人教版（2019）必修第一册UNIT 1 TEENAGE LIFE强化训练（含解析）
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必修第一册UNIT 1 TEENAGE LIFE强化训练
1. 阅读短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
School is still out for the summer, but at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C., students are hard at work outdoors. In a garden filled with flowers and beds bursting with vegetables and herbs, nearly a dozen teenagers are harvesting vegetables for the weekend’s market.
Roshawn Little is going into her junior year at Eastern, and has been working in this garden for three years now. During the summer, Little gets paid to work Tuesday through Saturday from 9 am until 2 pm with City Blossoms, a nonprofit that brings community gardens to schools in urban areas. She believes that working in the garden has taught her to try all sorts of new things, like eating different kinds of vegetables more often. And she’s taken those healthy behaviors home with her and her eating habits have encouraged her family to buy more fruits and vegetables.
City Blossoms is one of many groups across the country teaming up with local communities to build school gardens, like the one at Eastern. It works with schools to create learning gardens and trains teachers on how to use them to get students engaged and boost academics. These gardens are really outdoor classrooms. For example, the gardens can be used for math lessons, like calculating the area of a plant bed or learning the science of how plants grow.
For the students, the experience can be a nutritional eye-opener, which has totally changed their perceptions of where food comes from, and what it takes to produce food. Partner schools have also seen a 12 to 15 percent increase in the number of students passing standardized tests and 94 percent of teachers reported seeing increased engagement from their students, according to an independent evaluation conducted by PEER Associates.
(2023·山东济南第二次模拟考试)
1.What does Roshawn Little think of the summer outdoor activity
A.It is a good way to earn pocket money.
B.It has improved her family relationship.
C.It contributes to her healthy eating habit.
D.It is helpful to her academic performance.
2.What is the purpose of the school gardens
A.To provide a creative way of learning.
B.To promote teachers’ teaching skills.
C.To get students interested in science.
D.To invite students to care for plants.
3.What does the last paragraph focus on about the project of City Blossoms
A.Its strategies. B.Its outcomes.
C.Its operations. D.Its participants.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text
A.City Blossoms: A Nonprofit Teaming Up with Local Community Teachers
B.Happy Holiday, Sweet Memories: How Kids Enjoy the Harvest
C.Outdoor Classrooms: Get Out for the Weekend’s Market
D.Healthy Eaters, Strong Minds: What School Gardens Teach Kids
2. 阅读短文,从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
One of the most powerful forms of human communications is praise. Effective praise can raise someone’s performance. It can greatly change someone’s self-image, or even their life. 1 Master a few basic concepts, and you can give truly effective praise every time.
Phase 1: Basic Praise
Your praise should always include these three elements: the name of the person you are praising, the specific thing you saw them do, and sincerity.
Addressing a person by their name conveys respect. 2 And, if you address someone by the name, it means you’ve noticed the person. One of the great desires of the human soul is to be noticed.
3 As you start to praise more, you will frequently encounter people resisting your praise—they will say “it was nothing” or “I was just doing my job”. And maybe, deep down, they don’t think they deserve praise. If you are extremely specific, you can avoid that resistance and earn their trust.
Phase 2: Advanced Praise
4 You can ask yourself this question:“What is the positive character quality that must exist inside that person for them to have exhibited this behaviour ” A positive character trait can be anything from honesty to compassion, from being hard-working to having a positive attitude, from being customer-focused to being a team player. 5 For example:“Hey Jim, I was really impressed with you yesterday—I noticed at three o’clock you had that long list of orders to handle, and when I was back at four, you had finished all of them. That was some great work—you were really focused. I like being on the team with somebody who has your kind of focus.”
(2022·河南安阳第三次模拟考试)
A.If your praise is vague, it can sound insincere.
B.At the very least, it can make their day better.
C.You’ve shown the evidence, and you’re speaking with sincerity.
D.The sweetest word in most people’s ears is the sound of their own name.
E.Once you have identified the positive character trait, add it to the end of your praise.
F.Before giving your praise, think about the positive character quality behind the behaviour.
G.If you don’t give someone enough praise that they truly think they deserve, they can feel worse.
