1、第十九单元检测(时间:100分钟满分:120分)第一部分阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。AIf you want to become a fluent English speaker,you should take some advice.There are four skills in learning English.They are reading,listening,speaking and writing.The most important thing you must re
2、member is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master(掌握) the skills of reading and listening.Read as much as you can.But your reading must be active.It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentences,the meaning of the unfamiliar words,etc.There
3、 is no need for you to pay much attention to grammar or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across.If you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them again,for example,in other passages or books,thats enough.It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook s
4、o you can write down the important words or sentences in it.As for listening,there are two choices:besides reading,you can listen every day for about 30 minutes.You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading,then you can catch up on your listening.Since you have lots
5、of inputs(输入) in your mind,you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say.This never means that you should not practice listening.For listening,you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children.Their languages are easy.Or if you are good at listening you can liste
6、n to VOA or BBC programs every day.Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.If you follow these pieces of advice,your speaking and writing will improve automatically(自动地),and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.1Accordin
7、g to the author,which should you improve first among the four skills?A.Reading and listening.B.Reading and writing.C.Writing and speaking.D.Speaking and listening.解析由第一段的最后一句“.ifyouwanttoimproveyourspeakingandwritingskillsyoushouldfirstmastertheskillsofreadingandlistening.”可知A项符合文意。答案A2What should y
8、ou do to improve your reading when you read?A.Look up all the new words in the dictionary.B.Think about what you are reading actively.C.Spend more time studying grammar.D.Copy as many words and sentences as possible.解析由第二段内容可知:A、C两项错误。由第二段最后一句“Itwouldbebettertoprepareyourselfanotebooksoyoucanwritedo
9、wntheimportantwordsorsentencesinit.”可知D项错误。由第二段第二句“Butyourreadingmustbeactive.”可知B项正确。答案B3The author seems to agree with the view that .A.everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every dayB.you neednt practice listening if you keep on reading every dayC.being good at reading is helpful in impro
10、ving your listeningD.you should take notes of whatever you hear解析由倒数第二段的第三句“OrifyouaregoodatlisteningyoucanlistentoVOAorBBCprogramseveryday.”可推知A项错误。由文章内容可知B、D两项错误。由第三段的第二、三句“Youcanonlypayattentiontoyourreading.easilyguesswhatthespeakerisgoingtosay.”可推出C项正确。答案C4The passage is mainly about how to .A.
11、choose suitable listening materialsB.deal with new words in readingC.read as quickly as possibleD.become fluent in speaking and writing English解析全文第一段提出:要想提高说、写技能就要先提高听、读技能。提高听、读技能的目的是提高说、写的能力,故选D项。答案DBA study of English learning problems was carried out among a total of 106 foreign students.It show
12、s that most students considered understanding spoken English to be their biggest problem on arrival.This was followed by speaking.Writing increased as a problem as students discovered difficulties in writing papers that they were expected to hand in.Reading remained as a significant(显著的) problem.The
13、 information gained helped us in determining where special attention should be paid in our course.Although many students have chosen to attend the course with a reasonable motivation(动机),we considered it important to note what seemed to encourage interest.Nearly all the students have experienced som
14、e kind of grammar-based English teaching in their own country.To use the same method would be self-defeating because it might reduce motivation,especially if it has failed in the past.Therefore,a different method may help because it is different.Variety of activity was also seen as a way of maintain
