1、Unit 2课时达标训练(六).单项填空1We were _ at the _ news that our team lost the game by 015.Ashock; shockedBshocked; shockingCshocking; shocked Dshocked; shocked2_ his arrival in Des Moines, capital of the state Iowa, President Xi Jinping was welcomed by Obama.ABy BWithCIn DOn3The headmasters wonderful speech h
2、as left a deep _ on the students.Aexpression BimpressionCcontribution Ddescription4It is easy to _ Tom from his fellows, because he always wears a red hat.Apick out Bpick upCpick on Dpick over5The injured appreciated _ when the police came to their rescue.Athis BoneCit Dthat 6There existed an obviou
3、s _ between the accounts of the witness, so a judgement was not announced in court.Aassociation BauthorityCconflict Drestriction7The population here _ 2% _ one million since 1980.Ahave decreased by; to Bhas decreased to; byChas decreased by; toDhave decreased to; by8The new bridge under construction
4、, _ twice as long as the old one, is due to be completed next month.Ameasures BmeasuringCmeasured Dto measure9The child has a talent for music and should be trained properly its a _ to waste such talent.Ajoy BsurpriseCchallenge Dshame10People in Taiwan and Mainland must try hard to understand each o
5、ther, and _ misunderstanding.Aclear up Btake upCpick up Dclean up.阅读理解ABritains largest companies are promising to offer greener products and invest in research and technology as part of a wider push to reduce carbon emissions.Eighteen of Britains top companies, including carmakers, airlines, retail
6、ers and banks, are publishing a report on Monday, in which they promise to develop new products and services that allow customers to cut their carbon emissions. The report is also intended to send a message to companies around the world to make fighting climate change a higher priority.“This require
7、s urgent action, and the sooner we do it, the better and the cheaper it will be，” said Ben Verwaayen, chief executive of BT and chairman of the task force group that produced the report. Its members employ two million people worldwide and have more than 1 trillion in income.The report is a result of
8、 British businesses addressing issues raised by the Stern Review, a study commissioned by the British government and published last year on the economic impact of global warming. The review, led by the governments top economist, Nicholas Stern, concluded that spending about one percent of global gro
9、ss product in reducing emissions today would avoid having to spend about five to twenty percent in the future.Mondays report says that the responsibility to cut emissions lies with consumers, who through their purchases contribute to sixty percent of Britains emissions, with companies, which can cut
10、 emissions by offering greener products, and with the government, which should use tax cuts as a great encouragement for consumers to cut emissions.1The underlined word “urgent” in the third paragraph can be replaced by “_”AextremeBimportantCimmediate Dunbelievable2From the passage, we can learn tha
11、t _.ABritains largest companies want to prevent global warmingBreducing carbon emissions has nothing to do with consumersCcarmakers dont want to reduce carbon emissionsDBen Verwaayen thinks it unnecessary to reduce carbon emissions3According to the passage, which of the following statements about Ni
12、cholas Stern is TRUE?AHe is one of the best economists in the British Government.BHe is the author of the famous book Stern Review.CHe suggests spending ten percent of global gross products in reducing emissions.DHe is the first person in Britain to call on people to reduce emissions.4What should be
13、 the best title of this passage?AThe sooner, the cheaperBBritish firms urge action on climate changeCA report on global warmingDHow to reduce carbon emissionsBA child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents
14、to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts.It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.A charge made against fairy tales is tha
