Unit 4 Space Exploration检测卷-【新课程能力培养】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语必修第三册同步练习（人教版）

UNIT 4 检测卷　 　 UNIT 4 检测卷 第Ⅰ卷 第一部分　 听力(略) 第二部分　 阅读理解(共两节,满分 50 分) 第一节( 共 15 小题;每小题 2. 5 分,满分 37. 5 分) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的 A,B,C 和 D 四个选项中,选出最佳选项 A My dog, Harvey, is always looking for something to do. He loves to fetch the ball, run after birds􀆳 shadows and bite bones. If none of those are available, he􀆳ll find something else to do. He􀆳ll chew our shoes, dig holes in the gar- den or take toilet paper off the roll. This is the reason we gave him a middle name: Danger. Harvey Danger is a metaphor (暗喻) for my mind. He is like an active and creative mind. My experience with having a creative mind is that if I don􀆳t give it a task, something will turn on itself. To be frank, several years ago, I didn􀆳t think I was creative. I was just an ordinary hu- man sticking to my daily routine. But things changed when I came across an article written by Brene Brown. She put forward a theory I had never heard of. “ There􀆳re no such beings as creative people or non-creative people. There􀆳re only people who use their creativity and people who don􀆳t,” Brown wrote. “Unused creativity is not benign. It can transform and turn into an- ger, sorrow, shame and depression. ” I have a mind that is all of those things combined and, if it doesn􀆳t have anything to take its attention, it will go searching for things. It tends to do negative things or find things like worries or troubles to focus on. That doesn􀆳t mean that those with creative minds need to be busily thinking all the time. What it means