习题北师版英语选修七 Unit 20 Language Awareness 5Culture Corner and Bulletin Board.docx

1、习题北师版英语选修七 Unit 20 Language Awareness 5Culture Corner and Bulletin BoardLanguageAwareness5,CultureCornerandBulletinBoard课时过关即时巩固一、用括号中所给的单词或短语完成句子1很多人去看那部电影了。(plenty of )There are who have gone to see the film.答案:plenty of people2最明智的事情无疑是接受他们的提议。(sensible)Surely would be to accept their offer.答案:th

2、e most sensible thing3她和儿子每两天去一次公园。(as well as)She her son to the park every two days.答案:as well as;goes4老师提议我们立刻回家取行李。(suggestion)The teacher offered a that we fetch our luggage at once.答案:suggestion;go home to5对不起,我们的经理现在没有空。(available )Sorry,but our manager at the moment.答案:is not available二、选用合适

3、的代词填空littleneitherthe othersanysomeanothereithereachevery1Look!We have sugar.Really?Lets go and buy some.答案:little2There isnt milk in the fridge.Youd better buy .答案:any;some3There are lots of English books here, and of them is easy to understand.答案:each4These sweaters are too small for me.Please sho

4、w me one.答案:another5There are some trees on side of the street.答案:either6 of them has a dictionary and one of them can look up words in the dictionary.答案:Each;every7Which of the two dictionaries do you like better?I like ,because theyre not useful.答案:neither8There are twenty teachers in this grade.E

5、ight of them are women teachers and are men teachers.答案:the others三、阅读理解AScientists are developing a new kind of machine to take the place of humans.These machines can do jobs in places that are too dangerous for humans.For example,they are being developed to work in nuclear power centers,deep under

6、 the oceans and in outer space.John Marrit,a psychologist(心理学家) in Williamsburg Massachusetts,is helping develop the new machine.This is how it works.A machine is placed in an area far away from the person who operates it.The person wears special hard hat with television screens and sound equipment.

7、The screens and sound equipment let the person see and hear exactly what the machine is seeing and hearing.Mr Marrit says this gives the person the feeling of being in the same place as the machine.The idea,he says,is being there without going there.The person uses an electronic control to make the

8、machine move.The machine duplicates the persons movements exactly.If the person raises his right arm,the machine raises the right arm,too.This means a person can do a dangerous job while staying in a safe place.For example,a person can direct the machine to destroy a bomb without going near the bomb

9、 himself.1The new kind of machine being introduced in the passage is .A.in existenceB.only an idea C.being tried outD.being researched and developed解析:从第一段第一句“Scientistsaredevelopinganewkindofmachinetotaketheplaceofhumans.”可以看出,这种机器正在开发当中。答案:D2The machine .A.follows the persons orderB.is controlled

10、by a computer C.does exactly what the person doesD.is controlled by a television on the persons head 解析:从第二段中的“Themachineduplicatesthepersonsmovementsexactly.”可知选C项。A项有一定的干扰性,但这种机器是人通过电控开关控制的,所以应排除。答案:C3The difference between such a new machine and a robot is that .A.the new machine is more difficul

11、t to make than a robotB.the new machine is more difficult to be controlledC.a robot is controlled by man indirectly D.a robot cant be used in places too dangerous or far away解析:这种机器还在开发当中,而机器人则已有几十年历史了,由此可以推知应该选A项。答案:A4What is the meaning of the underlined word “duplicates” in the passage?A.Copies.

12、B.Changes.C.Replaces. D.Understands.解析:由文章中的句子“.thepersonsmovementsexactly.Ifthepersonraiseshisrightarm,themachineraisestherightarm,too.”可知这里应该表示“复制,与完全一样地做”,故A项正确。答案:ABHas it come to this?Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients bedside?Not exactly,but some doctors have found a way t

13、o use a robot to check on patients while theyre miles from the hospital.One is at Baltimores Sinai Hospital.Equipped with cameras,a screen and microphone,the robot is guided into the rooms of Dr Alex Gandsas patients where he speaks to them as if he were right there.“The system allows you to be anyw

14、here in the hospital from anywhere in the world,” said the surgeon,who specializes in weight-loss operation.Besides his normal morning and afternoon personal visits,Gandsas uses the $150,000 robot to visit patients at night or when problems arise.The robot can circle the bed and adjust the position

