外研版高中英语选修8 测试卷Module 6 试题

外研高二Book 8 Module6 试题
第一部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节语法和词汇知识（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
1. Our manager is popular with his fellow workers, for he holds a(n) ____ attitude towards different opinions.
A. adaptable
B. tolerant
C. considerate
D. casual
2. The way he deals with public relationships ____ his rich experience as well as his special knowledge.
A. releases
B. proves
C. reveals
D. witnesses
3. Shanghai attracts many visitors every year. I think it’s ____ lies in its lively night life.
A. flavour
B. feature
C. appeal
D. impact
4. How could I support a policy of which I have never ____?
A. insisted
B. preferred
C. agreed
D. approved
5. Mr. Potter was again ____ not to speed, otherwise his driving license might be confiscated.
A. cautioned
B. forbidden
C. discouraged
D. informed
6. It’s reported that over 50,000 volunteers will be needed to ____ the foreign athletes and guests during the 2008 Olympics.
A. cater for
B. care for
C. attend to
D. check in
7. —All of us had great fun in the picnic. Pity you didn’t come.
—I really ____, but my daughter happened to fall ill then.
A. could have
B. ought to
C. would have
D. should have
8. Early diagnosis of this disease is helpful to its treatment, but its clinical symptom ____ takes about a year to appear.
A. typically
B. eventually
C. apparently
D. originally
9. —Could you help me with the maths problem?
—Sorry. ____.
A. That all depends
B. I’m hopeless at science
C. We’re through
D. No one knows for sure
10. The primitive forest used to ____ in all directions as far as your eyes could see.
A. expand
B. advance
C. prolong
D. extend
11. His music ____ his understanding about Chinese culture.
A. reacts
B. responds
C. replies
D. reflects
12. —Why didn’t you come here by plane?
—I ____, but the airport was closed down because of icy rain.
A. could have
B. may have
C. should have
D. must have
13. If only he ____ as his doctor instructed, he would be feeling better now.
A. did
B. were to do
C. had done
D. should do
14. These insects ____ the similar colors of their surroundings, which helps them escape their enemies.
A. go with
B. rely on
C. adjust to
D. take on
15. ____ chosen to be an Olympic volunteer, it will certainly be a good chance to practice your English.
A. Would you be
B. Were you to be
C. Could you be
D. Were you
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack, my world crashed around me. I was
overwhelmed with the 16 of earning a living, 17 the little children.
One 18 evening I came home from work to find a big beautiful German shepherd on our 19 . This wonderful strong animal 20 to enter the house and make it his 21 . The children took an instant liking to “German” and begged me to let him in. I agreed to let him sleep in the basement until the next day, 22 we could inquire around the neighborhood for his 23 . That night I slept 24 for the first time in many weeks.
The following morning we25 to find German's owner, but with no results. On Sunday I took the children on a picnic and we drove off without him. When we stopped to get gas at a local station, we were 26 to see German racing to the gas station after us. 27 was he going to be left behind.
On Monday morning I let him out for a run when the children got ready for school. As evening came and German didn't appear, we were all 28 . The next Friday evening, German was back on our doorstep. Again we took him in, and again he stayed29 Monday morning. This pattern repeated itself every weekend for almost 10 months. We grew more and more 30 of German. We stopped thinking about 31 he belonged—he belonged to us. As German became part of the family, he considered32 his duty to take up his position by the front door and remained there until the morning.
Each week, between German's visits, I grew a little stronger, a little braver; every weekend I enjoyed his 33 . Then one Monday morning we 34 his head and let him out for what turned out to be the last time. He never came back. I believe German was sent because he was needed, and because no matter how 35 and alone we feel, somehow, somewhere, someone knows and cares. We are never really alone.
16. A. duties B. ways C. purpose D. focus
17. A. caring for B. looking for C. waking up D. taking up
18. A. Friday B. Saturday C. Sunday D. Monday
19. A. gate B. street C. road D. doorstep
20. A. regretted B. forced C. intended D. encouraged
21. A. nest B. home C. kitchen D. destination
22. A. where B. when C. while D. as
23. A. advice B. gifts C. owner D. situation
24. A. comfortably B. smoothly C. meaningfully D. peacefully
25. A. tried B. managed C. succeeded D. failed
26. A. happy B. glad C. amazed D. pleased
27. A. No wonder B. No way C. No doubt D. No use
28. A. wondered B. lost C. worried D. disappointed
29. A. before B. until C. since D. once
30. A. aware B. sure C. fond D. anxious
31. A. who B. where C. whom D. which
32. A. it B. that C. this D. one
33. A. friend B. company C. factory D. story
34. A. beat B. hit C. wounded D. patted
35. A. excited B. satisfied C. abandoned D. interrupted
第二部分阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
A
Chinese poetry sprang up long before written language was devised, and its poetics were formed and developed through people’s everyday labor, their songs and dances.
