课时作业(二十六) [选修6 Unit 1 Art]
(限时：35分钟)
Ⅰ.单项填空
1．—I'm going to Paris next week. —What a(n) ________. So am I. A. pity B. coincidence C. accident D. chance
2．—Mr. Anderson is popular with his students, for he is kind, strict and knowledgeable.
—No wonder he has such a good ________． A．expectation B．contribution C．reputation D．regulation
3．Each of us is likely to develop a personal ________ for certain types of entertainment.
A. comparison B. possession C. preference D. advantage
4．One of the collectors collected some seeds from a tree that had ________ him. A. interest in B. appealed to
C. been attracted D. paid attention of
5．—Have you heard that George quit his job? —Yeah, but I can't ________why he did so. A. put out B．figure out C. carry out D. send out 6．The young man, ________ several attempts to beat the world record in high jumping, decided to have another try.
A. to make B. making C. made D. having made
7．Samuel can't help having a big nose—it is ________ of him to be curious about others' affairs.
A．typical B．constant C．considerate D．unique
8．A volcano in Indonesia erupted on November the 16th, 2010, and ________， hundreds of people were killed.
A. consequently B. continuously C. constantly D. consistently
9．I'd like to start my own business—that's________I'd do if I had the money. A．why B．when C．which D．what
10．Taobao.com has begun selling tickets online for international flights, ________ to cut the market share of Ctrip.com and other competitors.
A. aiming B. having aimed C. to aim D. being aimed
11．Maybe if I________science，and not literature then，I would be able to give you more help.
A．studied B．would study
C．had studied D．was studying
12．I am sure that the girl you are going to meet is more beautiful ________than in her picture.
A．in nature B．in movement C．in the flesh D．in the mood
13．All her energies are ________ upon her children and she seems to have little time for anything else.
A. aimed B. concentrated C. guided D. directed
14．If human beings had been a bit less greedy and cruel, more birds and animals ________ dying out.
A. ought to avoid B. could have been avoided C. should have avoided D. might have avoided
15．I desire to make friends with him, but________ I am worried that I can't get along well with him.
A. on the whole B. on the other hand C. as a matter of fact D. first of all Ⅱ.完形填空
Peter Brown，aged 41，is the manager of a club from Dover Heights.This Saturday he will lead a team of 5 members in an attempt to__16__the Simpson Desert on foot in 12 days.Only one team member has ever walked through the centre of the desert without any__17__，and it took him 17 days to complete the__18__．
Travelling 400 km and climbing more than 1，000 sand hills，each member will pull their__19__in a cart(车) weighing over 140 kg.They'll need to walk from before sunrise until after sunset to__20__the 33 km a day target.And the__21__will vary from 25℃ in the day to__22__zero at night.
Peter has led his club members on__23__challenges before but he said this was the most ambitious__24__．“We did the Kokoda Trail in just over 4 days last year and the year before，__25__money for World Vision，”he said.“It's__26__to see just how strong and how__27__focused people can be when they need to be.”
“We've taken on something much larger than we__28__，”he said.“We're fit，we train hard，but we're only training about 2 hours at a time；we're not used to__29__12 to 15 hours a day.”
Team member Geoff Robinson had never exercised__30__joining the club 9 months ago.
“This is going to be huge for him.Geoff__31__run 100 m when he started and he has__32__20 kg ever since then.”
The team is __33__ for the charity(慈善机构) Save the Children，and has already collected $11，000.The team has chosen the charity because of the __34__ it runs for remote Australia.“We really want to make sure we're giving __35__ meaningful back to this country.” Peter was proud.
16．A.enter B．flee C．cross D．search 17．A.courage B．support C．water D．food 18．A.journey B．vacation C．cause D．competition 19．A.supplies B．contents C．collections D．documents 20．A.make out B．figure out C．keep up D．bring up 21．A.land B．desert C．weather D．temperature
22．A.beyond B．over C．below D．above 23．A.new B．mild C．little D．similar 24．A.on average B．at least C．by far D．in particular
25．A.raising B．paying C．saving D．making 26．A.strange B．interesting C．natural D．necessary
27．A.personally B．generally C．readily D．mentally 28．A.explored B．sought C．contributed D．realized 29．A.pushing B．walking C．testing D．sleeping
30．A.before B．after C．until D．since
31．A.mustn't B．couldn't C．shouldn't D．wouldn't 32．A.lost B．added C．taken D．carried
33．A.waiting B．working C．applying D．paying 34．A.plays B．engines
C．experiments D．programmes 35．A.anything B．everything C．something D．nothing Ⅲ.阅读理解 Our brains work in complex and strange ways.There are some people who can calculate the day of the week for any given date in 40，000 years, but who cannot add two plus two.Others can perform complex classical piano pieces after hearing them once, but they cannot read or write.
Dr.J.Langdon Down first described this condition in 1887.He called these people idiot savants.An idiot savant is a person who has significant mental impairment (损伤), such as in autism or retardation.At the same time, the person also exhibits some extraordinary skills, which are unusual for most people.The skills of the savant may vary from being exceptionally gifted in music or in mathematics, or having a photographic memory.
One of the first descriptions of a human who could calculate quickly was written in 1789 by Dr.Benjamin Rush, an American doctor.His patient, Thomas Fuller, was brought to Virginia as a slave in 1724.It took Thomas only 90 seconds to work out that a man who has lived 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours has lived 2，210，500，800 seconds.Despite this ability, he died in 1790 without ever learning to read or write.
Another idiot savant slave became famous as a pianist in the 1860s.Blind Tom had a vocabulary of only 100 words, but he played 5，000 musical pieces beautifully.
In the excellent movie Rain Man, made in 1988 and available on video cassette, Dustin Hoffman plays an idiot savant who amazes his brother played by Tom Cruise, with his ability to perform complex calculations very rapidly.
Today we more clearly recognize that the idiot savant is special because of brain impairment.Yet not all brain impairment leads to savant skills.Some studies have shown that people who have purposeful interruption of the left side of the brain can develop idiot savant skills.However few people wish to participate in such experiments.There are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on one's brain.The term idiot savant is outdated and inappropriate.Virtually all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots.
36．What does the passage mainly talk about?
A．Idiot savants have areas of outstanding abilities. B．Human beings have complicated thinking process.
C．The brains of the idiot savants are partly impaired. D．The reasons why people have wonderful skills vary. 37．Which of the following can be done by Rain Man? A．He can play wonderful pieces of classical music. B．He can guess out exactly the length of a man's life. C．He can memorize the contents of the pictures fast. D．He can count matches dropped on the floor quickly. 38．What can you infer from the passage?
A．Idiot savants have real talents for art and math. B．Dr.Down is the first person who found idiot savants.
C．Few people wish to risk becoming savants by brain operations.
D．Intentional left brain impairments will surely lead to idiot savants. 39．Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
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