15、of its two cameras,giving the perception from the patients standpoint that the doctor is there.“They love it.Theyd rather see me through the robot,” he spoke of his patients reaction to the machine.Nurse Florence Ford,who has worked with the robot since it was introduced about 18 months ago,said pat

16、ients have reacted well,particularly because “seeing the doctors face gives them confidence.”Gandsas presented the idea to hospital leaders as a method to more closely observe patients following weight-loss operation.Since its introduction,Dr Alex Gandsas found that nearly one third of his 376 patie

17、nts went out of hospital earlier than first expected.Michael Chan,president of InTouch Technologies,said his companys device allows doctors to “be in more than one place at the same time.”Speaking with Gandsas through one of the robots at company headquarters,Chan said the company designs applicatio

18、ns for the devices in remote areas and for dealing with shortages of health care workers.“They will soon be big,”said Chan when asked about their future.5According to Dr Alex Gandsas,the purpose of using robots in the hospital is that .A.robots can provide patients with more fun than doctorsB.patien

19、ts will be closely watched after being operated onC.robots can free doctors from their great work pressureD.hospitals can solve the problem of lacking medical workers解析:推理判断题。根据第六段的“Gandsaspresentedtheideatohospitalleadersasamethodtomorecloselyobservepatientsfollowingweight-lossoperation.”可知甘瑟斯医生向医院

20、领导提出此主意是想在病人做过手术后能对他们进行更密切的观察。答案:B6By using robots,Dr Alex Gandsas finds that .A.patients visited by robots may recover soonerB.the number of patients in his hospital is decreasing a lotC.he can operate on different patients at the same timeD.the hospital doesnt need as many medical workers as befor

21、e解析:细节理解题。根据倒数第三段中的“Sinceitsintroduction,DrAlexGandsasfoundthatnearlyonethirdofhis376patientswentoutofhospitalearlierthanfirstexpected.”可知亚历克斯发现因为使用了机器人,近三分之一的病人比预料的要早出院,这说明病人恢复得更快一些。答案:A7From the last sentence,we can learn that Michael Chan thinks that .A.people wont believe robots will do well in

22、the futureB.in the future bigger robots will be made to satisfy the needsC.more robots of this kind will be used in hospitalsD.the prices of the robots will be greatly reduced in the future解析:推理判断题。根据亚历克斯的实验可知在医院使用机器人有助于病人更快恢复以及末段中的使用机器人还可以解决医护人员短缺的问题,由此判断在未来医院会使用更多这种机器人。答案:C8What is the main idea o

23、f this passage?A.Robots replace doctors to treat patients.B.Robots visit patients when doctors cant.C.High-tech makes patients communicate with doctors better.D.Robots have begun to play a great part in hospital management.解析:主旨大意题。C、D两项内容笼统,不能表达文章主旨;A项是对文章内容的曲解,因为机器人并不是代替医生给病人看病,只是在医生不在的时候,它们根据指令去看

24、望病人,病人通过它身上的屏幕看到医生并和医生对话。答案:B四、七选五阅读理解根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。EvaluatingSources(来源)ofHealthInformationMaking good choices about your own health requires reasonable evaluation.A key first step in bettering your evaluation ability is to look carefully at your sources of health informa

25、tion.Reasonable evaluation includes knowing where and how to find relevant information,how to separate fact from opinion,how to recognize poor reasoning,and how to analyze information and the reliability of sources.1.Go to the original source.Media reports often simplify the results of medical resea

26、rch.Find out for yourself what a study really reported,and determine whether it was based on good science.Think about the type of study.2.Watch for misleading language.Some studies will find that a behavior “contributes to” or is “associated with” an outcome;this does not mean that a certain course

27、must lead to a certain result.3. Carefully read or listen to information in order to fully understand it.Use your common sense.If a report seems too good to be true,probably it is.Be especially careful of information contained in advertisements.4. Evaluate “scientific” statements carefully,and be aw

28、are of quackery(江湖骗术).5. Friends and family members can be a great source of ideas and inspiration,but each of us needs to find a healthy lifestyle that works for us.Developing the ability to evaluate reasonably and independently about health problems will serve you well throughout your life.A.Make

29、choices that are right for you.B.The goal of an ad is to sell you something.C.Be sure to work through the critical questions.D.And examine the findings of the original research.E.Distinguish between research reports and public health advice.F.Be aware that information may also be incorrectly explained by an authors point of view.G.The following suggestions can help you sort through the health information you receive from common sources.答案:15 GDFBA