Unit 4 Pygmalion 单元练测卷人教版选修8

Unit 4 Pygmalion单元练测卷建议用时满分实际用时得分错题档案k than they should.the old lady.“I need 22 .I’m afraid I’m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes.”“Airport? You 23 are lost,”Alice said.“You need to go back five kilometers 24 you reach the T-junction. Turn left and 25 for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the 26 to the airport. But I’m afraid there’s no 27 you’ll get there in five minutes!”[来源:1ZXXK]“Thank you very much, dear,”replied the old lady.“Don’t worry—I’ll 28 in time.”The 29 moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it 30 and with headlights flashing, it drove past Alice. But then, something 31 happened. The car began changing. First, its color 32 from black to silvery grey. Then, the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward, 33 just above the ground. As the car 34 into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly. With a faint whistling 35 ,the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief...16. A. However B. BesidesC. ThereforeD. Otherwise17. A. brave B. excitedC. curiousD. stubborn18. A. fell B. seemedC. provedD. grew19. A. aside B. aroundC. forwardD. backward20. A. arrived B. sto ppedC. stayedD. started21. A. gathered B. existedC. droppedD. moved22. A. help B. gasC. restD. water23. A. necessarily B. normallyC. basicallyD. certainly24. A. if B. until C. unless D. as25. A. drive B. walkC. followD. march26. A. address B. signsC. noticesD. guidance27. A. doubt B. room[来源:学,科,网Z,X,X,K]C. timeD. way28. A. have it B. get itC. make itD. finish it29. A. door B. windowC. headlightD. wheel30. A. passed B. rushedC. turnedD. continued31. A. strange B. sensitiveC. imaginableD. horrible32. A. developed B. appearedC. spreadD. faded33. A. rolling B. floatingC. drawingD. flashing34. A. pointed B. returnedC. brokeD. rose35. A. tune B. voiceC. soundD. toneIII.阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）AWhat do you expect from a detective novel? A bloody murder? Misleading clues? A sharp-eyed detective who solves t he mystery with the help of modern science?Of course, that’s all very good, but you won’t find any of these in The No.1 Ladies’Detective Agency; yet this little detective book still manages to catch one’s heart in quite an unusual way.Meet Precious Ramotswe is the heroine（女主人公）of the Scottish writer, Alexander McCall Smith’s detective series set in Botswana, Africa. Precious is a lady in her 30s who has got a sum of money from her dead father. She’s going to use the money to open the first ever female detective agency in Botswana. No one thinks she’ll succeed. As she doesn’t have any serious training in gumshoe （侦察）business. Besides, she has little equipment to help her. But Precious has other qualities that make her a perfect private detective. She has intuition and eyes that can read people’s minds. And she has perseverance and a firm sense of what is right and what is wrong. Above all, she has warmth and a deep love for Botswana and its people.Now, these are not shocking mysteries. Precious’ cases（案件）range from providing evidenceto a woman that her husband is unfaithful to discovering whether or not a young girl has a boyfriend. These are troubles that people meet in everyday life. The charm of The No.1 Ladies’Detective Agency lies in the quality of ordinariness.The author succeeds in showing wit and humour in very simple language. Precious is a strong feminist（女权主义者）and her judgements of the general behavior of men are often funny. Still smart as she is, she also has her own weaknesses that sometimes bring unexpected results.The author, Alexander McCall Smith was born in Zimbabwe and educated there and later in Scotland. He became a law professor in Scotland, but returned to Botswana to help set up a law school at the University of Botswana.36. The passage is a(n) .A. advertisementB. film summaryC. book reviewD. fairy tale37. What is Precious’ most important quality that makes her a perfect private detective?A. Precious has a good knowledge of gumshoebusiness.B. Precious has warmth and a deep love forBotswana and its people.C. Precious has intuition and eyes that can readpeople’s minds.D. Precious has a firm sense of duty.38. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?A. The profile of the writer of the book.B. The reason why Alexander McCall Smith was asuccess as a writer.C. Alexander McCall Smith,great detective inScotland.D. How the writer organized the plot.39. We can infer from the passage that .A. Precious has opened the first detective agencyin BotswanaB. Precious is good at solving the mystery of themurderC. people have much confidence i n Precious atfirstD. Alexander McCall Smith has written more thanone detective book set in Botswana40. The underlined word “intuition” in Paragraph 3 means“”.A. direct understandingB. internal emotionC. learned knowledgeD. sense of dutyBThe Poetry Foundation, recently named American poet Jack P relutsky as the nation’s first children’s poet laureate（桂冠诗人）.The group created the award as a way to increase children’s love of poetry.As children’s poet laureate, Jack Prelutsky will give two public readings in the next two years. He will also advise the Poetry Foundation about children’s literature and take part in projects concerning children and poetry.Jack Prelutsky has been writing poetry for children for almost forty years. He has written more than thirty-five books of poems. His first book was called A Gopher in the Garden. It was published in 1967.His latest is called Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems.Jack Prelutsky is well known for creating new words by combining two words to create a new kind of creature. For example, he combined “radish” with “shark” to get “radishark”. “Lion”and “broccoli”became “broccolion”.He also created “umbrellaphant”,a mixture of the words “umbrella” and “elephant”.Jack Prelutsky says that children like his poems because he writes about things they care about. Poetry researchers say that Jack Prelutsky’s poems recognize children’s feelings. An example of this is the poem My Sister Is a Werewolf which is about how it feels to be different.Jack Prelutsky also writes poems about American holidays. His poem It’s Halloween is a very famous one about the holiday celebrated at the end of October.41. