（整理版高中英語）Unit16TheUnitedStatesofAmerica單元練習(xí)小練

1、unit 16 the united states of america單元練習(xí)小練. 單詞拼寫(根據(jù)首寫字母填入所缺的詞)1. having been kept in prison for more than twenty years, he became m disturbed. 2. a g person is a person who always wants a lot but gives little. 3. millions watched his f on tv while a lot of people marched through his birth place in h

2、onour of him. 4. i prefer the f alternative to the latter. 5. it is a good way to teach children by d . 6. if you want to succeed, you must try to o all the difficulties. 7. on my a in beijing, i got in touch with my friends and relatives. 8. when business is depressed, there is usually an increase

3、in u . . 單句改錯(cuò)(每句只有一處錯(cuò)誤)1. finally came the day which i began to learn in beijing university. 2. if the sun does not rise tomorrow, what would we do? 3. would you mind to open the window? 4. i want to have my tv set to be repaired. 5. walk home from school, we saw an old friend in the street. 6. sinc

4、e she didnt come to school yesterday, she must be ill at home. 7. the price of living things has been gone up all the time. 8. i didnt mind their coming late to the lecture, but i objected their making so much noise. 9. the young mother saw her baby fall to the ground, it brought her heart to her mo

5、uth. 10. having not been there before, he simply had no idea about the place, which everyone says is worth visiting. 大練. 單項(xiàng)填空1. i feel it is you as well as your wife that for your sons bad performance at school. a. are to blameb. is going to blamec. are to be blamedd. is to be blamed2. actually, gir

6、ls can be they want to be just like boys, whether it is a pilot, an astronaut, or a general manager. a. whereverb. howeverc. whateverd. whoever3. i dont understand how you got a ticket. i always you a careful driver. a. think; areb. am thinking; arec. thought; wered. think; were4. would you hold the

7、 ladder for a moment? . a. with pleasure b. its a pleasurec. my pleasured. for pleasure5. the camera isnt , it still where i it a month ago. a. missed; lies; layb. missing; lies; laidc. gone; lay; laidd. lost; lays; lay6. to his research work, the professor cared little about any other things. a. de

8、voted b. devotingc. having devotedd. to devote7. how would you like your coffee? . a. its well doneb. very nice. thank youc. one cup. thats enoughd. the stronger, the better8. such good use has been his spare time his english has improved a lot. a. made of; thatb. made of; as c. made in; thatd. foun

9、d in; as9. what did the doctor say yesterday afternoon? he said, “ on time, this medicine will be quite effective. a. takingb. being takenc. takend. having taken10. they are said an office building now on the other side of the river, which will be completed next year. a. to be buildingb. buildingc.

10、to be builtd. build. 完形填空“she was married to an officer in india, long ago in india; and she had a life of physical adventure as exciting as her poetry(詩). her husband could cross rivers using crocodiles(鱷魚) as stepping stones. he died when she was only 39. unwilling to exist without him, she took h

11、er life, leaving a son in england. i stared at the paper, 1 reading and couldnt help thinking. crocodiles are lazy animals as a rule, but they can 2 like lightning when they want to. and they dont mind hurrying 3 theyre hungry. there used to be lots in indian rivers, living on fish mostly; but whats

12、 a little fish 4 a fifteen-foot crocodile? they ate people, fishermen or anyone else delicious enough to get too near; women doing the 5 , or children playing at the waters 6 . a hungry cros mouth 7 over a meal with a sound like a gunshot. a big fellow can 8 in a man in two bites. that womans husban

13、d crossed rivers 9 from one cros back to the next. i believe it. it had to be done 10 before the creature could see what was happening. it wasnt 11 a brave, active man; and no doubt he improved with practice. he could never look 12 while crossing. the wife used to watch himi felt 13 of that. she liv

14、ed 14 the adventure, the 15 excitement of it all. their real life was with tigers, snakes. its no wonder she wrote 16 poetry. then he 17 . i imagined how she felt. was there another man 18 him in india, in the world? she was still young, hardly a sitting-room widow(寡婦). “i must 19 , too, she said to

15、 herself. so she did what she felt she had to do. a 20 probably, to her head. but her young son, their son? was her love for him nothing compared to her husband? well, what do you think? 1. a. startedb. beganc. finishedd. stopped2. a. runb. movec. walkd. roll3. a. wheneverb. whenc. becaused. as4. a.

16、 inb. onc. tod. for5. a. shoppingb. washingc. cookingd. cleaning6. a. borderb. endc. sided. edge7. a. looksb. sendsc. shutsd. turns8. a. gob. takec. eatd. catch9. a. jumpingb. runningc. walkingd. marching10. a. immediatelyb. directlyc. quicklyd. hurriedly11. a. overb. forc. behindd. beyond12. a. upb

17、. downc. backd. right13. a. afraidb. surec. shamefuld. foolish14. a. withoutb. tillc. ford. on15. a. livelyb. friendlyc. deadlyd. lovely16. a. angryb. excitingc. sadd. interesting17. a. wroteb. fledc. disappearedd. died18. a. likeb. asc. withd. before19. a. gob. practisec. jumpd. shoot20. a. penb. g

18、unc. combd. flower. 閱讀理解awhen jim and cathy malupa came to the united states from the philippines, they lived in an apartment in the center of chicago. cathy worked as an accountant in a downtown bank. after looking for a long time, jim and cathy bought a house in the suburbs. one morning, mrs gray,

19、 the malupas next door neighbour, stopped by to meet cathy. “welcome to the neighborhood. wed like to invite you and your husband to our home this friday evening. we want you to meet all the other neighbours. on friday evening, at 7 oclock jim and cathy walked to the grays home. a lot of people were

