Module 2 单元测试题
第二部分：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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Share your poems, get feedback (反馈) for your poetry, and enter poetry contests (竞赛). Choose from the following poetry contests that you can enter. Get feedback for every poem that you write including your contest entries. How It Works
As a member, you will get feedback for everything you write. You can enter poetry contests with cash prizes. You will be ranked (分等级). Write and see how the feedback you receive influences your rank. Since the year 2000 we have been helping writers improve their writing skills.
Poetry Contests in May
Friendship across cultures
Write a story about a friend that opened your world to another culture. Deadline: Today! Technology wars Write a story on the topic provided in the announcement. Deadline: Today!
Poetry Contests in June
Lyrics make the song Pen your newest, and best, song lyric masterpieces and enter them into this contest.
NO POETRY ALLOWED FOR THIS CONTEST! Must be song lyrics only. Deadline: June 1st Unexpected romance Write a story that brings two people together, two people who don't necessarily realize that they belong together but the audience is rooting for them. Write a story for a cash prize. Deadline: June 15th
Poetry Contests in July
Newbie writing contest
For our New Arrival “This Sentence Starts the Story” contest we challenge you to write a story that starts with this sentence: “Hell found me.” A poetry contest with a cash prize. Deadline: July 3rd Share your story
A memoir (回忆录) gives us the ability to write about our life. But you can write about life with the option (选择) to create and invent and to make sense of a life, or part of that life. Write a piece of your life! A cash prize to the winning entry. Deadline: July 10th
21. What do we know about the contests in May? A. They are held yearly. B. They are topic-based. C. They offer no feedback. D. They are human-focused.
22. Contestants of “Lyrics make the song” . A. can hand in poems B. should write song lyrics C. have a chance to win a cash prize D. must enter their works before July 3rd 23. What type of writing is this text? A. A writing guide. B. A poetry review. C. An official report. D. An announcement.
B
I once saw a TV programme at college about a scientist who used “drift bottles (漂流瓶)” to mark ocean currents. It was a rather boring programme. I was more interested to read an article about someone who found a bottle on a beach with a message inside. Like the drift bottles, it had been thrown into the sea — but 21 years before. I decided to find out more about such bottles, and I started work on this intriguing (非常有趣的) research.
An early message in a bottle was thrown into the sea by Christopher Columbus during a terrible storm. He wrote about his discovery of America and expected that his message would be sent to the Queen of Spain. He wanted the news to reach her, but he thought he might be drowned (淹死) in the storm. In fact, he survived but the bottle was never found.
I would be excited to find a message in a bottle, but in the 16th century, it could be dangerous. In those days, the British Navy (海军) used messages in bottles to send information about the enemy. When Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ found out that a boatman had opened a bottle containing one of these secret messages, she created a new job, Uncorker of Ocean Bottles. I was amazed to learn that anyone else who opened a bottle could be sentenced to death. It seems very strange to us now.
A long time ago, before dating websites existed to help people find partners, a sailor in Sweden put this message in a bottle — “To someone beautiful and far away.” It was found by a young woman in Sicily. She answered the message — “I am not
beautiful, but it seems a miracle (奇迹) I found your message.” They began to write letters to each other, and eventually got married.
Nowadays it's easy to communicate with anyone anywhere in the world, but I think people will still go on throwing bottles with messages into the ocean and guessing where the winds and the waves will carry them. And how romantic it would be to find a bottle with a message inside!
24. Why did the author do some research on bottles thrown into the sea? A. He had found a message in one. B. He had read an article about one. C. He had to do a project on them at college. D. He had watched a TV programme about them. 25. Christopher Columbus put a message into a bottle to . A. study ocean currents B. report his discovery C. ask for rescue D. try his luck
26. How did the author feel about the 16th century punishment for opening ocean bottles?
A. Frightening. B. Amusing.
C. Astonishing. D. Satisfying.
27. Why did the young woman in Sicily reply to the Swedish sailor's message? A. She wanted to have a pen friend. B. She felt she fitted his description. C. She failed to access a dating website. D. She was impressed by the bottle's journey.
C
Gene Wolfe is one of the most admired and respected American science fiction and fantasy writers. He is also a productive writer of outstanding short fiction, which
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