Module-6-同步评估.doc

Module 6 同步评估
第一部分：听力（略）
第二部分： 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15 分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
21. _____ number of students in our class took _____ active part in the sports meet.
A. A; 不填 B. The; an C. The; 不填 D. A; an
22. She, though _____ about her parents’ health, doesn’t know what she can do for them.
A. concerned B. concerning
C. being concerning D. to be concerned
23. Don’t worry. If worse really comes to the worst, we still have some money in _____.
A. theory B. return C. demand D. reserve
24. —I got caught in the traffic jam on the way here.
—_____ you’re late.
A. There is no point B. There is no need
C. It is no wonder D. It is no use
25. Why are you _____ such valuable time chatting online? Do something meaningful!
A. taking B. wasting C. losing D. missing
26. Some species of animals have become _____ because they couldn’t adapt to a changing environment.
A. valuable B. precious C. extinct D. common
27. Drunk driving has been banned in our country because it _____ people’s lives.
A. struggles B. endangers C. frightens D. protects
28. It’s reported that a new supermarket will be _____ next year in this neighbourhood.
A. set up B. stood out C. stood for D. set off
29. Can we use more renewable _____ such as solar and wind, rather than fossil fuels such as coal and oil?
A. source B. strength C. force D. energy
30. I _____ reading the novel by five o’clock yesterday afternoon. Why didn’t you call me for it?
A. was finishing B. have finished C. had finished D. would finish
31. In the shop window there lay some magazines, _____ none interested me.
A. of them B. which C. where D. of which
32. —Do you support the plan?
—_____ certain changes are made to it.
A. If only B. Ever since C. Only if D. No matter
33. I’ll lend you the reference book _____ condition that you return it within a week.
A. on B. in C. by D. to
34. There were so many people _____ for the bus that I couldn’t even get on it!
A. waited B. waiting C. to wait D. wait
35. —I forget both her address and her telephone num-ber.
—_____ We couldn’t invite her.
A. Never mind. B. So what? C. Not at all. D. It’s a pity.
第二节：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四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Four days ago, I was taking a taxi. On the way, I just had the 36 stop at a store to buy something. A woman 37 me to let her hitchhike (免费搭车).
I 38 and picked this woman up. I thought she was too fat; she 39 about 120 kg. But she was very sweet and kind-hearted, so I didn’t 40 .
She was talking to me 41 while going back to her place about how she got everything for her 42. So I thought to myself she must have a happy family. But nothing special 43 yet.
I got to her apartment 44 she needed help getting all the things she got to her place. I just helped her out and while I was 45 the stuff inside her house, I 46 that her husband walked in from the back of the apartment. So she was talking to him in her 47 voice, “Honey, I got you this; Honey, I got you that.” But what I came to notice was that her husband was 48. And then I looked close to how they were together and I knew for that moment I was seeing “TRUE 49 ”.
They cared for each other so 50 and what they looked like was not 51 at all.
I was just deeply 52 by the true love between them.
Sometimes I think about going back to the apart-ment and tell them what I 53 in them and to thank them for sharing their 54 with me, even it is for a few 55. I like the blind couple care about each other; it is a very happy and romantic thing.
36. A. stranger B. waiter C. passenger D. driver
37. A. reminded B. allowed C. asked D. helped
38. A. nodded B. promised C. hesitated D. explained
39. A. carried B. weighed C. supported D. lifted
40. A. remember B. mind C. worry D. leave
41. A. gladly B. nervously C. slowly D. calmly
42. A. friend B. husband C. daughter D. neighbor
43. A. stayed B. continued C. stopped D. happened
44. A. unless B. if C. because D. although
45. A. moving B. searching C. arranging D. observing
46. A. imaged B. noticed C. believed D. expected
47. A. polite B. tired C. high D. sweet
48. A. painful B. foolish C. blind D. ill
49. A. LOVE B. FRIENDSHIP C. JUDGMENT D. STORY
50. A. frequently B. deeply C. thankfully D. quietly
51. A. useful B. clear C. secret D. important
52. A. encouraged B. surprised C. touched D. shocked
53. A. hid B. built C. put D. saw
54. A. lives B. troubles C. food D. memory
55. A. days B. hours C. minutes D. seconds
第三部分： 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）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
One day, a train was approaching the small town of Cheekyville. On the train was a young man with a big suitcase. He was called William Warbler, and he looked very common indeed. What made him most unusual, though, was the fact that whenever he needed to communicate he did it by singing opera (歌剧). It didn’t matter to William whether it was simply a matter of answering a brief greeting, like “good day”. He would clear his voice and respond, “Gooood dayyy to youuuuuuuu... toooooo!”
