高中英语学习材料（灿若寒星*制作整理）单元测试题第二部分：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。

AAre you interested both in camp and music? Maybe the MSU Community Music School is a better place for you to go! It offers different music camps this summer!Rock CampJune 23 - 27, 2014$220It is held for middle and high school students who have some experience playing their instruments (guitar, bass, drums, or keyboard). Bands will be coached by members of The Outer Vibe.At camp, students will form and work in their own bands based on musical interest and skill level. They will learn songs in preparation for an end-of-camp rock concert at The Loft on June 27!Band CampJuly 14 - 18, 2014$215It’s a camp for middle school students who have co mpleted at least one year of instrumental study. This camp provides students with an opportunity to perform with other talented students, and receive class instruction in instrumental technique (技巧). Then a concert for parents and friends will be held on July 18 at Fairchild Theatre.Musical Theatre CampJuly 14 - 25, 2014$300 for Grades 9-12$220 for Grades 2-8This camp is held for elementary, middle and high school students. Campers in grades 9-12 will spend the full two weeks developing skills including voice development, dancing, and prop (道具) design. Campers in grades 2-8 will join them in the second week, and the camp will give a final performance featuring scenes and songs from many popular musicals.Beginning Strings (弦乐器) CampAugust 4 - 8, 2014$185This camp will introduce violins, violas and cellos (中提琴和大提琴) to children ages 6-12. It will give the students instructions by professional string teachers, along with singing and music theory games. Instruments are provided by CMS through a donation by Marshall Music Co. for students who do not have one. At the end of the camp, there will be a final performance to show what the students have learned. 21. If a sixth-grader wants to take part in a camp about musicals, how much will he spend?A. $185.B. $215.C. $220.D. $300.22. What do the four camps have in common?A. They all invite some famous stars to teach.B. They are all open to students in all grades.C. They are all organized by Marshall Music Co.D. They all include an end-of-camp performance.23. The author writes this text mainly to encourage students to _____.A. take part in the music campsB. learn different kinds of musicC. have a wonderful summer holidayD. visit the MSU Community Music SchoolBSuppose someone asks you to paint a picture. “All right,” you think. “No problem. I can fill the paper pretty easily.” But what if the picture you are asked to paint is three stories high, two city blocks long, and one block wide? In other words, a total of 17,000 square feet! Most people would be overwhelmed by the request. But not Diego Rivera.Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was one of modern Mexico’s most famous painters. When he was asked to paint this huge picture, he knew he could do it. During his life, Rivera painted 124 frescos that showed Mexican life, history, and social problems. A fresco is a painting on wet plaster (灰泥).Rivera had to plan ahead and drew simply about what he planned to paint. Then Rivera’s assistants would put all but the fin al layer (层) of plaster on the wall. Next, they used sharp tools to dig the outline of Rivera’s quickly-made drawing into the plaster. Then, they made a mixture of lime (石灰) and sand and spread this over the outline in a thin layer. As soon as this layer was firm — but not dry — Rivera began to paint. Every morning, his paints had to be freshly mixed. Rivera would paint as long as there was daylight. He refused to paint under man-made light since it would change how the colors looked.Sometimes, Rivera would say that what he had painted that day was not good enough. Then he would insist that all the plaster be cut off so he could start again! It took Rivera years to finish, but this fresco is thought to be one of the greatest in the world. The man himself is considered to be the greatest Mexican artist of the twentieth century.24. What would most people think about the request of painting the huge picture?A. It is possible.B. It is pretty easy.C. It is interesting.D. It is too difficult.25. The third paragraph is about _____.A. how Rivera mixed different paintsB. how Rivera chose his assistantsC. how Rivera did his paintingD. how Rivera became famous26. What can we learn about Diego Rivera?A. He wanted everything to be perfect.B. He liked using light in his paintings.C. He preferred quickly-made drawings.D. He was good at making full use of his time.CThe American screen has long been a smoky place. But cigarettes are more common in movies today than at any other time in the last 50 years. According to a survey by the University of California, San Francisco, 75% of all Hollywood films released between 1999 and 2006 showed tobacco (烟草) use.Sadly, audiences — especially kids — are taking notice. Two recent studies show that among children as young as 10, those who always see smoking in the movies are up to 2.7 times more likely than others to pick up the habit. Kids from non-smoking homes are hit the hardest. This could be because they don’t live with the dirty ashtrays (烟灰缸) that make real-world smoking a lot less attractive than the cleaned-up movie version.