Unit 4 Humour 课时跟踪检测（五）主题阅读拓展练-【新课程学案】新教材2022-2023学年高中英语选择性必修第二册（北师大版2019）

班级： 姓名： 学号： UNIT4课时跟踪检测（五） 主题阅读拓展练 一、阅读理解限时练（限时25分钟） :2.Why did hundreds of people phone Professor Sabbatucci? A.They wanted to make fun of him. A B.They hoped to get the money. A thief who dropped a winning lottery ticket at C.They knew who the robber was. the scene of his crime has been given a lesson in D.They lost the lottery ticket. honesty.His victim,who picked up the ticket and then claimed the $25,000 prize,managed to trace :3.How did the robber feel when the victim wanted to him,and handed over the cash.The robbery find him? happened when maths professor Vinicio Sabbatucci, A.Excited. B.Frightened. 58,was changing a tire on an Italian motorway. C.Ashamed. D.Incredible. Another motorist,who stopped "to help",stole a:4.What does the underlined word "spurning"in the suitcase from his car and drove off.The professor last paragraph mean? found the dropped ticket and put it in his pocket A.Accepting. B.Claiming. before driving home to Ascoli in eastern Italy. : C.Rejecting. D.Cancelling. Next day,he saw the lottery results on TV B and,taking out the ticket,realized it was a winner. Gallows humour(黑色幽默)seems like a He claimed the 60 million lire (prize.Then he began a battle with his conscience.Finally,he mistake,or at least in poor taste.But psychologists say that gallows humour can be an important way to decided he could not keep the money despite having: relieve stress."Humour makes you feel in control been robbed.He advertised in newspapers and on the radio,saying,"Tm trying to find the man who robbedand it can give you that feeling that everything is me.I have 60 million lire for him-a lottery win.Please okay even when it's not,"says James M Jones,a meet me.Anonymity(匿名)guaranteed.” psychology professor at the University of Delaware. Professor Sabbatucci received hundreds of calls Psychologists say that just because you're from people hoping to trick him into handing them laughing doesn't mean you're wasting time. the cash.But there was one voice he recogniz