人教版新课标高中英语选修7单元检测：Unit4Sharing

单元检测4

Ⅰ.阅读理解

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Helen Keller was one of America's best-known women. She was

admired for her courage and achievements although she couldn't see or hear. She was also known throughout the world for her self-sacrificing work to

improve the condition of the blind, the deaf and the speechless. When she died on June 1, 1968, the newspaper Washington Post wrote：“Her life is truly one of the most remarkable phenomena of our time and her death just short of the age of 88 leaves the whole world poorer.”

Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. For the first 19 months of her life, she was a pretty and happy baby, normal in every way. Then a sudden illness destroyed her sight and her hearing. Because she could not hear sounds to imitate (模仿), she could not speak. Helen used to say that her real birthday was not June 27th, 1880, but March 3rd, 1887 —the day when Anne Sullivan entered her life. It was Anne Sullivan who taught Helen to spell certain words by a special system, Braille, and even to talk.

Anne Sullivan could not teach Helen Keller to speak until some other important things had been learned. The little girl had to learn to control her actions and feelings. She had to learn that she could not always do what she wanted to do. She had always been able to get what she wanted by using force. The teacher had to change such habits without breaking the child's spirit.

Miss Sullivan's battle began. Sometimes, there was real fighting between the wild child and the strong young teacher. At last, however, the battle was won by Miss Sullivan, who succeeded in showing Helen that she loved her and wanted to help her. The child and her teacher became friends. They continued to be friends until the teacher's death, fifty years later.

The day on which Helen finally accepted Miss Sullivan as her friend and teacher was a great day in Helen's life. After that, the teacher could begin to teach the child language.

1．Helen Keller was admired by many people because ________.

A．she was very famous in America

B．she had great courage and gained lots of achievements

C．she went to college though she couldn't see or hear

D．she had a good teacher

2．Which of the following is TRUE about Helen Keller?

A．She did little work to make the condition of the blind, the deaf and speechless batter.

B．She died at eighty years old.

C．She was a normal child when she was born.

D．The accident destroyed her sight and hearing.

3．We can infer from the passage that Anne Sullivan ________.

A．was more than a teacher to Helen B．was very clever

C．a blind woman D．taught Helen how to write

4．Which of the following statement is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．Helen Keller stayed in touch with Miss Sullivan for fifty years.

B．Anne Sullivan took great trouble to show Helen that she loved her and wanted to help her.

C．It was not until Helen had learned some other important things that Miss Sullivan could teach her to speak.

D．Miss Sullivan met many difficulties in teaching Helen how to speak.

B

Michael Johnson, a teacher at Davis High School in California, gave each of his students DS| 25.He asked them to help other people with the money. The assignment was not graded, but he still expected them to do it.

Michael had one requirement: the student had to write a paper answering how they used the money, how it affected the receiver and how it affected the student. He said that he would collect the reports and read them aloud at the end of the term.

The semester came and went. Of the 64 students, only three completed the assignment. The teacher was disappointed.

But some teenagers were not shocked by the students' behavior.

“I'm not surprised，”said Ashley Reeves,16. “It wasn't graded or anything, so most students probably thought it would just use up their time.”

Reeves said that if she had been given the money, she might have acted in the same way.

“I might have spent the money on myself，”she said. “It's natural for our own needs to come first.”

Other teens such as Lindsey Freeland, a student at Davis High School had a different opinion on the matter.

“I'm embarrassed by the result，”she wrote. “If I were given this opportunity, I would have taken it as a challenge and used the money to help the community.”

Nieshia Smith completed Johnson's assignment. She gave her DS| 25 to the Make A Wish Foundation. Nieshia said her peers had disappointed her.

“Teenagers sit down and watch TV for hours, but they can't spend a couple of minutes helping someone else！”she said.

5. The teacher Michael Johnson gave each of his studentsDS| 25 in order to ________.

A．award them

B．buy things that they want

C．make them help those who are in need of help

D．give it to their parents