1、Unit 6Directions: Read the following passages, and then select the best choice for each of the questions or incomplete statements. Passage 1快速阅读自查表阅读和练习应完成的时间： 5 分 31 秒实际完成时间：做对的练习题数记录：数以百万计美国学生参加服务计画. 他们在他们的社区中帮助人如他们的教育部份. 他们像改良处理计画那 environment and feeding homeless people. Many school systems in t
2、he United States now require students to do some kind of community service as part of their studies.Students involved (使卷入) in service projects help themselves as well as their communities. They learn about the needs of people and aid organizations. Some college administrators (事务管理人) say public ser
3、vice may also help high school graduates gain acceptance to the college oftheir choice.Many schools in the United States offer courses in what is called service-learning. These educational programs teach methods to aid the community.For example, Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago, Illinois, is one
4、 of these schools. It has received national honors for its service-learning program. Students there were not doing well in their studies back when the program began in 1997. Teachers say doing community service has led many students to work harder in school. School officials say mathematics and read
5、ing skills haveimproved.Wilkinson Junior High School in Middleburg, Florida, also has received national honors for its service-learning program. Its twelve- and thirteen-year-old students work on two major projects. They are helping to find the best ways to restore (使复位) trees to an area of land tha
6、t was used for mining titanium (钛). They also test water from the nearby Saint Johns River and report the results to local water officials.Teachers try to link their classroom material with current community needs. For example, a history teacher talked about the issue of hunger in some American comm
7、unities. After that, students helped at a food center for poor people.Students at some schools come from many other countries. They speak different languages. Even students who have just arrived from other nations perform community service.Public schools are not the only ones that require community
8、service. Bishop Ireton High School is a private Roman Catholic school. In one project, students there organized programs for people who lived in a retirement center near the school.(Words: 347)1. What is the main idea of the passage?A) American service programs are gaining popularity now.B) Service
9、programs help American students win college acceptance.C) American schools involve students in community service.D) American service programs have helped many people.2. The example of Nicholas Senn High School mainly suggests that _.A) it offers the best service-learning program nationwideB) student
10、s there didnt work hard back in 1997C) students there have improved their math and readingD) service involvement contributes to study improvement3. How do American schools help students better serve their communities?A) They call on students to improve the environment.B) They train students to aid t
11、he community.C) They provide students with extracurricular activities.D) They link school courses with student needs.4. Students from Wilkinson Junior High School help to _.A) restore trees to an old titanium-mining landB) test water from a local fiverC) report test results to local water officialsD
12、) All above.5. Which of the following claims would supporters of service-learning programs in schools make?A) It is good for growing youths to be physically active.B) Students should learn how to make a living.C) Students should contribute to the communities in which they live.D) Students should hel
13、p pay for school taxes.Passage 2快速阅读自查表阅读和练习应完成的时间：5 分 40 秒实际完成时间：做对的练习题数记录：When I come across a good essay in the newspaper, I often cut it and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the opposite side of the page just as interesting.It may be a discussion about a way to keep
14、 in good health, or advice about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front essay, the other one on the back of the page will suffer damage, leaving out half of it or the text will be kept but missing the subject. As a result, my scissors (剪刀) would stop before they start, or o
15、nly halfway done when I find out the regrettable consequence.Sometimes, two things are to be done at the same time, both deserving your attention. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or even be given up. But you know the future is unknown- the changed situation may not allow you
16、to do what is left behind. Thus, you are caught in a fix and you may feel sad. How come that nice opportunities and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once. It may happen that your life changes dramatically on your preference of one alternative over the other.In fact, that is what life is l
17、ike: we are often faced with two choices that are equally desirable, just like what happens during newspaper-cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only after we are engaged in another. The latter may be more important than the former and thus giving rise to a divided mind
