牛津译林版高中英语选修六 Unit 3 Understanding each other

英语译林版选修6 Unit 3Understanding each other
单元检测
Ⅰ．单项选择
1．The train ______ arrive at 11：30 a．m.，but it was an hour late.
A．was about to B．was likely to
C．was supposed to D．was certain to
2．Success is how you are viewed by others，______ achievement is something you do yourself.
A．while B．in case
C．even if D．as long as
3．It isn't quite ______ he will be present at the meeting.
A．sure whether B．sure if
C．certain whether D．certain that
4．Having been ill in bed for nearly a month，he had trouble ______ the exam.
A．pass B．to pass
C．passed D．passing
5．In the reading room，we found her seated at a desk，with her eyes ______ on a book.
A．fixing B．fixed
C．fix D．to be fixed
6．Why are you so anxious？It isn't your problem ______.
A．on purpose B．in all
C．on time D．after all
7．To all of you ______ the praise for the success.
A．belongs to B．belong to
C．belongs D．belong
8．There was ______ time ______ I hated to go to school.
A．a；that B．a；when
C．the；that D．the；when
9．There isn't enough room for us，let alone ______ six dogs and a cat.
A．keep B．to keep
C．keeping D．/
10．Don't worry.She is accustomed to ______ like that.
A．being spoken to B．be spoken
C．being spoken D．speak
11．We must ______ every penny we spend during a business trip.
A．account for B．take on
C．make up D．turn out
12．I'm certain that David's told you his business troubles.______，it's no secret that he owes a lot of money to the bank.
A．However B．Anyway
C．Therefore D．Though
13．The famous actress came onto the stage with her boyfriend ______ her.
A．accompanying with
B．accompanying
C．accompanied with
D．accompanied
14．We tried to find a table for seven，but they were all ______.
A．given away B．kept away
C．taken up D．used up
15．I think I recognize the song she is singing.It sounds ______.
A．pleasant B．familiar
C．special D．strange
Ⅱ．完形填空
A businesswoman got into a taxi in midtown.As it was the rush hour and she was in a __16__ to catch a train，she __17__ a quick way to reach it.“I have been a taxi driver for 15 years！” the driver said __18__.“You don't think I know the best way to go？”
The woman tried to explain that she hadn't __19__ to annoy him，but the driver kept __20__.She finally realized that he was too annoyed to be __21__，so she changed her __22__.“You know，you are right，” she told him.“It must seem __23__ for me not to think you know the best way __24__ the city.”
__25__，the driver glanced at his __26__ in the rearview mirror，turned down the street she wanted and got her to the train on time.“He didn't say another word the rest of the ride，” she said.“__27__ I got out and paid him.Then he thanked me.”
When you find yourself __28__ with people like the taxi driver，you will always try to __29__ your idea.It can lead to longer arguments，lose job chances or __30__ marriages.I have discovered one simple __31__ extremely unlikely method that can prevent the disagreement or other difficult situations from __32__ in a disaster.
The __33__ is to put yourself in the other person's shoes and look for the __34__ in what that person is saying.Find a way to __35__，and the result may surprise you.
16．A．hurry B．rush C．moment D．way
17．A．chose B．made C．found D．suggested
18．A．jokingly B．angrily C．anxiously D．curiously
19．A．supposed B．expected C．meant D．decided
20．A．apologizing B．driving C．asking D．shouting
21．A．reasonable B．thoughtful C．normal D．practical
22．A．road B．mind C．direction D．manner
23．A．strange B．wrong C．terrible D．stupid
24．A．across B．in C．through D．along
25．A．Surprised B．Worried C．Annoyed D．Disappointed
26．A．rider B．speaker C．helper D．comer
27．A．until B．after C．because D．since
28．A．satisfied B．concerned C．crowded D．faced
29．A．give up B．turn down C．stick to D．point out
30．A．combine B．destroy C．suffer D．divide
31．A．and B．that C．but D．though
32．A．lying B．resulting C．setting D．leading
33．A．problem B．importance C．key D．reply
34．A．fact B．meaning C．expression D．truth
35．A．agree B．argue C．explain D．escape
Ⅲ．阅读理解
A
The alarm goes off at 4：30 in the morning.It's dark and cold outside，but Don Royston rolls out of a warm bed without missing a beat.It's the weekend before Thanksgiving and he has an assignment，one that he's handled for the last eight years.He's the guy in the red suit who rides the back of the Santa Train from Shelbiana，Kentucky，across the hills of Southwestern Virginia,110 miles through poor villages and old hill towns to Kingsport，Tennessee.The train leaves promptly at 7：30，and he has to pick up the pace to get there.He dresses on board.
Royston plays the part of a happy elf（精灵），with a little extra padding（衬料）in his suit.The rest of the costume is more inventive.The wig（假发）and the beard are made of yak（耗牛）hair.
The Santa Train tradition started in these hills during the dark days of World War Ⅱ．Some families have been coming for four generations to gather at favourite spots along the tracks once a
year，on the weekend before Thanksgiving.Royston and his 36 Santa's helpers collect，pack and give out gifts and sweets—15 tons of toys and goodies donated by folks and businesses.
Royston was no athlete in high school，but he's developed a pretty good throwing arm for tossing toys.“Here's the thing，”he says，“I am good at it though I sometimes miss.And a big kid grabs a toy out of the air intended for some little one just behind him.And that kid hands it to the child who really needs it.That touches me most.That gives me the joy of being Santa.”
Angels come in all shapes，sizes and costumes.And all of them bring little miracles with them，prompting others to pass them along.
36．From the first paragraph，we can infer that ______.
A．Royston often gets up very early to work
B．Royston is so enthusiastic about his assignment
