【新教材精创】5.4 Reading for writing-Using language 2 练习-人教版高中英语选择性必修第一册

2020-2021学年高中英语新教材同步备课（人教版选择性必修第一册） 第五单元Working the land—第四课时Reading for Writing 课后练习（原题版） 第一部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分) 第一节 (共15小题：每小题分，满分37.5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A I’m about to begin my fifth season of tree planting. Each year, around this time, I have mixed feelings about the job. Never have I loved a job so much while hating it with equal measure. Before a season, after living in the coziness of my home for the winter months, I begin to romanticize and desire the challenges of life in the bush.  I mainly plant trees on the coast of British Columbia and get paid between 25 and 45 cents a tree. The job can be profitable: It gives planters the opportunity to lead a roaming lifestyle, with a temporary obligation to spend a few months filling their bank accounts. But there are many challenges. In the early hours of the morning, we join our teams and travel along rough roads deep into the woodlands. During the ride, we prepare ourselves for the difficult challenges that lay ahead.  When stepping out of the trucks, often in the pouring rain, we’re faced with a steep chunk (块) of land that’s just been logged (砍伐). I step into the rain and fill my bags with hundreds of tiny trees. The conversations with my team become strategic with a few jokes to boost the mood. Seasoned tree-planters treat this more like a sport than a job, and competition fills the air. Once our bags are full, we suppress (抑制) any reluctance and charge up that hillside. We jump from log to log, and if they roll out from under our feet, we catch onto branches – or anything within reach – and swing (摇摆) around like monkeys. We push through stinging bushes. We stumble (跌跌撞撞) and fall constantly, always pushing ourselves to go faster among groups of insects that we often breathe in. While tree planting, I am confronted with someone else; a self I thought I knew. It is a person I try to come to peace with on those hillsides, during those strange days of isolation and deep thinking. Tree plant