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-Module 1单元测试题 2-第 23 页Module 1单元测试题 2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。 A Recently we talked with Diane Lucas of S about scrapbooking (剪贴薄制作). What is scrapbooking exactly? When I make a scrapbook page, I take a few of my family photos and put them into a page that uses beautiful paper, stickers, drawings, and words to show the theme(主题). For example, this page about my son is called “First Day at School”. Here's a photo of him and one of his drawings, and I decorated（装饰） it with stickers. When you make a scrapbook, you can put words and pictures together to show the important times in your life. It's like a personal history. How did you get started? When I was a child, I always saved bits of paper, things like movie tickets and vacation postcards. I made my first scrapbook ten years ago, when my father died. When I looked through his desk, I found the most wonderful things like my parents' anniversary cards, and photos from his army days. I couldn't throw away anything, so I made two scrapbooks with my collections, for my brother and me. Do you know other people who make scrapbooks? Oh, yes! We call ourselves “scrappers”, and we often have “crops”, big parties where we all work on our scrapbooks. We bring our scissors and papers and our boxes of photos, and we talk while making new pages. It's a time for enjoyment, when friends show pictures and tell stories about our families, and our lives. At the same time, we create a book to keep those memories. Why is scrapbooking so popular these days? I think people want to record their family history, and show it to other people. When you make a scrapbook, you can pass the stories on to your children, and your grandchildren. So many people today want to do that! We all have boxes of pictures, and we all want to keep those memories. That's the real meaning of scrapbooking.21. Scrapbooking requires that the scrappers have _.A. a bit of creativityB. good handwritingC. rich life experiencesD. a wide knowledge of history22. Diane Lucas made her first scrapbook _.A. in honor of her fatherB. when serving in the armyC. with the help of her brotherD. under the influence of her parents23. What does Diane Lucas think of the “crops”?A. They're hard to hold.B. They're very interesting.C. They're quite competitive.D. They're full of challenges.24. In Diane Lucas' mind, scrapbooking is a good way to _.A. make friends B. rewrite historyC. educate children D. share people's storiesBTabloids (小报) are newspapers that usually report news about people. However, the stories often leave readers wondering, “Could this really be true?” Read the following stories from the hottest tabloids in town.Brasilia, Brazil After Gilberto Carvalho a million-dollar lottery (彩票) winner told reporters that his luck had come from a particular fish in a park pond, more than 200 other Brazilians spoke up with similar stories. They had touched this fish and soon after had won a prize! Although this “magic fish” is being studied and off-limits to the public, many people have won money simply by touching its picture.Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. Bruce Zalmer, 32, is fireproof. His skin can withstand (禁得住) flames without pain or damage. And his lungs can take in oxygen from smoky air. Medical scientists are amazed that a human could have either of these qualities, let alone both. Although Zalmer sees himself as “just a regular guy”, he once saved a family of four from a burning building after firefighters had given up hope.Nakuru, Kenya As tourists in a bus looked on in amazement, a spaceship caught 11 elephants from a wildlife park. The bus driver had stopped at a watering hole and the tourists were watching the elephants when a huge spaceship appeared. The ship shot down a powerful beam of orange light that sucked up (吸走) the elephants and then flew off. Park officials confirmed that 11 full-grown elephants had disappeared.Monterrey, Mexico Doctors say that hundreds of people who had been old and sick became young and healthy again by drinking from a water fountain (喷泉) in a public park. Park officials removed the fountain because crowds were becoming a danger. Yet the people who had drunk its water remained young and healthy and made others young and healthy, too, simply by hugging them!25. In Brasilia, it's said that there is a magic fish that _.A. brings people good luckB. knows how to win prizesC. can communicate with humans D. can recognize different types of money26. Which of the following can best describe Bruce Zalmer?A. Smart. B. Brave.C. Dangerous. D. Far-sighted.27. All the stories mentioned in the text are _.A. reasonable B. frighteningC. encouraging D. unbelievableCPeople who realize and master the art of small talk can use it to improve relationships. Small talk can lead to “big” talk more important discussions. Using small talk, you can achieve big results. But many people do have fears that hold them back from making small talk. For one thing, those who refuse to make small talk usually fear the unknown. When I was little, my mom said, “Don't talk to strangers!” For some people, that childhood fear of strangers continues into adulthood.Suppose you are at a business networking event and have checked out who is there and found potential (潜在的) conversation partners. You're ready to make your move, but there are butterflies in your stomach. You are too frightened to introduce yourself to total strangers.Consider a different situation for the next networking event you attend. To overcome（克服） your nervousness, you can think of yourself as an event's host and not its guest. As a host, you would introduce yourself to people you don't know and introduce them to others. You can play the role of the host even though you are not the actual host. Get in the habit of holding out your hand first and saying, “Hi, my name is .”Another reason why people refuse to open their mouth is the fear of rejection（拒绝）. Anytime you open your mouth and speak, you risk rejection. If you never talk to people, you won't be rejected. But if you never talk to people, you will also be very lonely. The best way I've found to overcome the fear of rejection is to focus on how I feel when I am accepted. So ask yourself: what do I have to lose? Nothing! What do I have to gain? Possibly everything! Think back to when you first met your best friend or any important person in your life. How did it all start? You probably started with small talk.28. In Paragraph 1, the author wants to tell us that small talk is _.A. worth doing B. hard to makeC. often ignored D. very interesting29. The underlined part “there are butterflies in your stomach” probably means you are _.A. busy B. nervousC. confident D. excited 30. When you are at a business networking event, you are advised to _.A. talk with the host B. behave yourselfC. try to be helpful