C．Royston has spent Thanksgiving in Shelbiana for eight years
D．Royston once lived in a very poor village
37．What do we know about the Santa Train tradition?
A．It started when people lived a hard life in hills.
B．It happens on Christmas Eve once a year.
C．Four generations of Don Royston's family have been doing it.
D．The gifts are mainly from Don Royston and his friends.
38．The underlined word“it” in Paragraph 4 refers to “______”．
A．a high school B．a throwing arm
C．tossing toys D．a present
39．We can infer from the passage that ______.
A．kids often argue over the toys
B．more and more volunteers are signing up for the event
C．36 persons take part in the activity of sending gifts every year
D．Don Royston is proud of his work
40．In the last paragraph the author wants to tell us that ______.
A．people often wear costumes as angels
B．angels can be seen everywhere and pass kindness to others
C．life is full of miracles every day
D．people should thank the people who help them a lot
B
（2012·重庆高考，D篇）
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians（基督教徒）have ever cooked up.For them，the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil（邪恶的）．So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America，a land mistakenly considered to be Eden，everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion.Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden，the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake，a plant that was thought to have come from Hell（地狱）．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits.Though the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit，the general population considered them one and the same，too terrible to touch.
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato，and until the early 1700s most_of_the_Western_people_continued_to_drag_their_feet.In the 1880s，the daughter of a well-known plant expert wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction of this wonderful new fruit — or is it a vegetable？” As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an“evil fruit”．But in the end tomatoes carried the day.The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson，and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820，people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead.“What are you afraid of？” he shouted.“I'll show you fools that these things are good to eat！” Then he bit into the tomato.Some people fainted.But he
survived and，according to a local story，set up a tomato-canning factory.
41．The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ______.
A．it made Christians evil
B．it was the apple of Eden
C．it came from a forbidden land
D it was religiously unacceptable
42．What can we infer from the underlined part in Paragraph 3?
A．The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down.
B．There was little progress in the study of the tomato.
C．The tomato was still refused in most western countries.
D．Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato.
43．What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly?
A．To make himself a hero.
B．To remove people's fear of the tomato.
C．To speed up the popularity of the tomato.
D．To persuade people to buy products from his factory.
44．What is the main purpose of the passage?
A To challenge people's fixed concepts of the tomato.
B To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato.
C．To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato.
D．To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence.
Ⅳ．任务型阅读
In some foreigners' eyes，the learning of Chinese has become the most difficult thing for them.The tones of Chinese and Chinese characters all seem to be a difficulty.
Then what has made the learning of Chinese difficult?
The writing system is ridiculous.It is absolutely true that Chinese is hard because of the huge number of characters one has to learn.
The language doesn't have the common sense to use an alphabet.English is so easy because the skills needed to master the writing system are 26 letters and they are written from left to right，horizontally，across the page，with spaces to indicate word boundaries.
Even looking up a word in the dictionary is complicated.One of the most unreasonably difficult things about learning Chinese is that merely learning how to look up a word in the dictionary is about the equivalent of an entire semester of secretarial school.
Chinese must also be one of the most dictionary-intensive languages on earth for there are various dictionaries.
There's classical Chinese（Wenyanwen）．Classical Chinese really consists of several centuries of esoteric anecdotes and in-jokes written in a kind of terse，miserly code for dissemination among a small，elite group of intellectually-inbred bookworms who already knew the whole literature backwards and forwards.
There are too many Romanization methods and they all suck.Perhaps that's too harsh，but it is true that there are too many of them，and most of them were designed either by committee or by linguists，or—even worse—by a committee of linguists.
Title：Why is 45．______ difficult to learn for foreigners？
Reasons ★The writing system is 46．______.Because Chinese has a large number of 47．______.
★The language doesn't have the common sense to use an
48．______.
★Even looking up a word in the dictionary is 49．______.Because there are 50．______ dictionaries.
★There's 51．______ Chinese（Wenyanwen）．Classical Chinese really consists of several 52．______ of ancient Chinese culture. ★There are too many Romanization 53．______ and they all
suck.Most of them were 54．______ either by committee or by
linguists.
Ⅴ．书面表达
下列图画描述的是你在12月15日（星期四）放学路上发生的事情，请据此写一篇日记，记叙事情发生的经过。

