人教版高中英语必修一Unit 1 friendship Reading课时作业

Unit 1 friendship Reading课时作业
第一节、完型填空
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Henry L. Mencken said it first, “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.” Several 7-Eleven stores learned the truth of that 1 . According to an article in New York Times, a number of convenience stores had a problem with 2 who were hanging out in their parking lots at all hours of the day and night. It’s not that they did not like kids, but the teens were 3 . Customers had to walk around them to get into the 4 . And every time they 5 deserted wrappers, cigarette ends and paper cups on the ground.
Managers of the stores tried various methods to solve the problem. They asked the young people to 6 elsewhere. They asked them to 7 their trash. They even spoke to the police, but nothing 8 .
In fact, all the solutions you need are out there in the universe just waiting to be 9 into your life.
10 , one manager came up with a(n) 11 idea to prevent the teenagers from 12 in front of the stores. He suggested that all the shops should start piping easy-listening music into the parking lots. 13 , the young people stopped hanging around. Maybe his 14 was cruel, but it actually worked.
Sometimes we need a good 15 . Again and again we are up against the same old problem, whether it is relational, professional or personal. It seems that whatever we 16 is not working. Perhaps you need to approach your persistent problem with a new way of 17 . The Spanish poet Juan Remon Jimenez said, “If they give you ruled paper, 18 the other way.” Is it time to develop more creativity in your pursuit of the “right” answer?
I 19 that humanity’s best ideas have not yet been thought of. And the best solution to your problem may similarly be 20 to be conceived (构想). It just might happen when you turn the paper sideways and write the other way!
1. A. condition B. request C. suggestion D. statement
2. A. patients B. thieves C. teenagers D. beggars
3. A. impolite B. curious C. impatient D. stubborn
4. A. streets B. stores C. departments D. offices
5. A. left B. wasted C. destroyed D. played
6. A. live B. move C. celebrate D. discus
7. A. sort out B. give up C. put up D. pick up
8. A. existed B. finished C. worked D. lasted
9. A knocked B. persuaded C. forced D. invited
10. A. Generally B. Frequently C. Finally D. Obviously
11. A. basic B. popular C. crazy D. unusual
12. A. wandering B. drawing C. learning D. competing
13. A. Occasionally B. Immediately C. Suddenly D. Similarly
14. A. method B. excuse C. experience D. project
15. A. memory B. answer C. job D. example
16. A. find B. accept C. hear D. try
17. A. supporting B. trading C. thinking D. explaining
18. A help B. write C. decide D. give
19. A. believe B. promise C. prove D. declare
20. A offering B determining C. waiting D agreeing
第二节、阅读理解
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Bridges Photography and History Seminar
The bridges linking Portland’s east and west sides are the most attractive features of the city. Capturing (捕捉) their strength and beauty is an art form, and this seminar is an exciting walking tour of the downtown bridges as well as a hands-on photography class.
◆ Organizers
The seminar is organized by Phil Busse and Andrew Hall. Busse has spent hundreds of hours on the Willamette River as a rowing coach for local university teams. Hall is an engineer and photographer. For the past decade, Hall has hosted a website named PortlandBridges.com, which focuses on photographing local bridges in new, unique, and inspiring ways.
◆ Guidance
Bring your own camera. This is an opportunity to learn fundamentals of camera skills, specifically how to see and capture the bridges’ form and function. The seminar is also a two-mile walking tour of the downtown bridges, from the newest Tilikum Crossing to the century-old Hawthorne and Steel Bridges. The seminar lasts until the sunset, when you can capture the changing light in the evening.
◆ Additional details
The event will happen rain or shine.
Kids over the age of 12 are welcome
Wear practical shoes; you’ll be walking for 2 miles or so.
◆ Buy tickets
WHEN
Sunday, February25,2018
3:30 p.m. to5:30 p.m.
COST
$ 20.00
WHERE
Portland Public Boathouse, 1515 SE Water Ave., Portland, Oregon, 97214, the United States
◆ Questions?
Email Phil Busse at phil.busse@atlasobscura.com. Stay connected! Join our Facebook Group for discussions, photos, and other adventures.
21. What will participants do during the seminar?
A. Walk along the river. B. Visit local universities.
C. Photograph the sunrise. D. Row in downtown Portland.
22. What can we learn about the seminar?
A. It is free of charge. B. It opens to teenagers.
C. It lasts for about 3 hours. D. It depends on the weather.
B
Hungry alligators (短吻鳄) don’t just stick to freshwater. They can live quite easily in salty waters (at least for a bit) where they’ll find plenty to eat. Their diet includes crabs and sea turtles. A new study adds sharks to their menu. “They should change the textbooks,” says James Nifong, an ecologist who has spent years documenting the diet of estuarine (河口的) gators. He works with wildlife biologist Russell Lowers in the study.
Lowers actually captured a female gator with a young Atlantic stingray in her jaws. This was near Cape Canaveral. He and Nifong gathered several other eyewitness accounts. One US Fish and Wildlife Service worker, for instance, spotted a gator eating a nurse shark in a Florida swamp (沼泽). That was back in 2003. Three years later, a birder photographed an alligator eating a bonnethead shark in a Florida salt swamp. A marine turtle specialist that Nifong sometimes works with saw gators consuming both bonnethead and lemon sharks in the late 1990s.
“Because alligators don’t have any salt glands(盐腺), they’re subject to the same pressures as me or you when being out in saltwater,” says Nifong. “You’re losing water, and you’re increasing salt in your blood system.” That can lead to stress and even death, he notes. To deal with salt, Nifong explains, gators tend to just go back and forth between saltwater and freshwater. To keep salty water out, they can shut their nostrils (鼻孔)and close off their throat with a cartilage (软骨). As they eat, alligators tip their heads up to let the saltwater drain out before swallowing their catch. And when they need a drink, gators can tip their heads up to catch rainwater or even gather freshwater from a layer floating atop saltwater after a rain shower.
