _____________.

A. it is too costly and will endanger neighbouring areas

B. the government is too slow in taking action

C. they will be easily knocked down by waves and currents

D. house agents along the coast do not support the idea

  (B)

70.The intended readers of this passage are _______.

A. Book dealers B. University students     C. Publishers       D. Campus staff

71. The underlined word “defective” can best be replaced by ________.

A. latest      B. adapted          C. new   D. faulty

72.Bookie’s will not buy back your used textbook if _______.

A. the cover of the book is missing    B. there are markings and notes on the pages

C. you have lost the sales receipt    D. you miss the last day for return

73.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. Bookie’s is a place for students to buy their course textbooks.

B. Student cards are needed to get a discount for the textbooks.

C. Books bought in bookie’s can be returned within ten working days.

D. Books bought back are processed by the staff and sold to students.

Section C

Directions: Read the following passages.Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box.Each sentence can be used only once.Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Throughout the centuries, pink has assumed a range of guises (表现形式). The way it is sensed by society has also changed over the years.

In the West, pink first became fashionable in the mid-1700s, when European aristocrats (贵族) were dressed in pink as a symbol of class. Madame de Pompadour loved the color so much that, in 1757, French porcelain manufacturer Sèvres named its new shade of pink “Rose Pompadour” after her.

Pink was not then considered a girls’ color — infants of both genders were dressed in white. ________74_____ The color’s more recent association with femininity (女性气质) started around the mid-19th century, according to Valerie Steele, editor of the book Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color. She explained, “Men in the Western world increasingly wore dark colors, leaving brighter options to females ______75______ . ”

By the turn of the century, pink had entered the mainstream — and its status shifted in the process. The advent of industrialization and mass production led to comparatively cheap dyes (染料). Pink went from luxury to working class.

Its guises continued to change throughout the 1900s. __________76________ By the 1950s, pink had become more gender-coded than ever. The branding and marketing in post-war America that used it as a symbol of super-femininity, strengthened a “pink for girls, blue for boys” stereotype.

Pink did not regain its popularity until the 1960s, when public figures such as Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe adopted it as a mark of luxury. In more recent decades, pink has also been accepted as a color of protest and awareness for various communities. For example, it has become internationally equivalent to the fight against breast cancer, in the form of a pink ribbon.

“Pink is going through a generational shift,” Steele said. “_______77______ There’s a shared recognition that pink can be pretty and powerful and feminine. We’re redefining pink.”

第II卷

Writing

Section A

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

1.     你为什么不在网上订票?  (Why)

2.父母工作太忙会忽视子女的学习。   (ignore)

3.看来他们家发生了一些出人意料的事情。  (seem)

4.和园丁们一起工作让我们学到了很多关于花卉的知识。 (enable)

Section B

Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

假如你是校学生会主席李华，请你代表学生会给参加文艺部部长竞聘落选的张梅写一封信。内容包括以下几点：1. 告知竞聘结果；2.告知落选原因 3.提出希望

Dear ZhangMei，

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Yours，

Li Hua

试题参考答案：

 第I卷

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

31. why   32. staring  33. whether   34. that/which   35. a  36. worst  37. have lasted  38. should/can

39. embarrassed  40. although/though

Section B

41.I  42.F  43.J  44.A   45.B   46.G   47.E   48.C   49. D  50.K

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A  51---65   ADACC   C D BDA   BA DBD

Section B   66-69 DBDA       70-73  BDAB         

Section C  74-77 BAED

第II卷

Section A

1. Why not / Why don’t you book tickets online / reserve the ticket(s) on the Internet?
2. Parents may ignore their children's studies if they are too busy working.
3. Something unexpected seemed to have happened to their family.
4. Working with the gardeners enables us to learn a lot of knowledge about flowers.

Section B

One possible version：

Dear ZhangMei,

Now I feel very regretful to write this letter to you and tell you the result of the competition for the literature and art minister. After our careful consideration, we hold the view that you are not qualified for this position for the following reasons.

To begin with, from your resume and what you said in the interview, we get to know that you like be alone for long time and are not good at communicating with others, which means you may have difficulty in socializing with your future colleagues. By the way, the ability to communicate with others is the first demand of this post. What’s more , you have said that you want to be committed to study and have good academic performance. However, taking such a post will surely take your time, especially when you are not experienced enough. So you may get confused if pursuing this position. Last but not least, from the way you speak and your body language, we can conclude that you are not confident enough. If so, how can you ensure others that you are a reliable person?

So from what I have said above, I think you should first know well about yourself. That is, you should have a clear picture about your strengths and weakness. Then ,you should know what your dream is and how to realize it. If you must take on such a position, you should consciously cultivate the characters the job demand and spare no efforts to change yourself better.

                                                                        Sincerely yours,

                                                                          Lihua