高中英语 Unit 3 Australia测试题（广东）新人教版选修9.docVIP

PAGE  2014-2015学年高中英语 Unit 3 Australia测试题（广东）新人教版选修9 Class: Name: Marks: 满分（135） 第Ⅰ卷 (共95分) Ⅰ. 语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分45分) 第一节 完形填空 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。 On a Monday afternoon in February, 2007, Gretchen took Liam, her 2.5-year-old son, to his 1 because of some new habits — longer naps, pickier eating. After the medical test at the hospital, Gretchen learned that her son had a 2 that affects nerve cells. Liam began three rounds of chemo (化疗). Among diseases, cancer is the major killer of 3 in the United States. “I asked Liam’s doctor how it was possible that I’d 4 heard that,” says Gretchen. She recalls that the doctor told her that people don’t 5 enough about kids who get cancer. They don’t make headlines; their diseases don’t get funding. After Liam was declared 6 of disease a few months later, his parents felt a strong desire to give back. “Pediatric (儿科的) cancer is just so 7 ,” says Gretchen. To ask for help without scaring people off, she decided to bake cookies — 96,000 of them — in exchange for 8 . She and her husband launched a website to sell the 9 , which she packaged with a note to raise the 10 of pediatric cancer. “Everyone said, ‘I had no idea that cancer was the number-one disease killer of children. How can I 11 ?’” Gretchen says. “I knew it wasn’t that ‘nobody cares’. They just didn’t 12 .” However, as the number of the fund-raisers increased, Liam’s disease 13 . He had more treatments before his brave battle ended on a January afternoon in 2011. “People ask me, ‘Why do you keep doing this even though you 14 your kid?’” says Gretchen, also mom to eight-year-old Ella. “One day, I’ll see Liam again. I know he’s going to ask, ‘Mommy, did you make it 15 for other people?’ How could I look at him in the face if I couldn’t say I had done everything I could?” 1. A. family B. friend C. doctor D. teacher 2