1．短文包括图画所表现的主要内容，可以适当增减细节，使文章连贯、完整；
2．词数150；
3．开头已经为你写好，但不计入总词数。

Dec.15，Thursday，Fine
This afternoon when I was on my way home from school，I found a building on fire.
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参考答案
Ⅰ.
1. 答案：C解析：be supposed to do“应该做……，被期望做……”，A项不与时间状语连用，B、D两项意思不对。

2. 答案：A解析：根据句意分析，可知两句是对比关系：成功是别人看你的方式，而成就是你自己做出的东西。

故选A项。

3. 答案：C解析：在这种句型中不能用sure，只能用certain。

whether“是否”，引导宾语从句。

4.答案：D解析：have trouble/difficulty（in）doing sth.＝have a hard time（in）doing sth.，意为“做某事有困难”。

5. 答案：B解析：考查with复合结构。

her eyes与fix之间是动宾关系，故此处用过去分词形式。

6.答案：D解析：本题考查短语辨析。

on purpose表示“故意”；in all表示“总计，总共”；on time表示“按时”；after all表示“毕竟，终究，别忘了”。

根据句意“为什么你要如此担心？毕竟这不是你的问题。

”故选D项。

7. 答案：C解析：此句是一个倒装句。

句子的主语是the praise for the success，排除B、D两项；A项中“to”多余。

belong to“属于”。

8.答案：B解析：a time表示“一段时间”；第二个空的when引导定语从句，并在从句中作状语。

9. 答案：D解析：句意：连容纳我们的地方都不够，更不必说六条狗和一只猫了。

介词for后面用let alone并列us和six dogs and a cat，无需接其他东西。

10. 答案：A解析：be accustomed to（doing）sth.＝be used to（doing）sth.“习惯（做）某事”；speak to sb.的被动形式为sb. be spoken to。

11. 答案：A解析：account for...意为“对……负责，作出解释”。

12. 答案：B解析：考查前后句的逻辑关系。

前半句说“我确信戴维告诉了你他生意上的麻烦”，后半句是“众人皆知他欠银行一大笔钱”，可以推断后半句是对前半句的补充说明，所以用anyway“无论如何，不管怎么说”。

however意为“然而”；therefore意为“因此”；though意为“尽管”。

13. 答案：B解析：accompany意为“陪伴，陪同”，为及物动词，后面直接跟宾语；在该句的with复合结构中，宾语her boyfriend与accompany为主动关系，所以应用现在分词。

