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选择性必修三 Unit 4
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（考试时间：30分钟 试卷满分：60分）
一、词汇过关：本题共20个小题，每小题1分，共20分。
1. Cloning plants is straightforward while cloning animals is very c__________(复杂的). (根据中英文提
示单词拼写)
2. As the ________ (截止日期) gets closer and closer, the task seems to become larger and larger. (根据
汉语提示单词拼写)
3. We had ________ (the feeling of being sorry for someone who is in a bad situation). for those whose
houses were damaged by the floods and donated money to them. （根据英文提示单词拼写）
4. ________ (娇弱的) plants need to be kept in a greenhouse during the winter. （根据汉语提示单词拼
写）
5. Under the law, everyone is considered i______ until proved guilty.(根据首字母单词拼写)
6. They are each recognized specialists in their ______ (各自的) fields. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
7. It is in bad times that we value most highly the support and __________(同情) of our friends.
8. Her determination, teamwork skills and leadership capabilities convinced us that she was ____(完美的)
for the job. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
9. I was ____(决心) to be a professional dancer, and practised for hours every day. (根据汉语提示单词
拼写)
10. Not everyone ____(判断) success by the same standards—some people think happiness is more
important than money. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
11. If you hurt someone's feelings, you should a____. (根据首字母单词拼写)
12. The d________(最终期限) for scholarship application is this Friday, so your time is tight. (根据中英
文提示填空）
13. Weather-forecasters have ________(精密的) equipment which helps them predict what the weather
is going to be like. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
14. Would you please correct the mistakes and ________(修改) the formats if it is convenient for you?
（根据汉语提示单词拼写）
15. A month before the ________(比赛), I spent two hours working out a timetable of my practical steps.
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16. I had met with him to explain the _____ (格式) of the programme and what we had in mind. (根据汉
语提示单词拼写)
17. No professionals may participate in the _____ (业余的) tennis tournament. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
18. To my amazement, he was able to _____(背诵) the whole poem from memory. (根据汉语提示单词
拼写)
20. Can you think of a _____(押韵词) for “beauty”? (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
二、课文改编语法填空：本题共10个小题，每小题2分，共20分。
You are mistaken if you think all Chinese people speak in the same way. Have you ever seen a person from
Shanghai try talking to ___21___ from Guangzhou? It is quite likely ___22___ both of them may feel
puzzled! The Chinese language, ___23___ a whole, uses the same set of characters, but even the same
characters can have ___24___ pronunciations. That is ___25___ it is difficult for people to understand
each other. Luckily, the widespread use of Putonghua in China has made a great contribution ___26___
people’s communication, though people from different areas tend to speak with various accents.
People in Northern Europe are much luckier. Even though people from Sweden, Denmark and Norway
have their own official languages, it is very convenient for them to communicate with one another. Do you
know ___27___? That is because their languages are quite similar, though not ___28___ small
distinctions. Thus, they can communicate easily in their mother tongues.
三、阅读理解：本题共8个小题，每小题2.5分，共20分。
A篇
Worried about the loss of rainforests and the ozone layer? Well, neither of those is doing any worse
than a large majority of the 6,000 to 7,000 languages that remain in use on Earth. One half of the survivors
will almost certainly be gone by 2050, while 40% more will probably be well on their way out. In their
place, almost all humans will speak a small number of languages——Mandarin, English, Spanish.
Linguists(语言学家)know what causes languages to disappear, but what's less often remarked is what
happens on the way to disappearance: languages' vocabularies, grammars and expressive potential all
disappear. "Say a community goes over from speaking a traditional Aboriginal(土著的)language to
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂speaking a Creole," says Australian Nick Evans, a language experts, "you leave behind a language where
there's very fine vocabulary for the landscape. All of that is gone in a Creole. As speakers become less able
to express the wealth of knowledge that has filled ancestors' lives with meaning over thousands of years, it's
no wonder that communities tend to become weakened."
Due to the huge losses, some linguists struggle against the situation, for example, training many
documentary linguists in language-loss hotspots such as West Africa and South America.
