单元综合测评
Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题，每小题2分，共30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。
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【语篇解读】 本文是介绍了两则广告的具体信息。 1．With help from a Mr.H，you can________． A．stop using batteries
B．get your room tidied on your way home C．remember your teacher's instructions D．finish your homework on time
【解析】 细节理解题。根据第一则广告第二段Mr.H can be programmed to organize your homework.可知机器人可以帮助我们管理我们的家庭作业。也就是说可以帮助我们准时完成作业。故D正确。
【答案】 D
2．If you buy a PENGO WATCH CONTROL now，you can save________． A．$99 C．$200
B．$100 D．$199
【解析】 细节理解题。根据第二则广告中Originally sold for $199 Now only $99可知可节省$199－$99＝100$，故B正确。
【答案】 B
3．Where would you be most likely to find the two texts? A．On a notice board. B．In a company brochure. C．On a teenage website D．In a college newspaper.
【解析】 推理判断题。根据文章最后一句For further information，click here.“想知道更多信息，请点击这里”。根据click可知本文是网页。故C正确。
【答案】 C
B
The contention that the spirit of adventure no longer has any scope for its enterprises seems，at first glance，depressingly true.The highest mountains have been scaled；the deepest seas plumbed.Maps today no longer contain huge blanks marked“Unknown Territory”，more do they make random guesses at the shapes of
distant land-masses.All major journeys of exploration to determine the true shape and nature of the globe have been made in the past.It was left to us to fill in the details with expeditions which once would have been considered impossible.The gaps have been filled.What next?
The obvious answer，of course，is that now looking upwards into space.Discoveries are being made at such a tremendous rate that even authors of science-fiction are finding it difficult to keep up with them and have to tax their imagination to invent bigger and better space-craft.Satellites sending signals as they swing round our globe have become commonplace.Astronauts have successfully landed on the moon and its entire surface has been photographed.The information that satellites may provide fueling stations for manned rockets into outer space in the hope of receiving an answer，or that radio-telescopes should “listen into” the skies for possible signals from other worlds，he would have been regarded as either irresponsible or mad.Now，anything seems feasible.
From dream like these，we return to earth with a bump.Trips into space are all very well，but they are not for us：we must be content with our own，much-traveled world.The earth itself is the training-ground for adventurous spirits.For “adventure”need not mean the seeking out of something new.A person can be called adventurous when he finds out something for himself；and it does not matter how many times the discovery has been made before.No one would say that men who set out now to cross the forbidding Antarctic are less enterprising than their predecessors who tried to do the same thing.The little boy who climbs the small hill that overlooks his own，or even he who tries to climb and fails，has precisely the same spirit that led Hillary to climb Everest.For the bold spirit and inquiring mind，there are inexhaustible possibilities.So long as there are people willing to rediscover places that are well-known，there will be those who will，one day，set foot on remote and trackless shores.
【语篇解读】 本篇文章主题是“冒险精神”，虽然在目前发达科技的帮助下，人们的探险已经走出地球走向太空，但是真正的冒险精神指的不仅仅是探索未知领域，更是某人自己通过努力达到了以前从未达到的高度。
4．What does the underlined word “they” in the first paragraph refer to?
A．The highest mountains. B．The deepest seas. C．Maps. D．Land-masses.
【解析】 代词指代题。首先定位they所在的句子是首段的Maps today no longer contain huge blanks marked“Unknown Territory”，more do they make random guesses at the shapes of distant land-masses.很容易看出前半句主语是maps，后半句用they指代前面已经出现过的主语，所以答案是C。
【答案】 C
5．What can man do now since there was no“Unknown Territory” on earth. A．Fill the gaps in the details with expeditions. B．Explore space.
C．Look upwards into space.
D．Determine the true shape of the globe.
【解析】 细节理解题。关键词是Unknown Territory，定位在第一段第三句Maps today no longer contain huge blanks marked “Unknown Territory”紧接着就是对我们接下来该做些什么的阐述。学生们容易误选A，因为原文说It was left to us to fill in the details with expeditions，但需注意的是后面一句The gaps have been filled.What next？既然前面所提的fill in the details已做完，接下来应该做什么呢？直接过渡至第二段所提的looking upwards into space，但这只是比喻的用法，第二段整段都在讲人们是如何探索太空的，所以最佳选择是B。
【答案】 B
6．Which of the following statement is TRUE?
A．The space-crafts that the writers of science fiction have invented are exactly the same size as our modern ones.
B．Years ago，a scientist who had expected to receive an answer from the satellites we sent into outer space would be regarded as a mad person.
C．Men who set out now to cross the forbidding Antarctic are less enterprising than their predecessors who did the same thing.
D．It's quite common to find satellites sending signals to the earth as they swing