3. 阅读短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Tencent announced that it will limit the daily time for youngsters to play 1.(it) popular game—King of Glory after parents and schools in Shanghai and other areas complained their children had become addicted to playing it.
Children younger than 12, from tomorrow, 2.(allow) only to play the game for a maximum of one hour a day, and after 9 pm,they will be banned 3. logging in, said Tencent. Teenagers older than 12 will be able to play a maximum of two hours a day.
The game system will remind players the time they have been playing and young players will be forced to log out 4. the time is up.
Tencent claimed these were the 5.(strict) measures in China’s game industry to prevent 6.(addict) and the company expected they would ease parents’ anxiety.
There have been several cases 7.(report) that children had spent too much money as well as time on King of Glory. Tencent said it will add 8. new function to limit spending of teenage players. The company also said it had updated systems for parents to monitor children 9.(use) its games.
Now, parents can connect phones, tablets or computers their children use 10.(play) games, so that they can always keep an eye on the children even if they have several game accounts, Tencent said.
(2023·浙江杭州高三英语模拟)
4. 阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写词数应为150左右。
My great-grandfather, my grandfather and my father are farmers, and so are all my family. My father has a fixed idea that I would become a farmer too. Although I respect him and am indeed skilled at doing some farm work, I don’t agree that I should automatically follow in my father’s footsteps.
When I was a teenager, my father happened to take me to an airport which belonged to one of his friends. It was the first time I had seen an aeroplane in real life. Knowing that I had never been on board, my father’s friend Tom offered me an opportunity to fly with him in his small aeroplane. I quickly accepted his offer! When we took off, I felt nervous but thrilled. Being up in the clouds and looking at the view below was unlike anything I had ever felt. I was just enjoying it. I assumed being a pilot would be the most awesome thing in the whole world. From that day a thought crept into my mind that I wanted to become a pilot, but I doubted whether my father would support me. After all, it was a totally different path from what he had planned for me. Therefore, I put the thought to the back of my mind, because I knew he would still insist on holding onto his previous idea.
Anyway, besides helping my father on the farm, I would frequently visit Tom’s airport. Gradually, I got familiar with every button and switch on the aircraft and I learnt a lot about planes, such as how to fill the plane with fuel, how to check the engines and so on. But what I had learnt just left me wanting more, so I decided to go to college to become a professional pilot.
(2022·江苏盐城高三下学期全真模拟)
Paragraph 1:
This time I would not hide my desire any more.
Paragraph 2:
At the graduation ceremony, with my father present, I, as “Best Pilot”, had to deliver a speech.
答案UNIT 1 TEENAGE LIFE
1.
语篇导读 语篇类型:说明文(事物介绍)
主题语境:人与自我(完善自我)
内容概要:美国很多学校与当地社区合作建设学校菜园,帮助学生养成良好的饮食习惯,并通过创新的学习形式提高学业水平
1.C 推理判断题。根据第二段最后两句“She believes that working in the garden has taught her to try all sorts of new things, like eating different kinds of vegetables more often. And she’s taken those healthy behaviours home with her and her eating habits have encouraged her family to buy more fruits and vegetables.”可知,Roshawn Little认为在花园里工作可以尝试各种新事物,比如更经常地吃不同种类的蔬菜,这些健康的饮食习惯鼓励其家人购买更多的水果和蔬菜。由此可推知,Roshawn Little认为夏天的户外活动有助于养成健康的饮食习惯。故选C项。
2.A 细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“It works with schools to create learning gardens and trains teachers on how to use them to get students engaged and boost academics.”可知,建学校菜园的目的是提供一种创造性的学习方式。故选A项。
3.B 推理判断题。根据最后一段可知,对学生们来说,这段经历可以让他们大开眼界,完全改变了他们对食物来自何处以及生产食物需要什么的看法;合作学校通过标准化考试的学生人数也增加了12%至15%,94%的教师表示学生的参与度有所提高。由此可知,最后一段主要是讲City Blossoms项目的成果。故选B项。
4.D 主旨大意题。City Blossoms是与当地社区合作建设学校菜园的众多组织之一,它与学校合作创建学习园地,培训教师如何利用这些园地让学生参与进来、提高学业水平,并且教孩子们健康饮食。故“Healthy Eaters, Strong Minds: What School Gardens Teach Kids”适合作为本文的最佳标题。故选D项。
2.
