1、2014-2015 学年北师大版选修 8 Unit 24 Society 第 6 课时 作业第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 40 分)第一节(共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ADo you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someones life?If yes, dont care about sex or age! Come and join us, then you
2、ll_make_it!Position Volunteer Social Care Assistant(No Pay with Free Meals)Place: ManchesterHours: Part TimeWe are now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Dont miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others!RoleYou wi
3、ll provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives. You will help them to develop new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. But your primary concern is to let them know they are valued.Skills and Experience RequiredYou will have the righ
4、t values and great listening skills. You will be honest and patient. You will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and spoken English since youll have to help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous carerelated experience will be a great advantage
5、for you.语篇解读：本文主要介绍了一则招聘志愿者的广告，主要是为残疾人服务。21The text is meant to _.Aleave a note Bsend an invitationCcarry an advertisement Dpresent a document答案：C 总结题，通读全文可知，文章主要介绍的是一篇广告，故选 C。22What does the underlined part mean?AYoull arrive home just in time from this job.BYoull make others lives more meaningful
6、with this job.CYoull earn a good salary from this job.DYoull succeed in getting this job.答案：B 细节题，根据下文的“.to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives”可知选 B。23The volunteers primary responsibility is to help people with learning disabilities _.Ato get some financial supportBto pr
7、operly protect themselvesCto realize their own importanceDto learn some new living skills答案：C 细节题。根据 Role 部分的“your primary concern is to let them know they are valued.”可知选 C。24Which of the following can first be chosen as a volunteer?AThe one who has done similar work before.BThe one who can drive a
8、 car.CThe one who has patience to listen to others.DThe one who can use English to communicate.答案：A 细节题。根据最后一段最后一句话“Previous carerelated experience will be a great advantage for you”可知选 A。BThe behaviour of a buildings users may be at least as important as its design when it comes to energy use, acco
9、rding to new research from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). The UK promises to reduce its carbon emissions (排放)by 80 percent by 2050, part of which will be achieved by all new homes being zerocarbon by 2016. But this report shows that sustainable building design on its ownthough extremely impo
10、rtantis not enough to achieve such reductions the behaviour of the people using the building has to change too.The study suggests that the ways that people use and live in their homes have been largely ignored by existing efforts to improve energy efficiency (效率)，which instead focus on architectural
11、 and technological developments.“Technology is going to assist but it is not going to do everything， ”explains Katy Janda, a UKERC senior researcher， “consumption patterns of building users can defeat the most careful design.” In other words，old habits die hard, even in the bestdesigned ecohome.Anot
12、her part of the problem is information. Households and billpayers dont have the knowledge they need to change their energyuse habits. Without specific information，its hard to estimate the costs and benefits of making different choices. Feedback (反馈 ) facilities, like smart meters and energy monitors
13、，could help bridge this information gap by helping people see how changing their behaviour directly affects their energy use; some studies have shown that households can achieve up to 15 percent energy savings using smart meters.Social science research has added a further dimension (方面)，suggesting t
14、hat individuals behaviour in the home can be personal and cannot be predictedwhether people throw open their windows rather than turn down the thermostat (恒温器) , for example.Janda argues that education is the key. She calls for a focused programme to teach people about buildings and their own behavi
15、our in them.语篇解读：本文主要介绍了建筑使用者的行为习惯和建筑设计一样重要。25As to energy use, the new research from UKERC stresses the importance of _.Athe behaviour of building users Bzerocarbon homesCsustainable building design Dthe reduction of carbon emissions答案：A 细节题，根据第一段的“The behaviour of a buildings users may be at least
16、 as important as its design when it comes to energy use, according to new research from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC)”可知 UKERC 的研究强调建筑使用者的行为。故选 A。26What are Katy Jandas words mainly about?AThe necessity of making a careful building design.BThe importance of changing building users habits.CTh
17、e variety of consumption patterns of building users.DThe role of technology in improving energy efficiency.答案：B 细节题，根据第三段最后一句的“.old habits die hard, even in the bestdesigned ecohome”可知积习难改，旧习惯可能会毁掉最好的建筑设计，故选B。27The information gap in energy use _.Aaffects the study on energy monitorsBcan be bridged
18、by feedback facilitiesCbrings about problems for smart metersDwill be caused by building users old habits答案：B 细节题。根据第四段第四句的“Feedback (反馈) facilities, like smart meters and energy monitors，could help bridge this information gap by helping people see how changing their behaviour directly affects their
19、 energy use; some studies have shown that households can achieve up to 15 percent energy savings using smart meters”可知选 B。28What does the dimension added by social science research suggest?AThe social science research is to be furthered.BThe education programme is under discussion.CThe behaviour pre
20、ference of building users is similar.DThe behaviour of building users is unpredictable.答案：D 细节题。根据第五段“.suggesting that individuals behaviour in the home can be personal and cannot be predicted”可知选 D。CA person has to be sixteen to drive, seventeen to see certain movies, and eighteen to vote. People c
21、an get terrific discounts on all sorts of stuffprovided theyre over sixtyfive. Everywhere we look there are age limits that define what people can and cant do. But creativity has no boundaries, no limitations. Anyone can invent. And they do. Inventors are popping up at the youngest ages.Sitting in t
22、he car waiting for her mom to return from shopping, Becky decided she might as well try to finish her math homework. But it was growing dark and getting hard to see the paper.“I didnt have a flashlight, and I didnt want to open the car door because then the whole car would light up.” recalled Becky.
