高中英语外研版 (2019)选择性必修 第四册Unit 2 Lessons in life习题

Unit 2 Lessons in life测试卷

（Ａ卷基础篇）

【外研版】

学校：__________班级：__________姓名：_________   考号：___________ 

本试卷共分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分，第Ⅰ卷为选择题；第Ⅱ卷为非选择题；满分为100分，考试时间为90分钟。

第Ⅰ卷

第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节； 满分45分）

第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

1. We have no reasons to be ______about the future now that we are young enough to attempt what we like.

A. optimistic   B. cautious    C. pessimistic   D. positive

2. Criticizing children frequently is bound to ______ their confidence in pursuing dreams.

A. boost    B. weaken    C. strengthen   D. enhance

3. It is important for parents to ______ what your child will do and prevent any problem .

A. assess   B. advocate    C. approve    D. anticipate

4. It was after passing away that his works received widespread _____and immense popularity.

A. recognition  B. participation   C. complexity   D. despair

5. When hearing the funny joke, they ______laughter and talked away on end for hours.

A. burst out   B. burst into       C. turn to    D. turn down

6. ______ being relaxed, we both felt so uncomfortable that we hardly spoke .

A. Apart from         B. Far from

C. In spite of         D. In addition to

7. According to the regulation, the visitors are required to be______ the health code.

A. in the face of   B. in the charge of   C. in possession of  D. in the possession of

8. I’m writing to express my gratitude for your ______ in solving the problem together with the colleagues.

A. rejection    B. cooperation   C. dilemma    D. affection

9. It ______ that the opportunity should be given to the people badly in need of jobs .

A. expects   B. be expected    C. is expected   D. has expected

10. It is suggested that a new bridge should ______ in front of the building to relieve the traffic stress.

A. construct   B. be constructing   C. be constructed   D. being constructed

11. By the end of last month, the film named Hi,Mom ______ for 10 weeks consecutively.

A. has shown  B. had shown   C. had been shown  D. has been shown

12. His car ______.This is the reason why he goes to work on foot.

A. is repairing  B. is being repaired  C. was repaired   D. has been repaired

13. Evidence has shown astronauts have been affected severely because of ____ to long periods of weightlessness.

A. exposing   B. exposed    C. being exposed   D. having exposed

14. As more forests are destroyed, huge quantities of good earth _____ each year.

A. wash away  B. are washed away  C. is washed away  D. washed away

15. His brother left home after the civil war broke out and _______since then.

A. is never heard of        B. never heard of   

C. was never heard of       D. has never been heard of

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

        阅读下面短文，从16-35各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项并在答题卡上将其涂黑。

From childhood, Diane loved to write. Throughout school she__16__ writing, but pursuing it__17__ was never a possibility. Her father was a doctor, her mother was a nurse. "Medicine was a fairly__18__ option," Diane says. "And writing was a career where it wasn't a __19__ that you'd have high income."

 She became a doctor but still wanted to do some writing. However, being a doctor was so__20__ that she didn't take up writing until her thirties. She__21__ a novel—a fictionalized version of her travels in China after university. She got excellent__22__ . Diane sent it off to as many agents as she could find, and found one who wanted to __23__ her. Suddenly, it seemed she was on her __24__  as an author.

 "I had one lengthy phone call with the agent where we __25__all possible areas she thought needed __26__. I worked on those and sent it back to her but didn't hear anything." It was not long __27__ Diane found another agent who was__28__ if she was willing to rewrite it from the first person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off again. "I got back a really brief letter: 'Thank you, I'm no longer interested.' It was really__29__."

 A decade went by, and Diane found herself itching to write again, this time __30__ for her own enjoyment. She __31__ herself the challenge of creating a thriller and chose Western Australia as her setting.

 As she was writing just for herself, something surprising began to happen. "The characters__32__ a life of their own; they started doing things I hadn't thought about. It just__33__ out." One day, an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Diane had a publication deal. Her novel Cicada was published in March.

    "__34__ it hadn't been published, I still gained so much from the__35__ ," says Diane.

