Unit4 Exploring literature Extended reading同步练习案 2023-2024学年高中英语译林版必修第二册

M2U4 Exploring literature 《Period 2 Extended Reading》同步练习 (限时：40分钟 满分：39.5分) 一、基础巩固 根据中文提示，完成句子。（共6小题，每题2分，共12分） 1. ______________________ (我从未见过这样的情况) which made him so angry.(否定词位于句首的部分倒装) 2. We __________________________ (差点儿要放弃这时) a great idea sprang up. 3. A survey showed that many people ______________________________________ (困惑于他们应该吃什么) to stay healthy. 4. He was efficient at his job and ______________ (高度评价) by everyone. 5. On the road to success, he failed ______________________ (第一次尝试) but he didn't give up, which led him to the final success. 6. Sir, you __________________ (不应该坐) in this waiting room. It is for women and children only. 二、能力提升 阅读理解 （共11小题，每空2.5分，共27.5分） A William Butler Yeats, a famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13,1865.His childhood lacked the harmony (和睦) that was typical of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered “little of childhood but its pain”. In fact, he inherited (继承) excellent taste in art from his family — both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally settled on literature, particularly drama (戏剧) and poetry. Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the fresh task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s.His early theatrical experiments, however, were not received favorably at the beginning. He didn’t lose heart, and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama. Compared with his dramatic works, Yeats’s poems attract much admiring notice. The subject matter includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms, he brought modern sensibility to them. As his literary life progressed, his poetry grew finer and richer, which led him to worldwide recognition. He had not enjoyed a major public life since winning the Nobel Prize in 1923. Yet, he continued writing almost to the end of his life, for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who prod