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?[来源:]A. Poems with New Words Grow PopularB. First Children’s Poet Laureate NamedC. Children’s Love for Poetry IncreasedD. Jack Prelutsky Awarded Nationwide42. What is Jack Prelutsky famous for?A. Creating new words in his poems.B. His productivity.C. His long time of writing.[来源:学§科§网]D. His poems about American holidays.43. Children are in favor of his poems because .A. they are easy to understandB. the poet is famousC. children like reading new wordsD. the poet understand their feelings44. What can we infer from the passage?A. It was A Gopher in the Garden that brought himfame.B. The poet will be kept busy over a lot ofactivities.C. Jack Prelutsky will no longer write aboutAmerican holidays.D. The poem It’s Halloween must have beenwritten for adults.45. Put the following items in right order according to the passage.a. two public readingsb. A Gopher in the Gardenc. Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and OtherPoemsd. My Sister Is a WerewolfA. b—c—d—aB. d—a—c—bC. b—d—c—aD. a—b—c—dCJoan Chen is famous both in China，where she grew up，and in the United States，where she now lives. How did Joan become a famous actress in two countries？It’s an interesting story.Joan Chen was born in Shangha i in 1961.When she was 14，some people from a film studio（制片厂）came to her school and chose her to study at the studio. She was happy about this chance，but mainly she liked the idea of getting out of school. Soon，however，she discovered that she really liked acting. At the age of 18，she won the Golden Rooster，China’s top film prize.In the late 1970s，Joan’s parents，who were doctors，moved to the United States. Joan joined them when she was 20 and went to college there. Her parents hoped she would study medicine. Instead，she majored in film and later looked for work as an actress. To work in the United States，Joan had to start all over again. She told Hollywood that she was an actress in China，but she only got some small parts in TV shows.One day Joan went to speak to a director who was making a movie called Tai-pan. The interview didn’t go well. As she walked away，a man in a car noticed her. The man was Dino DeLaurntiis，the film’s producer. He immediately offered her a leading part. A year later，she started in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and was on her way to worldwide fame.46. What was true about Joan Chen when she was 14？A. Some people came to her school and chose heras an actress.B. She liked to study at the studio just because shewanted to be famous.C. The most important reason for her going to thestudio was that she wouldn’t like to stay at school.D. She found she was fond of acting even beforeshe was 14.47. When did she move to the United States？A. In the late 1970s.B. After she graduated from college.C. In the late 1980s.D. In the early 1980s.48. In choosing her career，Joan Chen_______ her parents.A. was forB. finally agreedC. was againstD. hated49. The interview with a director .A. made her on the way to being famous in theworldB. led to no immediate good resultC. made her play a leading part in Tat-panD. gave her a chance to act in The Last Emperor50. Joan Chen became a famous actress .A. very smoothlyB. unwillinglyC. very quicklyD. b y chanceDTo err is human. To blame the other guy is even more human.Common sense is not all that common.Why tell the truth when you can come up with a good excuse?These three popular misquotes are meant to be jokes, and yet they tell us a lot about human nature. To err, or to make mistakes, is indeed a part of beinghuman, but it seems that most people don’t want to accept the responsibility for having made a mistake. They naturally look for someone else wh o could be responsible for the problem. Perhaps it is the natural thing to do. The original quote about human nature went like this：“To err is human, to forgive, divine(神圣的).”This saying mirrors an ideal: people should be forgiving of others’ mistakes. Instead, we tend to do the opposite—find someone else to pass the blame on to. However, taking responsibility for something that went wrong is a mark of great maturity.Common sense is what we call clear thought. Ha ving common sense means having a good general plan that will make things work well, and it also means staying with the plan. Common sense tells you that you take an umbrella out into a rainstorm, but you leave the umbrella home when you hear a weather forecast for sunshine. Common sense does not seem to be common for large organizations, because there are so many things going on that one person cannot be in charge of everything. People say that in a large company, “the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.”And what is wrong with a society that thinks that making up a good excuse is like creating a work of art? One of the common problems with making excuses is that people, especially young people, get the idea that it’s okay not to be totally honest all the time. There is a corollary (直接推论）to that: if a good excuse is “good”even if it isn’t honest, then where is the place of the truth?51. According to the passage, which of the following seems the most human?A. To search for truth.B. To achieve one’s ideal.C. To make fun of others’ mistakes.D. To criticize others for one’s own error.52. According to the author, what is a sign of a man’s maturity?A. Doing things his own way.B. Bearing responsibility for his mistakes.C. Making as few mistakes as possible.D. Thinking seriously about his wrongdoings.53. Which of the following is NOT based on common sense?A. A man tries to take charge of everything in alarge company.B. A student goes out with an umbrella in stormyweather.C. A company’s next move follows a good plan.D. A lawyer acts on fine judgments.54. What is the author’s opinion about a goodexcuse?A. Making a good excuse is sometimes a betterpolicy.B. Inventing a good excuse needs creative ideas.C. A good excuse is as rewarding as honesty.D. Bitter truth is better than a good excuse.55. What would be the best title for this passage?A. A Mirror of Human NatureB. To Blame or to ForgiveC. A Mark of MaturityD. Truth or ExcuseIV.书面表达（共两节，满分45分）第一节阅读表达（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后面的要求答题（请注意问题后的词数要求）。