动物趣闻内容:必修2 Unit2 名师点津

Ⅰ.单项填空

1．John promised his doctor he________not smoke，and he has never smoked ever since.

A．might　　　　　　　　　B．should

C．could                   D．would

解析：选D。句意：约翰答应他的医生不再吸烟了，且从那时起就再也不吸了。might not“可能不”；should not“不应该”；could not“不可能(推测)，不能(表能力)”；would有“决心、决意”等意思。根据句意，可知D项正确。

2．I like this jacket better than that one，but it costs almost three times ________.

A．as much  B．as many

C．so much  D．so many

解析：选A。考查as...as句型中的省略。空白处补充完整为as much as that one costs。此类题要注意句中名词的可数与不可数，另外，和其有关的倍数句型也是高考的常考句式。

3．All the students in this school are required to ________ at least two lectures on how to study every month.

A．attend  B．take part in

C．join in  D．go in for

解析：选A。attend表示“出席，参加(会议、讲座、婚礼、报告)”等；take part in和join in都表示“参加某一项活动”；go in for表示“从事，爱好”。

4．The old professor said to us every part of the materials should be made use of ________ the station.

A．to build  B．building

C．build    D．built

解析：选A。句意为：这位老教授对我们说应该利用这些材料的每一部分来建造车站。to build是动词不定式作目的状语。

5．Tom was playing computer games all night.________he was late for class.

A．That’s because  B．That’s why

C．It’s how        D．That’s how

解析：选B。that指前句的内容，why表示前句所说的结果。

6．In my opinion，the girl________ to be a good dancer if she is well trained in an art school.

A．expects  B．hopes

C．wishes   D．promises

解析：选D。考查动词辨析。promise to be表示“有希望成为……”的意思。其他词语和句子的意思不吻合。

7．He plays football________，if not better than，John.

A．as well  B．as well as

C．so well  D．so well as

解析：选B。本题中混合了同级比较as well as和比较级better than。句意为：“若他踢球不比约翰更好的话，也和约翰踢得一样好。”

8．After ________ with the saleswoman，I got the beautiful dress at the price of 50 yuan at last.

A．debating    B．talking

C．discussing  D．bargaining

解析：选D。bargain讨价还价。debate辩论；talk谈话；discuss讨论。句意为：经过一番讨价还价之后，我最后花了50块钱买下了那件漂亮的女装。

9．Her parents put a lot of effort into getting her ________ to a key school.

A．accepted    B．received

C．announced  D．admitted

解析：选D。考查动词辨析。be admitted to被允许进入；被录取。

10．The manager has to go on a business trip.His company will be left in ________ of his secretary.

A．charge  B．the charge

C．need    D．place

解析：选B。sth.be left in the charge of sb.“某物被留下来由某人管理/负责”。又如：The child was left in the charge of the nurse.“孩子被留下来，由保姆照看”。in need of...“(主语)需要……”。

Ⅱ.完形填空

(2009年烟台检测)In a national spelling contest in America，an 11­year­old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her__1__voice the judges were not sure if she spelled the word with the letter A or E. They talked it over and__2__decided to simply ask her what she had said. By now，the girl knew she had__3__the word. But instead of lying，she told the truth that she had said the__4__letter — so she lost the contest.

As the girl walked off the__5__，the entire audience stood to their feet clapping to applaud her__6__.Later，dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this 11­year­old girl’s honesty，even when it__7__her the contest. But the fact is that she__8__the biggest contest that day: the contest of her__9__.

Probably the biggest test of our character is what we would do if we knew we would never get__10__. This young girl could easily have__11__and nobody would have known it but herself. But that’s just it: She would know she did wrong. It’s been said，“If you__12__，you make yourself cheap.” This young girl was strong and smart enough to prize her own__13__and character rather than the prize from a spelling__14__.Her respect for herself was more important than any__15__others might give her for winning a contest.  She knew she would have to live with herself and the__16__she made at that moment will have long­lasting influence.

It’s so true that the choices you make today__17__what you are tomorrow.  Our children will__18__our behaviour much more than our advice. So if we want them to__19__to be honest，we must show them the way by being honest ourselves. Remember，our kids are__20__what we do and how we live even when we don’t think they see or know.

