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Module 2
单元测试题
第二部分：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
A
、
B
、
< br>C
和
D
四个选项中，选出最佳选
项。
A
Share your poems, get feedback
(
反馈
) for your poetry, and
enter poetry contests
(
竞赛
). Choose from
the following poetry contests that you can enter.
Get feedback
for every poem that you
write including your contest entries.
How It Works
As a member, you will get feedback for
everything you write. You can enter
poetry contests with cash prizes. You
will be ranked (
分等级
). Write
and see how the
feedback you receive
influences your rank. Since the year 2000 we have
been helping
writers improve their
writing skills.
Poetry Contests in
May
Friendship across
cultures
Write a story about a friend that
opened your world to another culture.
Deadline
: Today!
Technology wars
Write a story on the topic provided in
the announcement.
Deadline
:
Today!
Poetry Contests in
June
Lyrics make the
song
Pen
your newest, and best, song lyric masterpieces and
enter them into this
contest.
NO POETRY ALLOWED FOR
THIS CONTEST!
Must
be song lyrics only.
Deadline
: June 1st
Unexpected romance
Write a story that
brings two people together, two people who don't
necessarily
realize that they belong
together but the audience is rooting for them.
Write a story for
a cash prize.
Deadline
: June 15th
Poetry Contests in July
Newbie writing contest
For our New Arrival
“This Sentence Starts the Story” contest we
challenge you
to write a story that
starts with this sentence: “Hell found me.” A
poetr
y contest with
a cash
prize.
Deadline
: July 3rd
Share your story
A memoir (
回忆录
)
gives us the ability to write about our life. But
you can write
about life with the
option (
选择
) to create and
invent and to make sense of a life, or
part of that life. Write a piece of
your life! A cash prize to the winning entry.
Deadline
: July 10th
21. What do we know about the contests
in May?
A. They are held yearly.
B. They are topic-based.
C.
They offer no feedback.
D. They are
human-focused.
22. Contestants of
“Lyrics make the song”
.
A. can hand in poems
B.
should write song lyrics
C. have a
chance to win a cash prize
D. must
enter their works before July 3rd
23.
What type of writing is this text?
A. A
writing guide.
B. A poetry review.
C. An official report.
D. An
announcement.
B
I once saw a TV
programme at college about a scientist who used
“drift bottles
(
漂流瓶
)”
to mark ocean currents. It was a rather boring
programme. I was more
interested to
read an article about someone who found a bottle
on a beach with a
message inside. Like
the drift bottles, it had been thrown into the sea
—
but 21 years
before. I decided to find out more
about such bottles, and I started work on this
intriguing
(
非常有趣的
) research.
An early message in a
bottle was thrown into the sea by Christopher
Columbus
during a terrible storm. He
wrote about his discovery of America and expected
that
his message would be sent to the
Queen of Spain. He wanted the news to reach her,
but he thought he might be drowned
(
淹死
) in the storm. In fact,
he survived but the
bottle was never
found.
I would be
excited to find a message in a bottle, but in the
16th century, it could
be dangerous. In
those days, the British Navy
(
海军
) used messages in
bottles to send
information about the
enemy. When Queen Elizabeth
Ⅰ
found out that a boatman
had
opened a bottle containing one of
these secret messages, she created a new job,
Uncorker of Ocean Bottles. I was amazed
to learn that anyone else who opened a
bottle could be sentenced to death. It
seems very strange to us now.
A long time ago, before dating websites
existed to help people find partners, a
sailor in Sweden put this message in a
bottle
—
“To
someone beautiful and far away.”
It was
found by a young woman in Sicily. She answered the
message
—
“I am
not
beautiful, but it seems a miracle
(
奇迹
) I found your
message.”
They began to write
letters to each other, and eventually
got married.
Nowadays
it's easy to communicate with anyone anywhere in
the world, but I
think people will
still go on throwing bottles with messages into
the ocean and
guessing where the winds
and the waves will carry them. And how romantic it
would
be to find a bottle with a
message inside!
24. Why did the author
do some research on bottles thrown into the sea?
A. He had found a message in one.
B. He had read an article about one.
C. He had to do a project on them at
college.
D. He had watched a TV
programme about them.
25. Christopher
Columbus put a message into a bottle to .
A. study ocean currents
B.
report his discovery
C. ask for rescue
D. try his luck
26. How did
the author feel about the 16th century punishment
for opening ocean
bottles?
