课时同步（外研版）高二下英语选修8综合能力测控

—Would you mind giving your advice on how to improve our business management?
—If you make ______ most of the equipment, there will be ______ rise in production.

It was unwise of him to ______ the unreliable data in his speech.

Even on a cold day he prefers ______ out to play football ______ at home.

Only those who have experienced hardship ______ well aware of what happiness means.

—Who ______ it be that hasn't handed in his homework?
—It ______ be Bob. He handed it in yesterday.

The traffic problems we are looking forward to seeing ______ have attracted the government's attention.

It ______ a Saturday afternoon in May ______ Margaret could arrange for me to meet her elder sister.

People in Sichuan Province are determined to rebuild ______ was destroyed in the earthquake.

—Does it rain a lot in this area?
—______ ，it hardly ever rains; the climate is like that of a desert.

No ready technical data was ______ ，but we managed to go without that.

All the organizations involved have sent urgent ______ to government, asking for extra funding.

( 2010辽宁大连双基测试)Both students and parents appreciate the great importance schools have to eyesight protection.

As for the new graduates, it is far more important to find a job you can ______ experience from than ______ you can get large salaries from.

—Mary，I have got a new cell phone number！
—Oh, hold on. I'll put it down just ______.

These stories expressed the same idea that all individuals， ______ poor， were capable of becoming wealthy ______ they were hard-working and honest.

(2012聊城期末)
Some plays are so successful that they run for years on end. In many ways, this is     for the poor actors who are required to go on repeating the same     night after night. One would     them to know their parts by heart and    have cause to falter. Yet    is not always the case.
A famous actor in a    successful play was once cast in the role of an aristocrat    had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years. In the last act，a gaoler would always come on to the stage with a letter which he would hand to the prisoner.     the noble was expected to read the letter at each    , he always insisted that it should be written out in full.
One night, the gaoler decided to play a joke     his colleague to find out if, after so many performances, he had managed to learn the     of the letter by heart. The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed the aristocrat sitting alone behind bars in his dark cell. Just then, the gaoler     with the precious letter in his hands. He entered the     and presented the letter to the aristocrat. But the copy he gave him had not been written out in     as usual. It was simply a blank sheet of paper. The gaoler looked on eagerly，    to see if his fellow actor had at last learnt his lines. The noble stared at the blank sheet of paper for a few seconds. Then, squinting his eyes, he said, "The light is     . Read the letter to me." And he promptly handed the sheet of paper to the gaoler.     that he could not remember a word of the letter either, the gaoler replied,” The light is indeed dim，sire. I must get my     ." With this, he hurried off the stage. Much to the aristocrat's    , the gaoler returned a few moments later with a pair of glasses and the     copy of the letter which he proceeded to read to the prisoner.
A. fortunate    B. unfortunate    C. happy    D. unhappy
A. lines    B. words    C. plays    D. roles
A. want    B. ask    C. expect    D. wish
A. always    B. never    C. sometimes    D. often
A. such    B. it    C. one    D. that
A. highly    B. high    C. poorly    D. poor
A. where    B. what    C. which    D. who
A. So that    B. Even though    C. As though    D. As long as
A. play    B. performance    C. role    D. case
A. with    B. in    C. on    D. to
A. pages    B. jokes    C. words    D. contents
A. appeared    B. disappeared    C. showed    D. came
A. room    B. cell    C. stage    D. office
A. time    B. reality    C. use    D. full
A. serious    B. eager    C. anxious    D. afraid
A. bright    B. dim    C. light    D. dark
A. Seeing    B. Looking    C. Seeking    D. Finding
A. glasses B, trousers    C. jacket    D. scissors
A. surprise    B. satisfaction    C. anger    D. amusement
A. usual    B. old    C. ordinary    D. common

Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members，but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care more about. I know this from my personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren't necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she'd been born before E-mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun—see a great movie perhaps— and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may be tired of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience，and address it to all the friends who you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way to stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don't take the place of any of the old ways.
The purpose of this passage is to ______ .

The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ______ .

According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the former helps one ______ .

The best title for the passage is "______".

The Poetry Foundation recently named American poet Jack Prelutsky as the nation's first children's poet laureate (桂冠诗人). The group created the award as a way to increase children’s love of poetry.
As children's poet laureate, Jack Prelutsky will give two public readings in the next two years. He will also advise the Poetry Foundation about children's literature and take part in projects concerning children and poetry.
Jack Prelutsky has been writing poetry for children for almost forty years. He has written more than thirty-five books of poems. His first book was called /4 Gopher in the Garden. It was published in 1967. His latest is called Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems.
Prelutsky is well known for creating new words by combining two words to creat a new kind of creature. For example, he combined "radish" with "shark" to get "radishark", "Lion" and  "broccoli" became  "broccolion", He also created "umbrellaphant", a mixture of the words "umbrella" and "elephant".
Jack Prelutsky says that children like his poems because he writes about things they care about. Poetry researchers say that Jack Prelutsky's poems recognize children's feeling. An example of this is the poem My Sister Is a Werewolf which is about how it feels to be different.
Jack Prelutsky also writes poems about American holidays. His poem It's Halloween is a very famous one about the holiday celebrated at the end of October.
Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

What is Jack Prelutsky famous for?

Children are in favour of his poems because ______ .

