Unit 1 A new start【Developing ideas】课时轻松练-2023-2024学年高一英语【课时轻松练·单元综合测】（外研版2019必修第一册）

· Book 1 Unit 1 A new start · Developing ideas 一、用单词的适当形式完成句子 1．Only in this way can they grow up to be _________(depend) and become truly _________(success). 2．_____(frank) speaking, he is not the suitable leader for the team. 3．By this time, ________ (tear) were streaming down my face. 4．He was very ________(embarrass) to hear people speak highly of him. 5．She has forgiven you ________ the wrongs done to her by you. 6．Don’t do wrong things, or you will find the situation quite ________(embarrass). 7．It took the baby a while to adjust to ________(sleep) alone. 8．After ______ (repeat) this process some times, they eventually found the ideal distance. 9．The potatoes were a little salty, but apart ________that, the food was very good. 10．In ________(conclude), I would like to thank you for inviting me to speak tonight. 二、阅读理解 When Anika Puri visited India with her family four years ago, she was surprised to come across a market in Bombay filled with rows of ivory jewelry (象牙饰品) and statues. Globally, ivory trade has been illegal for more than 30 years, and elephant hunting has been prohibited in India since the 1970s. “I was quite shocked,” the 17-year-old from New York, recalls, “Because poaching (偷猎) is illegal, how come it is still such a big issue?” Curious, Puri did some research and discovered a shocking statistic: Africa’s forest elephant population had declined by about 62 percent between 2002 and 2011. Years later, the numbers continued to drop. Puri, a wildlife lover, wanted to do something to help protect the species and others still threatened by poaching. Over the course of two years, Puri created EISa, a low-cost product of a machine learning-driven software that analyzes movement patterns in thermal infrared (热红外) videos of humans and elephants. Puri says the software is four times more accurate than existing state-of-the-art detection methods. It also eliminates the need for expensive high-definition thermal cameras, which can cost thousand