Test for Unit 5 Think before you eat
Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: Read the following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.
(A)
Spending hours watching TV or playing computer games each day does not harm young children’s social development, says experts.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) team who studied (25) (many) than 11,000 primary school pupils says it is wrong to link bad behavior (26) TV viewing.
(27) researchers found a small correlation between the two, they say other influences, such as parenting styles, most probably explain the link. But they still say “limit screen time”.
This cautionary（谨慎的）advice is because (28) (spend) lots of time in front of the TV every day (29) reduce how much time a child spends doing other important activities such as playing with friends and doing homework, they say.
“We found no effect with screen time for most of (30) behavioral and social problems that we looked at and only a very small effect indeed for conduct problems, such as fighting or bullying（欺负）.”
For the MRC study, published in Archives of Diseases in Childhood, Dr Alison Parkers and colleagues (31) (ask) UK mothers from all works of life to give details about their child’s TV viewing habits and general behavior.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31.
(B)
Many scientists today are convinced (32) life exists elsewhere in the universe---life probably much like that on our own planet.
As far as astronomers can determine（检测）, the entire universe (33) (build) of the same matter. (34) have no reason to doubt that matter obeys the same laws in every part of the universe. (35) , it is reasonable to guess that other stars, and with their own planets, (36) be born in the same way as our own solar system.
(37) we know of life on earth suggests that life will arise wherever the proper conditions exists.
Life requires the right amount and kind of atmosphere. This avoids all those planets in the universe (38) are not about the same size and weight as the earth. A smaller planet would lose its atmosphere; a larger one would hold too much of it.
Life also requires a constant supply of heat and light. This avoids those double stars, or stars that flare up suddenly. Only single stars that are constant sources of heat and light like our sun would qualified (39) (supply) all elements that life needs.
Finally, life will develop only if the planet is just the right distance from the sun. With a weaker sun than our own, the planet would have to be closer to it. With a stronger sun, it (40)
have to be farther away.
32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
On a cold day in 1942, a boy inside a Nazi concentration camp 41 beyond the wire sadly. A girl who was passing by saw him and threw a red apple over the fence. The boy picked it up. A ray of light broke his darkness.
On the 42 day he looked out, 43 to see that girl again. On the other side, the girl was longing to see him too. She came with an apple in her hand.
The scene was 44 for several days. Then one day, the boy said 45 , “Don’t bring me an apple tomorrow. I will not be here. They are 46 me to another camp.” The boy walked away, too sad to look back.
In the US in 1957, two adults, both immigrants（移民）, were on a blind date. “And where were you during the war?” inquired the woman. “I was in a German concentration camp,” the man 47 . “I remember I used to throw apple over the fence to a boy who was in a concentration camp,” she recalled.
Greatly 48 , the man said, “And did that boy tell you one day not to bring apples any more because he was to be sent to another camp?” “Why? Yes!” she replied. He looked into her eyes and said, “I was that boy.”
There was a brief silence, and then they 49 each other.
On Valentine’s Day in 1996, on a national telecast show, this same man 50 his enduring love for his wife of forty years. He said, “You fed me throughout all these years; I remain hungry for your love.”
The darkest moments of one’s life may carry the seeds of the brightest tomorrow.
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
Reading Comprehension
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period（关键期）of life can 51 and damaged? Judging from an experiment in the thirteenth century, it may be hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother 52 , the experiment told the nurses to keep silent.
All the 53 died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life 54 , the capacity to survive is seriously affected.
Today no such severe exists as that ordered the experimenter. 55 , some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is 56 to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for 57 skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the 58 stage has passed.
Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence（顺序）and at a 59 age, but there are cases where speech has started 60 in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple 61 ; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into 62 , and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.
Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the 63 to speak. What is special about man;s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to 64 the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern “toy-bear’. And even more 65 is the young brain’s ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.
( ) 51.A.constructed B.starved C.spoiled D.improved
( ) 52.A.sound B.singing C.educating D.tongue
( ) 53.A.parents B.care-takers C.infants D.teachers
( ) 54.A.simply B.originally C.greatly D.especially
( ) 55.A.Consequently B.Nevertheless C.Theoretically D.Fortunately
( ) 56.A.unfamiliar B.unwanted C.insensitive D.indifferent
( ) 57.A.acquiring B.practicing C.occupying D.seizing
( ) 58.A.critical B.temporary C.contemporary D.reasonable
( ) 59.A.pleasing B.troublesome C.flexible D.constant
( ) 60.A.last B.late C.early D.lately
( ) 61.A.commands B.necessities C.resolutions D.directions
( ) 62.A.composition B.dialog C.languages D.sentences
( ) 63.A.preparation B.passion C.creativity D.ability
( ) 64.A.identify B.connect C.guide D.devote
( ) 65.A.unpredictable B.unbelievable C.uncountable D.unbearable
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
A
Acting is such an over-crowded profession that the only advice that should be given to a young of going on the stage is “Don’t!”. But it is useless to try to discourage someone who feels that he must act, though the chances of his becoming famous are slim. The normal way to begin is to go to a drama school. Usually only students who show promise and talent are accepted, and the courses lasts two years. Then they young actor or actress take up work with a repertory（剧目）company, usually as an assistant stage manager. This means doing everything that there is to do in the theater: painting scenery, looking after the furniture, taking care of the costumes, and even acting in very small parts. It is very hard work indeed. The hours are long and the salary is tiny. But young actors with the stage in their blood are happy, waiting for the chances of working with a better company, or perhaps in films or television.