14.答案：C解析：本题考查动词短语的区别。

give away “泄露，捐赠”；keep away“避开，不接近”；take up“占据”；use up“用光，用尽”。

根据题意可得出答案。

15. 答案：B解析：根据recognize可以判断出B项正确。

Ⅱ.
16.答案：A解析：因为是交通高峰期，她急于赶火车，于是向司机建议了一条能最快到达目的地的路。

in a hurry to do sth.“急于做某事”。

17.答案：D解析：此题易误选A项，但从下文来看，此处并未选定走哪条路，只是建议而已。

18.答案：B解析：从司机所说的话来判断，他一定是“很生气”的。

下文中的annoy 一词也是暗示。

19. 答案：C解析：女商人试图向司机解释，她并不是想要惹司机生气的，因此本题选meant。

20. 答案：D解析：结合上下文语境可知，司机不断大喊大叫。

21.答案：A解析：考查形容词辨析。

她意识到他恼怒得已经不讲道理了。

reasonable“讲道理的，有理性的”符合语境。

thoughtful“沉思的，思考的”；normal“正常的，平常的”；practical“实际的，实践的，实用的”。

22.答案：B解析：change one's mind“改变主意/想法”。

女商人见此情景，她改变了想法。

23.答案：B解析：考查形容词辨析。

女商人对司机说自己似乎犯错误了，居然认为司机不是对城市道路最熟悉的人。

可知答案为B项，stupid语气太重。

24. 答案：C解析：through“从……的一端到另一端，穿过，贯穿”，符合题意。

25.答案：A解析：对女商人的突然转变，司机自然是感到“惊奇”的，他不再跟她争论，居然开车按照她说的路线。

26. 答案：A解析：坐在出租车上的自然应是rider“乘客”。

27. 答案：A解析：直到女商人下车付车费，司机一句话也没有再讲。

本句考查了句型not...until...“直到……才……”。

28.答案：D解析：考查词组搭配。

be faced with“面临”。

此处意为：当你发现自己面对像这位出租车司机那样的人时……。

29.答案：C解析：考查动词短语辨析。

结合下文内容可知，此处意为：当你遇上像上面那位出租车司机那样的人时，你常常试图坚持己见，但是这样只能引起更多的争执，由此可知应选C项，stick to“遵守，坚持”。

30.答案：B解析：考查动词辨析。

此处指固执己见的后果之一是破坏婚姻。

destroy 指“毁坏，毁灭，破坏”。

31.答案：D解析：考查动词连词。

易误选C项。

but强调的是but后面的内容，但本句强调的是one simple method，故可将其排除。

though指我发现一种简单的方法，尽管不是特别容易做到，但能避免纷争。

32.答案：B解析：考查词组搭配。

result in“引起，导致，以……为结局”，符合题意。

33.答案：C解析：考查名词辨析。

此处意为：关键是要站在别人的立场上。

key“关键”，符合题意。

34.答案：D解析：考查名词辨析。

truth指“真理，正确的因素”。

此处意为：关键是要换位思考，要承认对方话语中的某些合理成分。

35.答案：A解析：考查动词辨析。

先设法认可对方（的意见），你可能会得到意想不到的结果。

Ⅲ.
A
36.答案：B解析：推理判断题。

根据第一段第二句“...but Don Royston rolls out of a warm bed without missing a beat.”可知Royston听到铃声，马上起床，一刻也未耽误，说明对任务的极度热心。

37.答案：A解析：细节理解题。

由第三段第一句“The San ta Train tradition started in these hills during the dark days of World War Ⅱ.”可知答案。

38.答案：C解析：词义猜测题。

由文章第四段第一句“Royston was no athlete in high school，but he's developed a pretty good throwing arm for tossing toys.”可以推测出答案为C项。

39. 答案：D解析：推理判断题。

由文章第四段最后两句“That touches me most.That gives me the joy of being Santa.”可知答案为D项。

40.答案：B解析：推理判断题。

根据最后一段：天使可以以各种形式出现，都能带来奇迹，并把它们进行传递，以及上一段中作者所叙述的：一个大男孩把自己拿到的玩具给那些在他身后真正需要玩具的小男孩，可知天使无处不在，并能把善意传递。

B
41.答案：D解析：细节理解题。

根据整个第一可段可知，基督教徒们错误地认为西红柿是伊甸园的禁果，从宗教信仰上无法接受。

42.答案：C解析：推理判断题。

根据第三段第一句中的“ignored”，“until，“continued to”以及最后一句可知西红柿仍不被接受，C项正确。

43.答案：B解析：推理判断题。

根据第四段第Ⅱ.Ⅲ.四句可知，他当众吃西红柿，就是以事实在众人面前证明西红柿是可以吃的。

故B项正确。

44.答案：C解析：主旨大意题。

本文讲了一开始欧洲人对西红柿的误解和抵制，到
一名美国人当众吃西红柿，证明西红柿不邪恶，是可以吃的，推翻了欧洲人对它的错误看法。

所以C项正确。

Ⅳ.
答案：45．Chinese46．ridiculous47．characters48．alphabet49．complicated 50．various51．classical52．centuries53．methods54．designed
Ⅴ.
Dec.15，Thursday，Fine
This_afternoon_when_I_was_on_my_way_home_from_school，I_found_a_building_on_fire.I rushed to a nearby telephone box and called the firefighters.
Several minutes later，the firefighters arrived and tried their best to control the fire.With the help of the firefighters，a lot of people left the building safely.At that time a foreign woman came in a hurry to tell the firefighters something.But they couldn't understand what she said.I went to the woman and asked her what was happening.She told me that her daughter was still in the building.I told the firefighters about it.They immediately ran into the building.Two minutes later，they rushed out with the little girl.
The woman was very thankful to me and the firefighters for the help.She said her daughter would have been killed if the firefighters and I had not helped in time.。