15、ing (保持) or increasing motivation.Several years ago we had one timetable that operated throughout,but we soon found that both the students and the teachers lost interest about halfway through the ten weeks.This led us to a major rethink,so finally we brought it into line with the expressed language
16、needs of the students.5What is the passage mainly about?A.Foreign students have more problems.B.There are many ways to improve English.C.Teaching should meet students needs.D.English learning problems should be studied again.解析文章的最后一句话是点明主旨的“.sofinallywebroughtitintolinewiththeexpressedlanguageneeds
17、ofthestudents.”即教学应当满足学生的需要。答案C6Writing became a bigger problem when foreign students .A.had to write their papersB.became better at speakingC.became less interested in readingD.had fewer problems with listening解析由第一段倒数第二句“Writingincreasedasaproblemasstudentsdiscovereddifficultiesinwritingpapersthat
18、theywereexpectedtohandin.”可知,当学生发觉在写需要上交的论文有诸多困难时,写作方面的问题也越来越突出。答案A7We may infer from the last two paragraphs that .A.different teaching methods should be usedB.grammar-based teaching seems to be encouragingC.English courses are necessary for foreign studentsD.teaching content should be changed half
19、way解析由原文第二段末句“Therefore,adifferentmethodmayhelpbecauseitisdifferent.”可以得出答案为A项。答案A8The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to “”.A.rethinkB.activityC.motivationD.timetable解析参看上文中出现过的timetable(课程表)。答案DCBaby sign language is a growing movement.Pointing to a colourful flower,Tricia Campbe
20、ll lifts her babys soft hand,and rapidly moves it from one side of his nose to the other as she sniffs(嗅) loudly.“Flower!”she says loudly.Gregory smiles,looks carefully and says happily,“Flower!”It could be a year before Gregory,4 months old,can speak,but now his mother hopes to communicate with her
21、 baby through sign language.Like others around the world,Campbell is part of a growing movement of parents teaching hearing babies simple signs to communicate before they can talk.Baby sign language has been more popular in recent years.The movie,MeettheFockers,where Robert De Niros character teache
22、s his young grandson to sign,makes it well developed.Babies generally begin to talk between 12 and 15 months,but babies can use sign language to communicate before they learn how to speak.“We know they are learning language faster than they are able to show you with their speech production because t
23、hat system takes a long time to develop,”says Gerald McRoberts,director of developmental research at the Haskins Laboratories,a private,non-profit research institute on speech and language.“They are understanding words before they are able to say them.From around 16 to 18 months,they might say 50 wo
24、rds but understand 200.They understand short sentences well,”says McRoberts.Studies have shown deaf children learn to use sign language earlier than hearing children learn to speak meaningfully.As to whether hearing babies can communicate earlier with sign language,McRoberts says,“I think thats stil
25、l unknown.It may.It may not.Im very interested in that very question,and we are just starting a few studies here.”9In the whole passage,the first paragraph is written to .A.show how Tricia Campbell taught her son “flower”B.show Gregory can use baby sign languageC.introduce baby sign languageD.explai
26、n that baby sign language is easy to learn解析通读全文可知,本文的话题是婴儿手势语,第一段旨在以实例引出本文的话题。答案C10The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 probably refers to .A.how to teach a grandsonB.making baby sign language meaningfulC.the movement of teaching babies sign languageD.the movie,MeettheFockers解析联系上文可知,本段落主要讲述父母教婴
27、儿手势语在近几年十分流行,而这部电影使这个运动得到了更好的发展。答案C11Many parents teach their babies sign language mainly to .A.make their babies cleverB.make their babies learn English fastC.communicate with their babiesD.make their babies interested in language解析由文章第二段“.tocommunicatebeforetheycantalk”以及下文多次提到communicate可知,父母教孩子手
28、势语是为了与孩子交流。答案C12Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?A.Gregory is a 4-month-old baby.B.Babies can use sign language before they can speak.C.Babies can understand more words than those they can say.D.McRoberts knows everything about sign language.解析由最后一段McRoberts的话可知
