1、 Unit2 单元测试题单元测试题 第一部分第一部分 听力（略）听力（略） 第二部分第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分阅读（共两节，满分 50 分）分） 第一节（共第一节（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 37.5 分）分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A DIY Your Own Desserts We offer a wide variety of classes to suit all. A very popular class we are offering these 2 weeks is the class named
2、 “DIY Your Own Desserts”. Can you imagine how happy your beloved one will be when you give him / her your DIY desserts when you celebrate a birthday with him / her? Come and make your own desserts at The Desserts Kitchen. Give your beloved one a surprise! Recipes we are offering: cheesecake, cookies
3、, pudding and a lot more! One-to-one Class (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday) This is a completely hands-on personal cooking experience lasting up to 4 hours, learning 4-5 recipes per lesson. The teacher will guide you through how to prepare and make the food. Youll be able to take home copies of
4、all the recipes and the dishes prepared by yourself. Fees: $300 per class per person Group Course (daily) There are three types of group course: beginners course, intermediate course and advanced course. Below are the details and prices for each course. All classes run daily and each course lasts 2
5、hours. Youll be able to learn 2-3 recipes per lesson. A copy of recipes will be available for you to take home. The teacher will show how to cook different recipes in front of 8-10 people in a friendly and sociable atmosphere. There will be opportunities for students to get hands-on experience in so
6、me of the classes. At the end of the class, you can either eat the meal prepared during the class or take it home with you. Fees: $150 per class per person (beginners course); $250 per class per person (intermediate course); $350 per class per person (advanced course) For application, go to our webs
7、ite to get the application form. You can choose to apply for the class online, via email or hand in your completed form in person. 21. When can you take the One-to-one Class? A. Every day. B. Every Tuesday. C. Every Wednesday. D. Every weekend. 22. What can all the students get from the class? A. Gu
8、ides to 4-5 recipes. B. One-to-one instruction. C. 4-hour hands-on experience. D. The dishes prepared during the class. 23. How much should you pay per class if you want to take the advanced course? A. $150. B. $250. C. $300. D. $350. B Melbourne is where I grew up so it obviously means a lot to me.
9、 Its a city that is constantly developing. Melbourne people, like all Australians, enjoy travelling and their increasing experience of other countries means local tastes have changed. The city has become much more cosmopolitan (世界性的). Someone told me that in Melbourne you can sample the cuisines of
10、seventy-five different countries; I havent managed to eat my way through them all, but its a wonderful challenge. And besides the top-class restaurants, you mustnt miss Melbournes caf culture and wonderful beachside places at St Kilda. If you enjoy your food, you will love exploring local produce ma
11、rkets. One I really like is the Queen Victoria Market on the corner of Victoria and Elizabeth Streets, which sells a huge variety of fruit and vegetables. My friend joined me for my most recent trip home. It was fun showing him all the familiar landmarks, but also going to places Ive never been befo
12、re. From Melbourne, we took the Great Ocean Road, a 150-mile highway that is a scenic delight. We passed through an area that includes the world-famous Twelve Apostles, the Otways rainforest and Bells Beach along with resort (度假胜地) towns such as Torquay and Apollo Bay. Weve still got a pretty extens
13、ive “to do” list, including a trip to Queensland and the Barrier Reef. And although Ive been to Hayman Island a couple of times, Id like to get to know some of the more special resort islands that can be reached only by private boat or helicopter. The flight to Australia is a long one but perfectly
14、comfortable if you follow a routine like mine. I get on board and immediately change into my flight pyjamas (睡衣) one day Im going to work out how to accessorise them with fashion items, but until then I just look like someone wearing pyjamas! I just love to travel. Its an Aussie thing: as a people w
15、e are up for jumping on a plane and going off to explore. I cant wait to see where Ill go next. 24. What does the author think is “a wonderful challenge”? A. Tasting all the foods of different countries in Melbourne. B. Eating at all Melbournes top-class restaurants. C. Travelling to other countries
16、 like an Australian. D. Exploring Australias produce markets. 25. What could the authors friend see when he took the Great Ocean Road? A. Torquay and Hayman Island. B. Bells Beach and Twelve Apostles. C. The Barrier Reef and Otways rainforest. D. Queen Victoria Market and Apollo Bay. 26. What does t
17、he author hope to do? A. Find more rainforests. B. Buy a private boat. C. Go to Hayman Island again. D. Journey to Queensland. 27. What does the author suggest doing when taking a long flight? A. Wearing pyjamas. B. Having fresh fruits. C. Making fashion accessories. D. Sleeping all the way through.