No one could get a normal spoken word out of him and no one knew how he made his living. As he lived quite simply, always wearing his same old second-hand suit, people often looked down on him.
William had been in Cheekyville for some years, when, one day, word spread round town like wildfire: William had played a role in a very important opera in the nation’s capital. Everyone in the capital went to see it, and it was a great success. Everyone in Cheekyville felt it was a surprise. But something more surprising was, when William was being interviewed by reporters, he answered their questions by speaking rather than singing. And he did it with great manners, and with a clear and pleasant voice.
From that day, William gave up singing at all hours. Now he did it only during his stage appearances and world tours. Some people suspected why he had changed, but others continued believing him to be somewhat mad. They wouldn’t have thought so if they had seen what William kept in his big suitcase. It was a large stone, with a hand-carved (手工雕刻的) message on it. The message said: “Practice, my boy. Practice every second, for you never know when your chance will come.”
Little did people realize that he only got the role in the opera because the director had heard William singing while out buying a newspaper.
56. Why did people in Cheekyville consider William strange?
A. He always carried a big suitcase.
B. He always spoke by singing opera.
C. He always greeted people gladly.
D. He always wore an old suit.
57. Hearing the news about William, people in Cheekyville felt it was _____.
A. unbelievable B. satisfying
C. disappointing D. interesting
58. According to the text, William _____.
A. had no idea whether he should continue doing something mad
B. was nervous and didn’t know how to sing when he was interviewed
C. was selling newspapers when the opera director heard him singing
D. practiced singing whenever possible before he became famous
59. What can we learn from the story?
A. Live and learn.
B. Better late than never.
C. Practice makes the master.
D. Experience is the best teacher.
B
Australia’s koalas could be wiped out within 30 years unless urgent action is taken to stop the losing in population, according to researchers. They say development, climate change and bushfires have all combined to reduce the number of wild koalas sharply.
The Australian Koala Foundation said a recent survey showed the population could have dropped by more than half in the past six years. Previous estimates (估计) put the number of koalas at more than 100,000, but the latest calculations (计算) suggest there could now be as few as 43,000.
The foundation collected field data from 1,800 sites and 80,000 trees to calculate the numbers. In one area in northern Queensland estimated to have 20,000 koalas a decade ago, a team of eight people could not find a single animal in four days of searching.
The foundation said besides problems caused by cutting down forests, hotter and drier conditions because of global warming had reduced the nutritional (营养的) value of their staple food, eucalyptus leaves, leading to poor nutrition for them.
Koalas, which live in the forests in Australia’s east and south, are very fussy (爱挑剔的) about what types of the leaves they eat.
Foundation chief Deborah Tabart said: “The koalas are missing everywhere we look. It’s really no tree, no me. If you keep cutting down trees you don’t have any koalas.”
She is hoping the new figures will persuade the government’s Threatened Species Steering Committee (TSSC) to list the koala as threatened. But committee chairman Bob Beeton said a decision was not likely recently and the koala’s status as one of the country’s favourite animals would not be a factor. “There’s a
number of species which are attractive and people have special feelings towards them. We don’t consider that,” Mr Beeton was reported as saying by the AFP agency.
