安徽省芜湖市高一下学期单元检测卷（四）英语

The cunning fox tricked the little rabbit _________ picking up the carrots in the field and then caught it.

Some of this heat near the earth’s surface _________ make electricity.

Are you ________ of the mistakes you made in your final English test?

–No.3 player runs quite fast.    --Yes, but there’s no doubt _____ Liu Xiang will win in the end.

There was never any time for Kate to feel lonely, _____ she was an only child.

The teacher reported to the headmaster how the class meeting ________ the  day before.

I am sure nobody will ________ his old trick.

I found the raincoat where I had ______ it.

He was taken away by the police. He _________ a very serious crime.

Does John know any other foreign language _____ French?

He said to me with an _________ look on his face.

It wasn’t until nearly a month later ________ I received the manager’s reply

. -What is the book mainly about?
-Well, it ________ a little boy who suffered a lot during the war.

He told us he _____ a concert _____ .

— How often do you eat out?      —      , but usually once a week.

二、完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41—60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was twelve years old, my family were the first black people to move into an all-white part of Grand Rapids, Michigan．Many of our new __16  weren’t very welcoming．Some of the adults said __17   that we should return where we came __18 ．The children sometimes threw stones at me or drove me home from __19 ．
Most of my teachers __20   took no notice of me, but not Dorothy Bean, my history teacher．Miss Bean was angry at how badly I was being __21  ,but she didn’t say this to me．Miss Bean __22   her respect for me by teaching me just like __23   else．Instead of being unnoticed, I was given a __24   to show that I was smart．Miss Bean was the first teacher who ever made me __25 myself．She insisted on knowing what I thought about difficult questions．Was Thomas Jefferson __26   to buy Louisiana from France?__27  ?She expected me to have an opinion and to be able to __28   it up．Miss Bean was teaching me that thinking for yourself was the real key to __29 ．
One day, when I was not paying attention in class, Miss Bean suddenly __30   an eraser at me．Unbelievably, the eraser hit me right on the hand and __31   my pencil flying．The whole class was __32  at first, then started laughing．This incident became famous in the school and,__33   it happened to me, the students wanted to get to __34   me．So that's the story of how Dorothy Bean made me her target, and how I became just another __35  in school．
16．A．friends             B．schoolmates       C．teachers            D．neighbors
17．A．kindly       B．surprisingly       C．angrily            D．happily
18．A．to                 B．from            C．for               D．in
19．A．school       B．street            C．office             D．downtown
20．A．hardly       B．simply           C．never              D．only
21．A．taught       B．considered              C．welcomed          D．treated
22．A．kept         B．expected          C．showed             D．refused
23．A．anyone       B．anywhere         C．someone            D．wherever
24．A．question      B．chance           C．test               D．place
25．A．worry about  B．look about        C．work for           D．think for
26．A．necessary     B．important         C．right              D．known
27．A．How        B．Where           C．When             D．Why
28．A．back         B．set              C．put               D．give
29．A．respect        B．education          C．friendship         D．children
30．A．aimed        B．threw             C．passed            D．found
31．A．sent         B．left               C．made             D．sprang
32．A．excited       B．frightened         C．moved            D．shocked
33．A．so           B．then             C．because            D．whether
34．A．ask           B．know            C．praise             D．understand
35．A．kid           B．problem          C．friend            D．example

