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课时作业(一) Unit 1 Section Ⅰ
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
To most of us,school means classes,teachers,schedules,grades,and tests.But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts,school is very different.
Firstly,there are no lessons.All the children,aged between 4 and 19,do whatever they want.There are no teachers—only“staff members”.The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn,because children want to learn anyway.“You do not need to say to a threeyearold,‘Go explore your environment.’You can't stop them!”says Daniel Greenberg,a founder of the school.“But if you make children do what you want all day.they will lose all taste for learning.”
At Sudbury Valley School,you will permit children to talk,read,paint,cook,work on computers,study French,play the piano,climb trees or just run around.Two boys spent three years just fishing!
The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules.Every week,there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote each—even the fouryearolds.They decide the school rules,how to spend the school budget,and even which staff they want and do not want any more.
When the school first opened in 1968,people said it would never work. But today,the school has 200 students,and 80% of its students go on to college.Even the two boys who went fishing all the time have successful careers today.One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.
【语篇解读】 文章介绍了一所与众不同的学校。
1.What is the best title of the article?
A.An Unusual School
B.Children's Hobbies
C.A School Without Rules
D.Education in the US
解析:选A 标题归纳题。文章主要介绍了Sudbury Valley School不同寻常的地方:学生不用上课,不用做作业,可以随心所欲地做自己想做的事,可以参与学校制度的制定。
2.What does the school believe?
A.Teachers cannot teach children well.
B.Children learn best when they do what they want to do.
C.Learning is for adults—children should only play.
D.Children should only learn about one thing at a time.
解析:选B 推理判断题。从第二段内容可知,被动学习只会让学生失去学习兴趣,让学生做自己想做的事才会学得最好。
3.What does DaMel Greenberg say about threeyearolds?
A.They love learning.
B.They are very naughty.
C.They want to be outside all the time.
D.They are too young to learn anything.
解析:选A 推理判断题。Daniel Greenberg的话是对第二段第四句中的“...you do not need to make children learn,because children want to learn anyway.”的进一步说明,由此可知A项正确。
4.Who has the most power in the school meetings?
A.The older children have more power than the younger children.
B.A child has more power than an adult.
C.The younger children have more power than the older children.
D.Everybody has equal power.
解析:选B 细节理解题 由倒数第二段第二句可知D项正确。
B
On one of her trips to New York several years ago,Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.They settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes,another customer was approaching(接近)their table.
“Hey,aren't you from Mississippi?”the elegant,whitehaired writer remembered being asked by the stranger.“I'm from Mississippi too.”
Without a second thought,the woman joined the Welty party.When her dinner partner showed up,she also pulled up a chair.
“They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,”Welty said,“I didn't know what my New York friends were thinking.”
Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine.By the time the group got up to leave,it was pouring outside.Wehy's new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab.Heading back downtown toward her hotel,her bigcity friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion.
“My friends said:‘Now we believe your stories,’”Wehy added,“And I said:‘Now you know.These are the people that make me write them.’”
Sitting on a sofa in her room,Welty,a slim figure in a simple gray dress,looked pleased with this explanation.
“I don't make them up,”she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years.“I don't have to.”
Beauticians(美容师),bartenders(酒吧招待),piano players and people with purple hats,Wehy's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends,from walks through the streets of her native Jackson,Miss.,from conversations overheard on a bus.It annoys Welty that,at 78,her left ear has now given out.Sometimes,sitting on a bus or a train,she hears only a fragment(片段)of a particularly interesting story.
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇记叙文。全文讲述了著名作家Eudora Welty在纽约的朋友聚会上,遇到了两位陌生人。大家的交流对她的写作影响很大。她经常收集人们的所见所闻,写成自己的文章。
5.What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?
A.Two strangers joined her.
B.Her childhood friends came in.
C.A heavy rain ruined the dinner.
D.Some people held a party there.
解析:选A 细节理解题。根据第三段“...the woman joined the Welty party.When her dinner partner showed up,she also pulled up a chair.”可知,除了那位陌生的女士,要跟她一起吃饭的人也加入到了Welty的饭局中。B项说“她儿时的朋友加入进来了”,文中只是说几个纽约的朋友;C项说“一场大雨毁掉了晚餐”,但是文中提到下大雨是在他们吃完饭离开的时候,吃饭的时候并未受大雨的影响;D项说“一些人在那里举行了聚会”,文中并未提及。故选A。
6.The undedined word“them”in Paragraph 6 refers to Wehy's ________.
