Unit 1 Food matters 单元限时小卷-【高中必刷题】2024-2025学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第一册同步课件（译林版2020）

03 单元限时小卷 建议用时：58分钟 1 A [江苏南京2023高二期中] For my second career, as a weather forecaster （天气预报员）, I jerked on the Canadian plain, which is the second-best place to chase （追逐） severe weather, after Tornado Alley. I was also studying for a degree in Meteorology so I could interpret weather data and make my own forecasts. I didn’t want to be looked at as someone silly who didn’t know what she was talking about. Around that time, a photographer friend invited me to chase with him in the Alley for a month. I said sure; I wanted to learn everything I could. During my second round in 2013, I got to see the largest tornado in recorded history—on the very last day of the chase season. We were waiting in this dark and dirty gas-station parking lot in El Reno, Oklahoma. Chasers do that a lot. We sat around in groups waiting and eating junk food. The forecast called it a high-risk day, and finally, a tornado rolled in around 5:30 pm. 刷阅读理解 2 It started out as a little cloud and then turned into a 60,000-foot thunderstorm in maybe 20 minutes. We jumped in our car and raced towards it. A few minutes later I was looking out the window, filming this massive wall of what seemed like rain. We thought the tornado was hidden inside. But then I saw it taking shape and felt it sucking in wind. That’s when I realized that wall was the tornado itself. It was around 2.6 miles across with winds nearly 300 miles per hour. It was explosive. We hurried to be out of there. Cars packed the roads. All we could see were brake lights. We feared we’d be stuck. But in a few minutes, it was over. Three storm chasers died that day, just up the road from where we’d been stuck. That had never happened before. So yeah, I wondered why I would risk going out again. But then the next chase season called me back. 刷阅读理解 3 【语篇导读】本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者曾经追逐龙卷风的一次经历，事后，作者也很困惑自己为什么要冒险。但是，当龙卷风季节再次来临时，作者还是愿意回到那里再次追逐。 1.Why did the author agree to chase tornadoes with her photographer friend?( ) D A.T