高中英语人教版 (2019)选择性必修 第四册Unit 2 Iconic Attractions课时作业

Unit 2 Iconic Attractions Using Language & Assessing Your Progress——2022-2023学年高二英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第四册同步课时训练

一、填空

1.They tried to silence the _______(excite) audience but failed. (所给词的适当形式填空)

2.Shock absorbers originally applied to the space shuttle launch have also been set up in the cities with a high ________ (frequent) of earthquakes in order to protect buildings and save lives. （所给词的适当形式填空）

3.As is known to all, Venice is one of the great tourist _____(attract) of the world. (所给词的适当形式填空)

4.The market_____ (stretch) all the way along the street. (所给词的适当形式填空)

5.A guidebook to the museum is available free ________charge. （用适当的词填空）

6._____ is really strange about her is that she never smilesat anyone.

7.There are many good students in our class, _____ girls. (most)

8.You should make good use of your _____(limit) time instead of wasting it.

9.I am sure that she is _____ a good state now and able to take over the work.

10.We were often woken up by the noise of pigs _____(kill) in the yard not far from our house.

11.It is known that koalas are unique _____ Australia.

12.The twins were separated _____ birth and brought up in entirely different environments.

13.At present, the epidemic is just under control  __________(temporary), and we still need to be on our guard.

14.They claim that some computer games encourage  __________(violence) behaviour in children.

15.The old building is  __________  a good state of preservation except for the wooden floors.

二、阅读理解

16.    Canberra, the capital of Australia, lies in the southeast of the country. From this city, it is about 290 kilometres to Sydney, and over twice the distance to Melbourne. The former faces the Pacific Ocean, and the latter is dose to the Bass Strait through which ships from Sydney can enter the Indian Ocean.

    When the Federal Government of Australia was founded in 1901, no one knew where Australia's capital would be. The two cities of Melbourne and Sydney both wanted the honour. Instead, the founding fathers chose a piece of land between the two cities for the new capital. The government would build a new city called Canberra as the country's capital.

    In 1911, the government invited world leading architects to enter designs for Canberra in a contest. An architect from Chicago named Walter Burley Griffin won this international competition for the design of the new city. Construction began in 1913 but was interrupted by World War I (1914 〜 1918). Twenty-four years later, the construction was finished, but the government moved to this new city ten years before it was completed.

    At one time, almost everyone in Canberra worked for the government. However, the city today has become a centre of education and a favourite place for tourists. Now people can hold a government job, or they can work in business. They also make a living by teaching or meeting the needs of tourists.

    People find life in Canberra relaxing and pleasant. The city is surrounded by beautiful mountains where people can ski. There is a large man-made lake lined with beaches and parks in the centre of Canberra. Canberra is now Australia's largest inland city. Many people living there come from other cities in Australia and other lands. Some come to Canberra to work, and others come here to escape from the busier way of life found in many other cities.

1. According to the passage, how far away is Sydney from Melbourne?
A. About 290 kilometres.
B. About 580 kilometres.
C. About 870 kilometres.
D. About 1160 kilometres.
2. What can we know about Canberra from this passage?
A. A lovely city to which no visitors can go only by sea.
B. A beautiful coastal city with beaches and parks.
C. The largest city and the education centre in Australia.
D. A pleasant place with many mountains and lakes.
3. What does the underlined word "honour" in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Being chosen as the capital city of Australia.
B. Building the city of Canberra.
C. Replacing Canberra as the capital city of Australia.
D. Offering funds to build the city of Canberra.

17.    Koalas are pictured everywhere in Australia—on cleaning products, on boxes of chocolate, on sports team shirts. Yet now koalas live only in pockets along the east coast.

    They once inhabited the entire coastline. The koala population dropped after farmers cut down many of the forests where koalas lived, and hunters killed koalas for their fur.

    By the early 1900s, "koalas were basically shot out of South Australia," says ecologist Bill Ellis, who studies the relationships between living things and their environments.

    I recently joined Ellis and his team in a forest on St Bees Island, 19 miles off the northeastern coast of Australia, with eight other volunteers. The island is a natural laboratory, yielding findings that may help protect koalas elsewhere on the continent.

    The volunteers searched the island for koalas in the blue gum trees. When we found a koala, we gathered information about the trees in the area.