A. Frightening.
B. Amusing.
C. Astonishing.
D. Satisfying.
27. Why did
the young woman in Sicily reply to the Swedish
sailor's message?
A. She wanted to have
a pen friend.
B. She felt she fitted
his description.
C. She failed to
access a dating website.
D. She was
impressed by the bottle's journey.
C
Gene Wolfe is one of the most admired
and respected American science fiction
and fantasy writers. He is also a
productive writer of outstanding short fiction,
which
is collected in many volumes over
the last forty years, most recently in
The Best of
Gene
Wolfe
.
Although Wolfe is not as well-known to
readers as he once was, he has been the
receiver of great praise, including
three World Fantasy Awards, two Nebulas, and
eight Hugo Award nominations
(
提名
). Sci-fi author Harlan
Ellison has called
him,
“no
less than one of the finest, most original writers
in the world today”, and
the
Encyclopedia of Science
Fiction
names him “quite
possibly the most important”
writer in
the field of science fiction.
Born in 1931, New York, Gene Wolfe
moved frequently as a child, but spent
most of his growing-up years in Texas.
Wolfe began writing fiction in 1956, selling
his first story,
The Dead
Man
, to
Sir
magazine in 1965. He produced a vast amount of
short fiction during the 1960s and
1970s, many of which were published in Damon
Knight's
Orbit
anthologies. In 1972
Wolfe's groundbreaking
The Fifth Head
of
Cerberus
appeared. The
story of human conquest
(
征服
) upon two
distant planets,
the book examines
issues of identity, individuality, and the results
of colonialism
upon both the colonized
and the colonizer. The novel was later listed in
David
Pringle's 1985 list of The 100
Best Novels in science fiction for the period
1949―19
84.
Many of his novels,
The
Shadow of the Torturer
included, rely
on a diary or
letter to tell his story.
In addition, Wolfe's early interest in mystery
novels shines
through in his ability to
drop cleverly hidden clues
(
线索
) that allow the reader
to
grasp at the possible narrative
behind the narrative.
By 1984 Wolfe was able to retire and
devote himself full-time to his writing. Yet
despite (
尽管
) all
this, and despite the continuing respect of his
colleagues, his work
has become
somewhat unfamiliar. Wolfe's admirers hope this
fact will be at least
somewhat improved
by his most recent offering,
The Wizard
Knight
, which falls
within
the fantasy type that is currently popular.
28. What is Harlan Ellison's attitude
toward Gene Wolfe?
A. Concerned.
B. Sympathetic.
C. Admiring.
D. Regretful.
29. What do we
know about
The Fifth Head of
Cerberus
?
A. It was well
received.
B. It was Gene Wolfe's first
novel.
C. It was published in
Sir
magazine.
D.
It was co-authored by David Pringle.
30. Which has great influence on Gene
Wolfe's writing style?
A. His
understanding of life.
B. His childhood
experiences.
C. His colleagues'
suggestions.
D. His love for mystery
fiction.
31. What can we infer about
Gene Wolfe from the last paragraph?
A.
His work has become less popular.
B. He
became famous for
The Wizard
Knight
.
C. His fans were
disappointed to some degree.
D. He
stopped fantasy writing after his retirement.
D
The word or phrase that you use to open
your email account may provide a key
to
your personality as well as to your correspondence
(
信件
), according to a British
psychologist. Helen Petrie, professor
of human / computer interaction
(
交互作
用
)
at
City, University in
London, analysed the responses of 1,200 Britons
who
participated in a survey funded
(
提供资金
) by CentralNic, an
Internet domain name
company. The
results were recently published on CentralNic's
website.
Petrie
identifies three main password “types”. “Family
oriented” respondents
numbered nearly
half of those surveyed. These people use their own
name or
nickname, the name of a child,
partner, or pet or a birth date as their password.
They
tend to be occasional computer
users and have strong family ties. “They choose
passwords that symbolize people or
events with emotional value,
” says
Petrie. One
third of respondents were
“fans”, using the names of athletes, singers,
movie stars,
fictional characters, or
sports teams. Petrie says fans are young and want
to attach
themselves to the lifestyle
represented by a celebrity. Two of the most
popular names
were Madonna and Homer
Simpson. The third main group of participants are
“cryptics” because they pick confusing
passwords or a random (
随机的
)
string of
letters, numbers, and symbols
such as
“Jxa+157”. Petrie says cryptics
are the most
security-conscious group.
They tend to make the safest but least interesting
choices.
