第一节：单元要点 (共15 小题，每小题1 分，满分15 分)　

21.Temperature here______10°C to 30°C.

　　es from　　　　　　 B.ranges from　　　　　　 C.turns from　　　　　　　 D.returns from

V. 书面表达 。(25分)

画中女孩杨梅吃过早饭，准备去看电影，上车后一位老奶奶上车，她赶紧让位，…请你用英语以第一人称的口吻写一篇短文，叙述一下6 幅图的内容。

参考词语

决定做　 …to decide to …　　　

上车　 to get on a bus

道别　 to say good－bye to …

挥手　 to wave to…

联系人:434300 湖北省公安县教学研究室 李克胜

Unit 14　 Freedom Fighters

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　Test 1

W：Does this bus go to the Bank of China?

M：Yes. Get off at the post office and walk straight ahead for about two minutes.

　 Test 　2

W：Would you mind if I borrowed your car just over the weekend?

M：I'm sorry, but it's just not possible, because I'm visiting my mother this weekend.

　 Test 　3

W：Can you help me out? I'm trying to find Grand Hotel.

M：Turn right at the traffic light. It is next to the new shopping centre.

　 Test 　4

M：Why don't you wait here a few minutes and I'll get my car?

W：No, thank you. I'd better take the bus home.

　 Test 　5

W：You must be thirsty. Would you like a bottle of Coca Colla?

M：I would rather have a bottle of beer than Coca Cola.

W：That's OK. Here you are.

M：Thank you.

　 Test 　6

W：Lovely weather!

M：Yes, it's really warm.

W：I've seen you before, haven't I?

M：Well, you may have done. I've been here once or twice, for a walk in this quiet park. Do you live near here?

W：Yes, I live in one of those flats over there. What about you?

M：Oh, I'm staying with a family down near the station.

W：Are you on holiday?

M：Well, … er …I'm here to improve my English. I'm from Greece, you see.

W：I didn't think you were English, but your English is very good.

M：Thank you very much.

　 Test 　7

W：I have to get lunch.

M：Can I help?

W：Yes, that would be nice. You know, I don't like cooking. What about you?

M：I do, although I don't do it well. Shall I cut some bread?

W：Yes, please. That would be a help.

M：Would you like me to make the salad?

W：No, there's no need, thanks. I've done it.

M：Is there anything else you would like me to do?

W：Well, you could lay the table, and I'll get some ice out and open the orange juice.

　 Test 　8

M：Hi, Mary!

W：Jack! How lovely to see you after all this time.

M：Yes, it's been ages, hasn't it? You look very well.

W：So do you! You haven't changed a bit?

M：Really? I thought I had. I went a broad and worked for a year and a half in Singapore. I've just come back for Christmas and will go back there in a few weeks. The weather there is super.

W：Is your wife still working?

M：No－actually, Susan is going to have a baby. That's why I'm doing all the Christmas shopping myself.

W：Oh, that's wonderful news. Please say“Hello”to her for me.

M：I will. Are you still working?

W：Yes, I've got an excellent job, and I enjoy it very much.

M：I say, Mary, why don't you come and visit us during the holiday? Susan will be most pleased to see you again.

W：That's a wonderful idea. Give me a ring when you are settled. Bye.

M：Good－bye!

　 Test 　9

M：I'd like to mail this box to Hong Kong. How much will it be, please?

W：Do you want to send it first class or second class?

M：How much is first class and how long does it take?

W：It's a light box. First class would cost $ 8.20. I guess it will take about eight to ten days to arrive.

M：And second class?

W：Sending it second class wonld be cheaper, but it wouldn't arrive for about a month. You'll pay $ 4.90 only.

M：Oh, I want it to arrive earlier than that. I'll mail it first class.

W：What's in the box? I need to know in order to complete the form.

M：A set of glasses. Are there any other forms I need to fill out because it's going to a foreign country?

W：Yes, one more. You have to write clearly what is in the box and the value.