语篇导读 语篇类型:说明文(事理阐释)
主题语境:人与社会(社会交往)
内容概要:本文介绍了如何进行有效赞美的方法
1.B 根据前文“Effective praise can raise someone’s performance. It can greatly change someone’s self-image, or even their life.”可知,此处在讲赞美能给受到赞美的人带来的好处。B项“至少这能让他们的一天过得更好”承接上文,符合语境。
2.D 根据前文“Addressing a person by their name conveys respect.”可知,称呼一个人的名字会传递出敬意。D项“在大多数人听来,最甜美的词是他们自己的名字”符合语境。
3.A 根据后文“If you are extremely specific, you can avoid that resistance and earn their trust.”可知,赞美需要具体,不然就不会被信任。A项“如果你的赞美是模糊的,那么它听起来可能不真诚”符合语境。
4.F 根据后文“You can ask yourself this question:‘What is the positive character quality that must exist inside that person for them to have exhibited this behaviour ’”可知,此处在讲要思考使人做出某种行为的积极品质。F项“在给予赞美之前,想想该行为背后的积极的性格品质”引出下文,与下句内容相呼应。
5.E 前句中的A positive character trait对应E项中的the positive character trait。后句对应E项中的add it to the end of your praise。所以,E项承上启下,符合语境。
3.
考点一览表
考点 动词 连接词/关系词 其他
题号 2 4 8 3 1 5 6
1.its 腾讯公司宣布将限制青少年每天玩游戏的时间。此处应用its,意为“它的”,在句中作定语修饰game,故填its。
2.will be allowed from tomorrow(从明天起)作为时间状语常与一般将来时连用,并且主语Children与谓语动词allow之间为逻辑上的动宾关系,此处意为“将会被允许”。故填will be allowed。
3.from 晚上9点以后,未满12岁的儿童将被禁止登录。be banned from doing sth意为“被禁止做某事”,故填from。
4.when/if 年龄小的玩家在规定的时间结束的时候将被迫退出游戏。表示“当规定的时间结束的时候”,可以使用when引导时间状语从句;表示“如果规定的时间到了”,则可以使用if引导条件状语从句。故填when或if。
5.strictest in China’s game industry是一个范围,表示这些措施在中国游戏产业中是最严厉的,应使用最高级形式。故填strictest。
6.addiction 采取最严格的措施,以防青少年上瘾。prevent(阻止)是及物动词,后可接名词作宾语,addict意为“瘾君子”。addiction意为“瘾,入迷”。故填addiction。
7.reported 句中已有谓语have been,所以空格处应用非谓语动词的形式。它和cases之间是逻辑上的动宾关系,应用过去分词形式。故填reported。
8.a 腾讯公司表示将增加一个新功能来限制青少年玩家的消费。此处表示泛指,意为“一个新功能”,又因new的读音以辅音音素开头,故填a。
9.using 该公司还表示,它已更新了家长监控系统,可以监控孩子玩游戏。此处应用use的现在分词形式using,表示动作正在进行。
10.to play 现在,家长可以连接孩子玩游戏的手机、平板电脑或计算机,这样,即使孩子们有多个游戏账号,家长也可以随时关注孩子。此复合句中包含一个定语从句,动词不定式在定语从句中作目的状语。故填to play。
4. One possible version:
This time I would not hide my desire any more. Determined to follow my heart, I explained to my father how I felt. I told him that I wanted to go to a college to learn to fly instead of being a farmer. After saying this, I waited nervously for his reaction. To my surprise, he approved my request, and he told me he was moved by my perseverance. With his support and my efforts, I was admitted into my ideal college.
At the graduation ceremony, with my father present, I, as “Best Pilot”, had to deliver a speech. In my speech, I shared with the audience my story about how a teenager realised his dream. Faced with difficulties, I took a path that made me do something that needed passion, training and practice. I also owed my success to my father’s support. Without his understanding, I couldn’t have pursued my dream. At the end of my speech, I spotted my father’s watery eyes, and said, “Dad, I made it!” His face lit up with pride.