29、,有些东西还是未知的,现在还不能确定,故D项与原文表述不一致。而其他三项都符合文意。答案DD(导学号59260007)Some unusual words describe how a person spends his or her time.For example,someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato.A couch is a piece of furniture that peop
30、le sit on while watching television.Robert Armstrong,an artist from California,developed the term “couch potato” in 1976.Several years later,he listed the term as a trademark with the United States government.Mr.Armstrong also helped write a funny book about life as a full-time television watcher.It
31、 is called TheOfficialCouchPotatoHandbook.Couch potatoes enjoy watching television just as mouse potatoes enjoy working on computers.A computer mouse is the device that moves the pointer,or cursor,on a computer screen.The description of mouse potatoes became popular in 1993.American writer Alice Kah
32、n is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers.Too much time inside the house using a computer or watching television can cause someone to get cabin fever.A cabin is a simple house usually built far away from the city.People go to a cabin to rela
33、x and enjoy quiet time.Cabin fever is not really a disease.However,people can experience boredom and restlessness if they spend too much time inside their homes.This is especially true during the winter when it is too cold or snowy to do things outside.Often children get cabin fever if they cannot g
34、o outside to play.So do their parents.This happens when there is so much snow that schools and even offices and stores are closed.Some people enjoy spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live.This is called nesting or cocooning.Birds build nests out of sticks to hold their
35、 eggs and baby birds.Some insects build cocoons around themselves for protection while they grow and change.Nests and cocoons provide security for wildlife.So people like the idea of nests and cocoons,too.The terms cocooning and nesting became popular more than twenty years ago.They describe people
36、buying their first homes and filling them with many things.These people then had children.Now these children are grown-up and have left the nest.They are in college.Or they are married and start families of their own far away.Now these parents are living alone without children in their empty nests.T
37、hey have become empty nesters.13Which of the following was first used?A.Couch potato.B.Cocooning.C.Mouse potato.D.Nesting.解析由第二段第一句“RobertArmstrong,anartistfromCalifornia,developedthetermcouchpotatoin1976.”知,couchpotato是在1976年第一次被使用。第三段第三句“Thedescriptionofmousepotatoesbecamepopularin1993.”告诉我们mousep
38、otato在1993年才流行,倒数第二段告诉我们cocooning和nesting是20多年前才开始流行的。因此A项正确。答案A14Which of the following refers to a person who spends much time on the computer?A.A couch potato.B.A nester.C.A mouse potato.D.An empty nester.解析由第三段第一句“Couchpotatoesenjoywatchingtelevisionjustasmousepotatoesenjoyworkingoncomputers”可知答
39、案为C项。答案C15Why can most people easily get cabin fever in winter?A.Because they are addicted to computer games.B.Because they would like to play outside.C.Because it is so cold that they cannot go outside.D.Because they are too busy at work or school.解析由第五段第三句“Thisisespeciallytrueduringthewinterwhenit
40、istoocoldorsnowytodothingsoutside.”可知答案为C项。答案C第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(导学号59260008)If you are like most international students,you are probably pretty comfortable with reading and writing in English,but not as comfortable with listening and speaking in the langu
41、age.Below are some tips to help you strengthen your conversational skills.16.MakefriendswithAmericanstudents.Practice makes perfect.The more you converse with others in English,the better you get.Many international students end up befriending a lot ofor onlyother international students.17.Hanging ou
42、t with natives not only naturally pushes you to improve your spoken English,but also helps you pick up cultural and social information.LearnfromAmericanfriends.Tell your American friends that you are trying to improve your listening and speaking skills,and would like them to help you.If you pronounc
