Unit 3　The world of colours and light

　?、?单项填空

　　1.When the whole area wasby the flood，the government sent food there by helicopter.

　　A.cut

　　away

　　B.cut down

　　C.cut up

　　D.cut off

　　解析：考查cut短语辨析。句意：整个地区因洪水而与外界隔绝了，政府开始动用直升飞机向那里运送食物。cut away“切除，割掉”；cut down“削减，缩小”；cut up“切碎”；cut off“使隔绝”。

　　答案：D

　　2.He didn'this search for improving his understanding of these puzzles.

　　A.abandon

　　B.advocate

　　C.abstract

　　D.adore

　　解析：abandon“放弃”；advocate“提倡”；abstract“提取，抽取”；adore“崇拜”。由句意可知A项正确。

　　答案：A

　　3.—Did Linda see the traffic accident？

　　—No，no soonerthan it happened.

　　A.had she gone　B.she had gone

　　C.has she gone

　　D.she has gone

　　解析：考查倒装句。no sooner...than...“一……就……”。no sooner放于句首时常使用部分倒装结构。主句用过去完成时，从句用一般过去时，故选A。

　　答案：A

　　4.The smart lawyerthe old man's possessions fairly to his three sons.

　　A.divided

　　B.separated

　　C.distributed

　　D.contributed

　　解析：句意：这个精明的律师把那位老人的财产公平地分给了他的三个儿子。distribute sth.to sb.“把某物分配/分发给某人”。divide“划分，分割”，常与into连用；separate“分离”，常与from连用；contribute“贡献”。

　　答案：C

　　5.The theory he stuck toto be right later.

　　A.prove

　　B.proved

　　C.proving

　　D.proves

　　解析：prove to be...“被证明是……”，由定语从句中的“stuck to”可知，B项正确。

　　答案：B

　　6.The scientists are able to accurately when the spaceship will reach the moon.

　　A.accumulate

　　B.calculate

　　C.appoint

　　D.estimate

　　解析：考查动词辨析。句意：科学家们能够准确地推算出宇宙飞船抵达月球的时间。calculate“推算，计算”，符合句意。accumulate“积累，积聚”；appoint“约会，确定”；estimate“估计”。

　　答案：B

　　7.He is the studentto Beijing University last year.

　　A.admitted

　　B.to admit

　　C.who admitted

　　D.admitting

　　解析：句意：他就是那位去年被北京大学录取的学生。admitted to Beijing University为过去分词短语，在此作定语修饰the student，相当于一个定语从句who was admitted to Beijing University。

　　答案：A

　　8.We have made bargain that he'll do some cooking and I'll watch TV.

　　A.a

　　B.不填

　　C.the

　　D.an

　　解析：句意：我们已经讲好了，他做饭我看电视。bargain为可数名词，意为“协议、交易”，make a bargain“达成协议”。

　　答案：A

　　9.(2007·福建高考)—Do you need any help，Lucy？

　　—Yes.The job isI could do myself.

　　A.less than

　　B.more than

　　C.no more than

　　D.not more than

　　解析：考查短语辨析。less than“少于”；more than “多于，超过”；no more than“仅仅”；not more than“至多，不超过”。由答语“yes”表明回答者需要对方的帮助，也就是此项工作远超过自己一个人的能力范围，故选B。

　　答案：B

　　10.Not only give people relaxation and pleasure，but increase their knowledge of any kind.

　　A.can travel；it can　B.travel can；can it

　　C.can travel；can it

　　D.travel can；it can

　　解析：考查 not only...but (also)...句式，当 not only 位于句首时，前一分句倒装，后一分句不倒装。

　　答案：A

　　11.Jack works hard and has a great for knowledge.

　　A.eye

　　B.interest

　　C.privilege

　　D.appetite

　　解析：have an appetite for...“喜爱，渴望……”。

　　答案：D

　　12.We had a picture taken stood a leaning tower.

　　A.in the place

　　B.in which

　　C.where

　　D.which

　　解析：where引导地点状语从句。A项应改为in the place where，这时，where引导定语从句，修饰place。要注意，关系代词在定语从句中作宾语时可省略，关系副词不能省略。in which只能引导定语从句。

　　答案：C

　　13.Many workers admittime off when they are not ill.

