1、英语选修九译林牛津版U4基础练习（2）及答案一、根据对话内容及所给单词首字母写出单词的正确形式。 W: Hi. Id like to know something about idiom. Could you please tell me? M: With pleasure. An idiom is a group of words or an (1)e_ whose meaning often cannot be understood by looking at the meanings of the (2)s_ words in it. Its meaning can be complet
2、ely different from the meanings of its (3)c_ . It you cant recognize when an idiom is being used, you can (4)m_ what you read or hear spoken. W: Then where do many idioms come from? M: They mostly come from the Bible which was first written in Hebrew and then translated in to Greek. However, many id
3、ioms have either lost their (5)o_ meanings or have only a vague or loose (6)c_ to Hebrew or Greek idioms. W: What meanings do Biblical idioms have? M: Biblical idioms originally had (7)s_ and clear meanings because they were often meant to (8)u_ the moral of a story and to give audiences an image to
4、 help them to understand the story better. And there are also many idioms from the Bible that use animals to create an image. Another focus of Biblical idioms is often food or things (9)r_ to food. W: Should we master as many Biblical idioms as possible? M: Of course. Idioms are an important part of
5、 language and are used in everything. Studying them can help improve you comprehension, and by learning enough important idioms, you can develop a high level of (10)c_ in your communication skills. W: Thanks for telling me so much about idioms. M: Youre welcome. 一、(1) expression (2) separate (3) com
6、ponents (4) misunderstand (5) original (6) connection (7) straightforward (8) underline (9) related (10) competence二、完形填空阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。The friendship between us never fades. Mary Allen was my best friendlike a sister I never1. _. We did everything together: piano lessons, mo
7、vies, swimming, horseback riding, and so on.When I was 13, my family moved. Mary and I 2. _ in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special3. _ like my wedding and Marys. Soon we were 4. _ with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote 5. _. One day a card that I sent came back 6. _
8、“Address Unknown.” I had no idea how to 7. _ Mary.Over the years, I thought of Mary often. I wanted to 8. _ stories of my children and then grandchildren. I need to share my 9. _ when my brother and then my mother died. There was a(n) 10. _ place in my heart that only a friend like Mary could 11. _.
9、One day I was reading a newspaper when I 12. _ a picture of a young woman who looked a lot like Mary and whose 13. _ name was Wagman Marys married name. “There 14. _ be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought,15. _ I wrote to her anyway.She 16. _ as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs. Tobin!” she said excited
10、ly, “Mary Allen Wagman is my 17. _.” Minutes later I heard a voice that I 18. _ at once, even after 40 years. We laughed and cried and asked about each others 19. _.Now the empty place in my heart is filled, and there is one thing that Mary and I know 20. _: We wont lose each other again!1. A. hadB.
11、 loveC. leftD. met2. A. gotB. keptC. lostD. fell3. A. placesB. occasionsC. festivalsD. things4. A. comfortableB. carefulC. easyD. busy5. A. moreB. muchC. lessD. least6. A. saidB. fastenedC. readD. stamped7. A. knowB. stopC. findD. help8. A. shareB. tellC. writeD. remember9. A. newsB. sorrowC. storie
12、sD. failure10. A. bigB. smallC. wildD. empty11. A. stayB. hideC. fillD. live12. A. tookB. noticedC. drewD. picked13. A. lastB. firstC. nickD. given14. A. shouldB. needC. cantD. must15. A. andB. sinceC. butD. so16. A. calledB. laughedC. criedD. shouted17. A. friendB. motherC. sisterD. daughter18. A.
13、realizedB. receivedC. contactedD. recognized19. A. futureB. progressC. livesD. weddings20. A. for sureB. at allC. in allD. as well三、阅读理解阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A study has showed that the brain makes decisions about 10 seconds before a person realizes it. Experts involved in the stud
14、y said that looking at brain activity while making a decision,they could predict the choices the subjects would make, before they realized that they had made a decision. Lead researcher John-Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist (神经学家)at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Le
15、ipzig, said that the new findings called into questions for “consciousness”of decisions that people make, and might even challenge ideas as to how“free”people are to make a decision at a particular moment.“We think our decisions are conscious, but these data show that consciousness is just the tip o
16、f the iceberg,”Nature magazine quoted (引用) him as saying. Thinking the results“quite dramatic”, Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, said that 10 seconds is“a lifetime”in terms of brain activity. During the study, the brains of 14 volunteers were imaged as they performed a de
17、cision-making task. The subjects had two buttons before them, each to be operated by a different hand, which they could press when they felt the urge to. They were simultaneously (同时地)shown a stream of letters, which appeared on a screen at half-second intervals (间隔). The volunteers had to remember
18、which letter was showing when they decided to press their button.Upon analysis of the data, the researchers realized that the earliest signal they could catch started seven seconds before the volunteers reported having made their decision. Given the delay of a few seconds in the imaging, they reckon
19、ed (估计) that the brain activity could have begun about ten seconds before the conscious decision. The researchers showed that the signals were picked up from a region (区域)called the frontopolar cortex (脑额极皮层),which is located at the front of the brain, immediately behind the forehead.While writing a
20、bout the observations made during the research in his study report, Haynes said that the frontopolar cortex might be the brain region where decisions are started. He also showed that the next step in the research would be to speed up the data analysis so as to enable his team to predict peoples choi
21、ces as their brains would make them. 1. The passage tells us that _.A. we are aware of our whole process of decision-makingB. people dont make decisions until they realize itC. experts have no way to tell what decision one will makeD. the decision-making process starts before it is made2. The underl
22、ined word “subjects”in Para. 2 probably refers to _.A. the topic of the experts research paperB. the scientific subjects that the experts were studyingC. the things that experts dont know clearlyD. the volunteers that the experts worked on for their research3. The underlined sentence“consciousness i
23、s just the tip of the iceberg”in Para. 4 means that _.A. our decision-making is consciousB. the data contains a lot of information besides consciousnessC. consciousness is the major part of the dataD. 10 seconds is“a lifetime”in terms of brain activity4. The final purpose of the research _.A. is not
24、 stated clearly in the passage B. is not acknowledged by expertsC. is to show where decision-making starts D. is to analyze the data picked up5. The passage implies that _.A. the research has been completedB. the research was conducted by two expertsC. the decision-making process lasts only about 10 secondsD. we may predict what decisions people will make in the future 【参考答案】14、DDBA
