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1、单元质量评估(二) 一、完形填空（共15小题；共22分） The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, the US. 1 station? A train for Santa Fe collided(相撞) a 2 at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please come here at once. With an ambulance(救护车), too. A man is badly wounded, said a(n) 3 voice of a young woman.
2、OK. Well come soon. Please stay there and wait, replied the policeman. Within a minute, a police car and an ambulance 4 off. Soon they got to the crossing, but only to find everything was 5 . No collision, no wounded man. What a dirty 6 ! said the policeman angrily. We must find out that mischievous
3、(恶意的) 7 and. They had not been able to say anything about a 8 when they heard the whistle of a train was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came 9 towards them, too. When it was passing the crossing, it suddenly 10 to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the
4、 people present, the train collided with the truck heavily and struck it dozens of metres away. When Randolph Bruce, the driver, was helped out of the damaged truck, he was badly wounded just as the young woman had foretold(预言) on the phone. As he was taken to hospital in time, he was 11 at last. La
5、ter the police did whatever they could to 12 the woman who had 13 them, but failed. It is really 14 that a prophecy(预言) should agree with the fact so 15 . 1.A. WeatherB. RailwayC. FireD. Police 2.A. busB. truckC. taxiD. train 3.A. sweetB. anxiousC. beautifulD. low 4.A. turnedB. tookC. startedD. walk
6、ed 5.A. badB. satisfiedC. pleasantD. fine 6.A. callB. lieC. trickD. plan 7.A. policemanB. boyC. womanD. driver 8.A. rewardB. praiseC. thanksD. punishment 9.A. turningB. runningC. startingD. passing10.A. continuedB. refusedC. beganD. stopped11.A. savedB. deadC. awakeD. alive12.A. findB. meetC. punish
7、D. thank13.A. laughedB. telephonedC. repeatedD. visited14.A. excitingB. surprisingC. pleasingD. interesting15.A. equallyB. trulyC. exactlyD. carefully二、补全短文（共10小题；共10分）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。 Around the year 1000 A.D., some people from Northwest India began to travel
8、westward. Nobody knows why. 16. they left their homes, they didnt settle down any more, but spent their lives 17. (move) from one to another. Their later generations were called the Romany people of Gypsies (吉普赛人). Therere Gypsies all over the world, many of 18. are still traveling with no fixed hom
9、es. There are about 8,000,000 of them, including 3,000,000 in the Eastern Europe. Gypsies sometimes have 19. hard time in foreign countries because they are different. People may be afraid of them, look down 20. them, or think that they are criminals(罪犯). The Nazis treated the Gypsies 21. (cruel), l
10、ike the Jews, and nobody knows how many of them 22. (die) in Hitlers death camps. Gypsies have 23. own language, Romany. They like music and dancing. Traveling is of great importance to them, and many Gypsies are unhappy when they have to stay in one place. Because of this, it is difficult 24. Gypsy
11、 children to go to school, so Gypsies are often unable to read and write. In some places, the educational authorities try to arrange special traveling schools for Gypsy children, so that they can get the same education 25. other children.三、阅读理解（共20小题；共40分）A Paracutin was born in Mexico in February,
12、1943. At the end of one week Paracutin was 500 feet high, and it is now over 9,000 feet high. Today Paracutin is asleep. What is Paracutin? It was the first volcano(火山) in the world which was seen from its birth right up to the present day. On February 20, 1943, a peasant and his wife set out to wor
13、k in their corn fields from the Mexican village of Paracutin. They were surprised to find the earth warm under their feet. Suddenly they heard noises deep in the earth and a small hole appeared in their field. In the afternoon there was a sudden loud noise and stones were thrown high in the air. The
14、 peasants ran from the field and turned to watch. They saw the birth of a volcano. Large quantities of stone and lava(岩浆) broke out and a little hill began to form. By evening this hill was 100 feet high and hot ashes(灰烬) were falling on the village. At night the strong light of the hot lava lit up the countryside. The trees near the village were killed and the villagers had to leave their houses. When the village was destroyed, its name was given to the volcano. The news quickly reached Mexico City, fa