Put the following items in right order according to the passage.
a. two public readings
b. A Gopher in the Garden
c. Behold the Bold Unbrellaphant and Other Poems
d. My Sister Is a Werewolf

For many in the United States, Arab-Americans are an invisible part of the population. Though Arab-Americans as a community have made great contributions to American society in fields from literature to politics to medicine, many Americans know very little about Americans of Arab backgrounds.
Arab history in the United States goes back to the late 1800's when large numbers of Arab immigrants first began making their journey to a land known simply as "Amreeka".
Historians generally describe Arab immigration to America in two waves. The first wave took place between 1860 and 1924. The first wave consisted of Lebanese and Syrian，and some Egyptian immigrants. These new immigrants，who were mostly Christians, came to America in search of better opportunities. Even the doomed Titanic , which set sail for America in 1912, had close to a hundred Arab passengers aboard. The majority of Arab-Americans today are descendents of the first wave of immigrants； they are the third or more generation Americans.
The second wave of immigrants followed after World War Ⅱ， caused by political unrest in the Middle East. This second wave of immigrants consists of mainly Arab Muslims (穆斯林)and continues to this day.
Arab-Americans make up 3 million of the population in the United States，according to demographers. And quite different from popular belief, 64 percent of them are American-born. Eighty-two percent of Arab-Americans are US citizens.
Arab-Americans are beyond the national average in both education and income. Education is important among Arab-Americans； 82 percent have high school diplomas, 36 percent have bachelor's degrees or higher, and 15 percent have graduate degrees. The- median (中位数的)average income among Arab-Americans is $39, 580, which is higher than the US average.
What would be the best title for the text?

The first wave of immigrants took place because ______ .

The writer of this passage mentioned Titanic ______ .

From the last paragraph we can infer that ______ .

Every people has its own way of saying things, its own special expressions. Many everyday American expressions are on colors.
Red is a hot color. Americans often use it to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair. When they are red hot，they are very angry about something. The small hot tasting peppers found in many Mexican foods are called red hots for their color and their fiery taste. Fast loud music is popular with many people. They may say the music is red hot, especially the kind called Dixieland jazz.
Pink is a lighter kind of red. People sometimes say they are in the pink when they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color that shows that they are in good health.
Blue is a cool color. The traditional blues music in the United States is the opposite of red hot music. Blues is slow, sad and soulful. Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded a famous song Mood Indigo about the deep blue color, indigo. In the words of the song: "You ain't been blue till you've had that Mood Indigo." Someone who is blue is very sad.
The color green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural color for humans. A person who has a sick feeling stomach may say she feels a little green. A passenger on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves may look very green.
Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has, like a fast new car. That person may say he is green with envy. Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks. Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the back side of the paper money.
The color black is used often in expressions. People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day. The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day. A blacklist is illegal now. But at one time，some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to unpopular organizations.
If you had your wallet stolen while doing some shopping, you may call it ______ .

Suppose a Mr. Brown says he is very happy because his three children* are all in the pink, this means all his children are ______ .

When she got home and found nothing had been done by her husband, Jane was really ______ .

In the following paragraph, the writer might tell the readers something about ______ .

A small town in southwest Britain is banning plastic bags in an attempt to help the environment and cut waste—a step that environmentalists believe is a first for Europe.
Shopkeepers in Modbury, population 1, 5000, agreed to stop handing out disposable plastic bags to customers on Saturday. They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead.
Last month, San Francisco became the first U. S. city to ban plastic grocery bags. Internationally, laws to discourage the use of plastic bags have been passed in parts of South Africa and Ireland, where governments tax shoppers who use them or fine companies that hand them out. Bangladesh already bans them, and so do at least 30 remote Alaskan villages.
Modbury, about 225 miles southwest of London， has also declared a bag amnesty (宽限期), allowing local people to hand in plastic bags that have piled up at home. They will be sent for a recycling.
The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking, who saw the effect of bags on wildlife while working in the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman. She said response in the town so far had been "really positive".
"Modbury is quite an old-fashioned town and a lot of people have wicker (柳条)baskets to go out shopping anyway," Hosking told Sky News Television.
The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research agency， states that 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year in the United States alone. More than 500 billion are used yearly around the world.
What was Rebecca Hosking?

The underlined word "disposable" in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

It can be inferred from the passage that ______ .

Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

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(2013青岛期末)
Much meaning can be conveyed，clearly with our eyes，so it is often said that eyes can speak. Do you have such a kind of experience? In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not too long. And if he is sensing that he is being stared at, he may feel uncomfortable.
The same thing happens in daily life. If you are looked at for more than necessary，you may look at yourself up and down, to see if there is ______ . If nothing goes wrong, you will feel angry towards others' staring at you that way. Eyes do speak, right?
Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and aggressive. But things are different when it comes to staring at the opposite sex. If a man glances at a woman for more than 10 seconds and refuses to avert his gaze，his intentions are obvious，that is，he wishes to attract her attention, to make her understand that he is admiring her.
However, the normal eye contact for two people engaged in conversation is that the speaker will only look at the listener from time to time, in order to make sure that the listener does pay attention to what the former is saying.
If a speaker looks at you continuously when speaking，as if he tries to dominate you, you will feel disconcerted. A poor liar usually exposes himself by looking too long in the communication.
In fact，continuous eye contact is confined to lovers only, who will enjoy looking at each other tenderly for a long time，to show affection that words can't express.
Evidently, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and the specific situation.
What is the best title of the passage? (no more than 6 words)
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Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words or phrase to complete the sentence. (no more than 10 words)
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Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
It may be bad manners to stare at someone.
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What will you do if your classmates listen to your speaking, according to the passage? (no more than 30 words)
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Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
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