Unit 1 Back to School素养测评-2026-2027学年高中英语译林版必修第一册

Unit 1 Back to School素养测评

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

Homestay in Sydney， Australia

Linda：

　　Our large house is in Sydney， about 200 meters from Macquarie University and 400 meters from the train station. The train ride is about 30 minutes to the CBD. Now we only have a small bedroom for a female student.

　　The cost is $260 per week， which includes all meals when at home and laundry.

E-mail： markalarms@optusnet.com.au

John：

　　I have a lovely single room for homestay（male， non-smokers only）. The apartment is located across the road from a bus station. A sports field is only a two-minute walk away.

　　The room is for both short and long stays. The cost is $220 per week， just including breakfast on weekdays. There is no washing machine at home. Do your own laundry in the apartment block’s facilities.

E-mail： ainsley-gilkes@yahoo.com.au

Eric：

　　I live in the northern suburbs of Sydney—quiet for studying and relaxing， yet close to Macquarie University & NCELTR & SIBT. The subway station is nearby.

　　All facilities of the house including a living room with a TV can be used. Owners are very open and friendly， and treat students as part of the family.

　　The prices include all meals（breakfast， lunch and dinner） and cleaning. The fee is $300 per week.

E-mail： mineanny@hotmail.com

Rose：

　　Hi， everyone！ I have one room for homestay（girl students only） in a house which is very close to Macquarie University & SIBT & WSU in the northern district of Sydney. There is a bus station across the road. Travel time to the center of the city is 40 minutes by train. We only have one homestay at a time. Therefore， our family can take good care of you. The fee is $230 per week.

E-mail： cliqi9239@hotmail.com

（　　）1.Who will most probably ask John about his room？

A. A boy who doesn’t like cooking.                 B. A male who enjoys exercising.

C. A male who wants home laundry service.          D. A boy who studies in Macquarie University.

（　　）2. If a boy wants a room near Macquarie University， he should send an e-mail to  　　　　.

A. mineanny@hotmail.com               B. ainsley-gilkes@yahoo.com.au

C. markalarms@optusnet.com.au           D. cliqi9239@hotmail.com

（　　）3. Where is the text probably taken from？

A. A travel brochure.              B. A local advertisement.

C. A business magazine.           D. A personal diary.

B

　　When I was in primary school， my favorite place was the library. I was the kid who got shouted at for trying to bring home sixty books at a time because I just couldn’t decide which world I wanted to experience that week. I remember spending my weekends， glued to a book， hungering to experience lives other than my own. Up until middle school， reading was a passion of mine.

　　Something changed after I entered high school， though. All of a sudden， reading was a task that I could

not avoid fast enough. The books that I read in school bored me， and even if I enjoyed the books themselves， the repetitive， challenging homework we completed based on those books made me hate reading as a whole.

　　It actually wasn’t until recently that I rediscovered my love for reading. How， you may ask？ Audiobooks（有声书）. Last summer， I spent every morning taking long walks while listening to them， and I would find myself lost in the stories for hours. And now I’m rediscovering my passion for reading. I feel that pull again. That curiosity.

　　My love story with reading may have had a happy ending， but not everyone is as lucky as me. What went wrong？

　　What tends to happen is that students lose their love for reading because of the way many schools try to encourage children to read. For example， when children are told to read for twenty minutes every night， they tend to read for the required amount of time and then check the task off on their list. In this way， reading has suddenly become a boring task instead of an exciting experience.

　　Making sure that kids keep their passion for reading will require us to rethink how we teach reading in schools and how we introduce books to children outside of school as well. There needs to be less of a focus on meeting reading requirements and more of a focus on creating an environment in which students are actually excited to read.

（　　）4. Which word best describes the author’s love for books before high school？

A. Short-lived.         B. Secret.         C. Crazy.         D. Conditional.

（　　）5. Why did the author once hate reading？

A. She couldn’t choose her desired books.          B. Reading as a task made her lose interest in it.

C. She was given too many books to read.          D. High school books were too difficult.

（　　）6. What does the underlined word “pull” in Paragraph 3 probably mean？

A. Influence.         B. Responsibility.          C. Confidence.         D. Attraction.

（　　）7. What does the author suggest people do for children in the last paragraph？

A. Create a pleasant reading environment.           B. Choose suitable books for them.

C. Give them after-school reading tasks.             D. Set strict requirements for them.

C

　　A problem has been annoying you for days—you just can’t solve it， and it’s driving you crazy. But then you go for a walk and suddenly the answer flashes right into your head！ It’s a great feeling and this link between exercise and creativity has been studied by scientists around the world.

