2019-2020學年高一下學期訓練卷
必修四 Unit2?Working the land?
英 ??語 ?（二）
（本卷滿分100分）
一、閱讀理解（每小題2分，共16分）
A
A few weeks ago, I sat with a California farmer named Dave Ribeiro. I asked him what he wished to know about farmers. He smiled and said, “That we walk among you. We look like you and talk like you. We have advanced degrees and hobbies, just like you.”
Take Dave for example: He's a young man with a music degree. And if you walked past him on the street, you'd never think, “There goes a farmer.”
Is someone like Dave who you picture when you think of a farmer? Probably not. I think that most people would picture a man in his overalls(工作服). I can tell you, that does not represent Dave or any of the many other farmers I have gotten to know.
Not only do we have to throw out our previous impression of farmers, but farming as a whole doesn't look much like it used to either. We recently sent a team out to see what modern farming looks like, and they found farmers to be completely different from our usual ideas about them and also came across them in some unexpected places.
In a parking lot in a neighborhood of Brooklyn, they met a new crop of young
farmers who were trying to bring fresh greens closer to eaters in the city by growing them in high-tech indoor vertical(垂直的) farms. In a Florida field under the fight path of an airport, they discovered farmers with university degrees growing plants that might someday fuel our cars. And in a modern farm in California, they observed how farmers were using technology to take the best possible care of their animals.
These farmers all spend their days in very different ways—none of them looks like the previous farmer we have in our mind—but they're all working on new ways to feed our planet. Not only do we need to change our idea of what farming looks like, but we also need to change our view of where solutions can come from. Feeding all of us is going to take all of us working together.
1. How does Dave describe today's farmers?
A. They often walk on the street.
B. They are leading a very busy life.
C. They are similar to ordinary people.
D. They have little time to make friends.
2. How does the author think most people see farmers?
A. They usually wear overalls.
B. They have interesting hobbies.
C. They are skilled at growing crops.
D. They know modern farming practices.
3. What was the purpose of the team?
A. To deepen connections among farmers.
B. To study different technologies in farming.
C. To find the new developments of modern farming.
D. To encourage farmers to use new farming method.
4. What do the farmers mentioned in Paragraph 5 have in common?
A. They all work in the city.
B. They all use high technology.
C. They all do hard physical work.
D. They all work with universities.
B
Over the past 40 years, China has helped more than 700 million rural residents out of being poor, and the poverty rate(貧困率) — the proportion of people living below the Chinese poverty line — had fallen among the rural population from 97.5 percent in 1978 to 3.1 percent at the end of 2017, official figures shows. China’s achievements in poverty alleviation(扶貧) made the world look at China with admiration.
“For me, it is unbelievable that over 40 years, that is, over the course of one working lifetime, China has gone from one of the poorest countries in the world to one that is about to eliminate(消除) absolute poverty,” said Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council.
Varaprasad Sekhar Dolla, a professor of Chinese studies at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, also spoke highly of China’s achievements in poverty reduction. “If global poverty came down greatly in the last three or four decades, it’s partly because of the Chinese contribution to reducing poverty within its own national boundaries,” said the Indian scholar.
In the eyes of Khairy Tourk, a professor of economics with the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, “many countries look up to China to learn from its experience.” “The Chinese experience is based on building a modern infrastructure(基礎設施) and then on setting up special economic zones that would help underdeveloped countries to become more industrial,” he added.
In the government work report delivered at the opening of the annual NPC session (全國人大會議) on March 5, China promises to reduce its population of rural poor by over 10 million this year.
5. What’s the purpose of the numbers given in the first paragraph?
A. To show China has helped many rural residents out of poverty.
B. To imply many Chinese are suffering from poverty.
C. To show the great changes of China in the past 40 decades.
D. To indicate all Chinese will eliminate poverty this year.
6. What’s the attitude of Craig Allen to China’s achievements in poverty alleviation?
A. surprised. B. interested. C. upset. D. indifferent.
7. Which is the meaning of the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3?
A. The global poverty has come down except China.
B. China should try its best to help the world out of poverty.
C. China has made great contributions to world poverty alleviation.
D. China has eliminated poverty completely.
8. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. China will make more progress in poverty alleviation.
B. China has done a lot in poverty alleviation.
C. China has realized its dream to help its people out of poverty.
D. The world speak well of China’s achievements in poverty alleviation.
二、七選五（每小題2分，共10分）
Every new person added to the planet needs food, water, clothes, and so on. 9. ?????????. Those things require extra natural resources,?including land and water. But Earth’s riches are limited. Less than 1 percent of Earths water can be used for drinking and washing. One out of every thirteen people around the world does not always have enough clean water. 10. ???????. Too many people are using too much water, especially in the already dry areas of the southwestern United States.
Food shortages(不足) are even more common. Worldwide, one out of every seven people does not get enough to eat. 11. ????????. Over time, the soil loses its nutrients(營養(yǎng))?and the farmland becomes useless for growing food. As the world becomes more crowded(擁擠的),?more land is needed to make way for growing cities. 12. ???????. That’s a problem because trees help take in a gas called carbon dioxide. Humans produce carbon dioxide by burning coal and oil. Fewer trees mean more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The buildup of carbon dioxide traps heat and pollution above Earth.
