Unit 3 单元测试题 第二部分：?阅读理解?（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Lynda?La Plante?is the writer of?Prime Suspect?and the best-selling author of more than 40 books. Her new novel?Hidden Killers?is out now. She is talking about three books that deeply affected her. Wuthering?Heights By Emily Bronte One night as a child, I walked quietly into the bathroom when I heard a voice calling, “Let me in; let me in!” along with a terrible knock on a window coming from my grandma’s room. Quite afraid, I cried, “Help me! Where’s the ghost?” Grandma looked up and said,?“Don’t be silly; I’m listening to a story on the radio called?Wuthering Heights.”?I joined my grandma and realized then how you could take a story from a book and change it to a different medium (媒介). The Water-Babies By Charles Kingsley This classic Victorian story caught my imagination as a child. It made me consider the unfairness of life?—?why is one child sleeping in comfort and another forced to climb through a chimney (烟囱)? I especially loved all the questions Tom asks on his adventures, many of which are about social unfairness. All my life I’ve asked questions too. The Faerie Queene By Edmund Spenser I used to have problems reading — I was told I had “word blindness”. My mother gave me a copy of Spenser’s poem and said, “If you can learn some of this then you’ll be able to read anything.” I rose to the challenge. I learned it off by heart and was so proud of myself for keeping something that difficult in mind. Then I learned that I could learn words just as well as anyone. 21. How did Lynda first know about the story of?Wuthering?Heights? A. By reading a book borrowed from her grandma. B. By listening to her grandma’s story. C. By listening to it on the radio. D. By reading a ghost story. 22. Which book made Lynda form the habit of asking questions? A.?Hidden Killers. B.?Wuthering?Heights. C.?The Water-Babies. D.?The Faerie Queene. 23. What change did Lynda show after reading?The Faerie Queene? A. She found pleasure in writing poems. B. She began to believe in herself. C. She fell in love with poems. D. She became word-smart. B My name is Deirdre Veneracion and I am a paraglider pilot. I’ve been paragliding since I was 11. My dad and I arrive at our local fly site on a June morning. We meet our instructor and spend the first 20 minutes watching the wind cycles. I go through my pre-flight steps and turn on my radio. At last, I take a step and feel the ground under me fall away. I feel the pressure of my weight on the canopy (伞衣). After 15 minutes of playing with the wind, my father radios me from the place where he is about to take off. “How is the wind?” “Perfect!” I say. Dad takes off behind me. I have done almost 100 flights and yet every flight amazes me just as much or even more than my first. I love the unpredictability of each flight. Every flight is diff ... ...
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