1、 Unit 6 Life in the future 单元测试题 第一部分 :听力 (共两节 ,满分 30 分 ) 第一节 (共 5 小题 ;每小题 1.5 分 ,满分 7.5 分 ) 请听下面 5 段对话 ,选出最佳选项。 1. How much is the TV set？ A. 60. B. 120. C. 90. 2. Where does this conversation take place？ A. At a restaurant. B. At a theater. C. At a station. 3. What is the woman going to do this ev
2、ening？ A. Go to dinner. B. Visit her sister. C. Go to the airport. 4. What does the man mean？ A. He has not well prepared. B. He feels it will be easy. C. He doesnt mind about it. 5. What s the man s problem？ A. He doesnt have enough time. B. He doesnt have a watch. C. The library doesnt have the ar
3、ticles he wants. 第二节 (共 15 小题 ; 每小题 1.5 分 ,满分 22.5 分 ) 请听下面 5 段对话或独白 ,选出最佳选项。 请听第 6 段材料 ,回答第 6、 7 题。 6. Where does the conversation most probably take place？ A. In a bedroom. B. In an office. C. In the street. 7. What is wrong with the woman？ A. She has a stomachache. B. She has got the flu. C. She
4、has a toothache. 请听第 7 段材料 ,回答第 8 至 10 题。 8. What will the two speakers probably do？ A. Go traveling. B. Attend a meeting. C. Go on business. 9. What time should they arrive at the airport？ A. Before 11:20 pm. B. Before 10:40 am. C. Before 11:20 am. 10. What can we infer from the conversation？ A. Th
5、ey are going away for a long time. B. Jim Campbell will take them to the airport. C. They will go to the north. 请听第 8 段材料 ,回答第 11 至 13 题。 11. What are the two speakers talking about？ A. Sending an e-mail. B. Surfing the Internet. C. Writing a letter. 12. How many hours does the woman probably spend
6、on the Internet every week？ A. About twelve hours. B. About two hours. C. About six hours. 13. What can we learn about the woman from the conversation？ A. Her friend likes the Internet. B. She owns a business on the Internet. C. She has a little interest in the Internet. 请听第 9 段材料 ,回答第 14 至 16 题。 14
7、. Where does the man want to go？ A. He wants to travel around the downtown area. B. He wants to go to the White House Hotel. C. He wants to go to the Red House Hotel. 15. How much does it cost to go to the hotel by taxi？ A. About 7 dollars. B. About 15 dollars. C. About 50 dollars. 16. Which bus wou
8、ld the man take to go to the hotel？ A. Bus No. 13. B. Bus No. 30. C. Bus No. 14. 请听第 10 段材料 ,回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. Where did the story take place？ A. At the teachers office. B. At a studio. C. In a classroom. 18. What were the students doing then？ A. Talking about their articles before a video camera.
9、B. Reading news on TV. C. Celebrating the speakers birthday. 19. Why was the speaker so nervous？ A. She had never stood before a video camera before. B. She had never talked about her own article before a video camera before. C. This camera was different from the one she had once faced at home. 20.
