Test for Unit13（2020.10.09）命题人：审核人：满分：100分考试时间：90分钟I.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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

ACE Week NYC in partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has announced the “10 Under 20 : Young Innovators to Watch” award competition to support New York City’s young technical innovators (创新者). Ten high school and college students will be honored for excellent achievements in innovation at this year’s CE Week, one of New York City’s most famous technology trade shows, on September 24, 2020 at Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street.“New technologies, new start-ups and new ideas always take center stage during CE Week every September, and some of the best were developed by students,” said Eric Schwartz, CE Week Executive Producer. “It’s only fitting that we use our show’s stage to throw a spotlight on the next generat ion of creators.”Eligibility (资格): Youths ages 13 through 19, presently enrolled (登记入学) in a high school or a college in New York City.How to enter: Follow entry instructions. An online application can be found on the CE Week website, http\\www. \\10-under-20-young-innovators-to-watch\.Deadline: The submission (提交) deadline is August 24, 2020.How winners are chosen: From all eligible entries, 10 finalists will be selected by judges. The finalists will be announced on the stage during the show. All finalists will be invited to an awards ceremony that will take place during CE Week on September 24.Prizes: Each of the ten finalists will be given over $ 500 worth of products.1.What is the purpose of the competition?A.To bring high technologies to the public.B. To discover creative students for college.C. To award students with good performing skills.D. To encourage the next generation of technological creators.2. What should you do if you want to enter the competition?A. You should apply online.B. You should arrive on August 29, 2020.C. You must apply before leaving high school.D. You must present your entries to judges on the stage.3. What can we learn about the winners?A. They will be offered a cash reward.B. They will give a performance during CE Week.C. They will be chosen by students from New York City.D. They will be announce one month after the submission deadline.BOn September 1, Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas. Many areas were left without power or water. As soon as the storm passed, a team of cooks and other volunteers sprang into action. They set up makeshift (临时替代的) kitchens. Leading the charge was Jose Andres, who owns popular restaurants in the United States. He is also the founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK), which cooks meals for people affected by natural disasters and other emergencies. “We will make it to everyone who needs food,” Andres said. At press time, WCK had served about 300.000 meals there.WCK began its work in 2016, when Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti. It left many people without food. Usually, after an emergency, governments give out prepackaged meals, but some of the food isn’t very healthy. Andres thought he could do better. The food served by WCK is fresh and healthy. When possible, it adds in local ingredients (原料), which suit the tastes of the area.WCK cooks have shortcuts to cooking lots of food quickly. Andres grew up in Spain, where cooks use massive pans (巨大的锅) to make a rice dish called paella. He realized paella pans could be used for all kinds of food. Now WCK cooks use them for everything and they can cook for 500 people at a time this way.WCK has about 25 staff members. But much of its work is done by volunteers. Twenty thousand volunteers served almost 4 million meals after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, in 2017. Andres said a 10-year-old girl there named Lola ran a whole part of the kitchen on her own, and he thought she was a heroine.In Haiti, it’s common for school meals to be cooked indoors over open fires. This can be dangerous. WCK wants to help. The group has built or repaired more than 140 schools in Haiti. In many of them, it has fitted gas stoves and water lines. Together, this has made schools cleaner and safer for more than 65,000 people.4.Why did Andres start WCK?A.To comfort the injured people.B. To rebuild popular restaurants.C. To provide meals for those in need.D. To teach people how to survive a natural disaster.5. What does the underlined word “shortcuts” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. Basic rules.B. Strange suggestions.C. Abilities to compete.D. Ways of saving time.6. What can be learned about WCK?A. It prefers children volunteers.B. It brings cooks a good return.C. It employs good Spanish-style cooks.D. It depends greatly on voluntary helpers.7. What does WCK bring to Haiti?A. Clean and safe cooking.B. Prepackaged meals.C. Highly-competitive schools.D. Professional and easy-going cooks.CFirst impressions are important, but are first impression correct? Personally, I’m not so sure, and according to new research, neither is science.You really shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but I certainly have, and I’m willing to bet (打赌) you’ve done it, too. Consider this, though: If I’d let my opinion on, say, the boring cover of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath stop me from reading this great novel, I would have missed out on one of my favorite books to date. First impressions are important because they can influence you one way or another, but they shouldn’t be the be-all and end-all of your opinion on someone.According to Jonathan Freeman, a professor at New York University, first impressions are collected within only a few hundred milliseconds and are often based on the person’s facial appearance.