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素能提升演练（十七）

选修6 Unit 17

Ⅰ．单词拼写

1. Middle school students in China are _______ (禁止)to smoke.

2. Are you positively _______ (相信) that he is not coming back?

3. Big cities have theatres, films, basketball matches and many other ________ (娱乐活动).

4. George showed me to the guest-room which, he said, was ______ (很少)used.

5. I was filled with ________ (惊异)at her strange action.

6. It’s ________ (难以置信的)that my wallet was stolen.

7. Children are raised to be independent and _______ (细心的，谨慎的), with a strong sense of self-esteem.

8. Many people ______ (饥饿)to death in the world each year.

9. The ecological environment will be improved, and the relationship between man and nature will become more ________ (和谐的).

10. It was a great _________ (成就) to finish this job in two days.

Ⅱ．单项填空

1. _______ the little beings, I began struggling to get loose and managed to break the strings.

A. Scared B. Being scared

C. Having scared D. To scare

2. The best method to _______ this goal is to unite as many people as possible.

A. evaluate B. value

C. accomplish D. equip

3. _______ his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger.

A. Thanks to B. Thanks for

C. In spite of D. As regards

4. The similarities between identical twins often cause us to _______ their personal differences.

A. arrest B. condemn

C. betray D. overlook

5．I would be grateful if you would _______ receipt of this letter.

A. admit B. acknowledge

C. accept D. inform

6. ［2012 南宁模拟］Scientists are convinced _______ the positive effect of laughter _______ physical and mental health.

A. of; at B. by; in

C. of; on D. on; at

7. He was so weakened by the disease that he could _______ stand up.

A. rarely B. barely C. merely D. almost

8. He drove _______ as the road was icy.

A. rapidly B. courteously

C. cautiously D. confidently

9. The shop assistant was dismissed as she was _______ of cheating customers.

A．accused B．charged

C．scolded D．cursed

10. ［2012福州模拟］ I don’t mind _______ the decision as long as it is not too late.

A．you to delay making

B．your delaying making

C．your delaying to make

D．you delay to make

11. Most parks with grassland will _______ signs asking the visitors not to step on them.

A. put on B. put up

C. put down D. put out

12. _______ garbage problems，the city will load huge spaceships with waste materials and send them towards the sun, _______ landfill and environmental problems.

A. To get rid of; to prevent

B. Getting rid of; to prevent

C. To get rid of; preventing

D. Getting rid of; preventing

13. People in these countries demand equal treatment for all, _______ race, religion or sex.

A. in defense of B. regardless of

C. instead of D. in support of

14. _______ was reported that 115 miners trapped in the flooded mine for eight days were pulled out alive at last.

A. What B. It C. That D. Which

15. ［2012潍坊模拟］John was not listening and made a _______ answer when called upon to recite.

A. tough B. dull C. delicate D. random

Ⅲ. 课文填词

Everything is funny as long as it’s happening to someone else. Here are three

1. f stories. One is about a lady who couldn’t remember if 40 was 2. _______ “fourty” or “forty” when she wanted to withdraw 40 dollars from her bank 3. a , before she had to took out fifty dollars. 4. A story is about Mr. Wang’s daughter. When Mr. Wang asked her 5. _______ she wanted to go if he was going to Hainan Island and her Mum was going to Thailand. She told him she wanted to go to Thailand. But when Mr. Wang 6. _______ (更换) Hainan Island and Thailand to ask the 7. _______ again, she chose Hainan. Why? She said, “Because I went to Thailand on the last trip. ” The third is about an angry man who was 8. _______ (拒绝) to jump the queue to buy the flight ticket. He yelled at the 9. _______ (不幸)counter agent, “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? ” The girl agent smiled to the passengers and asked whoever knew the man’s 10. _______ (身份) to come to the gate.