43、e a word incorrectly,or misuse an idiom,you want them to tell you.18.Increaseyourknowledge.19.If you have been exposed to topics that are likely to be discussed in conversation,you have a much better chance of understanding people when they talk,and of being able to express yourself well.20.If you h
44、ave to explain something to someone,you have a strong motivation to pronounce everything as well as you can,and find alternative ways to explain yourself.Eventually,this becomes a good habit.Many people have asked me how I learned to speak English fluently,and I owe most of it to my years of being a
45、 math teacher in college.A.I dont think this is a good idea.B.You will learn much faster this way.C.If possible,become a teacher at your school.D.Its a win-win opportunity for international students.E.Read books,keep up with news and watch popular shows and movies.F.This is a good way to make some e
46、xtra cash while improving your English.G.They will likely help you adapt more quickly to your new environment in the US.答案1620 GABEC第二部分英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)第一节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Throughout history,people have been interested in knowing how language firs
47、t began,but no one knows exactly where or how this happened.21,we do know a lot about 22,the languages of today and also the languages of 23 times.There 24 probably about five thousand languages in the world today.Chinese is the language 25 the most speakers.English,Russian and Spanish are also spok
48、en by many millions of people.26,some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.There are several important 27 of languages in the world.For example,most of the languages of 28 are in one large family 29 the Indo-European language family.The original (最初的) language of this family wa
49、s spoken about 4,500 years 30.Many of the present languages of Europe and India are modern 31 of the language of 4,500 years ago.Languages are 32 changing.The English of today is very different 33 the English of 500 years ago.In time some even 34 completely.About 1,000 years ago 35 was a little-know
50、n relative of German 36 on one of the borders (边界) of Europe.If a language has 37 speakers or if it is very old,there may be 38 in the way it is spoken in different areas.39,the language may have several dialects.Chinese is a good example of dialect differences.Chinese has been spoken for thousands
51、of years by many millions of speakers.The differences among the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts of China 40 understand speakers from other parts.21A.ButB.SoC.HoweverD.Besides解析语言的起源一直是人们感兴趣的话题,但是没有人确切地知道语言究竟起源于何处,以何种方式发生。然而(However),我们还是对语言有许多了解。but后不能出现逗号。答
52、案C22A.EnglishB.historyC.ChineseD.languages解析由上下文可知此处一直是在讲对“语言(languages)”的认识。答案D23A.earlierB.laterC.modernD.hard解析人们对现在的语言以及更早(earlier)的语言有所了解。由上下文可知此处与today对应。答案A24A.isB.areC.wasD.were解析由后面的aboutfivethousandlanguagesintheworldtoday可知此处应用be动词的一般现在时的复数形式。答案B25A.forB.withC.inD.of解析由with引导的介词短语作定语,修饰la
53、nguage,表示“汉语是使用人数最多的一种语言”。答案B26A.In additionB.On the one handC.Whats moreD.On the other hand解析上文指出汉语是使用人数最多的一种语言,接着又说英语、俄语、西班牙语也有成百上千万的人讲,话锋一转,还有不到一百人讲的语言,所以此处用ontheotherhand。答案D27A.formsB.systemsC.familiesD.changes解析由后面的内容可知语言有几大语系:用families表示。另外第29空前的onelargefamily也是提示。答案C28A.EuropeB.AsiaC.AfricaD
54、.America解析由后面的Indo-Europeanlanguagefamily可知,欧洲的大多数语言都属于一个大的语系印欧语系。答案A29A.calledB.spokenC.callingD.speaking解析过去分词called作定语,表示“被称作”。答案A30A.beforeB.agoC.behindD.back解析由前面的wasspoken可知,应该用与一般过去时连用的ago。before用于过去完成时的句子中。答案B31A.timesB.familiesC.formsD.members解析现在印度与欧洲的一些语言实际上就是4,500年以前的语言的现代形式(forms)。答案C32
55、A.alwaysB.seldomC.oftenD.sometimes解析由下文可知,语言一直都在发展变化。always与现在进行时态连用表示“总是”。答案A33A.aboutB.withC.betweenD.from解析bedifferentfrom“与不同”,为固定短语。答案D34A.die outB.die awayC.die downD.die off解析有些语言完全消失了。dieout“灭绝,消失”;dieaway“逐渐模糊,逐渐减弱”;diedown“逐渐变弱,暗淡”;dieoff“相继死去”。答案A35A.SpanishB.EnglishC.ChineseD.Russian解析现在
56、的英语与500年以前的不一样了。有些甚至消失了。约1,000年前,英语还与在欧洲边界讲的德语有鲜为人知的亲缘关系。答案B36A.calledB.toldC.spokenD.named解析表示“讲(某种语言)”用speak,此处用过去分词作定语表示被动。答案C37A.a great deal ofB.a fewC.a littleD.a great number of解析如果讲某种语言的人多或某种语言很古老,那么不同地区人们说话的方式就可能有差别。A、C两项只修饰不可数名词;afew表示“几个”,不符合语境。答案D38A.speakersB.differencesC.similaritiesD.
