课时同步译林牛津版高三M7 unit3第一单元同步检测试题

--- You look great!
--- I ______ out. Check out my muscles!

______ Stephon Marbury is an American, he has become a role model among Beijing basketball fans.

It’s been discovered in the study ______ people are more relieved after forgiving others. 

Grandpa was shocked by the news. Rarely ______ him so quiet.

The report aims to explain how these conclusions ______.

Sometimes, ______ a patient a get-well card is better than visiting him.

It’s always hard to remember a name when one doesn’t have a face to go with ______.

It was unusual that such close neighbors ______ not know one another.

The agent promised to keep the family members fully ______ of any developments.

--- The professor gave a really good speech.
--- I suggest you ______ him some specific questions about his work experience.

A person who has never tasted bitter won’t know ______ sweet is.

The landlady prefers to have women in the apartment rather than men. She thinks women take ______ care of things!

Based on a true story, the film shows a hero racing ______ time to get back the stolen papers.

I’ve made several travel plans for our vacation, but I’ll leave it to you ______ one.

Paris has some great museums ______ visitors can see fine works of
impressionist painters.

    When I first entered university, my aunt, who is an English professor, gave me a new English dictionary. I was ____to see that it was an English-English dictionary, also known as a monolingual dictionary._ ___it was a dictionary intended for non-native learners, none of my classmates had one ___, to be honest, I found it extremely ___ to use at first. I would look up words in the dictionary and ___ not fully understand the meaning. I was used to the ____ bilingual dictionaries, in which the words are ___ both in English and Chinese. I really wondered why my aunt ___ to make things so difficult for me. Now, after studying English at university for three years, I ___ that monolingual dictionaries are __ in learning a foreign language
As I found out, there is ___ often no perfect equivalence(对应)between two ____ in two language. My aunt even goes so far as to ___ that a Chinese “equivalent” can never give you the ____ meaning of a word in English! ____ , she insisted that I read the definition(定义) of a world in a monolingual dictionary _____ I wanted to get a better understanding of its meaning. ______, I have come to see what she meant. 
Using a monolingual dictionary for learners has helped me in another important way. This dictionary uses a(n)      number of words, around 2, 000, in its definitions. When I read these definitions, I am     exposed to（接触）the basic words and learn how they are used to explain objects and ideas.   this, I can express myself more easily in English.
A. worried     B. sad         C. surprised     D. nervous
A. Because      B. Although    C. Unless         D. If
A. but          B. so          C. or             D. and
A. difficult    B. interesting  C. ambiguous     D. practical
A. thus         B. even         C. still          D. again
A. new          B. familiar     C. earlier        D. ordinary
A. explained    B. expressed    C. described      D. created
A. offered      B. agreed       C. decided       D. happened
A. imagine      B. recommend    C. predict        D. understand
A. natural      B. better       C. easier         D. convenient
A. at best      B. in fact      C. at times       D. in case
A. words        B. names        C. ideas          D. characters
A. hope         B. declare      C. doubt          D. tell
A. exact        B. basic        C. translated     D. expected
A. Rather       B. However      C. Therefore      D. Instead
A. when         B. before       C. until          D. while
A. Largely      B. Generally    C. Gradually      D. Probably
A. extra        B. average      C. total          D. limited
A. repeatedly   B. nearly       C. immediately    D. anxiously
A. According to B. In relation to C. In addition to   D. Because of

Below is a selection from a popular science book.
If blood is red, why are veins(静脉)blue?
Actually, veins are not blue at all. They are more of a clear, yellowish colour. Although blood looks red when it’s outside the body, when it’s sitting in a vein near the surface of the skin, it’s more of a dark reddish purple colour. At the right depth, these blood-filled veins reflect less red light than the surrounding skin, making them look blue by comparison.
Which works harder, your heart or your brain?
That kind of depends on whether you’re busy thinking or busy exercising. Your heart works up to three times harder during exercise, and shifts enough blood over a lifetime to fill a supertanker. But, in the long run, your brain probably tips it, because even when you’re sitting still your brain is using twice as much energy as your heart, and it takes four to five times as much blood to feed it.
Why do teeth fall out, and why don’t they grow back in grown-ups?
Baby(or“milk”)teeth do not last long; they fall out to make room for bigger, stronger adult teeth later on. Adult teeth fall out when they become damaged, decayed and infected by bacteria. Once this second set of teeth has grown in, you’re done. When they’re gone, they’re gone. This is because nature figures you’re set for life, and what controls regrowth of your teeth switches off.
Do old people shrink as they age?
Yes and no. Many people do get shorter as they age. But, when they do, it isn’t because they’re shrinking all over. They simply lose height as their spine(脊柱)becomes shorter and more curved due to disuse and the effects of gravity(重力). Many(but not all)men and women do lose height as they get older. Men lose an average of 3~4 cm in height as they age, while women may lose 5 cm or more. If you live to be 200 years old, would you keep shrinking till you were, like 60 cm tall, like a little boy again? No, because old people don’t really shrink! It is not that they are growing backwards—their legs, arms and backbones getting shorter. When they do get shorter, it’s because the spine has shortened a little. Or, more often, become more bent and curved.
Why does spinning make you dizzy(眩晕的)?
Because your brain gets confused between what you’re seeing and what you’re feeling. The brain senses that you’re spinning using special gravity-and-motion-sensing organs in your inner ear, which work together with your eyes to keep your vision and balance stable. But when you suddenly stop spinning the system goes out of control, and your brain thinks you’re moving while you’re not!
Where do feelings and emotions come from?
Mostly from an ancient part of the brain called the limbic system. All mammals have this brain area—from mice to dogs, cats, and humans. So all mammals feel basic emotions like fear, pain and pleasure.But since human feelings also involve other, newer bits of the brain, we feel more complex emotions than any other animal on this planet.
If exercise wears you out, how can it be good for you?
Because our bodies adapt to everything we do to them. And as far as your body is concerned, it’s“use it or lose it”! It’s not that exercise makes you healthy; it’s more that a lack of exercise leaves your body weak and easily affected by disease.
What is the color of blood in a vein near the surface of the skin?

