选修8 Units 1～2
.单项填空
1．—I just can't stop worrying about the result of the job interview.
—________.There's nothing you can do now but wait.A．Relax
B．Go aheadC．Go for it
D．Good luck
解析 该题考查考生对对话及情景的理解以及对选项中动词短语的掌握情况。由对话内容可知一方对于面试结果表示担忧；另一方安慰其耐心等待。故A项为正确答案。A项是用于缓解对方压力；B项用以同意对方的建议或鼓励对方去做“开始吧，去做吧”；C项“不要犹豫不决，要全力以赴”；D项用于预祝对方好运“祝你好运”。
答案 A
2．By the new law，drinking driver should be________because many accidents are caused.
A．fined
B．punished
C．praised
D．awarded
解析 句意：根据新的法律，酒驾应该受到惩罚，因为很多事故都是因此而发生的。考查动词的辨析。fine意为“罚款”；punish意为“惩罚”；praise意为“表彰”；award意为“获奖”，根据句意答案选B项。
答案 B
3．They used scientific________to do a lot of researches on that subject.
A．way
B．method
C．means
D．manner
解析 way是表示“方式，方法”的最一般用语；method侧重指系统的、科学的方法；means指为达到某种目的或目标而使用的方法、手段或途径；manner多指人的特殊行事方式或处理问题的特殊方法。
答案 B
4．It is________that he has been addicted to the drugs and has difficulty quitting it.
A．obviously
B．apparent
C．possibly
D．apparently
解析 答案 B
5．After he took the serious situation________consideration，he made up his mind to look into the matter________person.
A．into；in
B．to；byC．through；under
D．by；into
解析 答案 A
6．The master was very angry and had all the men________before him.
A．brought
B．be broughtC．to be brought
D．being brought
解析 答案 A
7．Evidence has been piled up________specific speech sounds are recognized by babies as young as five months old.
A．what
B．which
C．whose
D．that
解析 答案 D
8．I am________your suggestion________we should spend more time on this project.
A．in favour of；which
B．in honor of；that
C．in favour of；that
D．in honor of；which
解析 句意：我很赞成你的建议那就是我们应该在这个工程上花费更多的时间。in favour of赞成；in honor of...向……表示敬意；为纪念……。第二个空为that引导的同位语从句。
答案 C
9．Clinical evidence began to________，suggesting that the new drugs had a wider range of useful activities than had been predicted from experiments in animals.
A．operate
B．strengthenC．approve
D．accumulate
解析 句意：临床证据在不断增加，表明这种新药的用途比先前根据动物实验所预测的用途更广泛。考查动词辨析，四个动词的主要含义：A.“操作”；B.“加强，强化”；C.“赞成，同意”；D.“积累，聚积”。从语境的“更广泛的用途”判断选D，表示证据在不断积累/增加。
答案 D
10．—Can I get you some salad?
—________.
A．That's very kind of you
B．With pleasure
C．You can，please
D．Thank you for the salad
解析 对别人提供的服务表示感谢用Thank you或That's very nice/kind of you.回答。
答案 A
11．It suddenly________to me that there was a simpler way to deal with the problem.
A． appealed
B．occurred
C．belonged
D．referred
解析 occur to sb某人想到……。句意：我突然想到有个更简单的方法来处理这个问题。appeal to(对某人)有吸引力；belong to属于；refer to谈到，参考。
答案 B
12．If you master reading skills，you can read faster and understand more of________you read.
A．how
B．what
C．when
D．which
解析 what引导宾语从句，作介词of的宾语，并且在宾语从句中作read的宾语，表示“所……的”。句意：要是你掌握了阅读技巧，你就能读得更快，对你所读的内容理解得更多。
答案 B
13．—I hate________when you speak to me like that.
—Sorry.It won't happen again.
A．one
B．you
C．them
D．it
解析 这是it作形式宾语的一种特殊用法。少数动词如like，love，enjoy，hate，appreciate等后接宾语从句，必须先由it担任形式宾语，再接从句。
答案 D
14．She was on a diet，but she couldn't________eating sweet food.Consequently，her weight was gained again.
A．remove
B．resist
C．reject
D．object
解析 句意表示“她抵制不了吃甜食的诱惑”。resist doing sth意为“抵抗做某事”。
答案 B
15．The new classroom will be constructed this year，and a firm from Korea has been chosen to________the work.
