课时同步（外研版）高二下英语选修8Module2单元达标测试

—Is this your jacket, Xiao Li?
—No, perhaps someone ______ it behind when the meeting was held.

—Do these paintings ______ you?
—Yes，especially the colors of them.

It's so nice to hear from her. ______ , we last met more than thirty years ago.

We all think it is Jack as well as his wife that ______  for their son's bad performance at school.

Jack was ______ the computer games so that he failed the exams.

The Chinese economy is still doing well ______ the current financial crisis.

The beautiful lady was at ______ loss when ______ word came that she was forbidden to drive for speeding.

I try to circulate at a party and not just stay with the friends I came with.

Sometimes the police are not absolutely sure that someone has committed a crime, but ______ him of having done it.

When I wanted to express my thanks to him, words ______ me. I just held his hands firmly and choked.

It was reported that a girl suddenly got into a strange situation ______ she was unable to listen.

Though having discussed it for long, they still haven't reached an agreement ______ they should pour more money into the project.

—How come a simple meal like this costs so much?
—We have ______ in your bill the cost of the cup you broke just now.

______ the pressure from work，teachers have to deal with psychological problems caused by interpersonal relationship.

In peace, the Red Cross is expected to send help ______ there is human suffering too.

Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503. He was working     a special painting for a church at that time,    the church painting was not    well. An Italian businessman asked da Vinci to paint a picture of his second     . This is the woman who    be seen in the Mona Lisa.
All in all, the Mona Lisa is a very good example of da Vinci's    and it satisfied the husband. Da Vinci used    and light in a clever     in the painting. Da Vinci loved science and    . Right away a person can see that there is a lot of geometry (几何形状)in the Mona Lisa. The face of the Mona Lisa is made of many circles and    shapes like     . Even her    can be seen as a small part of a large circle. The woman in the     is sitting on a balcony (阳台)，and    can be seen behind her. Da Vinci loved to study rocks，so these can be seen     in his other paintings. The woman is sitting with her knees    the side. Her head is turned to look out of the painting. Her hands are     together in front of her. This way of    is now used by many     when they are being painted. The Mona Lisa is a    master.
A. up         B. in          C. on          D. about
A. but        B. thus        C. however     D. so
A. doing      B. going       C. making      D. working
A. servant    B. daughter    C. nurse       D. wife
A. must       B. should      C. might       D. can
A. works      B. jobs        C. novels      D. photos
A. heaviness  B. black       C. darkness    D. oils
A. way        B. picture     C. hand        D. eye
A. chemistry  B. mathematics C. geography   D. biology
A. square     B. round       C. long        D. egg
A. balls      B. sticks      C. vases       D. boxes
A. smile      B. shout       C. cry         D. anger
A. church     B. painting    C. sofa        D. house
A. trees      B. buildings   C. mountains   D. flowers
A. by and by  B. here and there C. over and over    D. up and down
A. on         B. by          C. to          D. beyond
A. caught     B. held        C. supported   D. hung
A. painting   B. living      C. smiling     D. sitting
A. women      B. actresses   C. girls       D. models
A. remarkable B. strange     C. frightening D. disgusting

Birthdays often involve surprises. But this year's surprise on the birthday of the great British playwright William Shakespeare is surely one of the most dramatic.
On April 22，one day before his 441st birthday anniversary, experts discovered that one of the most recognizable portraits of William Shakespeare is a fake. This means that we no longer have a good idea of what Shakespeare looked like. "It's very possible that many pictures of Shakespeare might be unreliable because many of them are copies of this one," said an expert from Britain's National Portrait Gallery.
The discovery comes after four months of testing using X-rays, ultraviolet light, microphotography and paint samples. The experts from the gallery say the image—commonly known as the "Flower portrait"—was actually painted in the 1800s, about two centuries after Shakespeare's death. The art experts who work at the gallery say they also used modern chemistry technology to check the paint on the picture. These checks found traces of paint dating from about 1814. Shakespeare died in 1616, and the date that appears on the portrait is 1609.
"We now think the portrait dates back to around 1818 to 1840. This was when there was a renewed interest in Shakespeare's plays, "Tamya Cooper, the gallery's curator (馆长), told the Associated President.
The fake picture has often been used as a cover for collections of his plays. It is called the Flower portrait because one of its owners, Desmond Flower, gave it to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
"There have always been questions about the painting," said David Howelis, curator for the Royal Shakespeare Company. "Now we know the truth, we can put the image in its proper place in the history of Shakespearean portraiture."
Two other images of. Shakespeare，are also being studied as part of the investigation (调查)and the results will come out later this month.________________________ .
What makes the birthday of Shakespeare dramatic this year? ______

Which statement is True according to the passage? ______

How many methods were used to test the portrait? ______

The best title for this passage is ______ .

