2017-2018学年高中英语必修五练习：Unit 1 课时跟踪练一 含解析 精品

课时跟踪练（一） Warming Up & Reading — Pre-reading

Ⅰ.阅读理解

A

Albert Einstein was probably the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. He changed scientific thinking in the modern world. He was generally considered as the greatest physicist who ever lived. What's more, he devoted a lot of his time and energy to working for human rights and progress.

In 1933, while Einstein was visiting England and the United States, the Nazi government of Germany took all his things away, including his position and his citizenship. Einstein then settled down in the United States. In 1934, Einstein, who loved peace — afraid of a world in which only Hitler would have an atomic bomb (原子弹) — tried hard to

persuade President Franklin D．Roosevelt in a famous letter to have the United States start uranium (铀) research. That Germany, after all, had no bomb, and that the first bomb would fall on Japan, could not have been expected. After the war, Einstein never stopped working for peace and reducing the number of soldiers in the world.

Although he wasn't connected with any accepted religion (宗教), Einstein felt that trusting in a personal God was too special an idea to be suitable to the God at work in this universe, but he never believed that the universe was one of chance or disorder. The universe to him was one of pure law and order. He once said, “God may know everything, but he is not hateful.”

语篇解读：本文主要介绍了在第二次世界大战期间爱因斯坦的情况。 1．From the passage we know that ________.

A．no scientist is as great as Albert Einstein during this century B．Albert Einstein was likely to be the greatest scientist of his time C．Albert Einstein made the first atomic bomb for the United States D．Albert Einstein gave up his German citizenship for political reasons

解析：选B 细节理解题。从第一段的第一句“Albert Einstein was probably the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.”可知答案为B。

2．If Einstein had known that Hitler had no atomic bomb and that the first atomic bomb would fall on Japan, he would ________. A．have continued his scientific research B．have won another Nobel Prize for Physics

C．not have advised starting uranium research in the USA D．not have moved to the USA

解析：选C 推理判断题。从第二段中的“That Germany, after all, had no bomb, and that the first bomb would fall on Japan, could not have been expected.”和文章中提到的爱因

斯坦是热爱和平、反对战争的可推知，如果能料到的话，他就不会建议美国进行铀的研究了。故选C。

3．Einstein ________ in 1933. A．visited England and the USA

B．advised the United States to start uranium research C．became a man without citizenship D．both A and C

解析：选D 细节理解题。从第二段中的“In 1933, while Einstein was visiting England and the United States, the Nazi government of Germany took all his things away, including his position and his citizenship.”可得出A项和C项表述的内容都正确。故选D。 4．Einstein believed that everything in the universe ________. A．was kept in order by its own law B．had nothing to do with each other C．happened in an irregular way D．was made by the personal God

解析：选A 细节理解题。从最后一段的“but he never believed that the universe was one of chance or disorder”和“The universe to him was one of pure law and order.”可得出答案为A。

B

Sir John Gurdon, a British scientist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012, said he had predicted at the time of his frog experiments that the successful cloning of a mammal would happen within 50 years, and that “maybe the same answer is appropriate” for the step to human cloning. Parents who lose children in accidents may be able to clone “copies” to replace them then.

Although any attempt to clone an entire human would raise complex moral issues, the biologist claimed people would soon overcome their concerns if the technique became medically useful. Cloning was regarded with extreme doubts when it was first developed but became widely accepted after the birth of Louise Brown, the first “test-tube baby”. He said, “When my first frog experiments were done, an American reporter asked how long it would be before these things could be done in mammals or humans. I said, ‘Well, it could be anytime between 10 years and 100 years — how about 50 years？’ It turned out that it wasn't far off the mark as far as Dolly was concerned. Maybe the same answer is appropriate.” Sir John added that cloning a human being effectively means making an identical twin, and doctors would therefore simply be “copying what nature has already produced”．

