2020-2021學(xué)年高中英語外研版選修7單元質(zhì)量檢測（四） Module 4　Music Born in America Word版含解析

1、單元質(zhì)量檢測(四)(時間：120分鐘滿分：150分)第一部分聽力(共兩節(jié)，滿分30分)第一節(jié)(共5小題；每小題1.5分，滿分7.5分)聽下面5段對話。每段對話后有一個小題，從題中所給的a、b、c三個選項中選出最佳選項，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對話后，你都有10秒鐘的時間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對話僅讀一遍。1where are the speakers?ain a restaurant. bat home.cin an office.2what does the man mean?ahe has never trusted susan.bhe believes that sus

2、an is telling the truth.che is not sure if susan is telling the truth.3how many injured children have the speakers found?atwo. bthree.cfour.4what is the woman busy doing?alooking for a new job.bspending every minute relaxing.cpreparing for the coming exam.5what's the relationship between the two

3、 speakers?ahusband and wife. bboss and employee.ccolleagues.第二節(jié)(共15小題；每小題1.5分，滿分22.5分)聽下面5段對話或獨白。每段對話或獨白后有幾個小題，從題中所給的a、b、c三個選項中選出最佳選項，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽每段對話或獨白前，你將有時間閱讀各個小題，每小題5秒鐘； 聽完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時間。每段對話或獨白讀兩遍。聽第6段材料，回答第6至7題。6when did the man arrive in beijing?atoday. blast week.cyesterday.7what will the

4、 man eat in the end?achicken. bdumplings.cpeking duck.聽第7段材料，回答第8至9題。8what are the speakers doing?atravelling.benjoying exhibitions in a museum.cvisiting a new house.9why does the woman want to go shopping?ato buy something for the man.bto buy something for mary and john.cto buy something for her ow

5、n house.聽第8段材料，回答第10至12題。10what kind of job is the man looking for?aa parttime job in a restaurant.ba fulltime job in the student job center.ca parttime job in a computer company.11what is the man?aa waiter. ba worker.ca student.12what is the woman's suggestion?agoing to the student job center f

6、or a job.bsigning up for advice on the jobs on the list.cwalking around in the street to find a job.聽第9段材料，回答第13至16題。13what's the probable relationship between the two speakers?aboss and employee. bhusband and wife.ccolleagues.14who is mr. black?athe woman's friend. bthe man's boss.cthe

7、woman's husband.15why was the man late?athere was something wrong with his bus.bthere was a car accident on his way to the meeting.che got injured on his way to work.16when did the same thing happen to the woman?athis morning. byesterday evening.clast weekend.聽第10段材料，回答第17至20題。17what did cullen

8、do in 1929?ahe moved to new york.bhe wrote a letter to his boss.che opened his own supermarket.18how did cullen's boss react to his idea?ahe refused it at once. bhe accepted his idea.che made no reply to it.19where did michael cullen open his first supermarket?ain someone's garage.bin his ow

9、n garage.cnext to the store he once worked for.20how many stores does king kullen have now?a6. b17.c47.第二部分閱讀理解(共兩節(jié)，滿分40分)第一節(jié)(共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分)閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項(a、b、c和d)中，選出最佳選項。ashelton murray has been playing the didgeridoo since he was five years old. now 22, the musician will be travelling to t

10、he united states with the australian chamber orchestra for the first time.mr. murray comes from an aboriginal (土著的) community and said his love of the didgeridoo had grown out of his culture. he was taught by his father lazarus murray from a young age, but said he was also inspired by his grandfathe

11、r peter apaak jupurrula miller. “my father learnt from david blanasi. then he taught me what he learnt from david，” he said.as the youngest member of a tiwi islander band called b2m (bathurst to melville) in the northern territory, mr. murray played the didgeridoo for the opening act of the tina are

12、na darwin concert in 2014. now his didgeridoo skills have caught the attention of the australian chamber orchestra, where he was invited to perform in the show the reef revisited, which will be touring the us. next week.“it's exciting for me to be travelling over to america，” he said. mr. murray

13、 said there were challenges for young aboriginal artists to break into the industry but said it is all about having the right attitude.richard tognetti, artistic director of the australian chamber orchestra, said the team was excited to have mr. murray join the 25person orchestra. “he's bringing

14、 a really traditional approach. we respect the sound that he brings into the orchestra. we're used to the sound of a didgeridoo but playing it in la, new york and richmond virginia will be interesting for the audience，” he said.another member of the orchestra, aboriginal musician steve pigram, s

15、aid he was proud of mr. murray's achievement at such a young age. “he's coming through that thing of performing in a reggae (popular music in the west indies) rock band, same as what i did. but he's got to this kind of level a little quicker. well it's taken me 40 years，” he said.21h

16、ow did murray learn to play the didgeridoo?ahe taught himself.bhe learned from his grandfather.che drew inspiration from david.dhe followed his father's instructions.22what do we know about b2m?ait's a popular local band.bits members are all very young.cits tour around the us. will come soon

17、.dit's a band in the australian chamber orchestra.23what did richard tognetti think of murray?ahe needed to get along with the orchestra members.bhe would play a valuable part in the orchestra.che would face lots of challenges in the us.dhe needed to learn traditional approaches.bit was around t

