15. 解析：选B。have an easy time意思是“过得轻松、愉快”。从后文“they see it as a holiday”可知，这些孩子想过得愉快些。 16. 解析：选A。after all 是对后文的评述，意思是“毕竟”。D项有一定干扰性，分析上下文我们知道，前后并非因果关系，因此不符合文意。
17. 解析：选C。though 在这里表示转折，相当于however。 18. 解析：选B。“you’ll work if it’s convenient for the company that employs you ”是对上句的解释，而不是总结，因此A项不合文意。
19. 解析：选A。从下句“As soon as the holiday season 20(finishes) , they’ll get rid of you”来看，“你”没有多少受雇佣的权力。
20. 解析：选D。从前文“all vacation work is casual work”可知，假期一结束，他们就会解雇“你”。 Ⅵ. 阅读理解
1. 解析：选C。本题为细节题。由第一段的第一句“...it passes the point of supplying all the basic essentials...”可知选C。
2. 解析：选D。由文章第一段第二句可知，我们面临着选择是:或者用技术提供和满足需求，或者应用技术缩减工作时间。
3. 解析：选A。本题为推断题。从文章第一段最后一句和第二段第一句判断，人类所选择的是使我们的生活水准停留在这种水平并且使工时缩短。
4. 解析：选C。本题为细节题。文章第二段第三句“这就意味着家庭主妇也将有望在生活中能有更多的闲暇，而又不至于降低她们的生活水准”。故选C。
5. 解析：选C。通过最后一段及全文可推知，机器人将来会帮助人们做家务，但它们也不是万能的。 Ⅶ. 短文改错 1. road后加was 2. bike→bikes 3. fell→fall 4. 去掉of 5. By→At 6. √ 7. a→the
8. here→there 9. looking→looked 10. have→had
Unit 2 The United Kingdom
Ⅰ.单词拼写
1. Our class is d into two groups during the discussion. 2. What he said in the meeting p all of us.
3. The c of transportation in this area brings hope to this mountain village. 4. Her beautiful singing drew the a of the professor. 5. The film Hero has much a for the youth. 6. The habit of c stamps benefit him a lot.
7. If something is done for your c , it is done in a way that is suitable or useful for you. 8. An a is something that people can go for interest or enjoyment, for example a famous building. 9. The bad (影响)of the flood is that no people are dared to swim in that river.
10. The (工业的) area of this country made more pollution to the air compared with agricultural area.
Ⅱ. 用方框内所给短语的适当形式填空
consist of/divide into/leave out/take the place of/break down/in memory of/have influence on 1. This word is wrongly spelt. You have a letter.
2. The professor has suddenly fallen ill. Who can him to give the lecture? 3. The Roman Empire in 476 AD.
4. The museum was built the great writer—Lu Xun. 5. The country nearly 200 islands.
6. The cake four parts for us to share.
7. My teacher me. Without his instruction, I doubt if I could be so successful. Ⅲ.翻译句子
1. 现在很有必要马上通知他们会议取消了。
2. 为了不让野兽接近,我们让火通宵达旦地燃烧着。（keep; have）
3. 在那种场合下你还惹麻烦，真是丢人。
4. 当被问到为什么旷课时,他低着头不说话。
5. 他建议教室一天打扫两次。
Ⅳ.单项填空
从A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. When I got back home I saw a message to the door reading “Sorry to miss you；I will call you later”.
A. pin B. pins C. pinned D. to pin
2. North America the United States, Canada, and Mexico. A. is made of B. consist of C. composes D. comprises
3. Would it be for you to pick me up at four oclock and take me to the airport? A. free B. vacant C. handy D. convenient 4. nice，the food was all eaten up soon. A. Tasting B. Taste C. Tasted D. To taste 5. I have no one me, for I am a new comer here. A. help B. helping
C. to help D. to have helped
6. As time went by, the plan stuck fairly practical. A. to proved B. to proving C. proved D. to be proved
7. -How come a simple meal like this costs so much?
—We have in your bill the cost of the cup you broke just now. A. added B. included C. contained D. charged
8. In copying this paper, be careful not to any words. A. leave behind B. leave aside C. leave off D. leave out
9. American Indian about five percent of the U.S. population. A. fill up B. bring up C. make up D. set up
10. If a person has not had enough sleep, his actions will give him during the day. A. away B. up C. in D. back Ⅴ.阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
Anger is good for you, as long as you control it, according to new psychology research. A new study from Carnegie Mellon University shows anger may help people reduce the negative impacts of stress and help you become healthier.
“Here getting emotional is not bad for you if you look at the case of anger,” said Jennifer Lerner of Carnegie Mellon. “The more people display anger, the lower their stress responses.”
Lerner studied 92 UCLA students by asking them to count back from 6,200. They must say out loud every thirteenth number. Researchers disturbed them by asking them to count faster or ask them other questions. If they made any mistakes, they had to restart from the very beginning. Many students felt depressed about making so many mistakes or got angry.
Lerner used a hidden video camera and recorded all their facial expressions during the test. The researchers describe their reactions as fear, anger and disgust.
Other researchers recorded the students’blood pressure ,pulse and production of a high-stress hormone (荷尔蒙) called cortisol.People whose faces showed more fear during the experiment had higher blood pressure and higher levels of the hormone. Both can have lasting effects such as diabetes (糖尿病), heart disease, depression and extra weight gain.