    The blue gum tree is a species of the eucalyptus tree(桉树) in which the funny leaf-eaters spend most of their time. Eucalyptus trees are native to Australia, and their leaves are the main food source for koalas. Although koalas can walk on the ground, they are better suited for life in the canopy, the high cover of branches and leaves in a forest.

    What has Ellis, research told him so far? The population of koalas on St Bees Island seems to be healthy. Yet Ellis wonders whether the koalas might be heading for hard times. The island is overrun with wild goats, and Ellis thinks the goats are eating the small blue gum trees.

    Without those trees, the koalas will run out of food in the future. Ellis hopes more research will help him understand how to protect the blue gum trees and the koalas that depend on them. "I think that's what everyone is trying to do—to make a difference," Ellis says.

1. What can we know from the first paragraph?
A. Koalas, pictures can be found everywhere in the world.
B. Koalas in Australia like to eat chocolate.
C. Koalas live only on the east coast of Australia.
D. You can buy the pictures of koalas only on the east coast of Australia.
2. What's the work of the volunteers in Ellis' team?
A. To collect information about the trees that koalas depend on.
B. To prevent farmers from cutting down the forest.
C. To save the koalas injured by local hunters.
D. To study the living things and the environment in the forest.
3. What will Ellis most probably start to do next?
A. To keep the population of koalas on St Bees Island healthy.
B. To kill all the goats on the island.
C. To find some new foods for goats.
D. To protect blue gum trees for koalas.
4. What's the purpose of writing this passage?
A. To call for people to concern about the life of koalas.
B. To record the trip to Australia for watching koalas.
C. To present some basic knowledge of koalas' life.
D. To introduce the ecosystem of wildlife in Australia.

答案以及解析

1.答案：excited

解析：考查形容词。句意：他们试图让激动的观众闭嘴，但失败了。分析句子可知，此处修饰人，说明audience的感受，用excited“激动的；兴奋的”作定语。故填excited。

2.答案：frequency

解析：考查名词。句意：原本应用于航天飞机发射的减震器也被设置在地震频率高的城市，以保护建筑物和挽救生命。high是形容词，修饰名词，frequent的名词是frequency，意为“频率”，是不可数名词，故填frequency。

3.答案：attractions

解析：考查名词的数。句意：众所周知，威尼斯是世界上最吸引人的旅游胜地之一，one of后面跟名词复数，tourist attractions意为“旅游胜地”，符合句意。故填attractions。

4.答案：stretches

解析：考查时态和主谓一致，句意：市场沿着这条街一直延伸下去，空处为句子谓语，且表达的是现在的情况，所以用一般现在时，主语为单数，谓语动词也用相应的单数。故填stretches.

5.答案：of

解析：考查介词。句意：这家博物馆的导游手册是免费提供的，根据句意及所给句子可知，此处是固定短语free of charge“免费”，故填of.

6.答案：What

7.答案：mostly

8.答案：limited

9.答案：in

10.答案：being killed

11.答案：to

12.答案：at

13.答案：temporarily

解析：考查词形转换。句意:目前该传染病只是暂时得到控制,我们仍需警惕。分析句子结构可知,空处在句中作状语，故用副词形式。

14.答案：violent

解析：考查词形转换。句意:他们声称有些电脑游戏会助长儿童的暴力行为。分析句子结构可知,此处应用形容词作定语修饰名词。

15.答案：in

解析： 考查固定搭配。句意:除了木制地板以外,这座古老的建筑保存完好。in a good state"处于良好的状态"。

16.答案：1-3 CAA
解析：1.数字计算题。根据第二段后三句可推知,堪培拉位于墨尔本和悉尼之间;根据第一段第二句可推知,悉尼距墨尔本大约870千米远,故选C项。
2.推理判断题。根据最后一段第四句可知,堪培拉是一个内陆城市,不可以通过水路到达,故选A项。
3.推理判断题。根据第二段可知,当年澳大利亚建国时,悉尼和墨尔本两个城市都争当首都,故选A项。

17.答案：1-4 CADA

解析：1.细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句可知，考拉只生活在澳大利亚的东海岸，故选C项。

2.细节理解题。根据第五段可知， Ellis团队志愿者的工作是收集考拉赖以生存的蓝桉树的信息，故选A项。

3.推理判断题。根据最后一段可知， Ellis接下来会保护蓝桉树，故选D项。

4.写作意图题。本文主要介绍了考拉在澳大利亚的生存状况，目的是呼吁人们关注考拉的生存，故选A项。