16. A. learned    B. avoided    C. enjoyed    D. considered

17. A. professionally   B. enthusiastically  C. energetically   D. permanently

18. A. safe     B. explicit    C. terrible    D. influential

19. A. dream     B. certainty    C. choice    D. purpose

20. A. interesting    B. discouraging   C. promising    D. demanding

21. A. bought    B. produced    C. introduced   D. received

22. A. rewards    B. readers    C. praises    D. reviews

23. A. represent    B. employ    C. trust     D. guide

24. A. own     B. way     C. feet     D. business

25. A. took off    B. pulled down   C. went through   D. came over

26. A. deleting    B. polishing    C. adapting    D. covering

27. A. since     B. after     C. before    D. when

28. A. fascinated    B. amused    C. anxious    D. interested

29. A.disappointing   B. absurd    C. terrifying    D. common

30. A. instantly    B. wonderfully   C. purely    D. sadly

31. A. made     B. found    C. set     D. permitted

32. A. put up     B. got down    C. went over    D. took on

33. A. bought    B. flew     C. broke     D. carried

34. A. Even if    B. As if     C. If only    D. Ever since

35. A. adventure    B. result     C. practice    D. process

第二部分：阅读理解（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、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

     My father was Chief Engineer of a merchant ship, which was sunk in World War Ⅱ. The book Night of the U-boats told the story.

 Memories

 In September, 1940, my mother, sister and I went to Swansea, where my father’s ship was getting ready to sail. We brought him a family photograph to be kept with him at all times and keep him safe.

 Then I remember my mother lying face down, sobbing. She had heard from a friend that the ship had been sunk by a torpedo(鱼雷).

 I can remember the arrival of the telegram(电报), which in those days always brought bad news. My grandmother opened it. It read, “Safe. Love Ted.”

 My most vivid memory is being woken and brought down to sit on my father’s knee, his arm in a bandage.

 He was judged unfit to return to sea and took a shore job in Glasgow for the rest of the war. For as long as I can remember, he had a weak heart. Mother said it was caused by the torpedoes. He said it was because of the cigarettes. Whichever, he died suddenly in his early 50s.

 Ten years later I read Night of the U-boats and was able to complete the story.

 Torpedo

 One torpedo struck the ship. Father was in the engine room, where the third engineer was killed. He shut down the engines to slow the ship making it easier for it to be abandoned.

 By the time he got on deck(甲板) he was alone. Every lifeboat was gone except one which had stuck fast. When he tried to cut it free, it swung against the ship, injuring his hand and arm. He had no choice but to jump—still with the photograph in his pocket.

 Three days later, he and other survivors were safe in Glasgow. All 23 with him signed the back of the photograph.

    A Toast

 In my room is the book and the photograph. Often, glass in hand, I have wondered how I would have dealt with an explosion, a sinking ship, a jump into a vast ocean and a wait for rescue? Lest(以免) we forget, I have some more whisky and toast the heroes of the war.

36. We can infer that the mother and children went to Swansea _____.

A. to meet a friend                  B. to see the father off

C. to take a family photo              D. to enjoy the sailing of the ship

37. What did the author learn about the father from the telegram?

A. He was still alive.                 B. His knee was broken.

C. His ship had been sunk.            D. He had arrived in Glasgow.

38. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 6 refers to the father’s _____.

A. weak heart                     B. taking a shore job

C. failure to return to sea            D. injury caused by a torpedo

39. What can we know about the author’s father after his ship was attacked?

A. He lost his arm.            B. He repaired the engines.

C. He managed to take a lifeboat.      D. He was the last to leave the ship.

40. What is the passage mainly about?

A. A group of forgotten heroes.      

B. A book describing a terrifying battle.

C. A ship engineer’s wartime experience.    

D. A merchant’s memories of a sea rescue.

B

“Experience may possibly be the best teacher, but it is not a particularly good teacher.” You might think that Winston Churchill or perhaps Mark Twain spoke those words, but they actually come from James March, a professor at Stanford University and a pioneer in the field of organizational decision making. For years March(possibly the wisest philosopher of management) has studied how humans think and act, and he continues to do so in his new book The Ambiguities of Experience.

He begins by reminding us of just how firmly we have been sticking to the idea of experiential learning :“Experience is respected；experience is sought；experience is explained.”The problem is that learning from experience involves serious complications, ones that are part of the nature of experience itself and which March discusses in the body of this book.

In one interesting part of the book，for example，he turns a doubtful eye toward the use of stories as the most effective way of experiential learning. In our efforts to make stories interesting, he argues, we lose part of the complicated truth of things. He says “The more accurately reality is presented，the less understandable the story，and the more understandable the story, the less realistic it is.”

Besides being a broadly knowledgeable researcher，March is also a poet, and his gift shines through in the depth of views he offers and the simple language he uses. Though the book is short, it is demanding: Don’t pick it up looking for quick, easy lessons. Rather, be ready to think deeply about learning from experience in work and life.

41. According to the text, James March is ____________.

A. a poet who uses experience in his writing

B. a teacher who teaches story writing in university

C. a researcher who studies the way humans think and act

D. a professor who helps organizations make important decisions

42. According to James March, experience ______________.

A. is overvalued                B. is easy to explain

C. should be actively sought       D. should be highly respected

43. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?

