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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Unit 3 本套试卷共120分。考试时间100分钟。.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)AAround twenty years ago I was going through hard times. I could not find a satisfying job. To my shame, I had to drive a school bus to make ends meet and lived in a friends house.One afternoon, while driving through a qui
2、et suburban(郊外的) neighbourhood I was so sad that I kept asking myself, “Why has my life become so hard?” “Whats wrong with the world?” Then I pulled over the bus to drop off (让下车) a little girl and as she passed she handed me a pretty earring, saying she found it on the floor of the bus and I should
3、 keep it in case(以防) the owner came to look for it.In the evening, the owner did come to look for her earring. When I handed it to her, she got very excited and continued saying,“Thanks, youre a real gentleman.” I told her that she should thank the little girl who had found it. She said, “Yes, and y
4、ou are a good driver, too. What a lovely world it is!” Then she left with satisfaction. I was touched by her last words. I had thought something was wrong with the world just because of my poor condition. In fact, nothing was wrong with the world. I should change my attitude towards life. I should b
5、e positive about life.At first it was hard, and then it got easier. Every day I could find things to make me happy. Then one night there was a phone call for me at my friends house from a lady who was a manager in a large hospital. She said she had read my application form and asked me if I would li
6、ke to work in the hospital. I said yes and got the job. Looking back at the experience, I know the most important is to have a positive attitude towards life.21What do we know from the second paragraph?AThe author cried while driving that afternoon. BA girl picked up an earring before getting off.CT
7、here was only one passenger on the bus. DThe girl gave the author an earring as a gift.22. The author decided to have a change in life because _Awhat the earring owner said moved him Bhe didnt want to be a driver any moreChis friends helped him become positive Dhe was offered a better job in a hospi
8、tal23How did the author feel when getting a call from the manager of the hospital?ASurprised. BDisappointed. CShocked. DDelighted.24. What does the author want to show in this passage?ALost things should be returned to the owner. BLife is usually hard for the young at the beginning.COne should hold
9、a positive attitude towards life. DIt is not easy to find a good job nowadays.BLate that afternoon I took the train back to Sydney. There I found another surprise waiting for me. My room had been given to somebody else and they had no room for me. Harkin had known my travel plans and had arranged ev
10、erything. How could he have booked the room only for three days? There was nothing to be done but to find another hotel. The waiters were happy to find me a new hotel, and when I said that I was happy to stay at the Airport, thinking it might be cheaper than staying in the city, they suggested the H
11、oliday Inn at the airport. There was one small matter: the room rate was $300 per night. The best hotel in Katoomba wanted only$145. I asked if there was anything cheaper they might suggest but they warned that most hotels would already be full by this time.The hotel was far from the train station,
12、so Id best take a taxi, at $25. On the way to the Holiday Inn, we passed a hotel just two blocks from the Holiday Inn that advertised a room rate of $104. At the desk I asked if their room rate could go down a lot. “No, this is a 4star hotel,”the waiter told me. “In that case,” I replied, “Ill just
13、walk the two blocks to the cheap hotel.” But she warned me that they were probably full and that if I didnt take the room, it might not be available when I came back. Finally,I decided to take the room.The room itself was big, but the air conditioning couldnt keep up with the Australian heat. I coul
14、dnt get to sleep until about 1:00 am.25Why did the writer have to look for another hotel?AHe didnt book early. BHarkin made a mistake.CHe was short of money. DHe wasnt well received.26How did the writer feel when hearing the room rate at the Holiday Inn?ANervous. BHappy. CSurprised. DRelaxed.27Why d
15、id the writer take a room in the Holiday Inn finally?AIts a 4star hotel. BIts around the station.CIt was midnight then. DThe room was in great demand.28What was the weather like at that moment?ACool. BWarm. CCold. DHot. CThe skies are raining big blocks of ice, and experts are trying to learn whats
16、going on.For the second time in six days, California was attacked by ice balls. The lastest happened on early Thursday. A large block of ice dropped into Loma Linda, California. The ice crashed through the metal roof of a fitness center, leaving a hole up to 2 feet wide. No one was hurt.Two tennis p
17、layers were playing outside the Drayson Center on Thursday morning. Suddenly they heard a strange sound, said Crawford, an official of the Loma Linda Fire Department.A similar event happened last Saturday in Oakland, California. Early in the morning an ice ball dropped into a feld at Bushrod Park an
18、d made up a hole up to 2 feet wide. Luckily, no one in the park was injured.One theory is the ice was dropped from planes. Bur theres little direct support for that. A few experts have suggested there may be other causes of similar ice falls, perhaps even global warming.Stories about dropping ice go
19、 back for centuries. They didnt begin to receive serious scientific attention until a few years ago, however, when Spain was attacked by a dozen large ice balls in 2000.Scientist Jesus Martinez-Frias in Madrid and his team have collected reports of forty casesaround the world since 1999 of puzzling
20、falling ice. He thinks the ice forms in the air by a process similar to the formation of hail(冰窖)inside storms but without a storm.Martinez-Frias believes global warming is causing the troposphere(对流层)to rise. This means the roof of the troposphere is forced to a greater height, where it cools more
21、than normal. Thus, the temperature difference between warm and cold air in the troposphere produces strong up-and-down winds that repeat the hail-formation process, without a storm.29.What took place on Thursday morning?A.A fitness center caught fire.B.A big ice ball fell in Loma Linda.C.There was h
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