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UNIT 3 单元主题训练
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
When Harrison School District 2 turned to e learning last spring, they made sure to provide each student with a laptop and the tools needed to succeed at home.But one remaining need in many families was Internet access.
Christine O'Brien, spokesperson for District 2 said, “When you had many people learning and working from home, sometimes there were Internet glitches.We wanted to avoid that and make sure students in our district could have equal chances to learn and that our families could learn from home as well.”
O'Brien said that this year they made sure to survey each of their students to see who exactly needed the Internet.
“This year we were really specific about asking whether families had Internet service at home without a phone，” she said.They discovered that about a thousand families needed some sort of Internet connection.
And that's where Altia came into play.A local software company heard there was an Internet shortage for students and it stepped in to see how they could help.Teaming up with local foundations, they were able to provide a monthly Internet service that allows many people to have Internet access at the same time.Mike Juran, CEO of Altia said, “At Altia we talked to Randy Rocha at District 2 and I just put out an email to friends and people that I knew and that made its way back to Pikes Peak Community Foundation and Norwood Foundation and people spread that around.Within weeks we were able to get something done.”
“The community came together and helped us piece this part.We worked so hard as a school district to get those devices into the hands of students but this was a piece that we weren't ready to do.We hadn't budgeted for it, so the community's coming together to help our families in this way was really truly amazing，” said O'Brien.
语篇解读：本文是说明文。社区齐心协力帮助学生解决在线学习时遇到的网络问题。
1．What does the underlined word “glitches” in Paragraph 2 mean
A．Users. B．Services.
C．Problems. D．Repairmen.
解析：选C 词义猜测题。由第一段最后一句和第二段中的“We wanted to avoid that ...as well”可知，画线词所在部分应该是说网络有“问题”。
2．What did Harrison School District 2 do according to O'Brien
A．They kept track of students' situations.
B．They sold laptops to students cheaply.
C．They kept holding new learning programs.
D．They encouraged students to treat each other equally.
解析：选A 细节理解题。由第三、四段的内容可知，哈里森第二校区调查了解了学生的具体情况。
3．How did Altia help to make e learning easier
A．By visiting the families every month.
B．By sending emails to students every week.
C．By setting up a local foundation to raise money.
D．By offering Internet service to students in need.
解析：选D 推理判断题。由第五段中的“Teaming up with ...the same time”可知，Altia公司通过与当地的基金会合作，为有需求的学生提供必要的网络服务。
4．Why was O'Brien so thankful for the community
A．It inspired students to be helpful and active.
B．It helped deliver devices to the hands of students.
C．It added a big part to the school's planned budget.
D．It solved things the school district was unprepared for.
解析：选D 推理判断题。由最后一段中的“this was a piece that we weren't ready to do”以及“We hadn't budgeted ...truly amazing”可知，社区帮助哈里森第二校区解决了他们未做准备的事情。
B
During the COVID 19 pandemic, technologies are playing a crucial role in keeping our society functional in a time of lockdown and quarantine (隔离)．And remote work may have a long lasting impact beyond COVID 19.
Many companies have asked employees to work from home.Remote work is enabled by technologies including virtual private networks (VPNs), Voice over Internet Protocols (VoIPs), virtual meetings, cloud technology, work collaboration tools and even facial recognition technologies that enable a person to appear before a virtual background to preserve the privacy of the home.In addition to preventing the spread of viruses, remote work also saves commute time and provides more flexibility.
Yet remote work also imposes challenges on employers and employees.Information security, privacy and timely tech support can be big issues.Remote work can also complicate labour law issues, such as those associated with providing a safe work environment and income tax issues.Employees may experience loneliness and lack of work life balance.If remote work becomes more common after the COVID 19 pandemic, employers may decide to reduce rents and hire people from regions with cheaper labour costs.
Laws and regulations must be updated to accommodate remote work, and further psychological studies need to be conducted to understand the effect of remote work on people.
