高中英语人教版 (新课标)选修9&10Unit 2 King Lear习题

学业分层测评(三)

Ⅰ.单词拼写

1．The children in our family are always          (尊敬的)to their elders.

2. The developing countries bear the         (负担) of an enormous external debt.

3. We need to take         (责任) for looking after our own health.

4．They intend to         (分配) more places to mature students this year.

5．When Joan returned to work, the         (冲突) between them increased.

6. The weather         (预报) is better for today.

7. The accused person stuck out that he was         (清白的) of the crime.

8. The         (贪婪的) boss stopped at nothing to gain profit.

9. Many parents         (反对) bilingual education in schools.

10. Those         (腐败的) officials fattened themselves by drinking the people's lifeblood.

【答案】　1.respectful　2.burden　3.responsibility  4．allocate　5.friction　6.forecast　7.innocent  8．greedy　9.oppose　10.corrupt

Ⅱ.阅读理解

(2016·甘肃天水一中高二月考)The writings of Shakespeare are today seldom read by young people in Britain. His young readership is limited to those who choose to study literature at university.

Shakespeare's work, together with most other classics, is seen as remote, and written in a 400­year­old version of English that is about as inviting as toothache.

Still, in British schools, it is compulsory to study the bard(诗人), and when something is made compulsory, usually the result is boredom, resentment(憎恨) or both.

This was my experience of the classics at school. But when I reached my late teenage years, I had a change of heart. Like every other young person since the dawn of time, the world confused me. I wanted answers, so I turned to books to find them.

I went on to take a PhD in literature and have taught it in Britain and China. I have never regretted it. There is something in literature that people want, even if they don't read books.

You see this in the popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works, the recent film version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice being a case in point. These popular adaptations may help increase people's interest in the classics.

Reading a simplified Romeo and Juliet  may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare's actual play. If that is the case, then I welcome the trend. But do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing. Shakespeare is a poet. His greatness is in his language. Reading someone else's rewriting of his work is like peeling a banana, throwing away the fruit, and eating the skin. Take on the original, which really is worth the effort.

【语篇解读】　本文是一篇议论文。如今英国的年轻人很少去阅读莎士比亚的作品了。作者通过自己的学习经历，论述了经典作品的价值和魅力。

1．The underlined phrase “a case in point” in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to “        ”．

A．a great hit

B．a good example

C．a movie adaptation

D．a popular phenomenon

【解析】　推理判断题。即便人们不读书，也可以从经典中获取所需的东西。这从由鸿篇巨著改编而成的电影或电视剧的流行就可看出。根据前文所述可知这里是通过《傲慢与偏见》进行举例说明。故答案为B。

【答案】　B

2．According to the passage, the writer        ．

A．has liked literary classics since an early age

B．was forced to read the classics for a PhD

C．turned to literature to seek answers in his teens

D．thinks only people who read books like literature

【解析】　细节理解题。根据第四段“...I had a change of heart. Like every other young person since the dawn of time, the world confused me. I wanted answers, so I turned to books to find them.”可知答案为C。

【答案】　C

3．The popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works may help people        ．

A．learn more about tradition

B．get a PhD in literature

C．seek their answers about the world

D．become more interested in the classics

【解析】　理解细节题。由倒数第二段最后一句“These popular adaptations may help increase people's interest in the classics.”可知答案。

【答案】　D

4．What does the writer intend to tell us in the last paragraph?

A．The fruit of a banana is more useful than its skin.

B．The rewriting trend does more harm than good.

C．Readers should try to read the original versions.

D．Readers need to learn the language in the classics.

【解析】　推理判断题。由语境可知，莎翁的伟大之处就在于他的语言。如果读别人的改写本，就像是剥香蕉，扔了果肉，仅吃皮，还有什么味道？由此可知，作者是建议读者去读莎士比亚的原著。因此答案为C。

【答案】　C

Ⅲ.阅读填句

How to Improve Eyesight Naturally

Eyes are important for everybody. You must take care and try everything in your hand to keep them in good condition. Here are some of the tips to improve your eyesight naturally.

  1 

Strain is known to be a factor in many health conditions and eyestrain is no exception. Try meditation, yoga or other methods of stress relief to improve your vision and overall health.

Try palming.

Sit upright in a comfortable chair.  2   Cup your hands so that there is no pressure on your eyes. Let your fingers rest across your forehead. There should be no light entering your eyes. Palming should be done for a period of 5 to 10 minutes to start. Palming should be relaxing. It may help to do palming in a darkened room.

Avoid sugar as much as possible.

  3   It will unpleasantly affect your eyesight, which affects the eyes by producing a larger amount of insulin (胰岛素) in the blood. Therefore you shouldn't be having much fruit juice or something that contains a lot of sugar.

Exercise your eyes.

The only exercise most eyes get is that daily rubbing we give them when we're tired or suffering from eyestrain. But eye exercises are actually good for your eyes and can improve your vision.  4   Blink as fast as you can for a few seconds then close your eyes tightly, open and repeat. Do this exercise 3 to 4 times daily.

Eat healthy.

