高中英语Unit6Design单元综合测评北师大版.docx

1、高中英语Unit6Design单元综合测评北师大版Unit 6 Design.阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)A(2016邢台二中高一检测)In 1956 Brazils President wanted to move the capital city from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.He chose a skilled and experienced Brazilian architect (建筑师) to build Brasilia.His name was Oscar Niemeyer.Niemeyer was born in Rio d

2、e Janeiro in 1907.He was a well respected architect by the time he was 30 years old.Niemeyer was a great artist.His designs were very different than other buildings at the time.Most other buildings had straight lines up and down.Niemeyer liked to build using half circles.Niemeyer was very excited to

3、 design the main buildings of Brasilia.He designed a building called The Palace of the Dawn.It was a house for Brazils President.This building looks like it is floating (漂浮)above the ground.It has half circles around it.They are very light and beautiful.A lake around the palace reflects (映出) these s

4、hades.Niemeyer also designed the National Congress building.This government building has many parts.The biggest part is two tall towers that rise straight up into the air.On one side of this is a white building.It is shaped like a bowl that a person would eat out of.On the other side is a building i

5、n the opposite shape.These shapes are not the usual design of government buildings.“If you go to see Brasilia，you may or may not like the buildings，but you could never say you had seen something similar before，”Niemeyer said.“It is important that the designer think of more than design.The architects

6、 role is to produce an architecture that serves everyone not just a group of important people，”he said.Today, Niemeyers buildings do just this. Brasilia is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site(联合国教科文组织世界遗产)People from all over the world come to Brasilia to see Niemeyers buildings.Their beautiful design

7、continues to inspire (启示)people and will continue to do so for many years.【语篇解读】本文是记叙文。文章主要介绍了巴西著名设计师Oscar Niemeyer 以及他设计的一些与众不同的建筑物。1According to the text，Oscar NiemeyerAliked to use straight linesBbuilt Brasilia at the age of 30Cgot the trust of the PresidentDwas worried about building Brasilia at

8、 first【解析】推理判断题。根据第一段的“He chose a skilled and experienced Brazilan architect(建筑师)to build Brasilia.”可知，巴西总统将新首都的设计工作交给Oscar Niemeyer 来做，因此肯定很信任他。【答案】C2Which of the following shows the picture of the National Congress building?【解析】细节理解题。根据第四段的“two tall towers that rise straight up into the air.shaped

9、 like a bowl that a person would eat out of.On the other side is a building in the opposite shape.”可知。【答案】B3Oscar Niemeyers words suggest that Ahe is proud to serve the PresidentBbuildings should bring people joyChe is sure everyone will like his designsDarchitects should inspire and serve people【解析

10、】推理判断题。根据倒数第二段的“It is important that the designer think of more than design.The architects role is to produce an architecture that serves everyone not just a group of important people ”可知， Oscar Niemeyer 认为建筑物应该服务于大众。【答案】D4The text is mainly about Athe change of the capital cityBthe beautiful buildi

11、ngs of BrasiliaCthe famous architects in BrazilDthe UNESCO World Heritage Site【解析】主旨大意题。文章主要介绍了巴西首都巴西利亚与众不同的建筑物，由此可知B项正确。【答案】BBAnother manmade wonder of the US was built long before the nation was established.About 900 years ago，the Ancestral Puebloan people built villages high in the walls of canyo

12、ns (大峡谷)in Colorado，where 600 cliff dwellings are now part of the Mesa Verde National Park.Visitors can stand at the top and look into the dwellings almost hidden in openings of the rock walls.The Puebloan people cut small steps into the rock，which connected buildings containing hundreds of rooms.Th

13、e rock walls have protected the buildings from severe weather in the area; therefore，they remain mostly unchanged in the hundreds of years since they were built.Our final manmade wonder is in the northwestern city of Seattle，Washington.The Space Needle was built as the central structure for the 1962

14、 Worlds Fair.The 184metertall structure was designed by Edward Carlson，which has a wide base on the ground，with its middle narrow and a large ringlike structure on top.The structure was meant to look like a “flying saucer”，a vehicle that was popular in science fiction space travel stories.The saucer

15、 includes an observation area and eating place.The restaurant slowly turns to provide visitors with a 360 degree view of Seattle.The Space Needle was not very costly，and was designed and completed in about a year and opened on the first day of the Worlds Fair.Today，the Space Needle is the most popul

16、ar place for visitors to Seattle.And it remains the internationally known symbol of the city.【语篇解读】美国有很多著名的奇观和建筑，而人造奇观反映了美国人民的智慧和创造精神，本文主要介绍了美国的两大人造景观。5The underlined word“dwellings”is closest in meaning to“”Ahouses BpeopleCcanyons Dsteps【解析】根据上下文内容可推断，该词大意为“住处，处所”。故选A项。【答案】A6The buildings in the rock stay almost unchanged becauseAthe we