M：Here it is.

W：You forgot to put a return address on this box. It's not a post office rule, but we usually advise people that all mail have a proper return address.

M：OK. I'll do it right now. I'll also buy ten 60 cent stamps.

W：Let's see. The box and the stamps. Your total bill comes to $ 14.20.

M：Thank you. Have a nice day.

　 Test 　10

Yes, you're right. I am from South Africa. I am not at all used to this cold weather, but I am glad to say that I have all the clothes for this freezing weather.

When I first got to know that I would be attending this international conference here in Finland, I had no idea what kind of clothes I should take along. I didn't know what to do when I thought of this two-week stay here, with a rather formal dinner, a few parties, social gatherings and a dance during the conference.

　　 Fortunately, my friend Julia has been to Northern Europe. Yes,she was a great help. She helped to solve my biggest problem. She placed an order for soe warm suits and dresses, business-type clothes, of course, of dark colours. She also bought me some skirts and blouses so that I could wear the same clothes in several different ways. A couple of lively coloured dresses will give me a nice change from time to time. She also helped to choose a very warm raincoat and a pair of boots.

　　 Oh, how lucky I am to have such a helpful friend. She saved me a lot of trouble.

IV. 短文改错 。(10分)

　 Today I visited the Smiths－my first time visit　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 76.　　　　

to a American family. They live in a small town.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 77. 　　　　　

It was very kind for them to meet me at the　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 78. 　　　　　

railway station and drove me to their home.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 79. 　　　　　

The Smiths did his best to make me feel at home　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 80. 　　　　　

They offered me coffee and other drinks.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 81. 　　　　　

　 We have a good time talking and laughing　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 82. 　　　　　

together. They eager to know everything about　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 83. 　　　　　

China and asked me lots of question. In fact　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 84. 　　　　　

they are planning to visit China in next year.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 85. 　　　　

E

Gina was surprised to find that it was not raining in London. She stepped down from the train that had brought her from Dover to Victoria Station and put her heavy suitcase on the platform. People were hurrying everywhere：through the entrances and exits, up and down the steps, along the other platforms and over to the ticket counters where there were already queues forming. The porters seemed to be busy helping other passengers. In Milan everyone told her that it was always raining in England. Today, however, they were wrong. It was warm and dusty just like at home. She could even hear someone speaking her native language somewhere near the station bookstall. She walked slowly towards the gate at the end of the platform where a railway official was collecting the tickets. She handed him her tickets and walked through. She looked up the station clock. Its hands were pointing to 3:15pm.

A young woman was sitting on a bench reading an English magazine. She looked friendly so Gina went up to her.

“Excuse me, ”She said. The young woman glanced up with a smile.“Can you tell me the way to circus?”

“The circus?”The young woman looked puzzled (困惑). “What circus do you mean?”

Gina shook her head, “I'm sorry. I have just arrived from Italy to attend a school for overseas (海外) students in London. It is near the circus.”

“Do you have a letter with the school's address on it?”

“Oh, yes. Now I remember. ” Gina opened her handbag and found a postcard with a British stamp on it.

“Ah,” said the young woman. “It's Oxford Circus that you want. It's the name of an area in the middle of London. You must go down these steps and take the Tube. Follow the colours. That's the easiest way.”She showed Gine on the coloured map of the underground railway the route from Victoria to Oxford Circus. “Good luck,” she said. “And by the way, I come from Italy, too.”

72. Gina was 　　　.

　　　 A. expecting a friend to meet her

　　　 B. attending to school matters

　　　 C. going to study English

　　　 D. late for her studies

73. “There were already queues forming,” means 　　　.