“First impressions of faces can influence how we make decisions about people,” Freeman ex plained in a statement. Therefore, in order to put an end to such first impressions, you have to understand where your first assumptions (假设)come from. In order to do this, a team of researchers in Switzerland performed two experiments: The first required participants to judge the personalities of dozens of people only based on photos they were shown online. For example, in this part of the study, researchers took note of how participants related personality features like friendliness with various appearances. The second experiment explored what kind of facial features were connected with exact personality features. For example, someone who has a round face with “babyish features” might be considered as friendlier or more harmless than someone who isn’t smi ley in their photo.The result showed that first impressions often aren’t all right. Look, it’s really unfortunate that first impressions aren’t always right. Still, these happen regardless of whether or not they are right, so the best thing you can do is try to put your best foot forward without, of course, giving up your authenticity (真实性); you are exactly who you were meant to be, and all you can do is be the best person you can.8.What does the author want to show by mentioning John Steinbeck’s novel?A.First impressions are influential.B. The cover of a book is unnecessary.C. We shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.D. Few people tend to make judgement at first sight.9. What were the participants asked to do in the first experiment?A. Choose photos they like.B. Relate personalities with photosC. Show their opinions of smiley faces.D. Talk about their impressions of other participants.10. Which of the following is a finding of the research?A. People find it hard to make a good impression.B. Faces show personality features correctly.C. First impressions are not always reliable.D. One’s facial appearance is really important.11. What’s the author’s advice according to the text?A. Don’t be too realistic.B. Try to be your best self.C. Don’t be judgmental.D. Disregard others’ suggestions.DWhen I started school, my hands kept shaking. I went to a doctor and was told that I had a nervous system disorder that can cause a person’s hands to shake. I had no idea what I was going to do. One day, I saw a woodcock outside my apartment window, and I had never seen anything like it. So I read about the bird online and took an ornithology (鸟类学) class. The professor asked me if I was doing research. I had no idea that undergraduates could even do anything like that. That professor became my undergraduate advisor, and I started working in her lab. She was also my PhD advisor. I stayed in her lab for 11 years.Now I have a paper coming out soon that looks at the global diversity (多样性) of parrots. One figure in it is, I think, the best thing I’ve ever done. It shows the family tree of parrots, over a picture of Gondwana breaking up. Gondwana is the all supercontinent (超大陆) that South America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand all used to be part of. As that broke up into the continents that we know better now, some families of parrots parted.My biggest failure in science thus far is my inability to explain how the Carolina parakeet went extinct (灭绝的). I’ve been working on this for seven years. I’ve read lots of historical books and travel diaries. And I never figured it out.That’s the thing about science. Most of the time, you start out with a really clear idea of what you think is going to happen. And it almost never happens that way. I’ve got a lot out of this research. I’ve learned a lot about the species (物种). But there are just some things that we’ll never know. Finally, I have to accept that maybe I’ll figure it out one day, maybe I won’t. But that’s OK.12.What made the author take up ornithology research?A.The doctor’s words.B. The help of a professor.C. The beauty of a woodcock.D. The difficulty of finding a job.13. What’s the author’s paper mentioned in Paragraph 2 mainly about?A. The breakup of a continent.B. The big family tree of parrots.C. The influence of weather on parrots.D. The parrots’ diversity all over the world.14. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A. The bird.B. The failure.C. The extinction.D. The travel diary.15. What does the author think of this research?A. It is costly.B. It is worth doing.C. It is discouraging.D. It is easy to carry out.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。