2012年人教版高中英语选修九Unit4练习卷

In the botanical garden we can find a(n) _______ of plants that range from tall trees to small flowers.

This is a very special flower and it can _______ a strong sweet perfume at night.

If you _______ a mistake in reviewing the report, please bring it to my attention.

In dealing with public relations, we should make every effort to prevent the _______ in personality.

It was __________ back home after he finished the report.

They are so close friends and their friendship ________ college days.

— Can you give me some advice about the design?
— I think it should _______ to all ages and social groups.

The government not only ________ the refugees（难民）houses to live in, but also _______ them with food and clothes.

The teacher ______ several times, but he still didn’t understand it.

______, he would come in late and then say he was sorry.

There was a nice little present for everyone, with a suitable poem _______ to it.

— Please ______ your passport.
— I’m sorry, but I _______ in my home.

According to recent reports, one of the rare animals, ____ crocodile, is in ____ danger of dying out.

--- Did you have any difficulty catching yesterday’s lecture?
--- No. The professor spoke very clearly to make his speech easy ____.

--- Why did Miss Li leave the job?
--- She ____ for higher wages, but was turned down in the end.

--- Is Alice playing both basketball and tennis for your school?
--- She ____. But now she has given up playing basketball.

All the children on the playground stared up into the sky until the noise of the plane ____.

____ in the care of his grandmother, Ted grew to be a boy with very good manners.

--- Do you think living in the country has advantages?
--- ____.

____ surprises us most is that she doesn’t even know ____ the difference between the two lies.

I am used to taking a bus home, but last night it was __21__ and I decided to ride in a taxi. I stood on the side-walk _22__ to each car that passed. I _23_ each one to __24__, but none would. Then I __25__ that it was the time of day when one group of taxi drivers stopped and another began work. I began to wish that I hadn’t had the idea of taking a _26___. I was all wet. I __27_ my hat to pour __28__ the water that had collected in the brim（帽边）.
At that moment, a taxi stopped in front of me and the driver said something that I didn’t _29__. I quickly jumped in and sat down. “Where do you want to go ?” he asked me. I gave him my __30__. “That’s uptown （向住宅区）, sir,” he said. “I’m __31__ duty now. I was just to __32__ you up if you were going my __33_. “__34__ this time it was raining harder. Cars were stopped __35__ the taxi. Their knocking horns（喇叭）were beginning to __36__ that we move. I __37_ I had known what to do! I felt like insisting that the taxi driver __38__ me home. But at the same time, I knew that I __39_ have gotten into the taxi without understanding what the driver had said to me. Two more blasts（鸣笛）from somebody’s horn made the driver demand that I make up my mind. I got out, _40__ I didn’t want to.

A．late B．dark C．raining D．snowing

A．signing B．showing C．shaking D．nodding

A．hoped B．thought C．considered D．expected

A．pass B．pause C．stop D．stand

A．remembered B．forgot C．imagined D．thought

A．walk B．car C．bus D．taxi

A．put on B．took off C．put away D．picked up

A．off B．out C．away D．into

A．understand B．notice C．hear D．listen

A．place B．house C．home D．address

A．from B．off C．to D．on

A．take B．bring C．pick D．keep

A．direction B．road C．path D．way

A．By B．On C．During D．In

A．at B．in front of C．behind D．beside

A．order B．demand C．suggest D．encourage

A．wished B．hoped C．hated D．regretted

A．get B．send C．take D．fetch

A．mustn’t B．couldn’t C．shouldn’t D．mightn’t

A．as if B．although C．so D．and

From the jagged (锯齿状的) peaks of the Himalayas to the powerful Yangtze River that flows into the Pacific, China’s vast terrain (地带) and varied climate make it the sixth most biologically diverse nation on the planet.
Since 1998, The Nature Conservancy has been working in China’s northwest Yunnan Province to protect some of the amazing natural and cultural diversity unique to this country for its future generations. In cooperation with Chinese local and state government agencies, the Conservancy established the Yunnan Great Rivers Project, which protects an area about the size of West Virginia.
Did you know?
●China contains 10% of the world’s total species.
●At least 15% of China’s mammal species and 8% of its bird species are found nowhere else on Earth.
●Nearly 15,000 plant species are native to Yunnan Province.
●Yunnan is home to 75% of Tibetan medicinal herbs and 30 endangered species.
What is the Nature Conservancy trying to do?
Education for Sustainability (可持续性)
The Nature Conservancy recognizes that environmental education is an important element of working closely with local communities to achieve sustainable conservation results. In response, the Conservancy launched a new program called Education for Sustainability which tests means of teaching and learning that combine conservation goals, social justice, and appropriate development and participation in a vision and mission for personal and social change.
Promoting Green Tourism
Tourism is both an environmental threat and an economic opportunity, with the potential to provide extremely needed income to northwest Yunnan. The Conservancy is working with local communities, government agencies, and tourism ,enterprises(企业) to develop strategies for “green” tourism which will limit the footprint of mass tourism while generating income for local people. In addition to combining tourism development and management at our five action sites, we assisted with regional marketing efforts to promote eco-tourism opportunities.
China ranks _______ among the most biologically diverse nations on the planet.

Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text?

To develop strategies for eco-tourism, the Nature Conservancy is working with the following EXCEPT _________.

Which of the following best shows the author’s attitude towards tourism?

Edmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over 200years ago. He studied the observations of comets which other scientists had made. The orbit of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems.
However, Halley had a friend named Isaac Newton. Who was a brilliant mathematician. Newton thought he had already which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an ellipse.
Now Halley set to work. He figured out the orbits of some of the comets that had been observed by scientist. He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531, 1607 and 1682 all had the same orbit. Yet their appearances had been 75 to 76 years apart.
This seemed very strange to Halley. Three different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley thought about it, the more he thought that there had not been three different comets, as people thought. He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. The comet had gone away and had come back again.
It was an astonishing idea! Halley felt certain enough to make a prediction of what would happen in the future. He decided that this comet would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halley’s prediction could be tested.
In 1758 the comet appeared in the sky. Halley did not see it, for he had died some years before. Ever since then that comet been called Halley’s comet, in his honor.
Halley made his discovery ______.

Halley made a surprising but correct prediction in the year ________.

This text in general is about _______.

Which of the following is TRUE?

Millions of years ago dinosaurs lived on the earth. In the days of dinosaurs, the whole earth was warm and wet. There were green forests and they could find enough to eat. Later, parts of the earth became cold and dry, and the forests there died. Then dinosaurs could not find enough to eat. This must be one reason why dinosaurs died out.
We can guess another reason. New kinds of animals came on the earth. Some had big brains and strong .They could kill dinosaurs.
There may be other reasons that we don’t know about yet. Scientists are are trying to make more discoveries about dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs were of many sizes and shapes. Some were as small as chickens, while some were about 90 feet long.
There were also terrible rights between dinosaurs. They night have happened more than 100 million years ago. Though there was no man to see any of the fights, we can be told by the animal’s footprints(足迹)that fights did take place .
According to the passage, dinosaurs did exist only on the earth _______.

One reason why dinosaurs died out is that __________.

One more reason why dinosaurs died out may be that _______.

We can see from this passage ________.

The blue tits(山雀) have been inspecting the nest-box again this year. The male is the house-hunter but the female will make the final choice. He lands at the hole and turns his head to expose his white cheeks as a signal to attract the female from where she has been feeding.
Among many birds that nest in holes, the male has a light-coloured patch on its plumage(鸟羽) which acts as signal for drawing the female’s attention to a suitable nesting-place. Unlike the blue tit, the redstart(红尾鸲) may be only the male that strikingly coloured and the female is not beautiful.
A few years ago I was lucky enough to spot a pair of redstarts in action in a Walsh wood. The male was leading an interested female to holes that he had previously(先前) checked out. He sat at the entrance of each hole and put his head on to show off his white forehead, or his head in to reveal(显露) his tail.
If the female failed to react to his visual signals, the male sometimes sang for extra effect, while gliding towards her on spread wings and tail. Once the female accepts by following the male through the hole the displays stop, you must be at the right place at the right time to watch them.
How do the blue tits choose their nest?

The writer was lucky to see ________.

You can spot a pair of redstarts in a Walsh wood ________.

The writer is probably ________.

With only about 1, 000 pandas left in the world, China is desperately trying to clone(克隆) the animal and save the endangered species(物种). That’s a move similar to what a Texas A & M University researchers have been undertaking for the past five years in a project called “Noah’s Ark”.
Noah’s Ark is aimed at collecting eggs, embryos(胚胎), semen and DNA of endangered animals and storing them in liquid nitrogen. If certain species should become extinct, Dr. Duane Kraemer, a professor in Texas A & M’s College of Veterinary Medicine, says there would be enough of the basic building blocks to reintroduce the species in the future.
It is estimated that as many as 2, 000 species of mammals, birds reptiles will become extinct in over 100 years. The panda, native only to China, is in danger of becoming extinct in the next 25 years.
This week, Chinese scientists said they grew an embryo by introducing cells from a dead female panda into the egg cells of a Japanese white rabbit. They are now trying to implant the embryo into a host animal.
The entire procedure could take from three to five years to complete.
“The nuclear transfer(核子移植) of one species to another is not easy, and the lack of available(capable of being used) panda eggs could be a major problem,” Kraemer believes. “They will probably have to do several hundred transfers to result in one pregnancy (having a baby). It takes a long time and it’s difficult, but this could be groundbreaking science if it works. They are certainly not putting any live pandas at risk, so it is worth the effort,” adds Kraemer, who is one of the leaders of the Project at Texas A& M, the first-ever attempt at cloning a dog.
“They are trying to do something that’s never been done, and this is very similar to our work in Noah’s Ark. We’re both trying to save animals that face extinction. I certainly appreciate their effort and there’s a lot we can learn from what they are attempting to do. It’s a research that is very much needed.”
The aim of “Noah’s Ark” project is to _______.

According to Professor Kraemer, the major problem in cloning pandas would be the lack of _______.

The best title for the passage may be _______.

From the passage we know that _______.

Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some exports say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.
“I think we are knowing at the door of immortality(永生).”said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075____________________________ and that’s  a conservative estimate(保守估计的).”
At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor and author at New Jersey Medical School in Newwark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology（纳米技术）make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years.” He said.“Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”
However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubted about  it  and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.
Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life? ” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of George Gerontology Centre. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”
What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
We have got some ideas about living longer.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Pease answer with 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
Do you think it is possible for humans to live longer in the future? (Please answer within 30 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
_______________________________________________________________________________

下面是你班班会上以“中学生是否能佩带手机”为题进行讨论的情况。请你写一封信给21st Century报的编辑说明该情况，并附带表明你自己的观点。

注意：1.要包含所有的要点，但不要逐条翻译；2.字数约100字。3.信的开头和结尾已写好
Dear Sir,
I'm writing to tell you                                                      ______
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Best wishes
Yours
Kate