Further, not all jobs can be done from home, which creates disparity.According to US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 25% of wage and salary workers worked from home at least occasionally from 2017 to 2018.Workers with college education are at least five times more likely to have jobs that allow them to work from home compared with people with high school diplomas.Some professions, such as medical services and manufacturing, may not have the option at all.Policies with respect to data flows and taxation would need to be adjusted should the volume of crossborder digital services rise significantly.
语篇解读：本文讨论了新冠肺炎疫情期间人们在家工作的利与弊。
5．Why is remote work especially important during the COVID 19 pandemic
A．It saves time. B．It blocks viruses.
C．It saves money. D．It preserves privacy.
解析：选B 推理判断题。根据常识以及第二段最后一句可以推断，远程办公特别重要的作用是阻挡病毒的传播。
6．What is the purpose of the third and fourth paragraphs
A．To emphasize importance.
B．To sadden employers and employees.
C．To demonstrate challenges.
D．To compare benefits and drawbacks.
解析：选C 写作意图题。根据第三段首句以及第四段中的“to understand the effect of remote work on people”可以得出结论，三、四段主要论述远程办公给人们带来的各方面的挑战。
7．Which of the following words can replace the underlined word in the last paragraph
A．Gaps. B．Challenges.
C．Options. D．Prejudices.
解析：选A 词义猜测题。上文说并非所有的工作都可以在家里完成是原因，画线词是此原因带来的结果，有的工作能在家做，有的工作不能在家做，这会带来差异，故推断出答案为gaps (差距)，下文所举的例子也说明了这一点。
8．What is the author's tone when talking about remote work
A．Critical. B．Objective.
C．Subjective. D．Suspicious.
解析：选B 观点态度题。第二段最后一句说明远程办公的优点；三、四段说明远程办公带来的挑战，综合全文可知，本文论述了远程办公的利弊，故作者对远程办公的态度是客观的。
Ⅱ.阅读七选五
Every time you're online，you are bombarded by pictures, articles, links and videos trying to tell their stories.__9__ Sometimes they want you to click on another story or advertisement at their own site, other times they want to upset people for political reasons.Experts in media studies and online psychology have been examining the fake news phenomenon.Read these tips, and don't get fooled!
Check the source.__10__ Fake news websites often use addresses that sound like real newspapers, but don't have many real newspapers, or many real stories about other topics.If you aren't sure, click on the “About” page and look for a clear description of the organisation.
__11__ Look to see if the story you are reading is on other news sites that you know and trust.If you do find it on many other sites, then it probably isn't fake, as many big news organizations try to check their sources before they publish a story.
There are other techniques that fake news uses.These include using ALL CAPS and lots of ads that pop up when you click on a link.__12__ If the news story makes you angry, it's probably designed to make you angry.
If you know these things about online news, and can apply them in your everyday life, then you have the control over what to read, what to believe and most importantly what to share.If you find a news story that you know is fake, the most important advice is：__13__
A．Don't share it.
B．Read about it in print media.
C．Check the story in other places.
D．Unfortunately, not all of these stories are true.
E．Also, think about how the story makes you feel.
F．Look at the website where the story comes from.
G．However, the rash of fake news is a relatively new problem.
语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了如何分辨网上真假新闻的方法。
9．选D 上文“Every time you're online ...tell their stories.” 与D项中的“these stories”为关键词复现。
10．选F F项和空前的“Check the source”意义一致。
11．选C C项中的“in other places”和后文的“on other news sites”相对应；且C项中“Check”和空后的“Look to see”相对应。
12．选E 空后一句和E项的感受相对应。
13．选A 根据空前一句可知，这样的新闻是不能被传播的。对应A项Don't share it“不要分享它”。
Ⅲ.完形填空
When a young woman in Texas learned that her dad's small business was bad during the pandemic (疫情), she made a request on the Internet asking for help.
