Unit 5 The Power of Nature
一、 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从所给的四个选项(ABC和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 1. ---------How much farther shall we have to go?
---------Another five miles until we reach the mountain ______ .
A. at a distance B. in a distance C. at distance D. in the distance
2. Considering that Frank did not have the ______ to do the important work well, the boss fired him.
A. cause B. hope C. reason D. potential
3. Mary dose all the cooking and cleaning, but her husband does ______ nothing to give her a hand.
A. absolutely B. naturally C. usually D. partly
4. He had a talent for management and was ________ manager of the company.
A. designed B. appointed C. respected D. honored 5. The old man may look threatening at first glance but he’s _______ a very friendly person.
A. hardly B. obviously C. readily D. actually
6. _______ the question many times, Henry lost patience with his slow brother. A. Having been explained B. Explained C. To explain D. Having explained
7. Both his parents were killed in the terrible fire and his house was burn to the ______.
A. earth B. ground C. floor D. end 8. The new stadium being built for the next Asian Games will be _______ the present one.
A. as three times big as B. three times as big as C. as big as three times D. as big three times as
9. The volcano _______ in 1980, damaging a large area of Washington State.
A. exploded B. blew C. burst D. erupted
10. They do what they can to _____ the old museum _________.
A. preserve, from destroying B. protect, from destroying C. prevent, from being destroyed D. keep, being destroyed 11. We could go now or this afternoon. Whatever time ________ you best?
A. fits B. meets C. satisfies D. suits
12. Hearing the news that he won the first in the competition, his voice trembled ________ excitement.
A. for B. in C. with D. at 13. Disappointed, I was about to leave __________ something occurred, which ________ my attention.
A. while, paid B. and, got C. before, drew D. when, attracted
14. Knowing that his brother is waiting for him at the station, he made his ________ there immediately.
A. way B. decision C. judge D. preparation
15. There will be about 30 people coming to attend the meeting, and among them ___________ artists, writers, musicians and so on.
A. are B. include C. have D. remain
二、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1。5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(ABC和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
The famous British inventor George Stephenson was born in 1781 and died in 1848. One of his__16__important inventions was the train. He _17__his first train when he was forty-four years old. When he was experimenting with the __18__engine on the train, he met with __19__from the government, the newspapers and the gentlemen in the country. They said that the noise and the smoke would _20__ cows, horses and sheep, that the 21__ would burst or that the hot coals from it would __22_ their houses. At that time,__23__people believed what they said.
George Stephenson __24__the people that the train could go on small _25_, could pull carriages __26_goods and passengers and there was __27__to them. It was a very __28__ matter for him to __29__hem believe. However, after _30_, he was able to do it; and the first train that __31__by Stephenson himself __32_ what he had said.
The first day _33_the people along the way _34_the noises of the train __35__ and saw it running quickly to them, they ran back home as quickly as they could and closed their doors tightly, for they thought it a genius(妖怪).They did not dare to come out until it had passed.
16. A. very B. a lot C. most D. much 17. A. made B. bought C. introduced D. did 18. A. electrical B. atomic C. steam D. oil 19. A. success B. troubles C. people D. pleasure
20. A. kill B. buy C. interest D. take away 21. A. smoke B. noise C. driver D. engine 22. A. pull down B. blow away C. set fire to D. pass 23. A. most B. few C. only a few D. the rich 24. A. said B. spoke C. told D. warned 25. A. roads B. rivers C. steam D. rails 26. A. short of B. full of C. empty of D. without
27. A. no great danger B. dangerous C. a lot of danger D. few danger
28. A. easy B. difficult C. pleasant D. light 29. A. get B. cause C. make D. force 30. A. sometime B. some time C. a few times D. sometimes 31. A. was sold B. was driven C. was pulled D. helped 32. A. believed B. seemed C. sensed D. proved 33. A. of B. when C. while D. for
34. A. caught sight of B. listened to C. heard D. thought 35. A. nearby B. in the distance C. on the far D. from the distance
三、阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(ABC和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
Geena David knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young. She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star. “I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sunglasses,” she says. “I used to wear them to watch TV.”
Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses not because they looked good, but because their eyes hurt. The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as “Klieg eyes”. It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights. Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest. But when movie stars began wearing their sunglasses in public, they quickly became a must.
Eventually actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street. Audrey Hephburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies. In 1979, Ray-Ban “Wayfarers” were worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blue Brothers. Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban “Aviator” sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban “Predator” sunglasses famous in Men in Black.
