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课时提能练(四十) 选修8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors
A：知识层面
Ⅰ.语境语法填空
A(考查派生词)
Qian Xuesen is the founder of China's space science. China's first missile was designed in his 1．messy (mess) and shabby workroom in the Gobi Desert. To obtain correct 2．analysis (analyze) results, he and his partners spent many sleepless nights. When the 3．accuracy (accurate) of the instruments could not be guaranteed, he himself invented new ones. Sometimes, he put forward bold 4．assumptions (assume) to help overcome tough problems. The missile was produced after they handled various problems 5．skillfully (skillful). People celebrated the successful launch of the first missile with a storm of 6．applause (applaud). The “two bombs and one satellite〞 are of historical 7．significance (significant) to China, marking a 8．division (divide) of a new era.
B(考查动词)
The Pwn2Own 2022 hacking contest (黑客大赛) took place in Vancouver. The players displayed their skills to the fullest. All my attention 9．was arrested (arrest) by the No.23 player, who took the lead soon after the contest started. Suddenly he 10．was interrupted (interrupt), and it seemed that he met a tough problem. 11．Spitting (spit) out the chewing gum, he became more devoted to studying the programs. After 12．deleting (delete) some puzzling instructions, he managed 13．to accelerate (accelerate) the progress. The audience burst out 14．applauding (applaud) when he was the first to finish the breaking. 15．Assuming (assume) that you are interested in hacking, you might as well try your hand at Pwn2Own next time after 16．sharpening (sharpen) your skills.
C(考查句型)
China, 17．as is shown by statistics, is making rapid progress in terms of economic growth. 18．Having opened (open) its door to the outside world, it has quickly accumulated a great deal of wealth. The daily living necessities are becoming abundant. Gone are the days when a customer waited in line for hours only 19．to be told (tell) by the shop assistant that what she wanted to buy was sold out or not in stock. Of course in came some negat ive things following the open­up. I remember my fellow guys 20．swimming (swim) happily in the river near our school, but it is now badly polluted. If only we 21．had made(make) more strict rules and regulations at the start of the
open­up.
Ⅱ.根据提示补全句子
1．他脸上的表情说明他很忧伤。

The expression on his face suggested that he was sad．
2．你昨晚一定睡得很晚。

你的眼睛都布满了血丝。

You must have gone to bed late last night.Your eyes are red.
3．正如每个人所知道的那样，汤姆通过了测试。

As everybody knows/As is known to everybody，Tom has passed the test.
4．她当时要是征求了老师的意见就好了！
If only she had asked for her teacher's advice!
5．他匆匆忙忙赶到机场，结果被告知飞机已经飞走了。

He hurried to the airport，only to be told that the plane had left.
B：能力层面
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
The remains of an ancient ape (猿) found in a Bavarian clay site recently caught people's eye.According to scientists，they may renew people's opinion on when humans' ancestors began standing upright.
An international team of researchers said the fossilized skeleton of a male ape that lived in the humid forests of what is now southern Germany bore a striking resemblance (相似之处) to modern human bones.In a paper published by the journal Nature，they concluded that the previously unknown species —named Danuvius guggenmosi — could walk on two legs but also climb like an ape.
The findings “raise fundamental questions about our previous understanding of the evolution of the great apes and humans，〞 said Madelaine Boehme，who led the research.
The question of when apes could walk on two legs has fascinated scientists since Charles Darwin first argued that they were the ancestors of humans.Previous fossil records of apes with an upright move — found in Crete and Kenya — dated only as far back as 6 million years.These apes are called Toumai.
Boehme，along with researchers from Bulgaria，Canada and the United States，examined more than 15，000 bones recovered from the archaeological remains.Among the remains they were able to piece together primate (灵长目动物) fossils belonging to four individuals that lived 11.62 million years ago.The most complete，an adult male，。