Unit 1 How can we become good learners?

时间： 100分钟   满分： 100分

第 I 卷

I. 单项选择（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

从每小题所给的A、B、C、D4个选项中选出能够完成或回答这一小题的正确答案。

(   ) 1. ─How does your best friend improve his listening skills?

       ─__________.

A. By listen to English tapes                              B. By listening to English tapes

C. By listening English tapes                               D. By listens to English tapes

(   ) 2. The longer she stayed with the old lady, __________she became.

A the most patient    B. more patient        C. less patient      D. the more patient

(   ) 3. ─I am thinking of tomorrow's chemistry test. I'm afraid I can't pass it.

─__________. I'm sure you'll be OK.

            A I agree                      B. Good luck     C. Give up                                                                                  D. Don't worry

(   ) 4. I checked my answers over and over again, __________I couldn't find out what was wrong.

            A or                              B. and             C. but                            D. so

(   ) 5. ─Are you afraid__________questions?

─Yes. And I'm afraid__________in front of the class as well.

A. to ask; to speaking B. of asking; of speak            C. to ask; of speaking     D. of ask; to speaking (   ) 6. I doubt__________you'd like to come to my party.

           A whether         B. that whether or not                       C. that                           D. that if

(   ) 7. ─I don't know__________ my readmg speed.

─Don't worry. Let me help you.

A. how can I increase B. what I can increase     C. how to increase                    D. what to increase

(   ) 8. Write__________and try not to make any mistakes.

A. as careful as possible                                     B. as carefully as you can

C. most careful                                            D. more care£ul

(   ) 9. ─Steven, could you help me__________when the plane will take off on the Internet?

─I'm sorry, my computer doesn't work.

A invent            B. find out                        C. look for                     D. discover

(   ) 10. The best way__________improve your English is__________an English club.

A to; to join               B. of; to join                        C. to; joins                   D. dicover

(   ) 11. When you're learning English, use it, __________ you'll lose it.

A but                     B. and                                   C. then                              D. or

(   ) 12. ─How can I improve my reading?

─I think the most important is to__________ a good habit of reading.

            A develop                  B. show                   C. make                                                                                                                                   D. take

(   ) 13. I'm sorry__________ that you have made __________ grammar in this sentence.

            A. saying; mistakes                                                B. to hear; a mistake

            C. saying;  mistakes in                                                 D. to say; a mistake in

(   ) 14. The exercise is__________difficult__________.

            A so; that few of us can do                                                 B. so; that few of us can do it

            C. too; for anyone of us can do                                                 D. too; for anyone of us to do it

(   ) 15. ─Why don't you practice conversations with your partner?

               ─Sorry, I don't have a partner__________.

A. to practice English with                              B. practicing English with

C. practices English with                                          D. to practice English

II. 完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

   阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Nowadays, many people drive their cars to work. There are a lot of cars in the street and the ___11___is very busy. So sometimes ___12___is not easy for people to get to work on time. When you are going to be late, you only dream of taking a plane there. Can your dream___13___?

Yes! You can take a plane only in months!

Four engineers in Germany are___14___in making planes. They are making a new plane─Lilium jet. It doesn't look like a plane ___15___an egg. Many people think it looks funny and interesting. The great "egg" can take two people to the sky and ___16___three hundred kilometres in one hour. That's really great.

Some people call Lilium jet “a flying car Firstly”.  Why? It’s not difficult for people to learn to drive it.

People can drive it just like driving a car. But it can go ___17___and farther than a car. Secondly, Lilium jet is not

very big, only a quarter of a plane. So it doesn't need an airport. Only a small place is OK. It can stop___18___.

In the future, the "flying car" will come into people's life and ___19___our ways of trip.

Lilium jet will come on the market soon. ____20____you want to make your trip easy and funny, why not

buy one? I'm sure you will have a good time on it.

(   ) 11. A. traffic                        B. sky                                C. train                           D. cars

(   ) 12. A. this                            B. that                                C. it                               D. one

(   ) 13. A. come on                    B. come back                       C. come true                  D. come out

(   ) 14. A. bored                         B. interested                       C. disappointed                 D. failing

(   ) 15. A. but                             B. and                                C. so                              D. however

(   ) 16. A. walk                          B. swim                                C. fly                             D. jog

(   ) 17. A. slower                       B. faster                                C. earlier                        D. later

(   ) 18. A. where                        B. nowhere                 C. everywhere               D. anywhere

(   ) 19. A. change                      B. find                                C. lose                           D. succeed

(   ) 20. A. Unless                       B. If                                C. Whether                    D. Except

III. 阅读理解（共20小题，1-15每小题1分，16-20每小题2分，共25分）

阅读下列短文，做出正误判断或选出最佳选项。A篇为判断正(A) 误(B)题，B、C篇为选择题，D篇为六选五补全短文。

A

When I was at university, I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass the exams. Others didn't do quite enough. Fred Baines was such a student. He spent more time drinking in the Tea House than working in the library.

Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in Chinese. The test had 100 questions. Beside each question we had to write "True" or "False". While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked very easy. Then he told me of his idea.