1. 阅读短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
School is still out for the summer, but at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C., students are hard at work outdoors. In a garden filled with flowers and beds bursting with vegetables and herbs, nearly a dozen teenagers are harvesting vegetables for the weekend’s market.
Roshawn Little is going into her junior year at Eastern, and has been working in this garden for three years now. During the summer, Little gets paid to work Tuesday through Saturday from 9 am until 2 pm with City Blossoms, a nonprofit that brings community gardens to schools in urban areas. She believes that working in the garden has taught her to try all sorts of new things, like eating different kinds of vegetables more often. And she’s taken those healthy behaviors home with her and her eating habits have encouraged her family to buy more fruits and vegetables.
City Blossoms is one of many groups across the country teaming up with local communities to build school gardens, like the one at Eastern. It works with schools to create learning gardens and trains teachers on how to use them to get students engaged and boost academics. These gardens are really outdoor classrooms. For example, the gardens can be used for math lessons, like calculating the area of a plant bed or learning the science of how plants grow.
For the students, the experience can be a nutritional eye-opener, which has totally changed their perceptions of where food comes from, and what it takes to produce food. Partner schools have also seen a 12 to 15 percent increase in the number of students passing standardized tests and 94 percent of teachers reported seeing increased engagement from their students, according to an independent evaluation conducted by PEER Associates.
(2023·山东济南第二次模拟考试)
1.What does Roshawn Little think of the summer outdoor activity
A.It is a good way to earn pocket money.
B.It has improved her family relationship.
C.It contributes to her healthy eating habit.
D.It is helpful to her academic performance.
2.What is the purpose of the school gardens
A.To provide a creative way of learning.
B.To promote teachers’ teaching skills.
C.To get students interested in science.
D.To invite students to care for plants.
3.What does the last paragraph focus on about the project of City Blossoms
A.Its strategies. B.Its outcomes.
C.Its operations. D.Its participants.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text
A.City Blossoms: A Nonprofit Teaming Up with Local Community Teachers
B.Happy Holiday, Sweet Memories: How Kids Enjoy the Harvest
C.Outdoor Classrooms: Get Out for the Weekend’s Market
D.Healthy Eaters, Strong Minds: What School Gardens Teach Kids
2. 阅读短文,从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
One of the most powerful forms of human communications is praise. Effective praise can raise someone’s performance. It can greatly change someone’s self-image, or even their life. 1 Master a few basic concepts, and you can give truly effective praise every time.
Phase 1: Basic Praise
Your praise should always include these three elements: the name of the person you are praising, the specific thing you saw them do, and sincerity.
Addressing a person by their name conveys respect. 2 And, if you address someone by the name, it means you’ve noticed the person. One of the great desires of the human soul is to be noticed.
3 As you start to praise more, you will frequently encounter people resisting your praise—they will say “it was nothing” or “I was just doing my job”. And maybe, deep down, they don’t think they deserve praise. If you are extremely specific, you can avoid that resistance and earn their trust.
Phase 2: Advanced Praise
4 You can ask yourself this question:“What is the positive character quality that must exist inside that person for them to have exhibited this behaviour ” A positive character trait can be anything from honesty to compassion, from being hard-working to having a positive attitude, from being customer-focused to being a team player. 5 For example:“Hey Jim, I was really impressed with you yesterday—I noticed at three o’clock you had that long list of orders to handle, and when I was back at four, you had finished all of them. That was some great work—you were really focused. I like being on the team with somebody who has your kind of focus.”
(2022·河南安阳第三次模拟考试)
A.If your praise is vague, it can sound insincere.
B.At the very least, it can make their day better.
C.You’ve shown the evidence, and you’re speaking with sincerity.
D.The sweetest word in most people’s ears is the sound of their own name.
E.Once you have identified the positive character trait, add it to the end of your praise.
F.Before giving your praise, think about the positive character quality behind the behaviour.
G.If you don’t give someone enough praise that they truly think they deserve, they can feel worse.
