Unit6SectionC课时训练.doc

Ⅰ.单项填空 1．________ am I aware that anyone else knows the secret. A．Nor B．Either C．None D．Nothing 解析：选A。句意：只有我知道这个秘密。nor 也不。 2．Your desk is ________ with too many unnecessary things.You have to remove some of them. A．crowding B．busy C．covering D．crowded 解析：选D。句意：你的桌子上满是太多不需要的东西，你得去掉其中的一些。be busy with 忙于做……；be crowded with 挤满了……。 3．To my ________，he was not a little ________ at the news that he had won the first prize in the English speech contest，for he thought that he didn’t perform so well. A．astonishment; astonishing B．astonished; astonishing C．astonishment; astonished D．astonish; astonishment 解析：选C。to one’s astonishment 意为“使某人感到惊讶的是”；be astonished at sth.意为“对……感到惊讶”。 4．They were all ________ to see that ________ baby. A．pleasing; smiled B．pleasing; smiling C．pleased; smiling D．pleased; smiled 解析：选C。句意为：他们很高兴地看到那个微笑的小孩。be pleased to do sth.很高兴地做什么；smiling现在分词作定语，表示被修饰词的特征。 5．—When can I use your computer? —Never! ________ should you touch it. A．At no time B．In no time C．At any time D．At one time 解析：选A。At no time 绝不；in no time 立刻，马上；at any time 任何时候；at one time 以前，曾经；根据句意可知选A。 6．________ the fact that his initial(开始的)experiments had failed，Pro.White persisted (坚持) in his research. A．Because of B．As to C．In spite of D．In view of 解析：选C。because of 因为；as to 关于；in spite of 尽管；in view of 鉴于，由于；句子前面提到“开始的试验失败了”；后面提到“坚持研究”可知应该是用“尽管”，因此选C。 Ⅱ.阅读理解 A The name “cowboy” conjures up many different images from movies, songs and TV.These imagined cowboys range from white-hat-wearing heroes to gun-shooting hooligans(流氓)．But, cowboys are actually real people from US history. When the US Civil War ended, many soldiers had no place to call home.So, they began to drift to the country’s rural West.Ranchers(农场主) hired these men to take care of the cattle and work around the ranch.When the ranch owner wanted to sell the cattle, the cowboys would round up the herd from the open prairie(牧场) and drive the cattle miles to the market. With the invention of barbed wire(铁丝网)，the