2017-2018学年高中英语选修8北师大版试题：Unit 23 Conflict 23.2

Lesson 2 Conflict Resolution 一、单词拼写 1Young children should never 答案 contradict (反驳)what their parents say. 2He lives on a single parent’s 答案 allowance (津贴) of ￡70 a week. 3There are alternative sources of 答案 nutrition (营养) to animal meat. 4You see this beautiful glass 答案 sculpture (雕塑) of dolphins. 5Which newspaper did you (订阅) to? 答案 subscribe 二、短语填空 keep one’s word have a gift for look down on/upon put forward keep off hold out give in send for call on come about 1Your mother is ill and you must 答案 send for a doctor now. 2I wish you wouldn’t 答案 look down on/upon this kind of work. 3Her daughter 答案 has a gift for music and wants to be a musician. 4You’d better ask your children to 答案 keep off the fire. 5He is reliable,for he always . 答案 keeps his word 6I don’t know how the accident 答案 came about that night. 7The teachers 答案 call on us to help those who are in trouble. 8No matter what happens,I won’t . 答案 give in 9They 答案 put forward some new ideas on the subject. 10The food is running out and I don’t know how long we can . 答案 hold out 三、阅读理解 Mr Peter Johnson,aged twenty-three,battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water.Mr Johnson took the only escape route—through the boot(行李箱). Mr Johnson’s car had finished up in a ditch(沟渠)at Romney Marsin,Kent,after skidding on ice and hitting a bank.“Fortunately,the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr Johnson said.“I couldn’t force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in.” Mr Johnson,a sweet salesman of Sitting Home,Kent,first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn and hammering on the roof and boot.Then he began his struggle to escape. Later he said,“It was really a half penny that saved my life.It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew the back seat to get into the boot.I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear,but no help came.” It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat,and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot.Then Mr Johnson found a wrench and began to work on the boot lock.Fifteen minutes passed by.“It was the only chance I had.Finally it gave,but as soon as I moved the boot lid,the water and mud poured in.I forced the lid down into the mud and scrambled clear as the car filled up.” His hands and