Passwords
are revealing for two reasons. First, because they
are invented on the
spot. “Since you
are focused on getting into a system, for example
your email account,
you're
likely to write down something that comes quickly
to mind,” says Petrie. “In
this sense
passwords take advantage of things that are just
below the surface of
consciousness.
Also, to remember your password, you pick
something that will stick
in your mind.
You may unconsciously choose something of
particular emotional
importance.”
32.
How did Petrie draw her conclusions?
A.
By observing participants' reactions.
B. By interviewing 1,200 people.
C. By studying survey results.
D. By doing an experiment.
33. What do we know about people whose
passwords are “family oriented”?
A. They probably have large families.
B. They are likely to be animal lovers.
C. They tend to be social and
emotional.
D. They are probably
infrequent computer users.
34. What
does Pet
rie say about the “cryptic”
group?
A. They have strong
safety awareness.
B. They lack
imagination and creativity.
C. They
change their passwords regularly.
D.
They can't think of an interesting password.
35. Why can passwords reveal our
personalities?
A. We choose words we
will easily remember.
B. We are willing
to invent something personal.
C. We are
likely to value important experiences.
D. We pick up a password after careful
consideration.
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。
Jacques
Cartier
French explorer Jacques Cartier is
known chiefly for exploring the St. Lawrence
River and giving Canada its name.
Like many other
European explorers, Jacques Cartier went to North
America
looking for gold, spices
(
香料
), and perhaps a shortcut
to Asia. 36 It
became France's main
route into Canada.
Jacques Cartier was born on December
31, 1491 in Brittany,
a province of
France. In about 1534, the king of France asked
him to lead an
expedition
(
远征
) to the New World in
search of riches and a new route to Asia.
37 There he and his crew
(
船员
) explored the land
around the Gulf of Saint
Lawrence and
met Native Americans. When he sailed back to
France, he took with
him two Native
Americans.
38 This time,
Cartier sailed deeper into the Gulf of Saint
Lawrence and into
the Saint Lawrence
River. The two Native Americans he had taken
before had learned
French, and they
served as guides. About 260 miles inland, Cartier
reached the Native
American village of
Stadacona. Today, the city of Quebec stands near
that place.
Cartier
and his men were among the first Europeans to
winter in what is
now Canada. 39
After returning to France he reported tales told
by the native people
of treasures
farther inland.
Cartier once again crossed the Atlantic
in 1541. 40 When he returned to France
in 1542, he was told that they were
just the common minerals pyrite
(
黄铁矿
) (fool's
gold) and quartz
(
石英
). After his third voyage
Cartier never returned to North
America. He died near Saint-Malo, his
birthplace, on September 1, 1557.
A. A
second voyage came in May 1535.
B.
Instead he found the Saint Lawrence River.
C. The bitter cold surprised them, and
some of the men died.
D. He made three
voyages of exploration in dangerous waters.
E. Cartier was considered one of the
most devoted explorers of the period.
F. He explored further and found what
he thought were gold and diamonds.
G.
In the spring of 1534 Cartier sailed across the
Atlantic Ocean to what is
now Canada.
第三部分：语言知识运用（共两节，满分
< br>45
分）
第一节（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
< br>D
四个选项中，选出可以填入
空白处的最佳选项。
Sleepwalking is most common
during the preteen years and may affect 15 percent
of children. It tends to run in
families. For example, a child is 10 times more
likely to
sleepwalk if a first-degree
41 such as a parent or a sibling
(
兄弟姐妹
) also
sleepwalks. And it's most likely to 42
early in the night, within a few hours of falling
asleep. Most 43 outgrow
(
摆脱
) their sleepwalking by
the late teen years. Here are
some ways
to 44 this nighttime behavior.
Sound an alarm. 45 is an obvious
concern in this situation, so if you don't have
an alarm system in your house to help
46 your child inside, you may want to use an
individual door alarm. Place a gate in
the doorway to your child's 47 . This will keep
the sleepwalker in the room, or he may
make enough 48 trying to move the gate that
you'll catch your child in the act.
Make sure you have safety locks on all doors and
windows 49 outside, so your child
can't leave the house while sleepwalking.
50 your child back to bed. 51
encourage him to go to sleep. 52 sleepwalkers
are in the deepest stage of sleep, they
will be confused if woken. In addition, 53 the
sleepwalkers may disrupt
(
中断
) their sleep, which in
turn may cause their
daytime 54 . So
if your child is sleepwalking, it's 55 to just
tell him to go back to
bed, or gently
lead him to his room.