Unit1 Section Ⅰ Reading，Listening and Thinking（作业）-2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册【精讲精练】人教版

[课时作业] [限时30分钟] Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Lauren Beukes' new Afterland takes place in a world that exists not long after our own—a very near future in which a terrible virus has wiped out almost all the men in the world, leaving only a few million, held in government research facilities. As the book opens, we meet Cole, who's on the run after breaking her preteen son out of one of those facilities with the help of her sister, Billie. Their journey will take them across a completely different—but still recognizable—country. “I wanted to 　interrogate　 the idea that a world of women would be a kinder or gentler place，” Beukes tells me over email. “Because of course, women are full human beings and just as capable of being power­hungry and selfish, as much as we are of being kind, compassionate and nurturing as men are of all those things too.” “It allowed me to explore a landscape where women are the heroes and the bad characters, the governors and the greedy corporate bosses, the pilots and truck drivers and satellite technicians and communal gardeners and anarchists trying to build a better world.” “I didn't want to do a Children of Men, where Miles is the last boy on Earth or the one to save us all. He's one of the 1% of survivors thanks to a genetic coincidence, which means I could tell a personal story set against this backdrop of a world that's radically changed and also very familiar.” Why do you think the idea of wiping out all the men is so interesting? This isn't the first no­men post­apocalyptic story I've read, but I don't think I've seen any where women get wiped out. More recently, the hugely popular comics (连环画) series Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra gets a slight nod in Afterland. [语篇解读]　本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了一篇虚构的小说Afterland。故事发生在我们之后不久的世界——在不久的将来，一种可怕的病毒几乎消灭了世界上所有的男人，只留下几百万男人被关押在政府的研究机构里。 1．What happened to the men in the book Afterland? A．All of them lost their lives. B．They were ruled by women. C．They were made to be slaves. D．Almost all died from the v