1、Module 6 课时跟踪检测（三） Other Parts of the Module.根据提示写出单词的正确形式1The media focus (焦点) on politicians private lives switches the attention away from the real issues. 2.She laid (放下) down her cup on the table and went to answer the phone. 3.Once you have agreed to the initial (最初的) request, they would begin
2、 to ask for more.4They are campaigning against experimenting on live (活着的) animals.5How many branches (分公司) does the company have in our company?6Some students even have no idea of why they are studying, so they are aimless (aim) most of the time.7His letters paint a wonderful (wonder) picture of hi
3、s life in China.8We may live to see the extinction of the whale. If they are extinct,_the environment will be affected.(extinct)9He is an energetic man so he is full of energy every day. (energy)10He is a wasteful man. He often wastes a lot of money buying something he really doesnt need.(waste).选词填
4、空feed on， stand for， go for， set up， be concerned about， be involved in， have access to， keep an eye on1.We dont keep_an_eye_on our children all the time in real life. 2It is those who are_involved_in the matter that should answer for it, so dont be worried.3They follow the rules, help out, and are_
5、concerned_about the people they work with.4I wonder if the school could place more dustbins around and set_up specific rules against such behaviour.5Its even easier to follow if we know what all of those stand_for.6They feed_on fruit and, occasionally, on other animals. 7His opponent went_for him wh
6、en his back was turned.8In our country everyone has_access_to basic medical and health services. .完成句子1Only if the case is urgent should_you_call out the doctor in the middle of night.只有患者情况紧急时，你才可以在半夜叫医生看病。2Our policy is to focus_on developing these areas.我们的政策着眼于把这些地区发展起来。3I havent seen it myself,
7、 but it is_supposed_to_be a great movie.这部电影我没有看过，不过人们普遍认为它很不错。4We listened to our fathers stories in_wonder.我们惊奇地听着爸爸讲故事。5Weather_permitting,_we will visit you tomorrow.如果天气允许，我们明天去看你。.完形填空I was in desperate need of a break. The “witching hour” was upon us once again, dinner was burning on the stov
8、e, and fights were _1_ between my two children. The crying was neverending and I was _2_ the end of my rope. But I was holding down the fort until a way after bedtime.I _3_ a friend who has four children the same ages as mine, and she was in a similar _4_. Our husbands were _5_ the same meeting that
9、 night. I could hear the screaming in the _6_， interrupted by Jens shouting. She kept _7_ the phone to pick up the baby because he was crying. It seemed as if we were all suffering _8_. Couldnt there be a way for us to break up the sameness? _9_！The first play date was at Jens house the following We
10、dnesday at 4 pm. My daughter _10_ into the basement playroom with the other children. Jen and I sat just _11_ some adult company.We ordered a pizza and salad, and all of the children actually ate their dinner. My kids arent big salad fans, but if other kids are eating it, _12_ its cool. The entire l
11、arge pizza was eaten up rapidly. Jen and I did the _13_ together. When we were done, we invited them back and they all danced to a music DVD _14_ it was time to go. My kids went _15_ to bed when we got home. I felt rejuvenated (恢复活力的). The email from Jen the next morning _16_ her similar feelings. W
12、e were on to something and it had to _17_.The following Wednesday play date was at my house, and it was _18_ the same. The kids had a great time _19_. Watching kids play together without fighting is a truly great thing. Wednesday night gives me a chance to sit and really _20_ my children as little p
13、eople.语篇解读：本文是记叙文。孩子们总是争吵，这让“我”身心俱疲，但是后来“我”和一个朋友一起找到了解决这个问题的办法。1A.breaking upBdying downCfading away Dbreaking out解析：选D根据空后的“The crying was neverending”可知，两个孩子发生了争吵。break out意为“爆发，发生”。2A.at BinCon Dby解析：选A根据语境可知，孩子之间无休止的争吵哭闹让“我”忍无可忍。at the end of ones rope指“忍无可忍”。3A.met BcalledCinvited Dvisited解析：选B
14、从下文中的“I could hear the screaming”和“the phone”可知，当时“我”给朋友打了电话。4A.condition BsituationCconsideration Dstage解析：选B根据下文内容可知，我们俩面临的情况差不多。situation意为“情况”，符合语境。condition“条件”；consideration“考虑”；stage“阶段”。5A.attending BholdingCparticipating Djoining解析：选A我们两个人的丈夫那天晚上都在参加会议。attend a meeting“参加会议”。6A.environment
