单元测试题 2第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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。

AInterviewer: Good morning to all our listeners. This morning I‟m talking to Fran Mason, a clown (小丑) doctor. Ms Mason, what is a clown doctor?Ms Mason: Well, we a ren‟t really doctors, and we just pretend to be doctors. We go to children‟s hospitals and do all kinds of crazy things to make the sick children laugh.Interviewer: _____Ms Mason: I wear a doctor‟s white coat and I pretend to examine a little boy or girl, for example, but then I make funny faces. They love it!Interviewer: Does it help the children to get better?Ms Mason:Oh, yes. But we don‟t give the children medicine. We think laughter is the best medicine. It‟s very important for them to laugh, smile and enjoy themselves. Interviewer: How long have you been a clown doctor?Ms Mason: For three years. And before I became a clown doctor I taught at our local school for ten years. I really enjoy working with children but I wanted to do something a bit different.Interviewer: And how long have you worked in London?Ms Mason: I‟ve worked here since last year. I worked as a clown doctor for a year in Australia, and then I came to London last December, for Christmas. I go to six different hospitals in London and I see a lot of kids and teenagers too. Interviewer: What do you enjoy most about the work you do?Ms Mason: Well, the best thing is seeing the children laugh. But I also love working with the doctors and nurses. Lots of them say they laugh too, when they see the children having fun.21. Which of the following can be put in the blank in the text?A. How often do you meet them?B. What do you think of your job?C. Why do you want to do this job?D. What do you do to make them laugh?22. Which of the following can best describe Ms Mason?A. Crazy and foolish.B. Proud and impolite.C. Humorous and caring.D. Brave and imaginative.23. How do the doctors and nurses feel about Ms Mason‟s job?A. It is easy.B. It is admirable.C. It is surprising.D. It is useless.BI grew up in Malaysia. Since we did not have many toys, we used rubber bands (橡皮筋) to make a jump rope. Three years ago, when my daughters Michelle and Theresa were 9 and 12 years old, they were making bracelets (手环) using rubber bands. It struck me that I knew how to do that. I like to impress my daughters and show them that their dad is cool, so I tried it too. To my surprise, I couldn‟t work with the bands because my fingers were too big.Since I studied engineering, I decided to come up with a solution (解决办法). I ran down to my basement and found a piece of wooden board, some pushpins and hooks (图钉和钩子). With the help of these things, I managed to make a bracelet. One of my daughters said, “Wow, that‟s cool, but I can make it by hand.” So I started to put two, three, four, five rows together. I crossed the bands into diamond patterns using rainbow colors, which is how the Rainbow Loom (彩虹织机) got its name.My daughters were so excited that they showed the bracelets to their friends. We started to get requests for them. But they were still difficult to make. I thought, “If I can make a small, easy-to-use loom, I‟m onto something big.” It took six months and a lot of support from my kids to perfect the idea.I tried to sell the loom by making videos about how to use it and taking my daughters to stores to show it. Many store owners thought it might be too difficult to use. For a year, we sold it only on our website. When it became popular with kids, it got noticed by toy stores.It is so exciting that a simple idea my kids and I came up with together at our living-room table has become a nationwide fad.24. The author tried to show his daughters how to make bracelets but _____.A. was refusedB. regrettedC. failedD. was misunderstood25. The author made up his mind to find a method of _____.A. making braceletsB. using a jump ropeC. impressing his daughtersD. inventing the Rainbow Loom26. