2021新人教版高中英语选择性必修第二册同步课时强化训练：Unit 1 Science and Scientists 核心素养提能练

英语24字整体教学法 核心素养提能练 “阅读理解＋完形填空”组合练 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 People aren’t walking any more—if they can figure out a way to avoid it. I felt superior about this matter until the other day I took my car to mail a small parcel. The journey is a matter of 281 steps. But I used the car. And I wasn’t in any hurry，either. I had merely become one more victim of a national sickness: motorosis. It is an illness to which I had thought myself immune(免疫的)，for I was bred in the tradition of going to places on my own two legs. At that time，we regarded 25 miles as good day’s walk and the ability to cover such a distance in ten hours as sign of strength and skill. It did not occur to us that walking was a hardship. And the effect was lasting. When I was 45 years old I raced—and beat—a teenage football player the 168 steps up the Stature of Liberty. Such enterprises today are regarded by many middle­aged persons as bad for the heart. But a well­known British physician，Sir Adolphe Abrahams，pointed out recently that hea