高一英语人教版必修3单元训练：第四单元过关检测Word版含答案.docxVIP

第四单元过关检测(时间:90分钟　满分:120分)第一部分　阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)第一节(共12小题;每小题2.5分,满分30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。AMany people will remember the flight of the space shuttle(航天飞机) Challenger,in June,1983.The achievement of Sally Ride,America’s first woman astronaut to fly into space,made this flight especially memorable.Students from two high schools in New Jersey,however,are likely to remember Norma rather than Sally whenever they think about the flight.Norma didn’t travel alone.She brought about 100 companions along with her.Norma was an ant,a queen ant who,with her subject,made up the first ant colony(群体)to travel into space.The ants were part of a science experiment designed by the students to test the effects of weightlessness on insects.The equipment designed by the students for their colony functioned perfectly throughout the long space trip.The young scientists and their teachers were very sad to find that their insect astronauts had all died at some point before the container was returned to the school and opened.The problem did not happen in space,but on the ground after Challenger had landed.The container remained in the desert for nearly a whole week before the ant colony was moved.Thehot,dry desert air dried out the colony’s container and the ants died from lack of water.The project was termed success because it did provide useful information.Students will continue their efforts to find out what went wrong.They will try to prevent the same difficulties from reoccurring on future missions.They don’t want to be discouraged either by the demise of the ants or by the $10,000 shuttle fare they will have to pay to send the next colony of ants into space.1.What does the passage mainly tell us?A.America’s first woman astronaut — Sally Ride.B.How to keep ants alive in space.C.How to make equipment for insects in space.D.An experiment with ants in space.解析:通读全文后不难发现这篇文章主要讲用蚂蚁在太空做的实验,故D项正确。答案:D2.According to the passage,we know that the underlined word “demise” means “　”.?A.