人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册英语单元测试AB卷 Unit 2 B卷 能力提升 Word版含解析.doc

1、 - 1 - 人教版（人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册英语单元测试）选择性必修第一册英语单元测试 AB 卷卷 Unit 2 B 卷卷 能力提升能力提升 一、阅读理解 1. Smart Home Products for Living a Connected Life What makes something a smart home product? Generally, its defined by its ability to connect to a Wi-Fi network, allowing users to interact(交流) with it from their sma

2、rtphones. Weve rounded up some cool, diverse offerings that youll love to have in your home. Nest Cam IQ $299.00 The Nest Cam IQ is a beautifully designed home security camera that can recognize faces. It can warn you if theres a stranger in your home. The device also supports two-way communication

3、via built-in microphones and a powerful speaker. Logitech Harmony Elite $249.99 The Logitech Harmony Elite is one of the best universal remote controls available on the market. It can control just about every piece of electronics you own in every room of your house or apartment, including TVs, strea

4、ming devices, and sound systems. It supports over 270,000 devices! Apple HomePod $349.00 The Apple HomePod has better audio quality than any other smart speaker available today. Available in white or space gray, the Siri-powered device also allows you to control a number of devices with your voice.

5、August Smart Lock Pro $279.99 - 2 - The August Smart Lock Pro is compatible (兼容的) with most locks. A mobile app allows you to manage access to the lock, check its usage history, and get informed when someone opens the door. You can control it and check on the state of your door with voice commands.

6、1.What can the Nest Cam IQ help you do? A.Properly use your smartphone camera. B.Control electronics with your voice. C.Check the locks of your house. D.Keep your home safe. 2.Which device can help you operate almost all your electronic equipment remotely? A.Nest Cam IQ. B.Apple HomePod. C.August Sm

7、art Lock Pro. D.Logitech Harmony Elite. 3.Which column of a website is the text most probably taken from? A.Technology. B.News. C.Society. D.Education. 2. Got 48 hours to relax yourself? Youll maximize your time and fun at these amazing destinations. Alabama: Gulf Shores For relaxing weekend getaway

8、s in Alabama, head south to the white-sand beaches of Gulf Shores. Get on the water for some deep-sea fishing. History lovers can get a lesson in the Civil War along a 90-mile path with more than a dozen historic sites. Alaska: Homer How does fresh seafood sound? Youll find it in Homer, located in s

9、outh-central Alaska, which is either a short flight or a great four-hour scenic drive on the Seward Highway from Anchorage. Get your fill of fishing in Kachemak Bay, explore local trails and enjoy exceptional birding in this remote natural setting. Arizona: Sedona Adventurous types can get their fil

10、l in the magical red rocks of Sedona, which is said to be the location of healing centers of energy. People flood into the area to meditate, practice yoga and more. Sedona also offers fantastic hiking, off-roading, biking, and even climbing. Arkansas: Hot Springs Relax and renew in Arkansas hot wate

11、rs in Hot Springs, and art community with Art Deco architecture that is also the home of Hot Springs National Park. Make time for a visit to Bathhouse Row, a National Historic Landmark of eight bathhouses, and Superior Bathhouse Brewery, which - 3 - produces beer made of the hot spring water inside

12、the National Park. Dont miss these National Parks that are off the beaten path. 1.Which activity can be found in both Gulf Shores and Homer? A.Going fishing. B.Taking a flight. C.Enjoying beautiful birds. D.Visiting historic sites. 2.Which destination is popular with hikers? A.Gulf Shores. B.Homer.