The average vote on allowing parents of deceased children, who are no longer fertile (能生育的), to create another by using the mother's eggs and skin cells from the first child,

thinking the technique was safe and effective, is 60 percent in favor. The reasons for “no” are usually that the new children would feel they are some sort of replacements for something. 语篇解读：诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主、英国科学家约翰·格登爵士称，那些在事故中失去子女的父母将能在未来50年内借助克隆技术，让他们的子女得到“重生”。 5．Sir John predicted the human cloning would be a reality in ________ at most. A．about 100 years C．about 50 years

B．about 60 years D．about 10 years

解析：选C 细节理解题。根据文章第一段可知，格登爵士表示，在未来50年内，那些在事故中失去孩子的父母将有可能通过克隆技术得到孩子的“复制品”。故选C项。 6．According to the text, which statement is NOT true? A．Louise Brown is the first “test-tube baby”． B．Human cloning is still a controversial topic.

C．Sir John is positive about the future of human cloning. D．Human cloning is creating something that didn't exist before.

解析：选D 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“after the birth of Louise Brown, the first ‘test-tube baby’”可排除A项；文章尾段说明赞成者占6成，故排除B项；根据第二段中格登爵士的话可知，他对克隆人充满了希望，故排除C项；根据第二段的尾句可知，D项表述不正确。

7．The underlined word “identical” probably means “______”． A．same C．new

B．special D．clear

解析：选A 词义猜测题。根据画线词后的“twin”和文中的“doctors would therefore simply be ‘copying what nature has already produced’”可知，A项正确。 8．It can be inferred from the passage that ________. A．most people cast doubt on John's experiments B．human cloning is and will be only a dream C．few children love to be cloned in the future D．human cloning may be realized someday

解析：选D 推理判断题。根据文章第二段的第一句可知，虽然克隆人类的尝试将引起复杂的道德问题，但是生物学家声称如果克隆技术变得有医学价值，人们很快就会消除他们的担心，因此可推断D项正确。

C

More at ease with competing to pull users to their services, Google and Facebook are

not in a war of marketing for once. Now they are fighting it out to attract a new name to their business.

15-year-old Australian teenager Ben Pasternak has attracted the attention of the companies after he designed an app store game called Impossible Rush. The app has been downloaded more than 500,000 times. The game managed to climb higher than Vine and Twitter on the App Store charts.

Now Facebook has invited him for a tour of the company's California headquarters, while Google's vice president has asked him to come to its campus. Both companies hope Ben could be one of their future developers.

Ben is one of the 450 high-school-aged entrepreneurs (企业家) accepted onto a Google and MIT supported event called Hack Generation Y, in which high school students create a product in 36 hours.

Michael Matias, the organizer of the event, said, “Ben has shown the world that age is just a number. His iPhone app was extremely impressive and if we were to guess — we would never imagine it was run by a 15-year-old.”

Ben said, “Another teen Austin Valleskey helped me a lot in creating this iPhone game. My biggest motivation (动机) is knowing that my apps make people's lives just a little bit easier and simpler. There is no better feeling than seeing people using your creations.”

Whatever choice he makes — Facebook, Google or a tour of both — he's got a huge and bright future in a world controlled by mobile technology. He's not stopping there though. He is deep in planning to make an app called One, which is to bring all social media into one app.

语篇解读：15岁的澳大利亚神童因设计一款手机游戏而一举走红，脸谱网和谷歌竞相邀请他到其公司发展。

9．According to Paragraph 1, we know that ________. A．Google and Facebook want to change their names B．Google and Facebook have competed for several times C．the services of Google and Facebook are not very good

D．now the competition between Google and Facebook isn't serious

解析：选B 细节理解题。由第一段“... Google and Facebook are not in a war of marketing for once”可知，谷歌和脸谱网的竞争不止一次。 10．The app store game Impossible Rush ________. A．is just an idea of Ben Pasternak B．can be downloaded on many websites C．has attracted the attention of Ben Pasternak D．is more popular than Vine and Twitter now