此资源为用户分享，在本站免费下载，只限于您用于个人教学研究。

约27020字。

　　人教版必修4 Unit 1 Women of achievement 单元测试卷
　　第Ⅰ卷
　　第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
　　第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）
　　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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　A
　　Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more earth is becoming deserts all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the deserts. Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.
　　Some places on the earth don't get very much rain. But they still don't become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very helpful to dry places. Plants don't let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants don't let the wind blow the earth away. When a little bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become a desert much more easily.
　　1．Small green plants are very important to dry places because ________.
　　A．they don't let the sun make the earth even drier
　　B．they don't let the wind blow the earth away
　　C．they hold the water
　　D．all of the above
　　2．Which is the main idea of the first paragraph?
　　A．Scientists know how to change deserts into good land.
　　B．Land is becoming deserts faster than scientists can change it back into good land.
　　C．If scientists can bring water to deserts, people can live and grow food there.
　　D．More and more places are becoming deserts all the time.
　　3．After reading this passage, we learn that ________.
　　A．plants can keep dry land from becoming deserts
　　B．it is good to get rid of the grass in the deserts
　　C．all places without much rain will become deserts
　　D．it is better to grow crops on dry land than to grow grass
　　B
　　Queen Victoria was monarch of Great Britain from 1837 until her death in 1901. This period is often called the Victorian Age.
　　Queen Victoria was a stern and serious woman. One reason she was so serious was that she had suffered a great loss. When she was twenty years old, she married a German prince named Albert. Victoria and Albert were deeply in love, and their marriage was extremely happy. In 1861, after they had been married for twenty-one years, Albert died, leaving Queen Victoria heart broken. For the rest of her life, the lonely Victoria mourned his loss. It was customary in those days for a widow to dress in black for a short time after the death of her husband. But Queen Victoria d