Unit 2 Poems
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
For years，Japan has been at the cutting edge(前沿)of fashion and technology.Now，some young people __1__(return)to a longunfashionable industry：agriculture.
Japan，the world’s secondlargest economy，now has to import 60 percent of __2__ food.This is a cause of concern to many young people in the country，__3__ fear for their country’s future.
“No matter how big Japan’s economy is... this country will soon be __4__(able) to buy so much food from overseas，”31yearold Yusuke Miyaji，the leader of a social group __5__ young farmers，told the Telegraph newspaper.“I want to make a job in the primary sector(第一产业)，cool，striking and profitable.Kids should dream of becoming farmers，__6__ baseball players！”
And it’s not all about selfsacrifice.Kaori Nukui,31，sees a real opportunity __7__(make)money.Recently she __8__(quit)her job in the city to help her parents grow green tea and mushrooms.She said to the Telegraph：“My mother wanted me to marry __9__ businessman rather than work the land，” she said.“But when I thought of starting a business __10__，I realized my parents had already built a good foundation for me.”
【解题导语】 本文讲的现在日本最新潮的职业。
1．解析：根据时间状语now提示，应用现在进行时。
答案：are returning
2．解析：填形容词性物主代词，表示“日本的”。
答案：its
3．解析：引导非限制性定语从句，修饰many young people，故用who。
答案：who
4．解析：考构词法，根据语境应填一个与able意义相反的词，故填unable。
答案：unable
5．解析：表对象用介词for。
答案：for
6．解析：根据句意，应填not。
答案：not
7．解析：考动词不定式，作定语，表示“赚钱的机会”。
答案：to make
8．解析：考时态，根据recently提示，可用一般过去时或现在完成时。
答案：quit/quitted/has quit/has quitted
9．解析：考冠词，和一个商人结婚，应用不定冠词a。
答案：a
10．解析：考代词。表示考虑自己创业，应用反身代词myself。
答案：myself
Ⅱ. 词汇运用
1．Kids usually ________(讲述在学校发生的一切) to their mothers on returning home.
2．This novel aims to cover ________(城市生活的各个侧面)．
3．Please ________(转达我诚挚的问候) to your husband.
4．The novel Harry Potter ________(译成了多国语言)，making it popular worldwide.
5．Can you feel a kind of special beauty of leaves ________(秋风中飘落枝头)?
6．The hair was done in a style ________(适合青少年的)．
7．Following an ________(无规律的睡眠模式) does result in your poor health.
8．________(载着救援物资)，the trucks started for the flooded area on a heavily rainingnight.
9．The students ________(学业繁重)，exhausted every day.10．She appreciates the wallpaper ________(上面有玫瑰图案的) to decorate her bedroom.
答案：1.recite all happenings in school 2.all aspects/every aspect of the city life 3.convey my sincere regards 4.has been translated into many languages 5.falling from branches in autumn wind 6.appropriate to teenagers 7.irregular sleeping pattern 8.Loaded with rescue goods 9.are loaded with heavy schoolwork 10.with a pattern ofroses on it
Ⅲ.阅读理解
Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier，have better marriages and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants(被告). But in the executive circle，beauty can become a liability.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder，it is harmful to a woman.
Handsome male executives were considered having more integrity than plainer men；effort and ability were thought to account for their success.
Attractive female executives were considered to have less integrity than unattractive ones；their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck.
All unattractive women executives were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly，though，the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the attractive overnight successes.
Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is preceived to be more feminine and an attractive man more masculine than the less attractive one. Thus，an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs，but an attractive woman in a traditionally masculine position appears to lack the “masculine”qualities required.
This is true even in politics，“When the only clue is how he or she looks，people treat men and women differently，” says Anne Bowman，who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs，one of men and one of women，in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again，in the order they would vote for them.
The results showed that attractive males utterly defeated unattractive men，but the women who had ranked most attractive invariably received the fewest votes.
【文章大意】 美丽被人们看作是值得赞颂的，它往往代表着幸福、健康、美好的婚姻以及好的工作，但是在政府部门，美丽，尤其是对于女人来说，却成了劣势。
1．The underlined word “liability”(Para.1) most probably means “________”．
A．misfortune
B．instability
C．disadvantage
D．burden
解析：词义辨析题。前文都在讲美丽给人们带来很多的优势，但该句中出现了but，可知liability是“缺点、劣势”的意思，所以选择C。难度适中。
答案：C
2．In traditionally female jobs，attractiveness ________.