57、changes解析由上文可知此处指人们说话方式的不同,用复数形式。答案B39A.That isB.ThereforeC.In factD.However解析此处是对上文的说明:也就是说(Thatis),一种语言可能有许多方言。答案A40A.mustntB.may notC.wontD.cant解析汉语方言的差别如此大,以至于来自不同地区的人都无法相互沟通。此处表示“不会,不能”。答案D第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。This is a true story which happened in the States.
58、A man came out of his home to admire his new truck.To his 41. (puzzle),his three-year-old son was 42.(happy) hammering dents(凹痕) into the shiny paint of the truck.The man ran to his son,knocked him away and hammered the little boys hands into pulp(浆状物) as a 43.(punish).When the father calmed down,he
59、 rushed his son to the hospital.44.the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones,he finally had to cut the fingers from both the boys hands.When the boy 45.(wake) up from the operation and saw his bandaged stubs,he innocently said,“Daddy,Im sorry about your truck.”Then he asked,“46. when ar
60、e my fingers going to grow back?”The father went home and committed suicide.Think about this story next time someone steps on your feet or you wish 47.(take) revenge.Think first 48. you lose your patience with someone you love.Trucks can 49.(repair).Broken bones and hurt feelings often cant.Too ofte
61、n we fail to recognize the difference between the person and the performance.We forget that forgiveness is 50.(great) than revenge.People make mistakes.We are allowed to make mistakes.But the action we take while in a rage will impress us forever.答案41.puzzlement42.happily43.punishment44.Although/Tho
62、ugh45.woke46.But47.to take48.before49.be repaired50.greater第三部分写作(共两节,满分35分)第一节短文改错(满分10分)假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(),并在其下面写出该加的词。删除:把多余的词用斜线()划掉。修改:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。(导学号59260009)When
63、 Jack bowed to someone,he always did it much too quickly.They neednt to wait any longer after he finished nodding his head.So he was blamed for no manner.Then a warm-hearted man teaches him,“When you bow to somebody next time,you can count January,February,March,until December.Then you can lift your
64、 body.Thus,the ceremony will perfect.”The next day,he met his uncle,but he did as the man told him.The bow was too long that it made his uncle escape soon with a surprising look.When Jack looked down,he found his uncle gone.So he asked a passers-by,“In which month did she go away?”答案第二句:去掉 to第三句:man
65、nermanners第四句:teachestaught;will 后加 be第五句:butand第六句:tooso;surprisingsurprised第七句:downup第八句:passers-bypasser-by;shehe第二节书面表达(满分25分)假如你是李华,最近,你校同学正在参加某英文报组织的一场讨论。讨论的主题是:公园要不要收门票?请你根据下面所提供的信息,给报社写一封信,客观地介绍讨论情况。60%的同学认为:1.不应该收门票;2.公园是公众休闲的地方;3.如收门票,需建大门、围墙,会影响城市形象。40%的同学认为:1.应收门票,但票价不要太高;2.支付园林工人工资;3.采购
66、新花木。注意:1.信的开头已为你写好,但不计入总词数;2.词数100左右;3.参考词汇:门票entrance fee。Dear editor,Im writing to tell you about the discussion we have had about whether an entrance fee should be charged for parks.参考范文Dear editor,Im writing to tell you about the discussion we have had about whether an entrance fee should be cha
67、rged for parks.Sixty students out of one hundred think that a ticket should not be bought before one enters a park,for it is a place for the public to go to when they are free.If a ticket must be bought,a gate and walls have to be built for a park,which will make a city look ugly.Forty students out
68、of one hundred think that an entrance fee should be charged before one enters a park,but that the price of the ticket should be reasonable.Money that is got from ticket selling can be used to pay the gardening workers and buy different kinds of flowers and trees.As for myself,I really think we visitors should pay the entrance fee when we enter a park.After all,it takes a lot of money to maintain a park in good working order.Do you agree with me,dear editor?Yours truly,Li Hua
