英语选择性必修 第二册Lesson 3 My Favourite Comedian当堂达标检测题

Unit 4 Writing Workshop,Viewing Workshop & Reading Club

【基础】

一、选用合适短语并用其恰当形式填空

1. The discussion 　　　　　　　　the death rate in traffic accidents. 

2. They had no more food, 　　　　　　　　 a few loafs of bread. 

3. She works hard and always 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　. 

4. This kind of animal is rare anywhere in the world, 　　　　　　　　 in China. 

5. In the exam,make sure that everything you write 　　　　　　　　　　the questions you have been asked. 

6. Every time she tried to argue with her husband she 　　　　　　　　crying her eyes out. 

7. The whole meal was good but the wine 　　　　　　　　was excellent. 

二、单句语法填空

1. The talks will focus 　　　　　　　economic development of the area. 

2. They set 　　　　　a bronze statue in memory of him. 

3. Please set me 　　　　　at the street corner. 

4. I can safely say that you will be 　　　　　great demand someday. 

5. Maybe you’ll end up 　　　　　a lawyer, like me. 

6. I think it is time you woke up and 　　　　(focus) your thoughts on these matters. 

7. There is no sense in 　　　　　(look) for the coin under the bed. 

8. Yet political news was often 　　　　　(relate) to economic and social problems. 

9. If you don’t watch the road more carefully, you’ll end up 　　　(have) an accident. 

10. She burned the letters so 　　　　　her husband would never read them. 

11. People often lose confidence when they are 　　　　　(批评). 

12. Fat people c　　　　　 more energy than slim people. 

13. What we 　　　　　(要求) is not only quantity but also quality. 

14. It was 　　　　　(不幸的) that he couldn’t speak English. 

15. The teacher kept explaining the use of the 　　(成语) to me until I understood it. 

16. Aside 　　　　　the little savings I have no other money. 

17. 　　　　　　 a sense it doesn’t matter any more. 

18. He never joins with us; he always plays 　　　　　his own. 

19. He often goes 　　　　　perfection. 

20. When did this kind of style go 　　　　　of fashion? 

21. We need to set about 　　　　　(find) a solution. 

22. This kind of work 　　　　　(demand) great patience. 

23. We are at a 　　　　　　　(critically) time in history. 

24. 　　　　　(loose) translated, the word means “important”. 

25. 　　　　　(unfortunate), there is nothing we can do to improve matters. 

26. He is a very kindly and rather 　　　　　(幽默的) man. 

27. Mother had to b　　　　　 the baby before going to bed. 

28. My travel a　　　　　 has made all the arrangements for my journey. 

29. He is widely regarded as the most skilful 　　　　　(政治家). 

30. When I asked her, she p　　　　　 as if she had no idea at all about it. 

三、完成句子

1. 她开始检查一些没有意义的事情。(make sense)

She started checking things 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　. 

2. 如果你摆弄火柴，最后可能烧到自己。(end up doing)

If you fool about with matches,you’ll 　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　. 

3. 我会给你所有的事实以便你可以自己判断。(so that)

I will give you all the facts 　　　　　　　　　　　　　for yourself. 

4. 这就是我第一次体验生活的经过。(such位于句首用倒装形式)

　　 　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　of life. 

5. 尽管我愿意帮忙，但是我没有多少时间。(while虽然)

　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　,I do not have much time available. 

【综合】

一、阅读理解

A

My best friend travelled to stay with my family last weekend. When she arrived, she went straight to the kitchen and, without asking, ate some dried fruit. She wasn’t being rude. I knew she would do this. We’ve known each other for almost 20 years. She can eat anything she wants from my kitchen. Indeed, I bought her favourite fruits and snacks at the shop that morning.

Our long weekend together was simple. I was recovering from surgery and couldn’t go to shopping malls. But there were no quiet moments. We’ve lived in different cities for almost a decade. Reunions demand conversation.

Our personalities are matched, to be sure, and a shared history is indescribably (难以形容地) valuable. We were competitors at high school before bonding. Then we discovered the many interests that we had in common. Our friendship developed itself quickly. We stayed companions and supported each other through law school and through our first jobs. Ours is a friendship for the ages.

There is something special about friends who know everything about you .They are rare. They have seen your achievements, your desperation and your boring routine of the in-between. It’s special to unpack feelings without wasting time filling in the blanks. As my long weekend shows, with such friends we don’t have to do well, but we simply have to be ourselves. We drop the act, the performance and the public version of ourselves. The special friendships are those which never fail to delight us, whose continuation is worth the extra effort, despite distance and difference in our separate lives. I had the very great joy of this reminder last weekend. I’m lucky to have found this friend, and to see a future where her companionship remains. Being together is perfection.

