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1、海南华侨中学三亚学校2014-2015学年度高中英语 Unit1 Women of achievement单元仿真检测 新人教版必修4答题栏12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940.阅读理解ADr Dian Fossey, one of the worlds leading women scientists, had a remarkable career.The work she devoted her life to protecting and studying the mountain
2、 gorillas (大猩猩) of Africa has proved highly effective and has resulted in the steady (平稳的) increase of this most endangered great apes.Fossey made her first trip to Africa in 1963.Three years later, she returned to Africa to begin a longterm study of the mountain gorillas.She set up camp in the Demo
3、cratic Republic of Congo but moved to Rwanda because of political reasons in 1967.She established her “Karisoke” Research Centre camp on September 24,1967.Fosseys aims were to study gorilla ecology (生态学) and social organization.She found that in order to achieve this, she needed to recognize individ
4、ual gorillas, which required that the gorillas get used to her presence (出现)By copying gorillas behaviour and sounds, Fossey began to gain their trust, and in 1970 an adult male gorilla she had named “Peanuts” reached out to touch her hand.Close observations over thousands of hours enabled Fossey to
5、 gain the gorillas trust and bring forth new knowledge about their behaviour.Stories and photographs of her work were published in National Geographic Magazine and elsewhere.In 1977, one of Fosseys favorite gorillas, Digit, was killed by poachers and she established the Digit Fund to help raise mone
6、y for gorilla protection efforts in the same year.On December 26, 1985, Fossey was murdered while going back to her house in Karisoke.Her body was discovered near the research centre.Most probably, Dian Fossey had been killed by the poachers shed fought against.On her tombstone (墓碑)：“No one loved go
7、rillas more .”In 1988, the life and the work of Fossey were made into a movie based on her book.1Why does the author say “Dr Dian Fossey had a remarkable career”？ABecause she travelled all over the world.BBecause she liked to play with gorillas.CBecause she studied gorilla ecology.DBecause she made
8、great apes increase steadily.2Which of the following shows the right time order of the events in Fosseys life?aShe established the Digit Fund.bHer story was shown in a movie.cShe was killed probably by the poachers.dShe established her “Karisoke” centre.Aa, d, c, bBa, c, d, bCd, c, b, aDd, a, c, b3T
9、he underlined word “poachers” in Paragraph 5 probably refers to people who _.Asell drugs against the law Bhunt animals against the law Chate successful people Dlike to do harm to people4From the words on Fosseys tombstone, we can infer that _.AFossey was the person who loved gorillas mostBafter Foss
10、ey died, no one loves gorillasCFossey was the first one to study gorillasDeverybody loves gorillas as Fossey didBWhen I was growing up, I had an old neighbour named Dr Gibbs. He didnt look like any doctor Id ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was
11、 a lot nicer than most of the adults in our community.When Dr Gibbs wasnt saving lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his lifes goal was to make it a forest.The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant care and growth. He never watered his new trees, which
12、flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them so that each successive tree generation would grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out (淘汰) the weaker trees early on.He talked about how watering trees made for
13、 shallow roots, and how trees that werent watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture. I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.So he never watered his trees. He planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, hed beat it with a rolledup newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow!
14、 I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the trees attention.Dr Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that Id watched him plant some twentyfive years ago. Theyre extremely tall, big and robust since th
15、ey have deep roots now. However, the trees in my garden trembled in a cold wind although I had watered them for several years.It seems that adversity (逆境) and suffering benefit these trees in ways comfort and ease never could. I stood there deep in thought.Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be easy. But