"It's very simple. There are 100 questions and I have to get 50 right to pass the test. I'll take a coin into the room. I haven't studied Chinese for months, so I'll toss (掷，扔） the coin. In that way, I'm sure I'll get half of the questions right."

The next day, Fred came happily into the examination room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour, he wrote down his answers. Then he left, half an hour earlier than the rest of us.

The next day, Fred met his Chinese teacher at the school gate. " Hello, sir," he said. "Have you got the results of the test?"

The teacher looked at him and smiled, "Ah, it's you, Baines. Just a minute. "Then the teacher reached his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it. "I'm sorry, Baines, you failed!"

(   ) 1. Fred Baines was a hard-working student.

(   ) 2. They had to take a Chinese test.

(   ) 3. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test.

(   ) 4. Fred thought hard and wrote down his answers.

(   ) 5. Fred passed the test at last.

B

How to Be a Winner?

Sir Steven Redgrave

Winner of 5 Olympic Gold Medals

"In 1997 I was found to have developed diabetes(糖尿病). Believing my career was over, I felt extremely low. Then one of the specialists said there was no reason for me to stop train­ing and competing. That was it—the encouragement I needed. I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn't finished yet. Nothing can stand in my way."

Karen Pickering

Swimming World Champion

"I swim 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. I manage that sort of workload by putting it on top of my diary. This is the key to success - you can't follow a career in any field without being well-organized. List what you believe you can achieve. Trust yourself, write down your goals for the day, however small they are, and you'll be a step closer to achieving them."

Kirsten Best

Poet & Writer

"When things are getting hard, a voice inside my head tells me that I can't achieve some­thing. Then, there are other distractions, such as family or hobbies. The key is to concen­trate. When I feel tense, it helps a lot to repeat words such as 'calm', 'peace' or 'focus', ei­ther out loudly or silently in my mind. It makes me feel more in control and increases my confidence.

(   ) 6. What does Sir Steven Redgrave mainly talk about?

A Difficulties influenced his career.                  B. Specialists offered him medical advice.

C.  Training helped him defeat his disease. D. He overcame the shadow of illness to win.

(   ) 7. What does Karen Pickering put on top of her diary?

A. her training schedule.                                 B.Her daily happenings.

C. Her achievements.                                      D. Her sports career.

(   ) 8. What does the underlined word "distractions" probably refer to?

A. Ways that help one to focus.                      B. Words that help one to feel less tense.

C. Activities that turn one’s attention away.    D. Habits that make it hard for one to relax.

(   ) 9·When she felt tense, Kirsten Best___________.

A only kept a voice inside her head                    

B. sometimes repeated the words that can increase her confidence out loudly and sometimes repeated  them silently in her mind

C. always repeated the words that can increase her confidence out loudly outside her house

D. never copcentrated on anything

(   ) 10. According to the passage, what do the three people have in common?

A Courage.                 B. Devotion.                      C. Hard work.               D. Self-confidence.

C

(   ) 11. All the information about the writer must be included except his/her___________.

     A school name              B. e-mail address      C. year of birth        D. telephone number

(   ) 12. What is required for the articles wanted according to the passage?

A They must be fully created by the writers themselves.

B. They must be typed in single space and on both sides.

C. They must be provided with photos and descriptions.

D. They must be sent with the copies of texts and pictures.

(   ) 13, According to the passage, you can send your articles .

     A. within 3 weeks         B. all summer                C. all the year round       D. during the whole term

(   ) 14. How many ways can you find in the passage to contact School Life?

     A. 1                              B. 2                              C. 3                             D. 4  

(   ) 15. Who do you think will write articles for School Life?

A. Students who are interested in writing.

B. Teachers who love writing and taking photos.

C.    Parents who wish·their kids to be popular writers.

D.    Readers who had a happy time in their childhood.

D

Global warming is a big problem that we have to stop. One of the best things we do is to plant more trees. Trees can take in CO2 in the air and stop global warming.      16      

A team of scientists at Boston University has been working with NASA to study Earth’s greenvegetation( 植被). They used a special NASA camera and found that global leaf area had increased by 5  percent since the early 2000s.     17      That’s about one-quarter of the size of the entire Amazon rainforest. 

The growth mainly came from China’s forest protection programs, NASA said. For example, since 1962, China has been planting trees in Saihanba, Hebei Province. It was once a desert,    18   

    19   Ant Forest, a feature in Alipay app, gives users points for doing eco-friendly things such as walking and going paperless in the office. Users can then use these points to water and grow their own virtual(虚拟的) trees. When the virtual trees are big enough, Ant Forest will plant real trees somewhere in the world.      20    

根据短文内容，从选项中选出能填入文中空白处的最佳选项，选项中有一项为多余项。

A.More than 55 million trees have been planted in this way. 

B.The Chinese public has also joined in these activities recently. 

C.And China was responsible for 25% of that gain, according to the study. 

D.However, people there can produce vegetables without any difficulty now. 

E.But now, China has turned the area into the country’s largest man-made forest. 

