Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note课时跟踪检测(五)
课时跟踪检测(五) Warming Up & Reading — Language Points
Ⅰ.完成句子
1．The sick old man does nothing but stares_at (盯着看) the ceiling all day long.
2．How_do_you_account_for (你怎样解释) your long absence from classes without asking for leave?
3．He managed to persuade his parents to permit/allow_him_to_seek_a_job (允许他找一份工作)．
4．Jim didn't come to school yesterday, and as_a_matter_of_fact (事实上), he didn't come all last week.
5．Bill was born in Canada but was_brought_up (被抚养长大) in America.
6．I don't know whether they did it by_chance (偶然) or by design.
Ⅱ.单项填空
1．I never think myself a stupid boy. ________， I know I'm on the road to success.
A．On the other handB．In other words
C．On the contrary
D．By the way
解析：选C。句意：我从不认为我是个笨男孩。恰恰相反(on the contrary)，我知道我正在走向成功。on the other hand“另一方面”；in other words“换句话说”；by the way“顺便说一声”。
2．________ is known to us all, only the theory ________ practice can be practical.
A．Which; base on
B．Which; based on
C．As; based on
D．As; basing on
解析：选C。句意：众所周知，只有以实践为基础的理论才可能是实用的。as is known to us all ...“众所周知……”，as引导的非限制性定语从句可置于句首，which则不能，排除A和B两项；be based on“根据；以……为基础”，此处用过去分词短语作定语，修饰theory。
3．— Would you mind my telling him the news?
— ________.
A．Yes, please
B．Never mind
C．It doesn't matter
D．No, go ahead
解析：选D。对Would you mind ...？的肯定回答一般用No, of course not/ certainly not/go ahead.否定回答一般用I'm sorry but ...Never mind“不要紧；没关系”；It doesn't matter“不要紧”。故只有D项正确。
4．—Jimmy had a lot of parties recently.
—Yes, that might ________ why he didn't do well in the test.
A．sum up
B．add up to
C．account for
D．count on
解析：选C。句意：“吉米近来聚会很多。”“是的，那可能就是他考试没考好的原因。”sum up“总结；概述”；add up to“合计；合计达”；account for“导致；作出解释”；count on “指望；依靠”。
5．I had just stepped out of the bathroom ________ I heard the steps.
A．while
B．when
C．since
D．after
解析：选B。句意：我刚走出浴室，这时听到了脚步声。had just done ...when ...“刚做完……，这时/那时……”，其中when是并列连词，意思是“正在这时/那时”，相当于just at this/that time。
6．—Has the robber been put into prison?
—Yes. He was ________ by the police when boarding a plane for Paris.
A．frightened
B．spotted
C．persuaded
D．informed
解析：选B。句意：“盗窃者被关进了监狱吗？”“是的。他登上前往巴黎的飞机时被警察发现了。”frighten“使惊吓；吓唬”；spot“发现；认出”；persuade“说服；劝说”；inform“通知；告诉”。由句意可知B项正确。
7．Success in life doesn't happen ________.It's the result of devoting your time and energy to what you've set out to do.
A．by force
B．by design
C．by accident
D．by choice
解析：选C。句意：人生的成功不是偶然而至的，它是将时间与精力投入到你决心要做的事情之后的结果。四个介词短语的主要含义：by force“用武力”；by design“故意地”；by accident“偶然地”；by choice“出于选择”。从语意判断选C。
8．—Can you give some advice on what I said just now?
— Sorry. My mind ________.
A．is wandering
B．was wandering
C．has wandered
D．had wandered
解析：选B。考查时态语态。句意：“你能对我刚才所说的话给出一些建议吗？”“对不起，我刚才心不在焉了。”根据语境可以推测应用过去进行时。
9．I'll look into the matter as soon as possible.Just have a little________.
A．wait
B．time
C．patience
D．rest
解析：选C。题干提供了相当明确的条件，“我将尽快调查此事”说明说话人在劝慰对方，让他耐心等候。
10．We don't permit________ in the classroom; that is to say, students aren't permitted________ in the classroom.
A．to smoke; to smoke
B．smoking; smoking
C．smoking; to smoke
D．to smoke; smoking
解析：选C。permit意为“允许；许可”时常用于permit sb.to do sth.和permit doing sth.结构。
Ⅲ.阅读理解
A
First published in 2001, the book Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature. It is the story of a young boy named Pi who spends 227 days at sea with a small group of animals after disaster strikes their ship and is an account of his journey of survival and hardship.
Piscine “Pi” Molitor Patel, on whom Life of Pi is based, is a young boy living in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns a zoo. The story starts when Patel's family decide to move to Canada, along with their zoo animals for their new home.