15、t they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking.To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not.As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being
16、dangerously terrified by some fairy story.Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once.Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they a
17、re not objectively true, that giants, witches, two headed dragons, magic carpets, etc.do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history.I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do not know ho
18、w to argue with them.If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and
19、no clever child has ever believed that it was.5The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _.Arepeated without any changeBtreated as a jokeCmade some changes by the parentDset in the present6According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _.A
20、in a realistic settingBheard for the first timeCrepeated too oftenDtold in a different way7The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _.Amakes them less fearfulBdevelops their power of memoryCmakes them believe there is nothing to be afraid ofDencourages them
21、 not to have strange beliefs8The authors mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _.Afairy stories are still being made upBthere is some misunderstanding about fairy talesCpeople try to modernize old fairy storiesDthere is more concern for childrens fears nowadays9One of the reasons
22、 why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _.Athey are full of imaginationBthey just make up the stories which are far from the truthCthey are not interestingDthey make teachers of history difficult to teach答案：.1.解析：考查形容词词义辨析。句意： 我们听到我们队以0比15输掉比赛的令人震惊的消息感到非常吃惊。be shocked at sth.表示“对感到震
23、惊、吃惊”；shocking表示“令人震惊的”。答案：B2解析：考查固定搭配。句意：中国国家主席习近平一到达艾奥瓦州州府得梅因就受到了奥巴马的热情接待。on ones arrival at/in .为固定搭配，表示“一到达(就)”。答案：D3解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：校长的精彩演讲给学生们留下了深刻的印象。impression表示“印象”，符合句意。expression“表情”；contribution“贡献”；description“描述”。答案：B4解析：考查pick的短语辨析。句意：在人群中，很容易认出汤姆，因为他总是戴着一顶红帽子。pick out表示“认出”，符合句意。pick
24、up“捡起”，pick on“与过不去”；pick over“精挑细选”。答案：A5解析：考查代词it作形式宾语。句意：受伤的人们很感激警察能前来营救他们。enjoy, like, appreciate, hate, dislike等表示情绪的动词后接宾语从句时，要用it作形式宾语。故C项正确。答案：C6解析：考查名词词义辨析。句意：目击者的证词存在明显的争执，所以当庭没有宣判。conflict意为“争执，分歧”。association“联合，结合，交往”；authority“权力，当局”；restriction“约束，限制”。答案：C7解析：考查动词和介词的用法。句意：自从1980年以来，这
25、儿的人口已经下降了2%，达到100万人。本句中population表示“人口数量”谓语动词用单数形式，故排除A、D两项。另外，表示“减少了多少”要用介词by；表示“减少到多少”要用介词to。故C项正确。答案：C8解析：句意：在建设中的新大桥，经测量桥长是原来旧桥的两倍，预计在下个月完工。measure作“量起来”讲时是不及物动词，故应用现在分词作bridge的定语。答案：B9解析：考查名词辨析。句意：这个孩子有音乐天赋，应当进行适当的训练浪费这样的才能是一件遗憾的事。shame指“遗憾的事”。故选D。答案：D10解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：台湾人民和大陆人民之间必须尽最大努力相互理解、消除误
26、解。clear up“收拾，(天气)变晴，消除(误会等)”；take up“拿起，占据，从事”；pick up“拾起，捡起，收听”；clean up“打扫，整理，清理”。故选A。答案：A.语篇解读：为应对全球变暖，英国一些大公司采取行动减少碳排放物的排放。1解析：词义猜测题。根据“. and the sooner we do it, the better and the cheaper it will be .”可知，越快采取行动越好，即需要立即采取行动。答案：C2解析：细节理解题。通读全文可知，英国的那些大公司正在着力减少向大气排放碳的排放物，其目的就是阻止全球气候变暖，故A项正确。答案：A
27、3解析：根据第四段的“a study commissioned by the British government .”以及“The review, led by the governments top economist, Nicholas Stern .”可知A项正确；Stern Review是一个研究项目的名称，故B项不正确；根据“concluded that spending about one percent of global gross product”可知C项不正确；文章中没有信息可以表明Nicholas Stern是英国第一个号召人们减少碳排放的人，故D不能选。答案：A4解析
28、：标题归纳题。本文主要是讲为应对气候变暖，英国一些大公司采取行动减少碳排放物的排放。B项概括了全文的内容，又表达了采取行动的紧迫性，所以B最适合做文章的标题。答案：B语篇解读：人们对如何给孩子讲神话故事有不同的看法。5解析：细节理解题。由第一段中的“It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on
29、 the printed text, so much the better.”可知此题答案为C。答案：C6解析：细节理解题。由第二段中的“this arises from the child having heard the story once.” 可知此题答案为B。答案：B7解析：细节理解题。由第二段中的“Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.”可知此题答案为A。答案：A8解析：推理判断题。有些人认为神话不现
30、实，都是教孩子一些不存在的东西，会对孩子有不好的影响。作者用虚拟语气作了一个假设，如果这些观点站得住脚的话，可能会出现这样的情况：the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.持这种观点的人实际上是对神话的一种误解。故选B。答案：B9解析：推理判断题。由第三段中的“ .not objectively true, do not exist”可知，有些人不赞成神话故事的原因是这些故事是编出来的，远离现实。故选B。答案：B
