2020届高考英语一轮复习单元测试：必修八 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Word版含答案.docVIP

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors 一、用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空 1．For a very long time, people always have been trying to find out the ________(significant) of life. 2.It was first ________ (assume) that he was the murderer, but later it turned out to be a mistake. 3．You must measure the length carefully in order to get the ________(accuracy) number. 4．People felt pity for the animals ________(starve)． 5．The room looks very ________(mess), so youd better clean it. 6．Our teacher reminded us to pay attention to the scientists ________(analyse)． 7．To be a ________(skill) worker, you need a lot of practice. 8．The man got ________(arrest) for careless driving. 9．I am not accustomed to ________(interrupt) when studying or working, so please leave me alone. 10．Though the knife isnt ________ (sharpen), you shouldnt leave it with the child. 答案：1、significance 2、assumed 3、accurate 4、starvation 5、messy 6、analysis 7、skilful/skilled 8、arrested 9、being interrupted 10、sharp 二、用所给短语的适当形式填空 date back ?to?， look ahead， be aware that， fed up with， at most， regardless of 1．People are ________ all these traffic jams. 2．My interest in stamp collecting ________ my school days. 3．________what it costs, we must take every measure to save the old mans life. 4．A new engine would cost, ________ , two thousand dollars. 5．We must learn the lessons and ________ , not backwards. 6．However, ________it is not completely accepted by all people. 答案：1、fed up with 2、dates back to 3、Regardless of 4、at most 5、look ahead 6、be aware that 三、阅读理解 Just in time for National Popcorn Day, a new study shows that people in whats now Peru were eating the snack about 2,000 years earlier than we thought. Coastal peoples were preparing corn－based foods up to 6,700 years ago, according to analysis of remains of the ancient corn recently discovered at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on Perus northern coast. Previously, evidence of corn as a food about 5,000 years ago had mostly come from what are called microfossils—