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1、Un i t 3 I nventors and i nvent i ons 单元测试题第一局部 听力(共两节,总分值30分)第一节(共5小题;每题1.5分,总分值7.5分)听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选 项中选出最正确选项。听完每段对话后,你都有1。秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和 阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1 . Who is the man possibly talking to?A. A teacher.B A doctor.C. His mother.2 . What do we know about Sam?A. He will leave New
2、 York.B. His sister will leave for Los Angeles.C. His sister will leave for New York.3 . What is the woman going to do?A. Read the paper again.B Throw the paper away.C Rewrite the paper.4 . What are the two speakers probably going to do?A. Invite some friends to dinner.B Listen to the weather report
3、.C. Have a picnic this afternoon.5 . Where does this conversation probably take place?A. At an airport.B. At a railway station.C. At a department store.第二节(共15小题;每题L5分,总分值22.5分)Researchers wonder how to increase production without necessarily clearing more land to grow additional crops. American res
4、earchers say that can happen with greater use of an agricultural system called perenniation. It mixes food crops with trees and perennial plants-those that return year after year.Soil scientist John Reganold says, “One of the major problems is that the soils are fairly poor in most of the regions. S
5、o how do you grow food crops on poor soils? There have to be food production systems that can build the soil and improve the yield 丁Mr. Reganold says poor soil may have resulted from years of weathering that washed away many nutrients. He says some farmers may have done more harm than good.“They hav
6、e been actually using farming practices where theyre not putting in organic matter. Theyre not putting in fertilizers. They cant afford those things. And it just runs the soil down. So theyre worsening the situation.”The scientist says the word perenniation59 defines three systems that are already u
7、sed in Africa. The oldest of the three is called evergreen agriculture. This is where farmers plant trees with their crops. Farmers in Africa have been doing this for sixty years, and it seems to be growing in popularity.The method is gaining widespread use in countries such as Niger, Burkina Faso,
8、Malawi and Zambia. The trees are planted among maize(玉米), millet or sorghum crops. They not only add nitrogen(M) to the soil through their roots, but also through their leaves when they fall off and break down. At other times of the year, the trees can protect plants from strong sunlight.John Regano
9、ld says he knows of one woman who has had great success with perenniation.“Shes a grandmother in her fifties. Her name is Rhoda Mangyana and she started using this system about twenty years ago. And her yields initially were about a ton of maize. Now with a good year she gets four tons per hectare,
10、four times what she was getting.”The purpose of the passage is to.A. tell people how to increase productionB introduce an agricultural system in AfricaC. introduce the oldest farming method in AfricaD. tell us how to prevent soil being poorWhat does the underlined word “weathering” in Paragraph 4 mo
11、st probably mean?A. Being exposed to wind and rain.B Growing different crops.C. Being polluted severely.D. Being ploughed improperly.60. According to the passage, which of the following statements is WRONG?A. Perenniation mixes food crops with trees and perennial plants.B. Poor soil is the main prob
12、lem in increasing food production.C. Farmers may be more to blame for the present situation.D. American researchers first invented perenniation.61. Evergreen agriculture is popular with the farmers mainly because it.A. can build the soil and improve the yieldB can provide more wood as wellC is the e
13、asiest method to carry outD. is used for a long timeCTwo years ago, the Funk family of suburban Chicago adopted a Chinese baby girl who had been abandoned on a sidewalk near a Yangzhou textile factory.Last year, halfway across the United States, the Ramirez family of suburban Miami adopted a girl wh
14、o had been abandoned a week later on the same spot.Both families named their daughters Mia. It turns out, a first name and Chinese heritage arent the only things the three-year-olds have in common. The girls mothers-Holly Funk and Diana Ramirez-met on a website for parents who had gone through inter
15、national adoptions. After a lot of emails comparing photographs and biographical details, DNA testing proved the families suspicions: The girls are probably fratemal(异卵双生的)twins.“I was in shock, “ said Ramirez, who lives with her husband Carlos in PembrokePines, Florida. Well, now this is for real.”
16、The Internet and Web groups revolving around international orphanages are increasingly being used to link adopted children with biological kin(亲属).The site that the Funks and Ramirezes used has a membership of 137 people, with 15 sets of twins and 7 sets of siblings whose relationships have been con
17、firmed.At a reunion Friday at Chicagos OHare International Airport, Mia Diamond Funk and Mia Hanying Ramirez shyly surveyed each other, and then reached for each others hand.DNA tests establish an 85 percent probability that the girls are at least half-sisters. Scientists do not have a biological pa
18、rent to test and reach a greater certainty, but given their ages and physical similarities, experts say it is likely they are fraternal twins.Douglas and Holly Funk hope to bring their Mia to Miami in October. Both sets of parents say they are committed to staying in touch and often let the twins ta
19、lk to each other on the phone.62. Both the adopted girls shared a first name.A. because they both came from ChinaB because of their physical similaritiesC. because their US parents suspected they were twinsD for no good reasonWhy did the girls mothers meet on the Internet?A. To compare photographs o
20、f the two girls.B. To find the girls biological kin.C To test their suspicions.D. To enjoy the joy of adopting children.63. Experts are still not 100 percent sure that the two girls are fraternal twins because.A. DNA tests are still not accurate enoughB the two girls were born in two different famil
21、iesC. the DNA of a biological parent is still missingD. one girl was born a week later than the otherWhat would be the best title for the passage?A. Adopted Twins Reunited After Online ChatB. Adopted Twins Live Happily in the USC. Suspicion Turned into RealityD. The Stories of Two FamiliesDFor the l
22、ast couple of weeks, I had been stuck in front of my computer working on a project that was very important to me. My every waking hour was consumed by the project and although I imagined that I would feel happy after completing parts of the project, I was confused to find that instead, I was feeling
23、 rather depressed. I tried a range of methods to help cheer myself up. I had a relaxing bath, cooked a delicious meal to enjoy with my family and even watched a lighthearted movie, but to no avail. It was only when I turned to meditation(沉思)for a solution that the answer came to me: turn to nature!T
24、he very next day, I grabbed my camera and a bottle of water and set off to spend a few hours walking in a nature reserve, even though it was pouring with rain. Within a couple of minutes I felt alive again. To be honest, I felt like a young school girl again and had to stop myself from hopping along
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