高中英语 Unit 4 Cyberspace单元达标 北师大版必修2(1)

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基础落实

Ⅰ.用所给词的适当形式填空

1．All the ________(crime) related to this murder have been caught. 2．Your ________(suggest) is quite reasonable.We have decided to accept it. 3．I like history and I wish one day I could visit all the ________(history) sites in ChinA．

4．The ________(settle) of North America by Europeans began in the 16th century. 5．The organization has a ________(center) office in New York. 6．The flood caused serious ________(destroy) to the railway. Ⅱ.选词填空

affect，harm，chaos，attack，rapidly，climate，crash，disappear

1．All the smokers know that smoking ________ health, but they just can’t stop it. 2．Did the storm do any ________ to the corn?

3．I saw something move ________ towards me and I was scared. 4．I arrived home to find the house in ________.

5．It is reported that three persons died in the car ________. 6．When the sun came out, the fog ________ gradually.

7．Wild animals don’t often ________ humans unless they are really hungry. 8．The ________ here is colder than that in my hometown and it doesn’t agree with me.

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“Family” is of course an elastic word.But when British people say that their society is based on family life，they are thinking of “family” in its narrow，peculiarly European sense of mother，father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit.Thus，every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family—hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life.For both the man and the woman，marriage means leaving one’s parents and starting one’s own life.The man’s first duty will then be to his wife，and the wife’s to her husband.He will be entirely responsible for her financial support，and she for the running of the new home.Their children will be their common responsibility.Neither the wife’s parents nor the husband’s，nor their brothers or sisters，aunts or uncles，have any right to interfere with them—they are their own masters.

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Readers of novels like Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice will know that in former time marriage among wealthy families were arranged by the girl’s parents，that is，it was the parents’ duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter，preferably a rich one，and by skillful encouragement to lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry their daughter.Until that time，the girl was protected and maintained in the parents’ home，and the financial relief of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry (嫁妆)．It is very different today.Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and become financially independent before their marriage.This has had two results.A girl chooses her own husband，and she gets no dowry.

1．The underlined word “elastic” in Paragraph 1 means “________”． A．steady

B．flexible D．narrow

C．unchanged

2．For an English family，the husband’s duty is________. A．running the family while the wife is financial support B．defending the family while the wife is running the home C．financial support while the wife is running the home D．dependent while the wife is independent 3．Everything is decided in a family________. A．by the couple

B．with the help of their parents C．by brothers and sisters

D．with the help of aunts and uncles

4．What is TRUE concerning the book Pride and Prejudice? A．It is the best book on marriage. B．It is a handbook of marriage.

C．It gives some idea of English social life in the past.

D．It provides a lot of information of former time’s wealthy families. 5．With regard to marriage in Britain，present-day girls differ from former time’s girls in________. A．the right of marriage B．more parental support C．choosing husbands D．social position

B

Rebecca Bunting is excited about the weekend.She’s flying from London to Tallinn，where a little boy will be waiting to greet her at the airport.“It’s his fourth birthday，”she said，smiling.“I haven’t seen him for three months and I

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can’t wait to see how much he has grown.”

From the way she’s talking，you’d imagine Rebecca is going to visit a nephew or a friend’s child.Instead，this tall，attractive 28-year-old woman from London is going to spend a long weekend with her son，whom she left two years ago when she walked away from him and her husband.“He has a very good father and grandmother.I feel he’s better off living with them than with me，”she said calmly.“I want him to be with me，but I just can’t be sure that would work.”

Yet public attitude towards women like Rebecca，who have chosen to live away from their children，is that they are at some level irresponsible.In our society women who fail to put their children before themselves are seen as unnatural.Whispers follow，“What’s wrong with her？I would never do that.”

Sarah Hart is the co-chairperson of Match，a charity for mothers who don’t live with their children，and the author of A Mother Apart，a book for the 200,000 or so British women in this situation.She says that there is still a huge discrepancy in how we view mothers and fathers not living with their children.“We usually think that it’s very painful for men to be separated from their kids but that this is just how things work out.But when a woman does it，our judgment is unforgiving，”she says.“People usually think that she must have done something wrong and that in some way she must be unfit.”

6．How does the writer lead to the topic of the passage? A．By telling Rebecca’s story. B．By referring to a recent study. C．By referring to scientific datA． D．By telling her own life story.

7．Rebecca chooses not to let her son live with her probably because________. A．she doesn’t love him B．her son doesn’t like her C．she cannot take good care of him D．she doesn’t want to live with a child

8．Generally speaking，what’s people’s attitude towards women like Rebecca? A．They greatly support such women. B．They think such women are selfless. C．They have great pity on such women. D．They think such women are not responsible.

9．The underlined word “discrepancy” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “________”． A．improvement C．achievement

B．mistake D．difference

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10．When men live away from their children，people usually think________. A．they are irresponsible B．they shouldn’t be forgiven C．they have no choice but to do it D．they must have done something wrong

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