13、C.Sedona. D.Hot Springs. 3.What is Superior Bathhouse Brewery known for? A.Its self-made beer. B.Its architecture. C.Its bathhouses. D.Its paths. 4.Where is this text most likely from? A.A diary. B.A survey. C.A novel. D.A magazine. 3. Have you ever wondered what wild animals do when no one is watch

14、ing? Low cost, dependable and small modern cameras offered a big help. Cameras placed in hard-to-reach places have shot everything from small desert cats to larger snow-loving felines in the northern Rocky Mountains. Scientists have been able to document the private moments of wildlife with leading

15、technology. Grant Harris is a government biologist with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In his words, theres no doubt that these wild cameras are important tools to learn new information on wildlife. Harris said some images help scientists see the effects of c

16、limate change. Researchers with the Wyoming Migration Initiative, or WMI, are among those using wild cameras along with global positioning systems, or GPS. But WMI director Matthew Kauffman says as those devices are limited, so is the amount of information they can gather from GPS. However, cameras

17、can be left in very wild areas for days, weeks or even months. They can provide information on how many animals are moving over a given period of time. Putting those cameras in place requires careful planning. Wild video can show details about animal behavior. However, wild cameras have their proble

18、ms too. Animals such as wolverines and bears sometimes attack them. Scientists do not know if the attacks are the result of anger or interest. Also, the devices have become popular tools to help hunters look for animals. Some people argue that it is unfair to use the cameras that way. - 4 - Even wit

19、h such problems, wild cameras are clearly an important scientific tool in researching wild animals. 1.What does the underlined word document in Paragraph 2 mean? A.Remind. B.Enrich. C.Appreciate. D.Record. 2.Which is a disadvantage of wild cameras? A.They cannot be left in the wild over a long perio

20、d. B.They cannot be placed in hard-to-reach areas. C.They provide limited information. D.They might be stolen by people. 3.Why do some people argue against using wild cameras? A.It is difficult to fix the cameras. B.It helps hunters find animals easily. C.It is hard to achieve careful planning. D.It

21、 makes animals interested in the cameras. 4.What is the authors attitude towards wild cameras? A.Doubtful. B.Positive. C.Uncertain. D.Uncaring. 4. Nearly every week, we hear news about the latest successes and failures in driverless vehicles. But we hear little about how other industries are develop

22、ing this same kind of technology. One industry heavily involved in researching and developing artificial intelligence, or AI, is agriculture. Companies are experimenting with high-tech tools that can help farmers save time and money, while reducing environment-harming chemicals. One of the companies

23、 is ecoRobotix of Switzerland. It created a robot equipped with AI and cameras to identify all plants on a farm. The robot has four wheels to carry it through the fields in search of weeds. Computer-controlled arms then lower and spray the weeds with small amounts of herbicide (除草剂). Company officia

24、ls say the robot can fully operate on its own for up to 12 hours a day while being powered by the sun. It uses the same kind of sensor and positioning technology used to guide driverless vehicles. A farmer can also control the equipment through a smartphone. The co-founder of ecoRobotix, Aurelien De

25、maurex, says the farm robot can kill weeds with 20 times less herbicide than traditional methods. This is because the system uses exactly the right amount of chemical in the exact place required to kill the weeds. Currently, farmers spread weed killers over massive areas to destroy unwanted plants.

26、Another company developing farm robotics is California-based Blue River Technology. The - 5 - company has a system called See a growing body of evidence suggests humans are consuming plastics through the seafood we eat. Research suggests some plastics could be poisonous to humans, and could potentia

27、lly increase the risk of health problems. _. At the Economist World Ocean Summit this week, ten nations announced to reduce plastic sea litter as part of UN Environments Clean Seas campaign. _. Corporations also have a role, as do individuals. We can start by thinking twice before using single-use p

28、lastic productsand when we do use them, we should take care to properly throw them off or recycle. A. The following is what we should do B. And its not just wildlife thats threatened C. And this figure is likely to double by 2025 D. But its not just countries that need to do their part E. By 2050, t

29、hat figure is expected to rise to 1,000 pieces F. Thats how much plastic waste ends up in our oceans every year G. All of us have an important role to play in dealing with the problems 三、完形填空 Modern inventions have speeded up peoples lives amazingly. Motor cars 1 a hundred miles in more than an hour

30、, aircraft cross the world within a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of 2 seems never-ending. Every year motor cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of 3 precious seconds in handling tasks. All these save time, but at a cost. When

31、we lose or 4 half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag (时差). Our bodies feel that they have been 5 behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at 6 results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones al

32、so have their dangers: too much use may transmit harmful 7 into our brains. However, how do we 8 the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so used to constant activity that we find it 9 to sit down and do nothing or even just one thing at a 10 . Perhaps the days are long go

