新人教版选修10《Unit 4 Learning efficently》2018年单元测试卷（湖南省长沙市天心区长郡中学）
发布：2025/1/6 19:0:3
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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1．On Nov.30，1835，Samuel Langhorne Clemens was welcomed into the world as the sixth child of John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton Clemens．Little did John and Jane know，their son Samuel would one day be known as Mark Twain-America's most famous literary icon．
Samuel's father was a judge，and he built a two-story frame house at 206 Hill Street in 1844．As a child，Samuel was kept indoors because of poor health．However，at the age of nine，he seemed to recover from his ailments and then attended a private school in Hannibal．
When Samuel was 12，his father died of pneumonia，and at 13，Samuel left school to become a printer's apprentice （学徒）．After two short years，he joined his brother Orion's newspaper as a printer and an editorial assistant．It was here that young Samuel found he enjoyed writing．
At 17，he left Hannibal behind for a printer's job in St．Louis．While in St．Louis，Samuel became a river pilot's apprentice．He became a licensed river pilot in 1858．Samuel's pen name，Mark Twain，comes from his days as a river pilot．It is a river term which means，12 feet when the depth of water for a boat is being measured．"Mark Twain"means that is safe to navigate．
In 1861，Samuel began working as a newspaper reporter for several newspapers all over the United States．In 1870，he married Olivia Langdon．
Mark Twain began to gain fame when his story，The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County appeared in the New York Saturday Press on November 18，1865．Mark Twain's first book，The Innocents Abroad，was published in 1869，The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876，and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1885．He wrote 28 books and numerous short stories，letters and other articles．
Mark Twain passed away on April 21，1910，but has a following still today．His childhood home is open to the public as a museum in Hannibal．Walking tours are given in New York City of places that Mark Twain visited near his birthday every year．
（1）What does the underlined word"ailments"refer to？
A．Injury．
B．Pressure．
C．Sadness．
D．Illness．
（2）Which of the following is the correct order according to the passage？
a．Samuel Clemens left school to become a printer's apprentice．
b．Samuel Clemens became a licensed river pilot．
c．Samuel Clemens attended a private school in Hannibal．
d．Samuel Clemens'first book The Innocents Abroad was published．
e．Samuel Clemens began working as a newspaper reporter．
f．Samuel Clemens married Olivia Langdon．
A．a b c d e f
B．c a b e d f
C．c a b e f d
D．a c b e f d
（3）What can we know from the passage？
A．Samuel Clemens'parents had found his great talent for writing．
B．Samuel Clemens had good health in his childhood．
C．Before his first book，Mark Twain published his writing．
D．Mark Twain wrote 28 short stories in total．
（4）The author develops the passage mainly by．
A．cause and effect
B．order in space
C．order in time
D．examples．组卷：19引用：1难度：0.7
Ⅱ.语法填空阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式．
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3．Ms．Mary was over eighty，but she still drove her old car like half her age．She loved driving very fast，and boasted of the fact （1）
she had never，in her thirty-five years of driving，been punished （2）a driving mistake．
Then one day，she nearly lost her record．A police car followed her，and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without （3）（stop）．
When Ms．Mary came before the judge，he looked at her （4）（severe）and said that she was too old to drive a car，and that the reason （5）she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak with old age，（6）she had simply not seen it．
When the judge had finished what he was saying，Ms．Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing．Without saying a word，she （7）（choose）a needle with a very small eye，and threaded it at the first time．
When she had successfully done this，she took the thread out of the needle again and handed （8）the needle and thread to the judge，saying，"Now it is your turn．I suppose you can drive a car well，and you have no doubts about your eyesight．"
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it．After half a dozen times，he had still not （9）（success）．The case against Ms．Mary （10）（dismiss），and her record remained unbroken．组卷：14引用：3难度：0.4
Ⅲ.短文改错
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4．假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文．文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处．每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改．
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词．
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉．
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词．
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分．
Today I'd like to tell you something that I experience in the City Park．In the afternoon of last Sunday，my friend and I were taking a walk along a river in the City Park，when suddenly we heard a boy call for help in the river．We jumped into the river or pulled the boy out．Then we made him to breathe using the mouth-to-mouth way．Before the boy came to himself，we sent her to hospital at once and telephoned his parents．The boy was saved．His parents were very thankful us and the doctors thought high of our first aid．We realized that knowing first aid is very help and important because it can help you to save lives．组卷：16引用：1难度：0.5