3. 阅读短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Tencent announced that it will limit the daily time for youngsters to play 1.(it) popular game—King of Glory after parents and schools in Shanghai and other areas complained their children had become addicted to playing it.
Children younger than 12, from tomorrow, 2.(allow) only to play the game for a maximum of one hour a day, and after 9 pm,they will be banned 3. logging in, said Tencent. Teenagers older than 12 will be able to play a maximum of two hours a day.
The game system will remind players the time they have been playing and young players will be forced to log out 4. the time is up.
Tencent claimed these were the 5.(strict) measures in China’s game industry to prevent 6.(addict) and the company expected they would ease parents’ anxiety.
There have been several cases 7.(report) that children had spent too much money as well as time on King of Glory. Tencent said it will add 8. new function to limit spending of teenage players. The company also said it had updated systems for parents to monitor children 9.(use) its games.
Now, parents can connect phones, tablets or computers their children use 10.(play) games, so that they can always keep an eye on the children even if they have several game accounts, Tencent said.
(2023·浙江杭州高三英语模拟)
4. 阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写词数应为150左右。
My great-grandfather, my grandfather and my father are farmers, and so are all my family. My father has a fixed idea that I would become a farmer too. Although I respect him and am indeed skilled at doing some farm work, I don’t agree that I should automatically follow in my father’s footsteps.
When I was a teenager, my father happened to take me to an airport which belonged to one of his friends. It was the first time I had seen an aeroplane in real life. Knowing that I had never been on board, my father’s friend Tom offered me an opportunity to fly with him in his small aeroplane. I quickly accepted his offer! When we took off, I felt nervous but thrilled. Being up in the clouds and looking at the view below was unlike anything I had ever felt. I was just enjoying it. I assumed being a pilot would be the most awesome thing in the whole world. From that day a thought crept into my mind that I wanted to become a pilot, but I doubted whether my father would support me. After all, it was a totally different path from what he had planned for me. Therefore, I put the thought to the back of my mind, because I knew he would still insist on holding onto his previous idea.
Anyway, besides helping my father on the farm, I would frequently visit Tom’s airport. Gradually, I got familiar with every button and switch on the aircraft and I learnt a lot about planes, such as how to fill the plane with fuel, how to check the engines and so on. But what I had learnt just left me wanting more, so I decided to go to college to become a professional pilot.
(2022·江苏盐城高三下学期全真模拟)
Paragraph 1:
This time I would not hide my desire any more.
Paragraph 2:
At the graduation ceremony, with my father present, I, as “Best Pilot”, had to deliver a speech.
答案UNIT 1 TEENAGE LIFE
1.
语篇导读 语篇类型:说明文(事物介绍)
主题语境:人与自我(完善自我)
内容概要:美国很多学校与当地社区合作建设学校菜园,帮助学生养成良好的饮食习惯,并通过创新的学习形式提高学业水平
1.C 推理判断题。根据第二段最后两句“She believes that working in the garden has taught her to try all sorts of new things, like eating different kinds of vegetables more often. And she’s taken those healthy behaviours home with her and her eating habits have encouraged her family to buy more fruits and vegetables.”可知,Roshawn Little认为在花园里工作可以尝试各种新事物,比如更经常地吃不同种类的蔬菜,这些健康的饮食习惯鼓励其家人购买更多的水果和蔬菜。由此可推知,Roshawn Little认为夏天的户外活动有助于养成健康的饮食习惯。故选C项。
2.A 细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“It works with schools to create learning gardens and trains teachers on how to use them to get students engaged and boost academics.”可知,建学校菜园的目的是提供一种创造性的学习方式。故选A项。
3.B 推理判断题。根据最后一段可知,对学生们来说,这段经历可以让他们大开眼界,完全改变了他们对食物来自何处以及生产食物需要什么的看法;合作学校通过标准化考试的学生人数也增加了12%至15%,94%的教师表示学生的参与度有所提高。由此可知,最后一段主要是讲City Blossoms项目的成果。故选B项。
4.D 主旨大意题。City Blossoms是与当地社区合作建设学校菜园的众多组织之一,它与学校合作创建学习园地,培训教师如何利用这些园地让学生参与进来、提高学业水平,并且教孩子们健康饮食。故“Healthy Eaters, Strong Minds: What School Gardens Teach Kids”适合作为本文的最佳标题。故选D项。
2.
