河北省武邑中学2016届高考英语一轮复习单元检测：2

　　高三一轮复习单元检测题二

　　第二部分：阅读理解（共

　　小题，每小题2分，满分 40

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　　You need to be of a certain age to understand why so many people in Hollywood are caring about the possible closing down of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (米高梅电影公司)．For the past 40 years, its output has been good, but now it is on the ropes, with debts of $ 3.7 billion and will have to sell off its most valuable assets (资产).

　　In its golden time, MGM stood for something．If Warner Brothers meant social dramas and gangster movies, and Disney meant cartoon films, then MGM was healthy fantasy．This business model found its most glorious expression in its musicals (音乐剧) of the post-war era．It also featured such many famous stars as Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Judy Garland.

　　But MGM had always put its hopes on the quality of stars it could attract．From the time MGM became a company in 1924, the studio and his associate proved themselves good at creating big names.

　　For 35 years, this worked well enough, but the growing power of television disturbed Hollywood．MGM continued to throw money into making gorgeous-looking musicals, but despite some big successes audiences gradually started to drift away．Throughout the sixties, MGM's decline set in．Things went from bad to worse．In 1973, MGM stopped distributing its own films．Since then, the Lion's roar has been reduced to a whimper (呜咽).

　　How far MGM has fallen can be shown by its recent releases．This was a studio that for years offered a reliable supply of first-class films．Yet last year its total output was three．To make it worse, all were co-produced with other studios．And this year? Only one so far, and maybe the last.

　　What now? MGM will probably be sold, though recent buyers have been cautious about a price thought to be around $ 2 billion.

　　1. MGM is becoming the focus in Hollywood because it _______．

　　A. has more supporters

　　B. has produced good films C. might be closed down

　　D. has lost all its assets

　　2. What can we learn about MGM from the text?

　　A. It has been sold out for around $ 2 billion.

　　B. The Internet was a factor causing its decline.

　　C. It only produced three films by itself last year.

　　D. It made a wrong decision for its development.

　　3. What's the main idea of the text?

　　A. The past glories of MGM．

　　B. The musicals made by MGM.

　　C. The decline of MGM．

　　D. A historical decision by MGM.

　　B

　　We have two daughters: Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four. Last Sunday evening, we invited some people home for dinner. I dressed them nicely for the party, and told them that their job was to join Mommy in answering the door when the bell rang. Mommy would introduce them to the guests, and then they would take the guests' coats upstairs and put them on the bed in the second bedroom.

　　The guests arrived. I introduced my two daughters to each of them. The adults were nice and kind and said how lucky we were to have such good kids.

　　Each of the guests made a particular fuss over Kelly, the younger one, admiring her dress, her hair and her smile. They said she was a remarkable girl to be carrying coats upstairs at her age.

　　I thought to myself that we adults（成年人）usually make a big "to do" over the younger one because she's the one who seems more easily hurt. We do it with the best of intentions.

　　But we seldom think of how it might affect the other child. I was a little worried that Kristen would feel she was being outshined. I was about to serve dinner when I realized that she had been missing for twenty minutes. I ran upstairs and found her in the bedroom, crying.

　　I said, "What are you doing, my dear?"

　　She turned to me with a sad expression and said, "Mommy, why don't people like me the way they like my sister? Is it because I 'm not pretty? Is that why they don't say nice things about me as much?"

　　I tried to explain to her, kissing and hugging her to make her feel better.

　　Now, whenever I visit a friend's home, I make it a point to speak to the elder child first.

　　4. The underlined expression ' make a big "to do" over' (paragraph 4) means ______.

　　A. show much concern about

　　B. have a special effect on

　　C. list jobs to be done for

　　D. do good things for

　　5. Kristen felt sad and cried because ______.

　　A. the guest gave her more coats to carry

　　B. she didn't look as pretty as Kelly

　　C. the guests praised her sister more than her

　　D. her mother didn't introduce her to the guests

　　6. We can conclude from the passage that ______.

　　A. parents should pay more attention to the elder children

　　B. the younger children are usually more easily hurt

　　C. people usually like the younger children more

　　D. adults should treat children equally

　　7. Which of the following statements is right?

　　A. Kristen and Kelly are not getting along with each other.

　　B. Kristen is older than Kelly.

　　C. The mother likes Kristen more than Kelly.

　　D. People usually talk more to Kelly than they do to Kristen.

　　C

　　People being tested for radiation exposure

　　The crisis at the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station in northern Japan has raised worries about radiation risks. We spoke Tuesday with Jonathan Links, an expert in radiation health sciences. He is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland.

