外研版英语选修九 Module 2 单元练习 含答案

外研版英语选修九Module 2 单元练习
第一卷（选择题，共85分）
第一部分听力（共两小节，满分20分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。

录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1.What is the weather like today?
A.Rainy.
B. Sunny.
C. Windy.
2.How long is the restaurant open every day?
A.About three hours.
B. About seven hours.
C. About ten hours.
3.What does the woman ask the man to do?
A.Meet Anna.
B. Send an e-mail.
C. Answer a call.
4.Who is the woman?
A. A doctor.
B. A chemist.
C. A computer programmer.
5.Where did the man put the old cases?
A.In the yellow boxes.
B. In the drawers.
C. In the bookcase.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6.Where is Monica?
A.In the Personnel Department.
B. In a meeting room.
C. In the man’s office.
7.What does the man want Monica to do?
A.Talk with Kelly.
B. Return to her office.
C. Ring him back.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8.What is the relationship between the speakers?
A.Host and guest.
B. Boss and employee.
C. Interviewer and interviewee.
9.What does the man think of his last boss?
A.Boring.
B. Respectable.
C. Demanding.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.Where is the waterfall?
A.In Galina Park.
B. In Waleria Park.
C. In National Park.
11.When can people visit the waterfall?
A.In April.
B. In February.
C. In January.
12.How high is the waterfall?
A.10 meters.
B. 28 meters.
C. 42 meters.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.How did Erica first get to know koalas?
A.She saw them on TV.
B.Her parents told her about them.
C.She saw them on her first trip to Australia.
14.What does Erica say about koalas?
A.They look like bears.
B.They eat a little every day.
C.They are not good at climbing trees.
15.How long can koalas live?
A.7 years.
B. 10 years.
C. 17 years.
16.What mainly leads to a decrease in the number of koalas?
A.People kill them for their fur.
B.They get injured by other animals.
C.Their living places are damaged.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.When did the Weston Museum of science first open?
A.In 1859.
B. In 1899.
C. In 1951.
18.When is the museum open for 12 hours?
A.On Thursday.
B. On Friday.
C. On Saturday.
19.What is the subject of the children’s activity this week?
A.Planets.
B. Photography.
C. Travel.
20.What does the speaker remind people?
A.The museum car park isn’t open until July 24.
B.The cafe will open in a few days.
C.The museum is under repair now.
第二部分：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
21. In his lecture, the professor referred to the belief ________ the elderly are wise, ________ is particularly dominant(支
配的) in Chinese culture.
A. that; one
B. that; one that
C. which; which
D. that; that
22. Every time he ________ an order, he received a failure notice, which either informed him that tickets were sold out or
that too many people were waiting in front of him.
A．registered B．underlined C．submitted D. substituted
23.______ all the difficulties that his disease has caused him, Stephen Hawking has achieved more than many healthy
people do.
A. In spite of
B. In terms of
C. On account of
D. With regard to
24. Consumers, whose purchases ________ about 70% of economic activity, face a variety of challenges.
A. take up
B. account for
C. hold up
D. turn over
25. Though it is 20 years ______ we last met, I still remember the scene ______ we got separated on a rainy day.
A. before; where
B. since; where
C. since; when
D. before; which
26. Beijing was under an “ orange” smog alert on Feb. 24, which marks the first time the second-highest warning level of
a new system introduced last year_____.
A. has been raised
B. raised
C. has risen
D. rose
27. “Qianshui(潜水)”, which ______ means diving, now refers to someone who only views the postings across the
website but never makes any comments.
A.deliberately
B. originally
C. accidentally
D. ridiculously
28. To tell you the truth, the explosion in Tianjin and the damage ____ resulted in set me thinking a lot.
A. which
B. that
C. it
D. what
29. ---I feel terrible. I didn’t do well in the math test.
---__________. You’re already making progress and will surely learn it well.
A. Don’t be silly.
B. Don’t take things for granted
C. Don’t put the cart before the horse
D. Don’t take it too hard
30. ---Tina failed again in the math exam!
--- But it was an easy test and she _______
A. could pass
B. must have passed
C. would pass
D. should have passed
31. The expression “APEC Blue” took off with the public after the APEC meetings, ______ to the amazing, temporary,
blue skies over Beijing.
