Unit 1 Cultural Heritage-Discovering Useful Structures 课时同步提升综合小测-2026-2027学年高中英语人教版必修第二册

高中人教版必修二Unit1课时同步提升综合小测

Discovering Useful Structures

一、单词拼写

1．The ________(专家) from Beijing gave us a lot of useful advice.

2．We visited a famous ________(洞穴) where ancient paintings were found.

3．The museum uses ________(数码的) technology to show the relics to visitors.

4．The ________(质量) of these photographs is very high.

5．They discussed the ________(问题) for hours but reached no agreement.

6．It is a ________(传统) that has lasted for over a thousand years.

7．He made a ________(比较) between the two cultures in his report.

8．The scientists will ________(调查) how the ancient wall was built.

9．We should learn to ________(识别) the value of old things around us.

10．The old town is ________(在……之内) walking distance of our school.

二、单句语法填空

11．The temple            was built 800 years ago is still standing.

12．The expert            came to our school yesterday is from Egypt.

13．The old town in            I grew up has changed a great deal.

14．This is the scientist with            I worked last year.

15．The house            roof was damaged in the storm has been repaired.

16．Everything            he told us turned out to be true.

17．This is the very book            I have been looking for.

18．The first thing            we should do is to make a plan.

19．The temple and the relics            were saved by the project are now open to the public.

20．Who is the man            is standing by the gate?

三、完成句子

21．这就是我昨天跟你提到的那座古庙。

This is the old temple ________ ________ ________ ________ yesterday.

22．那位正在照看文物的老人是我的爷爷。

The old man ________ ________ ________ ________ the relics is my grandfather.

23．我们参观了屋顶在风暴中被毁的那座建筑。

We visited the building ________ ________ ________ ________ in the storm.

24．这就是他拒绝我们提议的原因。

This is the reason ________ ________ ________ our proposal.

25．我永远不会忘记我们第一次参观莫高窟的那一天。

I will never forget the day ________ ________ ________ the Mogao Caves for the first time.

四、阅读理解

For more than forty years, Ahmed had been looking for a temple. As a child he had heard his grandmother describe a small stone building that once stood at the edge of the desert, and as an adult he had walked the area many times without finding anything.

The breakthrough came from an unexpected direction. In 2021 a team of researchers published thousands of satellite photographs online, allowing anyone with a computer to search for buried structures. Ahmed, then a 58-year-old school teacher, spent six months examining images of his own region.

“I nearly missed it,” he says. “The building shows up only as a faint square, no bigger than a fingernail. But I knew the shape of the land around it — I had played there as a boy.” He reported his find to the university, whose team visited the site three months later.

What they found was a temple dating back more than 2,000 years. It was not large, and much of it had been buried by sand, but the walls were still standing to a height of two metres. Inside, the team uncovered painted pottery and a stone figure whose face had been deliberately damaged in ancient times.

The discovery has changed how researchers work in the region. Instead of guarding their data, the project now invites local people to take part, and more than 3,000 volunteers have joined. “A satellite can see the shape of a wall,” says the project leader. “Only someone who belongs to a place can say what it means.”

Ahmed has since been invited to speak at two universities. He says he has no plans to become an archaeologist. “I just wanted to find the temple my grandmother talked about,” he says. “Now my grandchildren can see it too.”

26．What had Ahmed been trying to do for over forty years?

A．To become an archaeologist at a university.

B．To find a temple his grandmother had described.

C．To take photographs of the desert.

D．To build a school near his hometown.

27．How did Ahmed finally make the discovery?

A．By walking through the desert once again.

B．By reading his grandmother’s old diary.

C．By studying satellite photographs online.

D．By joining a university research team.

28．What does the underlined word “faint” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Unclear.

B．Bright.

C．Huge.

D．Straight.

29．What did researchers find inside the temple?

A．A map of the ancient region.

B．Photographs taken forty years ago.