Which is the best sentence to fill in the blank in the last paragraph? ______

Mr. Brozina is a single father and an elementary school librarian who reads aloud for a living. When his daughter, Kristen, hit fourth grade, he proposed The Streak： to see if they could read together for 100 straight bedtimes without missing once.
When The Streak reached 100, they celebrated with a pancake breakfast, and Kristen whispered， "I think we should try for 1,000 nights."
Mr. Brozina was delighted, but what he was thinking was, a thousand nights? ！ "I thought, we'll never do it，" he recalled. "And then we got to 1,000, and we said, ‘How can we stop? ’"
For 3, 218 nights (and some mornings, if Mr. Brozina was coming home too late to read) ，The Streak went on. It progressed from picture books to middle-school classics to Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, Dickens and Shakespeare，continuing on, until Kristen's first day of college.
In those nine-plus years, they survived many close calls. When Kristen was still in elementary school，her father went to Washington. "The phone rang at 10:45 at the hotel and it was Kristen," Mr. Brozina recalled. "She said, ‘ Dad, we forgot The Streak！’ Fortunately, I always traveled with several books and we read right then and there."
This spring, Kristen graduated from Rowan University. She has performed as you'd expect for a product of The Streak，an English major with a 3. 94 average. She also won two national writing contests ，was an editor of the humor arid literary publications and won the annual English department award.
According to the passage, Mr. Brozina and his daughter read together for ______ .

In the passage, the underlined phrase "The Streak" in Paragraph 1 probably means ______ .

How has Kristen benefited from reading with her father?

This passage is about a father who ______ .

Australian scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep in a bid to cut the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Thanks to special bacteria in their stomachs, kangaroo farts contain no methane (甲烷)and scientists want to transfer that bacteria to cattle and sheep who emit large quantities of the harmful gas.
While the usual image of greenhouse gas pollution is a billowing smokestack pushing out carbon dioxide，livestock passing wind contribute a surprisingly high percentage of total emissions in some countries.
"Fourteen percent of emissions from all sources in Australia is from enteric methane from cattle and sheep，" said Athol Klieve，a senior research scientist with the Queensland state government.
"And if you look at another country such as New Zealand, which has got a much higher agricultural base，they're actually up around 50 percent," he said.
Researchers say the bacteria also makes the digestive process much more efficient and could potentially save millions of dollars in feed costs for farmers.
But it will take researchers at least three years to isolate the bacteria，before they can even start to develop a way of transferring it to cattle and sheep.
Another group of scientists, meanwhile, has suggested Australians should farm fewer cattle and sheep and just eat more kangaroos.
The idea is controversial (争议)，but about 20 percent of health conscious Australians are believed to eat the national symbol already.
"It's low in fat，it's got high protein levels and it's very clean in the sense that basically it's the ultimate free range animal (散养动物)，" said Peter Ampt of the University of New South Wales's institute of environmental studies.
According to the passage, global warming is now mainly caused by ______.

What does the underlined phrase "the idea" (Paragraph 9)refer to?

How will Australian scientists solve the problem of global warming?

Facing the threat of the Internet， the traditional newspaper is thinking about what it can do to meet the challenge. To make teens get into the habit of reading，the French government is considering what kind of efforts it should pursue. It seems that the two questions have nothing to do with each other, but a recent announcement made by French President Nicolas Sarkozy has connected these two issues together. The announcement gives an answer to both of them.
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a rescue plan for France's ailing print media，including measures to save printing and distribution costs. The plan also gives French teenagers a surprise as their 18-year-old birthday gift ： France will offer all 18-year-olds a free daily copy of the newspaper of their choice.
"The habit of reading the press should start at a very young age," Sarkozy said，presenting the conclusion after talking to a group of journalists and officials in Paris. The President said the newspapers themselves would provide free copies for 18-year-olds, while the state would cover the cost of delivering them to many thousands of homes.
The plan is an attempt to introduce teenagers，who frequently only get their news online, to the delights of the printed world. A similar idea has been tested by L' Ouest-France (法兰西部报)over the past few years. It offered some 18 to 24-year-olds a free paper once a week for a year. L' Ouest-France reported that 15% of young people wanted to continue with a paid subscription after the year was over.
People in France welcomed the plan which should get more kids interested in current affairs and make reading be a pastime，as well as rescue the newspaper industry.
What does the underlined word "ailing" (in Paragraph 2)probably mean?

It can be inferred from the passage that ______ .

What is people's reaction to the plan in France?

Which of the following can serve as the best title for the passage?

Einstein was born in 1879 in Germany. As a child, he was slow to learn to talk. As a pupil, he was backward. But when he was fourteen years old， he became clever. He taught himself math from textbooks. He studied hard because he wanted to be a physicist.
In 1901，Einstein began teaching. In 1902 he continued his studies at the University of Zurich. Several years later, he formulated (系统地阐述)his famous Theory of Relativity (相对论). To most people the law of relativity is difficult to explain. But once Einstein explained it very well to a group of young students. He said, "When you sit with a good girl for two hours, you think it is only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That is relativity."
After Hitler came into power in Germany, Einstein went to America. In 1940 Einstein became an American citizen. In 1955， Einstein's life ended at the age of seventy-six.
The law of relativity is ______ .

When did Einstein become an American citizen?

Which of the following do you think is true?

The title for this passage should be "______ ".