语篇导读 语篇类型:说明文(事理阐释)
主题语境:人与社会(社会交往)
内容概要:本文介绍了如何进行有效赞美的方法
1.B 根据前文“Effective praise can raise someone’s performance. It can greatly change someone’s self-image, or even their life.”可知,此处在讲赞美能给受到赞美的人带来的好处。B项“至少这能让他们的一天过得更好”承接上文,符合语境。
2.D 根据前文“Addressing a person by their name conveys respect.”可知,称呼一个人的名字会传递出敬意。D项“在大多数人听来,最甜美的词是他们自己的名字”符合语境。
3.A 根据后文“If you are extremely specific, you can avoid that resistance and earn their trust.”可知,赞美需要具体,不然就不会被信任。A项“如果你的赞美是模糊的,那么它听起来可能不真诚”符合语境。
4.F 根据后文“You can ask yourself this question:‘What is the positive character quality that must exist inside that person for them to have exhibited this behaviour ’”可知,此处在讲要思考使人做出某种行为的积极品质。F项“在给予赞美之前,想想该行为背后的积极的性格品质”引出下文,与下句内容相呼应。
5.E 前句中的A positive character trait对应E项中的the positive character trait。后句对应E项中的add it to the end of your praise。所以,E项承上启下,符合语境。
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1.its 腾讯公司宣布将限制青少年每天玩游戏的时间。此处应用its,意为“它的”,在句中作定语修饰game,故填its。
2.will be allowed from tomorrow(从明天起)作为时间状语常与一般将来时连用,并且主语Children与谓语动词allow之间为逻辑上的动宾关系,此处意为“将会被允许”。故填will be allowed。
3.from 晚上9点以后,未满12岁的儿童将被禁止登录。be banned from doing sth意为“被禁止做某事”,故填from。
4.when/if 年龄小的玩家在规定的时间结束的时候将被迫退出游戏。表示“当规定的时间结束的时候”,可以使用when引导时间状语从句;表示“如果规定的时间到了”,则可以使用if引导条件状语从句。故填when或if。
5.strictest in China’s game industry是一个范围,表示这些措施在中国游戏产业中是最严厉的,应使用最高级形式。故填strictest。
6.addiction 采取最严格的措施,以防青少年上瘾。prevent(阻止)是及物动词,后可接名词作宾语,addict意为“瘾君子”。addiction意为“瘾,入迷”。故填addiction。
7.reported 句中已有谓语have been,所以空格处应用非谓语动词的形式。它和cases之间是逻辑上的动宾关系,应用过去分词形式。故填reported。
8.a 腾讯公司表示将增加一个新功能来限制青少年玩家的消费。此处表示泛指,意为“一个新功能”,又因new的读音以辅音音素开头,故填a。
9.using 该公司还表示,它已更新了家长监控系统,可以监控孩子玩游戏。此处应用use的现在分词形式using,表示动作正在进行。
10.to play 现在,家长可以连接孩子玩游戏的手机、平板电脑或计算机,这样,即使孩子们有多个游戏账号,家长也可以随时关注孩子。此复合句中包含一个定语从句,动词不定式在定语从句中作目的状语。故填to play。
4. One possible version:
This time I would not hide my desire any more. Determined to follow my heart, I explained to my father how I felt. I told him that I wanted to go to a college to learn to fly instead of being a farmer. After saying this, I waited nervously for his reaction. To my surprise, he approved my request, and he told me he was moved by my perseverance. With his support and my efforts, I was admitted into my ideal college.
At the graduation ceremony, with my father present, I, as “Best Pilot”, had to deliver a speech. In my speech, I shared with the audience my story about how a teenager realised his dream. Faced with difficulties, I took a path that made me do something that needed passion, training and practice. I also owed my success to my father’s support. Without his understanding, I couldn’t have pursued my dream. At the end of my speech, I spotted my father’s watery eyes, and said, “Dad, I made it!” His face lit up with pride.