　　Professor Links says workers within the nuclear plant are the only people at risk of extremely high doses of radiation.

　　JONATHAN LINKS: "Of course, we don't know what doses they've received, but the only persons at risk of acute radiation effects are the workers."

　　For other people, he says, there may be a long-term worry. People can get cancer from low doses of ionizing radiation, the kind released in a nuclear accident.

　　Professor Links says scientists can use computers to quickly model where radioactive material has blown and settled. Then they measure how large an area is contaminated. He says if the situation is serious enough, officials could take steps like telling people not to eat locally grown food or drink the water.

　　JONATHAN LINKS: "But that would only be the case if there was a significant release and, because of wind direction, the radioactive material was blown over the area, and then settled out of the air into and onto water, plants, fruits and vegetables."

　　The reactors at Fukushima are on the Pacific coast. But Professor Links says people should not worry about any radioactive material leaking into the ocean.

　　JONATHAN LINKS: "Even in a worst-case scenario accident, the sea provides a very high degree of dilution. So the concentration of radioactivity in the seawater would still be quite low."

　　Japan is the only country to have had atomic bombs dropped on it. That memory from World War Two would create a stronger "psychological sensitivity" to radiation exposure, Professors Links says.

　　Next month is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The nineteen eighty-six event was the world's worst accident in the nuclear power industry.

　　A new United Nations report says more than six thousand cases of thyroid cancer have been found. These are in people who were children in affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The report says that by two thousand five the cancers had resulted in fifteen deaths.

　　The cancers were largely caused by drinking contaminated milk. The milk came from cows that ate grass where radioactive material had fallen.

　　To get the latest updates, go to www.unsv.com.

　　Contributing: James Brooke

　　8. The passage mainly tells us __________.

　　A. What measures the Japan Government takes to solve the nuclear crisis .

　　B. Worries and influences caused by the nuclear crisis .

　　C. With great efforts of scientists, the Japan Government has put the nuclear crisis under control .

　　D. To explain that the nuclear crisis has less effect on its neighboring countries.

　　9. Which of the following is NOT the influences caused by the leak of Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station?

　　A. Workers at the nuclear station are suffering the risk of death.

　　B. People can get cancer from low doses of ionizing radiation, the kind released in a nuclear accident.

　　C. The radioactive material may be blown over the area causing the pollution to water.

　　D. The concentration of radioactivity in the seawater can not be diluted.

　　10. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “dilution”?

　　A. chemical

　　B. salt

　　C. dissolution

　　D. elimination

　　11. According to the passage which of the following is not TRUE?

　　A. Water people drink, food and vegetables people eat may be polluted by nuclear radiation.

　　B. Japan is the only country to have had atomic bombs dropped on it.

　　C. You can go to www.unsv.com. to get the latest news .

　　D. The nuclear accident in Japan is the worst in the nuclear power industry.

　　D

　　It is pretty much a one-way street. While it may be common for university researchers to try their luck in the commercial world, there is very little traffic in the opposite direction. Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job. For some industrial scientists, however, the attractions of academia (学术界) outweigh any financial considerations.

　　Helen Lee took a 70% cut in salary when she moved from a senior post in Abbott Laboratories to a medical department at the University of Cambridge. Her main reason for returning to academia mid-career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions. Some areas of inquiry have few prospects of a commercial return, and Lee’s is one of them.

　　The impact of a salary cut is probably less severe for a scientist in the early stages of a career. Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for a pharmaceutical (制药的) company before returning to university a s a post-doctoral researcher. He took a 30% salary cut but felt it worthwhile for the greater intellectual opportunities.