三、阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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，并在答题卡
上将该项涂黑。
Let us begin by saying what causes our dreams. Our dreams do not come from another world. They are not messages from some outside source .They are not a look into the future, either.
All our dreams have something to do with our feelings, fears, longings, wishes, needs and memories. If a person is hungry, or tired, or cold , his dreams may include a feeling of this kind. If the covers on your body, such as a quilt or a blanket, have slipped off your bed, you may dream that you are sleeping on ice or in snow. The material for the dream you will have tonight is likely to come from the experience you have today.
So the subject of your dream usually comes from something that has effect on you while you are sleeping（feeling of cold, a noise, a discomfort, etc.）and it may also use your past experiences and the wishes and the interests you have now. This is why children are likely to dream of fairies, older children of school examinations, hungry people of food, home-sick soldiers of their families and prisoners of freedom.
To show you how this is happening while you are asleep and how your needs and wishes can all be joined together in a dream, here is the story of the experiment. A man was asleep and the back of his hand was rubbed with a piece of absorbed cotton. He would dream he was in hospital and his charming girlfriend was visiting him, sitting on the bed and feeling gently his hands!
There are some scientists who have made a special study of why we dream, what we dream and what those dreams mean. Their explanation of dreams, though a bit reasonable, is not accepted by everyone but it offers an interesting approach to the problem. They believe that dreams are mostly expressions of wishes that did not come true. In other words dreaming is a way of having your wishes carried out.
36. From the passage we know that our dreams       .
A. are imagination of our daily life              B. are man’s curious look into the future
C. have nothing to do with our feelings              D. are to some degree connected with our feelings
37. In your dream when you feel like eating something it indicates（暗示）that       .
A. you are in a state of being cold    B. you are in a state of being tired
C. you are in a state of hunger       D. you should have had your dinner that day
38. Older children often dream of examinations probably because        .
A. they are interested in exams       B. they are often worried about their studies
C. they hope for better life          D. they show much interest in their studies
39. Some scientists’ explanation of dreams         .
A. is not widely accepted though a bit reasonable        B. gives an exact description of our life
C. provides us with information of dreams                 D. is of no use for us

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40. Some of the four books were illustrated in order to_________
A. help readers understand them           B. persuade readers to buy them
C. reduce the cost of them                D. make them suitable to different readers
41. If you buy the four books on April 1, 2006, your will have to pay_______ for them.
A. $129.38                    B. $111.93        C. $64.69         D. $34.90
42. The purpose of the passage is to _______.
A. introduce the four books to readers      B. help children to learn English
C. enrich students knowledge about nature  D. sell the four books to students

Have you ever wondered why birds sing? Maybe you thought that they were just happy. After all, you probably sing or whistle when you are happy.
Some scientists believe that birds do sing some of the time just because they are happy. However they sing most of the time for a very different reason. Their singing is actually a warning to other birds to stay out of their territory.
Do you know what a ‘territory’ is? A territory is an area that an animal, usually the male, claims (声称) as its own. Only he and his family are welcome there. No other families of the same species are welcome. Your yard and house are your territory where only your family and friends are welcome. If a stranger should enter your territory and threaten you, you might shout. Probably this would be enough to frighten him away.
If so, you have actually scared the stranger away without having to fight him. A bird does the same thing. But he expects an outsider almost any time, especially at nesting（筑巢）season. So he is screaming all the time, whether he can see an outsider or not. This screaming is what we call a bird’s song, and it is usually enough to keep an outsider away.
Birds sing loudest in the spring when they are trying to attract a mate and warn others not to enter the territory of theirs.
You can see that birds have a language all their own. Most of it has to do with attracting mates and setting up territories.
43. Some scientists believe that most of the time bird’s singing is actually________.
A. an expression of happiness                     B. a way of warning
C. an expression of anger                    D. a way of greeting
44. What is a bird’s ‘territory’?
A. A place where families of other species are not accepted.
B. A place where a bird may shout at the top of its voice.
C. An area for which birds fight against each other.
D. An area which a bird considers to be its own.
45. Why do birds keep on singing at nesting season?
A. Because they want to invite more friends.
B. Because their singing helps frighten outsiders away.
C. Because they want to find outsiders around.
D. Because their singing helps get rid of their fears.
46. How does the writer explain bird’s singing?
A. By comparing birds with human beings.         B. By reporting experiment results.
C. By describing birds’ daily life.                       D. By telling a bird’s story.

