Unit 3 Environmental Protection Reading and Thinking课时练习（原卷版+解析版）-2022-2023学年高二英语下学期同步精品课堂（人教版2019选择性必修第三册）

Unit 3 Environmental Protection Reading and Thinking课时练习（原卷版） 一、根据首字母填写单词。 1.In the foggy morning，the enemy r the workers from the awesome quarry. 2. Anyhow，you couldn’t let the company avoid s losses of millions of dollars. 3. Buses run f between the city and the airline. 4. The concert will be b live tomorrow evening. 5. This cleaner is also r for keeping the surrounding streets clean. 二、阅读理解。 A Going through social media can quickly convince you that everyone’s life is more interesting than yours.During a particularly adventurous week on social media some months ago，I saw water skiing in Mani, and swimming with wild pigs in the Bahamas.Wild pigs! I started searching flights to new places online, imagining adventures.Then I ordered food from the place I eat at every week and...felt bad about not trying somewhere new. Recent research about repeat and novel experiences suggests that we ought to reconsider those negative feelings associated with repetition.Ed O’Brien, a professor at the University of Chicago，launched a series of studies on this topic.“There’s a general belief that if you want to seem like an interesting, cultured person, the best thing you can do is to showcase that you’re open to new experiences，” he says.“That may be true, but I think we take for granted the value of really digging deep into one field.” To test this hypothesis (假设), O’Brien and his team exposed all participants to the same stimulus (刺激), including museum visits，movies，and video games.Next，some people were asked to imagine repeating the experience，while others actually did repeat what they had done.The researchers found that on the whole, participants said that repeating experiences was often far more enjoyable than they had predicted. There is joy in repetition partly because every human mind wanders.Consequently, we miss a good part of every experience.Repeating things can really be seen as another opport