选修7 Unit 5 语法练习

第一部分选修七Unit 5Ⅰ.阅读理解(2014·吉林市期末质检)In her new book, “The Smartest Kids in the World”，Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, tells the story of Tom, a high-school student from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who decides to spend his senior year in Wroclaw, Poland. Poland is a surprising educational success story: in the past decade, the country raised students' test scores from significantly below average to well above it. Polish kids have now outscored American kids in math and science, even though Poland spends, on average, less than half as much per student as the United States does. One of the most striking differences between the high school Tom attended in Gettysburg and the one he ends up at in Wroclaw is that the latter has no football team or teams of any kind.That American high schools spend more time and money on sports than on math is an old complaint. In December, when the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results are announced, it's safe to predict that American high-school students will once again show their limited skills in math and reading, outscored not just by students in Poland but also by students in places like China, Finland, Singapore, and Japan. Meanwhile, they will have played some very exciting football games, which will have been breathlessly written up in their hometown papers.Why does this situation continue? Well, for one thing, kids like it. And for another, according to Ripley, parents seem to like the arrangement, too. She describes a tour she took of a school in Washington D．C．, which costs thirty thousand dollars a year. The tour leader—a mother with three children in the school—was asked about the school's flaws (瑕疵). When she said that the math program was weak, none of the parents taking the tour reacted. When she said that the football program was weak, the parents suddenly became concerned. “Really？” one of them asked worriedly, “What do you mean？”One of the ironies of the situation is that sports show what is possible. American kids' performance on the field shows just how well they can do when expectations are high. It's too bad that their test_scores_show_the_same_thing._文章大意：美国学校教育有一个软肋。

1．Tom decides to spend his senior year in Poland because __________.A．he intends to improve his scoresB．Polish kids are better at learningC．sports are not supported at schools in GettysburgD．he wants to be the smartest kid in the world答案：A细节理解题。

由第一段第二句可知。

2．According to Paragraph 2, we know that ________.A．PISA plays a very important role in AmericaB．little time is spent on sports in Japanese schoolsC．American students do better in both math and sportsD．too much importance is placed on sports in America答案：D细节理解题。

由第二段第一句可知。

3．The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means ______.A．low expectations result in American students' poor PISA performanceB．high expectations push up American students' academic performanceC．American students' academic performance worries their parents a lotD．lacking practice contributes to American students' average performance答案：A句意理解题。

与上句进行对比可知。

4．The purpose of this article is to ________.A．compare Polish schools with those in AmericaB．call on American schools to learn from the Polish modelC．draw public attention to a weakness in American school traditionD．explain what is wrong with American schools and provide solutions答案：C写作意图题。

由全文最后一段可知。

Ⅱ.完形填空(2014·云南省二模)Mark was a great kid from a bad neighborhood. Crime, drugs, fighting and poverty: You name the __1__ and his neighborhood had it. A scholarship fund __2__ his tuition to Catholic High School, where he was a great baseball player.Mark __3__ in the classroom, though. He was bright, but behind, perhaps due to a __4__home environment. But there were problems __5__ the time for all he needed to do. Some felt Mark should give up sports and __6__ schooling. But, in reality, if he was going to attend college, he would need his __7__.A fellow teacher, Mrs. Jones, __8__ to tutor Mark in math. I helped Mark with other areas of work. No one __9__ us. Mrs. Jones __10__ it up this way: “Pay day doesn't always come on Mondays.”When we were not working with Mark to __11__ his skills for the ACT, Mark's dad took him to various __12__ to talk with both baseball and football program coaches. He settled on the one college that offered him __13__ to play both sports. But he __14__ a good ACT score.It took months to receive the __15__ of college entrance exams. One afternoon after school, Mark rushed into my office and yelled, “I'm going to college! I'm going to college！”“I guess you got your __16__？” I asked.“Well, yeah！”he laughed. “And guess what? I got one point more than I need to be __17__. Thank you! Now, where's Mrs. Jones? I've got to tell her too！”Until that moment, I had __18__ quite understood what “pa y day doesn't always come on Mondays”__19__. But it was clear to me the instant Mark came to __20__ his news. No amount of money could ever reward us as much as the news of a boy who finally had a chance at a better life.文章大意：本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。