Of the great poets living in the 4th century BC, the most famous was Qu Yuan, born in the Kingdom of Chu. Qu Yuan and his follower Song Yu established a new style of poetry called chuci (literally poetry of the south), absorbing the romantic attributes of myth and established
the romantic style of Chinese literary creation. Qu Yuan’s major work was“Li Sao”(“Sorrow after Departure”).
During the Jian-an period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the “Three Caos” (Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Zhi) and the “Seven Jian’an Masters”(Kong Rong, Chen Lin, Wang Can, Xu Gan, Ruan Yu, Ying Xi, and Liu Zhen) sustained the realism of yuefu folksongs and wrote five-character poems. Their poems spoke to the spirit of the times and invoked an ambience of heroism and sadness.
Tao Yuanming, who led a reclusive(孤寂的) life after rejecting the life of an official, made country life the major subject of his creation and was thereby called a pastoral(田园的) poet. At a time when poems that were written in excessively ornate language and strictly imitated forms, but with empty content, dominated poetry circles, Tao Yuanming carried on the tradition of yuefu folksongs and formed his own simple and natural style, opening up a new vista(展望，前景) for classical poetry. Moreover, he further refined the forms of the five-character poem.
Chinese poetry reached its peak in the rising Tang Dynasty. Apart from the most famous Li Bai and Du Fu, many other poets also made enduring contributions in this period. These poets fall roughly into two styles: the landscape poets represented by Meng Haoran and Wang Wei and the frontier poets represented by Gao Shi and Cen Shen. Wang Changling, Li Qi, and Wang Zhihuan are other famous frontier poets.
36. What does the first paragraph mainly tell us?
A. Chinese poetry sprang up, before long, written language was devised.
B. Chinese poetry boosts a long history and originated from daily activities.
C. Ancient people led a happy time and always danced and sung songs while working.
D. Chinese poetry helped Chinese characters to come into being.
37. Which of the following statement about Quyuan is NOT true?
A. Qu Yuan was a great poet living in the fourth century.
B. Qu Yuan and Song Yu established a new style of poetry called chuci.
C. Qu Yuan’s major work was“Li Sao”(“Sorrow after Departure”).
D. Chuci has the romantic style of Chinese literary creation.
38. What did th e “Seven Jian’an Masters” and Tao Yuanming have in common?
A. They were all poets of the same age.
B. They were all influenced by Quyuan.
C. All of them wrote five-character poems.
D. All of their poems were about nature.
39. According to the passage, who is called the pastoral poet?
A. Qu Yuan.
B. Cao Cao.
C. Tao Y uanming.
D. Cen Shen.
40. What does the underlined word “enduring” mean in the last paragraph？
A. Existing.
B. Previous.
C. Endurable.
D. Long-lasting.
B
Matthew Lopez-Widish said that after he and three other long-haired friends entered school Tuesday morning, the principal and assistant principal called the students into their office, and were handed suspension(休学) papers.
Mr. Tyson would not confirm the number of students suspended. If the students get haircuts within the next three days, they will be allowed to return, Matthew said. “I don’t plan on it," said Matthew, whose hair hasn’t been cut in four years. "I’m not going to change.”
The argument had lasted a few days before Christmas break. The students were told that they must cut their hair or they’d face alternative(替代的) school, be removed from outside class activities and perhaps affected their graduation. Administrators said the new rules was set because students repeatedly ignoring hair code(规定) policies. The policy for male students at Kerens High School says hair may not go past the collar, below the eyebrows or a half-inch
over the ears. Another friend who was suspended, Andy Coronado, cut his hair during the break but his hair still reached over his ears and was considered unacceptable.
To meet the dress code standards, Matthew’s mom braids(编辫子) his hair to shorten them and keep them off his collar. Matthew’s hair was made on the top to keep it out of his face and from covering his ears. After the five-minute process is over, it’s hard to tell that his hair is nearly 2 feet long, Matthew said.
If the students don’t obey the rule within the next three days, a hearing will be set up to discuss alternative school. “We are hoping that the situation will be changed and we don’t have to go that far,” Mr. Tyson said. A straight-A senior, Matthew said he doesn’t want to attend alternative school and is willing to look into transferring. The students still plan to ask for help in the next school authority meeting.