However, not all approaches to the preservation of languages will be particularly helpful. Some
linguists are boasting(自夸)of more and more complicated means of recording languages: digital recording
and storage, the Internet and mobile phone technologies. But these are encouraging the quick style of
recording trip: fly in, switch on digital recorder, fly home, download to hard drive, and store gathered
material for future research. That's not quite what some endangered-language experts have been seeking.
Michael Krauss from the University of Alaska complained openly that linguists are playing with
technology research while most of their raw data is disappearing.
Who is to blame? Linguists who go out into communities to study, document and describe languages,
argue that theoretical linguists, like Noam Chomsky, who draw conclusions about how languages work,
have had so much influence that linguistics has largely ignored the continuing disappearance of languages.
22. Why does the author mention rainforests and the ozone layer in Paragraph 1?
A. To highlight they are of great importance.
B. To show their connection with language loss
C. To indicate anxiety about environmental issues.
D. To introduce the topic concerning language loss.
23. What does Nick Evans say about the effects of language disappearance?
A. People find it hard to describe their culture.
B. Vocabularies have to be changed.
C. People tend to turn to ancestors more
D. Focus is switched on new grammars.
24. What has Michael Krauss pointed out?
A. Digital age further promotes some endangered languages.
B. An instant approach to language recording may not work.
C. Linguists have made poor use of improvement in technology.
D. Linguists' quick style of recording trip should be encouraged.
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A. By 2050 only 600 to 700 languages will remain.
B. Local languages are preserved perfectly in West Africa.
C. Theoretical linguists may be responsible for the loss of languages.
D. Linguists have come a long way to save endangered languages.
B篇
The Internet, search engines, virtual worlds. Have you ever got the feeling that you’re living in a science
fiction?
Well, indeed you are.
For more than a century, inventors have been driven to create what sci-fi writers have imagined long
before. Buck Rogers inspired a generation of scientists excited about space exploration. Ray Bradbury
predicted home-theater systems. William Gibson dreamed up the Internet while writing Neuromancer on a
typewriter. Not long after him, Neal Stephenson predicted virtual worlds in his 1991 novel Snow Crash.
One of his readers was Philip Rosedale, who loved it so much that he wanted to build a virtual world based
on it.
By the late 1990s, technology caught up to the novel, and Rosedale built the virtual world Second Life
based on the “Metaverse” from the novel. With 1 million active users, Second Life offers virtual shops,
bars, houses and even virtual television studios with virtual celebrities (名人) on virtual talk shows.
“I think it is pretty much what I imagined,” Stephenson says. “I just shoot for the stars, while he
makes great things happen.”
But Snow Crash is a dark book. The world in the novel is filled with criminals, violence and
environmental problems.
“Science fiction not only puts stars in our hands, it also helps us see the meaning of our work,” Philip
Rosedale admits. “It makes it possible for us to see what all of our efforts could eventually lead to.”
In fact, most science fiction authors admit that their work is usually cautionary (警示性的). “While
the inventors are rushing ahead and excited about this possibility or that possibility, we’re always standing
there warning, ‘Hang on just a second. Let’s think about this a little more’” author William Gibson says.
“But most of them will ignore you because they think they already know all things about any given hot
topic of the day. But if you can convince them that you’re talking about a planet millions of miles away and
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂hundreds of years in the future or the past, you can actually get them to examine more closely what’s going
on right now.”
26. Who was inspired by Neal Stephenson’s work?
A. Buck Rogers. B. Ray Bradbury.
C. William Gibson. D. Philip Rosedale.
27. What does Neal Stephenson say about Second Life?
A. It is a very violent virtual world.
B. It is not based on his fiction strictly.
C. He is satisfied with the “Metaverse”.
D. More activities should be added to it.
28. What does William Gibson mean in the last paragraph?
A. Sci-fi writers are much wiser than inventors.
B. Most inventors do not respect sci-fi writers.
C. Sci-fi can help inventors to think more carefully.
D. People can easily get excited about the inventions.
29. In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?
A. Book review. B. Technology.
C. Economy. D. Psychology.
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