2024秋新教材高中英语单元素能自测3Unit3Familymatters含解析外研版必修第一册

单元素能自测
Ⅰ.完形填空
Mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in November, 2024. The doctor told me he was afraid the next Christmas would be her __1__ one. After getting the news, I wondered what __2__ I could possibly give her to show her how much I __3__ her. Then an idea hit me. I could give her a caring __4__ shower. I put a note in my Christmas cards, asking friends to send Mom and Dad cards to make them __5__.
Well, my little idea spread __6__ thanks to my daughter and social media. She posted the __7__ for cards on her Facebook page. In turn, her friends picked up the idea and __8__ it with their friends.
Near the end of November, I asked Mom __9__ she had been getting any Christmas cards. She said she had got a few. Well, the flood __10__ in early December. Some days the mail carrier delivered a bag of cards to my parents' front door because he couldn't fit them into their __11__.
My husband and I live about a hundred miles from my parents and we __12__ them every week after Mom was diagnosed with cancer. Mom __13__ the cards she received each week so that I could __14__ them, too.We would sit at the kitchen table, and she'd __15__ every card, often saying how __16__ they were.Sometimes Mom had to __17__ because there were too many cards for her to read at a time.
__18__，Mom passed away in early March, 2024.I __19__ when I remember her opening the cards and her total delight while enjoying strangers'__20__.
作者发动挚友给肺癌晚期的妈妈寄卡片，结果卡片如雪花般飞来。

来自生疏人的问候暖和了妈妈在人世最终的日子。

1．A.noisiest B．worst
C．shortest D．last
答案：D
解析：依据“Stage 4 lung cancer”可知，医生担忧作者的妈妈下一个圣诞节会是她的最终(last)一个。

2．A.medicine B．wish
C．gift D．advice
答案：C
解析：依据语境圣诞节要到了，作者想着该送她妈妈什么礼物(gift)。

3．A.needed B．understood
C．loved D．respected
答案：C
解析：作者是想送一个能表达她很爱(love)妈妈的礼物。

4．A.flower B．book
C．phone D．card
答案：D
解析：依据下文可知，作者想让妈妈沐浴在关爱的卡片(card)中。

5．A.thankful B．happy
C．beautiful D．lovely
答案：B
解析：作者希望通过这种方式可以让她的父母兴奋(happy)。

6．A.widely B．slowly
C．carefully D．formally
答案：A
解析：依据后文卡片如雪花般寄来的语境可知，作者的这个想法传播得很广(widely)。

7．A.request B．reason
C．exchange D．charge
答案：A
解析：作者的女儿在Facebook上恳求(request)大家给作者的妈妈寄卡片。

8．A peted B．enjoyed
C．shared D．compared
答案：C
解析：依据后文许多人给妈妈寄来卡片可知，那些挚友又跟他们的挚友共享(share)了那个办法。

9．A.when B．how
C．why D．if
答案：D
解析：依据“She said she had got a few.”可知，作者问她妈妈是否(if)收到了卡片。

10．A.remained B．struggled
C．continued D．began
答案：D
解析：依据“Some days the mail carrier delivered a bag of cards...”可知，这里是指卡片真正起先(begin)大量寄来的是在十二月初。

11．A.house B．mailbox
C．toolbox D．office
答案：B
解析：依据“delivered a bag of cards to my parents' front door”可推知，因为爸妈的邮筒(mailbox)已经装不下了，所以邮差才把一袋卡片放到前门。

12．A.visited B．invited
C．missed D．called
答案：A
解析：依据后文作者跟妈妈一起看卡片可知，作者每周去探望(visit)她父母一次。

13．A.sent B．decorated
C．saved D．wrote
答案：C
解析：妈妈把那些卡片都保留(save)了起来，因此作者可以看到。

14．A.learn B．answer
C．post D．see
答案：D
解析：依据上题解析可知选see。

15．A.buy B．copy
C．read D．play
答案：C
解析：作者的妈妈很喜爱那些卡片，每一张她都会读(read)。

16．A.hard­working B．heart­warming
C．expensive D．strange
答案：B
解析：这些卡片都是关爱妈妈的卡片，所以妈妈觉得它们很暖心(heart­warming)。

hard­working“勤勉的”。

17．A.rest B．cry
C．walk D．sigh
答案：A
解析：依据“because there were too many cards for her to read at a time.”可知，妈妈一次要读太多的卡片，所以她读一些后须要休息(rest)一会儿。

18．A.Suddenly B．Honestly
C．Sadly D．Clearly
答案：C
解析：依据“Mom passed away in early March,2024.”可知应选C项。

19．A.agree B．regret
C．worry D．smile
答案：D
解析：作者的妈妈很喜爱那些卡片，作者向她表达了对她的爱，所以每当回想起妈妈看那些卡片时兴奋的神情时，作者都会微笑(smile)。

20．A.kindness B．happiness
C．praise D．coldness
答案：A
解析：作者的妈妈看那些卡片很兴奋，是因为她感受到了来自生疏人的和善(kindness)。

