高中英语 Unit3 Inventors and inventions单元测试1 新人教版选修8.docx

1、高中英语 Unit3 Inventors and inventions单元测试1 新人教版选修8选修八 Unit 3Inventors and inventions单元测试1笔试部分：I. 单项选择1. The boy tried his best to make himself _in his _ English. A. understood, breaking B. understand, broken C. understand, breaking D. understood, broken2. English is a language_ all around the world an

2、d is the _ language of most international organizations. A. to speak, working B. spoken, working C. speaking, worked D. spoken, worked 3. A: Who are those people with the banner? B: A group_ itself the League for Peace. A. Calling B. calls C. called D. is called 4. When _about the secret of his succ

3、ess, Spielberg said that he owed much of his success and happiness to his wife and children. A. asked B. being asked C. was asked D. asking 5. The problem _now is very important. A. being discussed B. discussed C. discussing D. to be discussed 6. There was a terrible noise _ a sudden burst of light.

4、A. followed B. following C. To be followed D. being followed 7. The computer center, _last year, is very popular among the students inthis school. A. open B. opening C. having opened D. opened 8. A: How did the audience feel when they saw the ending of the play? B:_ A. Excited B. Excite C. Exciting

5、D. To excite 9. How to feed a _ population is a problem that is _ many people. A. growing, troubling B. grown, troubled C. growing, troubled D. grown, troubling 10. He found a magazine _with the owners name _on the desk with the back cover _off. A. marking, lying, torn B. marked, lying, torn C. mark

6、ed, laid, tearing D. marking, laying, tearing 11. His aunts letters _ of those beautiful days when they used to live together in his hometown. A. call him on B. call him for C. call him up D. call him up 12. We have to _finding a solution. A. set about B. set down C. set out D. set up 13. Dont be so

7、 _.You should catch any chance if you can. A. active. B. passive C. interested D. rude 14. _ heavy rain, the football match will be postponed. A. In case of B. In case C. In order that D. In the case of 15. If it is quite _ to you, I will visit you next Friday. A. convenient B. fair C. easy D. comfo

8、rtableII 完形填空 What is in the drug that makes you sick or dead ? For example ,cocaine is harmful ,but what makes it harmful? I cant tell you all about drugs ,but I can 36 you think about them in this 37 way. Your body is a very complicated（复杂的） machine, 38 a lot of chemical machinery, all of which is

9、 finally turned 39 it all works together . Special chemicals, which we call drugs ,can affect it in many different ways. Some drugs are 40 when your body has a problem, as with disease-causing bacteria. Then someone may give you aspirin to keep your temperature from going too 41 or some penicillin（青

10、霉素） 42 it stops the growth of some kinds of bacteria. 43 ,all drugs are really poison, 44 if you take too much ,so you must always use them 45 . Why do some people take drugs like cocaine ? For a little while they seem to make you feel better ,or happier .But 46 their effects have 47 ,your body has

11、to pay an extra 48 to get back to normal. That makes you want to get 49 of the drug .Drugs like cocaine have their special effects because they act as 50 for your nervous system. They cut off some of your nerve pathways and take away some of your senses and your 51 .They make you want always more .

12、And just a little too much can even 52 nerves to your heart and stop its beating .Many of us worry about the 53 around us and what pollution does to us .How about your internal（内在的） environment, and what goes on 54 you ? You control that all by yourself in what you put into your 55 . Most drugs are

13、pollutants .You would not want pollutants in the air and water around you . Why would you want pollutants in your body ?36Amake Bcause Chelp Dlet37Afunny Bdifferent Csimple Dtrue38Ajust Breally Cespecially Dsometimes39Aas if Beven if Cwhere Dso that40Apowerful Bhelpful Cpainful Dhelpless41Ahigh Btal

14、l Cmuch Dhot42Awhen Buntil Cas Dbefore43ABesides BThus CHowever DNaturally44Aat most Bat least Cat times Dat first45Acarefully Beasily Ccarelessly Da lot 46Awhere Bbefore Cafter Duntil47Aworked Bworn Cappeared Dlost48Anumber Bquantity Camount Dprice49Asome more Bnothing Ca little Da few50Aguards Bme