　　Higher up the ladder, where a pay cut is usually more significant, the demand for scientists with a wealth of experience in industry is forcing universities to make the transition (转换) to academia more attractive, according to Lee. Industrial scientists tend to receive training that academics do not, such as how to build a multidisciplinary team, manage budgets and negotiate contracts. They are also well placed to bring something extra to the teaching side of an academic role that will help students get a job when they graduate, says Lee, perhaps experience in manufacturing practice or product development. “Only a small number of undergraduates will continue in an academic career. So someone leaving university who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far more potential in the job market than someone who has spent all their time on a narrow research project.”

　　12. By “a one-way street” (Line 1, Para. 1), the author means ________.

　　A .university researchers know little about the commercial world

　　B. there is little exchange between industry and academia

　　C. few industrial scientists would quit to work in a university

　　D. few university professors are willing to do industrial research

　　13. What was Helen Lee’s major consideration when she changed her job in the middle of her career?

　　A. Flexible work hours.

　　B. Her research interests.

　　C .Her preference for the lifestyle on campus.

　　D. Prospects of academic accomplishments.

　　14. Guy Grant chose to work as a researcher at Cambridge in order to ________.

　　A. do financially more rewarding work

　　B. raise his status in the academic world

　　C. enrich his experience in medical research

　　D. exploit better intellectual opportunities

　　15. What contribution can industrial scientists make when they come to teach in a university?

　　A. Increase its graduates’ competitiveness in the job market.

　　B. Develop its students’ potential in research.

　　C. Help it to obtain financial support from industry.

　　D. Gear its research towards practical applications.

　　第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）

　　We had been living our valley for sixteen months when we first realized the dangers that could exist. It was the year when the storms came early, before the calendar even hinted at winter, even before November was out.

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　　Soon snow began to fall. Within a day it lay some 15 centimeters deep. It almost completely blocked our lane and made the streamside path slippery and dangerous. But on the neighboring heights the snow was much deeper and stayed for longer. Up there the wind blasted fiercely. Deeply in our valley we felt only sudden gusts of wind: trees swayed but the branches held firm.

　　And yet we knew that there was reason for us to worry. The snow and wind were certainly inconvenient but they did not really trouble us greatly.

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　　It reminded us of what could have occurred if circumstances had been different, if the flow of water from the hills had not, many years before, been controlled, held back by a series of dams.

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　　Day after day, we watched furious clouds pile up high over the hills to the west. Sinister grey clouds extended over the valleys. They twisted and turned, rising eastwards and upwards, warning of what was to come. We had seen enough of the sky; now we began to watch the river, which every day was becoming fuller and wilder.

　　The river seemed maddened as the waters poured almost horizontally down to its lower stretches.

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　　It was far deeper than we’d ever seen it so near our home, lunging furiously at its banks. For three days we prayed that it would stay below its wall.

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　　A．It was the river, the Ryburn, which normally flowed so gently, that threatened us most.

　　B．The great power of all this water prevents us from believing ourselves to be completely safe in our home.

　　C．In a short time the snow started to melt.

　　D．Just a couple of meters from our cottage, the stream seemed wild beneath the bridge.

　　E．Our prayer were answered as the dam held and the waters began to subside.

　　F．They grew so strong that we couldn’t control it.

　　G．Until then, we had felt safe and sheltered in our valley.

　　第三部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

　　Mr. Glen is a millionaire. Five years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he

　　21 his small company. Speaking of success, Glen often tells us a story about his extra expensive “school” fee. He always

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　　his success to it.

　　At that time, Glen, who already got a Ph.D. degree,

　　23

　　to return to the homeland, starting a company. Before leaving, he bought a Rolex watch with the

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　　made through years of work after school and the scholarships. At the airport he had to accept the

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　　customs check. The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be taken down for

　　26

　　. Glen knew that carrying the specific goods out had to pay the tax, and he worried about paying

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　　for his watch. So when he was checked, he told a lie that his watch was a

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　　fake（假货）. When he was

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　　of his “smarts”, immediately, in the presence of Glen, the officers hit the watch,

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　　cost nearly 100,000, into pieces

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　　hearing Glen’s words. Glen was

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　　before he understood why, he was taken to the office to be examined

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　　. For many times of entry-exit

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　　he knew that only those people in the “blacklist” would “enjoy” this special treatment. The officers looked over everything carefully in the box, and

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　　him no matter what time of entry and exit he must accept the check and if

　　36

　　reusing and carrying fake and shoddy goods, he would be

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　　according to law! Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after boarding the plane for long.

