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1、Unit 4Pygmalion(60分钟81分)Part A一、阅读理解(共8小题;每小题2分,满分16分)ADear Dad,Today I was at the shopping mall and I spent a lot of time reading the Fathers Day cards.They all had a special message that in some way or another reflected how I feel about you.Yet as I selected and read,it occurred to me that not a s
2、ingle card said what I really want to say to you.Youll soon be 84 years old,Dad,and you and I will have had 55 Fathers Days together.I havent always been with you on Fathers Day but Ive always been with you in my heart.You know,Dad,there was a time when we were separated by the generation gap.You st
3、ood on one side of the Great Divide and I on the other.The Father-Daughter Duel shifted into high gear (档位) when you taught me to drive the old Dodge and I decided I would drive the 54 Chevy whether you liked it or not.The police officer who sent me home,after you reported the Chevy stolen,didnt hav
4、e much tolerance for a stubborn 16-year-old girl,while you were so tolerant about it,Dad,and I think that was probably what made it the worst night of my life.Our relationship greatly improved when I married a man you liked,and things really turned around when we began making babies right and left.S
5、omewhere along the line,the generation gap disappeared.I suppose I saw us and our relationship as aging together,rather like a fine wine.But the strangest thing happened last week.I was at a stop sign and I watched as you turned the corner in your car.It didnt immediately occur to me that it was you
6、 because the man driving looked so elderly and fragile behind the wheel of that huge car.It was rather like a slap in the face delivered from out of nowhere.Perhaps I saw your age for the first time that day.I guess what Im trying to say,Dad,is what every son and daughter wants to say to their Dad t
7、oday.Honoring a father on Fathers Day is about respect and sharing and acceptance and tolerance and giving and taking.Its about loving someone more than words can say,and its wishing that never had to end.I love you,Dad.Love,Jenny1.How did Jenny probably feel on the night she was sent home by the po
8、lice?A.Disappointed.B.Nervous.C.Guilty.D.Frightened.2.We can learn from the passage that Jenny and her father.A.kept in touch by writing to each otherB.are separated due to the generation gapC.have been getting along very wellD.had a hard time understanding each other3.Why did Jenny feel strange whe
9、n she saw her father last week?A.She seldom saw him driving that huge car.B.She had never realized his being old and weak.C.She didnt expect to meet with him there.D.She had never seen him driving so slowly before.4.Jenny wrote his father this letter to .A.tell him about their conflictsB.say sorry f
10、or her being stubbornC.express her gratitude to himD.remind him of the early incident【文章大意】本文是女儿在父亲节到来之际写给父亲的一封感人至深的信。在信中,女儿回忆旧日时光,诠释了“父爱如山”的含义。1.C推理判断题。根据第四段中的“while you were so tolerant about it,Dad,and I think that was probably what made it the worst night of my life”可知,在被警察送回家的当晚,Jenny因为父亲对她的宽容而
11、心怀愧疚,故选C项。2.D细节理解题。根据第三段中的“there was a time when we were separated by the generation gap”可知,Jenny和父亲曾因代沟不能很好地了解彼此,故选D项。3.B细节理解题。根据第六段第三句“It didnt immediately occur to me that it was you because the man driving looked so elderly and fragile behind the wheel of that huge car.”可知,Jenny在上星期看到父亲时感到奇怪是因为她
12、没有意识到父亲竟然如此衰老,故选B项。4.C推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句可知,当Jenny在挑选父亲节贺卡时,她觉得任何贺卡都不足以写出她内心想对父亲说的话,而且在文章末段Jenny也表达了对父爱的感激之情,故选C项。BIn my first week as a graduate student at Cambridge University in 1964,I met with a fellow student,two years ahead of me in his studies;he was unsteady on his feet and spoke with great diff
13、iculty.This was Stephen Hawking.I learned that he had a bad disease and might not live long enough even to finish his PhD degree.But,amazingly,he has reached the age of 73.Even mere survival would have been a medical miracle,but of course,he didnt merely survive.He has become arguably the most famou
14、s scientist in the world for his brilliant research,for his bestselling books,and,above all,for his astonishing victory over hardship.Stephen received his “death sentence” in 1964,when I thought it was hard for him to go on with his study.Stephen went from Albans School to Oxford University.He was s
15、aid to be a “lazy” undergraduate,but his brilliance earned him a first-class degree,an “entry ticket” to a research career in Cambridge and a uniquely inspiring achievement.Within a few years of the burst of his disease he was wheelchair-bound,and his speech was so unclear that it could only be unde
16、rstood by those who knew him well.But his scientific career went from strength to strength:he quickly came up with a series of insights into the nature of black holes (then a very new idea) and how the universe began.In 1974 he was elected to the Royal Society at the exceptionally early age of 32.The great advances in science generally involve discovering a link between phenomena