A．assign
B．provide
C．undertake
D．settle
解析 assign分配；provide提供；settle定居；undertake承担，符合句意。
答案 C
.阅读理解
Should you stay at home to look after your child，or return to work?
Maybe you don't have the option. Combining work and motherhood is an issue faced by increasing numbers of women every day.
New research for the Institute for Economic and Social Research could solve this quandary once and for all. In short, it concludes that going back to work after the birth of a child can have a negative impact on the child's development—unless you have lots of money.
“Growing up in a family in which the mother chooses to work appears to have some adverse consequences for children's welfare，” the research says.
However，it adds that extra money brought in by both parents can reduce the negative effect. The negative effect is also less apparent in children of bettereducated mothers.
The
research
by
John
Ermisch
and
Marco Francesconi is especially downbeat about welfare to work programmes，and especially, the prospects for the children of some single parents.
“It is hard to see anything but gloomy (阴暗的) prospects for the children of single parents (who are generally poor) ，” the researchers said. This is because in a common family where both parents work, extra money brought in by the mother's working would compensate for less time spent with the children.
In contrast, the researchers said the effects of paternal (父亲的) employment were far more modest，but this did not mean that fathers had no role in shaping their children's welfare. Money brought in by the father would be a major resource for helping children develop.
The research says, however, that before parents get too carried away by worrying about working, there are more important issues facing a child's development. Parents' personalities and emotional stability，parenting practices，and the friends and networks that children experience while growing up will be much bigger factors than whether their mothers work.
1．The extra money brought in by both parents________.
A．plays different roles in shaping a child's welfare
B．can reduce the negative effect on a child
C．has negative effect on a child's development
D．may damage the life of children
解析 细节理解题。文章第四段第二句说明，父母都工作挣钱可以削减对孩子的负面影响。
答案 B
2．The researchers would agree that________.
A．mothers should keep a balance between work and family life
B．the more money mothers make, the worse their children will be
C．mothers should make as much money as they can
D．it would be better for mothers to be with children at home
解析 推理判断题。文章第三段最后说明，母亲在外工作可能会对孩子的发展产生消极的影响，因此研究者应该赞成母亲在家照顾孩子。
答案 D
3．We can conclude from the passage that________.
A．it doesn't matter how much money a father brings home
B．education is the only factor in shaping a child's welfare
C．money made by mothers can also contribute to a child's wellbeing
D．mothers' income can have a deeper effect on a child's development
解析 推理判断题。由文章倒数第三段最后可知，母亲挣的钱也可以弥补因为跟孩子待在一起的时间少而造成的缺憾。
答案 C
4．What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A．Whether mothers work is not worth considering
B．The research shows family stability is important.
C．Parents should stop worrying about working.
D．More important factors are involved in a child's development.
解析 细节理解题。文章最后一段说明，有很多其他更重要的因素影响着孩子的成长，母亲是否工作不是最重要的因素。
答案 D
5．The underlined word “quandary” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to________.
A．difficulty
B．achievement
C．disease
D．tendency
解析 词义猜测题。由文章前两段可知，母亲很难在工作和家庭之间做出抉择，而新研究或许可以解决这一难题，故difficulty意思最符合。
答案 A
.写作
假如你是李明，最近你的朋友张华因考试不利情绪低落，学习消极应付。请你用英语给他写一封email劝慰他，鼓励他努力学习，并结合自身实际，提出应采取的积极态度和应对方法。
词数：120～150。
Dear Zhang Hua，
I'm sorry to hear that_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Yours ever，
Li Ming
【参考范文】
Dear_Zhang_Hua，
I'm_sorry_to_hear_that you didn't do well in your last exam.You are not the only one who seems to try his best but ends up with a failure in exams.Quite a number of students feel the same way as you and they tend to lose their confidence and don't want to study hard any longer.I'm sure you know that it's unwise to do so because you might be left far behind.
I was once in the same situation as yours.Failure is the mother of success.In face of failure，what we need to do is to calm down and reflect our learning methods and make some possible changes or to ask the teachers for advice.Anyway，Rome is not built in a day.Only by sticking to studying persistently can we make progress step by step till success.I truly hope I can be of some help to you.
Yours_ever，
Li_Ming