(练习)课时分层作业4 UNIT 2 Section Ⅰ Understanding ideas-【提分教练】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册(外研版2019)

Unit 2　Lessons in life 课时分层作业(四) Ⅰ.单句语法填空 1．Complex and larger human brains consume more food, and _________(weak) muscles. 2．Right after the trainee took ________ (possess) of my wallet on the bus, she posted a picture of my driver's license to an online forum(论坛)． 3．It is ________ (normal) for a little girl to have a lot of refreshments at a time. 4．The thoughtful scientist deserves the_________ (recognize) for his creative talent. 5．On the map, ________ (compare) with the size of the whole earth, the city is only a dot. 6．The detective wrote a book _________(base) on his personal experience. 7．Roald Dahl's writing gives me a new ________ (appreciate) for his complex and delightful words. 8．Despite ________ (want) to get in touch with the correspondent, the girl didn't write or telephone him. 9．She will be reunited ________ her family in Washington State. 10．I met him when I worked in Madrid, and I've kept _________touch with him ever since. Ⅱ.阅读理解 A The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel that can be considered autobiography as it is based on the experiences of Mark Twain.Tom Sawyer stands out for his intelligent, wild and humorous nature.He is a person who can overcome any problem, and nothing is impossible for him.He looks at the difficulties as a challenge and tries to solve them.He is powered by great optimism despite everything bad that has happened to him. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince is a tale with multiple lessons.From one side it is the critic of the society that can be cruel and heartless and on the other side, it is about the sympathy for humans' troubles.Oscar Wilde tried to state in a simple way the virtues and weaknesses of a person in all of his fairy tales and criticize the society which is insensible. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea is a novel which was published in 1952 for the first time in the magazine Life.The theme is the relationship between