41. How many students were suspended exactly according to the first two paragraphs?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. We don’t know
42. What was Matthew’s attitude after he was handed suspension papers?
A. He paid much attention to it.
B. He tore it up.
C. He wouldn’t cut his hair short.
D. He would rather leave school.
43. Which of the following statement is WRONG according to the third paragraph?
A. The students were told that they must cut their hair or they’d face al ternative school.
B. The students seem to be always ignoring hair code policies.
C. Male students’ hair should be less than a half-inch over the ears.
D. Andy Coronado cut his hair during the break and was accepted by the school.
44. What did Matthew do is to _________.
A. mean to do some cheating by doing his hair up
B. shorten his hair and keep them off his collar
C. keep his hair out of his face and from covering his ears
D. meet the dress code standards
45. Which of the following will probably happen later?
A. Matthew will be allowed to go back school because his cheat has made it.
B. Matthew will be allowed to go back school because he is a straight-A senior.
C. A hearing will be certainly set up to discuss alternative school.
D. The students will take their problem to the next school board meeting.
C
Nearly one in five state schools in England offers Latin courses for 12 to 14-year-olds, according to a national survey.
Will Griffiths, the director of the Cambridge School Classics Project, said,“Peop le often talk about the decline of Latin but this shows there are huge numbers of students who want to study the subject. The issue has been one of a lack of access to Latin, rather than a lack of interest in it.”
He added，“It is great that the independent sector(部门) continues to back the subject, but 90% of children are educated in non-selective state schools and it is important that they should have the same choices.”
According to latest figures, 150 non-selective state schools began to offer Latin in 2001, compared to 471 this academic year. According to Mr. Griffiths，the subject had been offered in 118 grammars and 453 independent schools before this academic year.
Many pupils have been encouraged to take Latin because it is a “varied and rounded subjec t”, giving children a grounding in language, literature and history. Learning Latin also helps understand a range of modern languages, including French, Spanish and Italian. Mr. Griffiths added，“Many schools are offering it because of increased competition for pupils. Putting Latin on the curriculum(学校课程) or offering it as an after-school club really says something about a school.”
He warned that a lack of good Latin teachers could affect the take-up of the subject at GCSE(普通中等教育证书) in future years. According to the Times Educational Supplement, 72 Latin teachers are due to retire every year for the next five years, with only 27 new teachers being trained a year.
Boris Johnson, a candidate(候选人) for the Mayor of London and a former shadow higher education minister, said，“Above all, pupils should be given the chance to learn Latin because it is the basis for an understanding of English and the key to untold riches.
“If you are able to compose sentences in Latin you will never write a dud sentence in English.”
46. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. The decline of Latin
B. The revival of Latin in Britain
C. How to learn Latin well
D. The key to untold riches
47. According to Will Griffiths, what’s the major reason that led to the decline of Latin?
A. There was a lack of access to it.
B. There is a lack of good teachers.
C. Students lack interest in it.
D. People often talk about it.
48. How many schools in total have offered Latin courses according to the passage?
A. 470.
B. 924.
C. 1,042.
D. 1,142.
49. Which of the following statement is NOT the reason that more and more students are
learning Latin?
A. Latin can give children grounding in language, literature and history.
B. Learning Latin helps understand a range of modern languages.
C. Many schools are offering it because of increased competition for pupils.
D. Students will get a key to untold riches and surely become wealthy.
50. What does the underlined word “dud” mean?
A. Useful.
B. Imperfect.
C. Hard.
D. Proper.
D
What’s the difference between mental health and mental illness? Sometimes the answer is pretty clear. But more often, the distinction between mental health and mental illness isn’t as clear-cut. If you’re afraid of giving a speech in public, does it mean you have a disease or simply a case of nerves?
Scientists, researchers and mental health experts have wrestled with this issue for hundreds of years, and even today the line between normal and abnormal is often blurred.
“What’s normal is often determined by who’s defining it. It is hard to define that whether a man is normal and it is often tied to value judgments particular to a certain culture or society. And even within cultures, concepts of normal mental health may evolve over time if societal values or expectations change. New medical research and knowledge also can lead to changes in definitions of normal mental health.
One thing that makes it so difficult to distinguish them is that there’s no easy test to show if something’s wrong. There’s no blood test or X-ray for mental disorder, for example. That’s not to say mental disorders aren’t biologically based. But for now, there’s no physiological diagnostic(诊断的) test for mental illness.
Mental health providers define mental disorders by signs, symptoms(症状) and functional impairments(损伤).
Signs, symptoms and functional impairments that mark specific mental illnesses are spelled out in detail in the DSM；a 2-inch-thick book classifies and describes more than 300 types of mental disorders. The book is used by mental health providers to diagnose everything. For instance, a mental health provider can evaluate your signs and symptoms and refer to the DSM to see which illness you might have. The first edition of the DSM was published in 1952, and revisions have been made periodically since. The most recent update was published in 2000, and it has been translated into nearly two dozen languages.