18、. I still remember a philosophers remarks: “When one door shuts, another one opens in life.“ So casual passive choice may not necessarily be bad one.Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever lifes storms toss (抛) us, there must be something we can achieve, some shore we can land on that opens up new
19、vistas (景色) for us. Dont forget there is always an alternative door open for every one. While the first door is closed, there must be another that is open for you.(Words:360)1. What annoys the writer when it comes to newspaper-cutting?A) There is a quite limited number of good essays.B) It takes too
20、 much time and effort to do it.C) Some of the articles will be inevitably damaged.D) He cant cut out the good articles on the opposite side of the same page.2. What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?A) There are often two good things both deserving our attention.B) Life is just like newspaper-
21、cutting.C) Good opportunities and ideas often come to us at once.D) One has to decide on ones preference.3. Life and newspaper-cutting are alike because _.A) in both cases we have choices to makeB) newspaper-cutting is an important part in lifeC) there is always a door openD) casual choice is always
22、 bad4. “When one door shuts, another one opens in life.” (Para. 4) means “_.”A) When we shut one door, we have to open anotherB) There is always a way for us whatever happensC) There are many doors in our livesD) Keep all doors open is important5. The author believes that _.A) one has to be educated
23、 to make choicesB) one will feel regretful if one chooses one thing instead of the otherC) a casual choice may turn out to be a good oneD) newspaper-cutting needs patienceII. Directions: Read the following passages, and then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).Passage 3快速阅读自查表阅读和
24、练习应完成的时间：5 分 24 秒实际完成时间：做对的练习题数记录：When my athletic career as a baseball player was on track in 1960, I was diagnosed with sarcoma (恶性肿瘤) in my fight shoulder, which sent me to the hospital. The All-Star Team went to Hawaii, and I went to the hospital. I was really bitter and angry and hurt and outra
25、ged, but we didnt have any therapy (治疗) in those days that said you needed to grieve (悲伤) a loss. I was denying it fight away by saying I could handle it. “Whats this?“ I said. “Just a mastectomy (乳房切除术 ) and the loss of an arm.“ It was about thirty-five years ago. Then, about twenty-five years ago,
26、 I went through another very difficult time. Job loss, loss of a relationship. You know, “Loss, loss, and loss.“ I went to a counselor (心理顾问), Ray Chapman who took me through a grieving process, because I had never grieved the loss of my athletic career, the loss of my physical wholeness, any losses
27、, and he said that goodness could come out of this. After my second meeting with Ray Chapman, I got a job as a mechanic, and I became kind of famous. I was the “One Armed Mechanic,“ installing engines and such. It really came back to me then that had I not gone through the cancer, I wouldnt have bec
28、ome a mechanic and later a hot racer. I also later met a wonderful woman with whom I had a ten-year relationship which led to the birth of my son.I found that for me, goodness and beauty have come out of deformity (畸形). I still use the words ugliness and crippledness (残废). My friends try to tell me
29、that I am not crippled. But what they dont understand is that I am, and what I have done is in spite of whats been done to me. I try to remind them that were all crippled in some way. I say, “I cant see what cripples you. I cant see what youve been through. I have an advantage over you, because I se
30、e it every day.“(Words: 337)( ) 1. There was no counseling twenty-five years ago to help a person recover from a loss.( ) 2. According to the passage, the narrator suffered two losses in his life.( ) 3. The narrator discovered that the setbacks he had turned out later to be blessings.( ) 4. The narr
31、ator showed extraordinary courage in handling all the losses.( ) 5. The narrator believes everybody is crippled in some way, only that others cant see it.Passage 4快速阅读自查表阅读和练习应完成的时间：6 分 44 秒实际完成时间：做对的练习题数记录：Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, we accept these failures as a necessary p
32、art of the learning process. But all too often as parents and teachers we deny this same right to our children. We convey either by words or by actions that failure is something to be ashamed of, that nothing but top performance meets with our approval.When I see a child subject to this kind of pres
33、sure, I think of Donnie. Donnie was my youngest third-grader. He was a shy, nervous perfectionist. His fear of failure kept him from classroom games that other children played with joyous abandon (纵情). He seldom answered questions- he might be wrong. Written assignments, especially math, reduced him
