高中英语Unit 3 Australia达标测试

高三英语新课 Unit3 Australia知识精讲

一. 本周教学内容：

高三新课：Unit 3（II）—Australia

二. 知识总结与归纳：

1. It was probably once connected to South America, but the continents separated as the earth’s plates moved.

澳洲很可能曾经同南美洲连在一起，但是随着地球板块的活动而分离开了。

connect to / with ：与……有联系／连接　　

The child connected the moon with a fairy tale his grandma told him.

separate：分离　　短语：separate…from….

2. Having been separated from other continents for millions of years, Australia has many plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.

因为澳大利亚同其他大陆已经分离了几百万年了，所以澳大利亚与许多动植物是世界其他地方找不到的。

Having been separated from other continents for millions of years：现在分词的完成式做原因状语。

Having put up the tent, they started to cook their supper.

3. One strange animals lay eggs yet feeds its young on its milk.

有一种动物很奇特，会下蛋，而又给她的幼崽喂奶。

lay egg：下蛋。lay的其他意思：摆放；把……归于

相关的短语：lay out：布置；安排；lay down：放下；lay aside：把……放在一边；lay off：裁员；lay the foundation of ….：奠定……的基础

feed sb. on sth. ：用……喂养；＝feed sth to sb.

feed on….：以……为食

In winter they feed the horses on hay and corn.

Chinese people feed on rice chiefly.

You can feed these turnips to the rabbits.

其他短语：

feed …with…：用……补给……

be fed up with = be tired of…厌倦……

He fed the fire with some logs.

I have fed up with these boring meeting.

4. In area, it is approximately the same size as the USA（without Alaska） which, however, has more than fourteen times as many people.

澳大利亚的面积大致相当于美国（不含阿拉斯加）。而美国的人口却是澳大利亚人口的14倍多。

approximately：接近；近似于（指质量或数量）

His description of the event approximately to the truth but there were a few inaccuracies.

the same size as==as big as…

which, however, has more than fourteen times as many people非限定性定语从句修饰the USA。后面省略了as Australia.

more than fourteen times as many people倍数句型：

倍数＋as …as …

倍数＋形容词／副词比较级 than….

倍数＋表示比较大小，长度，重量等名词＋of ….

倍数＋that / those of….

Tom is twice older than Jack.

Tom is twice the age of Jack.

Tom’s age is two times that of Jack’s.

5. The purpose of the fence is to keep out a type of wild dog called a “dingo”.

设置篱笆的目的是用来阻拦一种叫做dingo的野狗。

keep out：阻拦，不让……进来；使……置身于……之外

其他有关keep的短语：keep on doing：坚持／继续做；keep off：推迟；避开；挡住；keep sb. from doing：阻止某人做……；keep up：维持; keep up with：跟上

They closed all the windows to keep out the cold.

Keep off the grass.

He keeps on phoning me, but I really don’t want to speak to him.

The heavy rain kept them from going out.

6. Farms in the middle of Australia are usually so large that the farmers use motorbikes or helicopters for the task of rounding up the sheep or cattle.

澳大利亚中部的农场很大，农场主们得用摩托车或直升飞机来赶牛羊。

round up：聚拢，集中在一起。

The guide rounded up the tourists and hurried them back into the bus.

7. The climate is different depending on the area.

气候因地区不同而各异。

8. Outings are popular and most Australians are delighted to share a cold glass of beer or lemonade with a friend.

外出交流是很普通的事，大多数澳大利亚人都喜欢同朋友们一道享受一杯冰冻啤酒或柠檬汁。

be delighted to do….：高兴地去做……还可以与介词at / with / by 连用。

We were all delighted to receive your invitation.

She was delighted at the chance.

注意：delightful：令人愉快的

The news is delightful to us.

短语：to one’s delight ：令人高兴的是。

To his great delight, he passed the examination with first-class honors.

