課后限時(shí)自測(cè)(十八)Ⅰ.語(yǔ)法填空

　　Once，in a lovely garden，lived the most beautiful butterfly in the world.She was so pretty，and had won so many beauty contests __1__ she had become very proud.One day，the naughty cockroach(蟑螂)got fed up with her showing off，and decided __2__(teach)her a lesson.

　　She went to see the butterfly，and in front of everyone she said that the butterfly wasn't really that beautiful，and that the butterfly only won the competitions __3__ the judges had been paid.In __4__(real)，the cockroach was the most beautiful.

　　The butterfly was angry and said to the cockroach.“I __5__(beat)you in a beauty contest，with whichever judges you yourself choose.”

　　“OK，I accept.See you on Saturday，”answered the cockroach，and left __6__ waiting for a reply.

　　That Saturday everyone went to __7__ beauty contest.The butterfly arrived completely confident of victory until she saw __8__ the judges were：cockroaches，worms，beetles.All of __9__ preferred the ugliness and bad smell of the cockroach.

　　The butterfly was left __10__(sob)and disappointed，wanting never to enter another beauty contest in her life.Fortunately，the cockroach forgave the butterfly for her pride and they became friends.

　　【語(yǔ)篇解讀】　一只美麗的蝴蝶由于贏得了無(wú)數(shù)次的選美大賽而變得越來(lái)越傲慢，蟑螂組織了一次并不公平的選美比賽，好好教育了一下自負(fù)的蝴蝶。

　　1．that　此處是so...that...句型，故該空填that。

　　2．to teach　decide to do sth.“決定做某事”，為固定用法。

　　3．because　此處為because引導(dǎo)的原因狀語(yǔ)從句。

　　4．reality　in reality表示“事實(shí)上”。

　　5．will beat　結(jié)合上下文可以看出此處應(yīng)該用一般將來(lái)時(shí)。

　　6．without　此處表示蟑螂沒(méi)有等候一個(gè)答復(fù)就離開(kāi)了，故填without。

　　7．the　特指這次蝴蝶和蟑螂?yún)⒓拥倪x美大賽要用定冠詞the。

　　8．who　此處表示“評(píng)委們都是誰(shuí)”，故填疑問(wèn)代詞who。

　　9．them　分析句子成分可知，此處缺少主語(yǔ)，故填them，指代那些評(píng)委們。

　　10．sobbing　The butterfly和sob之間是邏輯上的主謂關(guān)系，故用sob的現(xiàn)在分詞形式。

　　Ⅱ.閱讀理解

　　A

　　Houseplants clean the air and brighten a room.Occasionally，they drive us mad as we wonder how exactly we managed to kill yet another“unkillable”houseplant.(In that way，they provide great lessons in perseverance as well！)But it looks like there's one more great reason to grow houseplants：their presence in your workspace might actually make you smarter.

　　According to a recent study published in The Journal of Environmental Psychology，just having plants in your work space is enough to increase your attention span.An increase in attention span means that we're able to remember more of what we read.To test the hypotheses，the study's authors gave subjects a Reading Span Task，which requires reading sentence aloud，then remembering the last word in each sentence.This requires reading，memorization，and recall abilities，and switching between the three.

　　The researchers had their entire test pool complete Reading Span Tasks to get a baseline reading.Then they moved some of the people to a room with no plants，and others to a room that had four plants around the desk.They were all asked to repeat the Reading Span Tasks，and the people who worked near a plant improved overall，while those without plants stayed roughly the same.

　　Beauty，fresh air，the joy of caring for another living thing－all great reasons to have a few houseplants around.If they help increase attention spans，all the better!

　　1．The study shows that growing houseplants can ________．

　　A．clean the air

　　B．make the house beautiful

　　C．increase attention spans

　　D．have the joy of caring

　　【解析】　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第二段第一句話(huà)可知答案。

　　【答案】　C

　　2．The underlined word in the second paragraph probably means ________．

　　A．ideasB．research

　　C．theories

　　D．experiments

　　【解析】　詞義理解題。由調(diào)查研究得出一個(gè)“想法”，然后驗(yàn)證這個(gè)“想法”。

　　【答案】　A

　　3．In the last paragraph，the writer ________．

　　A．places an advertisement

　　B．comments on the study

　　C．shows his/her opinion

　　D．gives people a warning

　　【解析】　推理判斷題。作者最后一段提到“家庭綠色植物”的好處，表明了自己的觀點(diǎn)。

　　【答案】　C

　　4．Which is the following shows the structure of the passage?