A. Experience makes stories more accurate.

B. Stories made interesting fail to fully present the truth.

C. The use of stories is the best way of experiential learning.

D. Stories are easier to understand when reality is more accurately described.

44. What’s the purpose of this text?

A. To introduce a book.               B. To describe a researcher.

C. To explain experiential learning.      D. To discuss organizational decision making.

45. The underlined word "demanding" in the last Paragraph probably refers to ________.

A. in need        B. making readers work hard

C. worth reading       D. definitely meaningful  

C

Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York—he in computers, she in special education. “Teaching means everything to us,” Tim would say. In April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life’s purpose.

Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program started by Dolly Parton’s foundation (基金会) that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singer’s home town of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire,” Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk, “as a reminder”.

Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on imagination-library.com. The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.

The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters. Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a look-see. “We didn’t want to give the children rubbish.” says Linda. The books—reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists，and Dollywood board members—included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama series.

Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative: “This program introduces us to books I’ve never heard of.”

The Richters spend about ＄400 a month sending books to 200 children. “Some people sit there and wait to die,” says Tim. “Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left.”

46. What led Tim to think seriously about the meaning of life?

A. His health problem.       B. His love for teaching.

C. The influence of his wife.      D. The news from the Web.

47. What did Tim want to do after learning about Imagination Library?

A. Give out brochures.                   B. Do something similar.

C. Write books for children.                D. Retire from being a teacher.

48. According to the text, Dollly Parton is           .

A. a well-known surgeon                  B. a mother of a four-year-old

C. a singer born in Tennessee               D. a computer programmer

49. Why did the Richters go to Dollywood?

A. To avoid signing up online.        B. To meet Dollywood board members.

C. To make sure the books were the newest.      D. To see if the books were of good quality.

50. What can we learn from Tim’s words in the last paragraph?

A. He needs more money to help the children.     B. He wonders why some people are so busy.

C. He tries to save those waiting to die.          D. He considers his efforts worthwhile.

第II卷（非选择题  共25分）

第三部分：写作（共两节；满分25分）

第一节: 阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

Capturing a moment in time isn’t just about securing a memory- it can help us appreciate our life more every day.

    As a student，my campus has been my whole world. While it may seem limiting，studying with the same classmates and the same teachers in the same classroom every day has given me many opportunities to make great memories. I love the jokes told by my teachers in class，the songs my roommates and I sing together and cheerleaders＇loud cries at basketball games. Even the glow of the sunset with the mixture of purple and vivid red over the playground is mesmerizing.

And that is why I began to record my school life，and I’ve kept this habit for three years up until now. The first attempt, in the form of a diary, fell through as soon as my actual experiences became far more exciting than my words. So I bought a camera, with which I recorded every fascinating moment in my school life. Every weekend I transferred those photos to my phone and posted them on my social media. Without fail, I would find how joyful my school life was and how much progress I made, which in turn instilled（注入） more passion and purpose into the coming weeks.

As I progressed to senior high school, that camera gave way to camcorder（便携式摄像机） More and more videos drove me to learn video editing. Those valuable videos witnessed me joining the school choir（合唱团)， training for sports meets, complaining about the burden of studying and having fun in the dormitory. They have become a labor of love and naturally my source of happiness.

 When I look back on my diaries, photos and videos during this winter vacation, those fond memories came flooding back. Recording my school life lets me not only capture every precious moment in the course of my growth but also gives me the ability to observe and appreciate my surroundings and create joy in my life. It creates positive impact on my friends, showing them how wonderful life is and how it all depends on how much enthusiasm you show. So imagine how amazed I was when people said they felt youth and vitality through my work！

51. What is the purpose of the author capturing the moment by camera? (no more than 10 words)

52. The underlined phrase in Paragraph 2 may have a similar meaning as ______. (no more than 5 words)

53. Why did the author buy the first camera? (no more than 12 words)

54. What is the title of the passage? (no more than 10 words)

55. How do you capture the unforgettable moment in your school life? Please explain it. (no more than 20 words)

第二节：书面表达（满分15分）

56. 假如你是新华中学高三学生李津。你们学校于下周三举办关于汉朝的文化活动。你的英国朋友Chris对此感兴趣，请你写一封邮件告知此事。

内容包括：

1. 活动的目的，时间和地点
2. 主要内容（汉代舞蹈表演及汉服介绍）
3. 你的感受

注意：(1) 词数不少于80；

(2) 可适当加入细节，使内容充实，行文连贯；

Dear Chris,

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

 Yours,

Li Jin