Of course, some people have unusual chances which lead to fame and success without this long and dull training. Connie Pratt, for example, was just an ordinary girl working in a bicycle factory. A film producer happened to catch sight of her one morning waiting at a bus stop, as he drove past in his big car. He told the driver to stop, and he got out to speak to the girl. He asked her if she would like to go to the film studio to do a test, and at first she thought he was joking. Then she got angry and said she would call the police. It took the producer twenty minutes to tell Connie that he was serious. Then an appointment was made for her to go to the studio next day. The test was successful. They gave her some necessary lessons and within a few weeks she was playing the leading part opposite one of the most famous actors of the day. Of course, she was given a more dramatic name, which is now world-famous. But chances like this happen once in a blue moon!
( ) 66.According to the passage, the main reason why young people should be away from becoming actors is .
A.actors are very unusual people
B.the course at the drama school lasts for two years
C.acting is really a hard job
D.there are already too many actors
( ) 67.An assistant stage manager’s job is difficult because he has to .
A.do all kinds of stage work B.work for long hours
C.wait for a better company D.act well
( ) 68.Connie Pratt soon became a famous actress by .
A.learning some lessons about the art of speaking
B.once playing her part in the “Blue Colored Moon”
C.successfully matching the most famous actors
D.acting a leading part with a most famous actor at that time
( ) 69.The underlined phrase “once in a blue moon” in the last line refers to .
A.all at once B.once for a long time
C.once in a while D.once and for all
B
Angry Birds is a video game developed by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Mobile. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the game was first released for Apple’s mobile operating system in December 2009. Since then, over 12 million copies of the game have been purchased from Apple’s App Store.
With its fast-growing popularity worldwide, the game and its characters---angry birds and their enemy pigs---have appeared in television programs throughout the world. The Israeli comedy A Wonderful Country, one of the nation’s most popular TV programs, satirized（讽刺）recent failed Israeli-Palestinian peace attempts by featuring the Angry Birds in peace negotiations（谈判）with the pigs. Clips of the segment（片段）went viral, getting viewers from all around the world. American television hosts Conan O’Brien, Jon Steward, and Daniel Tosh have referenced the game in comedy sketches for their programs, Conan, The Daily Show, and Dash. O. Some of the game’s more famous fans include Prime Minister David Cameron of UK, who plays the iPad version of the game, and author Salman Rushdie, who is believed to be “something of a master at Angry Birds.”
Angry Birds and its characters have also seen featured in advertisements in different forms. In March 2011, the characters began appearing in a series of advertisements for Microsoft’s Bing search engine. In the same year, Nokin produced an advertisement in Austin, Texas that include the game’s characters on a downtown building for its new mobile phone. Later, a T-Mobile advertisement filmed in Spain included a real-life mock-up（实物模拟）of the game in a city center. Nokin also used the game in Malaysia to promote an attempt to set a world record for the largest number of people playing a single mobile game.
Angry Birds has even inspired works of philosophical analogy（哲学类比）. A five-part essay with the title “Angry Birds Yoga”---How to Eliminate（消除）the Green Pigs in Your Life was written by Giridhari Dasar in Brazil, utilizing the characters and game play mechanics to interpret various concepts of yoga philosophy. The piece attracted much media attention for its unique method of philosophical presentation.
( ) 70.What is the purpose of the passage?
A.To explain how the video game Angry Birds was devised.
B.To investigate why Angry Birds has quickly become well-liked.
C.To introduce Angry Birds characters in TV programs and advertisements.
D.To report on the spread of Angry Birds in different media around the world.
( ) 71.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “viral” in Paragraph 2?
A.apparent B.popular C.exciting D.disgusting
( ) 72.According to the text, which of the following persons is good at playing Angry Birds?
A.Salman Rushdie. B.Conan O’Brien.
C.Giridhari Dasar. D.Daniel Tosh.