D. play an active role31. What's the purpose of the text?A. To advise. B. To discuss.C. To describe. D. To introduce.DMoby-Dick is generally regarded as one of the greatest American novels, and its big influence has expanded beyond national borders. Over many years, the Library of Congress has collected editions translated into Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Lithuanian. But the latest translation eschews the written word altogether, telling the story through emoji icons the pictograms (pictures representing words or phrases) seen in text messages and e-mails. (Emoji first appeared in Japan in the mid-1990s.) It's a great effort to explore whether emoji itself is becoming a free-standing language. In Emoji Dick, each and every sentence of Herman Melville's novel is translated into the emoji language. The book is the creation of an engineer called Fred Benenson, who has been interested in emoji since 2009. Using more than $3,500 raised from Kickstarter the world's largest funding platform for creative projects, he had the worker bees of Amazon's online Mechanical Turk a service that pays people to do small online tasks go through the text line by line. More than 800 workers got involved in the project. Would emoji users be able to appreciate the fantastic translation of the novel? “As a conceptual (概念化的) piece, it's successful,” Benenson says, laughing. As a word-for-word translation, he thinks around 10 percent of the sentences display flashes of cleverness. I found myself smiling at some of the more imaginative efforts, such as when a lighted tomahawk (战斧) is made obvious by combining the symbols for fire and a judge's gavel (小木槌). “It's up to the readers of Emoji Dick to decide whether to take it seriously,” says Michael Neubert, a digital (数字化的) projects expert at the Library of Congress, who got the book. What interests him is that it is “a work of this particular moment in time” a special representation of digital language for future generations to study when emoji, and perhaps even cellphones, have gone the way of the telegraph (电报). 32. The underlined word “eschews” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by _. A. avoids B. changesC. finds D. invents 33. What can we learn about Benenson? A. He was the author of Moby-Dick. B. He was the first one to use emoji icons. C. He didn't translate Moby-Dick by himself. D. He designed his own system of pictograms.34. According to Neubert, Emoji Dick _. A. was written in excellent digital language B. is a historical record of digital language C. will become popular among future generationsD. will help young people know what the telegraph is35. What is the text mainly about? A. A new free-standing language. B. The great success of Emoji Dick. C. An emoji translation of a masterpiece. D. The international influence of Moby-Dick. 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。How to grow houseplantsHave you ever killed a beautiful houseplant? Are you still killing beautiful houseplants? 36 Well, look no further, just follow these step-by-step instructions and your plant killing days will be over.First of all, buy an easy-to-grow plant that can survive you. If you need a desert cactus (仙人掌) for a starter plant, then that's fine. 37 Next, make sure your plant gets enough sunlight. 38 The window will act as a prism (棱镜) and fry your plant. What you want to do is have a window with a light curtain. It should be transparent (透明的). In that way your plant gets its needed sunlight but it won't be destroyed. 39 If you give it the amount of water for a different plant, you could over-water or under-water it. If you know that everything needs water to survive, that's great, but you must also know that if you give something too much water you will kill it. Same thing goes for plants. Finally, you will want to prune (修剪) your plant weekly. If you don't, then the plant might become unhealthy or unattractive, and sometimes even both. You could use tools or your hands. 40 This makes for a great fertilizer（肥料）, too, and then you won't have to buy fertilizer at the store!A. Not everyone has a gift for growing plants.B. However, never place it next to a glass window.C. Are you looking for a way to solve your problem?D. Water your plant as instructed for that specific plant.E. Does it prefer bright light and ordinary room temperatures?F. Just make sure you have a plant that you know you can take care of.G. When you remove the dead leaves from your plant, put them in the soil.第三部分：语言知识运用（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。When our first son Brendan was born in Sydney in 1966, we planted a golden elm tree in our front yard. It and Brendan 41 together and when we 42 the house, eight years later, the tree branched out over our heads. We were 43 we had to leave it behind when we moved to New South Wales. A young couple bought our home and were 44 it. Over the next 37 years, when travelling to Sydney, my family 45 couldn't help stopping to see the tree. With time, the golden elm grew more beautiful. The owners still loved the home and seemed not to 46 at all that we didn't completely leave them alone.Recently on the way to Sydney, my husband 47 to see how the house and the owners were getting on. It had been about ten years since we had last 48 and the tree had been removed some years earlier. 49 , the owner, Gillian, suggested she would contact us some time in the future, so my husband gave her our 50 .When I heard about her 51 message, I wondered what she meant. One day in December, we had a phone call from Gillian. She wanted to drop something in to us for our 52 . I told Brendan that there was a mysterious gift being 53 for him that day, so it was indeed 54 when Gillian handed him a package containing two carved（雕刻的） wooden bowls. Gillian had asked a local woodworking company to make the 55 from a piece of the trunk of the golden elm, which she had 56 several years earlier. My husband's 57 had driven her to follow through with her idea.What a pleasure it was to 58 that package. We were 59 by her thoughtfulness (体贴), and amazed that her long-term plan actually did 60 .41. A. watched B. grew C. played D. worked42. A. built B. sold C. found D. entered43. A. sorry B. afraid C. angry D. nervous44. A. proud of B. polite to C. worried about D. delighted with45. A. never B. seldom C. always D. still46. A. forget B. believe C. mind D. remember47. A. feared B. decided C. agreed D. refused48. A. failed B. finished C. lost D. stopped 49. A. Instead B. Besides C. However D. Therefore50. A. tree B. address C. key D. message51. A. encouraging B. personal C. important D. secret52. A. son B. friend C. parent D. neighbor53. A. ordered B. bought C. made D. sent 54. A. strange B. funny C. exciting D. heartbreaking55. A. phone B. bowls C. branches D. package56. A. picked B. planted C. stored D. covered57. A. dream B. mistake C. visit D. s
