人教版高中英语必修一Unit4Earthquakes单元练测
Unit 4 Earthquakes
单元练测卷
建议用时满分实际用时得分错题档案90分钟120分
Ⅰ.单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）1.The soldiers never _____ to any trouble that happened during their rescue after the earthquake.
A. gave in
giffgaffB. gave up
C. gave off
D. gave out
2.The audience _____ laughing when the speaker made a face.
A. burst into
B. burst out
usually的音标
C. burst with
D. burst on
3.The 2008 Beijng Olympic Games and World Expo 2010 in Shanghai are both great _____ in our country.
A. events
B. conquences
C. situations
D. accidents
4.The mosque(清真寺) provided _____ for hundreds of families who homes had been fl
ooded.
A. shelter
B. place
C. religion
D. thought
5.Don’t try to be perfect. We can’t _____ the fact that we all have shortcomings.
A. recognize
B. ignore
C. destroy
D. bury
6.The police _____ my schoolmate Tom from the burning hou.
A. transported
B. rescued
C. suffered
D. trapped
7.We discusd where to go for a whole morning, but we decided to stay at home _____ .
A. at the end
B. by the end
C. in the end
D. on end
8.Now we are learning to _____ the same idea in our own words, that is to say, in differen
t ways.
ze
A. express
B. tell
C. say
D. talk
9.The people there were greatly _____ to e everything changed overnight.
A. frightened
B. shocked
C. shocking
D. moved
10.Five pasngers were _____ in the traffic accident
and they have all been taken to the nearest
hospital.
A. injured
B. damaged
C. destroyed
D. ruined
11.The policeman ________ the thief into a place
where he could not escape and caught him.
A. led
B. brought
C. caught
D. trapped
12.Jane was asked a lot of questions, but she didn’t
answer ______ of them.
A. other
B. any
C. none
red is the manD. some
13. —Did you go to the zoo?
—No, some of us went to the park _________
the zoo. The others went to the cinema
_________.
A. instead; instead
31岁又怎样B. instead of; instead of
C. instead of; instead
D. instead; instead of
14.Allen had to call a taxi becau the box was
______ to carry all the way home.
A. too heavy
B. much heavy
C. very heavy
D. so heavy
15.In that terrible earthquake, ______ who were
killed was more than 60, 000.
A. a large number of people
B. the number of people
C. a number of people
D. many people
Ⅱ.完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）Earthquakes are common; thousands of them happen each day. But most are 16 weak to feel.
During a 17 earthquake, there is often a great
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noi first. Then the earth 18 terribly and many hous 19 down. Railway tracks break and trains go 20 lines; a great many factories are 21 ; thousands of deaths are caud, and many more lo homes. . . 22 the great damage and deaths caud by the earthquake 23 , other disasters such as fires often 24 . More buildings are destroyed and
more 25 caud.
It is well known of the 26 of a possible earthquake, and for centuries man has been making rearches on earthquakes. More than 2，000 years ago, 27 , a Chine scientist named Zhang Heng 28 a machine which could find out from which 29 the ismic(地震的) waves had come, and this machine is still 30 by scientists today. Now we know much more about earthquakes and 31 they happen, but we still cannot _32_ exactly when and where an earthquake will happen, and cannot 33 it from happening. So earthquakes are among the 34 disasters in the world.
No one can stop natural earthquakes. 35 , scientists can help stop earthquakes destroying whole cities and causing too many deaths.
16. A. very B. too
C. quite
D. so
17. A. real B. weak
C. big
D. small
who says18. A. moves B. shakes
C. jumps
D. breaks
19. A. get B. put
C. t
afwD. fall
20. A. off B. on
C. into
D. behind
21. A. burst B. struck
C. destroyed
D. buried
22. A. Except B. Besides
C. Instead of
D. Becau of
23. A. lonely B. later
C. themlves
D. itlf
24. A. follow B. copy
C. come
D. enter
25. A. quakes B. deaths
C. difficulties
D. results
26. A. information B. questions
C. dangers
D. frights
27. A. as a result B. in fact
C. for example
D. as well
28. A. invented B. discovered
C. foundrotten什么意思
D. bought
29. A. country B. direction
C. way
D. city
wednesday是什么意思30. A. improved B. repaired
C. protected
D. ud
31. A. where B. when
C. what
D. why
32. A. speak B. tell
C. talk
D. point
33. A. make B. prepare
C. stop
D. let
34. A. worst B. best
C. most
D. fast
35. A. However B. But
C. And
D. So
Ⅲ．阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
A
A great earthquake happened in southwestern China on May 12, 2008, killing thousands of people. The quake struck Wenchuan and other parts of Sichuan Province in the middle of the afternoon and a number of school buildings, shops and homes were destroyed. The number of the dead and missing ro as rescue workers dug through flattened (夷为平地的) schools and homes to find survivors. It was reported that many people were still buried under the ruins in and around Mianyang, a city about 60 miles east of the epicenter (震中). People there spent a cond night sleeping outside in the rain. The government ordered people not to return to their homes for safety concerns. Few lights were on in the city, and people ate and chatted by candlelight.
