（15）Unit 4 Exploring literature—高一英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第二册单元检测卷（A卷） 一、语法填空（共10小题；每小题4分，满分40分） 1.Peter _____ go with us tonight, but he isn't very sure yet. 2.My father _____ smoke, but he gave up a couple of years ago. 3.The concert directed by the famous conductor last week appealed _____ a crowd of people. 4.Clearly, this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything _____(significance) for his life. 5.Every year about 40,000 people attempt _____(climb) Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. 6.When we meet with problems, we should reflect _____ ourselves instead of always blaming other people. 7._____ you plan to keep your friends, you must practice honesty, generosity and understanding. 8.Epic! is an app for kids with an e-book library that _____(contain) over 35,000 children's books. 9.It is thought that around 40 percent of a person's happiness _____(determine) by genetics(遗传学). 10.When rescued from the latest coma, the old man told the doctor his last wish, "I have deep sympathy(同情) for the girl. _____ you be kind enough to help her finish her studies " 二、阅读理解（共4小题；每小题5分，满分20分） In 1916, two girls of wealthy families, best friends from Auburn, N.Y.—Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood—traveled to a settlement in the Rocky Mountains to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. The girls had gone to Smith College. They wore expensive clothes. So for them to move to Elkhead, Colo. to instruct the children whose shoes were held together with string was a surprise. Their stay in Elkhead is the subject of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden, who is a magazine editor and Dorothy Woodruff's granddaughter. Why did they go then Well, they wanted to do something useful. Soon, however, they realized what they had undertaken. They moved in with a local family, the Harrisons, and, like them, had little privacy, rare baths, and a blanket of snow on their quilt when they woke up in the morning. Some mornings, Rosamond and Dorothy would arrive at the schoolhouse to find the children weeping from the cold. In spring, the snow was replaced by mud over ice. In Wickenden's book, she expanded on the history of the West and also on feminism, which of course influenced the girls' decision to go to Elkhead. A hair-raising section concerns the building of the railroads, which entailed(牵涉) drilling through the Rockies, often in blinding snowstorms. The book ends with Rosamond and Dorothy's return to Auburn. Wickenden is a very good storyteller. The sweep of the land and the stoicism(坚忍) of the people move her to some beautiful writing. Here is a picture of Dorothy Woodruff, on her horse, looking down from a hill top: "When the sun slipped behind the mountains, it shed a rosy glow all around them. Then a full moon rose. The snow was marked only by small animals: foxes, coyotes, mice, and varying hares, which turned white in the winter." 1 ... ...
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