( ) 73.Which of the following is TRUE about the use of Angry Birds according to the text?
A.It has been used by UK Prime Minister to explain political issues.
B.Its characters are used in advertisements mainly for Apple’s products.
C.It has been developed into a film about the life of a Brazilian yoga master.
D.Its self-life mock-up has appeared in an advertisement for mobile phones.
C
The gift being able to describe a face accurately is a rare one, as every experienced police officer knows to his cost. As the Lancet put it recently, “When we try to describe faces accurately, words fail us, and we resort to identikit（拼脸型图）procedures.”
Yet, according to one authority on the subject, we can each probably recognize more than 1,000 faces, the majority of which differ in fine details. This, when one comes to think of it, is a bog feat, though, curiously enough, relatively little attention has been devoted to the fundamental problems of how ans why we acquire this gift for recognizing and remembering faces. Is it an inborn property of our brains, or an acquired one? As so often happens, the experts tend to differ.
Thus, some argue that it is inborn, and that there are “special characteristics about the brain’s ability to distinguish faces”. In support of this, they note how much better we are at recognizing a face after a single encounter than we are, for example, in recognizing an individual horse. On the other hand, there are those, and they are probably in the majority, who claim that the gift is an acquired one.
The arguments in favor of this latter view, it must be confessed, are impressive. It is a habit that is acquired soon after birth. Watch, for instance, how a quite young baby recognizes his mother by sight. Granted that his other senses help---the sound, his sense of smell, the distinctive way she handles him. But all of these, sight is predominant. Formed at the very beginning of life, the ability to recognize faces quickly becomes an established habit, and one that is, essential for daily living, if not necessary for survival. How essential and valuable it is we probably do not appreciate until we meet people who have been deprived of the faculty.
This unfortunate inability to recognize familiar faces is known to all, but such people can often recognize individuals by their voices, their walking manners or their characters. With typical human ingenuity（精巧）, many of these unfortunate people overcome their handicap by recognizing other characteristic features.
( ) 74.It is stated in the passage that .
A.it is unusual for a person to be able to identify a face satisfactorily
B.the ability to recognize faces unhesitatingly is an unusual gift
C.quite a few people can give visualize faces they have seen
D.few people can give exact details of the appearance of a face
( ) 75.What the author feels strange about is that .
A.people have the tremendous ability to recognize more than 1,000 faces
B.people don’t think much of the problem of how and why we acquire the ability to recognize and remember faces
C.people don’t realize how essential and valuable it is for them to have the ability to recognize faces
D.people have been arguing much over the way people recognize and remember faces
( ) 76.What is the first suggested explanation of the origin of the ability?
A.It is one of the characteristics peculiar to human beings.
B.It is acquired soon after birth.
C.It is something we can do from the very moment we are born.
D.It is learned from our environment and experiences.
( ) 77.This passage seems to emphasize that .
A.the ability to recognize individuals is dependent on other senses as well as sight
B.sight is indispensable（必需的）to recognize individuals
C.the ability to recognize faces is a special inborn ability of the brain
D.the importance of the ability of recognizing faces is fully appreciated by people
Section C
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Many students find it hard to make friends when they are in high school. Keeping my suggestion in mind may give you a hand. They certainly helped me, and by the end of my three years of high school, I had formed my groups of friends, with whom I still keep in touch now. Here are my tips:
Say hello anytime I see an acquaintance（相识之人）.
Because I was always smiling and greeting the people I knew, people naturally thought I was friendly (through I am not naturally sociable). And high school students want to be friends with sociable people.
Take the first step.
All the girls there already knew each other---they didn’t need another friend. But I did, so I had to make the effort. I had to be the first one to invite somebody to a cinema, or to my house. Once I did that they started to respond with the same thing.
Use classes to get to know people.
I met most of my first friends because I sat next to them in class. Class (before, after, or even during class time) is a great opportunity to begin a conversation. For example, ask for help about homework.
Make friends slowly.
I couldn’t get discouraged（泄气的）when it took a while to make friends. It really takes some time to make new friends. In a word, making new friends is difficult.
Above all, remember that it can and it will get better. You may have to work a little to make your high school experience a great one, but it’s really worth it!
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)
78.The purpose of the writer to write the passage is to .
79.What effort did the writer make to make more friends?
.
80.It needs some time to make new friends because .
81.How many tips are mentioned in this passage?
.
Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
这个大口瓶（jar）能装十杯水。（contain）
他的解释我听着很有道理。（sound）
不要在两餐之间吃东西，以免影响胃口。（appetite）
Tom极力奉劝我别单独出行。（advise）
吃各种各样的食物对我们的健康有好处。（variety）
Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120---150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
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