(完整版)外研版高中英语选修6Module2单元测试试题含答案及部分解析.docx

Module 2单元测试题

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 A 、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Share your poems, get feedback反(馈 ) for your poetry, and enter poetry contests (竞赛 ). Choose from the following poetry contests that you can enter. Get feedback for every poem that you write including your contest entries. How It Works

As a member, you will get feedback for everything you write. You can enter poetry contests with cash prizes. You will be ranked 分(等级 ). Write and see how the feedback you receive influences your rank. Since the year 2000 we have been helping writers improve their writing skills.

Poetry Contests in May

Friendship across cultures

Write a story about a friend that opened your world to another culture. Deadline: Today!

Technology wars

Write a story on the topic provided in the announcement.

Deadline: Today!

Poetry Contests in June

Lyrics make the song

Pen your newest, and best, song lyric masterpieces and enter them into

this contest.

NO POETRY ALLOWED FOR THIS CONTEST!

Must be song lyrics only.

Deadline: June 1st

Unexpected romance

Write a story that brings two people together, two people who don't necessarily

realize that they belong together but the audience is rooting for them. Write a story for

a cash prize.

Deadline: June 15th

Poetry Contests in July

Newbie writing contest

For our New Arrival“ This Sentence Starts the Story” contest we challenge you to write a story that starts with this sentence:“ Hellyfoundcotestmewith.” A poetr

a cash prize.

A memoir (回忆录) gives us the ability to write about our life. But you can

write about life with the option (选择 ) to create and invent and to make sense of a

life, or part of that life. Write a piece of your life! A cash prize to the winning entry.

21.What do we know about the contests in May?

A. They are held yearly.

B. They are topic-based.

C.

They offer no feedback. D.

They are human-focused.

22.Contestants of“ Lyrics make the song.”

23.What type of writing is this text?

A. A writing guide.

B. A poetry review.

C.

An official report. D.

An announcement.

B

I once saw a TV programme at college about a scientist who used“ drift

bottles (漂流瓶 ) ”to mark ocean currents. It was a rather boring programme. I

was more interested to read an article about someone who found a bottle on a

beach with a message inside. Like the drift bottles, it had been thrown into the

sea— but 21 years before. I decided to find out more about such bottles, and I

started work on this intriguing ( 非常有趣的 ) research.

An early message in a bottle was thrown into the sea by Christopher Columbus

during a terrible storm. He wrote about his discovery of America and expected that

his message would be sent to the Queen of Spain. He wanted the news to reach her,

but he thought he might be drowned 淹(死 ) in the storm. In fact, he survived but the

bottle was never found.

I would be excited to find a message in a bottle, but in the 16th century, it could

be dangerous. In those days, the British Navy海(军 ) used messages in bottles to

send information about the enemy. When Queen ElizabethⅠ found out that a

boatman had opened a bottle containing one of these secret messages, she created

a new job, Uncorker of Ocean Bottles. I was amazed to learn that anyone else who opened a bottle could be sentenced to death. It seems very strange to us now.

A long time ago, before dating websites existed to help people find partners, a

sailor in Sweden put this message in a bottle—“ To someone beautiful and far away. ” It was found by a young woman in Sicily. She answered the message—“ I am not