Unit 2 Robots三、单元自测 1完形填空 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从2130各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。词数：233完成时间：14分钟难度：*I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has provided me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earliest 21 , my mother is telling me, Dont watch the 22 when you say, Im sorry. Hold your head up and look the person in the 23 , so hell know you mean it. My mother thus made the key point of a successful apology: it must be direct. You must never 24 to be doing something else. You do not look through a pile of letters while apologizing to a person 25 in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your fault. You do not apologize to a hostess, whose guest of honor you treat 26 , by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad manners. One of the important things you should do for an effective apology is readiness to 27 the responsibility for our careless mistakes. We are used to making excuses, which leaves no 28 for the other person to forgive us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling 29 about themselves. That, after all, is the purpose of every apology. It 30 little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly at fault: answering for ones actions encourages others to take their share of the blame.21. A. dreams B. courses C. memories D. ideas22. A. side B. ground C. wall D. bottom23. A. mind B. soul C. face D. eye24. A. pretend B. forget C. refuse D. expect25. A. poorer B. weaker C. worse D. lower26. A. cruelly B. freely C. roughly D. foolishly27. A. raise B. perform C. admit D. bear28. A. situation B. need C. sign D. room29. A. wiser B. warmer C. better D. cleverer30. A. cares B. matters C. depends D. remains答案解析21C 名词词义辨析。紧接着的就是作者回忆出来的内容。22B 与后面提到的“要抬起头”正好相反。23D 道歉时看着对方的眼睛，以示真诚，在这一点上中西方是一样的。24A 动词词义辨析。根据常识选定。25D 词语搭配。职位一般论的是高、低。26C 副词词词义辨析。roughly此处表示对待客人不礼貌，服务不到位。27D 词语搭配。bear the responsibility承担责任。28D 名词词义辨析。leave no room不留余地。29C better表示“心情更舒畅”。未找借口的道歉，即真诚的道歉，对方的感觉一定很好。30B 道歉者是全部还是部分承担责任这些都不太重要：关键是为所作所为主动负责，这也能促使别人共同承担责任。2语法填空 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31-40的相应位置上。词数：147完成时间：7分钟难度：* The origins of the music are as 31 (interest) as the music itself. Jazz 32 (invent) by American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today, 33 were brought to the Southern states as slaves. They were sold to farm owners and 34 (force) to work long hours in the cotton and tobacco fields. 35 a Negro died, 36 friends and relatives would gather and carry the body to have a ceremony 37 they buried him. There was always a band with them. On the way to the ceremony the band played slow, solemn music 38 （suit) for the situation. But on the way home the mood changed. Spirits lifted. Everyone was happy. Death 39 (remove) one of their members, but 40 living were glad to be alive. The band played happy music. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of Jazz.答案：31interesting 32was invented 33who 34forced 35When 36his 37before38suitable 39had removed 40the 31interesting令人有趣的 32was invented. Jazz是过去被黑人发明的，所以用一般过去时的被动语态。 33who引导一个定语从句，指代前面的American Negroes，or blacks，在从句中作主语。 34forced与前面的“they were sold并列，省略了they were。 35When引导一个时间状语从句。 36his根据这句话的最后一个单词him可以得知答案。 37before仪式是在埋葬死人之前举行的，所以用before。 38suitable(be) suitble for固定搭配，形容词短语作后置定语，修饰前面的slow, solemn music。 39had removed因为remove这个动作发生在过去动作changed, 1ifted，was happy，were glad等的前面，所以要过去完成时。 40thethe十adj表类人，the living指“活着的人”。3阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。词数：335完成时间：7分钟难度：* A bad Working Memory ( 大脑的工作记忆) the brains temporary storage box - may explain, new research suggests, why one child cannot read his or her history book and another gets lost in math. As many as 10 percent of school-age children may suffer from poor working memory. British researchers said in a report last week, yet the problem is rarely identified. You can think of working memory as a pure measure of your childs potential. Many psychologists consider working memory to be the new IQ (智商), because we find that working memory is one of the most important predictors (预示物) of learning ability, said Dr. Tracey Alloway of Britains Durham University. Many children with poor working memory are considered lazy or dull. Working memor