A. referred
B. having referred
C. to have referred
D. referring
32. Hotels sell service rather than a product, or, to ______ it another way, service is their product.
A. put
B. place
C. set
D. speak
33. _____ girls can be ______ they would like to be, whether it is a pilot or an astronaut, is being accepted all around the
world.
A. What; whomever
B. That; whatever
C. If; whoever
D. 不填；whatever
34. According to the library rules, no one _____ take any magazine out of the reading room.
A. need
B. may
C. shall
D. will
35. According to international standards, a country or region is considered to have an ‘aging society’ ______ the number
of people over 60 reaches 10% or more of its population.
A. unless
B. once
C. though
D. before
第三部分: 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
People often ask me how I write with four children.
More often than not, my stories are pieced together, written, and edited in a series of 36 moments. If I’m working while the kids are home, I have the added 37 of tuning out their chaos. I’ll write and write until I fall under a spell(着迷), and just when I was getting 38 , it happens—Camille will 39 into my office wearing a big smile—and a smelling diaper (尿布).
I wish I had a daily 40 , a solid time no one can interrupt, but I don’t. I may go days or even weeks without writing. I hate these 41 , but much as I like to believe the world needs my writing, my daughters need me much more. So for now I write when I can. While this arrangement works, I sometimes 42 how productive I’d be if my life wasn’t stop-and-go. With time on my side, I could be a writing machine, 43 at once what would normally take me months.
This leads me to a question I find 44 to all parents: Do kids hold back or 45 our dreams? Children are needy by nature, and regardless of how much 46 we show them, they want more. By the time we tend to them, we’re tired out—and 47 in the mood to follow our dream. They push our personal pleasures 48
and slow us down, making tortoises out of hares.
On the other hand, children add a richness to our lives that I believe inspires better work, thus 49 for time we lose. As a writer, I don’t find inspirati on sitting at my computer. 50 , I find it when I’m out living, and the 51 I take because of my children—going to the ballpark, birthday parties, even doctor visits—put me in 52 with people who constantly set off new ideas. Many ideas arise through 53 conversation, which can 54 me like thunder. Immediately, I’ll make a mental note, knowing that someday I’ll use that 55 in a story. 36．A. quiet B. stolen C. critical D. precious
37．A. courage B. challenge C. instruction D. priority
38．A. direction B. invention C. inspiration D. application
39．A. crawl B. slip C. jog D. tiptoe
40．A. habit B. method C. technique D. routine
41．A. breaks B. days C. weeks D. needs
42．A. doubt B. believe C. deny D. wonder
43．A. operating B. working C. accomplishing D. running
44．A. challenging B. remaining C. relevant D. controversial
45．A. prevent B. inspire C. awake D. interpret
46．A. attention B. effort C. concentration D. time
47．A. hardly B. practically C. totally D. fairly
48．A. ahead B. back C. aside D. down
49．A. allowing B. turning C. calling D. compensating
50．A. Still B. Instead C. Therefore D. Consequently
51．A. courses B. chances C. risks D. paths
52．A. harmony B. agreement C. line D. contact
53．A. brief B. normal C. casual D. intelligent
54．A. explode B. hit C. destroy D. multiply
55．A. piece B. talk C. scene D. acquaintance
第四部分：阅读理解(共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）
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D. Colorado Springs
57. If you rent Lake Arrowhead, you can ________.
A. walk on the beach
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B
Healthy knees aren’t the main consideration in choosing high heels, but new research says chunky heels are just as bad for the knees as spindly stilettos (细高跟鞋). “It takes a long time to feel the effects of knee osteoarthritis (骨关节炎) --- and once you do, it is too late,” said Dr. Casey Kerrigan, leading researcher of the study and associate professor at Harvard Medical School’s department of physical medicine. “I compare it to smoking --- one cigarette is not painful, but over a lifetime it is. Wide-heeled shoes feel comfortable, so women wear them all day long, “Kerrigan said. “They are better for your feet than stiletto heels, but just as bad for your knees.”
In the study, researchers had twenty women wear two pairs of shoes with three-inch heels, one with a narrow heel and the other with a thick one. The scientists compared how much pressure was put on the women’s knees by both types of shoes. The women also walked barefoot to test normal pressure. The scientists found that both types of shoes applied equal amounts of pressure to the knees. Compared with walking barefoot, the heels increased pressure on the inside of the knee by 26 percent. Increased pressure on the knee eventually leads to arthritis(关节炎), experts say.
