Unit 1 Science Fiction 课时跟踪检测（一）阅读理解专项练-【新课程学案】新教材2022-2023学年高中英语选择性必修第四册（人教版2019）

班级： 姓名： 学号： UNIT 1 SCIENCE FICTION UNIT 1 课时跟踪检测（一） 阅读理解专项练 I.阅读理解 2.Who developed an interest in writing at a young A age? Contributors to Reader's Digest A.Nicholas Hune-Brown. Nicholas Hune-Brown B.Jarred Briggs. Writer,Toronto C.Anna Walker. “Fight of His Life” D.Megan Murphy. Hune-Brown is a National Magazine Award 3.What can you learn from the text? winning writer whose work has been published in A.It recommends some works of Readers Digest. Toronto Life,The Walrus,Hazlitt and The B.It introduces senior editors of popular Guardian.He's also the senior editor at The Local,: magazines. a magazine focused on long-form stories about health C.Nicholas Hune-Brown is a COVID-19 survivor. and social issues in Toronto.Read his story about a D.The Verandah Society is about a Christmas COVID-19 patient's incredible fight for survival on ceremony. page 114. B Jarred Briggs Artist,Plaster Rock,N.B. It was a weeknight and one of my twin “Beware Winter Rays” daughters marched into the room,waving a book Briggs's favorite part about being an artist is she'd finished."Dad,why are books with science in coming up with clever conceptual drawings-he:them always about boys?"she asked. lives for the moment when all the pieces of the puzzle I told her that simply wasn't true;there were begin to fit together.When he's not drawing,Briggs:loads of great science fictions with girls in them.She loves reading science-fiction novels,being outdoors agreed,but argued that in those stories it was the and spending time with his three dogs.Take a look at:boys who were doing science,and the girls were just his latest work on page 18. along for the ride.My other daughter took her Megan Murphy sister's side and challenged me to give an example. Writer,Peterborough,Ont. This left me in a difficult position.I could either “Home for the Holidays"” go through our library to point out some wonderful Murphy's love affairs with writing began at a examples of female-led science fictions,or just admit youn