【解题导语】　这是一篇讲述“诚实”的文章。文中小女孩参加了单词拼写比赛，在比赛中，她勇于承认自己犯的拼写错误，虽然她没有赢得比赛，但她的诚实征服了所有的人。

1．A. high        B. sweet      

C. tough          D. soft

解析：选D。从下文知，她的声音很轻(soft)，以至于裁判不确定她拼写的是a还是e。其他选项都不符合语境。

2．A. finally      B. kindly    

C. secretly        D. totally

解析：选A。裁判讨论了一番，最终(finally)决定……。

3．A. forgotten                   B. mispronounced

C. misspelled                     D. lost

解析：选C。从上下文可知，到此时，小女孩知道她拼错了(misspelled)单词。

4．A. correct      B. wrong     

C. different        D. same

解析：选B。从上文知，她知道自己拼错了，但她没有撒谎，而是说出了她拼错了(wrong)字母。

5．A. stage       B. studio     

C. test           D. classroom

解析：选A。由常识可知，小女孩走下了舞台(stage)。其他选项都不符合语境。

6．A. bravery     B. honesty   

C. courage        D. cleverness

解析：选B。从上下文可知，观众为小女孩的诚实(honesty)而鼓掌。

7．A. cancelled   B. cost       

C. offered        D. wasted

解析：选B。cost sb. sth.表示“花费某人某物”，这里表示，诚实使她没有赢得比赛。

8．A. achieved    B. broke     

C. won           D. defeated

解析：选C。由语境可知，但她赢得了(won)最大的比赛，那就是人格(character)的比赛。

9．A. reputation   B. knowledge

C. life            D. character

解析：选D。参见第8题解析，或从第三段第一句可知。

10．A. paid        B. awarded   

C. caught          D. reported

解析：选C。get caught表示“被抓住，被发现”。

11．A. escaped     B. lied       

C. changed         D. answered

解析：选B。从上文知，小女孩本可以撒谎(lied)的。

12．A. accept      B. fight      

C. cheat           D. insist

解析：选C。从上下文可知，此处表达的意思为：如果你作弊(cheat)……。

13．A. conscience   B. feeling    

C. diligence         D. modesty

解析：选A。从下文中的“character”可知，这里应该用conscience。

14．A. contest      B. champion  

C. judger           D. expert

解析：选A。从上文知，小女孩参加的是拼写比赛(contest)。

15．A. sense       B. pride      

C. respect          D. awareness

解析：选C。该句前面的respect有提示。

16．A. plan        B. conclusion 

C. discovery        D. choice

解析：选D。考查词组make the choice。小女孩当时做出的选择将对以后的人生有深远的影响。

17．A. make       B. change    

C. keep            D. create

解析：选A。从上下文知，作者发表了自己的看法：你今日做出的选择造就你明日的自己。

18．A. give        B. take      

C. follow          D. set

解析：选C。由语境可知，身教胜于言传。

19．A.grow up  B．bring up

C．take up     D．come up

解析：选A。由常识可知，如果我们希望我们的孩子长大(grow up)后变得诚实……。

20．A.recording  B．inspecting

C．correcting    D．watching

解析：选D。上文提到大人的榜样作用很重要，所以要记住：我们的孩子正看着(watch)我们……。

Ⅲ.阅读理解

A

(2009年浙江温州检测)Sadness is unpleasant，and in a society where personal happiness is prized above all else，there is little tolerance for falling in despair. Especially now we’ve got drugs for getting rid of sad feelings—whether it’s after losing a job，the breakup of a relationship or the death of a loved one. So it’s no surprise that more and more people are taking them.

But is this really such a good idea? A growing number of voices from the world of mental health research are saying it isn’t.They fear that the increasing tendency to treat normal sadness as a disease is playing fast and loose (行为轻率). Sadness，they argue，serves a useful purpose—and if we lose it，we lose out. Yet many psychiatrists (精神病医生) insist not. Sadness has a nasty habit of turning into depression(抑郁症)，they warn. Even when people are sad for good reason，they should take drugs to make themselves feel better.

So who is right? Is sadness something we cannot live without or something horrible never to touch?

There are lots of ideas about why feeling sad should become part of human life. It may be a selfprotection strategy，as other primates (灵长类) also show signs of sadness. A losing monkey that doesn’t show sadness after it loses a fight may be seen as continuing to challenge the winning monkey—and that could result in death.

In humans，sadness has a further function: we may display sadness as a form of communication. By acting sad，we tell other community members that we need support.

Then there is the idea that creativity is connected to dark moods. There are plenty of great artists，writers and musicians who have suffered from depression or disorder. Scientists find that people with signs of depression perform better at a creative task，and that negative moods make people think deeply over the unhappy experience，which allows creative processes to come to the front. There is also evidence that too much happiness can be bad for your career. A doctor found that people who scored 8 out of 10 on a happiness test were more successful in income and education than 9s or 10s. The happiest people lose their willingness to make changes to their lives that may benefit them.

【解题导语】　伤心难过对人们来讲是好是坏？作者论述了人们对sadness所持的不同的观点。

1．The underlined word“this”refers to________.