【典型例题】

一. 单项选择：

1. The store had to ____ a number of clerks because sales were down.

A. lay out   B. lay off    C. lay aside   D. lay down

答案：B

分析：销售量下降，公司不得不暂时裁减一些雇员。lay out：布置；安排；lay down：放下；lay aside：把……放在一边；lay off：裁员

2. Television may be a splendid ____ of communication, but it prevents us from face to face communicating with each other.

A. medium   B. recreation   C. experience   D. generation

答案：A

分析：电视是一个很好的交流媒介；但它也阻碍了我们面对面的交流。medium：媒体；recreation：娱乐

3. ______ the Internet is bridging the distance between people, it may also be breaking some home or will cause other family problems.

A. When   B. While     C. If     D. As

答案：B

分析：尽管互联网促进了人与人间的交流，但它也可能破坏人们的家庭或引起其他的家庭问题。While：尽管。

4. It is reported that the United States uses ______ energy as the whole Europe.

A. as twice   B. twice as much   

C. twice much as  D. twice much

答案：B

分析：美国消耗的能源是全欧洲的两倍．

5. They still _____ each other over the question of pay.

A. differ   B. differ from    C. differ in   D. differ for

答案：B

分析：他们在报酬问题上观点仍然不同。differ in：在……上不同。

6. _____ full preparation, we decided to put off the meeting till next week.

A. We did not make B. Having not made 

C. We had not made D. Not having made

答案：D

分析：由于没准备好，我们决定把会议推迟到下周。Not having made现在分词的完成式做状语。

二. 翻译句子：

1. 这些熊以这种特殊的树叶为生。

2. 在这个问题上我只好保留不同意见了。

3. 赶快把同学们集合起来，我们该返回学校了。

4. 没问题他们会很高兴照顾他的。

5. 我们的学校面积将近200英亩。

答案：

1. These bears feed on the leaves of this special tree.

2. I’m afraid I’ll have to differ on this matter.

3. Please round up the students quickly, It’s time to return to school.

4. No doubt they will be delighted to take care of him.

5. The approximate area of my school is 200 acres.

【模拟试题】

一. 单项选择：

1. Some animals hibernate in the winter, which can ____ the cold.

A. keep out   B. keep off    

C. keep up   D. keep back

2. It’s known to all that cattle ____ mainly on grass.

    A. eat    B. feed     C. take    D. put

3. The two sides in the dispute still differ ____ each other _____ the question of pay

    A. with; over  B. with; in    C. over; with   D. on; over

4. The Shepherd had to ______ the sheep before the night fell.

    A. break up   B. round up    C. pick up   D. call up

5. Faced with the reporter’s ____ questions, the prime minister had much trouble answering them.

    A. absurd   B. strange    C. pointed   D. reasonable

6. Mr. Paul, who is a man of ____ height, is said to be our English teacher this term.

    A. common   B. medium    C. ordinary   D. usual

7. Today in Australia, there are thousands of creatures, ____ are endangered by human beings.

A. many of them    B. most of whom   

C. the majority of which    D. whose may

8. —Did you buy the dress yesterday ?

     —No, _____ I liked the color, I didn’t like its style.

A. While   B. Since     C. Before    D. As

9. Paper produced every year is _____ the world’s production of vehicles.

    A. the three times weight of     B. three times the weight of

    C. as three times heavy as     D. three times as heavier as

10. _____ hard before, Tom is afraid of failing in the exam.

    A. Having been worked      B. Not to have worked

    C. Having never worked      D. Never have worked

二. 完型填空：

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was   1  and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be  2  but a failure.”

After five years of   3   jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best  4  that could have happened to me. I  5  I wanted to do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove to   6   that what people said about me was   7  . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s    8  it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done. ” So I tried hard with my   9   and went to college. My first novel   10  while I was at college.

