寒假轻松衔接Unit 6 Earth first复习巩固 2023-2024学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

复习巩固：（12）Unit 6 Earth first——2023-2024学年高一英语外研版（2019）寒假轻松衔接 一、填空题 1.Before boarding the flight, you are required to get your luggage _____(check). 2.No one will be allowed to go into the lab without the teacher's _____(permit). 3.My car ________(damage) to such an extent in the accident yesterday that it could not be repaired. 4.No one died, but three of the villagers were _____(severe) hurt in the flood. 5.Libraries will often hold reading group sessions _____(target) at various age groups. 6.I couldn't concentrate on my work with all that noise _____(go) on. 7.I heard her ________(sing) an English song when I passed by her room yesterday. 8.He got up late and hurried to his office, leaving the breakfast ________(touch). 9.The revolutionists of the older generation made great _________ (contribute) to our country's struggle for the independence. 10.The _________(major) of the residents chose to stay at home rather than go out to travel during the Spring Festival due to the wide spread of the virus. 二、阅读理解 Several days of unusually warm weather in northern Greenland have caused rapid melting(融化). "Temperatures have been running around 15.5℃. It is warmer than normal for this time of year," scientists said. The amount of ice that melted in Greenland between July 15 and July 17 alone-6 billion tons of water per day—would be enough to fill 7.2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to the report from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center. To put it another way, it was enough to cover the whole state of West Virginia with a foot of water. For the scientists out on the ice sheet(冰盖), the warmth has been alarming. "It really makes me anxious," said Kutalmis Saylam, a scientist who is now working in Greenland. "Yesterday, we could hang about in our T-shirts, which was not really expected. Since Greenland holds enough ice, sea level would rise by 7.5 meters around the world if ice all melted." In 2020, scientists found that Greenland's ice sh