The idea that high heels are bad for your health isn’t new --- scientists have warned women for years that they contribute to problems ranging from corns to hammer toes, tendonitis, knee pain, sprained (扭伤) ankles and back problems. But in 1998, Kerdgan and a team of Harvard researchers were the first to link high heels and knee osteoarthritis, a painful joint disease that destroys cartilage (软骨) surrounding the knee. The first study looked only at stiletto heels, and Kerrigan said she wanted to study the chunky high-heeled shoes she noticed many women wearing. “This study confirms what we all intuitively (直觉地) know that high-heeled shoes of any kind are not good for our health,” said Dr. Glenn Pfeifer, a San Francisco doctor and member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons who was not connected to the study.
58. We learn from the passage that women choose chunky heels because _______.
A. they want to walk comfortably
B. chunky heeled shoes are cheaper than stiletto heeled pairs
C. chunky heels do less harm to knees
D. chunky heels are not painful at all
59. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. people got to know the high heels are bad for health recently
B. people have known the high heels are bad for health for years
C. people haven’t known the high heels are bad for health yet
D. people will be warned that the high heels are bad for health soon
60. The best title for the passage may be ________.
A. Taking Healthy Knees into Consideration
B. High-heels Do Harm to Knees
C. Chunky Heels and Stiletto Heels
D. When Wearing High-heels
C
Overcoming feelings of defeat is not only possible, but very important as we want to prevent the “other side” of being bipolar(两极性的) getting you down. Such feelings and thoughts can cause a major depressive episode(抑郁阶段)；so we must look at the events and possibly poor decisions and impulse behaviors of the manic(狂躁的)episode from a balanced and objective view. We can then correct and improve our prevention and action plans to prevent another manic episode from being caused in the future.
There are two areas that you will want to focus on while recovering from a manic episode. The first is self-education. And the second is the education of your family and friends. Your self-education process will consist of taking an objective look at recent events. Take note of what you were thinking and feeling. Note your triggers. Track your recent behaviors, especially the ones that might have caused negative responses from family and friends. You cannot change anything in the past or the events that have led to here and now. But you can move them aside from yourself and look at the events from an objective point of view and assess the distorted(扭曲的) thoughts that you have had. You can then assess what caused distorted thinking that might have led to bad behaviors. You can assess what makes you feel vulnerable (易受伤害的). From this information you can change your wellness and action plan and make adjustments to your lifestyle and relationships to prevent another manic episode or to teach other people how to help you.
This leads us to the second area of focus---educating your friends and family. There is no better time than the present for this. Consider setting an appointment with your therapist(精神治疗家) and asking your most trusted family member, your spouse or a very trusted friend, to come with you to an appointment. During this appointment, you will have your therapist share with your loved one to receive first-hand education about your condition and they will clearly know that you need support and understanding. This is beyond simple psycho-education about bipolar disorder and what bipolar disorder is. Indeed, your family, loved ones, spouse and friends, will benefit from learning this and I encourage you to encourage them to attend family support groups where they will learn more and more. but in addition to this, appointments with your therapist can make a huge difference. Over time, you might even be able to persuade your family to get involved in family therapy with you.
Remember, your past does not define you. Your mental illness does not define who you are as a human being. You were born with innate (先天的)gifts and talents. You are a good human being and you deserve to be treated as such. So, you must also treat yourself with love, respect and understanding. Often, it is the sufferer who is hardest on himself or herself. Check your negative thoughts and thoughts of self-judgment and criticism, and use your positive thinking skills to change those. Get back into the world, volunteer and visit friends.
