Unit 6 Going West课堂检测一Reading训练要点 能把握课文主旨、段意、细节。对长难句的理解准确。能读懂与课文主题相同、难度相近的课外材料。知能训练.课文理解从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出与所给句子意义相同或相近的选项。1.We traveled through four states and decided to spend the winter before moving on. A.Four states were so long a way to go so we decided to stop moving on.B.To spend the winter before moving on was decided by the four states we traveled through.C.After travelling through four states,we decided to stop to spend the winter.D.Before moving on to the four states,we decided to spend the winter and have a rest.答案:C2.We left travelling with a group of 45 wagons.A.We were too tired so we left the travelling.B.If we didnt want to travel,we had to give a group of 45 wagons.C.We left there and started moving on with a group of 45 wagons.D.We left there and gave up travelling because of getting 45 wagons.答案:C3.Each had all he could do to save himself and his animals.A.All each could do was to try to save himself and his animals.B.Each had got enough to save himself and his animals.C.Each had all,so all he could do was to save himself and his animals.D.To save himself and his animals was above all.答案:A 4.I was so weak and tired that I got onto my knees and started moving across the sands on all fours.A.I was too weak and tired to stand up and walk,so I had to crawl across the sands.B.I was so weak and tired that I took off my trousers to cool my knees and moved across the sands on four wagons.C.I was so weak and tired that I lay down and moved on with the help of four.D.I knelt down because of weakness and tiredness and was carried by four wagons to move across the sands.答案:A 5.Time would be lost waking him. A.There was no enough time to wake him.B.If he woke him up,time would be lost. C.Time would be missing for waking him.D.Lost time was not easy to regain,so he decided not to wake him.答案:A.课文浓缩用合适的单词填空，首字母已给出。 In Oct,1845,we set off for our journey across the c (6).The most trying part was the journey through the mountains and desert in the c (7) part,where there were no roads. In November,we entered the desert.The landscape was dry and b (8).Water proved to be not d (9).The cattle became tired and weak.Both people and cattle were in d (10) need of water. For many weeks,we had been a (11) to seeing horses and oxen suffering from heat,thirst and s (12).Many of them died.None of the people stopped to help in a (13) of reaching a place of safety.The valley was called “Death V (14)”. On Christmas,1846,we walked out of the desert and reached the p (15) land!All the hardchip ended.答案:6.continent 7.central 8.barren 9.drinkable 10.desperate 11.accustomed 12.starvation 13.anxiety 14.Valley 15.promised.同步阅读阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 A rapid means of long-distance transportation became a necessity for the United States as settlement(新拓居地) spread ever farther westward.The early trains were impractical curiosites,and for a long time the railroad companies met with troublesome mechnical problems.The most serious ones were the construction of rails able to bear the load,and the development of a safe,effective stopping system.Once these were solved,the railroad was established as the best means of land transportation.By 1860 there were thousands of miles of railroads crossing the eastern mountain ranges and reaching westward to the Mississippi.There were also regional southern and western lines. The high point in railroad building came with the construction of the first transcontinental system.In 1862 Congress authorized two western railroad companies to build lines from Nebraska westward and from California eastward to a meeting point,so as to complete a transcontinental crossing linking the Atlantic seaboard with the Pacific.The Government helped the railroads generously with money and land.Actual work on this project began four years later.The Central Pacific Company,starting from California,used Chinese labor,while the Union Pacific employed crews of Irish labourers.The two groups worked at remarkable speed,each trying to cover a greater distance than the other.In 1869 they met at a place called Promontory in what is now the state of Utah.Many visitors came there for the great occasion.There were joyous celebrations all over the country,with parades and the ringing of church bells to honor the great achievement. The railroad was very important in encouraging westward movement.It also helped to build up industry and farming by moving raw materials and by distributing products rapidly to distant markets.In linking towns and people to one another it helped to unify the United States.16.When was the railroad established as the best means of transportation?A.Since the Americans began to move westward.B.Since railroad companies solved serious mechanical problems.C.Since a safe,effective stopping system was accepted.D.In