【状元之路】2014-2015学年高中英语人教版选修8单元测评

单元测评(四)　Unit 4　Pygmalion (时间：90分钟　满分：110分) 　 　　　　　　　　　　　 第一部分　阅读理解(共两节；满分30分) 第一节　(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 A When I was growing up in the 1930s, the period of the Great Depression, I didn't think of our family as poor, even though we never seemed to have money. I lived on a small farm in Pennsylvania with my parents, two elder sisters, and a younger brother. We had an old horse, a cow, a few pigs, some chickens, and a big garden. Food was not a problem. We had our own supply of milk, meat, eggs, fresh vegetables, and Momma's homemade bread. As a boy of nine, I had only a vague (模糊的) idea of what it meant to live during hard times. The weekly newspaper would carry pictures of people standing in line for bread, and the evening broadcast would tell about the huge number of jobless people and their hardships. But these reports referred to people in the cities, and we lived in the country. We never went to bed hungry, and we didn't stand in line for bread. Although my father was fortunate to have a job at the feed mill (饲料加工厂), eighteen dollars a week was only enough to pay the electric bill and to buy necessities. Momma earned a few dollars baking pies and bread. To make nightclothes, Momma used the cotton bags in which the food for our chickens came. It wasn't until years later when my high­school class went on an overnight trip that I got my first store­bought nightwear. When a piece of clothing was worn out, it wasn't thrown away. First, all the buttons were removed, grouped by size and color, and put in cans or glass jars. Then the clothing was examined, and the best parts were saved for making rugs (地毯). Almost nothing in our house was thrown away. Although we tend to think of recycling as something fairly new, in the 1930s it was part of everyday life. “Waste not, want not” was a familiar and often repeated phrase during those Depression years. 语篇解读　本文是记叙文。文章讲述了经济大萧条时期作者一家人的生活状况。 1．The author didn't think of his family as poor in t