高中英语 ModuleOld and New单元综合检测卷 外研版必修.doc

1ModuleModule 6 6 OldOld andand NewNew第Ⅰ卷第一部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 40 分)第一节(共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中，选出最佳选项A AIt was a painful Sunday for the National Zoo in Washington，D.C.After hearing sounds of sadness from Mei Xiang，its mother，zookeepers discovered the giant panda cub(幼崽) born last weekend had died.The zoo workers who took care of Mei Xiang and her cub are puzzled by the cub’s death.“Every loss is hard， ” said the National Zoo director Dennis Kelly.“This one is especially devastating(骇人的)． ”Panda cubs are not strong.They are born entirely blind and covered with only a thin coat of fur.Most are not longer than five inches at birth.Developments are slow in a cub’s early days.A baby panda cannot see for more than a month after being born and cannot walk for the first 75­80 days of its life.It depends entirely on its mother for guidance and comfort.The relationship between a panda cub and its mother is very important but can also be dangerous.Grown female pandas are about 1,000 times heavier than their cubs.While wanting to nurse，mothers can sometimes hurt their weak babies.Though this unfortunate accident is common，the cub found at the National Zoo showed no signs of trauma(外伤)．Its complete heart and lungs showed that Mei Xiang did not hurt the cub.Officials said Mei Xiang was not acting like her usual self but was slowly beginning to eat again.She was reported to be holding a plastic toy at night as comfort for the loss of her cub.Zookeepers will continue to watch Mei Xiang until she returns to her normal behavior.The National Zoo hopes to learn from this tragedy and gain a better understanding of cub health in giant pandas.1．What happened in the National Zoo of Washington D．C.?A．The baby giant panda died.B．The mother giant panda died.C．The baby giant panda escaped.D．The mother giant panda was ill.答案 A2解析 细节理解题。

根据第一段中的“.zookeepers discovered the giant panda cub(幼崽) born last weekend had died.”可知，华盛顿国家动物园里出生仅几天的熊猫幼崽死了2．The sentence “Every loss is hard.” in Paragraph 2 implies that the zoo workers ________.A．feel very unluckyB．feel really sadC．complain to each otherD．want to comfort themselves答案 B解析 推理判断题根据上文的“It was a painful Sunday”以及下一句“This one is especially devastating(骇人的)． ”可知，熊猫幼崽死后，动物园的工作人员都很难过3．According to the passage，which of the following is TRUE?A．Panda cubs’ eyesight is born good.B．Panda cubs are usually quite big when they are born.C．Panda cubs can develop quickly in the early days.D．Panda cubs are usually very weak when they are born.答案 D解析 细节理解题。

根据第三段内容可知，熊猫幼崽刚出生时是很脆弱的4．According to the fourth paragraph，what might be dangerous to the baby panda?A．Some kind of diseases.B．Not having enough food.C．The mother panda’s large body.D．Not being fed by the mother panda.答案 C解析 细节理解题根据第四段中的“Grown female pandas are about 1,000 times heavier than their cubs.While wanting to nurse，mothers can sometimes hurt their weak babies.”可知答案B BShockShock announcementannouncementThe Regional Health Department has announced that the local hospital will be closed in two years time.LocalLocal areaareaThe hospital was built in 1935 to serve this small town and the villages and farms in the area.Ten years ago the Regional Health Department suggested closing the 3hospital，but local people fought the idea so hard that the hospital was allowed to stay open.MoneyMoneySince then a lot of money has been given by people who use the hospital in order to keep the building and equipment(设备) in good condition.PatientsPatients speakspeak outoutOur reporter asked a number of patients what they felt：“It’s particularly important for us older people who live in the villages.We haven’t got cars to drive all the way to the city hospital to see a specialist(专科医生)—it’s fifty miles—you can’t get there and back on the bus in one day.”“Look，I’ve got a car so I can get to the city and back.The problem is that I’m going to lose a day’s wages(工资) while I do it.The local hospital may be small，but it’s here，and I can be in and out in an hour.”FamilyFamily feelingsfeelings“When my grandmother was dying，she was very ill for a long time.We could visit her every day because she was near us.It was a bad time，but if the hospital hadn’t been there，we wouldn’t have had the equipment to nurse her near our home，so she’d have been far away，not seeing us often；that would have been much worse， ” Sara said.TopTop specialistsspecialistsIt is said that it is not possible for top specialists to work at such a small hospital，but in fact there are visiting specialists who come to the hospital every week.When asked about the cost of this，Dr.A.Chan told our reporter， “It saves time and money for one specialist to travel 100 miles instead of asking 20 patients to travel the same distance to see the specialist in the city.”5．We can infer from what Sara said that ________.A．her grandmother died immediately she was sent to hospitalB．the hospital didn’t have enough nurses for patientsC．it was easy for her family to visit her grandmother 。