33、ne when we might listen 11 to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world. - 7 - There was a time when some peoples lives were devoted simply to the cultivation (耕作) of the 12 or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace. There is

34、 much that we might envy about a 13 of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors 14 . Modern machines have 15 people from that primitive existence. 1.A. explore B. get C. cover D. fly 2.A. speed B. time C. product D. distance 3.A. wasting B. losing C. saving

35、D. spending 4.A. earn B. drop C. miss D. gain 5.A. left B. come C. forgotten D. felt 6.A. ships B. airplanes C. computers D. cars 7.A. prevention B. radiation C. combination D. damage 8.A. control B. handle C. do D. deal 9.A. uncomfortable B. easy C. difficult D. good 10.A. second B. day C. year D.

36、time 11.A. actively B. quietly C. quickly D. curiously 12.A. surface B. water C. land D. island 13.A. way B. view C. pathway D. point 14.A. expressed B. charged C. inspired D. faced 15.A. freed B. remained C. kept D. cleared 四、语法填空 Global warming could make humans shorter Scientists claim to have fo

37、und evidence that it caused the worlds first horses _ (become) smaller nearly 50 million years ago. In fact, a team from the universities of Florida and Nebraska says _ has found a link between the earth heating up and the size of horses, during the last time the world heated up. The scientists used

38、 fossils to follow the evolution of horses from their earliest _ (appear) 56 million years ago. As temperatures went up, their size went _. The scientists say that the current warming could have the same effect _ mammals and could even make humans _ (small). Horses started out small, about the size

39、of a small dog. Whats _ (surprise) is that after they first appeared, they then became even smaller and then dramatically increased in size, and that _ ( exact) - 8 - corresponds to (符合) the global warming event, followed by cooling. It had been known that mammals _ ( be) small during the last warm

40、time, _ we hadnt realised that temperature specifically was driving the evolution of body size, Dr Bloch said in the Science journal. 五、写作 请根据下面提示,写一篇有关未来的房子的短文。词数 6080。 1. 随着科学技术的发展,未来的房子在许多方面都是智能的。(development, smart) 2. 房子将配备一个中枢系统,根据周围环境的变化进行调整。(equip, adjustment) 3. 一旦它感觉到它的主人不舒适,房子可以自动调整,使环境舒适

41、。(instant, detect, adjust) 4. 总之,毫无疑问,未来的房子将为我们提供一切便利。(conclusion, doubt, convenience) _ _ _ _ 阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数 应为 150 左右。 Though it is one of the faded memories of my life today, there are times when I remember his face clearly, especially his eyes. As he had yellow spots

42、on his eyes we called him Spotty. He would have been a stray (流浪)dog, until he came to me. I was seven years old. My dad had just got a new job in Nasik. We had moved into a rented house. It was raining very heavily on the day we moved. It was a cold dark night. We had our meal and went to sleep. So

43、mehow in the midnight I heard some strange sounds outside the main door. I gathered courage and looked out through the window and I was really amused with what I saw outside. There was a small puppy lying on an old doormat which my mother had put outside the door. It was wet and trembling. At first

44、it was difficult to see the little one. It was the yellow spots on its eyes that made me realize its presence. It was trying to get under the doormat to avoid the cold air outside and it had managed to get in as I could see only its head outside the doormat. Was it sick or injured? I felt pity for t

45、he poor soul. I went in and came out with an old towel. I went near the innocent one and held it in my hand and wiped the puppy till he had become dry. I took him into my room - 9 - and made a bed for him with a woolen blanket and a small pillow. He seemed very healthy and comfortable in his new bed

46、 as he went to sleep immediately. The next morning, everyone in the family came to know about the unusual guest, Shall we keep him with us? I questioned my mom. Like any other parents would, my parents first totally refused my idea but my sister and I convinced them to keep Spotty. Slowly Spotty got on with everyone and became one of the family members. Paragraph 1 : One day, Spotty returned from his daily walk with a broken leg._ _ _ _ Paragraph 2 : Almost a year later, one midnight we heard Spotty barking breathlessly._