10、What was the speaker s feeling to her class teacher？ A. Nervous. B. Afraid. C. Thankful. 第二部分 :英语知识运用 (共两节 ,满分 45 分 ) 第一节 :单项填空 (共 15 小题 ;每小题 1 分 ,满分 15 分 )从 A、 B、 C、 D 四个选项中 ,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 21. Right， we write to each other not _ but now and then. A. regularly B. normally C. absolutely D. actually
11、 22. Her answer _ “no” even after we begged her to reconsider our proposal. A. kept B. left C. remained D. continued 23. I think my money is enough for my travel 400 in traveler s check and 100 in _. A. notes B. money C. cash D. credit 24. The research results seem to _ a connection between poor hou
12、sing conditions and bad health, but more work must be done to test it. A. suppose B. analyse C. indicate D. prove 25. His attention which should be paid to _ is now being drawn to _ games. A. studying; play B. his study; playing C. his study; play D. study; play 26. _ she couldnt understand was _ fe
13、wer and fewer students showed interest in her lessons. A. What; because B. That; what C. What; why D. Why; that 27. Bob thought he couldnt go to the party because he had too much homework， but he went_. A. at all B. after all C. for all D. above all 28. _ with the practical situation， Marxism was gr
14、eatly developed in China at that time. A. Comparing B. Compared C. Combining D. Combined 29. After years of efforts， Chinese Olympic dream _ in the end. A. comes true B. has been come true C. has been turned into reality D. had been turned into reality 30. What are you considering _ the remaining bu
15、ilding materials？ You re asking me! I m also puzzled about it myself. A. doing with B. dealing with C. to do with D. to deal with 31. The fact is that there _ a lot of goods waiting_ at the storehouse. A. are; to be unloaded B. are; for being unloaded C. is; to be unloaded D. is; for being unloaded
16、32. I like to study the _ history of China very much. A. contemporary B. now C. nowadays D. today 33. Ill _ a computer to send her as a gift. A. purchase B. borrow C. lend D. hire 34. The prisoner has completely _ and proved to be a good man. A. reformed B. performed C. informed D. increased 35. It
17、is _ that she has gone back to her hometown to spend holidays with her parents. A. certain B. sure C. certainly D. surely 第三部分 :阅读理解 (共 20 小题 ;每小题 2 分 ,满分 40 分 ) 第二节 :完形填空 (共 20 小题 ;每小题 1.5 分 ,满分 30 分 ) 阅读下面短文 ,掌握其大意 ,然后从 36-55 各题所给的四个选项 (A、 B、 C和 D)中 ,选出最佳选项。 When I woke up this morning， I thought
18、my body had fallen apart. As I dragged myself to the bathroom， I groaned(呻吟 ) and remembered the 36 of yesterday that was responsible for my 37 . My host family took me to Waterville Valley， New Hampshire， for 38 . When Gena， my host mum， 39 me out to the beginners lesson， I suddenly remembered the
19、40 day my mum dropped me off at elementary school. Both left me alone to 41 new challenges. I had skied once before in Beijing. It was the last outing with my classmates 42 I left for America. The class trip was a lot of fun. 43 I didn t know how to stop myself 44 down the hill and fell countless ti
20、mes， I was very 45 and kept on trying. This time， I was taught how to ski 46 : I learnt to make a wedge(“ V”字形 ) and 47 in order to stop. The turn 48 me down because it took me across the hill， instead of straight 49 it. Even though I knew all the 50 ， I still panicked(惊慌 ) the first couple times I
21、turned. I always 51 to control the direction in which I was going， and could only scream as I ran into trees. When my instructor finally 52 my unskillful movements and went to help the others， I suddenly relaxed and began to turn 53 . I thought over my experience， and came up with the 54 : I do bett
22、er without other s 55 ， because then I have to learn to survive on my own. 36. A. excitement B. incident C. process D. accident 37. A. injury B. wounds C. pains D. situation 38. A. outing B. skiing C. exercise D. relaxation 39. A. drove B. picked C. called D. sent 40. A. first B. usual C. ordinary D
23、. wonderful 41. A. offer B. avoid C. deal with D. face with 42. A. when B. until C. before D. since 43. A. Even so B. However C. Because D. Even though 44. A. rushing B. running C. driving D. walking 45. A. tired B. puzzled C. brave D. strong 46. A. safely B. quickly C. fast D. properly 47. A. turn
24、B. switch C. change D. help 48. A. checked B. slowed C. let D. kept 49. A. over B. down C. through D. off 50. A. theories B. practice C. suggestions D. expectation 51. A. brought B. failed C. tried D. hurried 52. A. put away B. became tired of C. paid attention to D. showed interest in 53. A. skillf
25、ully B. carefully C. difficultly D. differently 54. A. conclusion B. signal C. direction D. demand 55. A. happiness B. harm C. protection D. order 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。 A Apple a day may poison children Children who eat an apple or pear a day may be exceeding(超过 ) the pesticide(
26、杀虫剂 ) safety limit because of remains on the fruit， according to research. Using data of the British Department of Environment on pesticides on fruit collected from supermarkets， scientists thought that each day some children would get a poisonous level of pesticides. The research， published on Sund
27、ay， says the government repeatedly claims that the levels of pesticide are safe because， instead of measuring individual apples， researchers buy 10， crush them and take an average reading to see if they are safe. This is the internationally agreed method of checking remains. But government figures s
