Unit 2 Working the land单元测试
一．单选（30题，共15分）
1. If you blood _____ badly, your hands and feet will get cold easily.
A. passes B. crosses C. circulates D. circles
2. --- Shall I open the window to let soe fresh air in?
--- No, _____ A. I’d rather not B. I’d rather you not
C. I’d rather you didn’t D. I’d like not to
3. He got copletely _____ when he saw both Lucy and Lily, who are twin sisters.
A. confusing B. confused C. confuse D. confuses
4. The professor referred to _____ yesterday.
A. coe B. cae C. coing D. coes
5. He insisted that he _____ fro heart trouble, but I didn’t think so.
A. should suffer B. has suffered C. suffers D. was suffering
6. It is generally considered unwise to give a child _____ he or she wants.
A. however B. whatever C. whichever D. whenever
7 --- What happened to your shoes?
--- They want _____ 。 .
A. to end B. being ended C. ending D. ended
8. The boy is only five years old, but he is quite used _____ the telephone.
A. to answer B. to answering C. of answering D. by answering
9. The officers narrowly escaped _____ in the hot battle.
A. have killed B. to kill C. to be killed D. being killed
10. It isn’t quite _____ that the director will be present at the eeting toorro
A. sure B. right C. certain D. exact
11. Did you find _____ ipossible for hi to tell the truth?
A. this B. it C. that D. what
12. _____ y English teacher, I have becoe what I a.
A. Thanks for B. Thank to C. Thanks to D. Thank for
13. The house rent is expensive. I’ve got about half the space I had at hoe and I’ paying _____ here. A. as three ties uch B. as uch three ties
C. uch as three ties D. three ties as uch
14. When I said that soe people are stupid I was not _____ you.
A. talking to B. referring to C. turning to D. listening to
15. Do you know that _____ with wise en iproves your ind?
A. chat B. Chats C. chatted D. chatting
16. — _______ David and Vicky _____ arried?
— For about three years.
A. How long were; have been B. How long have; have been
C. How long have; been D. How long did; get
17. Luckily for us, when we got there the weather _______ to be fine.
A. turned up B. turned out
C. turned over D. turned into
18. Having heard y answer, the aster nodded _______ satisfaction, “I’ quite satisfied _____you.”
A. with; with B. on; by C. in; to D. in; of
19. —The atter ust be looked into.
— We are supposed to have a little ________ .
A. rain B. weather C. patient D. look
20. In the traffic accident five were killed and twenty __________.
A. losing B. issed C. daaged D. injured
21. We are _______ happy to hear of the success of their tea.
A. enough B. ore than C. any ore D. uch any
22. We won't give up ________ we should fail ten ties.
A. even if B. since C. whether D. until
23. —Well, you'd better not buy that shirt. Brown and black don't go together.
— ________ I wear it with y other shirt?
A. How do you like B. Who C. What if D. Which
24. A iddle-aged woan cae ________ to the bus stop only ________ the bus had gone.
A. run; to find B. running; to find C. and ran; found D. running; finding
25.___________ your help, I got the first in the final-ter English exaination.
A. Thanks toB. Without C. If not D. But for
26. You should try to get a good night’s sleep ______ uch work you have to do.
A. however B. no atter C. although D. whatever
27. Now that you have a job, you ust exert (努力) yourself in ______ you do at work.
A. however B. no atter what C. no atter how D. whatever
28. She is good ______ playing the piano and good ______ her students, which is good _______ the students. A. at; for; to B. to; to; for C. at; to; for D. to; at; for
29. She watches TV _______ evening and changes channels(频道) ____ few inutes.
A. in; every B. every; every C. every; each D. every; in
30. _____ is often the case, we have worked out the production plan.
A. Which B. When C. What D. As
二．重点短语翻译（附加）
31.searched for 32. would rather
33.turned to 34. focus on
35. build up
三、完形（20分）
A long tie ago, there was an eperor(皇帝). One day he told his horsean that if he could ride on his horse and 36 as uch land area as he liked, he would give hi the area of land he had covered. 37 enough, the horsean quickly juped onto his horse and 38 as fast as possible to cover as uch land area as he could. He 39 riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. Even when he was 40 or tired, he did not stop 41 he wanted to cover as uch area as possible. When he at last covered a large aount of land, he was exhausted and was 42 . Then he asked hiself, “Why did I 43 yself so hard to cover so uch land area? Now I a dying and I only 44 a very sall area to 45 yself.”
The above story is 46 to the journey of our 47 . We push ourselves very hard every day to ake ore 48 , to gain power or recognition. We neglect(疏忽，忘记) our 49 , tie with our faily and to appreciate(欣赏) the surrounding 50 and the things we love to do. One day 51 we look back, we will 52 that we don’t really need that uch, 53 then we cannot turn back tie for what we have 54 .