A．taking drugs               B．falling in despair

C．losing a job                D．feeling sad

解析：选A。词义猜测题。文中第一段讲了人们在心情不好时往往会通过服药来减少悲伤。第二段中的this就是指代这个问题。

2．The author believes sadness is________.

A．a good thing for people’s health

B．something horrible never to touch

C．a necessary function of humans

D．always to be treated as depression

解析：选C。事实细节题。从第五段中的“In humans，sadness has a further function：we may display sadness as a form of communication.”以及本段所举的例子可知sadness对人类可以起到积极的作用。

3．Some animals show their sadness in order to________.

A．cheat their enemy         B．protect themselves

C．comfort the loser          D．challenge the winner

解析：选B。细节理解题。从文中第四段的“It may be a selfprotection strategy，as other primates(灵长类)also show signs of sadness.”可知一些动物表现出难过是为了保护自己。故B项正确。

4．We can infer from the last paragraph that________.

A．people with great creativity tend to be happier

B．unhappy experiences contribute to a greater career

C．too much happiness can be bad for your career

D．the happiest people are the most successful ones

解析：选B。推理判断题。从文中最后一段可知，一些伟大的艺术家、作家和音乐家都有过沮丧的经历，并且科学家们还发现那些有沮丧迹象的人更善于做创造性的工作。由此可知B项正确。C项是文中的原句，不是推理出来的内容。

B

(2009年浙江嘉兴检测)Today，I read an interesting article about television viewing.  In one experiment，families were paid to stop watching TV for either a week or a month. Many could not complete the task and some families quarrelled or even fought. It was quite interesting and now I will say something about TV.

After TV became a product most families could afford，people bought and started to watch their new TVs. Both adults and children became less creative in problem solving，less able to focus on tasks，and less tolerant of flexible time.

In my family，we grew up with the TV on. Every weekend，we watched Gun Smoke and Bonanza together as a family. TV provides us with a comfortable background when we want to learn a foreign language at home, and it entertains us cheaply with live action sports，incomparable performing arts and important events of the world. In addition，it educates us about everything from the cells in our body to the galaxies in the universe.

Perhaps it’s not even practical to live without television unless our views change unexpectedly as we get older. I don’t think that TV damages us so much as it robs us of time that could be spent doing other things such as learning new skills，getting some exercise or doing volunteer work.

I was lucky to have a family that watched TV together. Today there seems to be a TV in every room of the house and there’s no need to agree on a program to watch. To watch TV or not is more of a question for adults than for us，and even though we all say we want to cut down the time we spend in front of the tube，we never really do. TV_has_us_hypnotized!

【解题导语】　电视越来越走进人们的生活，给人们带来了很多负面的影响，而作者却不这么认为。

5．The experiment in Paragraph 1 shows________.

A．how interesting watching TV is

B．how much people like watching TV

C．whether people like watching TV

D．why people give up watching TV

解析：选B。考查细节理解。根据文章第一段“Many could not complete the task and some families quarrelled or even fought”可知人们在实验过程中，因为在一段时间没有看电视，而引发危机，足以说明人们对电视的依赖程度，所以选择B。

6．After most families could afford a TV，they________.

A．got more active at work

B．found it easier to solve problems

C．became more independent of TV

D．fixed less attention on tasks

解析：选D。考查细节理解。根据文章第二段中“Both adults and children became less creative in problem solving，less able to focus on tasks”可知。

7．From Paragraph 3，we can learn that________.

A．the author likes to spend weekends watching TV by himself

B．watching TV too much prevents the author from growing up well

C．TV programmes bring only fun to the author and his family

D．the author and his family get a lot of valuable experience in watching TV

解析：选D。考查推理判断。根据文章第三段最后一句“it educates us about everything from the cells in our body to the galaxies in the universe”可知D项正确；根据文章第三段第一句“In my family，we grew up with the TV on...together as a family”可知A项错误；文章第三段第二句到最后，都是讲述电视对家庭带来的正面影响，所以B项错误；C选项太绝对应排除。

8．According to the author，which of the following is TRUE?

A．It is a waste of time to watch TV.

B．We benefit little when we watch TV.

C．It is hard to live without television.

D．We change our views as we live with television.

解析：选C。考查推理判断。根据文章第四段第一句“Perhaps it’s not even practical to live without television unless our views change unexpectedly as we get older”可知C项正确，D项错误；根据第四段最后一句“I don’t think that TV damages us so much as it robs us of time”可知A项错误；根据文章第三段可知道电视使我们获益匪浅，判断B项错误。

9．The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies that________.

A．we depend too much on TV

B．watching TV makes us united

C．TV robs us of valuable time

D．TV changes our daily life

解析：选A。考查猜测句意。结合文章最后一句“and even though we all say we want to cut down the time we spend in front of the tube，we never really do”可知人们对电视非常依赖。