(练习)3 课时达标训练(三) Period Three-【提分教练】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第一册(外研版2019)

课时达标训练(三)　Period Three Ⅰ. 单句语法填空 1. He is working hard, which will make him pass the final exam. 2. John got beaten in the game, as had been expected. 3. Charles Smith, who is my former teacher, retired last year. 4. As is known to everybody, China is a beautiful country with a long history. 5. Mr King, whose legs were badly hurt, were quickly taken to hospital. 6. He will put off the outing until next week, when he will be free. 7. He went to America in 1945, where and when he was noticed by a famous film director. 8. Smoking, which is a bad habit, is, however, popular. 9. Miss Zhang, whom you met in the library, is my next­door neighbour. 10. China has many islands, the largest of which is Taiwan. Ⅱ. 阅读理解 A culture's values can be mirrored by its humour. Humour has been evaluated by many great minds such as Thomas Hobbes, who, in “On Nature”， disliked humour, “Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from sudden thought of feeling far better than others.” He thought humour to be a negative quality of human narrow­mindedness. However, Mordechai Gordon, PhD of Education, insists, “Humour allows us to view the world from an angle that is amusing rather than serious.” I agree with Gordon. Learning to look at the world through humour is important. In the United States, every four years an election occurs. Without humour as a way to express their feelings, how else would Americans keep from clawing their eyes out and going the way of lemming? Television shows like “The Daily Show” have become important parts of American culture. They are mothering the masses by metaphorically (隐喻地) airplaning politics into our mouths. They make politics fun. Of course, politics is only one type of humour. Social humour helps people through the twists and turns of the human condition. American pop culture promotes an unhealthy self­image. On the topic of self­image, Hari Kondabolu stands out. He has a joke about the popular musical group “The Pussycat Dolls”， de