220xx-20xx学年人教版英语必修3unit3themillionpoundbanknoteword综合测评

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Americans invited to carve pumpkins on TV 6 years ago 答案： B 解析： 细节理解题。 根据第一段中的 but have you ever heard of extreme pumpkin carving。 Artist Ray Villafane of Arizona made the art form famous with his 3D jack173。 o39。 173。 lanterns 可知。 carving the 3D pumpkins in his mid173。 20s， Ray Villafane________. a total failure help from his friends satisfied with his work traditional sculpting tools 答案： A 解析： 推理判断题。 根据第三段中的 It disappointed me— I kept breaking through the pumpkin and got so frustrated at last 可知。 do we know about Ray39。 s carvings。 of the carvings sell well. carvings cover various subjects. carving will be photographed. about one third of the carvings can satisfy him. 答案： D 解析： 推理判断题。 根据第五段中的 I carve average at least three dozen carvings a year， with about only a dozen or so of them turning out nice enough for me to want to photograph 可知。 D Passenger pigeons(旅鸽 )once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks(群 )so large that they darkened the sky for hours. It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point， there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons— a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States， making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the as late as 1870 when their numbers had already bee smaller，a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles(about 515 kilometers)long was seen near Cincinnati. Sadly， the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their the birds were most abundant， people believed there was an ever173。 lasting supply and killed them by the hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain， waited until pigeons had settled to feed， then threw large s over them，taking hundreds at a birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants. By the closing decades of the 19th century， the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans39。 need for wood， which scattered(驱散 )the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north， where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their the great flocks were gone， never to be seen again. In 1897， the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons， but by then， no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County，Ohio， in a time， a few birds survived under human last of them，known affectionately as Martha， died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1,1914. 本文介绍了在美国生活的旅鸽从数量巨大、铺天盖地到踪迹难觅、逐渐灭绝的经过。 the 18th and early 19th centuries， passenger pigeons________. the biggest bird in the world mainly in the south of America great harm to the natural environment the largest bird population in the US 答案： D 解析： 考查推理判断。 根据第二段的内容可知，据计算，旅鸽数量最多时，有 30多亿只，相当于美国鸟类总数的 24%— 40%。 到 1870年，旅鸽的数量已经减少了，但是，有人在 Cincinnati附近看到鸽群的规模为 1英里宽， 320英里长。 由此可见，在 18至19世纪，旅鸽的数量最多。 第一段的第二句也是关键信息。 underlined word “undoin g” probably refers to the pigeons39。 ________. B． ruin D． evolution 答案： B 解析： 考查词义猜测。 根据第三段的内容可知，旅鸽的数量巨大最终导致它们灭绝。 undoing意为 “ 毁灭 ” ，与 ruin同义。 was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons。 seek pleasure B． To save other birds. make money. D． To protect crops. 答案： C 解析： 考查细节理解。 根据第三段可知，商业猎人用大网来围捕旅鸽，然后运到大城市卖给餐馆，由此可见，人们捕杀旅鸽主要是为了赚钱。 can we infer about the law passed in Michigan。 was ignored by the public. was declared too late. was unfair. was strict. 答案： B 解析： 考查推理判断。 根据最后一段的内容可知， 1897年密歇根州出台了法律，禁止捕杀旅鸽。 此时，人们已经十年没有看到大规模的旅鸽群出没。 由此可知，保护旅鸽的法律出台太晚了。 第二节 (共 5小题；每小题 2分，满分 10分 ) 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。 选项中有两项为多余选项。 In America， seldom do you do anywhere without hearing a principle called WIN173。 ， as time goes by， I have gradually prehended the meaning of WIN173。 WIN principle— it is the attitude of seeking mutual benefit. When I was little， I used to play Chinese checkers(跳棋 )which include two basic tactics(战术 )： __17__The other is to block the passages of your may apply these two totally different approaches in the game， but the key for the player to win is to continuously create paths for him even if his op。