Unit 2 A life's work 习题-2025-2026学年高中英语外研版选择性必修第三册

高中英语外研版 2019 选择性必修第三册 Unit 2 A life's work习题

一、单词拼写

1. She has __________ (奉献) her whole life to teaching.
2. A true __________ (专家) never stops learning.
3. The old clock was repaired by a skilled __________ (工匠).
4. This workshop has __________ (传承) the skill for generations.
5. He works with great __________ (专注) and patience.
6. The __________ (手艺) of making paper by hand is dying out.
7. We should __________ (欣赏) the value of slow work.
8. It takes years to __________ (掌握) a traditional skill.
9. Her __________ (作品) are exhibited in many cities.
10. He __________ (修复) broken clocks in his small shop.

二、词性转化

1. Her __________ (devote) to the craft impressed everyone.
2. He is an __________ (expertly) clock repairer.
3. The __________ (craft) work of this village is famous.
4. It requires great __________ (concentrate) to do fine work.
5. We should show __________ (appreciate) for their efforts.
6. He has __________ (master) the art of paper-cutting.
7. Her __________ (exhibit) attracted thousands of visitors.
8. This old shop __________ (special) in repairing clocks.
9. Traditional skills need __________ (pass) on to young people.
10. The __________ (restore) of the clock took three months.

三、选词填空（从下列所给词中选择合适的单词并用其正确形式填空）

devote, master, craft, patience, appreciate, preserve, skill, concentration

1. It takes years of practice to __________ an old craft.
2. She decided to __________ her life to protecting folk art.
3. Making a bamboo basket is a __________ passed down for centuries.
4. Repairing a clock requires great __________ and a steady hand.
5. We should __________ the work of these unknown craftsmen.
6. Museums help __________ traditional skills for future generations.

7. Fine work demands total __________ on the smallest detail.
8. Without __________, no one can learn such a difficult art.

四、七选五

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

For forty years, Mr. Sato has made only one thing: a small wooden box used in tea ceremonies. 1________ Every box is made by hand, from a single piece of wood.

Few people want to buy it now. Plastic boxes are cheaper and take minutes to produce. 2________ They say it is old-fashioned and too expensive.

Mr. Sato does not argue with them. He simply keeps working. 3________ Each step is done slowly, and nothing is rushed.

Two years ago, a young woman asked to become his apprentice. 4________ She said she wanted to learn something that would last a lifetime.

There is only one apprentice, and it may stay that way. 5________ As long as someone is still making boxes by hand, the craft is not dead.

A. He spends eight hours a day in his small workshop.

B. He has made more than three thousand of them.

C. Most shopkeepers refuse to sell it.

D. She had left a well-paid job in the city.

E. But Mr. Sato does not seem worried at all.

F. He decided to give up the craft at last.

G. He now sells the boxes in big supermarkets.

五、阅读理解

（一）

Maria has repaired violins for thirty-two years. Her workshop is smaller than a kitchen, and the tools on her wall are older than she is. “I did not choose this job,” she says. “My father repaired instruments, and his father did too. I grew up among broken things waiting to be made whole.”

Her work is slow. A single crack in the wood of a violin may take a month to repair properly. She uses glue made from the same recipe her grandfather used, because modern glue hardens too quickly and changes the sound.

“People ask me why I do not work faster,” she says. “They do not understand that a violin is not a machine. If you rush it, it remembers. You can hear the hurry in the music twenty years later.”

She has taught only three students. Two gave up and found other jobs. The third, a young man

named Chen, still works beside her. “I told him he would not get rich,” she says. “He told me he did not want to. He wanted to be good.”

Asked whether her craft will survive, she shrugs. “There are two hundred and forty violins in this city,” she says. “Someone has to repair them. Someone has to care. That is what a life's work means.”

1.How did Maria become a violin repairer?

A. She chose it after graduating.

B. She grew up in a family of instrument repairers.

C. She won a competition.

D. She was taught by a famous musician.

2.Why does she use old-style glue?

A. Modern glue hardens too fast and harms the sound.

B. Modern glue is too expensive.

C. Old glue is easier to find.

D. The old recipe is a family secret.

3.What does she mean by “it remembers”?

A. The violin can store information.

B. The violin refuses to be played.

C. The wood becomes heavier over time.

D. Hasty work can be heard in the sound years later.

4.What is said about her students?

A. All three became rich.

B. Two gave up, but one stayed.

C. She refused to teach anyone.

D. They all left for the city.

5.What does a life's work mean to Maria?

A. Caring for something that needs to be cared for.

B. Getting rich from a skill.

C. Working as fast as possible.

D. Teaching many students.

（二）

In a small town in the north, an old shoemaker named Liu has been making shoes for fifty years. When machines replaced handwork, most shoemakers in the town shut their doors. Liu did not.