Ⅱ.阅读理解
My father was poor in expressing his feelings. I knew that my dad loved me, but showed me love in other ways. There was one particular time in my life when this became real to me.
I always believed that my parents had a good marriage, but gradually the strain (惊慌)on my mom and dad's relationship was quite evident. However, I was not prepared
for the day when Dad had decided to leave. All that I could think of was that I was going to become a product of a divorced family. I kept telling myself that it wasn't going to happen. The night before he left, I stayed up in my room for a long time.
I prayed and I cried and I wrote a long letter to my dad. I told him how much I loved him and that I would always and forever be his Krissie. As I folded my note, I stuck in a picture of me with a saying I had always heard, “Anyone_can_be_a_father,_but_it_takes_someone_special_to_be_a_daddy.”Early the next morning, as my dad left our house, I slipped my letter into one of his bags.
Two weeks later, my mother told me that they decided that there were things that both of them could and would change and that their marria ge was worth saving. “Well, Dad said that when he read your letter, it made him cry. It meant a lot to him and I have hardly ever seen your dad cry. After he read your letter, he called to ask if he could come over to talk. Whatever you said really made a difference to your dad.”
A few days later my dad was back. We never talked about the letter. I guessed that it became a secret between us.
本文主要讲解并描述了在父母的婚姻遇到紧急状况时，作者写了一封信给父亲，其真情流露感动了父亲，最终挽救了他们的婚姻。

1．Why did the author's father decide to leave?
A．Because he was poor in showing his feelings.
B．Because his wife was always giving orders.
C．Because serious problems occurred in his marriage.
D．Because the strain on father­daughter relationship was evident.
答案：C
解析：推理推断题。

由其次段的“gradually the strain(惊慌) on my mom and dad's relationship was quite evident”可知，爸爸离开是因为婚姻中出现了严峻的问题，因此C项正确。

2．How did the author feel when her father decided to leave?
A．Excited. B．Annoyed.
C．Doubtful. D．Upset.
答案：D
解析：推理推断题。

依据其次段中的“I kept telling myself that it wasn't going to happen.”和“I prayed and I cried”可推断，爸爸的离开让作者倍感难过，因此选D 项。

3．The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means ________.
A．a man may have to give up a lot to be a real father
B．a man may have to give in to his wife to be a daddy
C．a man who raises special children can become a real father
D．a man who develops some special talents can be a real father
答案：A
解析：句意理解题。

依据本句的字面意思“任何人都可以成为一位父亲，但是并非人人都能成为一个真正的父亲”，再联系文章内容可推想，成为真正的父亲是要懂得放弃与付出，因此答案为A项。

4．What's the main idea of the passage?
A．How the author's parents enjoyed a happy marriage.
B．How a letter saved the author's parents' marriage.
C．The divorce had a great influence on the author.
D．The author had a good relationship with her parents.
答案：B
解析：主旨大意题。

本文主要讲解并描述了在父母的婚姻遇到紧急状况时，作者写了一封信给父亲，其真情流露感动了父亲，最终挽救了父母的婚姻。

因此正确答案为B项。

Ⅲ.概要写作
阅读下面短文，依据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests that they also learn from watching lips.Florida scientists discovered that at around the age of 6 months, babies begin studying mouths when people talk to them.“In order to imitate you, babies have to figure out how to shape their lips to make that particular sound they're hearing，”explains David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic University, who led the study published on Monday.
Scientists have long known that babies also look to speakers' faces for important social cues (示意) about what they are hearing. Just like adults, they're drawn to the eyes, which express important messages like the emotion connected to words. David Lewkowicz went a step further, wondering whether babies look to the lips for cues as well，like how adults lip­read what someone's saying at a noisy party. So he and his student Amy Hansen­Tift tested nearly 180 babies, dividing them into different groups according to their ages (4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 months)．They showed videos of a woman speaking in English or Spanish to babies of English speakers. They found a shift in attention: When the speaker used English, the 4­month­olds looked mostly at her eyes; the 6­month­olds spent equal amount of ti me looking at the eyes and the mouth. The 8­ and 10­month­olds studied mostly the mouth; at 12 months，attention started shifting back toward the speaker's eyes.
“It's a pretty interesting finding，” says University of Iowa psychology professor Bob McMurray, who also studies speech development. The research offers more evidence that quality facetime with the baby is very important for speech development—more than, say, playing the latest baby DVD.
Studying how babies learn to speak isn't a curiosity. Scientists want to know how to encourage that process，especially if it doesn't seem to be happening on time. And, it helps them understand how the brain wires itself early in life for learning
all kinds of things.
New_research_finds_that_babies_acquire_the_ability_of_talking_not_only_from _listening_but_also_from_lip­watching_(要点1)_and_
researchers_want_to_prove_that.(要点2)Experiments_show_that_babies_
at_different_development_stages_pay_attention_to_different_parts_of_face_of_the _speakers.(要点3)Thus,_it's_evident_that_face­to­face_
communication_with_the_baby_is_essential_for_speech_development.(要点4)Furthermore,_it_helps_scientists_understand_how_babies'_other_
abilities_develop_at_an_early_stage_and_scientists_wonder_how_to_motivate_it.(要点5)。