Unit 2 Improving Yourself 单元话题语法填空练习-2023-2024学年高二英语选择性必修第二册单元重难点易错题精练（外研版2019）

  Unit 2 Improving Yourself

单元话题语法填空练习

（2022上·广东珠海·高二年级珠海市第四中学校考期中）语法填空

Indonesian university student Tyas Sisianindita spends about eight hours a day on her phone. That time includes      1     (watch) videos, chatting with friends and using social media.

“I realize that I am addicted,” she said, noting she checks her phone countless times, “At night, when I can’t sleep, I can use my phone for up      2      five hours.” Tyas goes to the University of Indonesia, where a team of students      3      (recent) developed a device meant to fight phone addiction.

The students spent three      4      (month) creating the device, which can help the Internet users like Tyas reduce the time they spend looking at their phones. The device      5     (call) “Nettox”. Users wear it on their arm.

The Nettox device makes a sound when HRV (心率变异性) and blood oxygen levels fall caused by using a mobile phone for long hours, which tells wearers      6     (stop) using their phones. For people between the ages of 18 and 25,      7      HRV should stay above 60.

Internet addiction is a growing      8      (society) problem in Indonesia. In October, two teenagers were treated for      9      (they) addiction to Internet gaming, the media reported. HRV readings can change depending on if the user is a man or woman, and      10      their body shape and health conditions are.

 

（2022上·四川宜宾·高二四川省高县中学校校考开学考试）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Internet has changed the world,    11   (allow) educational services to help with the global fight against    12   (poor). Khan Academy, an organization founded by Harvard Business School graduate Salman Khan with the task of “providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere”, is one such service. The education offered there includes    13    large number of math-related topics.

   14   (similar), GMAT Pill Review is another company that trains MBA candidates worldwide to prepare for the GMAT exam. Founded by Stanford graduate Zeke Lee, the company offers services which    15   (price) at about 75% less than other programs of the same kind.

   16   , it allows students from developing countries who might not be able to afford the courses to have access    17    these services.

Whether paid or free, these services provide educational opportunities to those who would never have had

the chance    18   (study) in the past. As a result of the technology revolution, business schools may see more students from different    19   (corner) of the world. Because of the Internet, people in developing nations have better and cheaper educational opportunities. More and more people will try to improve their lives through educational opportunities outside of their homeland,     20     is an idea usually uncommon in developing countries.

 

（2022下·山东菏泽·高二统考期末）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Rao Si is the only teacher in a kindergarten for 18 pupils in Tangbian village, which is among the 100 rural kindergartens of a project jointly launched by the Ministry of Education     21    (improve) the quality of preschool education in mountainous areas of Guizhou. Most pupils in her class are left-behind     22    (child), who are cared for by their grandparents. Preschool education     23    (be)something unheard of by most people when Rao was born in 1991. But things have changed     24    (dramatic) over the past decade with every village having a kindergarten.

Rao Si finds her work     25    (reward), because every day she sees the wonder in her students — sometimes a flower     26    (pick) at the roadside, sometimes a picture drawn with imagination.“    27     we don’t have all the materials like in urban schools, we have our own advantage — close to nature,     28     is the best teacher,” says Rao, “Walking out of the kindergarten’s door, you can see terraced fields (梯田) in the clouds. Inside the school, a small garden has various plants, which enhances the pupils’ ability to observe and think and     29    (help) them gain an understanding of natural systems through first-hand experience.” “I always feel that I am not their teacher, but someone who grows up      30      my pupils and the kindergarten,” Rao adds.

 

（2022下·江苏镇江·高二江苏省镇江第一中学校考阶段练习）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

As one of the     31    (important)exams in the country, China’s national college entrance exam, or gaokao, has seen     32    (it)fair share of nervous students, and the year 2021 was no exception. A student in Bozhou, East China’s Anhui Province, was reported on Sunday     33    (lose)his ID card twice in two days before the exam due to “anxiety”.

Local police told media that the student came to the police bureau to re-apply     34     his ID card on Saturday after he had lost his old one. One day later, he had to repeat the process as he was     35     “nervous

and anxious” that he lost the card once again, reported Toutiao News.

The police gave     36    (prior)to his re-application to ensure the student could     37    (smooth)sit the exam, which falls on Monday and Tuesday.

Police said they have dealt with many gaokao students losing ID cards and exam passes, which     38    (be)both necessary for the test, in previous years, but this was the first time they     39    (deal)with a student who had lost his ID cards twice in two days.

Some netizens expressed support for the student and wished him luck on social media. “You have used up all your bad luck, now there is only good luck     40    (leave)for you to perform well in the exam,” commented one Weibo user.

 

（2022下·辽宁·高二校联考期中）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

To ease social distancing and reduce health risks    41    ( link) to in-person learning, school administrators in many places are getting    42    (create) about finding more spaces.

In the United States,    43    number of schools are establishing outdoor classrooms and making use of other empty spaces, like museums. In normal times,    44    (marry) take place at a large convention center in Hesston, Kansas. Businesses hold training programs for workers at the convention center. But the building    45    (use) as a schoolhouse for middle school students during the last months.

Megan Kohlman teaches literature and writing inside one of the rooms, with only a thin piece of plastic    46    (separate) her class from a math teacher’s space. For Kohlman, this class is an improvement from distance learning last spring. “Everyone just    47    ( honest) believes in the power of having kids with us as much as we can, ” Kohlman said.

Some education leaders say they wish more schools would consider different solutions    48    learning. Joseph Allen is an associate professor at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health in Massachusetts,    49    believes that more innovation is needed in how schools work.

“As for schooling, we seem to be stuck in this closed mindset where it is either in schools    50    it is not going to happen, ” Allen said.

 

（2022下·辽宁沈阳·高二沈阳二十中校考阶段练习）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Did you grow up in one culture, your parents came from another, and you are now living in an    51    (entire) different country? If so, then you are a third-culture kid.