　　　 A. there were too many people waiting

　　　 B. people were beginning to wait in line

　　　 C. people were already to form queues

　　　 D. people were being told to form up in lines

74. Oxford Circus is 　　　.

　　　 A. a famous circus

　　　 B. a place in London

　　　 C. a railway station to Oxford

　　　 D. another name for the middle of London

75. The young woman was puzzled because she 　　　.

　　　 A. had never been to a circus

　　　 B. didn't know the word “circus”

　　　 C. didn't know what circus Gina was referring to　　　　　　

D. didn't know where Oxford Circus was

D

No one knows why we sleep, but it's certain that we need to. People who are prevented from sleeping begin to suffer obvious effects after a few days－they think less clearly, and they fall asleep during the working hours ; some may have hallucinations (幻觉).

There are no rules about sleep. Generally speaking , grown－ups sleep about 7 and half hours each night and probably more than 60 per cent get between seven and eight hours. But perhaps eight per cent are quite happy with 5 hours or less, and four per cent or so find that they want ten hours or more. If you feel all right, you're probably getting enough sleep. The important thing is not to worry how much other people get－their needs may be different. Exercise doesn't seem to increase the need sleep－office workers, for example, sleep for about as long as people doing physically active work.

Children sleep more than grown－ups－perhaps 14 to 18 hours soon after birth, going down to grown－up levels by early teen－age. Sleep patterns also tend to be different in the elderly, who may sleep less at night than they did when younger, find sleep getting more broken, and often make it a rule to sleep during the daytime.

68. According to the passage, some people are unable to think clearly because 　　　.

　 A. they have hallucinations

　 B. they feel sleepy during the working hours

　 C. they don't have enough sleep

　 D. they are certain to be kept from going to bed

69. Which of the following is true? 　　　.

　 A. All grown－ups must have at least eight－hour sleep

　 B. Most of grown－ups sleep for seven or eight hours

　 C. Quite a few people need only 5 hours or less for them to sleep

　 D. No grown－ups sleep more than ten hours

70. Whether you have got enough sleep is judged by 　　　.

　 A. how many hours you have slept

　 B. how many hours you need to sleep

　 C. whether you do exercise and physical work

　 D. whether you feel fresh and energetic

71. According to the passage, a boy of 14 years old sleeps 　　　.

　 A. as long hours as a grown－up

　 B. much longer hours than a grown－up

　 C. for 14 hours each night

　 D. for less than 8 hours per night

C

A man shot Martin King in Atlanta on 4th April, 1968. He drove a white Ford car. Who was he? The police found “Harvey Lowmeyer's” gun and “John Willard's”shirt, and then the white car. It was “Eric Starvo Galt's”car. So what was this man's real name? Marks on the shirt and the car sent the F. B. I. (美国联邦调查局) to Los Angeles. 300 detectives questioned people. At last one found a photograph of “Galt's”room in a small hotel. One fingerprint was enough. James Earl Ray's fingerprint were already on the F. B. I. cards. The police watched railway stations, hotels and airports. 3,000 detectives were trying to find Ray－ without success. The Canadian police were helping too. They looked at 240,000 photographs in their Passport Office. Then they found one of“Ramon George Sneyd”. “We gave this man a passport last month,”they said.“He went to London on 2nd May.” The man was wearing thick glasses, but he looked like Ray. Then on 8th June, a detective at London Airport saw Sneyd's name on a passenger list.

It was the end of the biggest manhunt (搜捕) in history. The F. B. I. spent 1.4 million dollars,but they got their man.