　　A．①→②→③→④B．①→②　③→④

　　C．①→②　③　④

　　D．①　②　③→④

　　【解析】　段落結(jié)構(gòu)題。文章第一段總括說(shuō)明，第二、三段介紹“研究”；第四段提出個(gè)人觀點(diǎn)。

　　【答案】　B

　　B

　　The National Park Service in the United State will mark its one hundredth anniversary in 2024.As it nears its second century，the Park Service plans to increase its educational programs for students and teachers.

　　The plans include transportation support for one hundred thousand students each year to visit national parks to learn about nature and history.Yellowstone is believed to have been the world's first national park when it was established in 1872.Other students will get a chance to see parks in faraway places through Skype and other online programs.

　　The National Park Service also works with partners to provide education.One of its partners is a nonprofit organization called NatureBridge.NatureBridge is celebrating its fortieth anniversary and says one million young people have taken part in its programs.The organization works with students from kindergarten through twelfth grade and uses national parks as its classrooms.It provides field science programs at Yosemite National Park and four other locations in California and the northwestern state of Washington.

　　Now，NatureBridge is launching an East Coast center with a four－million－dollar grant from Google.The program will begin in April at the Prince William Forest Park in Virginia.Students stay for three to five days in NatureBridge programs.The activities are aimed at developing their science skills.For example，they learn about different soils and study water quality under a microscope.Jason Morris is executive vice president of NatureBridge.He says when they are not sleeping，eating or in a laboratory，the students spend their time outdoors.

　　Julia Washburn is associate director of education and interpretation for the National Park Service.She says in a time of budget cuts，the agency has to find ways to still meet its goals.And one of the most important services that the Park Services provide every day is nature interpretation.

　　5．You can probably read this text in the section of ________．

　　A．Education

　　B．Travel

　　C．Entertainment

　　D．Health

　　【解析】　推理判斷題。由第一段中“...increase its educational programs for students and teachers”可知選A項(xiàng)。

　　【答案】　A

　　6．Which of the following is true of the National Park Service?

　　A．It plans to make NatureBridge its branch.

　　B．It provides programs for college students.

　　C．It was established earlier than Yellowstone.

　　D．It offered some educational programs before.

　　【解析】　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第三段內(nèi)容可知D項(xiàng)正確。

　　【答案】　D

　　7．According to the text，NatureBridge ________．

　　A．finances all the programs alone

　　B．is aimed at laboratory activities

　　C．has benefited quite a lot of students

　　D．provides online field science programs

　　【解析】　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第三段中“...says one million young people have taken part in its programs”可知C項(xiàng)正確。

　　【答案】　C

　　8．The text is intended to tell us that ________．

　　A．students are encouraged to learn about nature and history

　　B．more educational programs will be started in national parks

　　C．NatureBridge plans to work with the National Park Service

　　D．the National Park Service will celebrate its 100th anniversary

　　【解析】　推理判斷題。第一段即點(diǎn)明了文章的目的意圖和主旨大意，由此可推斷B項(xiàng)合適。

　　【答案】　B

　　Ⅲ.書(shū)面表達(dá)

　　(2024·山西省原平市第一中學(xué)檢測(cè))假如你是校報(bào)負(fù)責(zé)人，急需在學(xué)校內(nèi)聘一位同學(xué)任英文版的編輯。請(qǐng)你用英文以“An English Editor Wanted”為題目寫(xiě)一則招聘啟事。內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)如下：

　　1．該工作主要包括兩部分：一是從英文報(bào)紙雜志及互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上選擇適合學(xué)生的文章；二是選擇與編輯同學(xué)們的來(lái)稿。

　　2．希望該同學(xué)滿(mǎn)足下列要求：

　　a．樂(lè)意奉獻(xiàn)出一些業(yè)余時(shí)間為同學(xué)們服務(wù)；

　　b．英文與美術(shù)皆好；能熟練使用電腦；

　　c．感興趣的同學(xué)請(qǐng)?jiān)诒局軆?nèi)與學(xué)生會(huì)(Students' Union)聯(lián)系。

　　注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右；

　　2．不要逐字翻譯， 要組成一篇通順連貫的短文。

　　An English Editor Wanted

　　Our school newspaper is looking for an editor for its English edition.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

　　Students' Union

　　【參考范文】

　　An English Editor Wanted

　　Our_school_newspaper_is_looking_for_an_editor_for_its_English_edition.The job mainly includes two parts：One is to choose proper English articles from other newspapers, magazines or the Internet for us students.The other is to pick out articles from students in our school and edit them for use.

　　We hope that he (she) could meet the following requirements，first，he (she) is willing to devote some of the spare time to serving the others.Second, it's necessary for him (her) to be good at

　　both English and fine art.Needless to say that the ability to use the computer is important as well.

　　Those who are interested in the job.please get in touch with the Students' Union this week.