Life is not about aking oney. Life is definitely(肯定地) not about work! Work is only 55 to keep us living so as to enjoy the beauty and pleasures of life.
36. A. use B. cover C. work D. get
37. A. Good B. Strange C. Sure D. Interesting
38. A. rode B. ran C. expanded D. struggled
39. A. kept on B. asked forC. gave up D. succeeded in
40. A. sad B. excitedC. confused D. hungry
41. A. but B. so C. because D. if
42. A. sleeping B. arguingC. dying D. siling
43. A. push B. ake C. destroy D. prove
44. A. need B. have C. find D. show
45. A. live B. bury C. support D. sleep
46. A. useful B. certain C. siilarD. special
47. A. future B. pastC. historyD. life
48. A. friends B. progressC. discoveriesD. oney
49. A. health B. career C. honor D. freedo
50. A. things B. condition C. peopleD. beauty
51. A. before B. when C. unless D. since
52. A. realize B. regret C. apologize D. explain
53. A. or B. until C. however D. but
54. A. saved B. issed C. reduced D. won
55. A. possible B. probable C. necessary D. suitable
四：理解（20分）
A
A young an went to a town and worked there. He did not have a wife and a servant did the work in his house.
　　The young an liked laughing a lot. He nailed the servant’s shoes to the floor on onday, and then laughed, because he put his feet in the and fell down.
　　The servant was not angry, but siled. Then the young an put brushes in his bed on Tuesday. The servant got into bed and hit the brushes with his feet. He was afraid. The young an laughed loudly again. Again the servant was not angry, but siled.
　　Then on Wednesday the young an said to his servant, “You’re a nice, kind an. I a not going to be unkind to you again.”
　　The servant siled and said, “And I’ not going to put any ore ud fro the street in your coffee.”
56. The young an went to a town ___.
A. to study B. to work C. to see his relativeD. to spend his holiday
57. He played a joke on the servant because ___.
A. he hated hi
B. he was not satisfied with the food the servant prepared for hi
C. he wanted to get pleasure D. he liked to show off hiself
58. When the young an played a joke on hi, the servant was not angry but siled because ___.
A. he liked the young an’ s action B. aking the young an laugh is his job
C. he was afraid to be fired D. he thought he shouldn’t be angry with a child
59. What did the servant do in return to the young an?
A. He stole soething fro the house. B. He gave a sile to the young an.
C. He had a fight with hi. D. He put ud into the young an’s coffee.
60. Why did the young an stop playing jokes on the servant?
A. Because the servant showed kind and nice behaviour to hi
B. Because the servant told hi the truth C. Because he wanted to be a good an
D. Because his father told hi to do so
B
As a boy, Sanders was uch influenced(影响) by books about the sea, but by the age of fifteen he had decided to becoe a doctor rather than a sailor. His father was a doctor. So he was often with the doctors and got along very well with the. When he was fourteen, he was already hanging around the hospital where he was supposed to be helping to clean the edicine bottles, but was actually trying to listen to the doctors’ conversations with patients in the next roo.
During the war Sanders served in the ary as a surgeon(外科医生). “That was the happiest tie of y life. I was dealing with real sufferers and on the whole aking a success of y job.” In Rhodes he taught the country people siple facts about edicine. He saw hiself as a life-saver. He had proved his skill to hiself and had a fir belief that he could serve those who lived siply, and were dependent upon hi. Thus, while in a position to tell the what to do he could feel he was serving the.
　　After the war, he arried and set up a practice deep in the English countryside, working under an old doctor who hated the sight of blood. This gave the younger an plenty of opportunity(机会) to go on working as a life-saver.
61. When he was a sall boy, books about the sea had ade Sanders want to be ___.
A. a surgeon B. an ary an C. a sailor D. a life-saver
62. At the age of 14, Sanders ___. ww
A. worked as a doctor by cleaning the edicine bottles
B. et soe doctors who were very friendly to hi
C. was interested in talking with patients
D. reained together with the doctors
63. His experience in the Ary proved that ___.
A. he was good at edical operations on the wounded
B. he succeeded in teaching people how to save their lives theselves
C. a doctor was the happiest an
D. his wish of being a life-saver could hardly coe true
64. Having proved his skill to hiself, Sanders ___.
A. wanted to live a siple life like a countryan
B. cae to realize that he was really working for his countryen
C. taught hiself life-saving
D. was highly respected by the old doctor
65. When the war was over, he ___.
A. learned fro an old doctor because he was popular
B. started to hate the sight of blood while working
C. served the countryen under an old doctor who needed soeone to help hi
D. had few chances to be a “life-saver” because he was younger

