选修六
Unit 3
Understanding each other
Ⅰ.单项填空
1.(2010·昆明高三模拟)All my classmates soon themselves to the way of life and have lived happily ever since.
A.admitted B.arranged
C.adjusted
D.avoided
解析：句意：我的所有同学很快适应了那种生活方式，自那以来一直过得很愉快。adjust oneself to “使自己适应于……”。admit “承认，使进入”；arrange“安排”；avoid“避免”。
答案：C
2.I hope my teacher will take my recent illness into when judging my examination.
A.regard
B.account
C.counting
D.observation
解析：句意：我希望老师在评判我的考试时，能考虑我的生病情况。take...into account“考虑到，把……考虑在内”。
答案：B
3.(2010·南昌模拟)None of them had expected that the middleaged engineer died his design uncompleted.
A.of
B.with
C.from
D.as
解析：句意：他们中没有一个人预料到这位中年工程师会去世，他的设计还未完成。此处with 的复合结构作伴随状语。
答案：B
4.All the teachers and students National Day with a party.
A.celebrated on
B.celebrated
C.congratulated on
D.congratulated
解析：celebrate后接事情作宾语，congratulate后接人作宾语。
答案：B
5.It is a to celebrate Christmas on December 25th in Englishspeaking countries.
A.custom
B.habit
C.holiday
D.event
解析：此处custom是国家的风俗习惯。
答案：A
6.If the dictionary you，put it where it .
A.doesn't belong to；belongs to
B.isn't belong to；is belonged
C.doesn't belong to；belongs
D.isn't belong to；is belonged to
解析：belong to的否定式要借助于助动词do/does/did；belong作“归属”讲，与where连用不用介词。
答案：C
7.—I am sorry it's my power to make a final decision，for the manager isn't in.
—What a pity！
A.besides
B.beyond
C.off
D.above
解析：beyond one's power“超出某人的能力(权力)范围”。
答案：B
8.The president's for an increase in the defense budget has been turned down by Congress.
A.ask
B.need
C.request
D.want
解析：request“(郑重或正式)请求，要求”，符合语境。
答案：C
9.—Does that make any ？
—Yes，it matters a great deal.
A.money
B.sense
C.difference
D.trouble
解析：考查名词辨析。句意：“那有什么关系吗？”“是的，关系大了”。make sense “有意义，易于理解，讲得通”；make some difference “有一些关系，起一点作用，有些影响”。
答案：C
10.Fitness is important in sport，but of at least importance are skills.
A.fair
B.reasonable
C.equal
D.proper
解析：考查形容词辨析。but 后的句子是倒装句，正常语序是...skills are of at least importance。fair“公平的，公正的”；reasonable“合情合理的”；equal“相同的，同等的，同样的”；proper“合适的，适当的”。C项符合题意。
答案：C
11.I smoke out of habit，not for pleasure；for I've been in the habit for 20 years.
A.a；the
B.the；a
C.不填；the
D.不填；不填
解析：“出于习惯”应用out of habit；for pleasure“为了取乐”，此处两个短语都不用冠词。
答案：D
12.Sarah，hurry up.I'm afraid you won't have time to before the party.
A.get changed
B.get change
C.get changing
D.get to change
解析：句意：Sarah，快点。晚会开始前恐怕你没时间换衣服了。“get＋过去分词”表示使自己处于某种状态和情况或表被动意义。
答案：A
13.Mike works far away from home and he is always his parents.
A.concerned
B.concerned about
C.concerns
D.concerned with
解析：句意：迈克在离家很远的地方工作，他总是很挂念父母。be concerned about 意为“关心，挂念”；be concerned with “与……有关”。
答案：B
14.(2010·宁波调研)—So generous is Tom that he has all his possessions to the charity.
—He's so great a man！
A.given away
B.broken away
C.put away
D.gone away
解析：考查动词词组辨析。give away“捐赠”；break away“脱离”；put away“放好”；go away“走开，离开”。根据句意，A项正确。
答案：A
15.He was so angry that he just couldn't from telling them what he thought.
A.hold off
B.hold on
C.hold back
D.hold up
解析：hold back “抑制，阻止”，可与from 连用；hold off “不接近”；hold on “坚持，等一会儿”；hold up“举起，延迟”。
答案：C
.阅读理解
A
In the present cultural atmosphere， much can be done by both sexes. Women can hold men's jobs， and men can hold women's； both men and women can play the same sports； both are supposed to share household responsibilities. Also， with the rise of so many single parent families， mothers or fathers often have to become twoparentsinone for their teenagers.
Yet， despite these changes， I believe firmly that there is a special importance in samesex relationships between mothers and daughters， and fathers and sons. Without these relationships， or some substitute(替代物)that completes a similar function， it's hard for children and parents to experience the full range of close talking relationships.
My reasons？ In order to function effectively in the adult world，we need good role models to show us how to behave and react. To be sure， you can learn a great deal from the opposite sex， and in the same cases， you may learn all you need to know. But in most cases， there is no real substitute for a good samesex role model to give a child the best chance at complete and wellbalanced emotional development.
Perhaps the most important lessons we learn from our samesex parents are how to relate both to people of the same sex and also to those of the opposite sex. Thus， sons need a strong male role model to learn how men deal with each other and with women. Similarly， daughters need a strong female model to understand how women relate to each other and to men.
语篇解读：不可否认，如今的男女分工已没有明确的界限。可随着单亲家庭的日益增多，生活在这样家庭中的孩子会有什么缺陷吗？答案是肯定的。孩子不仅需要父母的表率，更需要同性家长的指导和沟通。
1.What can we learn from the first paragraph？
A.People like to talk to their parents.