28、how that the pesticide is not averagely spread across the batch(一批 )， and one or two apples could contain 90% or more of the pesticide in the batch. It used mathematical modeling to measure exposure(暴露 ) to pesticides for children aged between 18 months and four years old. The pesticides involved ca
29、n destroy children s hormones and some are suspected(怀疑 ) of causing cancer. The good news for British fruit growers is that samples grown in this country had lower residue level than imported fruit， so buying home-produced fruit will reduce the danger， said Emily Diamand， one of the Earth s senior
30、food researchers and one of the authors of the report. 56. The reason why “Apple a day may poison children” is that _. A. there are some pests in the apple B. children would get a poisonous level of pesticides because of the remains on the apple C. there are always more pesticides on the apples prod
31、uced in Britain D. the apple is too hard for children to eat 57. The internationally agreed method of checking remains is to buy _. A. two apples， crush them and take an average reading to see if they are safe B. five apples， crush them and test to see if they are safe C. ten apples， crush them and
32、take an average reading to see if they are safe D. eighty apples， and then test them by crushing 58. The underlined word “residue” can be replaced by _. A. remains B. pesticide C. poison D. medicine 59. Which of the following is NOT true？ A. The remains of the pesticides can do harm to the childrens
33、 health. B. The remains of the pesticides can do harm to the childrens hormones. C. Some remains of the pesticides are suspected of causing cancer. D. For safety， we d better not import apples from Britain. B We often think of future. We often wonder what the world would be like in a hundred years t
34、ime. Think of space， perhaps a permanent(永久的 ) station on the moon will have been set up. Perhaps people will be able to visit the moon as tourists. Cheap rockets for space travel will have been developed， permitting long journeys throughout the solar system(太阳系 ). When that time comes， people will
35、be taking holidays in space and visiting other planets. Great progress will have been made in medicine， too. Perhaps a cure will have been discovered for the most terrible of all diseases cancer. Pollution is a problem we must solve. In a hundred years time it will have been controlled. All the worl
36、d will have been developed even Antarctica. There will be large cities in Antarctica. We already have supersonic(超音速的 ) flight， but in a hundred years time we will have supersonic land travel as well. We will have used up most of earth s land to build our cities， so floating cities will have been bu
37、ilt. The Japanese already have plans for cities of this kind. And there will be cities under the sea. The first of these will have been completed. 60. We will have developed _ in a hundred years time， permitting long journeys all over the solar system. A. cheap rockets for space travel B. a plane C.
38、 a spaceship D. a satellite 61. Man will also have supersonic land travel _. A. in a year B. about half a century later C. in the year 2050 D. about a century later 62. The last paragraph mainly talks about _. A. well make good use of space on the earth B. cities under the sea C. Japan will first bu
39、ild floating cities D. earths land is in danger 63. The best title for the passage is _. A. Travel in the Future B. Future Life C. Where to Live in the Future D. Space Travel C CareerB now offers the most functional and easy-to-use online job search for Science there will be no farmland left. Other
40、people believe that Man adapts very easily. They have a different idea of the future. How， in their views， will people be living in a hundred years time？ One architect believes that Man will move off the land. He suggests that the city of the future will be a huge， pyramid-shaped building， which wil
41、l be floating on the surface of the sea. About 5， 000 families will be living there， and the building will contain shops and schools as well as homes. By living on the sea， we will give the farmers more land to grow crops. As for oil， people will no longer need it: we will be heating our homes with
42、power from the sun. And we will not be short of minerals， because there are plenty under our oceans. At the moment， we do not have the technology to get them out. But， in a hundred years time， the optimists say， the new sea cities will be using these resources. What will be in the shops in the year
43、3000？ What will people be wearing？ How will people be traveling？ Scientists who make predictions about the future suggest that， by the year 3000， shops will no longer exist. Computers will have replaced them; and people will order goods from home. People will be wearing very light， thin clothes. By
44、this time， scientists will have invented a fabric that keeps us cool in hot weather and warm in cold weather. As for travel， the experts say that most people will be using public transport. Electric cars will be traveling through the streets day and night. Anybody will be able to stop one and use it
45、. An interesting picture. Unfortunately， we will not be there to see if these predictions come true. 68. Pessimists believe that in the future _. A. the seas and oceans will be full of houses B. well have used up all the resources C. we will not have enough fish to eat from the seas D. we will have polluted the air so badlly that it will be impossible for us to breath 69. Optimists suggest that _. A. all the land will be too polluted to be cropped on B. pyramids will be the most commonly-used houses C. people will be using the power from the sun instead of oil D. we will be short