18、 C The night is completely black. But the darkness of a hill inside the crater of Indonesias Kawah Ijen Volcano is lit up like a holiday light show. Tourists gather at the volcano to see what look like glowing blue rivers of lava. But they arent rivers of lava. Theyre rivers of glowing sulfur (硫磺).
19、Glowing red lava flowing from an erupting volcano isnt unusual. Glowing sulfur is. Hot, sulfur-rich gases escape constantly from fumaroles (喷气孔) in Kawah Ijens crater. Scientists were told that sulfur miners on the volcano sometimes use torches to light the sulfur. The blue flames make Kawah Ijen po
20、pular with tourists, who watch from a safe distance. Sulfur is common in volcanic gas, and it can be used to produce many things. But its so plentiful in Kawah Ijens crater that miners make a dangerous daily journey into the crater to collect sulfur from a fumarole. “The local people pipe the gases
21、from the fumarole through pipes,” says scientist John Pallister. He has walked into the crater himself, wearing a gas mask for protection against the clouds of acid that rise from the lake. “They use water from a spring to cool the pipes,” he says. This causes gases to change into liquid sulfur. The
22、 sulfur then cools and hardens into rock. Using this method, miners get more usable rock faster than if they just collect pieces. Miners face another hazard: a huge eruption. Kawah Ijens last big eruption was almost 200 years ago, but the volcano is still active. Indonesian scientists want to find a
23、 way to predict a big eruption in time to keep everyone safe. But the deep acid lake makes it difficult to pick up the usual signals that warn of a coming volcanic eruption. For example, certain gases are usually richer right before an eruption. But in this lake, those gases disappear into the deep
24、water before they can register on the geologists equipment. As scientists search for ways to predict this unusual volcanos behavior, Kawah Ijens blue fires continue to attract audiences who appreciate the volcanos amazing glow. 28. What makes Kawah Ijen attractive to tourists? A. Its special outline
25、. B. Its blue fire. C. Its glowing red lava. D. Its delightful scene in daylight. 29. What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about? A. The daily life of local miners. B. The method of getting sulfur effectively. C. The protection provided for Kawah Ijen. D. The process of researching the inner part of th
26、e crater. 30. What does the underlined word “hazard” in paragraph 4 mean? A. Danger. B. Decision. C. Direction. D. Disappointment. 31. What does the example in paragraph 5 show? A. The advantage of scientists equipment. B. The working rules of scientists research. C. The difficulty of predicting a b
27、ig eruption. D. The necessity of patience in studying an eruption. D Gesturing with the hands while speaking is a common human behavior, but no one knows why we do it. Now, some researchers from the University of Connecticut (UConn) report that gesturing adds emphasis to speech but not in the way re
28、searchers had thought. Gesturing while speaking is common around the world. Many researchers believe that gesturing is either done to emphasize important points, or to explain specific ideas. But there are other possibilities. For example, it could be that gesturing, by changing the size and shape o
29、f the chest, lungs and vocal muscles, affects the sound of a persons speech. A team of UConn researchers decided to test whether this idea was true. The team had volunteers move their dominant hand as if they were cutting wood, while continuously saying “a” as in “cinema.” They were instructed to st
30、abilize ( 使稳定) the “a” sound, trying to make sure that it remained unchanged. Despite those instructions, when the team played recordings to other people, they found the listeners could recognize the changes in the speakers voice. The listeners said they were aware that the changes were caused by th
31、e speakers gestures. When the listeners were asked to move their arms to the changes, their movements matched perfectly with those of the original speaker. Because of the way the human body is constructed, hand movements influence the chest and throat muscles. Gestures are tightly tied to amplitude
32、(振幅). Rather than just using your chest muscles to produce airflow for speech, moving your arms while you speak can add acoustic (声音的) emphasis. And you can hear someones movements, even when theyre trying not to let you. “Some language researchers say that they want language to be all about communi
33、cating the contents of your mind, rather than the state of your body, or how body movements affect language acoustically. But we think that gestures are allowing the sound to carry additional information about bodily movements. Its information of another kind,” says James Dixon, one of the UConn res
34、earchers. 32. What does the UConn researchers study show? A. Gestures can add acoustic emphasis. B. Peoples dominant hand can explain specific ideas. C. Gesturing while speaking proves to be common. D. Amplitude plays a key role in stressing important points. 33. What were the participants required
35、to do during the experiment? A. They must keep a sound steady. B. They must cut wood using a hand. C. They must make some different gestures. D. They must repeat a word several times. 34. What did the research team find out about the listeners? A. They normally responded with different gestures. B.
