Unit 1 Women of achievement
第一部分:听力(共两节,满分30分)
第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分,满分7.5分) 请听下面5段对话,选出最佳选项。 1. What does the woman’s son want to be? A. A lawyer. C. A scientist.
2. What kind of place are the speakers probably talking about? A. A football field. C. A concert hall.
3. What does the man advise the woman to do? A. Put ice on her hand. B. See a doctor in a few days. C. Not to use her hand for a few days. 4. What time is Jack supposed to arrive? A. At 7:30.
B. At 8:00.
C. At 8:15.
B. An office building.
B. A violinist.
5. What does the woman mean?
A. She fell asleep before the program ended. B. She missed the beginning of the program. C. She wished she had gone to sleep earlier. 第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分22.5分) 请听下面5段对话或独白,选出最佳选项。 请听第6段材料,回答第6至8题。 6. What language is the woman learning? A. Chinese. B. Japanese.
C. French.
7. What will the two speakers do after the conversation? A. Go to a Japanese lesson together. B. Practise some Japanese dialogues together. C. Go and buy some Japanese books.
8. What can we learn from the conversation? A. The man wants to give up.
B. The two speakers are probably good friends. C. The woman hasn’t made any progress. 请听第7段材料,回答第9至11题。 9. What is the woman?
A. A famous sports star. B. A famous teacher. C. A famous pop star.
10. Why doesn’t the woman want to go back to her mother school? A. She hates all the teachers there. B. She was not a good student at that time. C. She is busy working.
11. What does the woman decide to do finally? A. Go back to her mother school. B. Write a letter to her friends. C. Not to go back to her mother school. 请听第8段材料,回答第12至14题。 12. How long does the film Saving the Planet last? A. Three hours. B. Two and a half hours. C. Two hours.
13. Which film do the two speakers decide to see at last? A. Saving the Planet. B. Shakespeare in Love. C. Twister.
14. What will the two speakers do after seeing the film? A. Go swimming and boating. B. Go swimming and bowling. C. Visit an old friend of theirs.
请听第9段材料,回答第15至17题。
15. How often does the man talk to his great-grandmother? A. Once a day.
B. Once a week.
C. Once a month.
16. How does the man’s great-grandmother know a storm is coming? A. She can feel it in her bones.
B. She listens to the weather forecast. C. Someone else tells her.
17. What can we learn about the man’s great-grandmother? A. She’s a little silly. B. She’s over 90. C. She often gives the man some advice. 请听第10段材料,回答第18至20题。 18. Who will set the table? A. Suzy.
B. Peggy.
C. Billy.
19. When will the children have dinner? A. After 9:15.
B. After 6:30. C. Before 6:30.
20. How many children does the speaker have? A. Four. B. Five.
C. Six.
第二部分:英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节:语法和词汇知识(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
21. At home, he keeps some pets,to which he ______ all his spare time. A. spends
B. offers C. devotes D. provides
22. She’s tired of acting, and she _______ changing for a new job, but she hasn’t made up her mind yet. A. had considered C. considered
B. has been considering
D. is going to consider
23. Michael is ______ because he never takes any exercise. A. under conditions
B. on no condition
C. in condition D. out of condition
24. The flowers ______ my mother, but my sister thought they were for her and took them.
A. were intended for B. intended for
C. intended to give D. intended giving
25. She won a Nobel Prize for her scientific ______. A. interests C. behavior
B. achievements
D. observation
26. What he said at the meeting means _______ those who had cut down the forests. A. to argue against C. arguing for
B. to argue for D. arguing against
27. Though we spent a lot, we think it _____ because we succeeded in the end. A. worth C. worthy of
B. worth being spent D. worthwhile
28. Don’t ______ a person only because he has failed in an examination. A. look up
B. look down D. look up to
C. look down on
29. You’ve done much of the work, and please leave ______ to us. A. the rest B. the other
C. another D. the others
30. I really ______ whether we win or lose. A. care about B. care for C. care D. care to
31. On the bus, all the people except the driver ______ to talk and laugh during the journey. A. encouraged
B. were encouraging D. was encouraged
C. were encouraged
32. Don’t spoil the children. Can’t you make your little boy ______ himself? A. behave B. believe C. perform D. conduct 33. Only ______ a human being. A. when is it hungry a lion will attack B. when it is hungry a lion will attack C. when it is hungry will a lion attack D. when is it hungry will a lion attack
34. A good idea just ______ me — Let’s go swimming. A. beat B. happened C. hit
D. struck
35. It ______ at the crossroads ______ he was killed in the accident the other day. A. is; that
B. was; that D. was; where
C. is; where
第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、
C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
In 1957, Jane Goodall first met the famous anthropologist (人类学者) Dr Louis
Leakey, who later played an important role in her life. With the 36 of gaining insight into humans’ evolutionary (进化的) past, Dr Leakey 37 a pioneering long-term field study on 38 chimps. Even though Jane had no formal 39 , her patience and determination to understand animals 40 him to choose her for the study. 41 it was unusual for a woman to work in the forest of Africa, going there 42 the fulfillment (实现) of her childhood dream. In the summer of 1960 she 43 in Tanzania(坦桑尼亚) on Lake Tanganyika’s eastern shore. This marked the 44 of the longest continuous field study of animals in their 45 habitat(栖息地). Five years 46 , she earned a doctor’s degree at Cambridge University and then 47 to Tanzania to found the Gombe Stream Research Center. And in 1977, to provide on- -going 48 for chimp research, Dr Goodall 49 The Jane Goodall Institute.
Today, she 50 most of her time traveling around the world, giving lectures on
her 51 at Gombe and speaking to school groups about Roots && Shoots, her environmental education and humanitarian program for the 52 .
“Chimps have given me so 53 . The long hours spent with them in the 54
have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my 55 of human behavior, of our place in nature.” 36. A. way B. idea
C. knowledge C. argued
D. method D. changed D. wild D. practice D. led
37. A. suggested B. achieved 38. A. modest
B. special C. rude
C. living C. made
39. A. exercise B. training 40. A. devoted B. let 41. A. If
B. Because C. Although D. Once