Why do some old people look a little shrunken as they age?

What is the main purpose of the selection?

Argentina in the late nineteenth century was an exciting place. Around 1870,it was experiencing an economic(经济的)boom, and the capital, Buenos Aires, attracted many people. Farmers, as well as a flood of foreigners from Spain and Italy, came to Buenos Aires seeking jobs. These jobs didn’t pay well, and the people felt lonely and disappointed with their new life in the city. As the unhappy newcomers mixed together in the poor parts of the city, the dance known as the tango(探戈舞)came into being
At the beginning the tango was a dance of the lower classes. It was danced in the bars and streets. At that time there many fewer women the men, so if a man didn’t want to be left out, his only choice was to dance with another man so that he could attract the attention of the few available women. Gradually, the dance spread into the upper classes of Argentinean society and became more respectable.
In Europe at this time, strong interest in dance from around the world was beginning. The interest in international dance was especially evident in Paris. Every kind of dance from ballet(芭蕾舞)to belly dancing could be found on the stages of the Paris theaters of the Paris theaters. After tango dances from Argentina arrive in Europe, they began to draw the interest of the public as they performed their exiting dance in cafes, Though not everyone approved of the new dance, saying it was a little too shocking, the dance did find enough supporters to make it popular.
The popularity（流行）Of the tango continued to grow in many other parts of the world. Soldiers who Returned to the United States from World War I brought the tango to North America, It reached Japan in 1926,and in 2003 the Argentinean embassy in Seoul hired a local tango dancer to act as a kind of dance ambassador, and promote tango dancing throughout South Korea.
The origin of the tango is associated with     .
A  Belly dances
B. American soldiers
C. Spanish city
D. the capital of Argentina
Which of the following is true about the tango?

Before World War I, the tango spread to      .

What can be the best title for the text?
How to Dance the Tango     
B. The History of the Tango
C. How to Promote the Tango   
D. The Modern Tango Boom

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Now, I have the convenience and safety of being about to stay in touch with a phone I can actually use."
Affordable plans that I can understand一and no contract to sign (签订)! Unlike other cell phones, Jitterbug has plans that make sense. Why should I pay for minutes I' m never going to use? And if I do talk more than I plan, I won 't find myself with no minutes like my friend who has a prepaid phone. Best of all, there is no contract to sign, so I’m not locked in for years at a time. The US-based customer service is second to none. And the phone gets service anywhere in the country.

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What made “I” finally think of getting a cell phone?

On the monthly basis of 100 minutes, the Jitterbug weekly rate is about         .

An advantage of Jitterbug mentioned in the passage is          .

The main purpose of the passage is to     .

In a recent announcement, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology（MIT）said that they have joined forces to offer free online courses in an effort to attract millions of online learners worldwide.
Beginning this fall, a number of courses developed by teachers at both universities will be offered online through a new $60 million program, known as edX. “Anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can use our online courses,” Harvard President Drew Faust said during a meeting to announce the plan.
MIT has offered a program called OpenCourseWare for ten years that makes materials from more than 2,000 classes free online. It has been used by more than 100 million people. In December, the school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate, known as MITx, for people who complete certain online courses. Harvard has long offered courses to a wider population through a similar program.
The MITx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform.
MIT President Susan Hockfield said more than 120,000 people signed up for the first MITx course. She said Harvard and MIT hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open-source edX platform.
“Fasten your seatbelts,” Hockfield said.
Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie-Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.
The Harvard-MIT program will be monitored by a not-for-profit（非盈利的）organization based in Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. Both MIT and Harvard have provided $30 million to start the program. They also plan to use the edX platform to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful.
According to this text, edX is _______.

 What is said about online education in the text?

 The underlined part in the text probably means “         ”.

 What can be said about MITx according to the text?

根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Is Online School for You?
Have you ever wished you didn’t have to wake up early and go all the way to school? For 700,000 American kids, this wish comes true. _____ ____ This kind of learning has different names: online learning or distance learning. Regardless of what it is called, this idea may create an impression of a lonely kid reading pages of information on a computer screen rather than from a book or an image of another kid spending the day playing video games instead of learning mathematics or reading a book. Where online education is concerned, both of these are false! Actually, online learning simply means learning differently.
_____ ____ Flexibility is the main advantage. Students can attend school wherever and whenever they desire. Homework can be turned in from anywhere the student has Internet access. Additionally, many online schools will allow students to work at their own pace.
Another advantage of online schooling is with the variety of courses. Most online schools teach the same basic classes like English, math, science, and history. ______ _______ However, traditional schools are often unable to offer these types of classes if there are not enough students.
Online schools also have different types of learning tools for kids to use. For example, many online schools have special Web sites where only students registered in online classes can watch videos, see lessons presented, or chat with teachers and other students. Some online schools have live class times where students can call and talk with the teacher directly. ______ ______
Computer technology is amazing, and we use computers for chatting with our friends, listening to music, and playing games. ______ _____ Since 2006, at least 38 states either have their own online schools or made rules for students attending them. It looks like online schools are here to stay, but only you can decide if this type of learning is right for you.

E. Other online schools even have online clubs where kids can talk about their hobbies.
F. Some online schools also offer specialized classes in subjects such as space science, French, or zoology.
G. For some students, online school may be ideal, but for others, traditional school may better meet their needs.