15、BatmosphereCconsequence Dbackground解析：选D当时我们在打电话，“我”可以听到电话那头的背景杂音，即孩子的叫声。background“背景的声音”。7A.dropping BholdingCthrowing Dtalking解析：选B根据下文的“because he was crying”并结合语境可知，她不断地中断我们的谈话去照看孩子。hold the phone表示中断谈话让对方稍等，但不挂断电话，符合语境。8A.differently BregularlyCequally Dslightly解析：选C根据上文内容并结合下文的“break up the s
16、ameness”可知，我们的难处是一样的。equally“同等地”。9A.Completely BAbsolutelyCPerhaps DMaybe解析：选B结合下文可知，“我”找到了解决的办法，因此此处表示“当然(有解决的办法)”。Absolutely在此意为“当然”。10A.hid BfellCdisappeared Ddragged解析：选C“我”的女儿跑到地下室的游戏室和其他孩子一起玩，从“我”的视野中消失了。disappear“消失”。11A.appreciating BexpectingCimagining Denjoying解析：选Denjoy sb.s company意为“享受
17、某人的陪伴”。孩子们在一起玩，“我”和Jen不受干扰，享受着成人的陪伴。12A.apparently BsurprisinglyCsimilarly Doppositely解析：选A虽然“我”的孩子不喜欢吃沙拉，但是看到其他孩子都在吃，他们也觉得很酷。根据下文的“The entire large pizza was eaten up rapidly”可知，这很明显。apparently“显然地”。13A.cleaning BwashingCcooking Ddancing解析：选A孩子们吃完以后“我”和朋友Jen一起打扫(卫生)。do the cleaning意为“打扫(卫生)”。14A.wh
18、en BunlessCuntil Dbefore解析：选C孩子们随着音乐DVD跳舞，一直到我们该离开的时候。15A.slowly BactivelyCunwillingly Dright解析：选D回到家以后，孩子们就立刻上床睡觉了。right意为“立刻，马上”。16A.announced BexplainedCconfirmed Ddelivered解析：选C第二天早上“我”收到Jen的邮件，这封邮件使“我”确信Jen和“我”有相似的感觉。announce“宣布”；explain“解释”；confirm“使确信”；deliver“传送”。17A.improve BcontinueCstop D
19、start解析：选B我们找到了解决问题的办法，所以我们要继续这样做。18A.usually BexactlyCgenerally Daccurately解析：选B第二次让孩子们一起玩耍是在“我”家，结果与上次完全一样。usually“经常”；exactly“完全地”；generally“广泛地”；accurately“准确地”。19A.making themselves upBwearing themselves outCsetting themselves apartDgiving themselves away解析：选B孩子玩得很高兴，累得筋疲力尽。make up“化妆”；wear out
20、“让极度疲乏”；set apart“使与众不同”；give away“暴露”。20A.understand BnoticeCobserve Drealize解析：选C根据前一句中的“Watching kids play”可知答案。.阅读理解AChina is the only place in the world where pandas still live in the wild. The panda survey counted the total number of pandas living in the Chinese countryside at almost 1,600 nea
21、rly 50 percent more than the 1,000 to 1,100 pandas found in the last survey, in the late 1980s. Although the news is encouraging, scientists are quick to point out that pandas, which have become the universal symbol of endangered species, are still threatened with extinction and need protection.With
22、 pandas and many other species, survival depends on staying hidden from people and predators (食肉动物), so counting them can be hard. More important than the number of pandas is_how to protect them and the places they live in.Scientists made the panda survey, sponsored (赞助) by World Wildlife Fund and t
23、he Chinese government, by combining the best of 21st century technology with oldfashioned lowtech tracking (跟踪) skills. Counting pandas through the forest and up mountains, using their powers of observation to note a bit of panda fur left on the bark of a tree, a panda paw print in the mud, or . pan
24、da droppings! Panda locations were entered into global positioning system (全球定位系统) instruments to create maps of habitats that should be protected.Of all the clues left by the pandas，researchers depended most heavily on the animals droppings. Pandas eat up 80 pounds of bamboo a day, and because bamb
25、oo is difficult to digest, it remains the chew patterns of individual pandas even after digestion. Chinese researchers have determined that individual pandas have different average bite sizes, so by measuring the average bite size of the bamboo pieces in the droppings collected, survey teams were ab
26、le to determine the number of pandas that produced the droppings left behind in each area.语篇解读：怎样才能查出野生大熊猫的准确数量呢？本文介绍了科学家们采用的一些科学方法。1From the underlined sentence in Para.2 we know that _.Athe number of pandas is not important at allBits not necessary to count the wild pandasChow to protect the panda
27、s and the places they live in is not a problem when counting the wild pandasDto protect the pandas and the places they live in must be well considered when counting the wild pandas解析：选D句意理解题。句子的意思是“比大熊猫数量更为重要的是如何保护它们及它们的栖息地”，这就是说大熊猫的数量很重要，但是在调查时要注意保护它们及它们的栖息地。2Which of the following is NOT the clue
