课时训练1 Module 1 My First Day at Senior High
一、单元扣点
Ⅰ.根据句意，用所给单词或短语的适当形式填空
impress look forward to disappoint similar describe appear understand embarrass pronounce fluency 1．David spoke
English and got the first prize at the speech contest.
答案 fluent
2．I'm
seeing my brother at the airport next Sunday.
答案 looking forward to
3．The little girl is shy and quite
before strangers.
答案 embarrassed
4．The visit to the Great Wall left the foreigners a deep
.
答案 impression
5．I know little Russian and he knows little Chinese, which often leads to
between us.
答案 misunderstanding
6．To their great
， it rained the whole day, so they had to stay at home.
答案 disappointment
7．When learning a foreign language, the most important thing at the beginning is
， getting the sounds right.
答案 pronunciation
8．What
and differences do you know about American and Chinese systems?
答案 similarities
9．The traveler gave a vivid
of what he saw and heard during the journey to Africa.
答案 description
10．We should never judge a person only by his
.
答案 appearance
Ⅱ.完成句子
1．你介意回答我的问题吗？
Would you mind
for me.
答案 answering the questions
2．从一开始一切都顺利。
Everything went well
.
答案 from the start
3．老师脸上感到吃惊的表情表明他对汤姆的工作很满意(satisfy)。
The amazed look on the teacher's face showed that
.
答案 he was satisfied with Tom's work
4．什么也不如游泳锻炼身体。
There is
for exercise.
答案 nothing like swimming
5．一想起暑假，我就很高兴。
I'm very happy
.
答案 at the thought of the summer holiday
二、阅读理解
Passenger pigeons(旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks(群)so large that they darkened the sky for hours.
It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point, there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons—a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.
Sadly, the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever lasting supply and killed them by the thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, wait until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.
By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans' need for wood, which scattered(驱散)the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.
In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons, but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time, a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1,1914.
本文是一篇记叙文。叙述了旅鸽逐渐消失的过程。
1．In the 18th and early 19th centuries, passenger pigeons
.
A. were the biggest bird in the world
B. lived mainly in the south of America
C. did great harm to the natural environment
D. were the largest bird population in the U．S.
答案 D
解析 根据Passenger pigeons(旅鸽) once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks(群)so large that they darkened the sky for hours.可知选D。
2．The underlined word “undoing” probably refers to the pigeons'
.
A. escape B.ruin
C. liberation D.evolution
答案 B
解析 根据Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever lasting supply and killed them by the thousands.可知选B。
3．What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons?
A. To seek pleasure. B.To save other birds.
C. To make money. D.To protect crops.
答案 C
解析 根据Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, wait until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.可知选C。
4．What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan?
A. It was ignored by the public.
B. It was declared too late.
C. It was unfair.
D. It was strict.
答案 B
解析 根据In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons, but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years.可知选B。
三、完形填空
One October morning, the sky was clear and the sun was shining. Bethany Hamilton decided to go
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with some friends in Hawaii.
As one of the best teenage surfers in the world, the 13yearold American girl was planning to become a
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surfer. Cheerfully, she was lying on her surfboard, waiting for the next big wave.
Suddenly, a big shark
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her left arm and shook her backwards and forwards.
Bethany held onto her board and the shark eventually swam away—but it took her
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away with it.
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， it attacked only once.
It happened so fast that she didn't even
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.
As Bethany started to swim back to the beach with one arm, her friends thought she was joking, But to their horror, they saw the
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and rushed to help.
Having lost almost half the blood, Bethany's
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was a miracle(奇迹), according to doctors. But she wanted to do
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just survive.
“It never crossed my mind that I might never get on a surfboard again，” she recalled later, “I wondered whether I would actually be
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to do it or not.
But
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I left hospital, I had
decided that I was going to surf. ”
With the support of her family, Bethany
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to get back on her board only one month after the attack. Her dad fixed a handle on her surfboard to help her paddle(划水) through and into waves.
When she returned to surfing at a competition in Hawaii, Bethany was
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in dangerous waves that broke her surfboard. As a result, she gave away her remaining boards and quit. She
tried using an artificial arm, but it turned out to be
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while surfing.
After
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in Thailand in the 2004 earthquake and helping homeless survivors who had lost everything, Bethany
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her decision to give up the sport she loved and
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to try
professional surfing again.
Less than a year after the accident, she won first place in a surfing competition in Hawaii. And all her struggles and efforts
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when she won in a world
championship years later.
She also received several
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， including a special award for courage at the MTV Teen
Choice Awards in 2004 and the Woman of the Year award from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in
2006.
Her
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， true story gained wider attention with the release(发行) of the film Soul Surfer.
