人教版英语精品资料（精修版）课时跟踪检测(九) Using Language.单词拼写1The Great Wall winds (蜿蜒) its way from west to east until to the sea.2The economy is at last beginning to recover.3Hold on to that bag, or someone in the crowd may snatch (抢走) it.4This wounded soldier was unconscious (无意识的)from his loss of blood.5I put another steak on the barbecue.单句改错1Sunshine, fresh air, and rest often accelerate a persons recovery from sick.sick_sickness2We havent yet recovered in the shock.infrom3She is unconscious in the effect she has on people.inof4The boy talked his mother into bought him a home computer.boughtbuying5The medicine had a good effort on me.efforteffect.阅读理解AThe koala is Australias second most famous animal.This gentle, slowmoving animal has lived in the forests of Australia for over half a million years.In the first quarter of the century, early settlers killed about ten million koalas for their fur.Today, the koala is strictly protected.Gum leaves are the koalas only food.And instead of a tail the animal has a pad that enables it to sit comfortably for hours in the fork of a gum tree.The Aborigines named this animal koala meaning “I dont drink”The gum leaves supply all the moisture it requires.So Koala is an aboriginal word.The koala lives in trees in forests.It doesnt eat any meat and it doesnt drink any water.The koala is active at night and during the day it sleeps in the fork of a tree.The koala has long arms and sharp curved claws for climbing trees and for grasping branches.It has a large hairless nose and it hasnt got a tail.The koala usually has only one baby a year.At birth the baby is very small.At first it cannot see and it hasnt got any fur.The female koala has a pouch on her stomach.Inside this pouch the mother produces milk for her baby.The baby stays in its mothers pouch until it is about six months old.Then it clings to its mothers back for another six months.After this the young koala starts to live a solitary (单独的) life.1The name “Koala” has something to do with_.AfoodBsandCwater Dgrass解析：选C细节理解题。根据第二段第三句可知答案。2A koala likes to move about_.Ain the daytime Bat nightCday and night DNone of the above解析：选B细节理解题。由第三段第三句可知答案。3People used to hunt koalas because_.Athey often attack human beingsBthey have very good fursCthey are very ugly animalsDthere are too many of them解析：选B细节理解题。根据第一段倒数第二句可知答案。4You can find a baby koala on its mothers back when it is_.Afive months old Ba year and a half oldCsix months old Dthree years old解析：选C细节理解题。从短文中最后一段倒数第三句可知答案。BEveryone looks forward to progress, whether in ones personal life or in the general society.Progress indicates a persons ability to change the way he is living at the moment.Progress must lead to a better life and a better way of doing things.All these, however, remain true only in so far as people want to accept technology and move forward by finding new and more efficient ways of doing things.However, at the back of the minds of many people, especially those who miss the “good old days”， efficiency comes with a price.When communication becomes more efficient, people are able to contact one another no matter where they are and at whatever time they wish to.The click of a button allows people miles apart to talk or see each other without even leaving their homes.With the communication gadgets,_such as mobile phones and ipads, people often do not take the effort to visit one another personally.A personal visit carries with it the additional feature of having to be in the persons presence for as long as the visit lasts.We cannot unnecessarily excuse ourselves or turn the other person off.With efficiency also comes mass production.Such is the nature of factories and the success of industrialization today.Factories have improved efficiency.Unskillful tasks are left to machines and products are better made and produced with greater accuracy than any human hand could ever have done.However, with the improvements in efficiency also comes the loss of the personal touch when making these products.For example, many handicrafts (手工艺品) are now produced in a factory.Although this means that supply is better able to increase demand, now that the supply is quick and efficient, the demand might fall because mass production lowers the quality of the handicraft and it is difficult to find unique designs on each item.Nevertheless, we must not commit the mistake of analyzing progress only from one point of view.In fact, progress has allowed tradition to keep up.It is only with progress and the invention of new technology that many old products can be brought back to their old state.New technology is required for old products to stay old.It is peoples attitude towards progress that causes the type of influence that technology has on society.Technology is flexible.There is no fixed wa