　　A.to take

　　B.take

　　C.to taking

　　D.taken

　　解析：句意：很多工人承认他们没病的时候休过假。admit (to) doing意为“承认做了某事”，to为介词，且常可以省略。

　　答案：C

　　14.The front seats arefor foreign guests.

　　A.given

　　B.conserved

　　C.preserved

　　D.reserved

　　解析：句意：前排座位是留给外宾的。reserve sth.for“把……留给……”。

　　答案：D

　　15.Only when I left my parents for Italyhow much I loved them.

　　A.I realized

　　B.I had realized

　　C.had I realized

　　D.did I realize

　　解析：only 位于句首修饰状语时，句子用部分倒装，根据状语从句中谓语动词的时态可知用一般过去时。

　　答案：D

　　.阅读理解

　　A

　　One student took a box of chicken to class.Another carried on a cellphone conversation，and still another whistled loudly every time the professor turned his back.

　　Reform school？No. College.

　　More and more professors say，they are coming across rude students in their classroom.Many of today's young scholars arrive late，leave early，talk loud or take care of personal business，such as paying bills during the class.

　　Why are the students behaving badly？

　　“Because they can，”said a student of University of North Texas.“A lot of the time，the professors let them get away with it.”

　　Some educators say it is time to bring politeness back to their classroom—and even start taking some of the blame for bad behavior.They say that rude students are by no means majority but one of them can ruin an entire class.

　　People are surprised when they learn that impolite behavior is becoming more and more common in higher education，says Dr. Gerald Amanda，a counselor at City College of San Francisco.They expect some high school students misbehave but think those who get to college will behave more politely.

　　Dr. Amanda believes that society in general has become more tolerant of rude

　　behavior and that people in power，including professors，no longer set standards for politeness.That leads to a growing imprudence among some college students.“There's a great sum of bad behavior in the world around them，and young people see it and develop disrespect，”said Dr. Amanda，adding that sometimes students have no idea that they are being rude.

　　1.Which of the following do you think is bad behavior？

　　A.Raise your hand if you have any questions in class.

　　B.Say hello to the teacher when you meet him/her.

　　C.Never speak loud in public.

　　D.Leave the classroom without the teacher's admission.

　　解析：推理判断题。根据文章中所介绍的和我们对礼貌行为的理解，课堂上有问题

　　举手提问，见面和老师打招呼以及公共场所从不大声说话，这些都是很有礼貌的行为。故答案应选D：不经老师允许就离开教室。

　　答案：D

　　2.What attitude to the bad behavior of the students do professors have in class？

　　A.Allow them to do so.

　　B.Only smile at it.

　　C.Bristle with anger.

　　D.Let them get away with it.

　　解析：细节理解题。根据文章第五段中“A lot of the time，the professors let them get

　　away with it.”可知，答案应选D。

　　答案：D

　　3.Some people thought that impolite behavior is becoming more common.

　　A.in the primary school

　　B.in the middle school

　　C.in the college

　　D.in the high school

　　解析：细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段的第一句可知应选C。

　　答案：C

　　4.Which of the following can best describe this passage？

　　A.Civilization in school.

　　B.Behavior of students.

　　C.How to improve the behavior of students.

　　D.Rude behavior is becoming common in college.

　　解析：主旨归纳题。全文主要讲述了目前在大学校园里，不良行为越来越多，引起了各方人士的高度重视。故答案应选D。

　　答案：D

　　B

　　It is simple law of business：if an item is scarce and many people want it， the price goes up. It happens with certain kinds of toys during the holiday season. It happens with tickets to important sports events like football and the Olympic Games. But could you imagine it happening to the price of tulips？

　　Tulips weren't always grown in Holland；the first tulips were transported there from the Turkish Empire in 1593. But the botanist who brought them into the country was very mean with them， refusing to give them away or even sell them. People gradually got their hands on the bulbs， but they remained a rarity that only the rich could afford.