Ⅳ．阅读理解

(A)

［2012武汉模拟］

A new book about Chinese-style tough parenting has caused debate in the US．

Amy Chua, the author of the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is a Chinese-American professor at Yale Law School．She is also a mother of two．

Chua describes the child-rearing methods she used with her daughters．She said they would seem unimaginable to Westerners．

Chua set strict standards for her daughters．For example, in school they weren’t allowed to make grades lower than A．They had to play the piano or violin and practice hours a day．There were no sleepovers, play dates or TV．

There has been wide criticism of Chua’s book in the US．“It is kind of extreme, ” Jeffrey Seinfeld, a professor at New York University, told the Los Angeles Times．“. . . standards of parenting need to be realistic and tailored to each child．Children need parents who can guide them, not force them to do things they are probably not interested in．”

Now the criticism seems to have spread to China．Sun Yunxiao, an expert from the China Youth and Children Research Center spoke to The Beijing News about his concerns．He argued that Chua’s method of parenting would limit children from reaching their full potential．

“Some Chinese parents do focus on test scores and good degrees, ” Sun said, “but what gets sacrificed along the way is their kids’ capacity fully to develop and to enjoy life．”

While critics might sympathize with kids who experience this parenting style, some young people quite appreciate it．“I think anyone can do well if they work hard enough, ” said 17-year-old Li Ao, a Senior 3 student at Qingdao No. 2 High School．“A tiger mother is there to help her kids work hard．”

Others think that Chua has a point when it comes to setting challenging goals for kids．

“It’s crucial for children, ” according to Abigail Gewirtz, a professor of family science at the University of Minnesota．She told CNN: “Honestly, kids need to be pushed sometimes．If you push a kid to do well, and they’re good at it, they benefit．It’s good to have high expectations．”

1．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

A. Most children don’t need strict standards to do well．

B. Chua’s educating method is widely accepted in China．

C. Supporters of Amy Chua believe in high expectations．

D. Most children welcome challenging goals．

2．The underlined word “crucial” could be replaced by _______.

A. helpful B．cruel

C．unfair D．important

3．Which of the following statements might Jeffrey Seinfeld agree with?

A．Children need to be pushed to succeed．

B．The tiger mother is no longer popular in American society．

C．Parents should take their children into account when they give them guidance．

D．Extreme parenting produces children who do not know themselves when grown up．

4．What is the main point of the article?

A．An unreasonable parenting style．

B．A debate on Chinese-style tough parenting．

C．Book reviews of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother．

D．The strict standards that should be set for children．

(B)

The Harrington School is an old one-room schoolhouse in Georgia. The building has not been used in years. Community leaders and even the local historical society thought it wasn’t worth saving. “Just look at it and you could tell it was going to fall any minute, so let’s tear it down, ” they said.

The Harrington School was built in nineteen twenty-five for black children on St. Simons Island. Amy Roberts well remembers she attended first grade there in nineteen fifty-three. That was a year before the United States Supreme Court ruled that schools had to be racially integrated. A number of states kept blacks from attending school with whites. After the ruling, the children joined white students at St. Simons’ other elementary school.

The old schoolhouse continued to be used for social activities and a day care center. By nineteen seventy, however, it stood empty. Amy Roberts worried that developers might tear it down. So she started the African-American Heritage Coalition to try to save it.

“If it’s not saved, then eventually you would not know that we existed here on St. Simons. Everything of African-American heritage has been torn down. ” She said.

In two thousand nine the Harrington School was weeks away from destruction. Then a local historian named Patty Deveau took a closer look and started a movement called the Rosenwald Fund. Georgia historian Jeanne Cyriaque explains. “At the very core of that movement was the involvement of the community, sympathetic whites and philanthropy, merging together to do what today we’d call partnerships. ”

Julius Rosenwald was a businessman. In nineteen fifteen he donated money to black communities to build their own schools. By the late twenties, the Rosenwald Fund had donated to more than five thousand educational buildings in fifteen states across the South. One-third of rural black children were attending a Rosenwald school.

“This particular school kind of embodies to me what was going on with the communities at the time, because in many African-American communities, it was African-American families that gave land for these schools to be built. ” Jeanne Cyriaque said.

Now, preservation architects are developing plans to restore the Harrington School. Amy Roberts and others were surprised by what the experts found when they inspected the structure. “They went through it and they talked about how sound it was and they’d never seen anything like this. I mean, it was, like, in great shape! ”

5. What do you learn about the Harrington School?

A. It only has one room and is going to fall down.

B. It was built in 1925 and is in poor condition now.

C. It has not been used since 1954.

D. Though it was built over 85 years ago, it is still in good condition.

6. According to the second paragraph, we learn that _