A．reinforces the feminine qualities required
B．makes women look more honest and capable
C．is of primary importance to women
D．often enables women to succeed quickly
解析：细节理解题。根据文章倒数第三段的最后一句“...but an attractive woman in a traditionally masculine position appears to lack the ‘masculine’ qualities
required.”可知。难度适中。
答案：A
3．Bowman’s experiment reveals that when it comes to politics，attractiveness ________.
A．turns out to be an obstacle to men
B．affects men and women alike
C．has as little effect on men as on women
D．is more of an obstacle than a benefit to women
解析：推理判断题。根据文章最后一段可知调查的结果表明，人们更倾向于选择漂亮的男士，而最漂亮的女士得票最少。所以选D项。难度适中。
答案：D
4．It can be inferred from the passage that people’s views on beauty are often ________.
A．practical
B．prejudiced
C．oldfashioned
D．radical
解析：推理判断题。根据作者在全文中所表达的意思可知，人们对于美的观点有所偏见。难度适中。
答案：B
5．The author writes this passage to ________.
A．discuss the negative aspects of being attractive
B．give advice to jobseekers who are attractive
C．demand equal rights for women
D．emphasize the importance of appearance
解析：主旨大意题。根据第一段的最后一句以及整个全文可知。难度适中。
答案：A
“沾衣欲湿杏花雨，吹面不寒杨柳风”——春天，一个温暖湿润的季节。请根据以下表
【写作要求】
1．书面描述必须包括表格全部内容；
2．只能使用5个句子。
【评分标准】
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
【参考范文】
Spring，the starting season of the year，begins in March and lasts three months. It’s a season of freshness and greenness and everything turns back to life. In spring the days become longer，with an average temperature of 20.In the earlier part of spring east winds generally blow，which are not pleasant. But when the showers of April and the sunshine of May have caused the earth to be covered with greenness，all is joy and gladness.
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词的英语短文。
When students first go to a library，they may be at a loss as to what to read of all the different subjects. Well，Bacon tells you to “look at weak places in your armor (盔甲)”，and shows you how to fill up the blanks in your knowledge. On the other hand，it is no good just trying to fill your mind with knowledge. Knowledge in itself is often useless. A mind filled with too much knowledge is like a room too full of furniture；a man cannot walk about freely in it，and look out of the windows. It is much better to concentrate on a few subjects that interest you and to deal lightly with the others than to march heavily through the whole range of learning，like a silly tourist going through a museum and not missing a single object. If you try to master every subject you may become very wise，but you will be very lonely and you will probably lose all your friends. So you must learn to pick and choose，and you must also learn to look here and there in a library like a camel eating grass on the grassland. If you watch it eating，you will see that although he is supposed to be one of the most stupid animals in the world，he has at least one of the qualities of the cultured man，the power to pick and choose. A student looking for mental food in a library should take the camel as his model.
【写作内容】
1．用约30个词概括以上短文内容；
2．用约120个词就“读书是否应有所选择还是应博览群书”的主题发表看法，并包括以下要点：
(1) 有人认为一个人的时间和精力有限，所以读书要有所选择；
(2) 有人认为要全面了解世界，就应当博览群书；
(3) 你自己的看法及理由。
【写作要求】
1．可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2．标题自定。
【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
【参考范文】
Read Selectively or Extensively?
The passage gives us good advice that since it is impossible for us to read all kinds of books，we must learn to pick and choose the materials we read. ( 30 w)
In fact，people have different opinions about reading. Some hold the view that we should read selectively while others think that we should read extensively. Those who hold the first opinion think that one’s time and energy are limited and one can never read as many books as he wishes. However，those who hold the second view think that to know the world from all perspectives one should absorb adequate knowledge by reading extensively.
Personally，I’m in favor of the former opinion. Admittedly，we can absorb knowledge by reading extensively，but it doesn’t follow that we should read without discrimination. Since our time and energy are limited，we should devote them to reading relevant and beneficial books. It’s a waste of time reading irrelevant books. Furthermore，some books are harmful. If we don’t read selectively，we’ll be misled by harmful books.