Of course sunglasses aren’t just a fashion statement. The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation. UV radiation can damage our eyes, so people now choose their sunglasses carefully. But you don’t have to give up style for safety. The choice of frames and lenses available these days is huge. So you can protect your eyes and still be the coolest person on the beach. 36.What is mainly discussed in this passage?
A. The use of sunglasses. B. The history of sunglasses.
C. The sunglasses wearing. D. Why movie stars like to wear sunglasses. 37.Why did Geena David like to wear sunglasses?
A. She was a movie star. B. She wanted to follow a movie star. C. Wearing sunglasses was good to her eyes. D. It was good to wear sunglasses when watching TV.
38.Early actors’ eyes hurt because ______.
A. they wore sunglasses B. they went out in the sun too much C. the lights on movie sets were too bright D. their scripts were written in very small writing
39.We may know from this passage that ______. A. Audrey Hephburn was a famous film star B. Ray-Ban is the name of sunglasses maker
C. Sunglasses made Top Gun the hit in 1986 D. Men in Black must be an advertisement of sunglasses
40.Now people wear sunglasses ______. A. just to protect their eyes B. for fashion and to protect their eyes
C. because of bright lights D. because movie stars wear them
B
When he took office, George W. Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quiney Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.
Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Although George Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he finally served as a congressman(国会议员), and vice(副) president and president of the United States.
At the age of two,Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father took up the oil business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family returned to Texas and settled in Midland, where Bush lived from 1950 to 1959.
In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, aboarding school(寄宿学校) that his father had also attended.
At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut.His father and grandfather had also attended Yale. At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates.
Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Then he joined the Air National Guard and remained in the Guard until 1973. After earning his MBA from Harvard in 1975, Bush returned to Midland. Like his father, he first entered the oil industry as a “landsman(新手)”. However, Bush’s oil companies never enjoyed great success. He took more interest in politics. He helped his father to become president and in 1994 he himself was elected governor of Texas.
In the summer of 1999, Bush began to run for the president of the USA and on January 20, 2001, George W. Bush, hand raised, took the oath(宣誓) of office to become the 43rd president of the US.
41.What does the writer intend to tell us in the first paragraph?
A. George W. Bush is the first son in American history to follow his father into the White House.
B. George W. Bush is the first son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush.
C. John Quincy Adams and his father were both former American presidents. D. George W. Bush is the second one in American history to follow his father
into the White House.
42.We may learn from the text that young Bush ______.
A. got on very well at the universities B. was very good at basketball, baseball and football
C. did everything as his father had done D. was a very successful politician like his father
43.Which of the following is NOT true about George W. Bush?
A. Young Bush lived with his family in Texas from 1948 to 1961.
B. He once studied at a university that his father and grandfather had also
attended.
C. He once ruled over an American state before he entered the White House.
D. He once served at the Air National Guard for about five years.
C
In 1752, three years after two Scotsmen, Alexander Wilson and Thomas Melville, fastened thermometers to kites to record the temperature of clouds, Benjamin Franklin made his famous experiment with a kite, a string, and a key. Franklin hoped to show that nature's tremendous displays of electricity in lightning were the same thing as the feeble electric sparks scientists of the day were producing in their laboratories. He built a square kite to which he attached an iron wire. He flew the kite with a hemp string(麻线), and near the base of the string he tied a large brass key. The kite rose into a dark thundercloud, where the iron wire picked up electrical charges. Franklin noticed that the strands of the string(绳串) were beginning to stand up with electricity. As rain wet the string, it conducted more electricity. Standing in the shelter of a shed, Franklin cautiously reached out his finger to touch the brass key. A series of sparks jumped from the key to his finger. He thus proved that lightning and electricity are the same. We now know that this experiment was a dangerous one, for Franklin might have been killed by a bolt of lighting. 44. The best title for this passage is ________.
A. The Discover of Electricity B. The kite and Science C. Franklin's Experiment with Lightning D. Franklin, a Great Scientist 45. According to the passage, Benjamin Franklin ________.
A. recorded the temperature of clouds B. was killed by a bolt of
lightning
C. proved that lightning can be controlled by man D. proved that lightning and
electricity have the same essential nature
46. Two Scotsmen experimented with kites in ________.
A. 1752 B. 1746 C. 1755 D. 1749 47. Franklin did not use a ________.
A. string B. wire C. key D. thermometer 48. The fact that Franklin was not injured was apparently due to ________.