　　Students'_Union

　　課后限時(shí)自測(cè)(十八)Ⅰ.語(yǔ)法填空

　　Once，in a lovely garden，lived the most beautiful butterfly in the world.She was so pretty，and had won so many beauty contests __1__ she had become very proud.One day，the naughty cockroach(蟑螂)got fed up with her showing off，and decided __2__(teach)her a lesson.

　　She went to see the butterfly，and in front of everyone she said that the butterfly wasn't really that beautiful，and that the butterfly only won the competitions __3__ the judges had been paid.In __4__(real)，the cockroach was the most beautiful.

　　The butterfly was angry and said to the cockroach.“I __5__(beat)you in a beauty contest，with whichever judges you yourself choose.”

　　“OK，I accept.See you on Saturday，”answered the cockroach，and left __6__ waiting for a reply.

　　That Saturday everyone went to __7__ beauty contest.The butterfly arrived completely confident of victory until she saw __8__ the judges were：cockroaches，worms，beetles.All of __9__ preferred the ugliness and bad smell of the cockroach.

　　The butterfly was left __10__(sob)and disappointed，wanting never to enter another beauty contest in her life.Fortunately，the cockroach forgave the butterfly for her pride and they became friends.

　　【語(yǔ)篇解讀】　一只美麗的蝴蝶由于贏得了無(wú)數(shù)次的選美大賽而變得越來(lái)越傲慢，蟑螂組織了一次并不公平的選美比賽，好好教育了一下自負(fù)的蝴蝶。

　　1．that　此處是so...that...句型，故該空填that。

　　2．to teach　decide to do sth.“決定做某事”，為固定用法。

　　3．because　此處為because引導(dǎo)的原因狀語(yǔ)從句。

　　4．reality　in reality表示“事實(shí)上”。

　　5．will beat　結(jié)合上下文可以看出此處應(yīng)該用一般將來(lái)時(shí)。

　　6．without　此處表示蟑螂沒(méi)有等候一個(gè)答復(fù)就離開(kāi)了，故填without。

　　7．the　特指這次蝴蝶和蟑螂?yún)⒓拥倪x美大賽要用定冠詞the。

　　8．who　此處表示“評(píng)委們都是誰(shuí)”，故填疑問(wèn)代詞who。

　　9．them　分析句子成分可知，此處缺少主語(yǔ)，故填them，指代那些評(píng)委們。

　　10．sobbing　The butterfly和sob之間是邏輯上的主謂關(guān)系，故用sob的現(xiàn)在分詞形式。

　　Ⅱ.閱讀理解

　　A

　　Houseplants clean the air and brighten a room.Occasionally，they drive us mad as we wonder how exactly we managed to kill yet another“unkillable”houseplant.(In that way，they provide great lessons in perseverance as well！)But it looks like there's one more great reason to grow houseplants：their presence in your workspace might actually make you smarter.

　　According to a recent study published in The Journal of Environmental Psychology，just having plants in your work space is enough to increase your attention span.An increase in attention span means that we're able to remember more of what we read.To test the hypotheses，the study's authors gave subjects a Reading Span Task，which requires reading sentence aloud，then remembering the last word in each sentence.This requires reading，memorization，and recall abilities，and switching between the three.

　　The researchers had their entire test pool complete Reading Span Tasks to get a baseline reading.Then they moved some of the people to a room with no plants，and others to a room that had four plants around the desk.They were all asked to repeat the Reading Span Tasks，and the people who worked near a plant improved overall，while those without plants stayed roughly the same.

　　Beauty，fresh air，the joy of caring for another living thing－all great reasons to have a few houseplants around.If they help increase attention spans，all the better!

　　1．The study shows that growing houseplants can ________．

　　A．clean the air

　　B．make the house beautiful

　　C．increase attention spans

　　D．have the joy of caring

　　【解析】　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第二段第一句話(huà)可知答案。

　　【答案】　C

　　2．The underlined word in the second paragraph probably means ________．

　　A．ideasB．research

　　C．theories

　　D．experiments

　　【解析】　詞義理解題。由調(diào)查研究得出一個(gè)“想法”，然后驗(yàn)證這個(gè)“想法”。

　　【答案】　A

　　3．In the last paragraph，the writer ________．

　　A．places an advertisement

　　B．comments on the study

　　C．shows his/her opinion

　　D．gives people a warning

　　【解析】　推理判斷題。作者最后一段提到“家庭綠色植物”的好處，表明了自己的觀點(diǎn)。

　　【答案】　C

　　4．Which is the following shows the structure of the passage?