23、 “So I thought it would be neat to have my paper light up somehow, and thats when the idea came to me.”It isnt every day that a tenyearold invents a product eagerly sought by several businesses, but thats exactly what Becky Schroeder did when she created a tool that enabled people to write in the da
24、rk. Her invention? The Glosheet. That night Becky went home, trying to imagine different ways of making her paper glow in the dark. She remembered all sorts of glowinthedark toyslike balls and Frisbeesand wondered how they were made. She was determined to find a solution. So they very next day, Beck
25、s dad took her on an outing to the hardware store. They returned with a pail (桶) of phosphorescent paint. She took the paint and stacks of paper into the darkest room in the housethe bathroom. There, she experimented.“Id turn on the light, turn it off, turn it on， ” said Becky. “My parents remember
26、me running out the room sayingIt works, it works! Im writing in the dark！ ”She used an acrylic board and coated it with a specific amount of phosphorescent paint. She took a complicated idea and made it work rather simply. When the coated clipboard is exposed to light, it glows. The glowing board th
27、en illuminates or lights up the paper that has been placed on top. Two years after her initial inspiration, in 1974, Becky became the youngest female ever to receive a US. patent.She didnt actively market her Glosheet. She didnt need to. The New York Times wrote an article about an incredible invent
28、ionpatented by a twelveyearold, and the inquiries and orders streamed in.语篇解读：本文讲述年龄的限制会制约人们的行为，但创造力是没有限制的，贝基在很小的年纪就发明了发光的表格就充分证明了这一点。29From Paragraph 1 , we can draw a conclusion that _.Ait is illegal for one to drive under sixteenBpeople enjoy privileges when over sixtyfiveCone is never too old or
29、 too young to inventDpeople hate the limitations that define our behavior答案：C 细节理解题。根据第一段提到“Everywhere we look there are age limits that define what people can and cant do.”到处我们能够看到年龄限制，人们能做什么，不能做什么，可知选 C 项。30What caused Becky to invent Glosheet?AShe was trying to do homework when it got dark.BShe w
30、as having trouble with math problems.CShe was trying to earn some money.DShe was working on a school project.答案：A 细节理解题。根据第四段提到“.thats exactly what Becky Schroeder did when she created a tool that enabled people to write in the dark.”可知他的发明为的是那些在黑暗中不能写的人发明的，故选 A 项。31What is the meaning of the underl
31、ined words “phosphorescent paint” in paragraph 5?Apaint that acts as a glue Bpaint that covers a markCpaint that becomes hard Dpaint that glows in the dark答案：D 细节理解题。根据第五段提到“That night Becky went home, trying to imagine different ways of making her paper glow in the dark”可见他提着能够发光的漆返回，故选 D 项。DOdland
32、 remembers like it was yesterday working in an expensive French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.Thirty years have passed, but Odland can not get the memory out of his mind, nor the womans kind reaction. She was shocked, regai
33、ned calmness and, in a kind voice, told the young Odland. “It is OK. It wasnt your fault.” When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.Odland isnt the only CEO to have made this di
34、scovery. Instead, it seems to be one of those few laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. Its hard to get a dozen CEOs to agree about anything, but most agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says nothing. But how others treat the waiter is like a window into the
35、 soul.Watch out for anyone who pulls out the power card to say something like, “I could buy this place and fire you， ” or “I know the owner and I could have you fired.” Those who say such things have shown more about their character than about their wealth and power.The CEO who came up with it, or a
36、t least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a bestselling book called Swansons Unwritten Rules of Management. “A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person， ” Swanson says. “I will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the b
