Unit 10 American literature课堂检测一Reading训练要点能准确地理解美国文学的写作特点，能阅读美国的一些文学作品，以及快速分析复杂句式。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.She had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present.A.She can only use $1.87 to buy Jim a present.B.With only $1.87 left,she could buy Jim a present.C.All the money she had was no more than $1.87 with which she could buy Jim a present.D.She saved as much as $1.87 which was enough to buy Jim a present.答案:C 2.Twenty-one dollars they took from her for the gold watch chain. A.She sold the gold watch chain to them for twenty-one dollars.B.The shop sold the gold watch chain for 21 dollars to her.C.She could only buy a gold watch chain worth 21 dollars.D.The gold watch chain was only worth 21 dollars in this shop.答案:B3.I had my hair cut off and sold it because I couldnt have lived through Christmas without giving you a present.A.Someone cut off my hair and sold it because I wanted to buy a Christmas present in order to live through the Christmas.B.She didnt live through Christmas because she didnt buy him a present.So she had her hair cut off and sold.C.I had my hair cut off and sold it in order to buy a Christmas present for you.If not,I couldnt live on.D.If I hadnt bought a Christmas present for you,I couldnt have had a happy Christmas with you.So I had my hair cut and sold it.答案:D4.I dont think theres anything in the way of a haircut or a shampoo that could make me love my girl any less.A.Such things as a haircut or shampoo couldnt make me love my girl any less.B.If you have your hair cut off or use shampoo,I could no longer love you.C.I think if you have your hair cut or use something like shampoo,that would make me love you even more.D.I think if you have your hair cut off or use something like shampoo,that would make me love you even less.答案:A 5.He was only twenty-twoand to be burdened with a family!A.He was not more than twenty two years old but he had to support a family.B.A twenty-two-year old man like him shouldnt be burdened with such a large family.C.It was too much for a twenty-two-year-old man to support a family.D.He was old enough to be burdened with a family.答案:C.课文浓缩根据课文内容，填入合适的单词，首字母已给出。 Della was c (6) every penny she had saved for months by b (7) with the shop owners.She started to w (8) as it would be Christmas the following day,and she had no gift for her husband,Jim.They were living in a f (9) flat,small and shabby. There were two possessions the young couple took great p (10) in:Jims gold watch and Dellas long beautiful hair.All of a sudden an idea f (11) in her mind.She decided to sell her hair with the money she bought a chain at l (12).It was late when Jim stopped inside the door with his eyes f (13) on Della.Dellas face turned p (14).But when Jim took out the set of precious combs that Della had been l (15) for,Della burst into tears. 答案:6.counting 7.bargaining 8.weep 9.furnished 10.pride 11.flashed 12.length 13.fixed 14.pale 15.longing .同步阅读 The history of nomenclature(命名) in Britain is so old that no one knows the beginning of the story.Since written history began,people have had names.It is therefore impossible to do more than guess at how the earliest given names were chosen.Most names appear to have had some sort of original meaning,usually descriptive,rather than being simply a pleasing collection of sounds. These descriptive names developed both from nouns and adjectives.The Irish Gaelic people used descriptive nouns and adjectives which were meaningful.Early in prehistory some descriptive names began to be used again and again until they formed a name pool for that particular culture.Parents would choose names from the pool of existing names rather than invent new ones for their children. With the rise of Christianity,Christians were encouraged to name their children after the holy people of the church.These early Christian names can be found in many cultures today,in various forms.The pool of names in use in England changed basically after they came in 1066.Then French names of Germanic origin became popular within three generations.As a result names like Emma,Matilda,Richard,and William,became common in English nomenclature.At the same time a few old English names,like Edward remained because they were names of holy people or kings,others were kept because they were used with slight changes by Germanic names from the Normans like Robert. Surnames developed from bynames,which are additional ones used to differ from people with the same given name.These bynames fall into particular patterns.These bynames started out as specific to a person and were handed down from father to son between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries.The noble usually used inherited(继承的) surnames early and the peasants did so later.16.We can infer from the passage that_.A.people ha