题组层级快练33 Unit 3 Under the sea
Ⅰ. 阅读理解
When our daughter, Sandy, belonged to the St. Mark Evangelical Lutheran Girl Pioneers in sixth grade, the leaders thought it would be nice if the girls made pine cone wreaths (花环)for their families as Christmas gifts. So the group gathered pine cones, put them in water and bought wire wreath frames and adhesive(黏合剂) to hold everything in place. A few days before Christmas, they and their leaders delivered the finished handiwork.
Through the years, we proudly hung up her wreath each Christmas. In 1986, the wreath was hanging on our door as usual when the temperature on Christmas Day reached 80 degrees. The adhesive began to break down and the pine cones started falling all over our front porch. We took the wreath down, planning to repair it, and gathered up the pine cones. That spring, as my husband, Don, was weeding the flower bed in front of our house, he was surprised to discover a small evergreen plant.
We decided to leave it alone. The determined tree kept growing, making it right through the long winter. When it got too big for the flower bed we moved it to the back of our lot. As the tree grew, so did our family, including four grandchildren. One day the men from the electric company came to trim (修剪) our trees. One of them said it was a shame that someday our nice evergreen would have to be cut down. We just couldn't let that happen to our faithful—if accidental—Christmas tree.
We decided to move it again, this time to Sandy and her husband Joel's new house in the country. My husband helped Joel dig the evergreen out. It wasn't ready to let go without a fight. Finally, five hours later, the tree came loose. They wrapped the roots as best as they could and put the whole thing in Joel's truck.
After an hour's drive they planted the tree. I'm happy to report that our brave evergreen is still growing, now producing pine cones of its own. 1. What was a Christmas tradition for the family? A. Making dishes with pine cones. B. Making wreaths together with Sandy. C. Hanging Sandy's handiwork on the door. D. Decorating the Christmas tree together. 2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about? A. What the good old days were like. B. How the family took care of the wreaths.
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C. What their attitude toward Christmas was. D. How the family “treasure” came into being.
3. What does the underlined word “that” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. Cutting down the evergreen. B. Leaving the evergreen alone. C. The man's judging the family. D. Having the evergreen trimmed again. 4. Which is the best title for the passage? A. My Family Tradition C. A Beloved Christmas Tree 答案与解析
【文章大意】 本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者的女儿六年级时听从她所参加的St. Mark Evangelical Lutheran Girl Pioneers的领导的安排，用松球做一个花环来作为家人的圣诞礼物。后来这个花环的松球掉落在她家门廊前(的土里)，长出了一棵松树(西方通常用松树做圣诞树)，他们一家非常珍惜这棵树。 1. 答案 C
解析 考查细节理解。根据第一段的内容尤其是“they and their leaders delivered the finished handiwork”可知，Sandy在六年级时用松球做了这个手工花环作为圣诞礼物，根据第二段中的“Through the years, we proudly hung up her wreath each Christmas ... on our door as usual”可知，作者一家每个圣诞节都会骄傲地在门上挂上Sandy做的松球花环。 2. 答案 D
解析 考查段落大意。根据第二段内容尤其是“That spring, as my husband, Don, was weeding the flower bed in front of our house, he was surprised to discover a small evergreen plant”可知，本段主要讲述作者一家将松球花环悬挂在门上，有一年，这个花环的松球掉落在她家门廊前(的土里)，后来作者的丈夫就在花坛里发现了一株松树的幼苗。由此可总结出本段主要讲的是作者一家格外珍惜的松树的由来。 3. 答案 A
解析 考查代词指代。根据第三段中的“One day the men from the electric company ... One of them said it was a shame that someday our nice evergreen would have to be cut down”可知，电力公司来修剪树的一个人说，有朝一日我们这棵很棒的松树将不得不被砍掉，这是很可惜的。而画线词所在句表示我们绝对不会让这样的事发生在我们的树身上，再结合下文中作者一家将树移栽到别的地方可知，此处表示我们不会让这棵松树被砍掉。 4. 答案 C
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B. My Daughter's Growth D. A Special Pine Cone Wreath
解析 考查标题判断。文章虽然是用松球做的花环作为圣诞礼物引出的故事，但作者主要是描写一棵长在自己家里的圣诞树。所以答案为C项。 Ⅱ. 完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In our house, English is not English. Not in the phonetic (语音的) sense, like short “a” is for “apple”， but rather in the pronunciation. There is no difference between cast and cash, snake and snack ...