20、 at the party. several people congratulated cathy and jim on their new home. at about 8:30, jim walked over to cathy and asked, “when will the dinner be served? im really hungry. “i dont know, cathy answered. “im hungry, as well. maybe they like to eat late. at 9:15, everyone was still standing, tal

21、king and enjoying the refreshments(點(diǎn)心). jim was so hungry that he was feeling weak. cathy brought jim a bowl of crackers and some cheese. by 10 oclock, peter was sick of crackers. and he was still very hungry. some guests started to leave. jim and cathy were very surprised. one guest said to mr gray

22、, “thanks for inviting us to the party. we had a good time. then cathy realized her mistake. she whispered to jim, “this is a neighborhood party, not a dinner party. i made a mistake. all the other guests had dinner before they came here. jim and cathy quickly thanked the grays for the party. they f

23、etched their coats and left. they walked back home, got into their car and drove to a nearby shopping center. the italian restaurant was closed and the chinese restaurant was also closed. “what are we going to do? peter asked. 1. “l(fā)ookingin“after looking for a long time, means“ . a. looking for a go

24、od jobb. looking for a proper housec. looking for a good neighbord. looking for something lost2. why did mrs gray invite the malupas to her home? a. to have dinner. b. to meet all the other neighbors. c. to attend a ball. d. to congratulate them on their new work. 3. what did the malupas think they

25、would have at the party? a. a good dinner. b. crackers. c. tea. d. cheese. 4. cathy realized her mistake . a. at the beginning of the partyb. in the middle of the partyc. at the end of the partyd. after they returned home5. after they left the neighborhood party, they went to a shopping center . a.

26、to have dinnerb. to buy goodsc. to enjoy the night sensed. to buy refreshmentsbwild bill donovan would have loved the internet. the spymaster who built the office of strategic service in world war and later laid the roots for the cia(美國中央情報(bào)局)was very interested in information. donovan believed in us

27、ing whatever tools came to hand in the“great nameof discovering informationspying as a“profession(職業(yè)). these days the net, which has already re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping donovans job as well. the latest revolution isnt simply a matter of gentlemen rea

28、ding other gentlemens e-mail. that kind of electronic spying has been going on for decades. in the past three or four years the world wide web has given birth to a whole industry of point-and-click spying. the spies call it “open-source intelligence(情報(bào)), and as the net grows , it is becoming increas

29、ingly to affect peoples lives. in 1995 the cia held a contest to see who could collected the most facts about burundi. the winner was a tiny virginia company called open source solutions, whose clear advantage was its mastery of the electronic world. among the firms making the biggest splash in this

30、 new world is straitford, inc, a private intelligence-analysis(情報(bào)分析)firm based in austin, texas. straitford makes money by selling the results of spying (covering nations from chile to russia ) to corporations like energy-services firm mcdermott international. people may find its forecasts online at

31、. straitford president george friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of tool for both collecting and giving out information, a spymasters dream. last week his firm was busy searching for information from the far corners of the world and saying there would be a crisis(危機(jī))in ukraine. “as soo

32、n as that report runs , well suddenly get 500 new internet sign-ups from ukraine, says friedman, a former political science professor. “and well hear back from some of them. open-source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad. thats where st

33、raitford earns its keep. friedman relies on only 20 people in austin. several of his staff members have military-intelligence(軍事情報(bào)) backgrounds. he sees the firms outsider position as the key to its success. straitfords brief dont sound like the usual washington back-and-forth, by which people avoid

34、 dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong. straitford, says friedman , takes pride in its independent voice. 1. the internet has . a. received support from fans like donovanb. reshaping the intelligence servicesc. offered people more chances to enjoy many common pastimesd. made spying

35、 a job respected by people2. donovans story is mentioned in the text to . a. introduce the topic of online spyingb. show how he fought for the u. s. c. give us an example of the information ward. honor his special services to the cia3. the underlined phrase“making the biggest splash(line 1, para. 3)

36、most probably means . a. causing the biggest troubleb. making the greatest effort c. achieving the greatest successd. enjoying the widest popularity 4. it can be learned from para. 4 that . a. what straitford said about ukraine has proved trueb. straitford can promise that all its information is tru

37、ec. straitford cam never prove the truthfulness of its informationd. straitford is able to provide fairly reliable information5. straitford is most proud of its . a. independent outsidersb. outsider positionc. working staffd. military background. 短文改錯(cuò)in america, that labour costs are so high, 1. “do

38、 it yourselfis a way of its life. many people2. repair their own cars, their own house and so on. 3. _soon they may also be writing for their own4. books. in hollywood there is a company5. that publishes childrens books at the help of6. computers. however other book companies all7. publish that way,

39、 this particular company is very usual. 8. it“personalizesthe book by having the computers made9. the readers the main characters in its story. 10. . 書面表達(dá)下面是關(guān)于美國心臟病發(fā)病率和年齡性別關(guān)系的柱型圖表。請(qǐng)根據(jù)圖表內(nèi)容, 用英語寫一篇120詞左右的短文。文章的開頭結(jié)尾已經(jīng)給出。heart attacks by age and genderthe graph shows how age and gender influence the fre

40、quency of heart attacks in the us. in conclusion, men are more likely to be the victims of heart attacks at all ages, but women are increasingly likely over the age of 65. 參 考 答 案小練. 單詞拼寫(根據(jù)首寫字母填入所缺的詞)1. mentally 2. greedy 3. funeral 4. former 5. demonstration 6. overcome 7. arrival 8. unemployment. 單句