2019-2020年高中英语Module5TheFirstAmericansSectionⅠ自我小测外研版选修.doc

2019-2020年高中英语Module5TheFirstAmericansSection自我小测外研版选修.根据句意和单词首字母或括号内汉语，写出单词的正确形式1Businesses across the state are _(兴旺)2I _(憎恨) having to work such long hours.3Many people died of _(饥饿) before liberation.4The boy feels _(怀有敌意) towards his father.5In the severe winter of 1947，farmers had to dig their _(牲畜) out of huge snowdrifts.6He m_ his horse and rode on.用所给短语的适当形式填空needless to sayin peacemake a treatylive onin turnmake peace1All the villagers live together_.2_，he came late as usual.3That country _ with a neighboring country.4All theories originate from practice and _ serve practice.5They _ vegetarian food.6The leaders of the two nations decided to _.阅读理解The Cherokee NationLong before the white man came to America，the land belonged to the American Indian nations.The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.After the white man came，the Cherokees copied many of their ways.One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man.He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language.He began by making word pictures.For each word he drew a picture.But that proved impossiblethere were just too many words.Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language.Using this own imagination and an English spelling book，Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound.His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn.Before long，many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language.By 1828，they were even printing their own newspaper.In 1830，the US.Congress passed a law.It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands.The Cherokees refused to go.They had lived on their lands for centuries.It belonged to them.Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River?The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out.Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint into the western territory.The sick，the old and the small children went in carts，along with their belongings.The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback.It was November，yet many of them still wore their summer clothes.Cold and hungry，the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the journey.Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside.When the last group arrived in their new home in March 1839，more than 4000 had died.It was indeed a march of death.1The Cherokee Nation used to live_.Aon the American continentBin the southeastern part of the USCbeyond the Mississippi RiverDin the western territory2One of the ways that Sequoyah copied from the white man is the way of _.Awriting down the spoken languageBmaking word picturesCteaching his people readingDprinting their own newspaper3A law was passed in 1830 to _.Aallow the Cherokees to stay where they wereBsend the army to help the CherokeesCforce the Cherokees to move westwardDforbid the Cherokees to read their newspaper4When the Cherokees began to leave their lands _.Athey went in cartsBthey went on horsebackCthey marched on footDAll of the above5Many Cherokees died on their way to their new home mainly because _.Athey were not willing to go thereBthe government did not provide transportationCthey did not have enough food and clothesDthe journey was long and boring参考答案.1答案：prospering2答案：resented3答案：starvation4答案：hostile5答案：livestock6答案：mounted.1答案：in peace2答案：Needless to say3答案：made a treaty4答案：in turn5答案：live on6答案：make peace.1解析：细节题。由文章第一段中“The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.”可知答案。答案：B2解析：由第二段中“One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man.”和“He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language”可知，Sequoyah根据西方文字自己创造了文字。一开始是“drew a picture”，但后来又“invented a sign for each sound”。答案：A3解析：由第三段中“It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands.”可知答案。答案：C4解析：由最后一段中“The sick，the old and the small children went in carts，along with their belongings.”可知A项正确；由“The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback.”可知B、C两项正确，故答案为D项。答案：D5解析：由最后一段中“Cold and hungry，the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the journey.Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside.”可知C项正确。答案：C