“I wouldn't __14__ do this, but my dad's taco (墨西哥玉米薄饼卷) truck business is __15__.He only sold $ 6 today，” Giselle Aviles, 21, wrote about her father's taco truck.“I would __16__ it so much if you could help forward it！”
When the pandemic hit, the food truck's sales began to __17__.Like Aviles' father, many small business owners throughout the country continue to struggle through the pandemic.More than 100,000 small businesses have __18__ and that number is on the rise.
But Aviles' social media request __19__ — by Sunday night, the post had gained around 2,000 likes.She told her father that he should prepare for many new __20__ when the truck opened the next day.Her father didn't understand social media, so he didn't know what to __21__.
When he arrived at his food truck at 8 am on Monday, a line of customers were there — some had been __22__ as early as 6 am. Business was so __23___ that the food truck had to close down twice — once to restock (补货) and again when they were __24__ sold out.He even asked his daughter to help with the __25__.
Aviles estimates that her dad __26__ more than 200 customers on Monday.She says she appreciates the __27__ for her dad's business and has since made an Instagram page for more customers to find his ___28__ easily.
语篇解读：本文是记叙文，讲述了Aviles在社交媒体上请求网友向父亲的墨西哥卷餐车生意提供援手，最终在众人的帮助下，她父亲的生意状况有了很大改观的故事。
14．A.simply B．suddenly
C．normally D．deliberately
解析：选C 根据下文“but my dad's taco truck business is ...”可知，向网络求助是她不得已而为之，一般情况下不会这样做。
15．A.trading B．starting
C．expanding D．struggling
解析：选D 根据下文“He only sold $ 6 today”可知，她父亲的生意艰难。struggle“挣扎求生”。
16．A.teach B．reward
C．inform D．appreciate
解析：选D 根据常识可知，Giselle Aviles在网上发帖的目的是让更多的人知道她父亲的处境，如果有人帮助转发她的求助，她将万分感激。
17．A.drop B．climb
C．benefit D．boom
解析：选A 根据文章首句和“He only sold $6 today”可知，由于疫情她父亲生意受到影响，销量下降。
18．A.showed up B．closed down
C．taken off D．turned over
解析：选B 根据上文“many small business owners ...through the pandemic”可知，小企业生存艰难，很多倒闭了。
19．A.ended B．faded
C．insisted D．worked
解析：选D 根据空后一句可知，她的方法起作用了。
20．A.menus B．customers
C．designs D．passengers
解析：选B 根据倒数第二段首句可知，第二天来了很多新顾客。
21．A.make B．expect
C．sell D．handle
解析：选B 根据上文“Her father didn't understand social media”可知，父亲不懂社交媒体，也不期待会给他带来什么。
22．A.waiting B．studying
C．debating D．following
解析：选A 根据上文“a line of customers were there”和空后的“as early as 6 am”可知，这些顾客早早就来排队等候。
23．A.easy B．unique
C．slow D．busy
解析：选D 根据下文“the food truck had to close down twice — once to restock(补货)”可知，生意极好，非常忙。
24．A.hardly B．partly
C．completely D．generally
解析：选C 根据again和sold out可知，补货后再次售尽。
25．A.scene B．orders
C．luggage D．tickets
解析：选B 因父亲经营的是墨西哥玉米薄饼卷餐车，因为业务太多，所以需要她帮助处理订单。
26．A.treated B．visited
C．served D．called
解析：选C Aviles的父亲是businessman，是为顾客提供服务的。
27．A.support B．appeal
C．desire D．policy
解析：选A 根据前文可知网友看到Aviles的求助后，前来照顾她父亲的生意，这是一种善意支持。
28．A.office B．factory
C．truck D．restaurant
解析：选C Aviles的父亲在餐车上卖墨西哥玉米薄饼卷，结合第二段的“but my dad's taco truck business”可知，Aviles创建网页是为了让客户更容易找到父亲的餐车。
Ⅳ.语法填空
With a big smile on her face, Gan Youqin chats with her followers in her live stream every night, trying __1__ (promote) sales of oranges from her hometown, a small village in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.She, together with her teammates, __2__ (help) villagers sell nearly 500,000 kilograms of oranges every week.The 40 year old woman, who used to be a farmer and housewife, is now admired in her hometown __3__ her great success in boosting sales of farm produce.
