UNIT 2 课时跟踪检测（四）重点题型强化练（word练习）-【新课程学案】新教材2023-2024学年高中英语选择性必修2 （人教版）

UNIT 2 课时跟踪检测（四）重点题型强化练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 Many Americans spend Thanksgiving with family and friends around a table of roast turkey, sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce. But for others, it's a competition. Across the United States, there are contests to see who can eat the most pumpkin pie. These events start in October and continue through Thanksgiving. Elk Grove, California hosts the World Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship. Matt Stonie won in 2014 by eating 20 pounds, 13 ounces of pumpkin pie in 8 minutes. In other words, about 9 and a half kilograms. That was a “world record”， reported the Major League Eating (MLE) in New York City. Stonie won $5,000. The MLE website praised Stonie：“Like a silent car at top speed driving past you on the highway；like the boxer with lightning blows; like a speed skater in a very tight bodysuit, long limbs stretching faster than the clock can tick. The great one makes it look easy.” Some of the pumpkin pie eating contests are turned into gluttony (暴饮暴食). Others have a more light­hearted approach to pumpkin pie eating contests. Students at the Duthie Center for Engineering in Louisville, Kentucky posted their pumpkin pie eating contest on Facebook. It was a friendly social affair. In Broomfield, Colorado, their Turkey Day celebration takes a different approach. They hold a pumpkin pie eating contest, but contestants just have to eat one piece of pie (or about one­sixth of a pie) as fast as possible. There's a 5 kilometer race and a 10 kilometer race afterwards, for those who want to lose weight. And at Pumpkin Palooza — a pumpkin pie eating contest in Sparks, Nevada — the organizers note on their website, “The winners are chosen by audience applause, so style, talent and humor are the_be­all_and_end­all.” 语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了美国感恩节各地举办的吃南瓜馅饼的比赛。 1.What does MLE website praise Stonie for in Paragraph 3? A．His easy manner. B．His effortless speed. C．His huge eating amount. D．His dynamic performance. 解析：选B　推理判断题。第三段通过把Stonie吃南瓜馅饼的速度与汽车、拳击手和速滑运动员的速度