A.readers B.parties
C.friends D.stories
解析:选D 代词指代题。联系本段“My friends said:‘Now we believe your stories,’”Welty added.“And I said:‘Now you know.These are the people that make me write them.’”可知,朋友们相信Eudora Welty的故事是真实的,正是在现实生活中从这些陌生的人口中得到的信息才让她写出这些故事。故选D。
7.What can we learn about the characters in Welty's fiction?
A.They live in big cities.
B.They are mostly women.
C.They come from real life.
D.They are pleasure seekers.
解析:选C 推理判断题。根据倒数第一、二段中的“I don't make them up”和“Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends,from walks through the streets of her native Jackson.Miss.,from conversations overheard on a bus.”可知,Welty小说中的人物并非虚构的,他们都来源于现实的生活。故选C。
Ⅱ.完形填空
On Friday I called my parents,who are in their early 90s now.They were upset as they didn't __1__ what to send us and our adult kids for Christmas presents.Both of them have suffered serious __2__ problems recently,and I begged them not to worry about it because all of us had what we needed and didn't __3__ anything more.
Not happy with that,they __4__ getting us all something.Ahhough they were in poor health this year,they still thought it was __5__ for them to send something to us all.My mother said that she was __6__ the other brothers and sisters fruit and delicious food baskets.That gave me a(n) idea.Then I asked her to __7__,in that case,giving whatever she would have given us to a local food bank.Or __8__,they donate money she would have __9__ on all of us to the food bank.When I checked with my kids,I knew what I suggested was proven exactly right,for all of us would be __10__ to know we had been able to donate to a local food bank.
She and my father __11__ this idea,but had no idea where a food bank would be.Although my father was still quite able and interested in doing his own computer searches,his __12__ to do this has gradually been going down.I looked it up right there and then discovered not one __13__ three local food banks,and the center for a statewide food bank located right there in their town.I gave them the __14__ and phone number,which they asked for.They seemed to feel a great __15__ at this suggested solution and I was very grateful.
【语篇解读】 作者建议父母将原本要给孩子买礼物的钱捐献给食物银行做慈善,得到了父母的认可,同时帮助父母找到了捐献地址和电话号码,父母对这种赠予礼物的方式感到宽慰。
1.A.admit B.abolish
C.know D.keep
解析:选C 他们感到烦躁是因为不知道给我们和我们的孩子送什么圣诞礼物。A项意为:承认;B项意为:废除;C项意为:知道,了解;D项意为:保持。因为想送礼物却不知道送什么,所以此处选C。
2.A.finance B.health
C.work D.affection
解析:选B 最近两位老人都有严重的健康问题。A项意为:财政;B项意为:健康;C项意为:工作;D项意为:喜爱。因为本文首句已说明两位老人年逾90岁了,身体自然不够好;并且第二段第二句给出了提示,故选B。
3.A.borrow B.sell
C.refuse D.need
解析:选D 因为我们都拥有我们所需要的东西,所以什么也不需要了。A项意为:借入;B项意为:卖;C项意为:拒绝;D项意为:需要。根据语境可知选D。
4.A.gave up B.insisted on
C.dreamed of D.applied for
解析:选B 句意:由于不满意我的提议(我们衣食无忧,不需要父母给自己买礼物),父母坚持给所有人送礼物。A项意为:放弃;B项意为:坚持;C项意为:梦想;D项意为:申请。根据语境可知,父母还是坚持给我们送礼物,故选B。
5.A.difficult B.strange
C.impossible D.important
解析:选D 句意:虽然今年他们身体不好,但还是觉得给我们送礼物是很重要的。A项意为:困难的;B项意为:奇怪的,陌生的;C项意为:不可能的;D项意为:重要的。因为根据常理,在西方圣诞节父母给孩子礼物是很重要的礼节,所以选D。
6.A.giving B.owing
C.lending D.sharing
解析:选A 句意:母亲说她要给其他的兄弟姊妹送水果篮和美食篮。A项意为:给予,送给;B项意为:欠;C项意为:借出;D项意为:分享。因为母亲要给孩子们礼物,故选A。
