广东卷学年高中英语 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions综合检测 新人教版选修8.docx

1、广东卷学年高中英语 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions综合检测 新人教版选修8Inventors and inventions(时间：100分钟；满分：120分).完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)(2013佛山高二检测)I was only 19 when I learned that my father was dying of a rare disease.The doctors didnt know what had caused his disease，nor did they know how to _1_ it. I did much th

2、inking in those last few months before my father died.Dad meant more to me than anyone else in the world.I remember sitting in the hospitals waiting room in the last daysa thousand _2_ coming into my mind：Why is he dying? Why havent I been closer to him? Why havent I _3_ more time with him？Why? I ha

3、d no time to really get to know my dad.I loved him so much，but I hadnt told him that in years because I was too _4_ with my work.Now，more than anything，I wanted to tell Dad how I was feeling，and I wasnt even sure whether he would _5_ I was there.I walked into the room.Dad was very _6_.He was breathi

4、ng hard，but very little oxygen was getting into his bloodstream.He hadnt _7_ to us in days.To my _8_，when I came in，he looked up and _9_ me.“Hello，Son，”he said gently. “Hi，Dad”，I replied in joy.Now was my _10_，but I couldnt get the words “I LOVE YOU” out of my _11_.They stayed locked inside until I

5、was about to explode.Why couldnt I get them out？But _12_，I said，“I love you，Dad.”After all that，the words seemed so _13_ to say as they softly left my lips.Those little words meant so much.He _14_ them and understood. “I love you too，Son，”he whispered as he touched my hand.That _15_ felt so good. He

6、 died just a few hours later.There were a million things I wished I had said to him and done with him.At least，I had told him that I loved him.1A.judge BsurviveCtreat Ddescribe2A.feelings BthoughtsCdecisions Dimpressions3A.saved BexpectedClost Dspent4. Abusy BexcitedChappy Dyoung5A.admit BknowCthink

7、 Dhope6A.independent BstrictCweak Dserious7A.responded BcomeCwritten Dshouted8A.regret BsorrowCsurprise Ddisappointment9A.invited BrecognizedCguided Dintroduced10A.turn BdutyCattitude Dchance11A.control BmindCsight Dmouth12A.finally BshortlyCluckily Dgradually13A.funny BeasyCproud Dstrange14A.touche

8、d BguessedCheard Dmissed15A.belief BmomentCchoice Devent.语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)Today，Im going to share a story with you.A king had a wise advisor 16._ best advice for the king was，“Everything happens for the good”One day the King went hunting and injured 17._ by shooting an arrow at his own foot.

9、He asked the advisor what he thought about the accident.The advisor replied，“Everything happens for the good”This time the King was really angry and ordered 18._(put) his advisor into prison.The King later went on a hunting trip 19._ the advisor this time.The King was then captured by some cannibals

10、(食人者)He was taken to the cannibals camp 20._ he was to be the evening meal for the cannibals.Before putting him into the cooking pot he 21._(inspect) thoroughly.The cannibals saw 22._ wound on the Kings foot and decided to throw him back into the jungle.According to the cannibals tradition，they woul

11、d not eat anything that was 23._ (perfect)The King suddenly realized 24._ his advisor said was true.The advisor also escaped death because if he 25._(not be) in prison，he would have followed the King on the hunting trip，and would have ended up in the cooking pot.阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)ASteven Spielb

12、ergs 2002 sciencefiction thriller Minority Report produced a world where computers could read minds and predict the future.It seemed fanciful at the time，but fantasy is edging closer to fact.On Jan. 31，a team of scientists at the UC Berkeley，led by Robert Knight programmed computers to decode(解码) br

13、ain waves and replay them as words.Five months earlier，another group of Berkeley scientists showed their colleagues short movies and used computers to play back in color what people saw.These experiments are a big advance from 2006，when a French scientist first replayed images from a human mind，a bl

14、ackandwhite checkerboard pattern. The possibilities are great：a disabled person could “speak”；doctors could access the mind of a patient who fainted；you could rewatch your dreams on an iPad.There are，of course，equally dark side，such as the involuntary take out of information from the brain.In spite

15、of these breakthroughs，Jack Gallant，the neuroscientist who led the first Berkeley team，says current technology for decoding brain activity is still “relatively primitive”The field is held back by its poor machinery，in particular the fMRI.“Eventually，says Gallant，someone will invent a decoding machine you can wear as a hat.”Such an advance into the human mind, he says，might take 30 years.Still，the recent advances at Berkeley offer small answers，which scientists can use to begin