61. What is the “other side” of being bipolar?
A. Depressive and manic episodes.
B. Ideas and feelings in your inner heart.
C. The positive aspects of your emotions.
D. A balanced and objective view of point.
62. What does the underlined word “triggers” refer to?
A. The devices which cause explosion.
B. Factors that cause something to happen.
C. Changes that your self-education brings.
D. Behaviors that influence your wellness.
63. How to have self-education when you have feelings of defeat?
A. Contacting your therapist and following his / her advice.
B. Facing reality and adjusting yourself and the relationship with others.
C. Refusing those negative feelings and strong responses from others.
D. Ignoring your past bad behaviors and asking other people for help.
64. What is the purpose of the education of your family and friends?
A. To tell them that your situation is not awful at all.
B. To ask your therapist to persuade them to be strong.
C. To beg them not to give you up or look down on you.
D. To let them know your situation and help you get through it.
65. What does the last paragraph mainly tell us to do?
A. Try to get back into your familiar world.
B. Believe in yourself and reduce your stress.
C. Participate in the volunteer work actively.
D. Believe that there will be no difficulty with the help of friends.
D
It was eleven o'clock that night when Mr. Pontellier returned from his night out. He was in an excellent humor, in high spirits, and very talkative. His entrance awoke his wife, who was in bed and fast asleep when he came in. He talked to her while he undressed, telling her anecdotes and bits of news and gossip that he had gathered during the day. She was overcome with sleep, and answered him with little half utterances.
He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, showed so little interest in things which concerned him and valued so little his conversation.
Mr. Pontellier had forgotten the candies and peanuts that he had promised the boys. Still, he loved them very much and went into the room where they slept to take a look at them and make sure that they were resting comfortably. The result of his investigation was far from satisfactory. He turned and shifted the youngsters about in bed. One of them began to kick and talk about a basket full of crabs.
Mr. Pontellier returned to his wife with the information that Raoul had a high fever and needed looking after. Then he lit his cigar and went and sat near the open door to smoke it.
Mrs. Pontellier was quite sure Raoul had no fever. He had gone to bed perfectly well, she said, and nothing had made him sick. Mr. Pontellier was too well familiar with fever symptoms to be mistaken. He assured her the child was burning with fever at that moment in the next room.
He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his business. He could not be in two places at once; making a living for his family on the street, and staying home to see that no harm done to them. He talked in a dull, repeated and insistent way.
Mrs. Pontellier sprang out of bed and went into the next room. She soon came back and sat on the edge of the bed, leaning her head down on the pillow. She said nothing, and refused to answer her husband when he questioned her. When his cigar was smoked out, he went to bed, and in half a minute was fast asleep.
Mrs. Pontellier was by that time thoroughly awake. She began to cry a little, and wiped her eyes on the sleeve of her nightdress. She went out on the porch, where she sat down and began to rock herself in the chair.
It was then past midnight. The cottages were all dark. There was no sound except the hooting of an old owl and the
everlasting voice of the sea, which broke like a mournful lullaby (催眠曲) upon the night.
The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier's eyes that the damp sleeve of her nightdress no longer served to dry them. She went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms.
She could not have told why she was crying. Such experiences as had just happened were not uncommon in her married life. They seemed never before to have weighed much against the abundance (充足) of her husband's kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be self-understood.
An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with vague pain. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit there inwardly scolding her husband, expressing sadness about Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself.
The mosquitoes succeeded in driving away a mood which might have held her there in the darkness half a night longer.
The following morning Mr. Pontellier was up in good time to take the carriage which was to convey him to the ship. He was returning to the city to his business, and they would not see him again at the Island till the coming Saturday. He had regained his calmness, which seemed to have been somewhat weakened the night before. He was eager to be gone, as he looked forward to a lively week in the financial center.
66. Why didn’t Mr. Pontellier’s wife show ed much interest in his conversation?
A. She was tired of her husband’s anecdotes and gossip.
B. She was sleepy when he returned home.
C. She disliked it that her husband came home once a week.
D. Her husband contributed little to the family.
67. How do yo u understand the sentence “Mrs. Pontellier sprang out of bed and went into the next room”?
A. She reacted rudely against her husband’s dull, insistent talking.
B. She couldn’t put up with her husband’s smoking any longer.
C. She feared that her child should have developed a fever.
D. Her child was talking about a basket full of crabs.
68. What does the underlined word “they” refer to?
A. The husband and wife
B. Experiences
C. Tears
D. Her face, eyes, arms
69. Which of the following concerning the husband is right?
A. The husband cared much about his wife’s feelings.
B. He lay the burden of child care altogether on his wife.
C. He felt grateful to his wife for her attendance to the family.
D. The wife blamed her unfortunate fate on her husband.
70. Why did the writer mention “the mosquitoes” in the last paragraph but one?
A. To indicate that it was a summer’s night.
B. To symbolize an annoying night.
C. To help the plot to end an event.
D. To represent the writer’s personality--- hard working.
第二部分（非选择题，共35分）
第五部分：任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下面的短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

In all fields of life, and particularly within the commercial world, when managed effectively, competition can deliver a wealth of benefits. It can provide individuals with the motivation they need to work hard and achieve objectives. It can encourage effective teamwork as managers seek to use the different strong points of team members to secure the best team performance. It can contribute to greater commitment to quality as people seek to use this as a way to beat their competitors. Healthy competition can cause the development of creativity as individuals seek out all possible ways to get ahead of the crowd. It can also help managers to identify which individual makes progress under pressure and which is better suited to less stressful roles.
