Unit3 Travel journal高考英语单元能力提升测试含答案及解析.docx

1、Unit3 Travel journal高考英语单元能力提升测试含答案及解析Unit3 Travel journal-高考英语单元能力提升测试【含答案及解析】姓名_ 班级_ 分数_题号一二三四五六总分得分一、阅读理解1. A Whats On? Electric Underground 7 ： 30pm1 ： 00am Free at the Cyclops Theatre Do you know whos playing in your area? Were bringing you an exciting evening of live rock and pop music from th

2、e best local bands. Are you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recording contract(合同)? If so, come early to the talk at 7 ： 30pm by Jules Skye, a successful record producer. Hes going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce your music. Gee Whizz 8 ： 30pm10 ： 30pm Come

3、dy at Kaleidoscope Come and see Gee Whizz perform. Hes the funniest stand-up comedian on the comedy scene. This joyful show will please everyone, from the youngest to the oldest. Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7 ： 00pm for drinks and snacks(快餐). Simons Workshop 5

4、： 00pm7 ： 30pm Wednesdays at Victoria Stage This is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedy. The workshop looks at every kind of comedy, and practices many different ways of making people laugh. Simon is a comedian and actor who has 10 years experience of teaching comedy. His wo

5、rkshops are exciting and fun. An evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny. Charlotte Stone 8 ： 00pm11 ： 00pm Pizza World Fine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will perform songs from her new best-selling CD, with James Pickering on the p

6、iano. The menu is Italian, with excellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta(面食). Book early to get a table. Our bar is open all day, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine. 1. Who can help you if you want to have your music produced? A. Jules Skye. _ B. Gee Whizz. C. Charlotte Stone.

7、 _ D. James Pickering. 2. At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh? A. The Cyclops Theatre._ B. Kaleidoscope. C. Victoria Stage._ D. Pizza World. 3. What do we know about Simons Workshop? A. It requires membership status._ B. It lasts three hours each time. C. It is run by a co

8、medy club._ D. It is held every Wednesday. 4. When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs? A.5 ： 00pm7 ： 30pm._ B.7 ： 30pm1 ： 00am. C.8 ： 00pm11 ： 00pm._ D.8 ： 30pm10 ： 30pm. 2. B Books are typically written first, then narrated (朗读) for audio books. Until now, Audible, the largest company of audio

9、books, has begun asking well-known writers to create works specifically for audio, instead of inviting people to narrate already existing print books. Its a new chapter for the book industry. Audible now has about 30 totally new audio works in production. And it turns out that audio books, which hav

10、e long been regarded as less important than e-books, have actually been doing quite well. They are a $1,000,000,000 industry, with more than 35,000 titles published in 2013 alone. What promotes that progress is not only an evolution of technology, but more importantly, the rise of the celebrity (名人)

11、 narrator. Narrators are key to the success of an audio book and these days, producers are signing on more and more celebrities. Celebrities narration is like a private performance to customers, who get a feeling of closeness in listening to their voices. Many of the customers buy audio books based

12、on the narrator. They will listen to anything a specific actor or actress reads. That is why Audible is taking the risk of not producing print books at all but starting totally new audio works. Theres another reason why the company is expecting its risk-taking action to pay off: humans have been tel

13、ling stories since the beginning of time. We are taking part in a little habit that goes back thousands and thousands of years before the first mark was ever made on a stone. Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audio book goes all the way back to that tradition. As Pe

14、ter Allen sang softly in the 1970s, everything old is new again. 1. The new chapter (Para. 1) refers to a time of _ _ _. A. starting audio companies _ B. producing new audio works C. narrating print books for audio D. creating electronic books 2. What does Paragraph 2 tell about audio books? A. Thei

15、r bright future _ B. Their difference from e-books C. Their great importance _ D. Their previous production 3. Customers like celebrities narration because _. A. celebrities help them understand the stories B. celebrities have more attractive voices C. celebrities seem to be within their reach D. ce

16、lebrities have better narrating skills 4. Audible believes its risk-taking action will be rewarding because _. A. the action has lasted for a long time B. customers play an active role in the action C. the company has spent a lot on the action D. the action agrees with the story-telling tradition 3.

17、 C On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner. They settled in at a comfortable East Slide cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table. Hey, aren t you from Mississippi? the elegant, white-haire

18、d writer remembered being asked by the stranger. I m from Mississippi too. Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair._ They began telling me all the news of Mississippi, Welty said. I didn t know what my New York friends

19、 were thinking. Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up to leave, it was pouring outside. Welty s new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had

20、 changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion(团聚)._ My friends said: Now we believe your stories, Welty added. And I said: Now you know. These are the people that make me write them . Sitting on a sofa in her room, Welty, a slim figure in a simple gray dress, looked pleased with t

21、his explanation. I don t make them up, she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. I don t have to. Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty s people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her

22、native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story. 1. What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe ? A . Two

23、 strangers joined her . B . Her childhood f ri ends came in . C . A h e avy rain ruined the dinner. D . S ome people held a party there . 2. The und erlined word them in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty s _. A . re ade rs_ B . parties_ C . friends _ D . stories 3. What can we learn about the characters i

24、n Welty s fiction? A . They live in big cities . B . They are mos tl y women . C . They come from real life . D . They are pleasure seekers . 4. D （2017新课标卷 I ） Some of the world s most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day.

25、UNESCO( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying(联合) voice across cultures. Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink

26、and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations. It s Jason Moran s job to help change that . As the Kennedy Center s artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture. “ Jazz seems

27、 like it s not really a part of the American appetite, ” Moran tells National Public Radio s reporter Neal Conan. “ What I m hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and write anymore. It s actually color, and it s actually digi

28、tal. ” Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. “ The music can t be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same, ” says Moran. Last year, Moran worked o

29、n a project that arranged Fats Waller s music for a dance party, “ just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music, ” says Moran. “ For me, it s the recontextualization. In music, where does the emotion(情感) lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any insight

30、(感悟) on how talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context, ” says Moran, “ so I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to fos

31、ter. ” 1. Why did UNESCO set April 30 as International Jazz Day? A. To remember the birth of jazz. B. To protect cultural diversity. C. To encourage people to study music. D. To recognize the value of jazz. 2. What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Jazz becoming more accessible. B. The production of jazz growing faster. C. Jazz being less popular with the young. D. The jazz audience becoming larger. 3. What can we infer a