18、he 4th grade when i started noticing that i didn't fit in that well with a lot of kids in my grade. while the other girls were starting to wear make­up, style their hair, and only wear fashionable clothing, i stayed the same. at first i didn't care, but then i started to feel a little w

19、orried. i was afraid that the other girls wouldn't like me. i wanted to be like them, but i really hated that.after i entered the 5th grade my mom found a local vocal (歌唱的) studio. i had always loved to sing, and taking lessons seemed like fun. i was thrown into a brilliant world of music. somet

20、hing inside me just clicked, and i had finally found where i belonged. music gave me a place of my own in the world.starting voice lessons was the first of many times that music has changed my life. in the 7th grade, i really didn't fit in at middle school. being an athlete is what made you popu

21、lar, and i was not super athletic. music saved me again. every day i knew i could come home from school and sing. i would become someone else. i would let the music fill my body and shine its light in the darkest corners. the light gave me strength. i became friends with other people who were into m

22、usic. music also gave me courage.friedrich nietzsche once said，“l(fā)ife without music would be a mistake.” this is true for me. without music, my life would be a mistake. maybe i would have found another hobby, but i doubt that it would help and change me the way music did. i know that music has change

23、d my life.24what was the problem that faced the author in the 4th grade?ano one around her liked her.bshe had no fashionable clothing.cshe didn't know how to dress up.dshe didn't fit in well with others.25taking music lessons made the author most probably _.aworried bdisappointedccheerful ds

24、urprised26when the author was in middle school, she _.afell in love with sportsbbecame very popular at schoolcdecided to become a great athletedmade friends with those who loved music27what would be the best title for the text?amusic changed me bmy young lifeci found myself dmy hobbiescthe invention

25、 of television was a gradual process.the television was not invented by a single person.before it appeared, people from all over the world had experimented on it for many times.at the dawn of television history，there were two competing experimental approaches that led to the breakthroughs that made

26、the technology possible.early inventors attempted to either build a mechanical television system based on the technology of paul nipkow's rotating disks (旋轉(zhuǎn)磁盤) or they tried to build an electronic television system using a cathode ray (陰極) tube developed independently in 1897 by german inventor

27、karl braun.german inventor paul nipkow developed a rotating disk technology to send pictures over wire in 1884 called the nipkow disk.nipkow is famous for discovering television's scanning principle, in which the light strength of small parts of an image is successively analyzed and sent.in the

28、1920's, john logie baird came up with the idea of using lines of a special metal to send images for television.baird's 30 line images were the first experiment of television by reflected light rather than back­lit silhouettes (輪廓). baird based his technology on paul nipkow's scannin

29、g disk idea and other latest developments in electronics.russian inventor vladimir zworykin invented an improved cathode ray tube in 1929.at the time，the tube was badly needed for television and zworykin was one of the first to test a television system with all the features of modern picture tubes.i

30、n 1927, american inventor philo farnsworth became the first inventor to send a television image consisting of 60 level lines. the image sent was a dollar sign.farnsworth also developed another new tube, which was the basis of all current electronic televisions.he filed for his first television paten

31、t in 1927.louis parker, another american inventor, invented the modern changeable television receiver.the patent was issued to louis parker in 1948.parker's “sound system” is now used in all television receivers in the world.28the appearance of tv arises from _.asome well­known inventorsban

32、 occasional findingcmany people's great effortsda demanding research29what can be inferred from the text?azworykin invented tv with modern pictures.bbraun developed the cathode ray with others.cbaird's achievement benefited from paul nipkow.dall tvs benefited from farnsworth's invention.

33、30what can we know about louis parker's invention?ait was invented in 1948.bit is still popular worldwide.cit was the first tv receiver in the world.dit is a system used to change tv's voice.31what can be the best title of the text?aa useful function of tvba brief history of tvcthe secret of

34、 tvdthe system of tvdear infections (感染) are the number one reason for preschool children to visit doctors. ear infections can be painful, cause difficulty with balance and can also lead to temporary hearing loss. most parents consider that there will be no long­lasting effects or the danger of

35、 deafness once an ear infection clears upand most of the time this is true. but all these are possible after repeated infections.it seems that repeated ear infections can also increase the risk of reading difficulties, as a recent study shows. most children who have reading difficulties are not deaf

36、 or hard of hearingbut there is an obvious overlap (重疊). this is because learning to read builds on a child's existing knowledge of a language. so children who can't always hear speech well can find it harder to work out how spoken words map onto printed words. even mild deafness can have a

37、big impact on hearing.on the other hand，the link between hearing and reading difficulties isn't always inevitablenot all deaf children struggle to read. this is because learning to read involves the combination of many different skillssuch as knowledge of grammar, memory for spelling and the use

38、 of context (語境). it is helpful that children who have difficulty learning to read should have current and past hearing test results taken into account. these children should be reassessed (重新評估) so that adults can work together to help them.for deaf children having trouble understanding speech soun