Gan __4__ (know) as one of the pioneers who shares country life and promotes sales of related products online.She was __5__ (initial) encouraged by her nephew, who asked Gan to be the main character in his short videos __6__ (feature) country life.As Gan's fame grew, they began to sell fruit from their family orchard, __7__ soon fell short of demand.They then launched an e commerce company selling various kinds of __8__ (agriculture) products from all over the region.
Gan's company has been __9__ great success and Gan has received lots of awards for her __10__ (achieve)．She is now devoted to shooting videos and live streaming, but is also planning to offer free training to those who love the industry.
语篇解读：文章主要讲述了40岁的农民和家庭主妇甘有琴通过分享乡村生活并在网上推广相关产品，在促进农产品销售方面取得了巨大成功。
1．to promote 考查非谓语动词。try to do sth.“努力做某事”。
2．helps 考查动词的时态和主谓一致。根据后文every week可知，应用一般现在时，且主语后接介词短语together with her teammates时不影响其人称和数，故谓语动词用第三人称单数形式。
3．for 考查介词。be admired for“因……受人尊敬”。
4．is known 考查固定短语和时态。be known as“被认为是……”，再根据主语Gan并结合空后内容可知，空格应用一般现在时的单数形式。
5．initially 考查副词。修饰动词encourage应用副词。
6．featuring 考查非谓语动词。分析句子结构可知，空格需填非谓语动词作定语，空格与被修饰词short videos构成主动关系，故应用现在分词。
7．which 考查非限制性定语从句。此处为非限制性定语从句修饰上文fruit from their family orchard，从句中缺少主语，应用关系代词which引导。
8．agricultural 考查形容词。修饰后面名词products应用形容词形式。
9．a 考查冠词。success此处为抽象名词具体化，表示“一件成功的事物”，且great发音以辅音音素开头。故应填冠词a。
10．achievement(s) 考查名词。空处作宾语，表示“成就”应用名词achievement，此处可用单数也可用复数形式。
Ⅴ.应用文写作
你校正在组织英语演讲比赛。请你以“我与英语学习app的故事”为题，写一篇英语演讲稿，内容包括：
1．英语学习app的名称及其简介；
2．该app对你的英语学习所起到的帮助。
注意：写作词数应为80左右。
参考范文：
Good afternoon, respected teachers and my dear friends.When it comes to English learning, I'm really into an app named EW.
Among the best free apps for English learning, EW really stands out for its uniqueness.It provides various learning materials and methods.The best part is that it keeps track of the vocabulary you're learning, and it recommends videos based on the words you've already learned.
I've been using EW since I was twelve.It's greatly enlarged my vocabulary and improved other language skills.I hope all of you can benefit from it.
Thank you.
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UNIT 3 单元主题训练
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
When Harrison School District 2 turned to e learning last spring, they made sure to provide each student with a laptop and the tools needed to succeed at home.But one remaining need in many families was Internet access.
Christine O'Brien, spokesperson for District 2 said, “When you had many people learning and working from home, sometimes there were Internet glitches.We wanted to avoid that and make sure students in our district could have equal chances to learn and that our families could learn from home as well.”
O'Brien said that this year they made sure to survey each of their students to see who exactly needed the Internet.
“This year we were really specific about asking whether families had Internet service at home without a phone，” she said.They discovered that about a thousand families needed some sort of Internet connection.
And that's where Altia came into play.A local software company heard there was an Internet shortage for students and it stepped in to see how they could help.Teaming up with local foundations, they were able to provide a monthly Internet service that allows many people to have Internet access at the same time.Mike Juran, CEO of Altia said, “At Altia we talked to Randy Rocha at District 2 and I just put out an email to friends and people that I knew and that made its way back to Pikes Peak Community Foundation and Norwood Foundation and people spread that around.Within weeks we were able to get something done.”