F.According to a news report, China is doing a great job of “greening” the world.

第 II 卷

IV. 词汇运用 (本题10小题，A题每小题2分，B每小题1分，共15分）

A. 用所给词的适当形式填空。每词限用一次。（10分）

1. Do you know when Columbus _____________ America?

2. The new robot _____________ by the students in two weeks.

3. The number of tourists _____________ greatly over the years in this city.

4. Listen! The boy _____________ the new words again and again. I believe he can remember them by this way.

5. Tom _____________ math till midnight yesterday because there will be a math test today.

B. 根据句意和所给汉语完成句子，每空1词。(5分）

1. When you learn English, it's important to improve your _____________ (发音).

2. A good learner can use the knowledge _____________(明智地).

3. I think doing a of exercise is one of the most important _____________ (秘密）when you study.

4. The teacher is always _____________ (有耐心的）with her students.

5. Mary doesn't like _____________ (化学) at all.

V. 阅读表达（本题共15小题，满分20分）

阅读下面的短文，按要求完成任务。(7分）

Is it hard for you to get up early and get ready for classes? Some students at Winter Park High School just quickly get up and go to class in their own bedrooms. Of course, their teachers and classmates can not see them because all their class work is on the computer.

The Winter Park High School, the state's only on-line school, has 250 students who are taking classes at home by computers.

"I'm a lot more comfortable at home," said Luke Levesque, a 16-year-old who is taking a computer class on line. He thinks (A) the school's computer lab is so noisy that he can't study well. "Home is much better, " he said.

Students in this first on-line program take classes in math, American government, chemistry, computer, and Web-page design. They also have to go to regular (正规的) school to attend other classes.

When a student is ready to begin for the classes, he or she (B)__________the computer, reads the teacher's instructions, and begins working on the lesson for the day. What happens if a student has a question for the teacher? Or the teacher wants to say something about the work a student is doing? The student and the teacher talk to each other every day through e-mail or by telephone.

Is it easy for students to (C) cheat on tests when they're working at home? (D)The teachers have already thought about this. They make students take their final exams in person in the classroom.

1. 将画线部分(A)改成同义句。(2分）

     The school's computer lab is _________ noisy for _________ to study well.

2.  在(B)的空白处填入适当的词组或单词：_____________。(1分）

3.  画线短语(C)的汉语意思是" _____________ "。(1分）

     A参加考试                               B. 考试作弊                               C. 诚信考试

4.  将画线部分(D)译成汉语。(1分）

   ____________________________________________________________________

5. 在文章中找出能够说明主题的短语。(1分）

   ___________________________________________________________________________

6. 回答问题。(1分)

How many subjects do the students in this first on-line program have?

_________________________________________________________________________

B

阅读下面的短文，按要求完成各项任务。(10分）

Reading books is a good hobby for all kinds of reasons.

First, reading books is fun. You can always find yourself amused if you like reading. This is especially useful when the weather is bad. (A) It is a relaxing hobby, too. You can really become (B) lost in a book.

        Next, you can read a book (C)________: in a car, in a waiting-room, on a plane, in bed─even in the bath. All you need is a book! Reading is a convenient hobby as it is easy to stop and then start again.

        (D) __________ good reason for reading books is that it is useful. (E) If you read as a hobby you will get better and better at it. This means that you will read faster and will better understand what you read. As your reading ability improves, you will probably find your school-work becomes much easier. Many school subjects depend on good reading ability and, as you read, you learn more and more.

Some people say that reading is out of date. This is not true. You have to be able to read to use a computer and, the better you read, the better your computer skills will be. Reading is hardly out of date!

Good readers are more likely to be good writers, too. They are usually good at spelling as well, and have more things to write about. Reading books is a wonderful hobby, one of the best. No other hobby could be more useful and more enjoyable.

7. 用英语解释画线句子(A) "It is a relaxing hobby too."中"it"的词义。（不超过3个词）。(1分）

   ____________________________________________________________________________

8. 根据上下文将画线短语(B) lost in a book译为汉语。(1分）

   ________________________________________________________________________

9. 在(C)、(D)处分别填上一个合适的单词（首字母已给出）。(2分）

        (C) a                     (D) A         

10. 用英语解释画线句子(E)。(2分）

It means_________________________________________________________________

11.   根据文章内容回答问题。

Is reading out of date? (1分）

    _________________________________________________________________________

12.   根据文章内容填空，每空一词。(3分）

Good writers are good at not only reading but also___________. Reading books is one of the best___________. No hobby_____________ could be more enjoyable.

C

阅读下面的表格，完成短文，每空词数不限。(3分）

The form shows the results of a survey of parents from five countries who were asked why children are important to them. They were asked to choose three main reasons from seven possible reasons. For example, the three most important reasons for Japanese parents are Item 5 (60%),   13   (51%) and Item 7 (45%). For British, American and French parents, the least important reason is the same, that is:         14      And for Korean, to keep the family line is  15  .

13._______________  14. ______________  15._______________

VI. 书面表达（满分15分）

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