When people feel fear, negative impacts increase, but when they get angry, those negatives go down, according to the study. “Having that sense of anger leads people to actually feel some power in what otherwise is a maddening (令人发狂的) situation,” Lerner said.
Lerner previously studied Americans’emotional response to the 9·11 terrorist attacks two months after the incident. She found people who reacted with anger were more optimistic. These people are healthier compared with those who were frightened during the event. So in maddening situations, anger is not a bad thing to have. It’s a healthier response than fear. 1. What is the story mainly about?
A. The findings of new psychology research. B. What you can do with anger in certain cases. C. Different effects produced by anger and fear. D. Healthier responses in maddening situations. 2. Which statement will Jennifer Lerner agree with? A. It’s better to be angry than to be frightened.
B. Different reactions reflect different outlooks on life. C. Don’t control your anger and it makes you powerful. D. Pessimistic people are generally healthier.
3. What does the underlined word “Both” refer to according to the passage? A. Fear and anger.
B. Blood pressure and pulse. C. Blood pressure and cortisol.
D. Higher blood pressure and higher levels of the hormone. 4. In what ways can anger be beneficial to people? A. By showing their optimistic side. B. By reducing their stress.
C. By reducing high blood pressure. D. By taking the place of fear.
5. The researchers irritated(激怒) the students by . A. recording their performance secretly
B. asking them to count to 6,200 again and again
C. disturbing them and making them start all over again D. criticizing them when they made mistakes
B
The best way to come first is to go last. An analysis of almost 50 years of competitions—including Eurovision Song Contests and world skating championships—has found that contestants are more likely to win if they are among the last to appear before the judges.
The study by an American university appears to provide scientific proof(证据) that the best man, or woman, does not always win.
It found that, on average, the last competitor to appear in the Eurovision Song Contest was more than twice as likely to win as the one who went on first. The first rounds of figureskating championships, for which the running order is selected at random, showed more dramatic results. The final skater had a 14 percent chance of victory, making him or her more than four times as likely to win as the first skater.
The study showed a gradual worsening of chances for competitors who appeared earlier in the running order. A contestant who appears first in a contest is two percent less likely to win than one who appears second. A contestant who appears second is two percent less likely to win than one who appears third, and so on.
The findings are published in the March issue of Acta Psychologica, a scientific journal.
Robert Hardman, a senior lecturer in psychology at London Metropolitan University who specializes in the science of decisionmaking, said that the results were interesting. He suggested that the effect was caused by the limitations of the human memory. “When people make comparisons, they aren’t really able to make a lot of fine-grade discrimination. When contestants appear at the beginning of a contest, judges have little to compare them to and are perhaps wary(谨慎的) of the scores they give,” he said.
“Later on, when judges are able to compare the contestants to those that have gone before, they might give more extreme marks because they feel more confident about their judgments.” 6. Robert Hardman’s words mainly tell about his . A. own achievement in the research B. explanation for the findings C. suggestion to solve the problem D. comments on the findings
7. The first skater in the first round of figure-skating championships had a percent chance of winning. A. two B. three C. four D. six
8. According to the study, the best competitor does not always win possibly because he/she .
A. fails to show his/her very best
B. is mistakenly put in the running order C. meets with unfair judges
D. appears too early before the judges 9. Judging from the context, the underlined word “worsening” in the fifth paragraph should mean . A. decrease in number B. increase in degree
C. reduction in possibility D. rising in quantity
10. What may be a problem with the judges according to the article? A. They can’t remember things well enough. B. They believe the first is seldom the best. C. They don’t really know what is good.
D. They show favor towards the contestants they like.
参 考 答 案
Unit 2 The United Kingdom
Ⅰ.单词拼写
1. divided 2. puzzled 3. convenience 4. attention 5. attraction 6. collecting
7. convenience 8. attraction 9. influence 10. industrial Ⅱ. 用方框内所给短语的适当形式填空 1. left out 2. take the place of 3. broke down 4. in memory of 5. consists of 6. is divided into 7. has influence on Ⅲ.翻译句子
1. There’s a great need to tell them at once that the meeting has been called off/cancelled. 2. In order to keep wild animals away, we had the fire burning all night long. 3. It’s a shame that you should have got into trouble on that occasion.
4. When asked why he was absent from school, he dropped his head without a word. 5. He suggests the classroom be cleaned twice a day. Ⅳ.单项填空
1. 解析：选C。pinned在句中充当message的宾语补足语，与宾语message之间是被动关系，故用过去分词。 2. 解析：选D。“由??构成”可用be made up of，consist of或comprise表示，但是要注意，B项主谓不一致。
3. 解析：选D。句意为：四点钟你把我捎到机场方便吗? free自由的，免费的；vacant空的；handy快捷的，手边的。
4. 解析：选A。taste为系动词，tasting nice在句中作原因状语。
5. 解析：选C。考查非谓语动词的用法。由句意可知，句子空白处的非谓语动词作定语。
6. 解析：选A。stuck to是过去分词作定语，修饰the plan；proved是the plan的谓语，prove表示“结果证明”时，是系动词，无被动语态，故排除D项。
7. 解析：选B。考查动词词义辨析。根据句意“你的账单中已包括刚才打破的杯子的费用”。include指包含不
