Unit 5.1 Starting out & Understanding ideas(Ⅰ)-【创新教程】2025-2026学年高中英语选择性必修第一册五维课堂Word课时作业（外研版2019）

 

Ⅰ.阅读理解

A

Gardening is popular in many parts of the world.This outdoor activity gives us beautiful plants, pleasant smelling flowers and fresh fruits and vegetables.And it also does a lot of good to our health.

Gardening connects people.When you are gardening, you are outdoors.So it is a perfect chance to meet and spend time with your neighbors.Most people love to talk about their hobbies, and gardeners are no different.They usually enjoy showing people what they are growing.And most of them enjoy sharing advice and stories about their gardens almost as much as sharing flowers and vegetables from their gardens.

Gardening is a great activity for children.It gets them outdoors and off computers, televisions and cell phones.Gardening is also a great teacher.It can teach a child about where food comes from and healthy eating.It also helps them to understand that the natural resources (资源) are not 　inexhaustible　 and the importance of using them carefully.

Then, when you garden, you must move around.All the different movements needed for gardening, like bending and lifting, work small muscles (肌肉) in the body.And you can easily get good exercise when you are digging holes or pulling grass.

In a study, researches looked at more than 2,800 people over the age of 60.They studied their life habits, activities and health over a 16­year period.They found that gardening could lower the risk of future dementia (痴呆) by 36%.Gardening requires people to do many repeated actions, such as picking off dying flowers.These actions have a calming influence on the brain.The brain is still active but not in the same way when we use computers.

You'll feel wonderful when what you grow in a garden looks, smells, feels and tastes good.

1．What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?

A．Gardeners don't feel lonely.

B．Gardeners are fond of sharing.

C．Gardeners have many hobbies.

D．Gardeners care about the environment.

2．What does the underlined word “inexhaustible” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Useless.　　　　　　　 B．Special.

C．Endless.  D．Cheap.

3．What is the purpose of introducing the study?

A．To tell us gardening is popular with the old.

B．To tell us gardening is good for health.

C．To tell us gardening can be a tiring activity.

D．To tell us gardening is better than playing computers.

4．What's the purpose of the text?

A．To show how to garden.

B．To encourage us to garden.

C．To show gardening is popular.

D．To encourage us to do outdoor activities.

[语篇解读]　本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了做园艺对人们健康的种种好处，从而鼓励人们做园艺。

1．A　[推理判断题。根据第二段中的“When you are gardening, you are outdoors.So it is a perfect chance to meet and spend time with your neighbors.”可知，当你在户外做园艺时，你有很好的机会遇到邻居并与他们共度时光。由此可推断，做园艺的人不会感到孤独。故选A。]

2．C　[词义猜测题。根据下文的“the importance of using them carefully”园艺可以让孩子们理解小心地使用自然资源的重要性，告诉孩子自然资源需要仔细利用。由此可以推测，本句要表达的是“这也能帮助孩子们明白自然资源并不是取之不尽的”。inexhaustible的构词法是“in(否定前缀)＋exhaust(词根：动词“耗尽”)＋ible(形容词后缀，意思为“可以的，能够的”)。可猜测inexhaustible意思为“用不完的”。故选C。]

3．B　[推理判断题。根据第五段中的“They found that gardening could lower the risk of future dementia by 36%，(他们发现做园艺能使老年人患痴呆症的几率降低36%)”可以推断，作者介绍这个研究的目的是为了说明做园艺对健康有益。故选B。]

4．B　[推理判断题。通读全文，文章第一段提到“And it also does a lot of good to our health”(它也对我们的健康有很多好处)，这是全文的主题；下文每一段都谈到园艺的一种好处，如园艺让你与人打交道、对孩子是一种很好的活动、可以让你四处走动锻炼身体、降低老年痴呆的风险、看到园中生长的东西，你会心情愉快等。由此可以推断，作者写这篇文章的目的是鼓励人们做园艺。故选B。]

B

California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to a study to be published Tuesday and climate change seems to be a major factor(因素)．

The number of trees larger than two feet across has declined by 50 percent on more than 46,000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds.No area was spared or unaffected, from the foggy northern coast to the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the San Gabriels above Los Angeles.In the Sierra high country, the number of big trees has fallen by more than 55 percent; in parts of southern California the decline was nearly 75 percent.