单元检测卷(5)Unit 5 Poems（Word练习）-【金榜题名】2025-2026学年高二英语选择性必修第三册高中同步学案（人教版）

单元检测卷(五)

时间：90分钟　分值：120分

第一部分　阅读(共两节，满分50分)

第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Kwame Alexander is a best-selling author of 24 books.His novel in verse(诗体) The Crossover won the Newbery Medal in 2015，and was followed by another verse novel in 2016，Booked.In the just-released The Playbook：52 Rules to Aim，Shoot，and Score in This Game Called Life，Alexander aims to inspire readers to dream big and reach for their goals.

TFK(Time For Kids)：

What can you tell us about The Playbook?

Kwame Alexander：

I wanted to write a book about how important it is to persevere (坚持) and accept the challenges that come，because they only make you stronger.And I wanted to do it in a really cool and fun way，using sports as a metaphor (隐喻)，so students would be interested in reading a book that is telling them how to make their lives better.

TFK：

Where did you get the idea for the book?

Alexander：

In The Crossover，the father of the main characters，Josh and Jordan，gives them these rules for life，called Basketball Rules.Well，I was having breakfast with a friend of mine in New York City.He said，“Kwame，I love those Basketball Rules you have in The Crossover.You should think about writing a whole book on those.”That's where it all began.

TFK：

Is it hard to mix sports and poetry (诗歌)?

Alexander：

I love sports，and I've been writing poetry since I was a kid.So those two things are as natural to me as breathing，laughing and walking.

TFK：

You've said teachers need to make learning poetry fun.Did you have a teacher like this as a kid?

Alexander：

My mom.She read poetry to my sisters and me when I was a kid，and she would make the words jump off the page!

TFK：

What advice would you give to young writers?

Alexander：

Read everything you can get your hands on.The best way to become a good writer is to read what other people have written.

【语篇解读】　本文是应用文。文章是对畅销书作家Kwame Alexander的采访。

1．What can we learn about The Playbook?

A．It is a historical novel.

B．It won the Newbery Medal.

C．It is actually about rules for life.

D．It is based on Alexander's true life.

C　细节理解题。由书名The Playbook：52 Rules to Aim，Shoot，and Score in This Game Called Life和文中Alexander解释写这本书的目的“a book that is telling them how to make their lives better”可知，The Playbook是一本关于人生法则的书。

2．Who inspired Alexander to write The Playbook?

A．His mom who read poetry to him.

B．The teacher who taught him poetry.

C．His friend who read The Crossover.

D．The two characters in The Crossover.

C　细节理解题。由文中的“a friend of mine...love those Basketball Rules...in The Crossover...think about writing a whole book on those”可知，一位读过Alexander诗体小说The Crossover的朋友非常喜欢其中的Basketball Rules，因而启发他创作了The Playbook。

3．When Alexander was a kid，how did he feel about poetry?

A．It was rather boring.

B．It was quite difficult.

C．It was pretty mysterious.

D．It was very interesting.

D　推理判断题。由文中的“I've been writing poetry since I was a kid”和“My mom...would make the words jump off the page！”可知，小时候常常给Alexander读诗歌的妈妈能使那些诗词跃然纸上，由此推测在妈妈的影响下，从小就喜欢写诗的Alexander觉得诗歌很有意思。

B

Horace was born in 65 BCE, in the town of Venusiain Apulia, an area in Southern Italy.His

father was a freedman and small landowner; historians disagree on whether or not he had ever been a slave.The Roman historian Suetonius wrote that his father might have been a“dealer in salted foods”．Though not quite rich, his father spent considerable amounts of money on Horace's schooling and sent him to the finest school in Rome.Later, the son was sent to Athens to study Greek.

It was while Horace was in Athens that he joined the army of Marcus Junius Brutus against Octavian, who was the future Augustus and first Roman emperor.Brutus's forces eventually lost at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BCE.As a result of the defeat, his military career was over and he lost his family's property.

Augustus pardoned his enemies and Horace returned to Rome, where he got a position as a clerk in the government.It was at this time that he wrote his first series of poems, something that brought him into contact with Virgil and Varius Rufus.The two celebrated poets introduced him to Gaius Maecenas, a wealthy supporter of young poets, who would have a powerful effect on his life.He was not only an author himself but a personal friend and advisor to Augustus, and through him, Horace would meet the emperor.Maecenas soon recognized the young poet's outstanding gift and gave him a farm near Romeat Tivoli, a place where Horace wrote his extraordinary poems in peace.

In 23 BCE he published three books of Odes in which poems celebrated Rome at the age of Augustus.Horace said the poems were modeled after the great Greek poets, and he believed Rome had to recognize that the Greeks were better in all intellectual (智力的) and cultural fields.

In the final years of his life, he wrote Ars Poetica, a far-reaching work on the art of writing poetry.He eventually became one of Rome's best-loved poets.On November 27, 8 BCE Horace died, two months after his life-long friend Maecenas.

【语篇解读】　本文是记叙文。文章介绍了罗马帝国奥古斯都统治时期著名的诗人贺拉斯。

4．What do we know about Horace's early life?

A．He was a slave as a young child.

B．He sold salted foods with his father.

C．He received a first-class education.

D．He loved poetry under his father's influence.

C　细节理解题。根据第一段中的Though not quite rich, his father spent considerable amounts of money...the son was sent to Athens to study Greek可知，贺拉斯从小就接受了良好的教育。

5．When did Horace begin his poetic creations according to the text?

A．After he met Augustus.

B．When he studied in Rome.