1. What message is conveyed in the last paragraph?

A. Real friends are easy to make.

B. Good friendships need devotion.

C. Special friendships may fail to delight us.

D. Distance and difference bring a friendship.

2. Why does the author write this text?

A. To express thanks to her best friend.

B. To share the friendship she treasures.

C. To describe what her best friend is like.

D. To explain how she offers help to her friend.

3. What can we infer from paragraph 2?

A. They talked constantly about their lives.

B. They enjoyed going shopping.

C. They had a boring weekend.

D. They quarrelled at times.

4. What does the author appreciate about their friendship?

A. They help each other achieve success in their fields.

B. They’re best friends despite different hobbies.

C. They inspire each other to be their best selves.

D. They’re comfortable just being themselves.

B

I was born and raised in England in a culture where privacy and “keeping yourself to yourself” were valued traditions. Speaking to strangers was not encouraged. People were most hospitable (好客的) and friendly—but only once they had been introduced to new people.

However, I have been lucky enough to spend some time in both Italy and the US, where I found traditions of hospitality and politeness to be very different.

I experienced Italian hospitality first-hand on a crowded railway carriage travelling, one afternoon, from Genoa to Florence. Sinking gratefully into an empty seat, I was berated (斥责) in rapid Italian by a gentleman who was returning to this seat—it had not been “spare” after all. I apologised in English, and got up to allow him back into the seat. The gentleman obviously had no understanding of the English language, but he, too, realised my genuine mistake. He smiled and gestured for me to remain in the seat, and he himself remained standing in the corridor for the remainder of the journey.

The other occupants of the carriage smiled and nodded at me and made me feel quite welcome among them. I feel that if this had been in England, a foreigner who made a mistake would not always be so kindly treated.

Transport also featured in the differences I noticed between English and American culture. I flew to New York on a plane with mainly English passengers. We sat together in near silence. Nobody spoke to me nor, as I expected, to anyone else they did not know. They felt it was not polite to intrude on someone else’s privacy. However, when I travelled across the United States, whether by plane or Greyhound bus, I was never short of conversation. Conversation was going on all around me and whoever sat next to me was happy to introduce themselves and ask me about myself. They obviously felt it would have been rude not to speak to another person,whether they were strangers or not.

5. What do we know about the occupants of the carriage when the author was travelling in Italy?

A. They all laughed at the author for his mistake.

B. They were all on the side of the gentleman.

C. They would not bear a mistake like the author’s in public.

D. They all showed their understanding of the author’s mistake.

6. The author finally believes the Italian people are 　　　. 

A. cold B. rude

C. hospitable D. helpful

7. According to the last paragraph,English passengers sat in near silence because 　　　. 

A. they were all strangers to each other

B. they were too tired to speak

C. privacy was a valued tradition in England

D. everybody had their own share of privacy

8. The purpose of the author is to tell us 　　　. 

A. his travelling experience

B. cultural differences to show hospitality and politeness

C. the culture shock he experienced in Italy and the US

D. how to adapt ourselves to a new culture

C

Most funny stories are based on comic situations. In spite of national differences, certain funny situations have a universal attraction. No matter where you live, you would find it difficult not to laugh at, say Charlie Chaplin’s early films. However, a new type of humour, which starts largely from the US, has recently come into fashion. It is called “sick humour”.

Comedians base their jokes on tragic situations like violent deaths or serious accidents. The following “sick humour” will enable you to amuse yourself.

A man who had broken his right leg was taken to hospital a few weeks before Christmas. From the moment he arrived there, he kept on bothering his doctor to tell him when he would be able to go home. He was afraid of having to spend Christmas in hospital. Though the doctor did his best, the patient’s recovery was slow. On Christmas Day, the man still had his right leg in plaster (石膏).

He spent a miserable day in bed thinking of all the fun he was missing. The following day, however, the doctor consoled him by telling him that his chances of being able to leave hospital in time for New Year celebrations were good. The man took heart and, sure enough, on New Year’s Eve he was able to hobble (蹒跚) along to a party. To make up for his unpleasant experiences in hospital, the man drank a little more than what was good for him. In the process, he enjoyed himself thoroughly and kept telling everybody how much he hated hospitals. He was still murmuring something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg.

9. What can we infer from the passage?

A. No pains,no gains.

B. Extreme joy begets sorrow.

C. Once a thief,always a thief.

D. Good medicine tastes bitter.

10. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. A new kind of humour came into being.

B. How to cure your legs is important.

C. Christmas is more necessary than anything else.

D. Holding a party is interesting for the westerners.

11. Which of the following is RIGHT according to the passage?

A. All the humour stories are funny in spite of different nationalities.

B. One can realise the humour of the stories in his own country.

C. Charlie Chaplin made it difficult to laugh at his action.

D. Almost all the audience can be made to laugh at some famous comedians’ action.

12. What does the underlined word “consoled” mean?

A. Comforted. B. Overcame.

C. Confused. D. Disturbed.

二、语法填空

It’s one of the 1.　　　　　(great) novels in world literature. First published in 1791, A Dream of Red Mansions, also 2.　　　　　 (know) as The Story of the Stone, is to Chinese people as William Shakespeare’s famous plays are to westerners. 

The novel, 3.　　　　　 reflects the history of the Qing Dynasty, follows the rise and fall of the noble Jia family. Originally, the family seems to be wealthy and 4.　　　　　 (power), thanks in part to its close relationships with the royal family. Yet, the heir to the family, Jia Baoyu, enjoys 5.　　　　　(live) a pure, carefree life, having no interest 6.　　　　　 politics at all. 