“The community came together and helped us piece this part.We worked so hard as a school district to get those devices into the hands of students but this was a piece that we weren't ready to do.We hadn't budgeted for it, so the community's coming together to help our families in this way was really truly amazing，” said O'Brien.
1．What does the underlined word “glitches” in Paragraph 2 mean
A．Users. B．Services.
C．Problems. D．Repairmen.
2．What did Harrison School District 2 do according to O'Brien
A．They kept track of students' situations.
B．They sold laptops to students cheaply.
C．They kept holding new learning programs.
D．They encouraged students to treat each other equally.
3．How did Altia help to make e learning easier
A．By visiting the families every month.
B．By sending emails to students every week.
C．By setting up a local foundation to raise money.
D．By offering Internet service to students in need.
4．Why was O'Brien so thankful for the community
A．It inspired students to be helpful and active.
B．It helped deliver devices to the hands of students.
C．It added a big part to the school's planned budget.
D．It solved things the school district was unprepared for.
B
During the COVID 19 pandemic, technologies are playing a crucial role in keeping our society functional in a time of lockdown and quarantine (隔离)．And remote work may have a long lasting impact beyond COVID 19.
Many companies have asked employees to work from home.Remote work is enabled by technologies including virtual private networks (VPNs), Voice over Internet Protocols (VoIPs), virtual meetings, cloud technology, work collaboration tools and even facial recognition technologies that enable a person to appear before a virtual background to preserve the privacy of the home.In addition to preventing the spread of viruses, remote work also saves commute time and provides more flexibility.
Yet remote work also imposes challenges on employers and employees.Information security, privacy and timely tech support can be big issues.Remote work can also complicate labour law issues, such as those associated with providing a safe work environment and income tax issues.Employees may experience loneliness and lack of work life balance.If remote work becomes more common after the COVID 19 pandemic, employers may decide to reduce rents and hire people from regions with cheaper labour costs.
Laws and regulations must be updated to accommodate remote work, and further psychological studies need to be conducted to understand the effect of remote work on people.
Further, not all jobs can be done from home, which creates disparity.According to US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 25% of wage and salary workers worked from home at least occasionally from 2017 to 2018.Workers with college education are at least five times more likely to have jobs that allow them to work from home compared with people with high school diplomas.Some professions, such as medical services and manufacturing, may not have the option at all.Policies with respect to data flows and taxation would need to be adjusted should the volume of crossborder digital services rise significantly.
5．Why is remote work especially important during the COVID 19 pandemic
A．It saves time. B．It blocks viruses.
C．It saves money. D．It preserves privacy.
6．What is the purpose of the third and fourth paragraphs
A．To emphasize importance.
B．To sadden employers and employees.
C．To demonstrate challenges.
D．To compare benefits and drawbacks.
7．Which of the following words can replace the underlined word in the last paragraph
A．Gaps. B．Challenges.
C．Options. D．Prejudices.
8．What is the author's tone when talking about remote work
A．Critical. B．Objective.
C．Subjective. D．Suspicious.
Ⅱ.阅读七选五
Every time you're online，you are bombarded by pictures, articles, links and videos trying to tell their stories.__9__ Sometimes they want you to click on another story or advertisement at their own site, other times they want to upset people for political reasons.Experts in media studies and online psychology have been examining the fake news phenomenon.Read these tips, and don't get fooled!
Check the source.__10__ Fake news websites often use addresses that sound like real newspapers, but don't have many real newspapers, or many real stories about other topics.If you aren't sure, click on the “About” page and look for a clear description of the organisation.
__11__ Look to see if the story you are reading is on other news sites that you know and trust.If you do find it on many other sites, then it probably isn't fake, as many big news organizations try to check their sources before they publish a story.