1．A. swimming
B.boating
C. sailing D. surfing
2．A. professional B.free
C. dream
D. special
3．A. touched
B. struck
C. bit
D. took
4．A. arm
B. surfboard
C. friend D. hand
5．A. Strangely
B. Especially
C. Surprisingly
D. Fortunately
6．A. think
B.fight
C. scream
D. escape
7．A. shark B. blood
C. attack
D. scene
8．A. survival B. courage
C. accident
D. injury
9. A. rather than
B. more than
C. better than
D. other than
10．A. suitable
B.lucky
C. strong D. able
11．A. while B. after
C. before D. until
12．A. hoped
B. managed
C. agreed D. offered
13．A. caught
B.noticed
C. lost
D. driven
14．A. helpful
B. useless
C. wonderful D. meaningless
15．A. training
B. settling
C. traveling
D. volunteering
16．A. reconsidered B. remembered
C. recognized D. recalled
17．A. refused B. started
C. decided
D. continued
18．A. paid out B.paid for
C. paid in D. paid off
19．A. gifts
B. honors
C. rewards
D. praises
20．A. exciting
B. dangerous
C. inspiring D. adventurous
答案与解析
本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述的是冲浪女孩Bethany Hamilton在一次冲浪中，突然遭到一头凶猛的鲨鱼的攻击，左臂被咬掉。在经历了几次尝试后，她曾经一度放弃梦想，但是在参加了一次志愿活动之后，又决心为梦想而奋斗，最终她的努力得到了回报。
1．D 根据第二段第一句中的“the best teenage surfers in the world”可知，Bethany应该是去冲浪。故选D。
2．A 根据倒数第二段第一句中的“to try professional surfing again”可知，她的梦想是当一名专业的冲浪手。故选A。
3．C 根据上下文情景可知，鲨鱼应该是“咬”着Bethany的胳膊。故选C。
4．A 根据第三段第一句可知，她用一条胳膊往回游，是因为另一条胳膊被鲨鱼咬掉了。故选A。
5．D 根据空格前后的语境可知，鲨鱼只攻击了她一次，所以她应该是幸运的，如果鲨鱼再次攻击，她可能会有生命危险。故选D。
6．C 根据上文内容可知，鲨鱼攻击速度之快，她甚至连呼救的机会都没有。A项意为“思考”；B项意为“战斗，打”；C项意为“呼喊，呼救”；D项意为“逃跑，逃脱”。故选C。
7．B 根据下文“Having lost almost half the blood”可知，她的朋友本以为她在开玩笑，但看到她流血后才匆忙赶去营救。故选B。
8．A 根据下文内容及常识可知，在流了身体里一半的血后，Bethany Hamilton能够“活下来”或“幸存下来”是一个奇迹。故选A。
9．B 根据下文内容可知，活下来并不是她唯一的念头，她还想要追求自己的冲浪梦想。B项意为“不仅仅，不只是”，符合语境。A项意为“而不是”；C项意为“好于，超过，多于”，D项意为“除了”，都与语境不符。故选B。
10．D 根据语境可知，由于自己的身体缺陷，Bethany开始怀疑自己是否有能力再去冲浪。be able to do...意为“能够做……”，符合语境。故选D。
11．C 根据下文“had decided”为过去完成时可知，“decided”发生在“left”之前，因此此处应该选before，即在出院之前就已经下定决心了。故选C。
12．B 句意为：在她家人的支持下，仅仅在受到袭击一个月后，Bethany又成功地回到了冲浪板上。manage to do sth.意为“设法做成某事”，符合语境。hope to do sth.意为“希望做某事”；agree to do sth.意为“同意做某事”；offer to do sth.意为“提出要做某事”，都与语境不符。故选B。
13．A 此处指她遭遇巨浪，帆板被冲断。be caught in意为“遭遇……”，符合语境。故选A。
14．B 句意为：她尝试用假肢，但是结果证明在冲浪时不管用。根据“but”可知，假肢不管用。故选B。
15．D 根据下文中的“helping homeless survivors”可知，她是去泰国当志愿者，即自愿帮助地震中的那些无家可归的幸存者。故选D。
16．A 根据语境可知，以前她放弃了自己所热爱的运动，但是在当志愿者时帮助那些在地震中无家可归的幸存者后，她又重新考虑了这个决定。故选A。
17．C 句意为：……她决心再次尝试专业冲浪。decide to do sth.意为“决心去做某事”，符合语境。故选C。
18．D 根据空格后的“when she won in a world championship years later”可知，此处指她所有的努力和付出都获得了回报。pay off意为“得到好结果，得到回报或成功”，符合语境。pay out意为“付出，报复”；pay for意为“为……付款”；pay in意为“存款”，都与语境不符。故选D。
19．B 根据空格后的具体奖项可知，此处是说她获得的荣誉。honor意为“荣誉，光荣的事”，符合语境。故选B。
20．C 根据上文内容可知，残疾女孩Bethany为梦想而努力奋斗并最终获得成功，这样真实的故事是“激励或鼓舞人心的”。故选C。