B.People change their jobs very often.
C.People are sharing the roles of the opposite sexes.
D.People are getting used to living with single parents.
解析：细节理解题。本段提到很多事情无论男性还是女性都可以做，最后又提到单亲家庭的家长往往承担父亲与母亲合二为一的双重角色，由此可知C项正确。
答案：C
2. According to the passage we know that a boy living with his mother only may .
A.be in trouble communicating with the mother
B.be less confident in getting on with other people
C.be lacking in close talking relation between them
D.be more anxious to know how to behave and react
解析：推理判断题。作者在第二段中提到自己坚信孩子与同性家长的交流很重要，否则，孩子与家长的亲密交流将无法得到最大程度的发挥。所以，如果一个男孩只与母亲生活在一起，他们之间的亲密交流就会有所欠缺。
答案：C
3.In order to promote children's healthy mental development .
A.they need role models from parents of both sexes to follow
B.they should be given better chances for development
C.they should live in a single parent family
D.they need both parents' sincere concern
解析：细节理解题。根据第三段可知假如想促进孩子在精神方面健康发展，则需要由父母给他们作出表率。
答案：A
4.The best title for the passage might be .
A.Children's Emotional Development
B.The Values of Sex Role Models
C.Interchangeability between Men and Women
D.The Importance of Having a Samesex Parent
解析：标题概括题。作者首先叙述了男性和女性之间的交互现象，紧接着笔锋一转，强调了孩子与同性家长交流的重要性，并解释了其中的原因，所以，作者所要强调的是后者。A项只是文章中提到的片面内容，不具有概括性；中间两项都没有针对“同一性别”这个关键词。
答案：D
B
Three years ago，five parrots were set free in a wild place of Arizona，thousands of miles from the Channel Islands in Jersey where they had been looked after by zookeepers.No evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of mountainous pine forest unoccupied by their kind for 50 years.To the researchers'surprise，they failed to make contact with a group of wild parrots imported from Mexico and set free at the same time.Within 24 hours the reintroducing ended in failure，and the poor birds were back in cages，on their way to the safety of the Arizona reintroduction programme.
Ever since then，the programme has enjoyed great success，mainly because the birds now being set free are Mexican birds illegally caught in the wild，confiscated (没收) on arrival north of the border，and raised by their parents in the safety of the programme.The experience shows how little we know about the behaviour and psychology (心理) of parrots，as Peter Bennett，a bird researcher，points out：“Reintroducing species of high intelligence like parrots is a lot more difficult.People like parrots，always treating them as nothing more than pets or valuable ‘collectables’.”
Now that many species of parrot are in immediate danger of dying out，biologists are working together to study the natural history and the behaviour of this family of birds.Last year was an important turning point：conservationists founded the World Parrot Trust，based at Hayle in Cornwall，to support research into both wild and caged birds.
Research on parrots is vital for two reasons.First，as the Arizona programme showed，when reintroducing parrots to the wild，we need to be aware of what the birds must know if they are to survive in their natural home.We also need to learn more about the needs of parrots kept as pets，particularly as the Trust's campaign does not attempt to discourage the practice，but rather urges people who buy parrots as pets to choose birds raised by humans.
语篇解读：几年前，人们将几只笼养的鹦鹉放归大自然，但由于这些鹦鹉在笼养的环境中长大，它们难以适应野外生活，又飞回了它们的笼子里。这一现象引起了人们的关注。在保护物种的同时，我们还应该对它们的行为和心理有更多的了解。
5.What do we know about the area where the five parrots were reintroduced？
A.Its landscape is new to parrots of their kind.
B.It used to be home to parrots of their kind.
C.It is close to where they had been kept.
D.Pine trees were planted to attract birds.
解析：考查推理判断。第一段说，这五只被笼养的鹦鹉在Arizona被放归山林，但是24小时后，因为不能与同时被放出去的一些野鹦鹉交流，它们重新飞回鸟笼子。“没有任何进化策略告诉它们在久违50年的这片松林里该如何表现”。从这句话判断选B,50年前，这片松林是它们的家。
答案：B
6.The reintroducing experience three years ago shows that manraised parrots .
A.can find their way back home in Jersey
B.are unable to recognize their parents
C.are unable to adapt to the wild
D.can produce a new species
解析：考查推理判断。从第一、二段可知，这些笼养的鹦鹉被放归大自然后，不能与其他种类的鹦鹉进行沟通，像鹦鹉这样高智商的物种很难重归自然。这些信息表明，困难在于它们不能适应野生环境。
答案：C
7.Why are researches on parrots important according to the passage？
A.The Trust shows great concern for the programme.
B.We need to know more about how to preserve parrots.
C.Many people are interested in collecting parrots.
D.Parrots' intelligence may some day benefit people.
解析：考查细节理解。第二段说，这次经历告诉我们，我们对鹦鹉的行为和心理了解得太少了；第四段说，该研究的意义在于，首先我们要知道这些鸟儿要在野外生存必须了解什么，并了解笼养鹦鹉的需求。由此判断，要保护这些鹦鹉物种，我们必须对它们有更多的了解。
答案：B
8.According to the passage，people are advised .
A.to treat wild and caged parrots equally
B.to set up comfortable homes for parrots
C.not to keep wild parrots as pets
D.not to let more parrots go to the wild
解析：考查细节理解。文章最后说，人们买鹦鹉作为宠物时要买人类笼养的鹦鹉。
也就是不要将野生鹦鹉作为宠物。
答案：C