　　Tulips were so bright and beautiful that many people desired them. And so the price kept rising. The most popular

　　tulips of all had been mixed broken stripes of two different colors. These so-called odd patterns， which were actually caused by a tulip virus， meant that every single tulip had a unique look. So prized were such tulips that in 1642 certain varieties of them were sold for $1,500 a bulb！ A short time later that price had risen sharply to $2,250.

　　Between 1634 and 1637 the market for bi-color tulips went completely mad. Not only the rich but trades and crafts people as well were crazily bidding up prices， sometimes paying for one bulb the equivalent of what it would cost to feed and clothe a small town. In fact the highest price ever recorded for a bulb was over $400,000.

　　And then，as you might expect， the market crashed. Just as in the stock market crash of 1929 ，many people were financially ruined. But among the cries of sorrow， despair， and suicides， the modest tulip continued to beautify the Dutch countryside.

　　5.The most appropriate title for this passage would be .

　　A.The Rise and Fall of the Tulip Market

　　B.Beautiful and Colorful

　　C.Holland's Prize Flower

　　D.A Gift from the Turks

　　解析：主旨大意题。文章叙述的是在人们的疯狂炒作下郁金香的价格一路走高，最终又回归理性的历程，所以A项最具有概括性。

　　答案：A

　　6.With “so-called odd” tulips， people .

　　A.could not predict what a new bulb would look like

　　B.often planted hundreds in their gardens

　　C.handed the bulbs down to their grandchildren

　　D.sometimes became ill from the virus themselves

　　解析：细节理解题。根据第三段的中间部分可知，人们无法预测这些感染病毒的郁金香究竟是什么样的。

　　答案：A

　　7.The author of this passage mentioned the 1929 stock market crash in order to .

　　A.make the tulip story sound more modern

　　B.point out its similarity to the fall of the tulip market

　　C.show that people from every century are greedy

　　D.emphasize the value of good investments

　　解析：作者意图题。股市在1929年崩盘，郁金香的价格在人们的疯狂炒作之后回归理性，二者具有相似之处。

　　答案：B

　　8.The most desirable tulips were .

　　A.red

　　B.pink

　　C.white

　　D.bi-colored

　　解析：细节理解题。根据第四段可判断此项正确。

　　答案：D

　　Unit 3　The world of colours and light

　?、?单项填空

　　1.When the whole area wasby the flood，the government sent food there by helicopter.

　　A.cut

　　away

　　B.cut down

　　C.cut up

　　D.cut off

　　解析：考查cut短语辨析。句意：整个地区因洪水而与外界隔绝了，政府开始动用直升飞机向那里运送食物。cut away“切除，割掉”；cut down“削减，缩小”；cut up“切碎”；cut off“使隔绝”。

　　答案：D

　　2.He didn'this search for improving his understanding of these puzzles.

　　A.abandon

　　B.advocate

　　C.abstract

　　D.adore

　　解析：abandon“放弃”；advocate“提倡”；abstract“提取，抽取”；adore“崇拜”。由句意可知A项正确。

　　答案：A

　　3.—Did Linda see the traffic accident？

　　—No，no soonerthan it happened.

　　A.had she gone　B.she had gone

　　C.has she gone

　　D.she has gone

　　解析：考查倒装句。no sooner...than...“一……就……”。no sooner放于句首时常使用部分倒装结构。主句用过去完成时，从句用一般过去时，故选A。

　　答案：A

　　4.The smart lawyerthe old man's possessions fairly to his three sons.

　　A.divided

　　B.separated

　　C.distributed

　　D.contributed

　　解析：句意：这个精明的律师把那位老人的财产公平地分给了他的三个儿子。distribute sth.to sb.“把某物分配/分发给某人”。divide“划分，分割”，常与into连用；separate“分离”，常与from连用；contribute“贡献”。

　　答案：C

　　5.The theory he stuck toto be right later.

　　A.prove

　　B.proved

　　C.proving

　　D.proves

　　解析：prove to be...“被证明是……”，由定语从句中的“stuck to”可知，B项正确。

　　答案：B

　　6.The scientists are able to accurately when the spaceship will reach the moon.

　　A.accumulate

　　B.calculate

　　C.appoint

　　D.estimate

　　解析：考查动词辨析。句意：科学家们能够准确地推算出宇宙飞船抵达月球的时间。calculate“推算，计算”，符合句意。accumulate“积累，积聚”；appoint“约会，确定”；estimate“估计”。

　　答案：B

　　7.He is the studentto Beijing University last year.