28、for the survey?AThe fur. BThe paw print.CThe droppings. DThe bamboo.解析：选D细节理解题。在调查大熊猫的数量时，科学家们要“. note a bit of panda fur left on the bark of a tree, a panda paw print in the mud, or . panda droppings”，因为这些东西是调查大熊猫踪迹的重要线索。3Why can the scientists determine the number of pandas by the bamboo they have
29、 eaten?ABecause every panda eats up different pounds of bamboo every day.BBecause every panda has a different bite size from another.CBecause bamboo is hard to digest.DBecause a panda eats up 80 pounds of bamboo every day.解析：选B细节理解题。最后一段说到了未消化的竹子对于确定大熊猫的数量非常重要，因为上面还残留着大熊猫的咀嚼痕迹，而每一只大熊猫的咀嚼尺寸是不同的，有多少个不
30、同的尺寸就大体上有多少只大熊猫。4The best title for the passage may be _.ACounting the Wild PandasBHow to Protect PandasCThe Number of Wild PandasDResearch on the Pandas Droppings解析：选A标题归纳题。全文内容都与调查大熊猫的数量有关：第一段讲的是调查的结果，第二段讲的是调查时要注意的事项，第三段讲的是调查的方法，最后一段讲的是调查的主要线索。BIn places like California, the Rocky Mountains, and t
31、he Southern United States, wildfires are an unavoidable reality.Wildfires can cause damage to property and human life, but they have many beneficial effects on native vegetation, animals and ecosystems that have evolved with fire. The forests, including pine barrens, lodgepole pine forests and many
32、more, require fires to reproduce because the trees in the forest are adapted to only producing seeds following a major fire event. Therefore, without them many of these forest types would decline.A fire renews the watershed (集水区) in ways including, but not limited to, recycling of nutrients, increas
33、ing food sources for fish in streams, supplement (补充) to streamside vegetation, spread of fireadapted plants, etc. Not to mention renewal of the soil chemistry which is vital to the forest and the watershed. The basis is that of someone who has studied wildfires and streams since the 1988 Yellowston
34、e wildfires. The science backs up how natural wildfires can be favorable through research publication after publication.Its like “resetting the clock” on the ecosystem, allowing it to function smoothly all over again for another 200 years. By the way, a stand burning fire such as the Yellowstone fir
35、es of 1988 also results in the landscape of younger forest mends which act to reduce the spread of future wildfires and can stop a major wildfire in its tracks. The bottom line is that we may need todays natural wildfires to prevent more serious catastrophic fire events in the future. That lesson wa
36、s learned in Yellowstone in 1988 which was a year of disastrous largescale fires after more than 50 years of fire suppression (压制)语篇解读：本文主要讲述了野火对生态系统的益处。5What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refer to?ASeeds. BWildfires.CTrees. DEcosystems.解析：选B代词指代题。本文主要讲述了野火对生态系统的好处，根据第二段中的“The fores
37、ts, including pine barrens, lodgepole pine forests and many more, require fires to reproduce .”可知，森林需要火来繁殖，结合画线词所在句的内容可知，此处应指没有野火的话，这些森林类型中的大多数将会减少。6What can we know about wildfires benefits to the watershed?AWildfires benefit the watershed in over 5 ways.BPlants along streams spread faster after wi
38、ldfires.CRenewal of the soil chemistry is the most important.DThe benefits are supported by the authors research.解析：选A细节理解题。根据第三段中的“A fire renews the watershed (集水区) in ways including . Not to mention renewal of the soil chemistry”可知，野火更新(森林地带的)集水区的方式包括但不局限于文中提到的这五种，故A项正确。7What is the function of yo
39、unger forest mends?ADisturb the development of wildfires.BReduce occurring rates of wildfires.CRepresent life and hope after wildfires.DMake wildfires easier to be spotted.解析：选A细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中的“a stand burning fire such as the Yellowstone fires of 1988 also results in the landscape of younger forest
40、mends which act to reduce the spread of future wildfires and can stop a major wildfire in its tracks”可知，野火可以催生树龄小一些的森林来填补大火之后的空地，这些树龄小一些的森林可以减缓将来发生的大火蔓延的速度，阻止大火的进程，故选A项。8What should we learn from the 1988 Yellowstone wildfires?ASmall wildfires add up to largerscale wildfires.BWe should let nature take its course completely.CYellowstones fire prevention was proved successful.DStrict control over wildfires may work destructively.解析：选D推理判断题。根据最后一段中的内容可知，我们现在可能需要自然的野火来阻止更严重的灾难性大火的发生。这个教训是从1988年的黄石公园大火事件中得到的，50多年对野火的压制之后，大范围的灾难性大火在那一年爆发了。故选D项。