36、They could hear the speakers gestures. C. They knew little about the speakers changes. D. They were unaware of the acoustic emphasis. 35. How might some language researchers look at the new study finding according to James Dixon? A. They might accept it unwillingly. B. They might be curious about it
37、. C. They might be uncertain of it. D. They might disagree with it. 第二节（共第二节（共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 12.5 分）分） 阅读下面短文， 从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 选项中有两项为多余选项。 The Virginia opossum (弗吉尼亚负鼠) is the only marsupial (有袋动物) found in the United States and Canada. 36 It is one of Earths oldest surviving
38、species. It is about the size of a big house cat, with a triangular head and a cone-shaped nose. The opossum is covered with grayish fur everywhere, except on its ears, scaly feet, and hairless tail. Opossums are not picky eaters. 37 Because opossums eat roadkill, they are often killed while looking
39、 for food. A female opossum gives birth to a tiny, helpless baby about the size of a honeybee. The baby immediately moves into its mothers pouch. 38 In spite of this low survival rate at birth, common opossums are widespread, and not currently threatened or endangered. Bee stings, snake venom (毒液),
40、and other toxins hurt most animals. 39 It takes full advantage of this adaptation by eating snakes regularly. Like other mammals, the opossum carries ticks (蜱) that spread Lyme disease. But unlike other animals, the opossum eats 90% of the ticks that attach to it. 40 The most famous is “playing dead
41、.” When threatened, it may lie down on the ground with eyes closed or staring into space. It becomes stiff (僵硬的) and breathes very slowly. One quick sniff convinces foxes and bobcats to look elsewhere for their dinner. With its marsupial super skills, the humble opossum continues to survive in many
42、habitats, from woods to towns to big cities. A. Their tails arent strong enough for that. B. But the opossum is resistant to the venom of all snakes. C. The Virginia opossum has developed many ways to help it survive. D. While there are up to 20 babies in a litter, less than half survive. E. So thei
43、r bodies dont provide a suitable environment for the virus. F. This ancient animal has been hanging around for at least 70 million years. G. They will eat anything from fruits and insects to small animals to dead animals. 第三部分第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）分） 第一节（共第一节（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1 分，满分分，满分
44、15 分）分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Venice is regarded as the most romantic city of the world. Its a 41 that I always wanted to hold in my arms. Venice is most 42 in autumn with the sparkling (闪烁的) colors of glassy arts and crafts. More than that, a 43 can indulge in (尽情享受) the floati
45、ng and happy feeling in Venice. When we first walked out of Santa Lucia station, my friend and I smiled because we then 44 the reason why people cant deny the 45 of Venice. In the light sunshine of autumn, Venice was so fantastic with the blue colors of the Grand Canal, the 46 of luggage (行李) being
46、pulled by visitors chatting with each other, and of course the smell of 47 in neighboring restaurants that have been 48 guests for ages. We 49 traveled around the Grand Canal by vaporetti (水上巴士). Passing bridges and some small squares, we arrived at Osteria Al Portego restaurant to enjoy a 50 of spe
47、cial dishes, including sarde in saor and baccal alla vicentina. The dishes were 51 cooked following recipes dating right back to the 17th and 18th centuries! Since Italy is 52 for pizza, spaghetti, pasta and lasagna (千层面) worldwide, we tried to taste other dishes to truly 53 the local cuisine. After
48、 lunch, we decided to explore Venice in our own way without a map. We 54 narrow streets, crossed big and small squares and viewed remarkable structures throughout the city. They all appeared so charming that 55 traveler would remark on the citys beauty. 41. A. destination B. chance C. tool D. way 42
49、. A. expensive B. romantic C. simple D. important 43. A. reporter B. master C. visitor D. dealer 44. A. understood B. remembered C. questioned D. explained 45. A. shape B. origin C. beauty D. history 46. A. voices B. alarm C. rings D. sound 47. A. money B. herbs C. foods D. smoke 48. A. selecting B.
50、 attracting C. offering D. recording 49. A. then B. still C. rather D. already 50. A. party B. lunch C. breakfast D. picnic 51. A. immediately B. probably C. specially D. gradually 52. A. famous B. essential C. easy D. available 53. A. protect B. introduce C. examine D. experience 54. A. stretched B