The health insurance industry uses the diagnoses spelled out in the DSM to determine coverage and benefits and to reimburse(赔偿) mental health providers. But more important is that in order to get appropriate treatment, you must know what condition to treat—and whether it needs to be treated.
51. The underlined word in the second paragraph means“_____”.
A. unclear in shape
B. hard to see shapes
C. difficult to understand clearly
D. changed
52. To judge a man is normal or not is not related to ____.
A. value judgments of all cultures
B. changed societal values
C. his health record
D. new medical research and knowledge
53. What does the underlined sentence mean?
A. We can’t diagnose mental disorders.
B. Mental disorders aren’t biologically based.
C. It is hard to test whether something is wrong in one’s mental world.
D. Mental disorders are linked to chemical changes in our bodies.
54. What will be written following the passage?
A. The all 300 types of mental disorders in the DSM.
B. The latest definition of mental illness.
C. The health insurance industry how to determine coverage and benefits.
D. Mental illness—what condition to treat and whether it needs to be treated.
55. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Mental health: What’s normal, what’s not?
B. Culture, science and mental health
C. Distinguishing mental health from mental illness
D. What’s mental health?
第三部分书面表达（共两节，满分25分）
第一节阅读表达(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。

（请注意问题后的词数要求）
While you prepare for exams, especially the national college entrance exam, take a moment to double check that pencil in your hand. And make sure you have the right one. It is not just your knowledge that determines your mark, the tools you use do as well.
A recent report shows that thousands of cheap, fake 2
B pencils have been found for sale in Beijing, Shanghai and many other cities. You may think this does not matter, but unless you buy a real 2B pencil your grade may be in doubt.
In the exam, students make small dots on their answer sheet. The scanner can only read dots made by 2B pencils. Neither darker nor lighter dots can be properly read, which means you might get a lower mark or even zero if you use the wrong pencil in the exam.
In ancient Rome, people wrote with a thin lead rod(棒). Today, the middle part of a pencil is still called the“lead”, even graphite(石墨) has been used. Graphite leaves a darker mark than lead, but it was so soft and brittle (易碎的) that it needed a holder.
So the graphite was put inside a wooden stick that had been hollowed out (掏空) by hand. And the wood cased pencil was born.
The 2B on a pencil refers to the blackness of the lead. Other pencils may use other letters, such as HB or H. These letters are from a European system, used to tell the hardness, and the blackness of a pencil. H stands for hardness and B ________. The standard writing pencil is “HB”.
The “lead” of a modern pencil is made of a mixtur e of clay(粘土) and graphite. Changing the amount of these two materials produces a range of marks with different visual effects.
56. What’s the main idea of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
________________________________________________________________________ 57. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
Letters such as 2B, HB and H on a pencil stand for the hardness and blackness of the pencil. This way of making a pencil comes from Europe.
____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________
58. Please fill in the blank in the sixth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.)
________________________________________________________________________ 59. What may be the possible result of using a fake 2B pencil in the examination? (Please answer within 30 words.)
____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________
60. Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese.
________________________________________________________________________ 第二节写作（满分15分）
众所周知，中国诗歌被认为是世界文学的宝库，对我们的文化和学习，甚至日常生活都有深刻的影响。

请你结合你的认识，进一步阐述一下诗歌的重要性和怎样学好诗歌。

要求：词数：120-150；上下文要连贯。

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参考答案：
1-5 BCCDA 6-10 ADABD 11-15 DACDB
16-20 AAADC 21-25 BBCDA 26-30 CBDBC 31-35 BABDC
36-40 BACCD 41-45 DCDAD 46-50 BACDB 51-55 CCCDA
56. To warn students of fake 2B pencils.
57. These letters are from a European system used to tell the hardness and the blackness of a pencil.
58. stands for blackness
59. If you use a fake 2B pencil in the examination, your answer sheet may not be properly read, so you may get a lower mark or even zero. You may even fail the examination.
60. 你的考试分数不仅由你所学的知识来决定，在考试中所用的工具也对你的分数有影响。

One possible version:
As is known to all, Chinese poetry, considered as a great treasure of the world literature, not only has a deep influence on our culture, but also plays an important role in our study and even in our daily life.
It is clear that these influential poems effectively express the joys and sorrows of the famous authors. What’s more, they bring us the authors’ thoughts about life and the universe, as well as love to our country. And they have become the source of our imagination and inspiration, which can help improve our writing skills and brighten our composition.
So we can see it’s very important to learn them well. We should first recite a number of the poems, just like the way children are always enjoying doing even before primary school. Then, we should compare the similarities and differences between poems and their authors. Imitating is also necessary and it is a way leading us to the magnificent hall of poetry.。