I really love my job because I enjoy working with small children and like the challenges and awards from the job. I also think my work is important. There was a time when I thought that I would never have that sort of career.
I wasn’t an excellent student because I didn’t do much schoolwork. In my final term I started thinking what I might do and found I didn’t have much to offer. I just accepted that I wasn’t the type to have a career.
I then found myself a job, looking after two little girls. It wasn’t too hard at first. But the problems began when I agreed to live in, so that I would be there if my boss had to go out for business in the evening. We agreed that if I had to work extra hours one week, she’d give me time off the next. But unfortunately, it didn’t often work out. I was getting extremely tired and fed up because I had too many late nights and early mornings with the children.
One Sunday, I was in the park with the children and met Megan who used to go to school with me. I told her about my situation. She suggested that I should do a course and get a qualification if I wanted to work with children. I didn’t think I would be accepted because I didn’t take many exams in school. She persuaded me to phone the local college and they were really helpful. My experience counted for a lot and I got a part-time course. I had to leave my job with the family and got work helping out at a kindergarten.
Now I have got a full-time job there. I shall always be thankful to Megan. I wish I had known earlier that you could have a career even if you aren’t top of the class at school.
47. What is the author’s present job?
A. Working part-time in a college.                     B. Taking care of children in a family.
C. Helping children with their schoolwork.  D. Looking after children at a kindergarten.
48. When staying with the two girls’ family, the author _______.
A. was paid for extra work                      B. often worked long hours
C. got much help from her boss             D. took a day off every other week
49. What has the author learned from her own experiences?
A. Less successful students can still have a career.
B. Qualifications are necessary for a career.
C. Hard work makes an excellent student.
D. One must chose the job she likes.
50. What does the underlined sentence probably mean?
A. The boss didn’t go out to work very often.
B. The boss often failed to keep his agreement with the writer.
C. The writer couldn’t go out to find another job.
D. The writer seldom had any chance to work outside.

四、根据中文完成短语: （共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分）
51. ____________（接受我的建议）, you will surely win.
52. It seemed that the teacher ____________（对……满意）his answer, for his head was nodding with satisfaction all the time.
53. It is very important and necessary to warn people especially the young to ____________（远离）drugs.
54. After a long and heated discussion, the group finally ____________（达成共识）the new program of promoting their products.
55. Though high in price, those products ____________（高质量）always sell well in the markets full of fierce competition.
56. The book on Shenzhou Ⅵ is ____________（销售中）now. Why not go and have a look this afternoon?
57. Wherever you are and whenever it is, we should always ____________ safety ____________（记在心里）.
58. The dictionary I bought today ____________（相似）the one you bought last week but is of a different price.
59. ____________（依我看）, if taken according to the directions, this medicine has no side effect to people.
60. We should be pay special attention to the development of the situation. We should also tell our friends to be careful of it ____________（也）.

五、单词拼写: （共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分）
61. In order to c_____________ his son of the terrible disease, the old woman sold out all she had to collect money.
62. He is c_____________ and always comes up with new ideas.
63. He proves to be a true friend of mine. Whenever I am in trouble, he is always the person a_____________ to give you a hand.
64. This dictionary is just the one he r_____________ to me the other day and I think it is quite good for a middle school student.
65. You can come and have a chat with me whenever you feel it is c_____________ to you.
66. What is said in an advertisement should __________（迎合）to needs of the audience.
67. You said that your idea was the best among others, but it is important that you should try to find some __________（支撑的）reasons.
68 This new product was very well advertised on TV and its sale rose __________（平稳地）up till now.
69. He could have grown fatter but he is too __________（挑剔）about food.
70. The __________（平均）price of the micro-wave oven in the supermarket was no more than $ 70.

六、书面表达
假如你叫林涛，是一名中学生，你对部分同学迷于玩电子游戏(video games)的现象很着急，便向一家英文报社编辑部寄了一封信，阐述了玩电子游戏的坏处。
要点如下：
1．电子游戏在学生中很流行，有些学生整天玩电子游戏，忘了做作业，甚至逃学（play truant）。
2．玩电子游戏要花很多钱，有的经常向父母要钱，有的经常向同学借钱，有的甚至偷同学的钱。
3．过分玩电子游戏使店主受益，对同学的学习和健康不利。
4．希望政府采取措施（take measures to do something）加以制止。
注意：1．词数100左右
2．全文包括以上内容，但不要逐字翻译
3．信的开头已给出。
Dear editor,
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