7.A.allow B.consider
C.practice D.avoid
解析:选B 句意:在那种情况下,我就让她考虑把原本要送给我们的东西送给当地的食物银行。A项意为:允许;B项意为:考虑;C项意为:练习;D项意为:避免。因为作者提了一个建议供母亲考虑,故选B。
8.A.easier B.worse
C.less D.stronger
解析:选A A项意为:更简单,更容易;B项意为:更糟糕;C项意为:更少;D项意为:更强。因为下文说可以把给他们买礼物的钱直接捐献给当地的食物银行,那会更简单一些,故选A。
9.A.made B.paid
C.spent D.cost
解析:选C 句意:或者更简单一点,他们把本将要花在我们所有人身上的钱捐献给当地的食物银行。根据固定搭配spend...on...可知,此处应选C。
10.A.delighted B.disappointed
C.generous D.energetic
解析:选A 因为我们都将会很高兴,知道这样我们就能够捐助当地的食物银行了。A项意为:高兴的;B项意为:失望的;C项意为:慷慨的;D项意为:精力旺盛的。因为知道他们能够以这种方式帮助他人,故选A。
11.A.deleted B.hated
C.liked D.found
解析:选C 句意:她和我的父亲都喜欢这个主意,但不知道当地的食物银行在哪里。A项意为:删除;B项意为:恨,不喜欢;C项意为:喜欢,赞同;D项意为:发现。因为下文说父母实施了这个提议,说明他们很喜欢这个主意,故选C。
12.A.chance B.purpose
C.desire D.ability
解析:选D A项意为:机会;B项意为:目的;C项意为:欲望,想要;D项意为:能力。此处指做事的能力,故选D。
13.A.and B.so
C.but D.or
解析:选C 作者查找发现当地不是有一家而是有三家食物银行。A项意为:和,与;B项意为:如此,那样;C项意为:但是;D项意为:或者,要不然。not...but...,表示“不是……而是……”,符合语境,故选C。
14.A.address B.date
C.appointment D.sign
解析:选A 句意:我给了他们要的地址和电话号码。A项意为:地址;B项意为:日期;C项意为:约会;D项意为:迹象,符号,记号。由上文可知,二老不知道食物银行在哪里,故选A。
15.A.regret B.curiosity
C.interest D.relief
解析:选D 句意:他们似乎对这个提议感到很欣慰而且我也很感激。A项意为:遗憾;B项意为:好奇心;C项意为:兴趣,爱好;D项意为:轻松,宽慰。因为从上文看,二老同意了把原本要给孩子买礼物的钱捐助给食物银行的提议,感到很宽慰,故选D。
Ⅲ.七选五
The beauty of confidence is that it is possible to learn it,no matter who you are!Follow these simple steps to be confident.
•Consider your strengths and success.__1__ When have you helped others?What are you good at?When have you taken pride in yourself?What are you working hard for?If you have difficulty thinking of your strengths and success,ask your family members or a close friend.
•Have goals.Sitting around and doing nothing will make you feel worse.Start with a small goal.__2__ You'll get more confidence achieving a small goal.Once you've achieved many smaller goals,you ean set bigger goals.
•__3__ Failure is the mother of success.When you fail,view it as a learning experience.Often we have to fail on our own to gain experience.By failing,you have at least taken a chance.
•Pick a role model.Pick a role model that is always confident and always learn from them.Study their action,their manners of speaking and how they communicate with others.__4__ However,it's a great place to start.
•Smile.Confident people often smile,and without much reason.__5__ It tells the people around you that you're comfortable in yourseff and enjoying your time.
A.Of course you don't want to spend your entire life copying someone else.
B.If possible,write them down so that you can look back at them later.
C.Start projecting a more powerful you today.
D.Smiling is a friendly and open gesture.
E.Otherwise,you'll get discouraged.
F.After reaching a goal,reward yourself.
G.Learn from failure.
【语篇解读】 自信是美丽的第一步,但要成为一个自信的人并不容易,不妨尝试下本文建议的几个步骤吧!
1.B 后面紧接着是一系列的问题,通读选项可知B项的write them down符合语境。
2.E 结合生活经验可知,如果我们一开始就设定了过大的目标,往往容易失败,然后感到discouraged。
3.G 在句首设空,结合本文篇章结构,要选择有概括性的句子。再结合后面的句子可知,这里主要讲的是要从失败中吸取教训。
4.A 根据本段句首,选择一个榜样,向榜样学习。但是并不是要完全复制榜样的模式。A项符合语境。
5.D 选项D中的smiling与本段句首内容相符合,所以D正确。
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