外研版高中英语必修三第二模块测评.docx

高中英语学习材料***鼎尚图文理制作***第二模块测评(时间:100分钟满分:120分)第Ⅰ卷第一部分: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。

ATwo billion children in the developing world can’t receive good education—the key to human development.However,technology offers an answer which allows the poor in developing countries to learn.It is a tool which holds the ability to change the lives of the poor,as it provides a means of learning and communicating.Educational programmes must break away from old systems.New companies such as One Laptop(笔记本电脑)Per Child(OLPC),an organisation founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte have been active in solving the world’s education problem.The Internet has changed the world,allowing educational services to help with the global fight against poverty.Khan Academy is one such service.Like OLPC,it is an organisation founded by Harvard Business School graduate Salman Khan with the task of “providing a world-class education to anyone,anywhere”.The education offered includes a large number of math-related topics.The GMAT Pill Review is another company that trains MBA candidates(应考人)worldwide to prepare for the GMAT exam on both the Quant and Verbal section.Founded by Stanford graduate Zeke Lee,the company offers services which are priced at about 75% less than other similar programmes.It allows students from developing countries who might not be able to afford similar courses to have access to these services.Whether paid or free these services provide educational opportunities to those who would never have had the chance in the past.As a result of the technology revolution(革新),business schools may see more students from different corners of the world.Because of the Internet,people in developing nations have access to better and more affordable educational opportunities.More and more people will try to improve their lives through educational opportunities outside of their homeland—an idea usually uncommon in developing countries.1.According to the text,technology can .A.improve people’s reading abilityB.solve the problems facing the whole worldC.help the poor to reduce povertyD.cause poverty in developing countries答案C解析细节理解题。

根据第一段的“It is a tool which holds the ability to change the lives of the poor,as it provides a means of learning and communicating.”可知,由于科技提供学习和交流的方法,所以它是能够改变穷人命运的工具。

2.We can learn from the text that Khan Academy aims to .A.help the poor pay for good coursesB.provide every child with a computerC.help train MBA candidatesD.make everyone receive good education答案D解析推理判断题。

根据第三段的“Khan Academy is one such service.Like OLPC,it is an organisation founded by Harvard Business School graduate Salman Khan with the taskof‘providing a world-class education to anyone,anywhere’.”可知,该组织的目的是使每一个人都得到世界一流的教育。

3.In the past,people in developing countries .A.had no educational opportunities in their homelandB.seldom thought of receiving foreign education to change themselvesC.always believed education was of great importanceD.wouldn’t leave their homeland to reduce poverty答案B解析推理判断题。

由最后一段的“More and more people will try to improve their lives through educational opportunities outside of their homeland—an idea usually uncommon in developing countries.”可知,现在越来越多的人通过本国之外的教育机会来改善他们的生活,这一点在过去的发展中国家是不常见的。

由此可以推断出,过去发展中国家的人们很少想到通过接受国外的教育来改变自己的命运。

4.Why did the author write the text?A.To introduce some organisations in developed countries to help developing countries by technology.B.To explain why education and technology revolution are very important to developing countries.C.To describe relationships between developed countries and developing countries.D.To show how educational programmes in developed countries are started.答案A解析写作目的题。

该文主要介绍了发达国家通过科技手段帮助发展中国家的人们接受教育的几个组织,故A项作为写作目的最合适。

BAs more and more people speak the global languages of English,Chinese,Spanish,and Arabic,other languages are rapidly disappearing.In fact,half of the 6,000—7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century,according to the United Nations Educational,Scientific,and Cultural Organization(UNESCO).In an effort to prevent language loss,scholars from a number of organizations—UNESCO and National Geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.Mark Turin,a scientist at the Macmillan Center,Yale University,who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas,is following in that tradition.His recently published book,A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture,grows out of his experience living,working,and raising a family in a village in Nepal.Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin,who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches ofIndia,Nepal,Bhutan,and China.But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials—including photographs,films,tape recordings,and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.Now,through the two organizations that he has founded—the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project—Turin has started a campaign to make such documents,found in libraries and stores around the world,available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communitiesfrom whom the materials were originally collected.Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet,Turin notes,the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.5.Many scholars are making efforts to .A.promote global languagesB.rescue disappearing languagesC.search for language communitiesD.set up language research organizations答案B解析细节理解题。