单元测试卷(二)(时间:100分钟;满分:120分)Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)AThe professor's house,big and untidy,stood alone at one end of a huge garden.The place was totally uncared for,quite wild and overgrown with all sorts of useless things.I fought my way to the front door and rang the bell.I was glad that I had found him.In twenty minutes he put me right on all the points that had puzzled me.As I got ready to leave,I looked out of his study window and said,“You're very fond of gardening,I see.”“No,I'm not,”he said.“But even so,I love this garden.It's as I always wanted it to be.I never touch it at all.”“It could be made lovely.It seems a pity to let all this ground go to waste.But perhaps you don't see it that way?”“I don't.I lived here when I was a child,and I had more than enough of gardening then.It was my father's hobby,you see.Unfortunately,he wasn't fit enough to do it himself.My brother and I did all of it between us with a spade(铁锹)and a fork year after year.There was one right way and many wrong ways.Each blade(flat,long leaf)of life was an enemy to be rooted out by hand,not just cut off.I've spent a good part of life at work here.”“I see.You took a dislike to it,and now you're getting even!”“I disliked it.Then,of course,I didn't understand the effect it had.It used to worry me.It appeared in my dreams a mistake here,something not quite straight there,the enemy showing its head in a place I was supposed to have cleaned.The work was too much.It seemed endless.The size of taking the place was itself a fight to a boy.“And now it's yours.You're just letting it go to...”“Ruin?”he said.“No,I don't agree with that.This garden and I are now the best friends.I like watching it grow in its own way.I make no demands on it.I never interfere with(干扰)it,and it never interferes with me.It has freedom at last,and so have I.”“But the path is overgrown,It's inconvenient for you,isn't it?”“That's part of my pleasure,”he laughed.“You can go out the back way.The weeds are shorter there because they don't get the sun.”【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文。
叙述了作者去教授家请教问题时,由教授家的花园而引出的话题。
1.How did the professor feel about gardening when he was a child?A.He liked his father's wild,overgrown garden.B.He was glad to be able to help his sick father.C.He was beginning to like it.D.He just hated it.【解析】细节理解题。
由文中第七段首句“I disliked it.”可推测。
因为教授的父亲让他们兄弟两个每年都整理花园。
那工作太多了,而且无休无止。
【答案】 D2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A.The professor usually went through the garden.B.The writer thought of taking the path as part of his pleasure.C.The professor's father was fond of gardening.D.The writer and the professor talked about gardening for twenty minutes.【解析】细节理解题。
由第五段中“It was my father's hobby...”可知。
【答案】 C3.In what way did the garden have “fr eedom”at last?A.There was no gardener to control how it grew.B.The chief way was through friendship with the professor.C.The professor was free to do what he liked with the garden.D.Only the front garden,where the sun shone,was free.【解析】细节理解题。
由倒数第三段中“I like watching...and so have I.”我喜欢它(花园)按自己的样子去生长。
我对它没有什么要求。
我不干扰它,它也不干扰我。
它有了自由,我也有了自由可知,选A项。
【答案】 A4.Why did the writer go to see the professor?A.To ask for advice on gardening.B.To seek solution to some problems.C.To talk about the professor's childhood.D.To find what a natural garden looked like.【解析】细节理解题。
由文中第二段第二句二十分钟内他就把使我感到迷惑的难点都纠正了,可知作者是去向教授讨教问题。
【答案】 BBWithout proper planning,tourism can cause problems.For example,too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country.If tourists create too much traffic,the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy.They began to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely.They forget how much tourism can help the country's economy.It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them.Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists.Tourism should also advance the wealth and happiness of local inhabitants.Too much tourism can be a problem.If tourism grows too quickly,people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry.This means that other parts of the country's economy can suffer.On the other hand,if there is not enough tourism,people can lose jobs.Business can also lose money.It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels,airports,air terminals,firstclass roads,and other support facilities needed by tourist attractions.For example,a major international class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build.If this room is not used most of the time,the owner of the hotel lose money.Building a hotel is just a beginning.There must be many support facilities as well,including roads to get to the hotel,electricity,sewers to handle waste,and water.All of these support facilities cost money.If they are not used because there are not enough tourists,jobs and money are lost.【语篇解读】这是一篇议论文。