Unit 8 Literature单元检测卷（B卷）2023-2024学年高二英语北师大版（2019）选择性必修第三册

Unit 8 Literature—2023-2024学年高二英语北师大版（2019）选择性必修第三册单元检测卷（B卷） 一、填空题（共10小题；每小题4分，满分40分） 1.The child was found______ (wander) the streets alone. 2.It is the first time that the girl______ (see) such an animal. 3.I have a lot______ (do) before the exam so I can't watch too much TV now. 4.______ (evident), some of these questions are rather too difficult to answer. 5.There was a strong wind blowing. I felt myself almost _____(knock) down. 6.Jack______ (work) in the lab when the power cut occurred, which forced him to stop working. 7.Only by studying very hard _____(continuous) can we promise ourselves a good future. 8.One morning, Tracy found a lost dog _____ (wander) around the local elementary school. 9.The marathon runner was running low on faith and had to drop out with only three miles _____(go). 10.It was winter, and the monkeys struggled hard to survive the______ (freeze) cold nights. 二、阅读理解（共4小题；每小题5分，满分20分） Today, poetry and science are often considered to be mutually exclusive(互相排斥) career paths. But that wasn't always the case. The mathematician Ada Lovelace and the physicist James Clerk Maxwell were both accomplished poets. The poet John Keats was a licensed surgeon.Combining the two practices fell out of favor in the 1800s. But translating research into lyrics,haiku, and other poetic forms is resurging(再现)among scientists as they look for alternative ways to inspire others with their findings "Poetry is a great tool for questioning the world," says Sam Illingworth, a poet and a geoscientist who works at the University of Western Australia. Through workshops and a newscience-poetry journal, called Consilience, Ilingworth is helping scientists to translate their latest results into poems that can attract appreciation from those outside of their immediate scientific field Stephany Mazon, a scientist from the University of Helsinki in Finland, joined one of lllingworth's workshops. In the workshop, she was grouped with other scientists and tasked with writing