Unit 7 单元检测

Unit7 In the future 单元测试

一、短文选词填空(共10分)

阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词填空，每空一词。

important, somewhere, protects, shared, and, began, blue-eyed , by, mix, along

The Silk Road is the name of different roads that long ago connected Europe, Africa and Asia People reached these different places along these roads. Scientists believe people ___1___ to travel the Silk Road about 3,000 years ago. By the time the Chinese silk trade became ___2___ in the world, the Silk Road covered almost 6,500 kilometers. It spread from Rome to China, which is from the West to the Far East.

Traders travelling ___3___ the Silk Road carried silk, of course. They also carried and traded spices (香料), cloth, valuable stones and gold.

There is a famous old story along the old road. It is said that Roman soldiers travelled through central Asia. They started to live ___4___ near the ancient Chinese village of Liqian. Some of these Romans married local Chinese women and the story of ___5___ villages of China was started.

During its busiest period, the Silk Road allowed people from many different cultures and countries to meet each other and ___6___. The Silk Road allowed the sharing of valuable goods ___7___ new ideas. These included people and trading goods from the Mediterranean, Persian, Magyar Armenian, Bactrian, Indian and Chinese areas. All these peoples travelled the Silk Road, and they ___8___ goods, stories, languages, and cultures.

In modern times, the old Silk Road routes (路线) are still used, but now they are crossed ___9___ trains instead of camels and horses. There is even a Silk Route Museum in Jiuquan in China. It has over 35,000 objects from all along the Silk Road. In this way, China ____10____ the history of many countries and peoples.

二、阅读回答问题(共10分)

I’m sure you’ve used the zipper many times. It can be seen almost everywhere today. But have you ever wondered who invented it?

Whitcomb Judson was an inventor. He had a friend who had a sore back. Judson’s friend couldn’t bend over to tie his shoes. So Judson designed what he called a “clasp locker(扣环)” for him. It could be opened and closed with one hand. He patented(取得专利权) the idea in 1891. Even though he started his own company to make the clasp locker, Judson didn’t make his invention famous.

The zipper as we know today is a result of the work of Gideon Sundback who worked as head engineer at Judson’s company. Sundback improved on Judson’s design. His design was stronger, faster and more reliable(可靠的) and Sundback patented it in 1917, calling it the “separable fastener(可分离扣)”. With World War One breaking out, the army used his design on its clothing and equipment for the soldiers.

However, the invention didn’t become popular with the public until 1923 when the B．F. Goodrich Company decided to use Sundback’s invention on their new shoes. A leader at the company named them zippers after the noise they made, and the zipper got its name from then on. It also caught the attention of fashion designers in France, who used zippers in men trousers.

The zipper not only makes it more convenient to fasten clothing. The invention of plastic zippers also helps in the fashion industry(行业). This small invention did change our life.

11．Why did Whitcomb Judson create the clasp locker?

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12．Did Gideon Sundback work at Judson’s company?

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13．Where were the separable fasteners used during the World War One?

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14．When did the zipper become popular?

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15．What can the zipper do in our life?

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三、完形填空(共20分)

(本题20分)App Helps Blind People Run

Many companies have _____16_____ apps to help blind people. Microsoft created an app that can describe a photo. Huawei made an app that uses sounds to tell users if people who they are talking to look happy, sad or angry. Now, Google is testing an app that will allow blind people to run _____17_____.

At a Google event in 2019, a blind runner, Thomas Panek, asked a group of experts _____18_____ they could create something to help blind people run on their own without a guide dog or a human assistant. 

Panek, CEO of Guiding Eyes for the Blind, had always loved running. But he started losing his eyesight when he was 8, and by his early _____19_____ he was blind. Later in life, he started running with other people or a guide dog to help him. But he didn’t like being dependent _____20_____ others.

The Google team soon created Project Guideline. The Guideline app uses a smartphone camera to a _____21_____ painted on the ground. Through headphones, the app makes sounds when a person moves away from the line. The further the person moves away from the line, the _____22_____ the sounds become when they get in either the left car or the right car.

_____23_____ first trying the app inside, Panek used it while running outside in a park last August. “For the first time in my life, I didn’t feel like a blind man, I felt free,” Panek said. In November, 2020, Panek _____24_____ ran 5 kilometers around New York City’s Central Park using the app.

Panek hopes the app Project Guideline can help more people like him. And Google will also continue to work hard to _____25_____ the app to help the blind.

16．A．copied B．developed C．drawn D．described

17．A．along B．alone C．lonely D．well

18．A．whether B．that C．where D．when

19．A．twenty B．twentieth C．twenties D．twentys

20．A．with B．for C．on D．in

21．A．picture B．line C．photo D．mark

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