课时同步外研版高二上英语选修6单元达标测试 Module 5

Her father is said __________ abroad. When do you know he left?

The child was __________ at the __________ characters in the movie.

After covering the long distance, the girl was really __________.

—Who is listening to the pop musician in the garden?
—__________ Jimmy.

It's interesting to contrast the American legal system __________ the Chinese one.

She was so __________ in her job that she didn't hear anybody knocking at the door.

How I wish I__________ this terrible thing, but it is too late.

The two pictures are similar, although not __________.

The watch that was 50% off was beautiful, so I couldn't resist __________ it.

I would like to __________ my daughter to the game on Sunday.

Tom can't have received the invitation; otherwise he __________ your birthday party yesterday.

__________ on their own efforts, they overcame all the difficulties and finished the task ahead of time.

Even though they were much younger, we treated them __________ equals.

All the branch companies are __________ the members of the family.

Misunderstandings __________ from lack of social communication, unless __________ properly, may lead to serious problems.

Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament (灯丝) for the light bulb. When     worked satisfactorily, his assistant   , "All our work is in    . We have learned nothing."
Thomas Edison replied very     , "Oh, we have come a long way and we have     a lot. We know that there are two thousand materials which we can't      to make a good light bulb."
"If you learn from your    , then you are intelligent. But         you learn from someone's mistakes, then you are a genius." "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines     daily and failure is nothing more than a small few     repeated daily."
How     the above lines are! Success or failure takes root in our       . When we don't practise disciplines in life, we don't       enough confidence to attempt new and challenging tasks which are important and    in life. Our confidence     what we think of ourselves and whether we believe in ourselves. We are all born with exceptional          but only a few really realize their true potentials and forge (继续) ahead in life and the others just lead a (n)     life. Do you want to be exceptional?
   is a fruit that everyone wants to eat but it is not found everywhere and no one can achieve it    serious efforts. Those who want to succeed will find a way, those who don't will find a (n)          !
A. neither     B. none    C. either    D. any
A. screamed    B. added   C. complained    D. argued
A. vain        B. doubt    C. wonder    D. use
A. unsatisfactorily    B. unhappily
C. confidently        D. surprisingly
A. suffered    B. learned     C. earned    D. paid
A. use         B. produce    C. search    D. afford
A.experiences  B.experiments  C.failures  D.mistakes
A. if          B. unless     C. though    D. until
A. provided    B. required    C. accepted  D. practised
A. disciplines  B. errors     C. tasks    D. lines
A. true        B. possible    C. proper    D. perfect
A. lines       B. materials   C. minds    D. lives
A. lack        B. lose       C. build    D. share
A. matter      B. fail       C. function  D. stress
A. results in   B. depends on  C. leaves out   D. takes up
A. figures     B. appearances  C. characters  D. qualities
A. bitter      B. easy        C. hard       D. average
A. Confidence  B. Intelligence C. Success    D. Failure
A. through     B. for         C. to        D. without
A. opportunity  B. way     C. excuse    D. explanation

In the modern world more and more people meet the problem of identity. The most interesting example is that of a so-called "banana", which refers to an American who has an Asian face but holds Western values.
In Shanghai, there now live a group of people from abroad. They look no different from the locals and speak fluent Chinese or even Shanghai dialect, but when it comes to writing Chinese characters, they are almost illiterate (文盲). Jack is such an example. He never learned to read or write Chinese characters, which he finds mysterious and difficult. From time to time, he files to the US as he does not feel Shanghai is where he comes from. "But when I am in the States, I feel that's not my home either," he said.
At De Gaulle Airport in France, there is a Swiss man who has been living in the waiting-room for a long time because he lost his passport during his travels. He was refused entry into several countries. But when he was eventually allowed to return to Swizerland, he refused to leave the airport. His reason was very simple—"I am sure who I am. I need no acknowledgement from others," he said during an interview. For this reason he was honored by the Western media as "the Hero of identity".
As the Internet becomes more and more popular, the problem of identity becomes more serious. In a virtual world, people can have different addresses registered with different names. In the Internet chat room, even one's gender (性别) is hard to determine. It seems that in the global village, people are saying hello every day to each other without knowing whom they are talking to.
What will be the next crisis (危机) of identity? With the development of cloning technology, it might be: who is the real "I"?
What does the passage mainly talk about?

