Unit 3 Faster, Higher, Stronger 单元检测题-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第一册

高二英语 选必一  Unit 3检测试卷

 

Class     Name            Grade          

 

1. 用所给词的正确形式或所给首字母填空（1×10=10分）：

1. The volleyball hit the ground and  b             high into the air.
2. As the saying goes, a workman must first  s              his tools if he is to do 

his work well.

3. Over the years he has developed his personal                   (人生哲学).
4. Living a low-carbon life              (be) a good way to reduce the emission of

greenhouse gases.

5.               (travel)along the ancient Silk Road is an interesting experience.
6. There is no             (deny) that people should attach great importance to 

physical exercise.

7. It is well-known that                 (expose) to the sun too much in the 

summer will do great harm to your skin.

8. It is no use               (complain) all the time and what you should do is look 

on the bright side.

9. With time going by, you have grown up day            day.
10. Seeing his mother, the little girl burst             crying.

 

2. 阅读理解（3×15=45分）：

                                    A

To improve road safety and raise awareness among Russia’s notoriously (臭名昭著地) careless drivers, Russian police have tried to get drivers to slow down at zebra (斑马) crossings by having painted horses as zebras walk across on the busiest streets in some of the big cities.

The light grey horses, painted with black stripes (条纹), carried signs on their backs reading: “Careful, children are on their way to school.” The police sent the “zebras” to several different locations in the Russian capital, where officials in orange vests walked them over zebra crossings and handed out leaflets (传单) to passing drivers.

Some held up rainbow-coloured umbrellas over the painted animals to protect them from the rain. Russian roads are notoriously dangerous and drivers still rarely take steps to avoid pedestrians (行人). Nearly half of all traffic accidents in the country’s big cities are caused by cars hitting pedestrians, and a third of those occur on crossings, according to traffic police figures published last month.

In the first six months of this year, 378 people were killed and more than 6, 600 injured on pedestrian crossings in Russia, according to police. In Moscow alone, 43 people were killed, including two children.

Though police officials said that only safe paint would be used on the animals, animal rights activists still disagreed with the idea, accusing the police of “treating animals like garbage”.

“Children understand that paints are bad for animals,” the Interfax news agency quoted(引用) president of Vita animal rights group Irina Novozhilova as saying.

Let’s hope this part of the campaign is over and animals are left out of future attempts to raise pedestrians’ awareness.

11. Why do Moscow police have “zebras” walk across on the busiest streets?

A. To make a call on protecting animals.      

B. To raise drivers’ awareness of road safety.

C. To tell people it is dangerous to cross streets.

D. To remind people zebras are in danger of extinction.

12. From the text we can learn that ______.

A. the driving skills of Russian drivers are bad.

B. Russian drivers often ignore traffic lights.

C. Russian drivers seldom give way to pedestrians

D. most Russian drivers have realized the seriousness of the problem.

13. What do animal rights activists think of the new attempt?

A. Drivers must slow down at pedestrian crossings.

B. Road safety should be improved.

C. The paints used on the horses are safe.

D. These animals are ill-treated by the police.

14. Which word can best describe the author’s attitude towards the campaign?

A. Critical. B. Confident. C. Doubtful. D. Positive.

                                    B

“Don’t tell anyone”. We hear these words when someone tells a secret to us. But it can be hard to keep a secret. We often tend to “spill the beans”, even if we regret it later.

According to Asim Shah, professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, US, keeping a secret may well “become a burden”. This is because people often have an “obsessive and anxious urge to share it with someone”.

An earlier study, led by Anita E. Kelly, a scientist at the University of Notre Dame, US, suggested that keeping a secret could cause stress. People entrusted (受委托的) with secrets can suffer from depression, anxiety, and body aches, reported the Daily Mail.

But with secrets so often getting out, why do people share them at all?Shah explained that people often feel that it will help them keep a person as a friend. Another reason people share secrets is guilt over keeping it from someone close to them. A sense of distrust can develop when people who are close do not share it with each other. “Keeping or sharing secrets often puts people in a position of either gaining or losing the trust of someone,” according to Shah.

He added that talkative people could let secrets slip out (泄露). But this doesn’t mean that it is a good idea only to share secrets with quiet people. A quiet person may be someone who keeps everything inside. To tell such a person a secret may cause them stress, and make them talk about the secret.

Shah said that to judge whether to tell someone a secret, you’d better put yourself in their position. Think about how you would feel to be told that you mustn’t give the information away. Shah also recommended that if you accidentally give up someone’s secret you should come clean about it. Let the person know that their secret isn’t so secret anymore.

15. What does underlined words “spill the beans” mean?

A. Cut up beans. B. Burst into laughter.

C. Let out the secret. D. Keep the words.

16. What did researchers at the University of Notre Dame discover about secret-keeping?

A. It can help promote friendships between people. 

B. It can result in mental and physical problems.

C. It can result in a sense of distrust between friends. 

D. It can harm relationships between friends.

17. What is the main message of Paragraph 5?

A. It’s not a good idea to share your secrets with others.

B. It’s better to share your secrets with quiet people.

C. Quiet people suffer less stress from keeping secrets.

D. Talkative people are unlikely to keep secrets.

C

About 1.4 billion people around the world do not get enough physical exercise. The world's adult population is about 5.6 billion,so that is tantamount to about one-fourth of the world's adult population.

Researchers looked at 358 population-based studies between 2001 and 2016. Those studies referred to nearly 2 million people in 168 countries.

Regina Guthold was the lead author of the report. She said the study also found a wide range of physical activity levels for countries around the world.“Inactivity ranges from as low as 6 per cent in Uganda and Mozambique to 67 per cent in Kuwait. Four countries have prevalence (普遍)of inactivity of over 50 per cent. That's Kuwait, America