39、ds, their other reading and spelling related skills are not often damaged. so parents and teachers could not only provide extra support to help deaf children with reading difficulties understand the links between letters and sounds, but they can also use other skills to support their readingenabling

40、 them to reach their full potential.32what do we know about ear infections?athey are common among teenagers.bthey can be completely cured easily.cthey are the main reason for hearing loss.dthey can cause deafness when found frequently.33why do children with hearing problems may have difficulty readi

41、ng?athey can't understand the context well enough.bthey can't match speech sounds with words.cthey don't have the basic knowledge of grammar.dthey couldn't understand the teachers' instructions.34what's the meaning of the underlined word “inevitable” in paragraph 3?asurprisin

42、g. bdifficult.ccertain. dinteresting.35what does the last paragraph imply?adeaf children's learning difficulties are solvable.bmost deaf children have limited learning resources.creading skills are mostly based on hearing abilities.dadults should care about deaf children's mental health.第二節(jié)(

43、共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分)根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項，選項中有兩項為多余選項。conservation (保護(hù)) is the protection of things found in nature. it requires the sensible use of all earth's natural resources. people who care about conservation try to protect natural resources so they will still be around in the future.s

44、ome resources are renewable. living things, such as plants and animals, are examples of renewable resources because they can reproduce themselves. _36_ for example, people might catch too many of one type of fish. if not enough fish are left to reproduce, that type of fish might die out. conservatio

45、n helps people keep renewable resources in good supply.some resources are nonrenewable, which means they cannot be replaced. fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum(oil), are examples of nonrenewable resources. _37_ they can also look for other resources that serve the same purpose.conservation can

46、 be hard because it can require people to give up some conveniences. for example, cars make travel easy, but they also produce a lot of air pollution. _38_ such changes can be hard when people have gotten used to a certain way of living._39_ for example, a timber (木材) company might be able to protec

47、t forest animals by limiting the number of trees it cuts. but the company might not be willing to do this because it will make less money._40_ people can recycle paper, glass, and other materials.industries can limit the amount of pollution they create. governments can make laws that help to keep th

48、e air and water clean.athey also try to keep the environment clean and healthy.bbut renewable resources can still be damaged or destroyed.cmoney is another reason why conservation can be a challenge.deveryone can contribute to conservation in one way or another.eto have cleaner air, people can choos

49、e to drive less and walk more.fpeople can conserve nonrenewable resources by using them carefully.grecycling saves resources by reusing materials that would be thrown away.第三部分語言知識運用(共兩節(jié)，滿分45分)第一節(jié)：完形填空(共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分)閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項(a、b、c和d)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。dear laura，i just heard you tell

50、 an old story of gift giving and unselfish love in your programme. you doubted that such unselfish love would happen in today's world. well, i'm here to give you _41_.i wanted to do something very _42_ for my fifteen­year­old son, who has always been the perfect child. he _43_ all

51、summer to earn enough money to buy a used motorcycle. then, he spend hours and hours on it _44_ it looked almost new. i was so _45_ of him that i bought him the shiniest helmet and a riding outfit. i could _46_ wait for him to open up his gift. in fact, i barely slept the night before. upon awakenin

52、g, i went to the kitchen to _47_ the coffee, tea, and morning goodies. in the living room was a beautiful keyboard with a _48_：“to my wonderful mother, all my love, your son.”i was so _49_. it had been a long­standing joke in our family that i wanted a piano so that i could _50_ lessons. “l(fā)earn

53、 to play the piano, and i'll get you one.” was my husband's _51_. i stood there shocked, crying a river, asking myself how my son could _52_ this expensive gift.of course, the _53_ awoke, and my son was thrilled (激動的) with my reaction. many kisses were _54_， and i immediately wanted him to _

54、55_ my gift.as he saw the helmet and outfit, the look on his face was not _56_ what i was expecting. then i _57_ that he had sold the motorcycle to get me the keyboard.of course i was the proudest mother _58_ on that day, and my feet never hit the ground for a month. so i wanted you to know, that ki

55、nd of love still _59_ and lives even in the very changing world of me, me, me!i thought you'd love to _60_ this story.yours，hilaryps. the next day, my husband and i bought him a new “used” already shiny motorcycle.41a.hope badvicecsupport dcourage42a.polite bsimilarcspecial dprivate43a.played bs

56、tudiedctravelled dworked44a.after bbeforecunless duntil45a.sure bfondcproud dconfident46a.perhaps breallycalmost dhardly47a.start bcookcset dserve48a.note bnoticecword dsign49a.disturbed bconfusedcastonished dinspired50a.give btakecdraw dteach51a.reason brequestccomment dresponse52a.present baffordc

57、find dorder53a.neighbor bbuildingchome dhouse54a.exchanged bexperiencedcexpected dexhibited55a.tear bopenccheck dreceive56a.purely bbasicallycobviously dexactly57a.realized brememberedcimagined dsupposed58a.only bstillcever deven59a.works bexistscmatters dcounts60a.send bpublishcshare dwrite第二節(jié)(共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分)閱讀下列材料，在空白處填入1個單詞或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。jane foster, a woman from colorado, went out shopping in grand junction one day. as she went past an antique (古董的) store, some photos i