Unit 2 Robots
Ⅰ.单项填空
1．The boy’s new bike was______envy of his friends.
A．a B．the
C．/ D．an
解析 考查冠词。本句中envy为of his friends所限制，表特指。
答案 B
2．How I______him the pleasure he had during the vacation!
A．envy
B．admire
C．appreciate
D．enjoy
解析 句意：我多么忌妒他在假期间的快乐。admire“羡慕”后接for；appreciate欣赏；enjoy喜欢。
答案 A
3．I was about to______the phone when it was______.
A．reply；rung off
B．receive；rung up
C．answer；rung off
D．answer；rung up
解析 answer the telephone“接电话”；ring off“挂断电话”。句意：我正要接电话，这时电话挂断了。
答案 C
4．We feel sympathy______the deaths in the earthquake.
A．in
B．for
C．with
D．on
解析 feel sympathy for“对某人深感同情”。
答案 B
5．Out of______for the homeless children，he gave them shelter for the night.
A．pity
B．shame
C．sympathy
D．mercy
解析 考查sympathy的用法。句意：出于对无家可归的孩子们的同情，他给他们提供了住处。out of sympathy for是固定短语，意为“出于对……的同情”，符合句意。pity“怜悯；惋惜”；shame“可惜；羞愧”；mercy“仁慈”；三者皆不合句意。
答案 C
6．Many couples______to adopt the baby which survived the earthquake.
A．are desiring
B．have been desiring
C．have desired
D．desire
解析 考查时态。desire“想要，渴望”，不用进行时，分析句子可知，此处不表示动作的先后，所以选项D合适。
答案 D
7．Try to ______ at least an hour each day for learning new vocabulary.
A．set off
B．set out
C．set aside
D．set down
解析 句意：争取每天至少抽出1小时时间学习新词汇。set aside为某种目的留出、拨出(金钱、时间)等，符合句意。
答案 C
8．Tomorrow the mayor is to______a group of Canadian businessmen on a tour of the city.
A．coordinate
B．accompany
C．cooperate
D．associate
解析 从“a tour of the city”，“the mayor”和“Canadian businessmen”可确定答案为accompany陪伴，陪同。coordinate调和，协调；cooperate合作；associate联合。句意：明天市长将陪同加拿大商人游览本市。
答案 B
9．At 3：30 p．m.the chairman______the meeting closed.
A．decided
B．declared
C．announced
D．informed
解析 考查动词的基本意思。根据句子意思，应该为“宣布”会议闭幕。
答案 B
10．Gathering clouds______the coming storm.
A．declared
B．turned outC．connected
D．announced
解析 announce此处表示“显示，预告”。
答案 D
11．______that______；you might break it.
A．Leave；off
B．Leave；out
C．Leave；alone
D．Leave；over
解析 leave off“停止，结束”；leave out“忘掉，漏掉”；leave alone“不管，不打扰”；leave over “留下；剩下”。句意：别动它，否则你会把它弄坏的。
答案 C
12．It’s unnatural for a mother to leave her child______to enjoy herself.
A．alone
B．lonely
C．lone
D．loneliness
解析 leave...alone表示“丢下……不管”，是一个固定短语。
答案 A
13．The escaped prisoner，______，looked up and stared in the direction where the noise came from.
A．alarming
B．alarmed
C．having alarmed
D．to be alarmed
解析 由语境可知，这里描述的是越狱的囚犯听到声音的样子，所以应该用alarmed，意思是“惊恐的”。
答案 B
14．If asked，I ______ his opinion of going abroad for further study.After all，it is a good chance to train himself.
A．declared for
B．declared against
C．agreed on
D．protected against
解析 考查短语辨析。由下文的After all，it is a good chance to train himself可推知，“我”是赞成他出国留学的，故选择declare for，其意为“宣布赞成”。declare against表态反对，声称反对；protect against“使……免受……”。
答案 A
15．At the bad news，she was so sad ______ I had to stay here keeping her ______.
A．that；companion
B．then；companies
C．that；company
D．and；accompany
解析 考查结果状语从句及固定搭配。句意：听到这个不好的消息，她如此悲伤以至于我得留下来陪她。此句采用了“so...that”结构，that引导的是结果状语从句；keep sb.company为固定表达，意思是“陪伴某人”或“为某人作伴”。
答案 C
Ⅱ.阅读理解
A
Deputy (副职) Head Teacher Wanted
Position：Deputy head teacher
Employer：Bracknell Forest Council
Published：10∶00 A．M.Mon.Dec.12,2011
Closing date：10∶00 A．M.Mon.Jan.16,2017
Working pattern：Fulltime
Salary：￡20,000－￡34,999 per year
Location：Jennett’s Park Primary School，Bracknell，Berkshire
The governors are seeking to employ an enthusiastic deputy head teacher to be a key partner in founding and leading our brandnew primary school in Bracknell.
