UNIT 1 课时跟踪检测(三) 阅读写作融会练（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 （译林版）

UNIT 1 课时跟踪检测(三) 阅读写作融会练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Praised as the “Edgar Snow of a New Era”， British journalist Andrew Moody devoted himself to accurately reporting on China for over a decade. Born in West Stockwith, Nottinghamshire, on Sept. 2, 1960, Moody's interest in journalism began at age 15. What came next was a storied career that would span four decades. A visit to Shenzhen, Guangdong province, in 1997 turned his attention to China. During that visit, he was surprised by the great changes that had taken place in China. Moody began working for China Daily in 2008. In his 13 years at the paper, he published more than 1 million words in the newspaper group's different publications. “These stories aim to explain to a wider audience the strategies and aims of the Chinese government, and also look at the challenges and difficulties it faces，” Moody wrote. “It is also to highlight important issues, which go largely ignored in the mainstream Western media, which often fail to provide a full or true picture of China.” To better cover China, Moody read a lot. In his Beijing apartment, there were more than 160 books about the nation. Su Qiang, a China Daily editor who worked with Moody for eight years, said, “He had read all the books that top experts had written about China, and he closely followed how the world viewed China.” Moody also learned to speak Mandarin, traveled to most provinces and autonomous regions throughout China and immersed (沉浸于) himself in the Chinese way of life. “China is moving into a new era in which it is much more confident about its position and status in the world. I had a definite sense of history in the making，” said Moody. He hoped that he could be one of the witnesses and reporters of this historic time. So even after he was diagnosed with a degenerative (退化性的) disease, Moody still soldiered on. “All he cared about was whether he could keep on working，” said Wang Liping, Moody's attending doctor. When he passed away in June, many people were sad.