1、单元过关检测卷(一)Part A 基础知识检测一、单词拼写根据下列各句句意和汉语提示写出对应单词的正确、完整形式。1. Whats for dinner, Mum? Im_(饿) 2. If you want to leave, you should ask for the teachers_(允许). 3. I_(道歉)to the chairman for being late for the meeting.4There is no_(可能) that they will find him in the ocean.5. Nowadays children should learn to
2、 be_(独立)6. It is a British_(风俗) to have a tree in the house at Christmas.7. We all_(钦佩) her for the way she saved the children from the fire.8. The_(起源) of some words are unknown.9. Compared with the past, we should be_(满足)with what we have done.10_ (显而易见地), the thief got in through the broken windo
3、w.11It is my_(信仰)that God helps those who help themselves.12Mary got a(n)_(奖)and was able to finish her study.13. I_(提醒)him of the terrible tie he had bought and he got very angry.14. People_(聚集)in the hall, curious to know what was happening.15. The country_ (获得) its independence after the war. 答案:
4、1.starving 2. permission 3. apologized4. possibility 5. independent 6. custom7. admire(d) 8. origins 9.satisfied10. Obviously 11. belief 12. award13reminded 14. gathered 15. gained 二、词类转换用括号内所提供单词的适当形式完成句子。1Dellas eyes were full of_at the_news and she looked_at her husband. (sad)2When I_at the hospi
5、tal I learned that he was dead on_at the hospital. (arrive)3His_English filled us with_(admire)4Tom was a boy full of_and he did everything_ (energy) 5. Youd better_to Jim. Of course, making an_is not the only way but the most direct one. (apology) 答案:1.sadness, sad; sadly 2. arrived, arrival 3. adm
6、irable, admiration 4. energy, energetically5apologize, apology三、完成句子根据所给的汉语提示完成英语句子。1. 那照片让她想起淹死在海里的爱人,她哭了。The photo_her lover who had drowned at sea, and she_. 2当她走出房间时,尽管已拭去了泪水,但仍掩盖不住脸上的悲伤。Although she had_away when she came out of the room, she could not hide the_on her face.3我们又见面了,他为自己没有信守诺言而向我
7、道歉,并希望我能原谅他。When we met again, he apologized to me for_his word and asked me to_him.4很明显,他在尽力屏住呼吸。It was_that he was trying to_5下周举行的大会是为了纪念他们的祖先 100 多年前来到这个村庄。The meeting that will take place next week is_their ancestors_in the village one hundred years ago.答案:1. reminded her of, wept 2. wiped her
8、tears, sadness 3. not having kept, forgive 4. obvious, hold his breath 5. in memory of, arrivalPart B 综合检测(测试时间:120 分钟 评价分值:120 分)第一部分 阅读(共两节,满分 40 分)第一节 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 和 D 项中选出最佳选项。AThanksgiving Day is a special holiday in the United States and Canada. Families and
9、 friends gather to eat and give thanks for their blessing.Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. That is why it is celebrated in late fall after the crops are in. But one of the first Thanksgivings in America had nothing to do with a good harvest.On December 4, 1919, the Pilgrims from Englan
10、d landed near what is now Charles City,Virginia.They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic.The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest. The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts,in 1620.They had a difficult time and the first winte
11、r was cruel. Many of the Pilgrims died.But the next year, they had a good harvest.So Governor Bradford declared a threeday feast (盛宴) .The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast.Everyone brought food.In time,other colonies(殖民地) began to celebrate a day of Thanksgiving.
12、But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War,Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. He proclaimed (宣布) the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day of Thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fo
13、urth Thursday in November. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbours. But the Canadian Thanksgiving Day falls on the second Monday in October.1Thanksgiving Day is celebrated_Ain spring Bin summerCin autumn Din winter解析:第二段第二句话“That is why it is celebrated
14、 in late fall.”中的 late fall 意思是 “晚秋” 。答案:C2Which of the following is NOT true?AThanksgiving Day used to be a holiday to celebrate a good harvest.B Abraham Lincoln was not the first to decide on Thanksgiving celebrations.CThanksgiving Day is celebrated to express the American and Indian peoples thank
15、s to God.DTheres little difference between the American way and the Canadian way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.解析:从第三段可知,C 项是不正确的。答案:C3The passage mainly tells us_Ahow Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the US.A.B how Thanksgiving Day came into being and the different ways it is celebratedCthat Thank
16、sgiving Day is in fact a harvest holidayDhow the way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day changed with the time and places解析:综观全文可知,短文主要讲述了感恩节的来历以及人们庆祝此节日的不同方式。答案:BBFranz Kafka wrote that “a_book_must_be_the_ax_(斧子)_for_the_frozen_sea_inside_us”. I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders,
17、 and it didnt seem to require any explanation.Wed just finished John Steinbecks novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a clos
18、er look. “I am, ” I told her, “and the funny thing is Ive read it many times.”But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, Ive taught kids with imprisoned parents, abu
19、sive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand,more than I ever will, the novels terrible logicthe giving way of dreams to fate (命运)For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment
20、 teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high schoolone that often attracts the literaryminded child
21、ren of Manhattans upper classesinto a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidabl
22、y meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph.D.s.Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didnt always read from the expected point of view.
23、About The Red Pony, one student said, “its about being a man, its about manliness. ” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeths soliloquies (独白 ) read as raps (说唱), but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introdu
24、ced to Steinbecks writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and theyre all white”. His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and tol
25、d me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot
26、 enrich (充实) the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.语篇解读:本文是一篇记叙文。作者通过自
27、己教学的事例来倡导在教育中应该多教学生文学来触动学生的心灵从而充实他们的思想,而不应该只为了考试去教学从而忽视学生的内心需求。4The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to_Arealize our dreamsB give support to our lifeCsmooth away difficultiesDawake our emotions解析:推理判断题。联系全文和文中最后一段中的“emotional punch”可知,书能够触动读者的心灵,引起感情的共鸣,所以 D 项符合题意。A 项是
28、“实现梦想” ,B 项是“给生活支持” ,C 项是“排除困难” ,这三项内容都与画线内容不符。答案:D5Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?ABecause they spent much time reading it.B Because they had read the novel before.CBecause they came from a public school.DBecause they had similar life experiences.解析:推理判断题。由文中第二段内容可知,当我们一起大声读到小说的结尾时班上的一个最坚强的男孩一个明星篮球运动员和我都低声哭泣起来,这说明学生有同感,所以 D 项符合题意。答案:D6The girl left the selective high school possibly because_Ashe was a literaryminded girlB. her parents were immigrantsCshe couldnt fit in with her classD. her father was then in prison