Unit 2 Wildlife Protection 单元能力基础卷 - 2021-2022学年上学期高一英语同步精品课堂(人教版新教材必修第二册)

高中英语人教版（2019）必修第二册 Unit 2 Wildlife Protection单元能力基础卷 时间：100分钟 分值：120分 第I卷（选择题） 第一部分阅读（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题;每小题2. 5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 not a full-time traveler. I spend most days working to earn a living just like you do. But whenever a chance arises for me to visit a far-off country, I jump at it. When studying abroad in New Zealand, I travelled extensively all over the country with two friends. We booked everything from whale watching to a private flight over the Southern Alps, and racked up some impressive credit card bills. Another international student almost looked down her nose at our pricey adventures, declaring that she had come to New Zealand to study, not to empty her savings account on travel. My question to her came. Why would you come halfway around the world to save your money and keep your nose pressed into a book every weekend? Would you go to China and not visit the Great Wall because it consumes money? Would you go to Italy and skip visiting the Vatican because it requires an admission ticket? I know where I would like my life to go in the coming months and years. But there are no guarantees that things will go as planned. Practically, nothing will go as planned. “Oh, I’ll travel when I retire.” “I’ll travel when the kids are grown.” “I’ll travel when the house is paid off.” How often we hear others say these? I hear these excuses all the time. But you know what occurs? Age. And stress. And, well, life. Life happens and by that time, you have bad knees and weak lungs and you simply cannot visit all those places you dreamed about in your youth. How sad! I don’t want to end up like that, holding on to youthful travel dreams that will never be reality. So I often think, what if “sometime later” never came? So if you are privileged enough to be able to afford to travel, then you should attack it with curiosity and energy and a sense of adventure. So travel young, and travel far. 1. Why did the author mention his trav