　　A.admitted

　　B.to admit

　　C.who admitted

　　D.admitting

　　解析：句意：他就是那位去年被北京大学录取的学生。admitted to Beijing University为过去分词短语，在此作定语修饰the student，相当于一个定语从句who was admitted to Beijing University。

　　答案：A

　　8.We have made bargain that he'll do some cooking and I'll watch TV.

　　A.a

　　B.不填

　　C.the

　　D.an

　　解析：句意：我们已经讲好了，他做饭我看电视。bargain为可数名词，意为“协议、交易”，make a bargain“达成协议”。

　　答案：A

　　9.(2007·福建高考)—Do you need any help，Lucy？

　　—Yes.The job isI could do myself.

　　A.less than

　　B.more than

　　C.no more than

　　D.not more than

　　解析：考查短语辨析。less than“少于”；more than “多于，超过”；no more than“仅仅”；not more than“至多，不超过”。由答语“yes”表明回答者需要对方的帮助，也就是此项工作远超过自己一个人的能力范围，故选B。

　　答案：B

　　10.Not only give people relaxation and pleasure，but increase their knowledge of any kind.

　　A.can travel；it can　B.travel can；can it

　　C.can travel；can it

　　D.travel can；it can

　　解析：考查 not only...but (also)...句式，当 not only 位于句首时，前一分句倒装，后一分句不倒装。

　　答案：A

　　11.Jack works hard and has a great for knowledge.

　　A.eye

　　B.interest

　　C.privilege

　　D.appetite

　　解析：have an appetite for...“喜爱，渴望……”。

　　答案：D

　　12.We had a picture taken stood a leaning tower.

　　A.in the place

　　B.in which

　　C.where

　　D.which

　　解析：where引导地点状语从句。A项应改为in the place where，这时，where引导定语从句，修饰place。要注意，关系代词在定语从句中作宾语时可省略，关系副词不能省略。in which只能引导定语从句。

　　答案：C

　　13.Many workers admittime off when they are not ill.

　　A.to take

　　B.take

　　C.to taking

　　D.taken

　　解析：句意：很多工人承认他们没病的时候休过假。admit (to) doing意为“承认做了某事”，to为介词，且?？梢允÷?。

　　答案：C

　　14.The front seats arefor foreign guests.

　　A.given

　　B.conserved

　　C.preserved

　　D.reserved

　　解析：句意：前排座位是留给外宾的。reserve sth.for“把……留给……”。

　　答案：D

　　15.Only when I left my parents for Italyhow much I loved them.

　　A.I realized

　　B.I had realized

　　C.had I realized

　　D.did I realize

　　解析：only 位于句首修饰状语时，句子用部分倒装，根据状语从句中谓语动词的时态可知用一般过去时。

　　答案：D

　　.阅读理解

　　A

　　One student took a box of chicken to class.Another carried on a cellphone conversation，and still another whistled loudly every time the professor turned his back.

　　Reform school？No. College.

　　More and more professors say，they are coming across rude students in their classroom.Many of today's young scholars arrive late，leave early，talk loud or take care of personal business，such as paying bills during the class.

　　Why are the students behaving badly？

　　“Because they can，”said a student of University of North Texas.“A lot of the time，the professors let them get away with it.”

　　Some educators say it is time to bring politeness back to their classroom—and even start taking some of the blame for bad behavior.They say that rude students are by no means majority but one of them can ruin an entire class.

　　People are surprised when they learn that impolite behavior is becoming more and more common in higher education，says Dr. Gerald Amanda，a counselor at City College of San Francisco.They expect some high school students misbehave but think those who get to college will behave more politely.

　　Dr. Amanda believes that society in general has become more tolerant of rude

　　behavior and that people in power，including professors，no longer set standards for politeness.That leads to a growing imprudence among some college students.“There's a great sum of bad behavior in the world around them，and young people see it and develop disrespect，”said Dr. Amanda，adding that sometimes students have no idea that they are being rude.

