2015-2016学年高中英语 Unit6 Design Section Ⅱ知能演练 北师大版必修2

Unit6 Design Section Ⅱ

Ⅰ.品句填词

1．The city lay in ____________(ruin) after the earthquake.

2．Do you really think he did it ____________ purpose?

3．This castle ____________(date) back to Roman times.

4．These two events were ____________(relate) to each other.

5．Shirley will try ____________ for the lead in the play.

6．The word “dentist” denotes a doctor____________work is the care of teeth.

7．____________ far as I’m concerned，the beige one is better.

8．He had put ____________ a basket on a pole in the back yard.

9．They have found cave paintings ____________(date) back to thousands of years.

10．He resembles his father very much ____________ character.

答案：1.ruins 2.on 3.dates 4.related 5.out

6．whose 7.As 8.up 9.dating 10.in

Ⅱ.阅读理解

A

Perfect Disaster

All around us buildings shook.We decided to leave the town.We stopped once we had left the buildings behind us.The carts were moving in opposite directions，though the ground was perfectly flat，and they wouldn’t stay in place even with their wheels blocked by stones.

In addition，it seemed as though the sea was being sucked(吸) backwards，as if it were being pushed back by the shaking of the land.Certainly the shoreline moved outwards，and many sea animals were left on dry sand.

Behind us were frightening dark clouds that opened up to show fire—like lightning，but bigger.Not long after that the clouds reached down to the ground and covered the sea.Now came the dust，though still thin.I looked back.A dense cloud appeared behind us，following us like a flood pouring across the land.Then a darkness came that was not like a moonless or cloudy night，but more like being in a closed and unlighted room.You could hear women and children crying，men shouting.Some were calling for parents，others for children; they could only recognize them by their voices.

Darkness and ashes came again，a great weight of them.We stood up and shook the ash off again and again；otherwise we would have been covered with it and crushed by the weight.

At last the cloud became thinner and thinner until it was no more than smoke or fog.Soon there was real daylight.The sight that met our still terrified eyes was

a changed world，buried in ash like snow.

―from Pliny’s letter to a friend

【解题导语】文章是Pliny给朋友写信，介绍地震后的情景，和人们惊慌失措的样子。

1．Pliny left the town after________.

A．the eruption

B．the sky became dark

C．the buildings began shaking

D．the sea went back

解析：选C。细节理解题。根据第一段叙述可知Pliny离开城镇是在房屋开始摇晃以后。

2．The carts wouldn’t stay still because________．

A．the earth was shaking

B．the sea sucked them backwards

C．the wheels had stones under them

D．the lightening frightened the horses

解析：选A。推理判断题。根据第一段最后两句叙述可知答案。

3．The reason why it was dark is that________．

A．it was very late at night

B．clouds of ash covered the sun

C．there was a very bad storm

D．there was no moon that night

解析：选B。根据第三段叙述可知天黑是因为灰尘掩盖了太阳。

4．People tried to find their relations by calling out their names and________．A．listening to their voices

B．running about looking for them

C．shaking the ash off people

D．watching people as they ran past

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第三段最后两句可以推断出选A。You could hear women and children crying，men shouting.Some were calling for parents，others for children; they could only recognize them by their voices.人们想通过叫他们的名字和听他们的声音找到他们的亲戚。故选A。

B

There once was a very honest shopkeeper whose business was to provide goods to the local people.He would open his shop at 8：00 a．m.after having his breakfast and at 1：00 p．m.he would go for lunch.In the evening at 8：30 p．m.he closed his shop to complete his daily routine.

However，to get time for lunch was really difficult because he didn’t have anybody to help him at that time.Therefore，it was his daily practice that whichever customer was shopping at 1：00 p．m.would be asked to oversee(看管) the shop until the shopkeeper returned from lunch.

One day，a group of four thieves planned to steal from his shop while he was gone for lunch.One of the thieves went at 1：00 p．m.to be the customer that would be asked to oversee the shop.

The thief，pretending to be a customer，went in at 1：00 p．m.and started buying several items.As planned，the shop­keeper asked the thief to sit on his chair