(练习)课时分层作业5 Unit 5 Section Ⅱ LESSON 2 & LESSON 3-【提分教练】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第二册(北师大版2019)

课时分层作业(五) Ⅰ.单句语法填空 1．Her assessment(assess) is based on the proposition that power corrupts. 2．It is their responsibility(responsible) to ensure that the rules are enforced. 3．He was well respected(respect) for his devotion to charity work. 4．Never in her life had she felt so alone，so abandoned(abandon)． 5．She considers that it is too early to form a definite conclusion(conclude)． 6．He received a severe reprimand for his behaviour(behave)． 7．The accident was caused by an error of judgement(judge)on the part of the pilot. 8．He fears the exposure(expose) of his underground political activity. 9．Ted might benefit from hearing his own voice recorded and played back. 10．We are working on the assumption(assume) that it is a gas explosion. Ⅱ.阅读理解 In the UK, people have a reputation for being somewhat lazy when it comes to learning a second language.However, our research suggests learning a new language is beneficial to our brain. To put language learning to the test, my colleagues and I teamed up with Dr.Thomas Bak, a professor, and Antonella Sorace, a leading expert in language, both from the University of Edinburgh.We recruited 20 volunteers who had never tried to learn Spanish before and enrolled them on a language course taught by Lingo Flamingo, a non­profit organization. Over four weeks, our volunteers attended classes three times a week, for two hours at a time, and had homework to complete.Before and after the course, they undertook cognitive(认知的) tests measuring attention, memory and mental flexibility.Volunteers had also been carefully selected according to their age so that we could compare the effect of language learning on older and younger people. After the four­week course, there was an overall improvement for everyone in the cognitive tests.However, when we looked at the two age groups, the older participants had improved more than the younger ones.This is consistent with previous research, which showed that language learning led to improvements regardles