　　1.Which of the following do you think is bad behavior？

　　A.Raise your hand if you have any questions in class.

　　B.Say hello to the teacher when you meet him/her.

　　C.Never speak loud in public.

　　D.Leave the classroom without the teacher's admission.

　　解析：推理判断题。根据文章中所介绍的和我们对礼貌行为的理解，课堂上有问题

　　举手提问，见面和老师打招呼以及公共场所从不大声说话，这些都是很有礼貌的行为。故答案应选D：不经老师允许就离开教室。

　　答案：D

　　2.What attitude to the bad behavior of the students do professors have in class？

　　A.Allow them to do so.

　　B.Only smile at it.

　　C.Bristle with anger.

　　D.Let them get away with it.

　　解析：细节理解题。根据文章第五段中“A lot of the time，the professors let them get

　　away with it.”可知，答案应选D。

　　答案：D

　　3.Some people thought that impolite behavior is becoming more common.

　　A.in the primary school

　　B.in the middle school

　　C.in the college

　　D.in the high school

　　解析：细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段的第一句可知应选C。

　　答案：C

　　4.Which of the following can best describe this passage？

　　A.Civilization in school.

　　B.Behavior of students.

　　C.How to improve the behavior of students.

　　D.Rude behavior is becoming common in college.

　　解析：主旨归纳题。全文主要讲述了目前在大学校园里，不良行为越来越多，引起了各方人士的高度重视。故答案应选D。

　　答案：D

　　B

　　It is simple law of business：if an item is scarce and many people want it， the price goes up. It happens with certain kinds of toys during the holiday season. It happens with tickets to important sports events like football and the Olympic Games. But could you imagine it happening to the price of tulips？

　　Tulips weren't always grown in Holland；the first tulips were transported there from the Turkish Empire in 1593. But the botanist who brought them into the country was very mean with them， refusing to give them away or even sell them. People gradually got their hands on the bulbs， but they remained a rarity that only the rich could afford.

　　Tulips were so bright and beautiful that many people desired them. And so the price kept rising. The most popular

　　tulips of all had been mixed broken stripes of two different colors. These so-called odd patterns， which were actually caused by a tulip virus， meant that every single tulip had a unique look. So prized were such tulips that in 1642 certain varieties of them were sold for $1,500 a bulb！ A short time later that price had risen sharply to $2,250.

　　Between 1634 and 1637 the market for bi-color tulips went completely mad. Not only the rich but trades and crafts people as well were crazily bidding up prices， sometimes paying for one bulb the equivalent of what it would cost to feed and clothe a small town. In fact the highest price ever recorded for a bulb was over $400,000.

　　And then，as you might expect， the market crashed. Just as in the stock market crash of 1929 ，many people were financially ruined. But among the cries of sorrow， despair， and suicides， the modest tulip continued to beautify the Dutch countryside.

　　5.The most appropriate title for this passage would be .

　　A.The Rise and Fall of the Tulip Market

　　B.Beautiful and Colorful

　　C.Holland's Prize Flower

　　D.A Gift from the Turks

　　解析：主旨大意题。文章叙述的是在人们的疯狂炒作下郁金香的价格一路走高，最终又回归理性的历程，所以A项最具有概括性。

　　答案：A

　　6.With “so-called odd” tulips， people .

　　A.could not predict what a new bulb would look like

　　B.often planted hundreds in their gardens

　　C.handed the bulbs down to their grandchildren

　　D.sometimes became ill from the virus themselves

　　解析：细节理解题。根据第三段的中间部分可知，人们无法预测这些感染病毒的郁金香究竟是什么样的。

　　答案：A

　　7.The author of this passage mentioned the 1929 stock market crash in order to .

　　A.make the tulip story sound more modern

　　B.point out its similarity to the fall of the tulip market

　　C.show that people from every century are greedy

　　D.emphasize the value of good investments

　　解析：作者意图题。股市在1929年崩盘，郁金香的价格在人们的疯狂炒作之后回归理性，二者具有相似之处。

　　答案：B

　　8.The most desirable tulips were .

　　A.red

　　B.pink

　　C.white

　　D.bi-colored

　　解析：细节理解题。根据第四段可判断此项正确。

　　答案：D