　　A．①→②→③→④B．①→②　③→④

　　C．①→②　③　④

　　D．①　②　③→④

　　【解析】　段落結(jié)構(gòu)題。文章第一段總括說(shuō)明，第二、三段介紹“研究”；第四段提出個(gè)人觀點(diǎn)。

　　【答案】　B

　　B

　　The National Park Service in the United State will mark its one hundredth anniversary in 2024.As it nears its second century，the Park Service plans to increase its educational programs for students and teachers.

　　The plans include transportation support for one hundred thousand students each year to visit national parks to learn about nature and history.Yellowstone is believed to have been the world's first national park when it was established in 1872.Other students will get a chance to see parks in faraway places through Skype and other online programs.

　　The National Park Service also works with partners to provide education.One of its partners is a nonprofit organization called NatureBridge.NatureBridge is celebrating its fortieth anniversary and says one million young people have taken part in its programs.The organization works with students from kindergarten through twelfth grade and uses national parks as its classrooms.It provides field science programs at Yosemite National Park and four other locations in California and the northwestern state of Washington.

　　Now，NatureBridge is launching an East Coast center with a four－million－dollar grant from Google.The program will begin in April at the Prince William Forest Park in Virginia.Students stay for three to five days in NatureBridge programs.The activities are aimed at developing their science skills.For example，they learn about different soils and study water quality under a microscope.Jason Morris is executive vice president of NatureBridge.He says when they are not sleeping，eating or in a laboratory，the students spend their time outdoors.

　　Julia Washburn is associate director of education and interpretation for the National Park Service.She says in a time of budget cuts，the agency has to find ways to still meet its goals.And one of the most important services that the Park Services provide every day is nature interpretation.

　　5．You can probably read this text in the section of ________．

　　A．Education

　　B．Travel

　　C．Entertainment

　　D．Health

　　【解析】　推理判斷題。由第一段中“...increase its educational programs for students and teachers”可知選A項(xiàng)。

　　【答案】　A

　　6．Which of the following is true of the National Park Service?

　　A．It plans to make NatureBridge its branch.

　　B．It provides programs for college students.

　　C．It was established earlier than Yellowstone.

　　D．It offered some educational programs before.

　　【解析】　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第三段內(nèi)容可知D項(xiàng)正確。

　　【答案】　D

　　7．According to the text，NatureBridge ________．

　　A．finances all the programs alone

　　B．is aimed at laboratory activities

　　C．has benefited quite a lot of students

　　D．provides online field science programs

　　【解析】　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第三段中“...says one million young people have taken part in its programs”可知C項(xiàng)正確。

　　【答案】　C

　　8．The text is intended to tell us that ________．

　　A．students are encouraged to learn about nature and history

　　B．more educational programs will be started in national parks

　　C．NatureBridge plans to work with the National Park Service

　　D．the National Park Service will celebrate its 100th anniversary

　　【解析】　推理判斷題。第一段即點(diǎn)明了文章的目的意圖和主旨大意，由此可推斷B項(xiàng)合適。

　　【答案】　B

　　Ⅲ.書(shū)面表達(dá)

　　(2024·山西省原平市第一中學(xué)檢測(cè))假如你是校報(bào)負(fù)責(zé)人，急需在學(xué)校內(nèi)聘一位同學(xué)任英文版的編輯。請(qǐng)你用英文以“An English Editor Wanted”為題目寫(xiě)一則招聘啟事。內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)如下：

　　1．該工作主要包括兩部分：一是從英文報(bào)紙雜志及互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上選擇適合學(xué)生的文章；二是選擇與編輯同學(xué)們的來(lái)稿。

　　2．希望該同學(xué)滿(mǎn)足下列要求：

　　a．樂(lè)意奉獻(xiàn)出一些業(yè)余時(shí)間為同學(xué)們服務(wù)；

　　b．英文與美術(shù)皆好；能熟練使用電腦；

　　c．感興趣的同學(xué)請(qǐng)?jiān)诒局軆?nèi)與學(xué)生會(huì)(Students' Union)聯(lián)系。

　　注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右；

　　2．不要逐字翻譯， 要組成一篇通順連貫的短文。

　　An English Editor Wanted

　　Our school newspaper is looking for an editor for its English edition.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

　　Students' Union

　　【參考范文】

　　An English Editor Wanted

　　Our_school_newspaper_is_looking_for_an_editor_for_its_English_edition.The job mainly includes two parts：One is to choose proper English articles from other newspapers, magazines or the Internet for us students.The other is to pick out articles from students in our school and edit them for use.

　　We hope that he (she) could meet the following requirements，first，he (she) is willing to devote some of the spare time to serving the others.Second, it's necessary for him (her) to be good at

　　both English and fine art.Needless to say that the ability to use the computer is important as well.

　　Those who are interested in the job.please get in touch with the Students' Union this week.

　　Students'_Union