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 3 refers to _____.A. loomsB. braceletsC. friendsD. rainbows27. Wh at did store owners think of the author‟s invention at first?A. They thought highly of it.B. They had a long wait for it.C. They showed a great interest in it.D. They thought there was no market for it.CLots of kids love video games. In fact, they like them so much that they might hear something like this from Mom or Dad: “Enough! Unplug that thing and find something else to do!”It can be good advice, even if you were just about to crash through to the next level. Why? Too much of anything is just too much. It‟s true that some studies haveshown certain video games can improve hand-eye coordination (协调性),problem-solving skills, and the mind‟s ability to deal with information. But too much video game playing may lead to health problems. It‟s hard to get enough active play and exercise if you‟re always inside playing video games. And without enough exercise, kids can become overweight. Really overdoing video games also could affect other important stuff, like friendships and how well a kid does in school. And kids who play violent video games might act more aggressively (攻击性地).But here‟s the good news: Playing video games some of the time can be OK. Just choose quality games and limit screen time — which includes TV, computer, smartphone, and video game time combined — to no more than 2 hours a day.A good game will be the right one for how old you are. Games are graded like movies and your mom or dad can help figure out which ones you should use. If you can choose one that gets you up and moving, that‟s even better.You might challenge (挑战) your mom, dad — or even your grandma — to swing the bat (球拍) in a game of baseball or try out some fancy moves in one of the dancing games. Could your grandma be a dancing queen? Time to find out!28. What does the underlined word “Unplug” in Paragraph 1 mean?A. Wait for something.B. Take something back.C. Leave something alone.D. Think about something.29. The second paragraph mainly discusses video games‟ _____.A. dos and don‟tsB. present and futureC. chances and challengesD. advantages and disadvantages30. For kids who love video games, the author suggests they _____.A. try different kinds of gamesB. stay away from video gamesC. choose games according to their ageD. spend more time on TV than on games31. What can we learn from the last paragraph?A. People of all ages can get fun from playing video games.B. Dancing is the best form of relaxation for adults.C. Baseball is a game suitable for all age groups.D. Games are a big challenge for adults.DLiving on mountainous La Gomera, one of Spain‟s Canary Islands off West Africa, Juan Cabello takes pride in not using a mobile phone or the Internet to communicate. Like his father and grandfather, he uses Silbo Gomero, a language that is whistled (吹口哨), not spoken, and that can be heard more than two miles away.“I use it for everything: to talk to my wife, to tell my kids something, to find a friend if we get lost in a crowd,” Cabello says. “I also make a living from Silbo, performing dai ly exhibitions at a restaurant.”People throughout La Gomera are known to have used Silbo in the past as a way of communicating over long distances. A strong whistle saved farmers from walking over the hills to give messages or news to neighbors. Then came the phone. Nowadays, it‟s hard to know how many people still use Silbo. In 1999, it was introduced as a compulsory subject (必修学科) in La Gomera‟s primary schools, in an effort to prevent the language from going silent. Now 3,000 students are studying it, but only a few people are believed to be able to communicate fully in the whistling language.“Silbo is said to be the most im portant cultural heritage (遗产) we have,” said Moises Plasencia, the director of the Canary Islands‟ government‟s historical heritage department.In fact, little is known about Silbo‟s origins. Silbo-like whistling has been found in parts of Greece, Turkey, China and Mexico, but none is as developed as Silbo Gomero. One study is looking for signs of Silbo in Venezuela, Cuba and Texas, all places to which Gomerans have gone in the past during hard economic times.“Silbo has many historical and linguistic (语言学上的) values,” Plasencia said. And, as Cabello explains, “It‟s good for just about anything except for romance: everyone on the island would hear what you‟re saying!”32. Juan Cabello uses Silbo Gomero _____.A. in his daily lifeB. to learn computersC. just to make a livingD. only when eating at restaurants33. What can we learn about Silbo Gomero?A. It first started in Greece.B. It is in danger of dying out.C. It is helpful in keeping secrets.D. It is the oldest way of communicating.34. Plasencia thi nks it‟s very important to _____.A. know the origins of Silbo GomeroB. find the values of Silbo GomeroC. have more cultural heritagesD. protect Silbo Gomero35. What is mainly described in the text?A. A school‟s subject.B. A famous performer.C. An unusual language.D. A mountainous island.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。