Expected to marry Xue Baochai, Jia falls in love with his delicately brilliant cousin, Lin Daiyu. As the lovers head toward a tragic end, the family falls on hard times, fading away eventually.

The 7.　　　　　 (appreciate) of the classic novel is surely both a pleasant treat and a challenge. In the past decades the novel 8.　　　　　 (experience) various adaptations. Making the detailed 120-chapter novel into just several hours is 9.　　　　　 (absolute) no piece of cake. “Still, choices have to be made,” the opera’s stage director Stan Lai concluded. “For everyone else,the challenge is to make it 10.　　　　　excellent opera.” 

三、应用文写作

假定你是李华，最近你们学校举行了一次面向全社会的活动——“校园开放日”（School Open Day），你的英国朋友汤姆对此很感兴趣，请你给他写封邮件，介绍此活动，要点包括：

1. 活动的目的；

2. 活动的内容：来访者听课、观看课间操、提建议等；

3. 活动的意义。

参考词汇：课间操class-break exercise

注意：1. 词数80左右;

2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3. 开头已给出,不计入总词数。

Dear Tom,

How are you recently?                                                                                 

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

四、读后续写

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

“Once there was a ship travelling on the tough sea and on the ship there was a couple. All of a sudden, the ship met with an accident and the couple had no choice but to run to the lifeboat without delay. After reaching there, they realised that there was space only for one person. At that very moment, the husband pushed his wife behind him and jumped onto the lifeboat himself, leaving his wife standing on the sinking ship and shouting something desperately to her husband with her eyes filled with tears.”

The teacher stopped her storytelling and asked her students, “Guys, guess what it was that she shouted.” Most students answered, “I hate you!”

After listening to this reply, the teacher glanced through the whole class again and noticed that there was a boy sitting silently throughout. Then she asked him the same question.

The boy answered, “I believe she would have shouted—take care of our child.”

Listening to his remark, the teacher was surprised and asked the boy doubtfully, “Have you heard of this story before?”

Shaking his head, the boy said softly and sadly, “No, I haven’t. But that’s what my mother said to my father before she died of a deadly disease.”

Moved and feeling sad, the teacher replied, “Your answer is absolutely right!”

Then she continued, “Let’s take up the story. The ship sank eventually and the husband went home and brought up their daughter alone. Many years later after the death of the man, their daughter was tidying up all his belongings when she found his diary. In his diary she found that when her parents were on the ship, her mother had already been diagnosed (诊断) with advanced cancer and at the critical moment, the father rushed to the only chance of survival.”

注意：续写词数应为150左右。

In his diary, the man mentioned he wished to sink to the ocean with his wife but for their daughter he had to live.                                                                                 

The story was finished and the class was silent.                                                                                 

参考答案：

【基础】

一、

1. focuses on

2. aside from

3. goes after perfection

4. let alone

5. is related to

6. ended up

7. in particular

二、

1. on

2. up

3. down

4. in

5. as

6. focused

7. looking

8. related

9. having

10. that

11. criticised

12. consumed

13. demand

14. unfortunate

15. idiom

16. from

17. In

18. on

19. after

20. out

21. finding

22. demands

23. critical

24. Loosely

25. Unfortunately

26. humorous

27. bath

28. agent

29. politician

30. pretended

三、

1. that didn’t make sense

2. end up getting burned

3. so that you can judge

4. Such was my first experience

5. While I am willing to help

【综合提升】

一、

A: 1-4BBAD

B: 5-8DCCB

C: 9-12BADA

二、

1. greatest

2. known

3. which

4. powerful

5. living

6. in

7. appreciation

8. has experienced

9. absolutely

10. an

三、

参考范文：

Dear Tom, 

How are you recently? Knowing that you are interested in the School Open Day, I am more than delighted to introduce it to you. 

In order to promote the communication between our school and the families, our school organised a series of activities on the School Open Day. Visitors are shown around the campus and listened to the classes carefully. Besides, the participants appreciated students’ class-break exercise. Finally, the participants put forward some suggestions to improve our school’s management and education quality.

The School Open Day provided an amazing occasion for the society to better understand our school, making family and school cooperate to push us students’ overall development.

Yours sincerely, 

Li Hua

四、

参考范文：

In his diary, the man mentioned he wished to sink to the ocean with his wife but for their daughter he had to live. Without him, their little daughter would have become an orphan. He pulled through the painful days and learned how to raise their daughter. Whenever he encountered difficulties, he motivated himself with his wife’s words—“take care of our child”. Years later, their daughter grew up and he knew that he kept his promise successfully. If his wife had been alive, she would have been happy to see this.

The story was finished and the class was silent. Nobody talked or laughed as usual. Instead, it seemed that every student was lost in deep thought. They were touched by this special story, reflecting on their replies. Those who misunderstood the man in this story bowed their head in shame. They finally knew that sometimes what they saw was not the truth. They should not judge the man without understanding the whole story.