However, because of the bad weather, the ship sinks. Pi along with an orangutan (猩猩), an injured zebra, a hyena (鬣狗) and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker are the only survivors who take shelter in a small lifeboat.Both the injured zebra and the orangutan are soon killed and eaten by the hyena.The tiger in turn kills and eats the hyena, leaving just the two of them alone on the boat now.
In an effort to avoid being eaten by Richard Parker, Pi acts himself as the head of the group and remains safe from harm.Since he does not want the tiger to die for fear of going mad by being alone on the boat, he fishes and feeds the two of them in order to stay alive.
The life of Pi then enters its third stage when their lifeboat washes up on the shores of Mexico and the tiger escapes into a nearby forest leaving Pi alone. After the Mexicans refuse to believe Pi's story, he changes his tale by replacing the animals with his mother, a cook and a sailor and asks the Mexicans which one they prefer. They prefer hearing the first story though they do not believe a word of it.
In my view, Life of Pi is a must read book for all those who love reading.
1．We can learn that the book Life of Pi ________.
A．was written in 2001
B．was awarded two prizes
C．tells a story about friendship
D．is based on the author's personal experience
解析：选B。细节理解题。根据第一段的“...won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature.”可知，这本书被授予两项大奖。故选B项。
2．In the book Life of Pi the hyena is killed by ________.
A．Pi
B．the zebra
C．the orangutan
D．Richard Parker
解析：选D。细节理解题。从第三段的“The tiger in turn kills and eats the hyena”可知，老虎把鬣狗吃掉了，同时根据“a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker”可知这只老虎名叫Richard Parker。故选D项。
3．How does Pi escape being eaten by the tiger?
A．By catching fishes for the tiger.
B．By locking the tiger in a cage.
C．By being the leader of the two of them.
D．By fighting with the tiger.
解析：选C。推理判断题。从第四段的“Pi acts himself as the head of the group and remains safe from harm.”可知，为了避免被老虎吃掉，Pi处处表现为他们两个的首领。故选C项。
4．What is the author's attitude towards the book Life of Pi?
A．Disappointed.
B．Supportive.
C．Unconcerned.
D．Doubtful.
解析：选B。观点态度题。根据最后一段作者极力推荐这本书，可推知他对该书是持赞赏态度的。
B
It is hard to track the blue whale, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling.Attaching radio devices to it is difficult and visual sightings are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior.
So biologists were delighted early this year when, with the help of the US Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days recording its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy's formerly top secret system of underwater listening devices across the oceans.
Tracking whales is but one example of an exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies.
Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely observing a deepsea volcanic eruption for the first time and that they planned similar studies.Other scientists have proposed to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in the ocean and global temperatures. Different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds focusing them in the same way a stethoscope (听诊器) does when it carries faint noises from a patient's chest to a doctor's ear.This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially lowfrequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles.
语篇解读：文章从追踪几乎绝迹的蓝鲸的艰难和需借助尖端设施入手，谈到了军用技术的民用问题。
5．The underwater listening system was originally designed ________.
A．to trace and locate enemy ships
B．to observe deepsea volcanic eruptions
C．to study the movement of ocean currents
D．to replace the global radio communications network
解析：选A。细节理解题。从第三段内容：水下监听是用于跟踪潜伏的敌船，可知A项正确。
6．The deepsea listening system makes use of ________.
A．the ability of sounds to travel at high speed
B．the toplevel technology of focusing sounds under water
C．the unique characteristic of layers of ocean water in carrying sounds
D．lowfrequency sounds traveling across different layers of water
解析：选C。根据最后一段中“Different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds focusing them in the same way a stethoscope ...”可知C项正确。
7．What can we infer from the passage?
A．New radio devices are developed for tracking blue whales.
B．Blue whales are no longer endangered with the help of the new system.
C．Opinions differ on the use of military technology.
D．Military technology has great potential in civilian use.
解析：选D。通读全文可知，军事技术在民用方面有巨大潜能。
8．What's the passage chiefly about?
A．An effort to protect an endangered marine species.
B．The civilian use of a military detecting system.
C．The exposure of a US Navy topsecret weapon.
D．A new way to look into the behavior of blue whales.
解析：选B。通读作文可知，本文主要介绍了一种军事探测系统在民用方面的作用。
Ⅳ.短文改错
During the weekend I traveled by air the first time in my life.I generally travel by train and bus.It is both cheaper and safe.But this was a short journey.In the beginning I did not feel very happily, but this feeling did not last longer.The journey was very exciting.I was soon high up in the sky among the cloud.The views of mountains, fields and rivers were interested.I enjoy my short and comfortable journey very much.This experience has shown that traveling in air is actually the safest way of make journeys.
答案：第一句：在第二个the前加for
第二句：and→or
第三句：safe→safer
第五句：happily→happy；longer→long
第七句：cloud→clouds
第八句：interested→interesting
第九句：enjoy→enjoyed
第十句：in→by; make→making