13. ??????, although every person uses the planet's resources. The richest billion people, Americans especially, use the most resources. They also produce the most waste.
A. Forests are cleared away
B. Some people use a lot more than others
C. Water shortages have hit many parts of the world
D. Water pollution is a serious problem in some areas
E. More trees should be planted to handle air pollution
F. Huge needs for food force farmers to overuse their land
G. More people mean more cars, roads, schools, hospitals, and stores
三、完形填空（每小題1.5分，共30分）
Germany is a highly developed country. Many people think its people lead a luxurious(奢侈的) life. One day，my friend and I ???14 ??a restaurant. We noticed that a young couple was having their meal. There were ???15 ???two dishes and two cans of beer on their table. I wondered if such a(n) ???16 ??meal could be fine and whether the girl would leave that???17 ??man.
As we were ???18 ??, my friend ordered more food for us. When we left, there was still about one third of the food we had ordered on the table. When we were leaving, the young man spoke to us in English. We???19 ??that he was unhappy about us ???20 ??so much food. “We paid for our food. It is none of your ???21 ??how much food we left behind,” my friend told him. The young man was so angry that he ???22 ???took his phone out and made a call to someone.
After a while, an officer from the Social Security Organization(社會保障組織) arrived. Upon knowing what had happened, he gave us a €50 fine(罰款), which ???23 _ ??us.
The officer told us in a ???24 ???voice, “ ???25 ???is yours but resources(資源) belong to society. There are many ???26 ???people in the world who are ??27__ ??hunger. We have no ???28 ???to waste resources.”
Their attitude to eating put both of us to ???29 ??. We need to correct our wrong ???___30 ??. We are from a country which is not very rich. To save face, we often think we should order more than we can eat, which ???31 ??our friends our generosity(慷慨). We should realize that resources don’t belong to a (n) ???32 ???person but they belong to everyone. We can’t???33 ???to waste them.
14. A. opened ??? B. left ??? C. entered ??? ??D. called
15. A. still ??? B. even ??? C. already ??? ??D. only
16. A. simple ??? B. cheap ??? C. expensive ??? ??D. common
17. A. gentle ??? B. stupid ??? C. mean ??? ??D. friendly
18. A. full ??? B. hungry ??? C. honest ??? ??D. free
19. A. disagreed ??? B. understood ??? C. ignored ??? ??D. doubted
20. A. ordering ??? B. eating ??? C. wasting ??? ??D. serving
21. A. business ??? B. power ??? C. action ??? ??D. mind
22. A. slowly ??? B. calmly ??? C. exactly ??? ??D. immediately
23. A. worried ??? B. upset ??? C. surprised ??? ??D. satisfied
24. A. relaxing ??? B. serious ??? C. grateful ??? ??D. boring
25. A. Money ??? B. Decision ??? C. Right ??? ??D. Freedom
26. A. old ??? B. young ??? C. rich ??? ??D. poor
27. A. thinking about ??B. bringing in ??? C. suffering from ???D. getting along with
28. A. use ??? B. reason ??? C. need ??? ??D. way
29. A. shame ??? B. trouble ??? C. interest ??? ??D. joy
30. A. purpose ??? B. method ??? C. education ??? ??D. opinion
31. A. returns ??? B. shows ??? C. lends ??? ??D. passes
32. A. important ??? B. wealthy ??? C. single ??? ??D. special
33. A. expect ??? B. begin ??? C. manage ??? ??D. afford
四、單句語法填空（每小題2分，共24分）
34. More and more people tend to communicate with each other by _________(mean) of the Internet.
35. We're carrying out the plan smoothly，but I am _____________(concern) about whether we can carry it on to the end.
36. They were surprised that a child should work out the problem ____________ they themselves couldn't.
37. It is his courage as well as his intelligence that _________(make) him succeed.
38. ____________ made him happy was that he won the first prize in the contest.
39. Lincoln is regarded as one of the most inspiring ____________(figure) in the world.
40. We stood there for quite some time,?__________(argue) about?who should be responsible for the accident.
41. If I ____________(be) you, I would ask our teacher for advice.
42. Jack's business is not as good as before, so he has to cut __________ the expense of his company.
43. Children, when ______________(accompany) by their parents, are allowed to enter the stadium.
44. To _____________ satisfaction, both of us finally finished homework before the deadline.
45. Dr. Yuan's kind of rice is the most ___________(suit) for China's farmland.
五、單句改錯（每小題2分，共20分）
46. The software is specific to solve that problem.
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47. He felt sorry that he forgot turning off the lights when he left the lab.
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48. Had I have?time last year,?I would have attended the lecture.
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49. The bad weather has lasted for several days,?which has kept him going out for a picnic.
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50. It's unnatural for a mother to leave her child lonely to enjoy herself.
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51. If we hadn't made adequate?preparation,?the conference wouldn't have been so successful.
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52. Frank put the medicine in a top drawer to make sure it would not be accessible for the kids.
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53. The elephant yelled(大叫) to show its anger when the another group came near.
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54. They tried all means, which possibly is helpful, but unfortunately not a means has worked so far.
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55. I was about to do an important piece of work that my daughter came to interrupt me.
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