63. The key to settling the case (案件) was probably the murderer's 　　　.

　 A. car 　　　　　　　　　　 B. fingerprint　　　　　　 C. gun　　　　　　　　　　　 D. shirt

64. It took the police 　　　　to catch the murderer.

　 A. 65 days　　　　　　　　 B. two months　　　　　 C. eight weeks　　　　　 D. three months

65. The hunt for Ray cost 　　　　dollars.

　 A. a million and four hundred

　 B. one million four hundred thousand

　 C. fourteen million

　 D. a million four thousand

66. Martin Luther King's murderer used the name of 　　　.

　 A. Harvey Lowmeyer when he bought the gun

　 B. John Willard when he paid for the car

　 C. Eric Starvo Galt when he lived in Los Angeles

　 D. James Earl Ray when he came to Atlanta

67. The detective at London Airport caught Ramon George Sneyd because 　　　.

　 A. Sneyd had a Canadian passport

　 B. he was sure that he was James Earl Ray

　 C. Sneyd's name was not on the passenger list

　 D. Sneyd was wearing glasses.

B

The baobab tree grows in west Africa and Australia. It is a very strange-looking tree. Its big trunk (树干) sometimes measures as much as ten metres in diameter (直径). It is thicker at the bottom than at the top. The branches nearest to the ground are very long; those near the top are very short. Strange-looking it may be, it is very useful. Its leaves are good to eat. Its white flowers turn into cool fruit which tastes rather like cucumbers (黄瓜). When a baobab tree gets old, its trunk becomes hollow (空心). An old tree has such a huge, hollow trunk that it can hold many people. When it rains, water collects in the hollow. The tree has such a lot of leaves and branches that the water remains cool and fresh. It is such a useful tree that some people can hardly live without it.

60.The trunk of the biggest baobab tree　　　　 in girth (周长).　

　 be nearly 32 metres　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B.is more than 10 metres

　 C.is less than 30 metres　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D.is as much as 10 metres

61.Which of the following do you think the baobab tree is like?

62.Which of the following may be true?

　 A.We can find the baobab tree everywhere in Africa.

　 B.The baobab tree is too big for anybody to make use of.

　 C.People in Africa and Australia like to plant baobab trees around their houses.

　 D.Monkeys like to eat the fruit of the baobab tree very much.

A

The African ancestors(祖先) of today's black Americans were brought to the US as slaves in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. They worked on farms, especially the large farms in the southern states. Slowly they became a necessary part of the economic(经济) system (系统) of the South.

Slaves did not have the right of human beings. According to the law, they were “things”which belonged to the person who bought them. They had to obey the orders of their owners without question. They were not allowed to learn to read; their owners feared the educated slaves would begin to think about the injustice of the system and would learn to struggle for their freedom.Slaves had to work long hours in very unhealthy conditions. Their owners had complete power over them. They could be bought and sold like animals. At the slave markets, black children were separated from their parents and never saw them again. Slave owners had the right to punish the slave who broke the rule or was against the system. Slaves were often beaten by their owners or killed. After the Civil War, one free slave reported that his owner killed an older slave who was teaching a slave badly should be punished. In practice, however, the law meant nothing.

Opposition to slavery began very early in the history of the US－in 1671－but little progress was made until the beginning of the nineteenth century. By 1804 slavery was illegal(非法的) in the northern states. But it continued, it even grew, in the southern states, which depended on cotton for their economic health(繁荣). Slavery ended in the South only after the Civil War. For blacks, however, the end of slavery was only a beginning, the late beginning of a long and difficult struggle for true justice.

56.According to the writer, why couldn't slaves learn to read?

　　 A. Because reading was not something which they needed for their work.

　　 B. Because their owners were afraid that books would give them advanced ideas.

　　 C. Because they did not have enough time to read.

　　 D. Because they were so poor that they could not go to school.

57. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

　　 A. Many people from other countries became US citizens in the 1700s.

　　 B. The US government paid much attention to the freedom.

　　 C. There were some laws that successfully protected the rights of slaves.

　　 D. Slavery in the United States began in the seventeenth century.

58. What happened to slaves who broke the rules of the system?

　　 A. They were given hard jobs.　　　　　　　　　　 B. They were punished.

　　 C. They were sent back to Africa.　　　　　　　　 D. They were sold to other owners.

59. According to the writer, 　　　.

　　 A. black Americans had true freedom after the Civil War

　　 B. black people continued to fight for true justice after the Civil War

　　 C. nobody in the US was against slavery in the seventeenth century

　　 D. slavery continued, and even grew, in the United States after 1804