The Swiss man had to live in De Gaulle Airport in France because __________.

A "banana" in the passage is in fact an __________.

We can infer from the passage that the author believes __________.

The European Union announced plans on Tuesday to temporarily ban the use of animal cloning for food production, while allowing imports of food derived from the offspring (后代) of clones from the United States and elsewhere.
The report from the European Commission followed a call by EU lawmakers in July for a total ban on food derived from cloned animals and their traditionally bred offspring, citing ethical concerns over the industrial production of cloned meat.
The Commission said a temporary five-year EU ban on cloning for food production was justified on animal welfare grounds, but said banning imports of food from the offspring of clones was unnecessary and would disrupt global trade.
"Food from cloned animals is safe. In fact, the scientific opinion is that it cannot be differentiated in any way from food normally bred animals. The issue is animal welfare," EU Health and Consumer Commissioner John Dalli told reporters.
Food derived from the offspring of clones presents no such animal welfare issues, and banning its sale and import would be impossible because the origin is untraceable, Dalli said.
"Such a prohibition would lead to a ban of imports of any food of animal origin (meat, milk and processed products) from third countries allowing the cloning technique," the report said.
"We're not going to regulate for the world," Dalli added.
But animal welfare groups criticized the Commission's decision, saying it had bowed to pressure from third countries.
"We do not accept the Commission's position that it would be impossible to enforce a ban that includes the offspring of cloned animals, as (other) meat traceability systems are already in place, " said Sonja Van Tichelen, director of the Eurogroup for Animals.
From the passage we can infer that the ban is __________.

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

Which of the following is the reason for Commission's decision on the ban according to animal welfare groups?

What might be the most suitable title for the passage?

Researchers have found that people's mental abilities hit the highest point at 22 before beginning to get worse just five years later.
Professor Timothy Salthouse said the results told us that treatment which was planned to prevent or make overage-connected conditions better may need to start earlier, long before people become retired (退休).
"Almost half of those over 50 is not clear about the main cause of the fall of mental abilities. Results show that the age-connected cognitive decline (认知衰退) begin in healthy, educated adults when they are in their 20s and 30s, " he said. Tests like those are often used to show mental disabilities and the falling, including dementia (痴呆症).
The research by the University of Virginia found that in nine out of 12 tests the common age at which the top performance appeared was 22.
The first age at which performance was much lower than the highest scores was 27—for three tests about reasoning, speed of thought and space imagination.
Memory was shown to fall from the average age of 37. In the other tests, poorer results were shown by the age of 42.
However, the report published in the magazine "Neurobiology Of Ageing", found that abilities that are based on collected knowledge, such as performance on tests of getting vocabulary (词汇) or general information, increased until at the age of 60.
The study of 2, 000 men and women lasted over seven years. The people attending the study, aged between 18—60, were asked to do picture puzzles, remember words and stories and mark patterns in letters and signs.
Twenty-seven has long had unhelpful connotations (隐含意义), as it is the age at which many popular musicians died, including Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain.
Which of the following is NOT true?

The tests of the study were planned to find __________.

People at the age of 27 perform worse mainly at __________.

What is the best title of the passage?