15、dicine Cchemicals Dpoisons51Aworries Bhappiness Cfreedom Dpride52Alead Bblock Coffer Dstick53Aplaces Bnature Cpeople Denviron54Ainside Baround Coutside Dnext to55Aheart Bhead Cbody DmindIII 阅读理解A New technology marrying the Internet with mobile phones will be the next big wave in telecommunications

16、and will have a great effect on the way of life-industry, experts in Singapore for an international conference side last week. Consumers（消费者） will soon be showing of tiny “communication devices” that join mobile telephone ,Internet terminals（终端机） ,music systems, cameras and other uses, Nokia executi

17、ve（总裁） Bo Lisoe said. The devices will become smaller, and as common as watches ,Lisoe believed.“We have to liberate the internet from the desktop and we have to rethink what a mobile phone is , because its no longer a mobile phone ,”said Lisoe, a marketing director for Nokia. Tiny, wireless compute

18、rs using satellites and video-on-demand services will soon have people “switching（转换） between your stock （股票）prices and television programs ”wherever they go ,said Sugra Venkat, a communications director at Oracle Corporation .Bothe executives were in Singapore for Communic Asia 99,Asias largest tel

19、ecommunications conference. More than 27,000 industry insiders and 900 companies were connected with the Jane 22-25event, organizers said.Though small ,portable (手提的) Internet computers with built-in mobile phones are already on the market ,they have had limited success. Internet-telephone technolog

20、y(IT) must be made easier to use ,and must be used no matter what kind of phone one has ,Lisoe said .This will be aided largely by a planned mobile phone operating system called Symbian ,he added.Increased access（路径） to communication satellites and mobile phone networks, along with faster and larger

21、 international cable systems, are likely to make wireless Internet access explode in the next few years, said some scientist who attended the conference .56Which of the following is true to the conference? AThe conference lasted four days ,paying close attention to the use of IT. BOnly executives an

22、d managers attended the conference held in Singapore. CMany latest internet-telephones were on show at the conference DCommunic Asia 99 is the largest international conference in Asia.57The internet computer with built-in mobile phones do not sell well probably because they . Aare too big to carry w

23、hen one is traveling Bare difficult to use and have to be fixed to particular phones Care not as common as watches Dcant do the work of a common telephone58When Subra Venkat says “switching between your stock prices and television programs”, hereally means the new devices will . Asoon appear on the

24、market and become easy to use Bbe much easier to turn on or turn off Chelp the user to have more programs to choose Dbring in much money as well as happiness59The new devices will depend most on . Amobile phones of a special kind Bmobile phones networks Cinternet-telephone technology Dbatter interna

25、tional cable systemsB Every pet owner loves his pet .There is no argument here. But when we asked our readers whether they would clone their beloved animals , the responses were split almost down the middle . Of the 228 readers who answered it ,108 would clone, 111 would not and nine weighed each si

26、de without offering an opinion . Clearly, from readers response, this is an issue that reaches deeply into both the joy and eventual (最终的)sadness of owning a pet. It speaks, as well, to peoples widely differing expectations over the developing scientific procedure (步骤)ycy Most of the readers who fav

27、ored the idea strongly believed it would produce at least a close copy of the original; many felt the process would actually return an exact copy. Those on the other side, however, held little hope that clone could truly recreate a pet; many simply did not wish to go against the natural law of life

28、and death. Both sides expressed equal love for their animals. More of them owned “the best dog/cat in the world”. They thought of their pets as their “best friend” or “a member of the family”. They told moving stories of pets heroism, intelligence and selfless devotion. Little wonders the loss is so

29、 disturbing-and the cloning so attractive. “People become very close to their animals, and the loss can be just as hard to bear as when a friend or family member dies,” says Gary Kowalski, author of goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet. “For me, cloning feels like an at

30、tempt to turn death awayIts understandable. Death is always painful. Its difficult to deal with. Its hard to accept.” But would cloning reduce the blow? This question seems to be at the heart of this problem. 60So far as the cloning of pets is concerned, a recent survey shows that, of all pet owners

31、, .Aa lot more of them are for it Ba lot more of them are against it Cvery few of them are willing to tell their opinions Dabout half of them are for it and the other half against it61The expression “eventual sadness of owning a pet.” (in paragraph 3) refers to . Athe death of ones pet ycyBthe final ownership of a petCthe troubles one has to deal with in keeping a petDthe dangers involved in the cloning of a pet62In spite of their diffe