　　After returning to the homeland, he often told the story to his family, and his employees, too. He said that this made a deep

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　　on him, because the additional high “school” fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of

　　39

　　, which he would remember as the

　　40

　　of his success forever.

　　21. A. set up

　　B. took up

　　C. went up

　　D. picked up

　　22. A. honors

　　B. mentions

　　C. brings

　　D. owes

　　23. A. decided

　　B. refused

　　C. objected

　　D. asked

　　24. A. books

　　B. things

　　C. savings

　　D. pounds

　　25. A. ordinary

　　B. routine

　　C. regular

　　D. common

　　26. A. look

　　B. inspection

　　C. test

　　D. experiment

　　27 .A. one

　　B. it

　　C. them

　　D. these

　　28. A. priceless

　　B. useful

　　C. worthless

　　D. valuable

　　29. A. afraid

　　B. proud

　　C. ashamed

　　D. hard

　　30. A. that

　　B. what

　　C. as

　　D. which

　　31. A. on

　　B. at

　　C. who

　　D. in

　　32. A. disappointed

　　B. delighted

　　C. amazed

　　D. satisfied

　　33. A. strictly

　　B. quietly

　　C. quickly

　　D. curiously

　　34. A. conditions

　　B. experiences

　　C. experiments

　　D. chances

　　35. A. stopped

　　B. hoped

　　C. warned

　　D. urged

　　36. A. came out

　　B. found out

　　C. sent out

　　D. set out

　　37. A. hit

　　B. blamed

　　C. praised

　　D. charged

　　38. A. expression

　　B. idea

　　C. thought

　　D. impression

　　39. A. honesty

　　B. lies

　　C. goods

　　D. bravery

　　40. A. secret

　　B. lesson

　　C. choice

　　D. belief

　　Ⅰ.

　　单词拼写

　　1. He looks handsome and gentle, but

　　(实际上) he is a thief.

　　2. Pronunciation and grammar is quite important in English learning. And so is

　　.词汇

　　3. He went to Britain, hoping to learn_________(标准) English there.

　　4. “________ ” (公寓)is often used in American English while “flat” is used in British English.

　　5. Some English people have a strong ________(口音), which adds difficulties to our understanding of them.

　　6. Many _________(地铁)have been built in Guangzhou. As a result, people can travel much faster than before.

　　7. If you don’t know how to use the medicine, read the _________(说明)carefully before using it.

　　8. Our city used to be very old, but now it has become a ________(现代的) one.

　　9. When we are in other countries, we should respect the ________ (文化)there.

　　10. Excuse me, Professor Li, can you be _________(出席)at our meeting tomorrow?

　　II：改错

　　So my first week at college is over! No lectures this morning so I think I’d email you and let you know what things are going. I’m glad to say that anything has worked out fine in the dorm. I remember asking for a room as far away from the lifts as possible and they find me a comfortable one on second floor. There are two girls from my course here and I plan to make friend with them so that we can help each other on the course work. Everyone else seems very nice and warmly here. Well, I had better to stop now. I’m going to attend mine first lesson this afternoon, for I’ve got some preparations to make. Keep in touch.

　　阅读：CDC

　　ACDB

　　BDCD

　　CBDA

　　GBCDE

　　完型：21- 40

　　ADACB

　　BBCBD

　　ACABC

　　BDDAA

　　1. actually

　　2. vocabulary

　　3. standard

　　4. Apartment

　　5. accent

　　6. subways

　　7.directions

　　8. modern

　　9. culture

　　10. present

　　短文改错:

　　1. what-----how

　　2. anything----everything

　　3. find----found

　　4. on second-----on the second

　　5. friend----friends

　　6. on----with 7. warmly----warm

　　8. to stop----stop

　　9. mine----my

　　10. for-----so