Unit 2 The universal language Reading 能力提升练习-2024-2025学年高中英语译林版(2020)选择性必修第一册

Unit 2 The universal language Part I 能力提升练习 1、 一词多义。将合适的词语意思对应的选项填在横线上。 compose A.作曲 B.组成 C.撰写 1. l composed my lectures on the way, and that was all the thinking time f had. ________ adaptation A.改编本；改写本 B.适应 2. Here I will stress some smarter and more creative examples of climate adaptation. ________ 3. The Wandering Earth, an adaptation of Liu Cixin's novel, hit the screen during the Spring Festival. ________ defend A 辩白；辩解 B. 保护；防御 4. When natural disasters happen, animals are very often left alone to defend themselves against the violence of nature. ________ 5. When the local judge asked him to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who was wrongly charged with violating a white woman , Finch agreed. ________ 二、单句填空。 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 1. Beethoven is regarded to be one of the greatest ________( compose)in the history of music. 2. Engage some volunteers in Project Hope, and your________ ( combine) efforts may make a difference. 3. John is recognized to be ________( rely)and hard-working, so you can rely___ him . 4. If you have the interest to visit there, don't forget to take a camera and you are guaranteed________ (enjoy) the sights in their natural state. 5. The temperature dropped ________ ( dramatic) when the storm hit, causing the streets to flood and trees to swing violently in the wind. 6. Students are provided with breakfast, dinner and a packed lunch consisting ________ a sandwich, a drink and a dessert. 7. It can therefore be useful for people to learn and practice wushu to be able to physically defend________ ( they). 8.She buried her face in her hands and _______ ( weep) when she heard the bad news. 9. The success of that play is not only down to the ________( adapt ) but also to actors’ and actresses’ performance. 10. It's a surprise that the remote village has been transformed_________ a famous tourist city in only ten years. 三、单句写作。 根据提示完成句子。 1.无论我们在生活中遇到什么困难,我们都应该尽力克服。(overcome) Whatever difficulties we may come across in our life , _____________________ . 2. 当她知道结果时,她站在那里,惊讶而沉默。(形容词短语作状语) When she knew the result, she stood there , ____________________ . 3. 结果证明,踢足球有助于培养我们的团队精神。(turn out) ________________________ playing football can help develop our team spirit. 4. 马克·吐温是一位伟大的美国作家,他的小说值得一读再读。(deserve) Mark Twain is a great American writer, whose novels ______________________. 5.如果你学会把知识和经验结合起来,我们相信你一定会成功。(combine...with...) ______________________________,we are sure that you will succeed. 四、语法填空。（建议用时: 6分钟） Combining Chinese and Western musical elements, Butterfly Lovers is a famous violin concerto ________(compose) by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang. It begins with light and pleasant music, ________( tell) Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai's first meeting. Then there is a fast and cheerful section which ________( represent) their three happy years of school. Then the music gets dramatic with heavier notes and that is when the lovers ________( separate ). Finally , the music takes a softer turn and ends on a bittersweet note , telling us how the couple turn ________butterflies and fly away to be together. Country music, ________grew out of such music types as the blues and folk music________( become) popular in the south of America in the 1940s and then spread across the nation. The ________( musician)use many similar instruments. The tunes are easy to singa nd the lyrics often leave you deep in ________( think). Not only are most of the songs about hardship and heartbreak, but also they are about hope. Country music shows the ________( peace ) green fields and simple life of the countryside.. 五、阅读理解。（建议用时: 8分钟） I was 1l years old when I asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010. We were in the economic crisis( 危机), She said a polite " no"That didn't stop me. I searched the measurements of a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would click notes on an online keyboard and " play" them back on my paper one--keeping the sound they made on the computer in my head, i spent six months playing without touching a real piano. Once my mom saw that l was serious, she borrowed money and bought me 10 lessons. I still remember the first one. I was struck by how real the sound of the piano was, l sat my Grade One after eight lessons. Once I started secondary school, we couldn't afford lessons again, I passed Grade Three, and then Grade Five, practicing only on my piece of paper. One evening, when I was about 13, my mom said she had a surprise for me; it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more borrowed money. It was the first time I'd played for her. She was in shock. My school didn't offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. But I had to pass a difficult test. To my amazement, I was offered a place. At the Purcell School, I spent two years working as hard as I could, performed to raise money and saved enough to buy my first piano. When I left the Purcell School, I was awarded the senior piano prize and senior academic(学术的) music prize. I am now at the Guildhall School in London. I feel proud-it's been 10 years since I drew my paper piano, and I'm at one of the world's leading music schools.The irony is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano-what we call mental practice. The paper piano helped arouse (引起)my curiosity about how music works and the building blocks that form the pieces. 1. Why did the author's mom buy him lessons at last? A. She had no doubt about his talent for piano. B. She was shocked by his first performance C. She realized he meant what he said. D. She suddenly made a fortune. 2.Which of the following can best describe the author? A. Honest. B. Determined. C. Humorous. D.Optimistic. 3. What did the underlined word " irony" in the last paragraph show? A. The author felt surprised. C. The author felt satisfied. B. The author felt proud. D. The author felt disappointed. 4. What's the author's main purpose of writing this article? A. To introduce the method of mental practice. B. To encourage people to stick to their dreams. C. To describe how costly it is to learn an instrument. D. To share how he convinced his mom to buy a piano.. 六、七选五。（建议用时: 8分钟） In 2009 in southern Germany, people uncovered a flute( 长笛) made of an animal's wing bone, the delicate instrument is one of the oldest known musical instruments on the Earth , indicating that people have been making muscle for ever 40 ,000 years, We can't he sure exactly when human beings began listening to music. 1._____________ Here's what their research tells us about the power of music. Doctors at Johns Hopkins university recommend that you listen to music to stimulate your brain. They have found that listening to music stimulates more parts of the brain than any other human activity, 2_____________ . Besides, just the promise of listening to music can make you want to learn more, in one 2019 study, people were more eager to learn when they expected to listen to a song as their reward. Music also has a positive effect on your ability to memorize. 3. _____________ They found those who were listening to classical music outperformed those who worked in silence or with white noise. The same study also tracked how fast people could perform a simple task-matching numbers to shapes. 4_____________ The music of Mozart helped people complete the task faster and more correctly. 5_____________. Neurological(神经学的) researchers have found that listening to music encourages the release( f) of' several neurochemicals that play a role in brain function and mental health like dopamine, a chemical associated with pleasure, and serotonin, a chemical related to immunity. A. A similar benefit showed up. B, Music can relieve physical pain. C. Music can help treat mental illness. D. But scientists do know something about why we do. E. That's why they see so much potential in music's power to change the brain. F. In one study, researchers asked people to read and then recall short lists of words. G. But the idea that music can be used for health is increasingly grounded in scientific evidence. 【参考答案】 1、 一词多义 1. C 2.B 3.A 4.B 5.A 二、单句填空 1.composers 2. combined 3.reliable 4.to enjoy 5.dramatically 6. of 7.themselves 8.wept 9.adaptation 10.into 三、单句写作。 1. we should try our best to overcome them 2. surprised and silent 3. It turns out that 4. deserve reading / to be read again and again 5. If you learn to combine your knowledge with experience 四、语法填空。 1.composed 2.telling 3.represents 4.are separated 5.into 6.which 7.became 8.musicians 9.thought 10.peaceful 五、阅读理解： CBAB 六、七选五： DEFAC 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$