2020-2021学年高一英语牛津译林版(2020)必修第三册Unit1 单元过关演练

2020-2021学年高一英语牛津译林版(2020)必修第三册Unit 1单元过关演练

　　本套试卷总分120分。考试时间100分钟。　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

第一部分　阅读(共两节, 满分50分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5 分)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

How are you and your family going to celebrate Earth Day? It’s a great day to get outside and ride a bike, but there are other ways you could spend the day. Here are four books. You can learn more about the earth and the animals that make the world a special place to live in.

The Busy Beaver, by Nicholas Oldland

Beaver is very, very busy, and he doesn’t always think carefully. As a result, he makes a mess of the forest and ends up in hospital. Finally, he realizes how careless he’s been and decides to make things right when he returns to the forest.

Lessons from Mother Earth, by Elaine Mcleod

Five-year-old Tess is visiting her grandmother and, for the first time, she visits the garden. Along the way, Tess’s grandmother tells her the rules of the garden, “You must always take good care of our garden. Never throw rubbish around. There is plenty for everyone to share if we don’t destroy the soil.” The story is beautifully told as a caring conversation between a child and her grandmother.

Luz Sees the Light, by Claudia Davila

When Luz’s community experiences a series of blackouts(停电), she quickly comes to understand the need to save energy and find other ways of doing things. With the help of her friends and neighbours, she creates a community garden and park that everyone can use. The book attracts many young readers.

The Lorax, by Dr Seuss

A young boy learns of the role of the Lorax as protector of the trees, and how his home became polluted. The book contains memorable forestry conservation(森林保护).

(　　)1.We can learn from the passage that Beaver 　　　　. 

A.always plans things carefully

B.never takes care of the forest

C.decides to leave the forest forever

D.gets hurt because of his carelessness

(　　)2.Which of the following books focus on the protection of forest?

A.The Busy Beaver and The Lorax.

B.Luz Sees the Light and The Lorax.

C.The Busy Beaver and Lessons from Mother Earth.

D.Lessons from Mother Earth and Luz Sees the Light.

(　　)3.What is the writer’s purpose in writing this passage?

A.To provide some activities to Earth Day.

B.To offer some books to readers.

C.To tell readers how to write children’s books.

D.To teach readers how to protect our environment.

B

My sister Alice and I have been trying to get people to stop dropping cigarette butts(烟头)for seven years. One day, we were walking in our hometown and saw hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground. They made the town look so ugly that we decided to start a group to make people stop dropping butts. We called it “No Butts About It”.

At first, we drew pictures with “The Earth is not your ashtray(烟灰缸)”written on them. We put the pictures around our hometown—in parks, by beaches, and along roads. We wanted to make people understand that dropping butts hurts the environment. Most smokers don’t think that dropping butts hurts the Earth. But it does, and all rubbish does!

Later, we wrote to companies and asked them for money to help us. We used the money to buy ashtrays to give to smokers. We wanted smokers to carry the ashtrays with them so they didn’t have to drop butts.

At the moment, we are trying to get cigarette companies to put an ashtray in each pack of cigarettes. Some companies want to do it. Many people have started to join our group since it began. Today there are 45 other “No Butts About It” groups in America.

Now there are even groups in England, Australia, and India! Many newspapers have written about my sister and me over the last seven years. And we have won many prizes for what we do. But we are not interested in prizes. We just want to make the Earth a better and cleaner place for animals, plants and people.

One day, it will be.

(　　)4.What did the writer think about the cigarette butts in the first place?

A.They made the town smelly.

B.They made the town unhealthy.

C.They made the town dirty.

D.They made the town poor.

(　　)5.What does the writer do with the cigarette butts?

A.Give ashtrays to smokers.

B.Stop people buying cigarettes.

C.Pick up the cigarette butts.

D.Win prizes for starting groups.

(　　)6.From the passage we can know that 　　　　. 

A.no companies wanted to give money to them

B.the writer believes that the Earth will be a better and cleaner place

C.there are only 45 “No Butts About It”

D.the writer likes to be on newspapers and win prizes

(　　)7.Which is the best title for the passage?

A.Save our town from cigarette butts

B.Buy yourself an ashtray

C.Cigarette butts also destroy other countries

D.No Butts Prize

C

Record fires sweeping across the Amazon rainforest this month have been catching global headlines as scientists and environmental groups are worried that they will worsen climate change and threaten biodiversity.

As the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon is often called “the lungs of the world”. It is also home to about 3 million species of plants and animals, and 1 million local people. The vast areas of rainforest play an important role in the world’s ecosystem because they take in heat instead of it being reflected back into the atmosphere. They also store carbon dioxide(二氧化碳)and produce oxygen, making sure that less carbon is given off, mitigating the effects of climate change.

“Any forest destroyed is a threat to biodiversity and the people who use that biodiversity,” Thomas Lovejoy, an ecologist at George Mason University told National Geographic. “The shocking threat is that a lot of carbon goes into the atmosphere,” he stressed. “Facing the global climate change, we cannot afford more damage to a major source of oxygen and biodiversity. The Amazon must be protected,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

Data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) show that the number of forest fires in Brazil quickly increased by 82 per cent from January to August this year from a year ago. A total of 71,497 forest fires were recorded in the country in the first eight months of 2019, up from 39,194 in the same period in 2018, INPE said. “It’s reported that the forest areas in the Brazilian Amazon have decreased something between 20 and 30 per cent compared to the last 12 months,” Carlos Nobre, a researcher at the University of Sao Paulo, told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

Brazil owns about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, whose drop could have severe results for global climate and rainfall. The size of the area ruined by fires has yet to be determined, but the emergency has transcended(超出)Brazil’s borders, reaching Peruvian, Paraguayan and Bolivian areas.

(　　)8.What is the second paragraph mainly talking about?