人教版高中英语选修七Unit3Underthesea

Unit 3Under the sea

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Ⅰ.语法和词汇知识

1．(2012·安徽皖南八校第二次联考)—Shall we have a discussion about how to spend the coming National Day of 2012?

—________

A．You are right.B．Don’t bother me!

C．That sounds great. D．Have a good time!

2．(2013·南通一调)Living in ________ ever increasingly fast-paced world，we are facing greater competition，so we must take ________ advantage of every opportunity to develop.

A．an；the B．an；/

C．the；an D．the；/

3．(2013·温州五校联考)Medicine shouldn’t be kept ________ it is accessible to children.

A．even if B．which

C．where D．so that

4．(2012·高考天津卷)Parents and children should communicate more to ________ the gap between them so that they can understand each other better.

A．open B．narrow

C．widen D．leave

5．(2011·高考辽宁卷)________ a strange plant！I’ve never seen it before.

A．Which B．What

C．How D．Whether

6．—What did you say just now?

—I said that the hotel ________ was included in the price of your holiday.

A．conservation B．congratulation

C．accommodation D．companion

7．She tried calming him down but it seemed to be having the ________ effect.That’s to say，he lost his temper.

A．cautious B．awful

C．vivid D．opposite

8．—What’s up？You look unhappy.

—I broke up with my boyfriend.I can’t stand always ________ by him.

A．being cheated B．to be cheated

C．cheating D．cheated

9．I ________ do an important piece of work ________ my daughter came to interrupt me.

A．was about to；when B．was going to；while

C．was to；as D．was about to；then

10．(2013·青岛二中模拟)The event has not only increased public ________ of world hunger，but raised a lot of money for the poor children.

A．direction B．contribution

C．awareness D．loneliness

11．It was a time ________ the women workers didn’t have the same rights as the men workers.

A．that B．when

C．which D．where

12．What a pity！I missed meeting my boss at the airport because my car was ________ in the traffic jam.

A．broken up B．kept back

C．held up D．kept on

13．(2013·山东临沂模拟)Recent years have ________ the rapid development of the Internet and its influence on society and people.

A．watched B．observed

C．witnessed D．realized

14．(2013·孝感模拟)I hated rush，so I got to the airport ________ time to have my luggage and ticket ________.

A．before；checked B．until；check

C．ahead of；checked D．ahead；to check

15．Ill as the mother was，she managed to ________ herself out of bed in order to prepare breakfast for her family.

A．urge B．drag

C．desire D．press

Ⅱ.阅读理解

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(2013·江西六校联考)Thank you.President Bok，former President Rudenstine，incoming President Faust，members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers，members of the faculty，parents，and especially，the graduates.

I want to thank Harvard for this honor.I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this：“Dad，I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.”I’ll be changing my job next year，and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class.I did the best of everyone who failed.

I applaud the graduates for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.For my part，I’m just happy that the Harvard Crimson called me “Harvard’s most successful dropout”．But taking a serious look back，I do have one big regret，I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities (不平等) in the world.I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and politics.I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.But humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries—but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.Whether through democracy，strong public education，quality health care, or broad economic opportunity，reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.It took me decades to find out.

You graduates came to Harvard at a different time.You know more about the world’s inequities than the classes that came before.In your years here，I hope you’ve had a chance to think about how，in this age of accelerating technology，we can finally take on these inequities，and we can solve them.

Now，this task is open-ended.It can never be finished.But a conscious effort to answer this challenge can change the world.Yes，inequity has been with us forever，but the new tools we have to cut through complexity have not been with us forever.They are new.They can help us make the most of our caring—and that’s why the future can be different from the past.The defining and ongoing innovations of this age—biotechnology，the personal computer，and the Internet give us a chance we’ve never had before to end extreme poverty and end death from preventable disease.

1．Who is the speaker of the article?

A．A Harvard graduate.

B．A dropout’s parent.

C．A fresh student in Harvard.

D．A principal.

2．What did the speaker learn while he was in the university 30 years ago?

A．Approaches to solving poverty.

B．Economic and political discrimination.

C．Advances in science.

D．New ways to change the world.

3．What could be the best title of the passage?