34、 to nail-biting frustration (沮丧). He seldom finished his work because he repeatedly checked with me to be sure he hadnt made a mistake. I tried my best to build his self-confidence. But nothing changed until midterm, when Mary Anne, a student teacher, was assigned to our classroom.She was young and
35、pretty, and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie included, adored her. But even the enthusiastic and loving Mary Anne was baffled (难到) by this little boy who feared he might make a mistake.Then one morning, we were working on math problems at the chalkboard. Donnie had copied the problems with pain
36、staking neatness and filled in the answers for the first row. Pleased with his progress, I left the children with Mary Anne and went for art materials. When I returned, Donnie was in tears. Hed missed the third problem.My student teacher looked at me in despair. Suddenly her face brightened. From th
37、e desk we shared, she got a canister ( 金属罐) filled with pencils.“Look, Donnie,“ she said, kneeling (跪) beside him and gently lifting the tear-stained face from his arms. “Ive got something to show you.“ She removed the pencils, one at a time, and placed them on his desk.“See these pencils, Donnie?“
38、she continued. “They belong to Mrs. Lindstrom and me. See how the erasers are worn? Thats because we make mistakes, too. Lots of them. But we erase the mistakes and try again. Thats what you must learn to do, too.“She kissed him and stood up. “Here,“ she said, “I11 leave one of these pencils on your
39、 desk so youll remember that everybody makes mistakes, even teachers.“ Donnie looked up with love in his eyes and just a glimmer (一丝 ) of a smile-the first that I saw on his face that year.The pencil became Donnies prized possession. That, together with Mary Annes frequent encouragement and unfailin
40、g praise for even Donnies smallest successes, gradually persuaded him that its all right to make mistakes- as long as you erase them and try again.(Words: 456)( ) 1. We can learn from the passage that all failures are learning opportunities to grow.( ) 2. Parents and teachers often tell children tha
41、t failure is a necessary part of life.( ) 3. Donnie was severely held back by his fear of failure in school.( ) 4. Mary Anne was showing by example that making mistakes is a part of life.( ) 5. Donnie realized that its okay to make mistakes because an eraser can erase mistakes.III. Directions: Read
42、the following passages, and then fill in the blanks with the missinginformation.Passage 5快速阅读自查表阅读和练习应完成的时间：6 分 36秒实际完成时间：做对的练习题数记录：When my parents were married, I hardly ever saw my dad because he was always busy working. Now that theyre divorced, Ive gotten to know him more because Im with him eve
43、ry weekend. And I really look forward to the weekends because its kind of like a break-its like going to Disneyland because theres no set schedule ( 日程表, no “Behome by five thirty“ kind of stuff. Its open. Its free. And my father is always buying me presents.My mom got remarried and divorced again s
44、o Ive gone through two divorces so far. And my fathers also gotten remarried to someone I dont get along with all that well. Its all made me feel that people shouldnt get married-they should just live together andmake their own agreement. Then, if things go badly, they dont have to get divorced and
45、hire lawyers and sue (上诉 ) each other. And even more importantly, they dont have to endup hating each other.Id say that the worst part of the divorce is the money problem. Its been hard on my mom because lots of times she cant pay her bills, and it makes her angry when I stay with my father and he b
46、uys me things. She gets mad and says, “If he can buy you things like this, then he should be able to pay me.“ And I feel caught in the middle for two reasons: first, I cant really enjoy whatever my dad bought for me, and second, I dont know who to believe. My dads saying, “I dont really owe her any
47、money,“ and my moms saying he does.In a lot of ways I wish my mom would get remarried, because then she wouldnt have to worry so much about finances (资金). But Im sorry that my dad got remarried, because I feel left out a lot of times. And one thing I really worry about is that I think he and his new
48、 wife want to have a baby, and I know that if they do, it will be just like a replacement for me. If I live full-time with my dad, it would probably be easier for me to accept a baby because wed be on an equal footing, but Id rather stay with my mom, where life is normal as we live like most people
49、live. With breakfast at breakfast time and dinner at dinner time, I can do my homework, play with my friends- its the way life should be. However, if I live with my dad, it might be more fun at times, but I would go crazy. I wouldnt want to be brought up in Disneyland. (Words: 444)1. The writer enjoys spending the weekends with his or her father because its open and free and _.2. In the writers opinion, a most important reason that people should not get married