We offer：
●a brandnew school building
● the opportunity to work in close partnership with the head teacher and governors to create and develop a new staff team
●a growing community looking forward to their new school opening
●the opportunity for further professional development which will support you through the next stage of your career
●the opportunity to lead key projects across the school
You will be：
●an excellent classroom practitioner (从业人员)，who will enjoy shaping and delivering a broad，balanced and creative curriculum in class
●able to lead the staff by focusing on teamwork
●committed to working in partnership with parents and the nearby community
For further information，you can contact the head teacher，Ms Maria Soulsby，by dialing 32899918 or you can send an email to maria，soulsby @bracknellforest.gov.uk. You can also come to visit our school in person.
If you have not heard from us two weeks after the closing date，that means your application has not been accepted.Apply using Bracknell Forest Council application forms only；CVs (简历) will not be accepted.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.
All staff employed in the school must be aware that a check on the criminal record will be done.
【语篇解读 这是一则招聘副校长的广告。
1．According to the passage，the deputy head teacher________.
A．will work for the school as a parttime teacher
B．will have the opportunity to work with governors
C．doesn’t have to work with parents
D．must be aware of his criminal record
解析 细节理解题。根据“We offer”中的第二点“the opportunity to work in close partnership with the head teacher and governors to create and develop a new staff team”可知，副校长有机会同校长及董事一起工作。
答案 B
2．From the passage we can know that Jennett’s Park Primary School________.
A．has a long and old history
B．uses an old building
C．has a woman head teacher
D．wants to have a male deputy head teacher
解析 细节理解题。根据倒数第四段中的“you can contact the head teacher，Ms Maria Soulsby”可知，该校有一名女校长。
答案 C
3．Whose application is likely to be accepted?
A．A person who sends the required application form on January 13,2017.
B．A person who sends a specially designed CV on January 15,2017.
C．A person who used to be a professional head teacher.
D．A person who is able to create a curriculum with his team members.
解析 推理判断题。根据“Closing date：10∶00 A．M.Mon.Jan.16,2017”可知，在2017年1月13日发出的按要求做的申请表有可能被接受，故A项当选。根据倒数第三段最后一句可排除B项；原文没有涉及C项内容；D项与“You will be”中第一点的表述不符，享受塑造和提供一个广泛的、平衡的和有创意的课程是培养目标，而不是求职要求。
答案 A
B
“One City One Book” is a generic name (通称) for a community reading program that attempts to get everyone in a city to read and discuss the same book.Popular book picks have been Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird，Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying，and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
“One City One Book” programs take the idea of a localized book discussion club and expand it to cover a whole city.The first such program was “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book” in 1998，started by Nancy Pearl at Seattle Public Library’s Washington Center for the Book.The book chosen for the program was The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks，written in 1991.Other cities copied the idea，and the Library of Congress listed 404 programs occurring in 2007.
Each city’s program has its own goals；these typically include building a sense of community and promoting literacy.Nancy Pearl warns against expecting too much from a program：“Keep in mind that this is a library program，it’s not an exercise in civics，and that it’s not intended to have literature cure the racial divide.This is about a work of literature.”
Programs typically involve more than having everyone read the same book.Some other activities that have been included are：book discussion sessions，scholarly lectures on the book or related topics，a visit by the author，exhibits，related arts programming (especially showing a movie of the book if there is one)，and integration into school curricula.In Boston the “One City One Story” program used shorter stories and distributed tens of thousands of free copies of the story over the course of a month.
American Library Association puts out a detailed stepbystep guide on how to organize a local program，including the critical step of picking the one book.The Center for the Book at the Library of Congress tracks all known programs and the books they have used.
【语篇解读 本文是说明文，介绍了美国开展的“一个城市，一本书”的读书活动。
4．“One City One Book” programs________.
A．ask everyone in a city to donate one book
B．can rid a city of racial divide through reading
C．choose short stories for people to read
D．encourage everyone in a city to read and discuss the same book
解析 细节理解题。从文章第一段第一句可知，这个活动旨在让同一个城市的人们读同一本书并共同评论这本书。
答案 D
5．We know from the second paragraph that “One City One Book” programs________.
A．became popular very quickly
B．have been held more than 400 times in Seattle
C．were sponsored by the Library of Congress
D．reached its peak in 2007
解析 推理判断题。从文章第二段可知，当西雅图在1998年首先推出这个活动以后，其他城市也纷纷效仿，到2007年这个活动已经在400多个城市推出，可见这个活动流行得非常迅速。
答案 A
6．We can infer from the third paragraph that Nancy Pearl________.
A．expects much from the programs
B．didn’t expect that the programs would run so well
C．has a practical attitude towards the programs
D．believes the programs will push forward community building
解析 推理判断题。从文章第三段中Nancy Pearl的话可知，她警告人们不要对这个活动期望太多，说明她对这个活动持有十分务实的态度。
答案 C
7．What kind of role does American Library Association play in the programs?
A．It picks out the city which runs the programs well.
B．It gives free books to the host city.
C．It gives a practical guide to the programs.
D．It keeps a record of all known programs.
解析 细节理解题。从文章最后一段可知，美国图书馆协会负责具体指导活动的开展。
答案 C