Unit 4. Travelers' tales 单元素养评估测试卷-【帮课堂】2021-2022学年高一英语同步精品讲义（上教版必修三）

Unit 4 Travelers’ tales 单元素养评估测试卷 第I卷 I. Listening Comprehension 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. Puerto Rico (CNN)---The US government says it (1) __________(commit) to helping Puerto Rico but is faced with challenging circumstances, including some roads that are narrow, muddied and impassable for large aid-delivery vehicles. There also are pre-existing problems with power and water systems. Puerto Rico is “an island sitting in the middle of an ocean … a very big ocean,” as President Donald Trump said on September 26, (2) __________(make) Hurricane Maria more distant than two other recent storms that hit the US mainland, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Much of the island feels (3) __________ __________ it were hit by a storm yesterday, not one month ago. Mountains are covered in branchless trees, (4) __________(stick) in the dirt like the walking sticks of giants. Power lines are tangled(缠结) about like spaghetti dropped from the sky. Sheet metal from roofs and fencing (5) __________(turn) into floppy strips of chewing gum, scattered on the hills. Not only (6) __________(be) people such as Sostre exposed to the elements, but supplies of clean drinking water are inadequate and environmental health experts fear a public health emergency (7) _________ be brewing(酝酿). On Tuesday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, said it had 1,700 personnel deployed in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, (8) __________ also were hit by Hurricane Maria. Yet nearly 2,600 FEMA staff – about 900 more – remain deployed to Hurricane Harvey, nearly two months after that storm hit the Gulf Coast of the mainland United States. “The point is (9) _________ numbers do not save or improve lives, but missio