60. The writer gives the example of the area in northern Queensland in Paragraph 3 to show that _____.
A. the forests are being damaged heavily
B. the environment is being polluted seriously
C. the number of koalas is dropping quickly
D. koalas usually live in wild mountainous areas
61. Global warming is an important cause of koalas’ reduction because _____.
A. koalas can hardly stand the hot weather
B. koalas cannot get enough water to drink
C. the leaves koalas eat are losing nutritional value
D. the leaves koalas eat cannot grow in hot weather
62. According to Bob Beeton, _____.
A. koalas are his favourite animals
B. a decision will be made to protect koalas
C. they needn’t pay special attention to koalas
D. koalas needn’t be protected at all

C
(Reuters) — A group of Chinese scientists and explorers are looking for international help to organize a new search for the country’s answer to Bigfoot, known locally as the “Yeren”, or “wild man”.
Over the years, more than 400 people have said they saw the half-man, half-ape (半猿) Yeren in a remote, mountainous area of the central province of Hubei, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday.
Expeditions (探险) in the 1970s and 1980s found hair, a footprint, and a sleeping nest suspected of belonging to the Yeren, but there has been no conclusive proof, the report added.
Witnesses describe a creature that walks upright and is more than 2 meters tall with grey, red or black hair all over its body, Xinhua said.
Now the Hubei Wild Man Research Association is looking for volunteers from around the world to join them on another expedition to look for the Yeren.
“We want the team members to be devoted, as there will be a lot of hard work in the process,” Luo Baosheng, vice president of the group, told Xinhua.
But the team will have to come up with about 10 million yuan ($1.50 million) first, and is talking to companies and other bodies to secure the money, so there is no timetable yet for when they may start, the report added.
China is no stranger to cryptozoology. There are many tales about mysterious, monster-like creatures in remote parts of the country. For example, Tibetans have long talked about the existence of the Yeti (喜马拉雅雪人), or “Abominable Snowman”, in the high mountains of their snowy homeland.
63. What the volunteers for this expedition need most is _____.
A. experience B. enthusiasm
C. confidence D. devotion
64. The timetable for starting the trip depends on _____.
A. the number of explorers
B. government’s support
C. the finance
D. local people’s guiding
65. According to the text, the underlined word “cryptozoology” in the last paragraph probably refers to _____.
A. the study of mysterious animals
B. the study of human beings
C. dangerous expeditions
D. tourism industry
66. What would be the best title for this text?
A. Volunteers for an expedition needed
B. Scientists to look for China’s Bigfoot
C. International cooperation in finding wild man
D. Yeren appeared in Hubei again
D
As it is Earth Day, it’s necessary for us to look at the current state of nature. What should we do to arouse attention to those endangered animals? Specifically, the situations of certain animal species are either holding on, currently threatened, or “on the brink”. Here are just four such cases:
Despite a compromise proposal (折中的方案) put forth by animal-protecting groups to keep the gray wolf protected under the Ecological Society of America (ESA), state lawmakers have recently given in to farm-ing and hunting complaints (投诉) and have allowed an exception to the ESA’s protection of the wolves. The States of Idaho and Montana will be allowing “controlled hunts” of the wolves. Meanwhile, the wolves in other areas of the country, such as in Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park, face extinction from a more “natural” threat: a lack of females.
In a slightly more positive development, India’s tiger population appears to be growing, modestly. A March 2011 count showed just over 1700 animals in India’s tiger reserves, which is about 300 more than the 2007 count. The situation of tigers in China is not so good, as the native population of tigers has fallen in recent years to near extinction in the wild.
The deadly fungus (真菌) responsible for the extinction of North American bats continues to spread — most recently to Ohio and New Brunswick, Canada. The fungus, first identified in 2006 in the US, is now found in bat populations in 17 US states and 3 Canadian provinces. A recent ecological survey found that 7 species of brown bat are now threatened with extinction.
In quite recent years, Adélie penguins, one of the most populous species of penguin, have been facing an increasing survival challenge from habitat loss caused by climate change. As the Antarctic warms, and the rate of island cover loss continues, the more we will hear about the penguins’threatened survival.
67. The author writes this passage mainly to _____.
A. call on people to protect the endangered animals
B. make readers more interested in animals in zoos
C. ban hunters from getting more benefits from killing animals
D. criticize the government for destroying the eco-logical environment
68. What cause(s) gray wolves’ extinction according to the passage?
A. Lack of food and water.
B. Other animals’ attack.
C. Climate change.