Unit2 Improving yourself 单元强化检测题 2026-2027学年高中英语外研版选择性必修第二册

外研版选必二Unit2 Improving yourself单元强化检测题

 

一.单句语法填空

1. You’ll often get to stay in a central location with ________(secure) and comfort.

2. This article is going to motivate you ________(exercise) more.

3. The areas under ________(occupy) contained major industrial areas.

4. He lied to me ________(constant) and started knocking me around.

5. These documents are not ________(access) to the public.

6. We are looking for someone who is ________(rely) and hardworking.

7. We simply want to inform people ________(objective) about events.

8. Now it’s a good time ________(invest) in the property market.

9. The union has written to Detroit asking for ________(clarify) of the situation.

10. She continually failed to gain ________(promote) because of her sex.

11. He took his flashlight from his jacket pocket and switched it ________．

12. I decided to send an email rather ________ telephone.

13. Not having found a better way, we had to rely on him ________(be) the interpreter.

14. In contrast ________ his wife, Bush has little interest in foreign travel.

15. The police finally recovered the paintings that ________________(steal)．

二. 课文语法填空

Today marks the last day of the Social Media Detox. What has been learnt from the experience?

Anna

It was more difficult than she 1.__________(expect)．She can now see how much of her time had been occupied with 2.__________(check) her phone. She is now trying to spend more time picking up her hobbies.

Devon

He and his classmate spoke about what they did at the weekend on Monday—it

felt really strange not to know 3.__________ his classmate had done. They had to explain what they were doing and thinking. It made him realise the value of real contact.

Cindy

At first, she 4.__________(real) felt she was missing out. Then she went round to her friend’s house. Without phones, they had a proper conversation. She felt very good and decided to visit a friend every day. By the 5.__________(five) day she realised that she hadn’t been missing out on anything.

Max

He threw in the towel 6.__________ the first day. He used his phone to check where a party was. He spent so much time 7.__________(use) his phone to catch up on news, and he almost missed the party.

George

He didn’t find the detox too difficult, but he gave his phone to his dad 8.__________(avoid) giving in. An hour’s sport each day left him tired 9.__________ and wanting to go to bed early. The detox made him 10.__________(healthy)．

三.阅读理解

A

A few years ago, I stood in a small classroom, watching a high schooler named Serena Stevenson answer math questions. An instructor read out numbers—7447, 7089, 9842—and Stevenson added them in her head. For each question, she closed her eyes, and then the fingers of her right hand began to move. She answered most of the problems correctly.

The key to her success was an ancient technology called the abacus(算盘). For much of that evening, Stevenson used a practice called “mental abacus”， imagining the abacus in her mind and then using her fingers to work through the problem.

From watching Stevenson, I knew that gaining skills on the abacus was more than

a matter of counting beads(珠子), so I decided to sign up for an abacus course with my two daughters to see if we could also improve our math skills. I was one of the many who harbored some math doubts and I felt a touch of fear of math. My typical solution was avoidance, and if I had to calculate something like percentage change, I would go online.

Then after a few abacus classes—and a good amount of practice—math seemed a little less frightening. I hadn’t become Euclid. But the practice brought my numerical fears down a level. This is a long－demonstrated power of the abacus. Confidence grows easily on the device, and abacus students are less likely to be nervous about an upcoming math test, according to one study. Part of the reason, it seems, is that practice and outcomes appear to move in step, with hard work correlating(和……相关) highly with performance.

My kids had gained some math confidence as well. My youngest daughter would beam broadly after getting a math problem correct, while my older child brought her abacus to school to show to her classmates and teacher. These were small successes. But that’s how they ultimately develop confidence.

1. What is the main purpose of the first paragraph?

A. To prove the difficulty of math.

B. To introduce the topic of the abacus.

C. To show the intelligence of Stevenson.

D. To advocate teaching abacus in schools.

2. What can we infer about the author from Paragraph 3?

A. He was not good at math.

B. He had no interest in the abacus.

C. He regarded math as really useful.

D. He learned mental abacus from Stevenson.

3. What does the author realize from his learning experience?

A. The old methods hardly work today.