2012年人教版高中英语选修6Unit2练习卷

With so many different forms of peotry ______, students may eventually want to write peoms of their own.

He was very busy yesterday；otherwise，he ______ to the meeting.

The gasoline       . Let’s fill the car up at the next gas station.

John is not very       — he often forgets what he promises to do.

Had it not been for the police’s help, Peter        his bicycle yesterday afternoon.

     , I got better and returned to work.

— I think I’m going to die.    —       , Joe. You only have a cold.

We were required not to        any important details before it was made public.

I stood there wanting to ask more questions but found that was not the        time.

Nancy was very disappointed to hear the news. I wish I        her about that.

They are not familiar with the project, so I don’t think        amounts to（意味着） much.

In recent years, China and the USA have had a lot of  ___________of views about the same problem.

People wrote letters to get in touch in the past. Nowadays email has       the way people communicate.

It is not known yet how these huge stones were  __________over a distance of 380 kilometers.

______ any change about the date，please tell me immediately.

Once upon a time a king had a close friend. The friend had a habit of saying “That is good!” whether the   16   he faced was positive or negative.
One day, the king and his friend left for a hunt. The friend   17   the shotgun (猎枪) for the king. Apparently, he had made a(n)   18   in the preparation of the shotgun. The king   19   and it took his thumb away. When   20   the situation, the friend said   21  , “That is good!” The king answered, “No, this is not good.” He put his friend in   22  .
One year later, the king was   23   in a forest, where cannibals (食人族)   24   him. They tied his hands, and piled up the   25  . When they came closer to the fire they noticed the king didn’t have the   26  . As they never ate whoever had a part of his   27   missing, they set the king free.
When the king arrived at his palace, he   28   the incident about his thumb and was filled with remorse (懊悔) for the treatment given to his friend.   29  , he paid a visit to his friend. “You were   30  ,” said the king. “It was good that I lost my thumb.” The king started to tell his friend everything that happened to him. “I’m   31   that I sent you to prison for such a long period. It was my   32  .” “No,” the friend said, “that was a good decision.” “What do you   33   by that?” the king asked. The friend answered, “Remember that if I was not in prison,   34   I would be with you in the hunt. Then you know what would have happened to me. ”
Do not   35   facts or events by the immediate results! Life is a test.

A．situation B．choice C．chance D．cause

A．carried B．bought C．hid D．prepared

A．decision B．mistake C．effort D．attempt

A．shot B．inspected C．ran D．frightened

A．describing B．improving C．examining D．correcting

A．on purpose B．in sorrow C．by accident D．as usual

A．forest B．prison C．hospital D．palace

A．fighting B．struggling C．hunting D．reading

A．guided B．chose C．challenged D．caught

A．wood B．leaves C．stone D．sand

A．hand B．thumb C．friend D．weapon

A．memory B．thought C．body D．reputation

A．remembered B．discovered C．recorded D．doubted

A．Suddenly B．Indirectly C．Frequently D．Immediately

A．generous B．polite C．right D．smart

A．satisfied B．worried C．lucky D．sorry

A．right B．fault C．conclusion D．sorrow

A．mean B．find C．suggest D．explain

A．finally B．certainly C．nearly D．luckily

A．imagine B．suspect C．judge D．admire

There is an old Chinese tale about a woman whose only son died. Sadly, she went to the holy man and asked, “What magical things do you have to bring my son back to life?”
Instead of sending her away or reasoning with her, he said to her, “Fetch me a mustard (芥菜) seed from a home that has never known sadness. We will use it to drive the sadness out of your life.” The woman happily went off at once in search of that magical mustard seed.
She first came to a splendid house, knocked at the door and said, “I am looking for a home that has never known sadness. Is it such a place? It is very important to me.”
They told her “You’ve certainly come to the wrong place” and began to describe all the tragic things that had happened to them recently.
The woman said to herself, “I have had misfortune of my own. Who is able to help these poor, unfortunate people?” She stayed to comfort them, and then went on in search of a home that had never known sadness. But wherever she went, she found one tale after another of sadness and misfortune. She became so involved in other people’s sorrow that finally she forgot about her search for the magical mustard seed, never realizing that it had, in fact, driven the sadness out of her life.
Which of the following does the story lead us to believe?

Instead of sending the woman away, the holy man       .

Leaving the holy man, the woman       .

The best title for the text would be “       ”.

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding of black culture in America.
During the 1940’s and the 1950’s, Gwendolyn Brooks used her poems to describe conditions among the poor, racial (种族的) inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems about the struggles of black women.
But her skill was more than her ability to write about struggling black people. She combined traditional European poetry styles with the African American experience.
Gwendolyn Brooks once said that she wrote about what she saw and heard in the street. She said she found most of her materials through looking out of the window of her second-floor apartment in Chicago, Illinois.
In her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the South Side of Chicago, where many black people live. In her poems, the South Side is called Bronzeville. It was “A Street in Bronzeville” that gained the attention of literary experts in 1945. Critics praised her poetic skills and her powerful descriptions about the black experience during the time. The Bronzeville poems were her first published collection.
In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the prize for her second book of poems called “Annie Allen”. “Annie Allen” is a collection of poetry about a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and a mother. She experiences loneliness, loss, death and poverty (贫穷).
Gwendolyn Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life.
Her next work was a novel written in 1953 called “Maud Martha”. “Maud Martha” attracted little attention when it was first published. But now it is considered an important work by some critics. Its main ideas about the difficult lives of many women are popular among female writers today.                                                      
Gwendolyn Brooks became world-famous because        .

Which of the following can we learn from the text?

How did Gwendolyn Brooks get ideas for most of her poems?

We can infer that the book “Annie Allen” mainly deals with       .

完成句子
The book is said ______________________________ (已经译成) many languages. (translate)
He _______________________(把他的旧车换成新的) as soon as he won the money. (exchange)
Should that be true, it ____________________ (将会是愚蠢的) to argue any longer. (silly)
我要是细心一点，是可以做得更好的。I _________________if I had been more careful. (can)
蒸汽机将热能转变成动力。  A steam engine______________________________.(transform)
_____________________________(放松几天)and you will be able to go to work again. (it).
As I become fatter and fatter, I had to _______________________. (把我的裙子放大).(let)
_____________________________ (我的唯一去那里的理由就是) was that I wanted to meet my friends.(reason)
我无法用言语来表达我的情感。I can't ____________________in words.
It is not a traditional form of English poetry, but _______________________________(受欢迎)English writers。 （popular）
I’m trying to catch up with my colleagues. If only I __________________________(没有落后) them!(fall)