After college I taught during the   11  in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a   12   in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of   13   that job to write full time   14   I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself   15   was a working-class boy who’d   16  school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and   17   , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.   18  what does it mean? I   19   wish all the people that have put me down had   20   : “ I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

1.A. bright        B. useless         C. simple        D. hopeful

2. A. anything     B. something      C. everything    D. nothing

3. A. low          B. poor           C. good          D. useful

4. A. support       B. happiness      C. surprise       D. thing

5. A. admitted     B. decided        C. planned      D. told

6. A. me          B. them          C. her          D. it

7. A. wrong       B. right          C. stupid        D. faulty

8. A. see          B. know          C. understand    D. face

9. A. experiment   B. practice        C. writing        D. composition

10. A. came on    B. came in        C. came out      D. came back

11. A. day         B. night          C. month        D. year

12. A. graduation  B. pass          C. degree        D. success

13. A. giving in    B. giving back     C. giving out     D. giving up

14. A. while       B. if              C. when         D. or

15. A. there       B. here          C. it            D. that

16. A. left         B. attended       C. changed      D. graduated

17. A. tired        B. calm           C. nervous       D. famous

18. A. And        B. But            C. However      D. Well

19. A. just         B. exactly         C. so            D. very

20. A. praised     B. said           C. answered     D. advised

三. 阅读理解：

There are two kinds of physical activity which require special training. The first demands exact, careful movements of the muscles（肌肉）. This kind of activity must be strictly controlled because even a slight movement in the wrong direction will lead to a mistake. To type quickly, for example, a person needs training; the slightest movement of a finger in the wrong direction may cause a spelling mistake. A dancer who has to dance on the point of her shoes or turn around on one foot must be trained for a long period-of time before she can sense her own center and balance herself. You may have seen a girl walking on a rope across an empty space, which, too, requires a lot of practice.

The second kind of physical activity needs greater strength or extra effort. Most of us get tired if we try to run half a mile without stopping, but a specially-trained person can do this without much effort. Three years ago, some scientists carried out experiments, which produced meaningful and unexpected results. They wanted to find out whether a certain amount of physical exercise would injure those suffering from heart problems. They selected some male patients and trained them in continuous bicycle riding. They were surprised to find that the harmful effect of a given amount of physical effort was actually less on the hearts of these trained patients than on those of the patients who were not similarly trained. This is important because it shows that regular physical exercise enables us to make better use of the oxygen, we breathe in and that this training, in fact, reduces the amount of work our hearts do. Many tasks which are hard for untrained people are not hard at all for trained people.

1. The first kind of physical activity must be strictly controlled because _____.

    A. a mistake in the wrong direction is dangerous to the fingers

    B. a wrong movement in a direction will cause no mistakes

    C. a movement in the wrong direction will cause a mistake

    D. a slight movement of a finger will lead to a mistake

2. What must a dancer do before she can balance herself ?

    A. She must dance on the point of her shoes.

    B. She must receive long-time training.

    C. She must turn around on one foot.

    D. She must perform again and again.

3. The experiments done by some scientists showed that _____.

    A. some male patients were asked to ride bicycles regularly in the experiments

    B. the physical exercise had more harmful effect on the hearts of the untrained patients

    C. the physical exercise was harmless to the male patients with heart trouble

    D. the physical exercise could be helpful for the patients to take in more oxygen

4. What would be the best title for this text?

    A. Training Our Bodies         B. Physical Activities

    C. Movement Training         D. Extra Body Effort

四. 短文改错：

My car just wouldn’t move any further. It was complete   1. ______

dead , and I was a few miles far away from anywhere on a cold,  2. ______

wet night. I decided walk around a little before accepting I’d 3. ______

have to spend the night in the car. Maybe I can find a   4. ______

telephone. Actually, I didn’t have to walk far before I   5. ______

found a small house standing on a field with a light      6. ______

shone from the sitting room. I knocked at the door and   7. ______

was delighting when a pleasant old man opened the      8. ______

door but listened to my story carefully. He said he had   9. ______

no telephone, and it wasn’t one within walking distance.  10. _____

[参考答案]