There are other techniques that fake news uses.These include using ALL CAPS and lots of ads that pop up when you click on a link.__12__ If the news story makes you angry, it's probably designed to make you angry.
If you know these things about online news, and can apply them in your everyday life, then you have the control over what to read, what to believe and most importantly what to share.If you find a news story that you know is fake, the most important advice is：__13__
A．Don't share it.
B．Read about it in print media.
C．Check the story in other places.
D．Unfortunately, not all of these stories are true.
E．Also, think about how the story makes you feel.
F．Look at the website where the story comes from.
G．However, the rash of fake news is a relatively new problem.
Ⅲ.完形填空
When a young woman in Texas learned that her dad's small business was bad during the pandemic (疫情), she made a request on the Internet asking for help.
“I wouldn't __14__ do this, but my dad's taco (墨西哥玉米薄饼卷) truck business is __15__.He only sold $ 6 today，” Giselle Aviles, 21, wrote about her father's taco truck.“I would __16__ it so much if you could help forward it！”
When the pandemic hit, the food truck's sales began to __17__.Like Aviles' father, many small business owners throughout the country continue to struggle through the pandemic.More than 100,000 small businesses have __18__ and that number is on the rise.
But Aviles' social media request __19__ — by Sunday night, the post had gained around 2,000 likes.She told her father that he should prepare for many new __20__ when the truck opened the next day.Her father didn't understand social media, so he didn't know what to __21__.
When he arrived at his food truck at 8 am on Monday, a line of customers were there — some had been __22__ as early as 6 am. Business was so __23___ that the food truck had to close down twice — once to restock (补货) and again when they were __24__ sold out.He even asked his daughter to help with the __25__.
Aviles estimates that her dad __26__ more than 200 customers on Monday.She says she appreciates the __27__ for her dad's business and has since made an Instagram page for more customers to find his ___28__ easily.
14．A.simply B．suddenly
C．normally D．deliberately
15．A.trading B．starting
C．expanding D．struggling
16．A.teach B．reward
C．inform D．appreciate
17．A.drop B．climb
C．benefit D．boom
18．A.showed up B．closed down
C．taken off D．turned over
19．A.ended B．faded
C．insisted D．worked
20．A.menus B．customers
C．designs D．passengers
21．A.make B．expect
C．sell D．handle
22．A.waiting B．studying
C．debating D．following
23．A.easy B．unique
C．slow D．busy
24．A.hardly B．partly
C．completely D．generally
25．A.scene B．orders
C．luggage D．tickets
26．A.treated B．visited
C．served D．called
27．A.support B．appeal
C．desire D．policy
28．A.office B．factory
C．truck D．restaurant
Ⅳ.语法填空
With a big smile on her face, Gan Youqin chats with her followers in her live stream every night, trying __1__ (promote) sales of oranges from her hometown, a small village in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.She, together with her teammates, __2__ (help) villagers sell nearly 500,000 kilograms of oranges every week.The 40 year old woman, who used to be a farmer and housewife, is now admired in her hometown __3__ her great success in boosting sales of farm produce.
Gan __4__ (know) as one of the pioneers who shares country life and promotes sales of related products online.She was __5__ (initial) encouraged by her nephew, who asked Gan to be the main character in his short videos __6__ (feature) country life.As Gan's fame grew, they began to sell fruit from their family orchard, __7__ soon fell short of demand.They then launched an e commerce company selling various kinds of __8__ (agriculture) products from all over the region.
Gan's company has been __9__ great success and Gan has received lots of awards for her __10__ (achieve)．She is now devoted to shooting videos and live streaming, but is also planning to offer free training to those who love the industry.
Ⅴ.应用文写作
你校正在组织英语演讲比赛。请你以“我与英语学习app的故事”为题，写一篇英语演讲稿，内容包括：
1．英语学习app的名称及其简介；
2．该app对你的英语学习所起到的帮助。
注意：写作词数应为80左右。
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