With the development of science and technology, the research of human genes is playing more and more important part in our daily life. Sometimes it is a hot topic drawing more and more attention.
Gene technology can cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. Every year, millions of people are murdered by these two killers. But if the gene technology is used, not only these two diseases can
be cured completely, bringing happiness and more living days to the patients, but also the great amount of money people spend curing their diseases can be saved, therefore it benefits the economy as well. In addition, people can live longer.
Gene technology can help people to give birth to more healthy and clever children. Some families have hereditary diseases and their children will for sure have the family disease, which is a great trouble for these families. In the past, doctors could do nothing about them. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. The scientists just need to find the wrong gene and correct it, and a healthy child will be born.
Some people are worrying that the gene research can be used to clone human beings in large quantities. In the past few years, scientists have succeeded in cloning a sheep; therefore these people predict that human babies would be cloned. But I believe cloned babies will not come out in large amounts, for most couples in the world can have babies in a very normal way. Of course, the governments must take care to control gene technology.
What does "these two killers" in the 2nd paragraph refer to?

The underlined word "hereditary diseases" (in Paragraph 3)  probably means "__________".

What can we infer from the passage?

What's the best title for this passage?

American researchers have developed a technique that may become an important tool in fighting AIDS virus from attacking its target-cells in the body's defense system. When AIDS virus enters the blood, it searches for blood cells called T4 lymphocytes (淋巴细胞). The virus connects to the outside of T4 lymphocytes. Then it forces its way inside. There it directs the cells' genetic material to produce copies of the AIDS virus. This is how AIDS spreads.
Researchers think they may be able to stop AIDS from connecting to T4 ceils. When AIDS virus finds a T4 cell, it actually connects to a part of the cell called CD4 protein.
Researchers want to fool the virus by putting copies or clones of the CD4 protein into the blood. This way the AIDS virus will connect to cloned protein instead of the real ones. Scientists use genetic engineering methods to make the clones. Normally a CD4 protein remains on the T4 cell at all times; the AIDS virus must go to it.
In a new technique, however, the cloned CD4 protein is not connected to a cell. It floats freely, so a lot more can be put into the blood to keep the AIDS virus away from real CD4 protein on T4 cells. One report says the AIDS virus connects to cloned protein just as effectively as it connects to real protein. That report was based on tests with blood cells grown in labs. The technique is just now beginning to be tested in animals. If successful, it may be tested in humans within a year.
The new technique can __________.

When the AIDS virus enters the blood, it is reproduced by __________.

The AIDS virus connects to cloned protein instead of the real CD4 protein because __________.

The best title for this passage is __________.

假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号∧，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线\划掉。
修改: 在错词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者从第11处不计分。
One day, Tom was riding along the street while suddenly a red car ran towards him fast. He is so frightened that he quick turned to the left side. But it was too late, the car knocked his bike and he fell of it. When the driver realized that he had caused an accident, he got such frightened that he escaped hurriedly. He was soon out of sight, left Tom helpless on the spot. Fortunately, a passer-by happened to see what had been happened and took down a number of the car. He reported that to the police, but the driver was caught.

Staying positive through the cold season could be your best defense against getting ill, new study findings suggest.
In an experiment that exposed healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a generally sunny character were less likely to fall ill.
The findings, published in the journal "Psychosomatic Medicine", build on evidence that a "positive feeling style" can help get rid of the common cold and other illnesses. Researchers believe the reasons may be both objective as in happiness improving immune  (免疫的) function and subjective as in happy people being less troubled by a throat ache or runny nose.
"People with a positive feeling style may have different immune responses to the virus, " explained Dr. Sheldon Cohen. "And when they do get a cold, they may stop their illness from being more severe."
Cohen had found in a previous study that happier people seemed less easy to catch a cold. However, some questions remained as to whether the feeling itself had the effect.
For the now study, the researchers ask 193 healthy adults to complete some standard measures of personalities and feeling styles; Those who tended to be happy, energetic and easygoing were judged as having a positive feeling style, while those __________ had a negative style.
The researchers gave them some drops containing either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the volunteers reported on any aches, pains, or sneezing they had, while the researchers collected objective data like daily mucus (點液) production. Cohen and his partners found that warm people were likely to keep cold at bay.
What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
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Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
But it is not certain that the feeling is able to keep people away from cold.
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Fill in the blank in the sixth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words.)
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Why do happy people are most likely to get rid of some common illness? (Please answer within 20 words.)
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Translate the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.
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