一. 单项选择：

1. A　 一些动物冬季冬眠用来御寒。keep out the cold：抵御寒冷。

2. B　 众所周知牛以草为食。feed on：以……为食。

3. A　 双方就报酬问题彼此存在分歧。differ with sb. over / about sth：在……方面与……人有分歧。

4. B　 牧羊人在天黑前把羊聚拢起来。round up：把……聚集起来。

5. C　 面对记者的尖锐的问题，首相感觉很难回答这些问题。pointed：尖锐的

6. B Paul 先生中等身材，据说这学期是我们的英语教师。medium：中等的（adj）

7. C　 在澳大利亚有许多生物都受到人类的威胁。前半句有逗号结尾，后面应当是the majority of which引导的非限定性定语从句。

8. A　 我尽管喜欢它的颜色，但不喜欢它的款式。While：尽管；虽然。

9. B　 每年生产的纸的重量是世界上生产出的卡车重量的三倍。three times the weight of……倍数句型。

10. C 由于以前没有努力学习，Tom很害怕考试通不过。Having never worked分词做原因状语。

二. 完型填空：

本文叙述了“我”少年时因学习不好受人蔑视，爱上一位中产阶级的姑娘后才奋发图强改变自己的命运，最终功成名就的人生经历。

1. B   useless：没有用，从上文“I did very badly at school”可以看出，作者给校长的印象是“无用”。

2. A   You’re never going to be anything but a failure . 意为：你将一事无成。（你将只是一个失败者）根据never可判断选anything。never／not … anything but=nothing but=only。

3. B   poor job“低等的、劣等的工作”。low与job搭配不当，因他学业不好，文凭不高，故推断“我”应做poor job；useful不合句意。

4. D   句意：这可能是发生在我身上的最好的事情。

5. B   根据其宾语可判断出这是作者作出的决定。decide：决定……

6. C   我想向她证明人们对我的评价是错的。her指the nice middle class girl。

7. A   A 项wrong：错误的，不对的。D项faulty：不完美的，有缺陷的，有错误的。

8. D   face it：承认，正视（现实）。

9. C   writing写作，由下一句话“在大学时我的第一部小说出版了”，推知“我”努力尝试写作。

10. C come out“出版”；A项come on“上场；改善；快，加把劲；得了吧!”；B项come in“（潮水）上涨；取得（名次）；时兴，流行；可利用，可提供；到达”；D项come back “回来，返回；再度流行”。

11. A 根据下文“attended evening classes”可判断出是白天在大学里教书。

12. C 句意：“我”获得了历史学学位。

13. D 此句意为：我成了一位大学讲师，并且正考虑放弃那份工作（讲师）去专门从事写作。A项由give in“屈服，让步”；B项give back“归还；使恢复”；C项give out“用完，耗尽；停止运转；分发，散发；发出，放出（光，热）；宣布”。

14. C when在此处相当于just at that time，suddenly，用来引出一个忽然出现的动作。

15. B 句意：这（里）是一个工人阶级男子，他曾过早辍学，现在在大学教书。   

16. A left school “辍学”；B项attend school “上学”。

17. D 根据下文“have been on TV，and met lots of film stars”可判断出作者出名了。A项：累了；B项：镇定的；C项：紧张的。

18. B 转折连词，A项：并且，顺接连词；C项：然而，副词。

19. A just= mercy／only，表达了作者惟一的愿望。

20. B 根据直接引语可确定选B。say强调说的内容；此句意为：我多么希望那些曾经蔑视过我的人们过去说的话是，“我信任你，你必能成功”。此句用的是虚拟语气。Put sb. down：“使（当众）出丑”。

三. 阅读理解：

本篇介绍了两种需要特别培训的身体运动。

1. C   细节题。由第一段的第二句“这种活动必须被严格控制，因为朝错误方向的一个微小运动将会导致错误”可知答案为C。

2. B   细节题。由第一段的倒数第二句“一个……的舞蹈者在……前必须经过长期的训练”可知答案为B。

3. B   细节题。根据第二段的第五、六句可知答案。

4. A   主旨大意。文章第一句“有两种身体活动需要特殊训练”为主题句，下面两段内容均是以此展开的。

四. 短文改错：

1. completecompletely    2. 去掉far

3. decided后加to     4. cancould

5. √        6. onin

7. shoneshining     8. delightingdelighted

9. butand      10. itthere