必修3 Modules5-6综合测试题
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。
When most people think of France, they think of fine wine and cuisine, scenery and a comfortable lifestyle, which is the envy of the rest of the world. The diverse landscape includes huge mountain ranges, acres of green countryside and long stretches (一片）of coastline. Paris aside, here are our choices for three of the most beautiful places to visit in France (in no particular order).
Loire Valley
An area of outstanding natural beauty, the Loire Valley is also known as the garden of France. The valley covers over 280km and is in the beautiful middle stretch of the Loire River in central France. It5s filled with so much culturally and historically important architecture and it has earned itself a world heritage site (世界遗产地）status. As one of the most visited places in France, it’s known for its large collection of fairy-tale-like castles and mansions (大厦)，exceptionally beautiful landscapes and one of the most striking rivers in Europe. Mont Saint-Michel
Second only to the Eiffel Tower as France’s best-loved landmark, Mont St-Michel is a rocky island connected by a causeway (堤道）to northwest France. It’s a splendid sight sitting among sandbanks and powerful tides but the heritage site is most celebrated for its Gothic-style Benedictine
abbey (修道院).Directly below the abbey is a village with winding streets dotted with small houses and souvenir shops. Cote d’Azur
Mediterranean coastline of southeast France soaked (浸透的）by the sun which is also known as the French Riviera. The wonderful place has attracted many famous visitors over the decades and its miles of beautiful coastline and blue waters easily make it one of the most beautiful places to visit in France. Also pay a visit to the stylish coastal cities of Nice, Cannes and St-Tropez all here — they still remain holiday attractions even today.
1. Which is the best choice for those studying classical architecture? A. Loire Valley. B. Mont Saint-Michel. C. Cote d’Azur. D. St-Tropez.
2. What is the most unusual feature of Mont Saint-Michel? A. Beautiful gardens.
B. Gothic-style Benedictine abbey. C. Powerful tides.
D. Mediterranean coastline.
3. For whom is this text written? A. Tour guides. B. Government officials. C. News reporters. D. Holidaymakers. B
My friend Susan had a solution to spend her days stressed out as the marketing director for a global tech company: shoes. She knew no problem could truly be solved by buying a new pair.
But she told herself she could afford it and shoes made her happy.
For Susan, even the act of going online to browse(浏览）the new arrivals at her favorite online shops was thrilling. When her box of shoes arrived, it was like Christmas morning. But when the box was opened and the shoes were tried on, admired and put away, Susan was left to wonder: Now what?
“I rarely regretted a purchase, but having a new pair did not make me want more pairs any less,” she told me. “They may have filled a need, but they didn’t make me any happier，and it is not like imagining me in them.” detail therapy (购物疗法）has long been a tool for the stressed-out, brokenhearted or just plain bored. Some figures, including a survey by online retailer EBates, put the number of Americans who go shopping to feel better at more than half.
In many ways, retail therapy works: A great dress or a sharp, well-fitting suit can comfort the soul and provide a confidence lift that helps you land a job or inspire creativity. According to a 2011 study published in the Journal of Psychology and Marketing, retail therapy can positively affect your mood. The study notes that 28% of shoppers have purchased something to celebrate an occasion or personal victory and 62% to cheer themselves up. Indeed, many studies have shown, money can buy happiness. A December 2012 study published in the journal Emotion finds well-being rises with income at all levels of income and that richer families and countries are happier than poorer ones.
But retail therapy might not work quite in the way consumers assume it works. That’s because the happiness that buying something provides is not from acquiring the item, or from the item itself, but from targeting it, wanting it and expecting its arrival into your life. That is, what online shopping can provide is a result of the act of desiring more than the act of fulfilling. 4. How did Susan feel during her whole purchase? A. Eager→ regretful. B. Proud →disappointed. C. Anxious → satisfied. D. Excited →lost. 5. When did Susan feel happiest? A. Surfing online.
B. Meeting her demand for new shoes. C. Imagining herself in shoes. D. Trying her shoes on.
6. In what way is retail therapy helpful? A. It promotes confidence. B. It makes people attractive. C. It increases job efficiency. D. It brings popularity.
7. What brings happiness to shoppers? A. Satisfaction. B. Achievement. C. Possession. D. Expectation.
C
During Christmas festivals, millions of people around the world will no doubt experience rapid mimicry (模仿）—a mirroring of another person’s facial expressions — as they exchange smiles over gifts, good meals and holiday traditions. This phenomenon, observed in humans and many other primates (灵长类动物），is considered a basic building block of our ability to feel empathy
(共鸣). “When your friend smiles, you don’t know why exactly, but immediately react with the same smile to him or her,”says Elisabetta Palagi, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pisa in Italy.