五． 词汇练习（10分）
（一）用括号里所给单词的正确形式。
1. any people could die fro cold and _______ this winter as the war continues. (hungry)
2. They tried to increase _______ by using better ethods and tools. (produce)
3. Aong the _______ were several new cheical eleents, including radiu. (discover)
4. People were always _______ upon his large size. (coent)
5. Despite being born in Gerany, these children do not have the Geran _____. (national)
6. I’ totally _______. Could you explain that again? (confuse)
7. She apologized and sounded really _______. (regret)
8. We do not have the _______ to do just what we like. (free)
9. I hate _______ people while the show is going on. (disturb)
10. All the istakes had been _______ in red ink. (underline)
（二）
选择适当的词组，完成下面句子。
Build up, lead to, focus on, thanks to, rid … of, turn to,
be satisfied with，Would rather, keep … free fro, search for

1. I’ve ______________ y glasses everywhere, but without luck.
2. I ______________ fail than cheat in the exaination.
3. I tried to stand on y own two feet rather than ______________ y parents.
4. The next chapter will ______________ this proble in greater detail.
5. Ross took twenty years to ______________ his business.
6. We ask all our custoers if they ______________the service they have received.
7. Too uch work and too little rest often _______________ illness.
8. ______________ his effort, it is ore successful than we have expected.
9. She’s trying to __________ herself __________ a dependence on drugs.
10. Be sure to __________ your child __________ coputer gaes.

六．填空（10分）
searched for , feed, Thanks to , use , born , graduated fro, without , circulate, increase, disturb

_________ into a poor farer's faily in 1930, Dr Yuan_________ Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, finding ways to grow ore rice has been his life goal. As a young an, he saw the great need for_________ the rice output. At that tie, hunger was a_________ proble in any parts of the countryside. Dr Yuan_________ a way to increase rice harvests_________ expanding the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farers could produce only fifty illion tons of rice. In a recent harvest, however, nearly two hundred illion tons of rice was produced. These increased harvests ean that 22% of the world's people are_________ fro just 7% of the farland in China. Dr Yuan is now_________ his knowledge in India, Vietna and any other less developed countries to increase their rice harvests. _________ his research, the UN has ore tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger. _________ his hybrid rice, farers are producing harvests twice as large as before.

七：根据括号内的提示完成下列句子。（10分）
1.They had to __________ _____________ all kinds of difficulties.
他们得和各种各样的困难作斗争。
2．________ _our _________（令我们满意的是），they have finished their task on tine. 3.I' very glad to see that your vocabulary is gradually ________ ________.我很高兴看到你的词汇量在逐渐增长。

4.Too uch work and too little rest often _______ _______ illness. 过量的工作和过少的休息会引起疾病。
5.She _______ her weight_______ 5 kilos.她的体重减了5公斤。
八、书面表达（15分）
假设你是班长，请你用英语写一篇口头通知，向同学们介绍新华书店正在出售的一本名为“Expressions in English Conversation”的新书。要点如下：
1. 每本书定价9元；
2. 该书内容很适合中学生，对提高英语口语很有帮助；
3. 你已有一本，可以先让同学们看看，然后决定是否要买；
4. 要买的先准备好钱，星期六上午把钱交给你，星期天去买书。
注意：1. 通知应包括以上要点，可适当发挥。不要逐条翻译；
　　　　 2. 词数：100左右。

参考答案：一、单选1-5 C B B B D 6-10 B C B D C
11-15 B C D B D 16—20 CBACD 21—25 BACBA 26—30 ADCBD二、略
三、完形36-40 BCAAD 41-45 CCAAB 46-50 CDDAD 51-55 BADBC
四、理解56—60 BCCDA 61—65 CDABC 66—70 CBDAB 71—75 BCCCD
五、（一）1.hunger 2. production 3. discoveries 4. coenting 5. nationality
6. confused 7. regretful 8. freedo 9. disturbing 10. underlined
（二）、1.searched for 2. would rather 3.turned to 4. focus on 5. build up
6.are satisfied with 7. lead to 8. Thanks to 9. rid ;of 10. keep, free fro
六、填空Born ,graduated fro, increasing, disturbing,searched for , without ,fed, circulating, Thanks to , using ,
七．struggle with/against To satisfaction building up.
lead to reduced； by

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