However, employers can often find it difficult to agree on the type of competition they want within their organization, t he targets they’ll use and the measurement techniques they’ll apply. For example, it’s common for businesses to give different sales teams clear targets with the lure(诱惑)of the highest bonuses for the top performers. While this will usually give rise to healthy competition, it can also mean that important long-term projects get pushed to one side as the team devotes all its energy to achieving the short-term target. So it’s important that the goals and objectives which are set for teams are in line with wider business requirements. Additionally, in very competitive organizations, managers should get individuals to see the bigger picture and act in the best interest of their organization as a whole, rather than to follow the very narrow targets they have set as individuals or as a team.
Thus, employers have to be careful not to let competition have a ruinous effect on morale (士气) at any level. Equally, businesses should introduce clear processes and guidelines that prevent individuals from different teams quarrelling about the allocation of sales income if parties from different teams have worked together to win a contract(合同). Infighting such as this is always damaging. Moreover, managers must also be alert to the risk of creating conditions where bullying(欺凌) can be used.
To encourage healthy competition in an organization, you must introduce very clear policies regarding competition and ensure the information is communicated effectively. Individuals must know what behavior is acceptable within a competitive environment, and what behavior is considered not acceptable. Also, you should ensure that individuals are measured against all desirable targets but not one simple goal. Ensure that you have senior managers who are able to take a “helicopter view” and judge fairly between teams for the greater good when arguments do unavoidably arise.
Healthy competition
71_______of healthy
competition ● Competition can keep individuals 72_______ to work hard towards
goals.
● With each member’s 73______ used effectively, the te am will work better and more productively as a whole.
● Healthy competition can encourage everyone to work more
74_______.
● It helps managers to learn about their employees.
Challenges
in encouraging healthy competition ●
● Sometimes competition makes teams 75______ on short-term goals instead of long-term goals. ● Sometimes competition makes individuals 76______ the whole
organization’s interests and then just follow their own narrow
targets.
第六部分：书面表达（共1小题，分25分）
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

A peacock was very unhappy with his ugly voice; and he spent most of his days complaining about it.
“It is true that you cannot sing;” said the fox, “but look how beautiful you are!”
“Oh, but what good is all this beauty;” cried the bird, “with such an unpleasant voice!”
“Listen,” said the fox, “each one owns something good; you have such beauty; the nightingale has his song; and the owl has his eyes. Even if you had a sweet voice, you would still complain about another thing. Why can’t you just be happy about what you have already got?”
【写作内容】
1、以约30个词概括短文的主要内容；
2、以约120个词就“停止抱怨并珍惜自己所拥有的“这一主题发表你的看法，内容包括：
（1）你或你身边的人的类似事例；（2）谈谈你对该主题的看法。

【写作要求】
1、在作文中可以自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2、文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

外研版英语选修九Module 2 单元练习含答案
参考答案
听力BACAB BCCBA ACCAC CABBA
单选BCABB ABCDD DABCB
完型BBCAD ADCCB AACDB DDCBA
阅读(A). AD (B). ABB (C). ABBDB (D). BCBBC
任务型阅读
71. Benefits 72. motivated 73. strengths 74. creatively 75. focus
76. ignore 77. ruin 78. unclear 79. unacceptable 80. judgments
书面表达
This story is about a peacock who complained about his ugly voice while actually he is very beautiful. A fox advised him to be content with what he was blessed with.
The peacock reminds of my friend Mike, who is always upset. He complained his parents are too busy to stay at home with him, He complains he is too short to play basketball well. But he never realizes that his parents love him so much, and how beautifully he can play the violin, which makes him the envy of his classmates.
Many people around us focus on what they want instead of what they have. As a result of their endless desires, they are often dissatisfied. In my opinion, we should stay positive and value what we have instead of complaining too much. If we remain grateful for what we already have and what we can fulfill, we may live a happier life.
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