“Seeing smoking on-screen makes it look normal,” says Jono Polansky, who works with a project called Smoke Free Movies. “It says, ‘If you want to be an adult, you’ll smoke,’” Polansky told TFK (Time for Kids). Before you go to the movies, check out for an updated list of which movies show smoking.More groups than ever are pushing to get the smokes off of the screen. “Some movies show kids up to 14 incidents of smoking per hour,” says Barry Bloom, head of the Harvard School of Public Health. “We’re in the business of preventing disease, and cigarettes are the Number 1 preventable cause.”Pressure (压力) is growing to make movies a non-smoking zone. A dozen health groups, including the American Medical Association, are calling for a reduction of smoking in movies and on TV. Forty-one state attorneys general (州总检察长) have agreed to add an anti-tobacco public service ad at the beginning of any DVD that includes smoking.Like former smokers, movie studios may realize that getting out of the habit is not just a lot healthier, but also a lot smarter.27. The underlined part “the habit” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.A. smokingB. studyingC. taking noticeD. seeing a movie28. Jono Polansky probably advises kids to _____.A. act like an adultB. go to the moviesC. see smoke-free moviesD. work for Smoke Free Movies29. The move to make movies a non-smoking zone _____.A. is impossible to succeedB. is under a lot of pressureC. has proved to be a failureD. has received official support30. What would be the best title for the text?A. Movies are becoming less and less attractiveB. Kids should see fewer and fewer moviesC. Movies may be bad for kids’ healthD. Smoking is harmful to kids’ healthDNewborns begin to develop language skills long before they begin speaking. And, compared to adults, they develop these skills more quickly. People have a hard time learning new languages as they grow older, but babies have the ability to learn any language easily.For a long time, scientists have tried to explain how such young children can learn the complicated (复杂的) grammatical rules and sounds of a language. Now, researchers are getting a better idea of what’s happening in the brains of the tiniest language learners. This new information might help kids with learning problems aswell as adults who want to learn new languages. It might even help scientists who are trying to design computers that can communicate like people do.Most babies go “ma ma” by 6 months of age, and most children speak in full sentences by age 3. For many years, scientists have wondered how the brains of young children figure out how to communicate using language. With help from new technologies, scientists are now finding that babies begin life with the ability to learn any language. They get into contact (接触) with other people, listen to what they say and watch their movements very closely. That is why they quickly master the languages they hear most often.Studies show that, up to about 6 months of age, babies can recognize all the sounds that make up all the languages in the world. Starting at around 6 months old a baby’s brain focuse s on (集中于) the most common sounds it hears. Then, children begin responding only to the sounds of the language they hear the most.In a similar way older babies start recognizing the patterns that make up the rules of their native language. For example, English children who are about 18 months old start to figure out that words ending in “-ing” or “-ed” are usually verbs, and that verbs are action words.31. Which of the following opinions does the author agree with?A. Babies are really good language learners.B. Adults should learn languages like babies.C. It’s better to learn a new language at an early age.D. Babies should be trained to improve language skills.32. The new research in the second paragraph can be helpful in _____.A. finding successful language learnersB. teaching kids with learning problemsC. designing human-shaped computersD. improving babies’ language ability33. The researchers found out that babies learn a language mainly by _____.A. repeating the words of other peopleB. remembering the full sentences they hearC. hearing and closely watching others speakD. figuring out the meaning of different sounds34. In the last two paragraphs, the author explains _____.A. why babies pay more attention to soundsB. how babies respond to what they hear most oftenC. why verbs in a language attract the most attention of a babyD. how babies master the grammatical rules of their native language35. The purpose of the text is to _____.A. discussB. educateC. informD. entertain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。