You probably hear that statement all the time but eating the right foods are necessary to good health.  5   Foods that are high in fiber, vitamin C, D and beta carotene as well as other vitamins and minerals can help improve your vision. Here are a few foods that can be beneficial to good vision: carrots, eggs, blueberries, spinach, kale, grapes, and fresh garlic.

A．Reduce eyestrain.

B．Keep your eyes moist.

C．Sugar is your eye's worst enemy.

D．Give your eyes a workout with the following exercise.

E．You may not be aware that your diet affects your vision but it does.

F．Close eyes and cover them with the palms of your hands.

G．Be sure to get plenty of sleep so your eyes don't strain to stay open during the day.

【答案】　1～5　AFCDE

Ⅳ.完形填空

There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world.But   1   a few of them are very   2  ．English is one of these.Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U．S.A., but in other parts of the world.About 200，000，000 speak it as their own language.It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a   3   language.Many millions are   4   to do so.

Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different   5  ．Have you ever   6   the ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines?

“Learn English in six months, or your   7   back ...” “Easy and funny? Our records and tapes   8   you master your English in a month.  9   the first day your   10   will be excellent.Just send ...” Of course, it never   11   quite like this.

The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue.We should   12   that we all learned our own language well when we were   13  ．If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult.  14   what a small child does.He listens to what people say.He tries what he hears.When he is using the language, talking in it, and   15   in it all the time, just imagine how much   16   that he gets!

So it is   17   to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English   18   upon a lot of practice.And practice needs great effort and   19   much time.Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will   20  ．But they cannot do the student's work for him.

【语篇解读】　本文是一篇议论文。英语好学还是难学？对此，仁者见仁，智者见智。作者认为学英语离不开语言环境，离不开大量的练习。

1. A．not    B．quite 　　C．only　 　D．very

【解析】　only 意为“仅仅、只有”。句意：世界上约有一千五百种语言，但只有几种是重要的。

【答案】　C

2. A．difficult B．important

C．necessary    D．easy

【解析】　important 意为“重要的”，根据下文提到的像英语被广泛使用，说明了这几种语言是重要的。故不宜选其他形容词。

【答案】　B

3. A．native  B．foreign

C．useful   D．mother

【解析】　as a foreign language(外语)与前句中的as their own language相对应。

【答案】　B

4. A．learning    B．enjoying

C．trying   D．liking

【解析】　are trying to do so ＝ are trying to learn English 意为“在尽力学习英语”。

【答案】　C

5. A．questions B．problems

C．ideas   D．answers

【解析】　answer 意为“答案”，指回答前面的问题。句意：学习英语容易还是困难，不同的人有不同的答案。

【答案】　D

6. A．found    B．watched

C．noticed   D．known

【解析】　notice 意为“注意到”，根据不同的动词意义，只有notice切合句意。指注意到这些广告。

【答案】　C

7. A．knowledge    B．time

  C．money   D．English

【解析】　这些广告的目的是为了收钱，故选money。or your money back意为“否则退钱”。

【答案】　C

8. A．make    B．help    C．let   D．allow

【解析】　help sb.do sth.意为“帮助某人做某事”。而make/ let sb.do sth.意为“使/让某人做某事”。allow不符合该句句型。

【答案】　B

9. A．From B．On

  C．Since D．After

【解析】　from the first day 意为“从第一天起”。

【答案】　A

10. A．spelling    B．grammar

  C．English   D．pronunciation

【解析】　由于是指学习英语语言，应该是先学习发音，故选pronunciation(发音)。

【答案】　D

11．A.happened    B．know

  C．seemed   D．felt

【解析】　happen 意为“发生”，这里指上面广告中提到的“快速学好英语这样的事情是绝不会发生的”。

【答案】　A

12. A．know    B．remember

  C．understand   D．think

【解析】　remember 意为“记得”。

【答案】　B

13. A．students    B．children

  C．babies   D．grown­ups

【解析】　children与后面的a small child相对应，指小孩母语学得好。

【答案】　B

14. A．Imagine    B．Mind

  C．Do   D．Think of

【解析】　think of 意为“想象，想一想”。

【答案】　D

15. A．using    B．thinking

  C．trying   D．practicing

【解析】　think 意为“思考”。句意：谈话用母语，思考用母语。

【答案】　B

16. A．time B．money

C．language D．practice

【解析】　practice 意为“练习”。这里说明了孩子母语说得好是因为进行上述大量的练习的结果。

【答案】　D

17. A．hard    B．easy

  C．funny   D．silly

【解析】　句意：说学习英语容易就难说了。

【答案】　A

18. A．depends    B．tries

  C．has   D．takes

【解析】　depend“需要”。句意：掌握好英语需要大量练习。

【答案】　A

19. A．uses    B．takes

  C．gets   D．costs

【解析】　take 意为“花费(时间)”。句意：而练习需要付出极大的努力和花费大量的时间。

【答案】　B

20. A．do B．work

C．help D．master

【解析】　这里是说：好教师、录音磁带、书和词典将对学习英语有帮助。但这些都不能代替学生的学习。

【答案】　C