37、oss but turns rude to someone cleaning the tables.”语篇解读：本文讲述的作者在一酒店打工时把冰激凌弄到一位贵妇身上，却没受到责备，反而得到了安慰，那位贵妇的话成了许多 CEO 管理员工的准则，核心就是人与人之间应相互尊重。32What happened after Odland dropped the ice cream onto the womans dress?AHe was fired.BHe was blamed.CThe woman comforted him.DThe woman left the restaurant at onc
38、e.答案：C 细节理解题。由第二段第三行可知。 “It is OK. It wasnt your fault.”33Odland learned one of his life lessons from _.Ahis experience as a waiterBthe advice given by the CEOsCan article in FortuneDan interesting bestselling book答案：A 细节理解题。由第一段、第二段内容可知。34According to the text, most CEOs have the same opinion about
39、 _.AFortune 500 companies Bthe Management RulesCSwansons book Dthe Waiter Rule答案：D 细节理解题。由第三段第三句“.but most agree with the Waiter Rule.”可知。35From the text we can learn that _.Aone should be nicer to important peopleBCEOs often show their power before othersCone should respect others no matter who the
40、y areDCEOs often have meals in expensive restaurants答案：C 推理判断题。由全文内容可知。第二节 (共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Just be yourselfMany of us live our lives but only a few of us have found our true inner self. Why? Is it because we havent looked deep within ourselves? These
41、tips will help on your way to becoming one with yourself._36_ Negative thinkers lose their confidence and cannot see the hope when it does happen. This may be because they dont see purpose(毅力) in themselves. Thinking the best out of every situation is a great way to be happy and be one with yourself
42、. _37_Do things that you enjoy. Youll find you are more yourself because you are doing what you want to do. _38_ When you try a new thing you can build on it and make it a talent. All great famous people started off with hobbies and turned them into something great._39_ Doing meditation(冥想) is a gre
43、at way to empty your mind and become one with yourself. Do around 1530 minutes meditation a day (music or not), to help you relax and find your true inner self.Love yourself. Every day, list good things you do to help others and think about them carefully again. You will learn to respect yourself an
44、d others will also respect you._40_. The more you find good in yourself, the more you will love yourself.AClear your mind.BDo some positive thinking.CSo go out and try new things.DTreat yourself as youd treat your own best friend.ELook for happiness and do things that bring out your best.FDoing acts
45、 of kindness will help you become a better person.GRemember that no one is perfect and let yourself move forward.答案：3640 BECAF第三部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分 45 分)第一节 完形填空(共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分)阅读下面的短文，从短文后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。My daughter is a single parent. She works hard to _41_ for herself
46、 and her three young sons. She budgets carefully and _42_ to plan for the little luxuries (奢侈品) and treats that others take for granted. When her eldest son, David, wanted a _43_ so that he could do an afterschool newspaper delivery job, she _44_ and soon, he was the proud _45_ of a good secondhand
47、bike.One afternoon, my daughter asked David to go to a local shop. He rode his bicycle, _46_ foolishly left it outside the shop without _47_ it up. When David came out of the shop, it was _48_. He walked home in _49_ and then, together with his frustrated mother, went to the local police station to
48、report the _50_.Imagine their _51_ when they arrived at the station: a car parked out front had Davids bike wedged (挤进 ) in its boot (汽车后部的行李箱). The _52_ told them how hed seen a group of kids _53_ the bike once my grandson had gone inside the shop.The driverin his late teens himselfhad called out t
49、o them to “leave that bike _54_！” Despite this, one member of the group _55_ on the bicycle and rode it away while the others followed. Not to be _56_， the teen got in his car, drove after them and _57_ that they give the stolen bike back.He was happy to be able to _58_ it to my grandson together with a lecture (echoed b
