(练习)课时分层作业4 Unit 2 The Universal Language-【提分教练】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第一册(译林版2020)

课时分层作业(四)　 Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．I recognize the tune(曲子) but I can't put a name to it. 2．The survey was carried out in both urban and rural(乡村的) areas. 3．He really likes working in pleasant surroundings(环境). 4．Career success is no guarantee(保证) of happiness. 5．The newspaper continues to defend(保护) its publication of the photographs. 6．This is an adaptation(改编本) for children of a play by Shakespeare. 7．A composer(作曲家)is a person who writes music，especially classical music. 8．It is possible to combine(兼做) a career with being a mother. 9．It was a question which deserved(值得) serious consideration. 10．The depth of your sorrow(悲伤) made me see that you have a kind heart. Ⅱ.阅读理解 A Woody Guthrie is best known as an American folk (民间的) musician，whose musical works include hundreds of political，traditional，children's songs，and ballads.He was born in America in 1912.Like many people，he left for California hunting for work when he grew up.There many people could find work only on farms gathering fruit or crops.These workers often lived in camps with poor conditions.Woody visited these farm workers.He played his guitar and sang songs he wrote that described the conditions at the camps he was visiting. Later，he left California for New York City in 1940.There he met Alan Lomax，an expert on America's traditional music，who collected and recorded traditional American folk music.When he heard Woody sing，Lomax knew he had found a true singer of American folk music.Alan Lomax recorded many of Woody's songs.The songs told stories of people who had lost their land and received a lot of praise from musicians.In his most famous song，This Land is Your Land，he believed America should be a place that belongs to rich and poor people alike. One day，while Woody and his wife were away，a fire started in their house.Their daughter Cathy Ann was severely burned.She died the next day.Woody was deeply hurt by her death.He remembered how his sister had died the same way.He was never the same after Cathy Ann died.H