Unit 2. The things around us 单元素养评估测试卷-高一英语下学期同步精品课堂（上教版2020必修第三册）

Unit 2 The things around us 单元素养评估测试卷 第I卷 II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. There seems never ____11____ (be) a civilization without toys, but when and how they developed is unknown. They probably came about just to give children something to do. In the ancient world, as is today, most boys played with some kinds of toys and most girls with ____12____. In most of the communities ____13____ social roles are rigidly determined, boys pattern their play after the activities of their fathers and girls ____14____ (prepare), even in play, to step into the roles and responsibilities of the adult world. ____15____ is remarkable about the history of toys is not so much how they changed over the centuries ____16____ how much they have remained the same. The changes have been mostly in terms of craftsmanship, mechanics, and technology. It is the universality of toys with regard to their development in all parts of the world and their persistence to the present ____17____ is amazing. In Egypt, America, China, Japan and among the Arctic people, generally the same kinds of toys appeared. Variations depended on local customs and ways of life ____18____ toys imitate their surroundings. Nearly every civilization had dolls, little weapons, toy soldiers, tiny animals and vehicles Because toys can be generally regarded as a kind of art form, they have not been likely to be influenced by technological leaps ____19____ characterize inventions for adult use. The progress from the wheel to the cart to the automobile is a direct line of ways up. The progress from a rattle (拨浪鼓)used by a baby in 3,000 BC to _____20_____ used by an infant today, however, is not characterized by inventiveness. Each rattle is the pro