　　Dr. Chong Chen and his team from Japan’s Yamaguchi University wanted to find out how different types of physical activity can help us solve problems and think creatively. They looked at 21 past studies from places including the US， the UK， Spain， Sweden， China， India and Japan. The studied exercise included walking， running， cycling， dance and yoga.

　　In fact， Chen and his team found that it was natural walking that almost always had a positive effect on people’s creativity—even if it was just walking inside a room or going up and down some stairs， for as little as three to four minutes. Dance is also good. Most of the studies Chen’s team looked at found that dance helped significantly with creativity—particularly among adults. However， the results for yoga were unclear. And low-intensity aerobic exercise（低强度的有氧运动） like cycling was not found to have an effect.

　　There were some advantages from right and energetic aerobic exercise， but “too much effort” exercise seemed not to have a mostly positive effect. That is to say， the hardest exercise actually didn’t give the best results. So completely tiring yourself out probably won’t help your creativity！

　　Chen wrote that his team’s findings could be used in schools and businesses by including short periods of physical activity during the day to encourage creative thinking. It’s not even about keeping fit， Chen says—you just have to move！

　　As he said， “Knowing that just a few minutes of walking， or other low-intensity physical activity can

increase creative thinking should make getting up to move seem more worthwhile.”

（　　）8. Why did Dr. Chong Chen and his team look at the past studies？

A. To know about the relation of exercise and creativity.

B. To encourage people from other countries to think creatively.

C. To learn if people take part in exercise in different countries.

D. To explain why different types of physical activity are important.

（　　）9. What can we know from their findings？

A. The harder people exercise， the better results are.

B. Proper walking can help people with creativity.

C. Yoga and cycling didn’t have a positive effect.

D. Adults like to dance to improve their creativity.

（　　）10. What advice did Chen give to people in schools and businesses？

A. They should use his findings.              B. They had better keep healthy.

C. They can work with each other.             D. They should just begin exercises.

（　　）11. What is the author’s attitude towards the finding？

A. Positive.       B. Unconcerned.       C. Negative.      D. Subjective.

D

　　Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why you came into it in the first place？ I couldn’t agree more when I read an article from Live Science that stated “There are several types of memories， and the brain has a unique way of forgetting each kind.” Memory does some funny things. While forgetting is a normal and vital part of our brain function， we have to admit that memory can be a mysterious and naughty joker. One of the most common mysteries is a short-term memory failure where people find themselves entering a room with no memory of why they did so.

　　Everyone has experienced this at least once in their lives. We call it a “senior moment”， but researchers say it’s actually okay to put the blame（责备） on our doorways and not on our ageing brains. The act of walking through a doorway sends a signal to our brains that a new scene has started and that previous memories should be put away. This is what causes our memory failure and confusion. The thoughts we had before we entered that new scene have actually been sectionalized（分区）. In an interview with Live Science， Gabriel Radvansky， a psychologist at the University of Notre Dame said， “Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind.”

　　I find this amazing， as I watch it happen to people all around me every day. I guess I should stop telling them they’re getting old and actually explain the cause. For me it’s not doorways that cause a problem. It’s flights of stairs. Every so often I find myself going up the stairs and forgetting why I did so just as soon as I’ve reached the landing. What’s up with that？ Now if I can only find out what that means， I’d be truly fascinated.

（　　）12. What contributes to our “senior moment” according to the researchers？

A. Ageing brains.        B. Doorways.        C. Different moments.        D. The same scenes.

（　　）13. Which of the following is Radvansky likely to agree with？

A. Walking through a doorway makes us nervous in the mind.

B. Sectionalized thoughts disappear when we enter a new scene.

C. Too many events in life are harmful to our brain memory.

D. Exiting through doorways causes short memory failures.

（　　）14. What may confuse the author？

A. Whether he should explain the cause to others.

B. How much he was fascinated by science.

C. How many people suffer from doorway problems.

D. Why going up the stairs makes him forgetful.