外研版英语必修二本册综合技能测试1

本册综合技能测试(一)

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分，共150分。考试时间120分钟。

第Ⅰ卷(选择题)

第一部分听力

第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

A family are lucky to be alive after they were thrown into the air when their home was struck by lightning.

Rebecca Weir and her stepsister Lauren Deeble were thrown out of their sofa after a thunderstorm triggere an electrical explosion (爆炸) at their home in Newark, Nottinghamshire.

Rebecca's son Harrison had been sitting where the lightning struck, but he had run outside to look at hailstones (冰雹) minutes before it happened. “I laughed at her and said ‘It's not going to hurt you，’ but a couple of minutes later there was a big bang. We both flew off the sofa. Lauren was scared; she couldn't breathe. I had to drag her out of the house，” said Rebecca.

Watch manager Brian Smith, based at Newark Frie Station, said the two women were lucky to be alive. He said, “I have never seen anything like that before. It has caused a lot of damage.”All the electrical equipment that had been plugged in has been ruined, including television sets, kitchen appliances, and Harrison's portable DVD player. Rebecca said, “I had just finished decorating the house and getting it the way I wanted it. Now I can't even live in it. It's the only home I've actually called home for me and Harrison, so I really want to go back.”

The two women were taken to hospital by ambulance, suffering from shock. Rebecea's mother, Davina Weir, who rushed around to help, said, “They are so lucky to be alive. One of the firefighters said in 12 years he had never seen anything like it. It was more like a bomb blast and he can't believe there weren't any deaths.”

21．What is the main idea of this passage?

A．A house was completely destroyed after a bomb blast.

B．A family were rescued by firefighters after a bomb blast.

C．An explosion broke out in an area when lightning hit it.

D．A family were thrown into the air because lightning hit their home, but they survived.

答案：D主旨大意题。通读全文可知，本文主要是讲一幢房子遭雷击导致电器爆炸，里面的人被扔到了空中，但幸运地存活了下来，故选D。

22．What does the underlined word “triggered” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Caused. B．Stopped.

C．Improved. D．Replaced.

答案：A词义猜测题。根据“a thunderstorm”以及“an electrical explosion”可知这里是指天雷“引发”了爆炸。

23．We can infer that after the explosion, Rebecca ________.

A．was seriously injured

B．was calmer than Lauren

C．immediately thought of her son

D．was too frightened to do anything

答案：B推理判断题。根据Rebeeca在第三段所说的“Lauren was scared; she couldn't breathe. I had to drag her out of the house”可知爆炸后她比Lauren要镇静。

24．What Rebecca said in Paragraph 4 showed that she was ________.

A．positive B．scared

C．sad D．lucky

答案：C推理判断题。Rebecca在第四段所说的“I had just finished decorating the house and getting it the way I wanted it. Now I can't even live in it”表达了她的悲伤之情。

B

The first reality TV show in the world was called Expedition Robinson and it was shown in Sweden in 1997. Half the population of the country watched the final event and a new kind of TV program was born. Two years later in Holland, the first series of Big Brother was filmed. Again, it was a great success and the final program was watched by 15 million people. Now more than 20 countries around the world have Big Brother or Expedition Robinson on their TV screens. The ordinary people who take part in the programs are known by millions of people in their own countries and reality TV has become big, big business.

For the TV producers, reality TV is a dream to come true because many of the programs cost nothing to make. At some point, the television viewers are asked to telephone the program to vote or to apply to take part in the show. It is the cost of these telephone calls that pays for the shows. One of the most popular shows is Pop Idol. In the show, a group of attractive young people are made into pop stars. TV viewers vote for their favorite person on the show. The winner makes a record and millions of copies of the record are sold. His or her pictures are published on the covers of magazines or on the front pages of newspapers, and then, they are quickly forgotten.

But not everyone is happy about reality TV. In Portugal, two TV channels got into trouble because they showed too much of the personal lives of the people in the shows. In France, reality TV is called“rubbish TV”and the TV studios of Big Brother were attacked three times in one week. In Greece, Big Brother was described as“against human rights and civilization”．25．Those who take part in reality TV shows are usually________.