When my mother moved to a town in Malaysia, she had to learn a new language: English. In a time when humiliation (羞辱) was encouraged, my mother was __1__ against the cruel words from the teacher, who __2__ her paper in front of the class. When she cried, the monitor stood up and said, “That's enough.” She __3__ mended my mother's strands (线) of language. She stood up for the weak and used her __4__ to fight back.
Later on, my mother asked me to teach her __5__ English so old white ladies at Target wouldn't __6__ her pronunciation. There is sort of guilt when I __7__ her letters together. Long vowels, double consonants—I am still learning myself. Sometimes I let my __8__ slide “to keep her pride” __9__ perhaps I have hurt her more to __10__ mine.
As my mother's __11__ began to grow, I mended my own English. Through __12__ people from all walks of life as a journalist I promote knowledge and __13__ ignorance and become a voice for the homeless, the refugees, and the __14__. My mother's eyes are reflected in __15__ children in poor countries who have so many stories to tell but do not know how to express themselves in English.
In our house, there is __16__ in the way we speak to each other and language isn't broken but rather bursting with __17__. There are snacks in the tank and friendly __18__ in the cupboard. We have built a house __19__ words. It is a little messy. But this is where we have made our __20__． 1. A. resistant C. prejudiced 2. A. criticized C. contradicted 3. A. aggressively C. patiently
B. defenseless D. fearless B. condemned D. commanded B. roughly D. deliberately
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4. A. experiences C. conclusions 5. A. proper C. complex 6. A. show off C. care about 7. A. write C. gather 8. A. attitude C. enthusiasm 9. A. so C. but 10. A. spare C. injure 11. A. ability C. vocabulary 12. A. commenting C. inspiring 13. A. stand against C. set back 14. A. hesitant C. ignored 15. A. underrated C. underpaid 16. A. beauty C. conflict 17. A. wisdom C. philosophy 18. A. stocks C. sticks 19. A. upwards of C. aside from 20. A. house C. family
B. sacrifices D. words B. fluent D. accessible B. laugh at D. account for B. read D. sew B. pattern D. brokenness B. or D. and B. embarrass D. tolerate B. grammar D. spirit B. interviewing D. assisting B. figure out D. call for B. educated D. ignorant B. underprivileged D. undersized B. mystery
D. misunderstanding B. emotion D. creativity B. steaks D. snakes B. far from D. out of B. home D. household
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答案与解析
【文章大意】 本文改编自一位华裔女孩的大学申请信。在她家里，“英语不是英语”，那些在外人听来是错误的读音的英语单词丝毫没有阻碍家人之间的沟通，反而让他们倍感家的温馨。 1. 答案 B
解析 根据上文的“In a time when humiliation (羞辱) was encouraged”和下文的“the cruel words”“When she cried”可知，在一个盛行羞辱的年代，作者的母亲无力反抗来自老师的讥讽。defenseless“无力抵抗的；无力防卫的”符合语境。resistant“抵抗的；有抵抗力的”；prejudiced“歧视的；存在偏见的”；fearless“无畏的”。 2. 答案 A
解析 根据上文的“the cruel words from the teacher”和下文的“When she cried”可知，作者母亲的老师当着全班学生的面，用尖酸刻薄的语言评论她的作文。criticize“批评；指责；评论”符合语境。condemn“谴责；声讨”；contradict“反驳；否定；与……抵触”；command“命令”。 3. 答案 C
解析 根据语境可知，班长不仅保护了她，还耐心地帮她提高语言水平。patiently“耐心地”符合语境。aggressively“好寻衅地；有上进心地”；roughly“粗略地”；deliberately“故意地”。 4. 答案 D
解析 根据上文的“the monitor stood up and said, ‘That's enough.’”和“She stood up for the weak”可知，这位班长为弱者站起来并用语言来回击。word “话语；言语”符合语境。experience“经历”；sacrifice“牺牲”；conclusion“结论；推论”。 5. 答案 A
解析 根据前两段的内容和下文的“so old white ladies at Target wouldn't __6__ her pronunciation”可知，母亲让作者教她正确的英语(发音)，这样Target商场的白人老太太就不会嘲笑她的发音了。proper“正确的；恰当的；真正的”符合语境。fluent“流利的”；accessible“容易理解的”。 6. 答案 B
解析 参见上题解析。laugh at“嘲笑”符合语境。show off“炫耀”；care about“关心；在乎”；account for“是……的原因；为……负责”。 7. 答案 D
解析 根据下文的“Long vowels, double consonants—I am still learning myself ... I have hurt her more to __10__ mine”可知，其实作者自己也仍在学习长元音、双辅音，有时作者会带过自己尚且不标准的单词发音，但这也许会使母亲被伤害得更深。所以当作者
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