新教材2021-2022学年英语人教版必修第二册课时检测Unit+4Word版含解析.docx
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1、课时素养检费十三Unit 4 Period 1I.阅读理解ALajamanu is a dry town in Australia. Can you imagine how surprised people were when live fish rained down from a dark gray cloud? It happens that there are similar cases in England and Honduras.How do clouds make fish? The simple answer is that they dont. There is a par
2、ticular weather phenomenon called a waterspout. A waterspout is just like a tornado, which only forms above oceans, lakes, or rivers. Like a tornado, a waterspout moves in a circle at high speeds. When it moves above the water, it tends to carry the fish with it, as well as frogs or other small plan
3、ts or animals.Scientists couldnt work it out at first. To make matters stranger still, the fish in Honduras were very much alive when they rained down to the ground, but they were all blind. In England and Australia, it rained fish and snakes, and none were blind. It was difficult to puzzle out, but
4、 the blind fish gave them a place to start.Scientists knew that some fish that lived in deep, underground caves with no light sources often lost their eyesight. So when blind fish rained down on Honduras, scientists began to connect some dots. Clearly, these particular fish were pulled from an under
5、ground water source by force.Historically, villagers thought the “fishes from the heavens“ might be answers to prayers fbr food. But in 1990, a group of scientists in England happened to record what was happening when it rained fish from the sky and finally proved the fact of rains of fish. This hug
6、e breakthrough changed legends into true stories and provided scientific explanations for how fish came to live in deep caves.【语篇概述】本文是一篇说明文。文章解释了神奇的天气状况:“雨中下活鱼“盲鱼”让科 学家们开始认为龙卷风理论似乎更有可能。科学家目击天上下“鱼雨”更是把神话传说变成了 真实的故事,同时为鱼如何生活在深海洞穴里提供了科学的解释。1. According to the passage, a waterspout.A. can make animals
7、blindis difficult to catch on filmB. can carry items with itis a dangerous sea creature【解析】选 C。推理判断题。根据第二段中“When it moves above the water, it tends to carry the fish with it, as well as frogs or other small plants or animals.(当它移动到水上,它可能会卷起 一些鱼,青蛙,或者其他小的动植物。)”可知,水上龙卷风可能携带一些物品。故选C。2. The blind fish m
8、ade the scientists start to think that.A. raining fish was a warning of natural disastersanimals changed to match their environmentsB. the weather system differed from place to placethe waterspout theory seemed more possible解析选D。推理判断题。根据第三段最后一句It was difficult to puzzle out, but the blind fish gave
9、them a place to start. 可知,盲鱼”让科学家们开始认为龙卷风理论似乎更有可能。故选 DoThe author writes the passage to.A. tell us it may rain fish sometimesexplain what caused the fishy weatherB. persuade people to protect the environmentencourage people to do scientific research【解析】选B。写作意图题。纵观全文,特别是第一段中Can you imagine how surpri
10、sed people were when live fish rained down from a dark gray cloud?及下文的研究和结论可知,作者写这 篇文章是为了解释为什么会出现这种雨中下活鱼的天气。故选B。BThe first day of the month of May is known as May Day. It is the time of the year when warmer weather begins. People celebrate the coming of summer with customs that are expressions of jo
11、y and hope after a long winter. Today, May Day activities have been moved to the May Day holiday on the first Monday of the month. It is a public holiday when families take advantage of the time off to visit some of the UKs many attractions, including parks, zoos, historic buildings, ancient towns a
12、nd villages and beautiful countryside.May Day celebrations have their origins in the Roman festival of Flora, the goddess of fruit and flowers, which marked the beginning of summer. People would decorate their houses and villages with leaves and flowers they picked at daybreak in the belief that the
13、 vegetation spirits would bring good luck. In the very early morning, young girls went into the fields and washed their faces with dew (露水).They believed this made them very beautiful for the following year.May Day was an important day in the Middle Ages and was a favorite holiday of many English vi
14、llages. People of the time used to cut down young trees and stick them in the ground in the village to mark the arrival of summer. This is the origin of the maypole (五月 柱).People danced around them in celebration of the end of winter. Maypoles were once common all over England and were kept from one
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