新人教版選修6《Unit5 The power of nature》2017年單元測(cè)試卷（河北省邢臺(tái)二中）
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第一部分 閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)）第一節(jié)（滿分30分）
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1．A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life．
Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding----undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism---if they had been made last week．In fact，they were shot from 1914 through 1916，most of them after a disastrous shipwreck（海灘），by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival．Many of the images were stored in an ice chest，under freezing water，in the damaged wooden ship．
The ship was the Endurance，a small，tight，Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists，27 men in all，to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea．From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled（雪橇） across the continent．The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done．Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back．
As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The Endurance，adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort．Scott's last journey，completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger，caught the world's imagination，and a film made in his honor drew crowds．Shackleton，a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908，started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography．Frank Hurley，a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic，was hired to make the images，most of which have never before been published．
（1）What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley？
A．They were made last week
B．They showed undersea sceneries
C．They were found by a cameraman
D．They recorded a disastrous adventure
（2）Who reached the South Pole first according to the text？
A．Frank Hurley
B．Ernest Shackleton
C．Robert Falcon Scott
D．Caroline Alexander
（3）What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage？
A．Artistic creation
B．Scientific research
C．Money making
D．Treasure hunting．組卷：9引用：2難度：0.9 -
2．Passenger pigeons（旅鴿）once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers．Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks（群）so large that they darkened the sky for hours．
It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point，there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons-a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States，making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world．Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller，a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles （about 515 kilometers）long was seen near Cincinnati．
Sadly，the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been theirundoing．Where the birds were most abundant，people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands．Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain，waited until pigeons had settled to feed，then threw large nets over them，taking hundreds at a time．The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants．
By the closing decades of the 19th century，the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans' need for wood，which scattered （驅(qū)散）the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north，where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline．Soon the great flocks were gone，never to be seen again．
In 1897，the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons，but by then，no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years．The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County，Ohio，in 1900．For a time，a few birds survived under human care．The last of them，known affectionately as Martha，died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1，1914．
（1）In the 18th and early 19th centuries，passenger pigeons．
A．were the biggest bird in the world
B．lived mainly in the south of America
C．did great harm to the natural environment
D．were the largest bird population in the US
（2）The underlined word"undoing"probably refers to the pigeons'．
A．escape
B．ruin
C．liberation
D．evolution
（3）What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons？
A．To seek pleasure
B．To save other birds
C．To make money
D．To protect crops．
（4）What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan？
A．It was ignored by the public
B．It was declared too late．
C．It was unfair
D．It was strict．組卷：178引用：11難度：0.7
第二節(jié)（滿分15分）閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（1個(gè)單詞）或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式．
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7．For families of firefighters，soldiers，policemen，miners or anyone else who risks death to do their jobs，（1）
（anxious）is a part of life．
Ellen，who（2）（live）in Miesau，Germany，often wakes up in the middle of the night，and she will change the channel（3）（swift） when she hears of another soldier（4）（kill）-not wanting to be reminded of her husband，a military（武裝的）policeman．
"It is a constant state of worry（5）this feels like your stomach is in your throat，"says Ellen，23，（6）stay-at-home mother of three kids．Her husband，Michael，searches for drugs and bombs with an Army K-9 unit．The military will send him（7）Kosovo next year．
"I feel proud because I know he is just doing his job（8）（make）our world a better place，"adds Ellen．"But at the same time I don't understand how he can put（9）（he） at risk，and our kids and me at the risk of（10）（lose）him as a father and as a husband．"組卷：6引用：2難度：0.4
第三部分 寫作 第一節(jié) 短文改錯(cuò)（滿分10分）
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8．My uncle is the owner of a restaurant close to that I live．Though not very big，but the restaurant is popular in our area．It is always crowded with customers at meal times．Some people even had to wait outside．My uncle tells me that the key to his success is honest．Every day he makes sure that fresh vegetables or high quality oil are using for cooking．My uncle says that he never dreams becoming rich in the short period of time．Instead，he hopes that our business will grow steady．
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