北师大版高中英语选修八Unit 23《Conflict》单元检测文档格式.docx

1、阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从115各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。Number sense is not the ability to count.It is the ability to recognize a _1_ in number.Human beings are born with this ability. _2_，experiments show that many animals are，too.For example，many birds have good number sense.If a nest has four eggs and you remov

2、e one，the bird will not _3_.However，if you remove two，the bird _4_ leaves.This means that the bird knows the _5_ between two and three.Another interesting experiment showed a birds _6_ number sense.A man was trying to take a photo of a crow（乌鸦）that had a nest in a tower，but the crow always left when

3、 she saw him coming.The bird did not _7_ until the man left the tower.The man had an _8_.He took another man with him to the tower.One man left and the other stayed，but they did not _9_ the bird.The crow stayed away until the second man left，too.The experiment was _10_ with three men and then with f

4、our men.But the crow did not return to the nest until all the men were _11_.It was not until five men went into the tower and only four left that they were _12_ able to fool the crow.How good is a humans number sense? Its not very good.For example，babies about fourteen months old almost always notic

5、e if something is taken away from a _13_ group.But when the number goes beyond three or four，the children are _14_ fooled.It seems that number sense is something we have in common with many animals in this world，and that our human _15_ is not much better than a crows.（2018广东）1A.rise BpatternCchange

6、Dtrend2A.Importantly BSurprisinglyCDisappointedly DFortunately3A.survive BcareChatch Dnotice4A.generally BsincerelyCcasually Ddeliberately5A.distance BrangeCdifference Dinterval6A.amazing BannoyingCsatisfying Ddisturbing7A.relax BrecoverCreact Dreturn8A.appointment BexcuseCidea Dexplanation9A.fool B

7、hurtCcatch Dkill10A.reported Brepeated Cdesigned Dapproved11A.confused Bgone Ctired Ddrunk12A.gradually Bluckily Cstrangely Dfinally13A.single BsmallClocal Dnew14A.seldom BtemporarilyCmerely Doften15A.sight BnatureCability elief第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号

8、中词语的正确形式填空。I enjoy the idea of making someone smile every day by giving them a small gift without 16._ name.The other day，my friends and I were sitting in a restaurant.It so happened that there was a 17._ （tradition） day being celebrated in a college nearby so the place was full of college students

9、dressed up beautifully.We were just looking around 18._ we saw a really pretty girl wearing a simple blue and green dress 19._ a lovely smile on her face.We had a smallsized，colorful kite with us,20._ we wrote a small note on it for her about how pretty she was and asked the waiter to give it to her

10、.She looked 21._ （shock） initially（最初） but then she read the note,22._ （smile）The look on her face was priceless.The waiter pointed towards 23._ and told her that we gave it to her and she said “Thank you” to us.She looked really 24._ （happy） than others.I felt great as well.It 25._ （consider） to be

11、 a small act but it is just the start.阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。AGeorge Gershwin，born in 1898，was one of Americas greatest composers.He published his first song when he was eighteen years old.During the next twenty years he wrote more than five hundred song

12、s.Many of Gershwins songs were first written for musical plays performed in theatres in New York City.These plays were a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s and 1930s.Many of his songs have remained popular as ever.Over the years they have been sung and played in every possible wayfrom jazz t

13、o country.In the 1920s there was a debate in the United States about jazz music.Could jazz，some people asked，be considered serious music? In 1924 jazz musician and orchestra leader Paul Whiteman decided to organize a special concert to show that jazz was serious music.Gershwin agreed to compose some

14、thing for the concert before he realized he had just a few weeks to do it.And in that short time，he composed a piece for piano and orchestra which he called Rhapsody in Blue.Gershwin himself played the piano at the concert.The audience were thrilled when they heard his music.It made him worldfamous

15、and showed that jazz music could be both serious and popular.In 1928，Gershwin went to Paris.He applied to study composition（作曲） with the wellknown musician Nadia Boulanger，but she rejected him.She was afraid that classical study would ruin his jazzinfluenced style.While there，Gershwin wrote An American in Paris.When it was first performed，