【创新设计】2016-2017学年高中英语 Unit 2 Healthy eating单元综合检测卷 新人教版必修3.doc

Unit 2 Healthy eating 第Ⅰ卷 第一部分　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。 A In the last 500 years nothing about people—not their clothes，ideas or languages—has changed as much as what they eat.Chocolate drink was first made from the seeds of the cacao (可可) tree by South American Indians.The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500s.And although it was very expensive，it quickly became popular.In London，shops where chocolate drinks were served became important places.Some still exist today.The potato is also from the New World.Around the 1600s，the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe，where it soon was widely grown.Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved (挨饿) when the crop failed during the years of 1845～1846，and thousands more were forced to go to live in America. There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World.But some others went in the opposite direction.Brazil is now the world’s largest grower of coffee，and coffee is an important crop in other South American countries.But it is native to Ethiopia.It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400s.According to an Arabic story，coffee was discovered when a goat keeper named Lakdi noticed that his goats were eating red fruits on a coffee tree.He tried one and experienced the “wide-awake (彻底清醒的)” feeling that one third of the world’s population now starts the day with. 1．According to the passage，which of the following changed more than others? A．Clothes. B．Ideas. C．Languages. D．Foods. 答案　D 解析　细节理解题。文章第一句指出关于人们的衣服、观念、语言都不及他们所食用的食物变化大。也就是说，食物的变化最大。 2．Chocolate drink was first invented in while coffee was first invented in . A．Spain；Brazil B．South America；the Old World C．Spain；Ethiopia D．London；Peru 答案　B 解析　细节理解题。从文中第一段第二句可知巧克力最先是由南美印第安人所做，用排除法可选出答案B项。 文中第二段又可证实咖啡是来自于“旧世界”的。 3．In 1845，thousands of Irish people were forced to live in America mainly because . A．Ireland b