For the first time, Palagi and her colleagues have shown that dogs use rapid mimicry with other dogs to strengthen social bonds. The findings don’t come as too much of a surprise to Palagi, because dogs are smart in a number of other ways. For example, they share more food and show higher degrees of social behavior with dogs that are already friends with than ones that are strangers.
For days the researchers headed to a park in Palermo where the owners of 49 dogs volunteered their pets to take part in the experiment. Palagi asked the owners to let their dogs play freely while she and her colleagues videotaped (给….录像）the interactions (互动).In total, they collected 50 hours of recordings that included some 200 play sessions. They checked the dogs getting involved in play, scoring rapid mimicry on the basis of whether the second dog mimicked the first within one second. Dogs that were already friends, as confirmed by their owners, also engaged in more mimicry than dogs that were just acquaintances, and dogs that were acquaintances engaged (参与）in more mimicry than ones that were meeting for the first time.
“Facial and emotional contagion (传染)are strongly weakened when dogs are suffering from certain psychological problems,”Palagi says. Finally, she thinks that the work could lead to a way to evaluate the dogs? psychological health. She says, “We hope our findings can be useful for dogs in the future.”
8. What is the benefit of rapid mimicry? A. Catching others ’ attention.
B. Being able to connect with others. C. Understanding better about others. D. Influencing others in a positive way.
9. According to Paragraph 2, the example mainly proves that____ . A. dogs are human beings’ best friends B. scientists know dogs’ behavior very well C. the study result didn’t surprise the scientist D. dogs strengthen social bonds in many ways
10. The frequency of dogs’ rapid mimicry depends on____. A. the familiarity to the other dogs B. the attitude towards friendliness C. the confirmation of their owners
D. the preference to specific expressions 11. What is the last paragraph mainly about? A. The final conclusion of the study. B. The application of the study results. C. The importance of facial expression. D. The cure for psychological problems.
D
For over thirty years, I Have served as a professional wildland firefighter. I could have been one of those tired dirty faces that you have seen on your television or that have been painted in a
background of flames and smoke over these passing dry and desperate years. Through the shimmering (发出微弱的光）heat of all those years I can still see the human faces of my crews, looking for an opportunity to apply their cleverness, persistence (坚持) and cooperation to a common purpose. Brave, kind and driven faces, unknown by those they served. They were looking for a kind of rescue that only serving a common purpose provides.
Wildfire represents a perfect metaphor (隐喻）for human imperfection. Our fears bum brightly, as we try hard to get ahead in an increasingly competitive world. Just as wildfires lay waste to the landscape, fear of desperate people also can destroy everything.
When we fight a wildfire, we always keep our eyes on the lookout for spot fires. Small fires start burning when the wind blows burning things across our fire lines. Often spot fires can start many fires at once, thus changing the direction and intensity of the main fire that we were trying to contain.
We may all be ambitious and desperate people at various times in our lives. When we are struggling with our neighbors to find our way through the smoke, fear may conceal the way forward, toward the light and the cool fresh air of hope. It was during those times over the course of my career, when I joined with my fellow firefighters to scratch a thin line of hope through a hopelessly hard piece of steep ground. United in a common cooperative spirit, we put out the fires of our fear and small differences. We attempted to better our community, or maybe even save it from the dark and smoky side of our fearful humanity.
Many times we may all strive to find that most wonderful of all human inventions — cooperation, which can contain some of the worst wildfires of our life. I know that humanity can do amazing things when we put aside our fears and focus on a common vision (愿景）.
12. According to Paragraph 1, what is essential to a rescue? A. The firefighters knowing well about their crews. B. The firefighters working towards a common goal. C. The firefighters being experienced in fighting fire. D. The firefighters being familiar with the landscapes. 13. Why do firefighters look for spot fires? A. Because they are not easy to be put out.
B. Because they make it hard to control the fire.
C. Because they help people find the cause of the fire. D. Because they change their own direction at random.
14. What does the underlined word “conceal” in Paragraph 4 mean? A. To create something useful. B. To hide something carefully. C. To seriously damage something. D. To show the meaning of something. 15. What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To show the spirit of cooperation for a common purpose. B. To explain the danger of being a firefighter.
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