Nifong, has spent years catching hundreds of wild gators and pumping their stomachs to see what they had swallowed. His work showed that the list of what’s on a gator’s menu is pretty long.
What alligators eat isn’t as important a finding as the discovery that they regularly travel between saltwater and freshwater environments, Nifong says. These dual dining zones cover “a wide variety of habitats across the US Southeast,” he notes. That’s important because these gators are moving nutrients from rich marine waters into poorer, fresh waters. As such, they may be having a larger effect on estuarine food webs.
For instance, one prey (猎物) item on the alligator menu is blue crab. And when gators are around, blue crabs curtail their predation of snails. The snails might then eat more of the marsh grass that forms the base of the local ecosystem. “Understanding that an alligator has a role in that kind of interaction,” Nifong points out, “is important when deciding how to protect some Species.”
23. What does the research of James Nifong show?
A. Alligators are more than freshwater animals.
B. Alligators have changed their diet recently.
C. Alligators aren’t particular about their diet.
D. Alligators are extremely dangerous animals.
24. What problem do alligators face when they’re in the sea?
A. It’s difficult for them to hunt.
B. They find it hard to swallow food.
C. They have no means of accessing freshwater.
D. It’s hard for them to adjust to the environment.
25. What is the significance of the new finding?
A. It shows that textbooks can be wrong.
B. It leads to better conservation programs.
C. It makes people know what alligators feed on.
D. It suggests alligators are in danger of extinction.
C
It’s hard to shake a bad habit once it settles into our routine and becomes a part of our characters. It’s often equally difficult to develop a good habit every once in a while no matter how beneficial it might be to us. Is it really possible to develop a good and useful habit without much stress or sacrifice along the way?
While it may be difficult to only focus on one thing at a time, you can develop habits over time and focus on each one separately without sacrificing energy or attention. For example, if you want to get better at drawing or become the best writer in your class, you need to put your activities around that goal. Doing something different each day without rhyme or focus won’t help develop any longstanding habits but will only make you frustrated (挫败的) in the progress.
Don’t be shy to aim for your particular habit. If you want to sleep regularly every night or draw ten drawings every day without an excuse, why not go for it and see how far you can get? Being humble (谦虚的) about your life goals and habits will only lead to mediocrity, which will make you believe that you are not good enough to do something.
Looking for professional help might be a good idea if you don’t know how to inspire yourself or develop a daily plan for your habit development. It’s important to separate your big goals into smaller parts and activities that you can do on a daily basis without letting a day pass by when you don’t do anything about your new habits.
Being committed to your goals is the number one priority (优先事项) in developing a good habit. Always remember why you started working on your habits in the first place. If cycling each day can make you healthier, why not commit yourself to it and have a better life? If your drawing skills are poor, why not put some time into drawing each and every day while you are waiting for something else to happen? These small activities later will do a lot for your habit development and create an internal clock, or a personal routine. This routine will be habitual, meaning that you will start doing the scheduled activities more and more.
Only you can help yourself develop any good habit, no matter how hard someone might be pushing you to do so. Find support from your friends and family if you need it, but, firstly and most importantly, rely on yourself.
26. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To advise readers to keep away from bad habits.
B. To introduce some good habits to readers.
C. To discuss how to acquire a good habit.
D. To compare bad habits and good ones.
27. Through the case of how to be good at drawing or writing, the author tries to ______.
A. stress that people should focus on one thing at a time
B. prove that anyone can be good at drawing or writing
C. explain why people should develop a good habit
D. show how difficult it is to develop a good habit
28. What does the underlined word “mediocrity” in Para. 3 refer to?
A. An accident of fate. B. A state of being average.
C. An expression of surprise. D. A strong belief in God and ghosts.
29. According to the author, the key to forming good habits is ______.
A. telling good habits from bad ones B. finding out what one is good at
C. getting help from an expert D. depending on oneself
D
When the first novel about a brilliant detective capable of solving a seemingly unsolvable crime appeared in 1888, it was an immediate success. The story’s hero, Sherlock Holmes, quickly became very well-known. Over the next 30 years, other stories describing Holmes adventures followed, each of which was eagerly awaited by the public. The novels made their author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, both wealthy and well-known. It is a curious fact, however, that Conan Doyle never really enjoyed writing his Sherlock Holmes novels. He regarded himself as a serious writer and felt that his detective novels were “commercial” and did not represent his finest work.
Conan Doyle was born on 22 May, 1859 in Edinburgh. Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to the Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place at the age of nine. He then went to Stonyhurst College until 1875. From 1875 to 1876, he was educated at the Jesuit school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria. From 1876 to 1881, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. While studying, Doyle began writing short stories. His earliest fiction, The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe, was unsuccessfully submitted to Blackwood’s Magazine. His first published piece, The Mystery of Sacasa Valley, a story set in South Africa, was printed on 6 September, 1879.
In 1882, he joined his former classmate George Turnavine Budd as his partner at a medical practice in Plymouth, but their relationship proved difficult, and Doyle soon left to set up an independent practice. Arriving in Portsmouth in June 1882 with less than ￡10 to his name, he set up a medical practice at Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea. The practice was initially not very successful. While waiting for patients, Doyle again began writing fiction to kill time.
In 1888, A Study in Scarlet, Conan Doyles first story about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, was published. Its success puzzled its author, who much preferred his next, more serious novel, Mica Clark. This received good reviews but was immediately forgotten.
In 1890 his second story about the detective, The Sign of Four, was published. Conan Doyke was still working as a doctor, but he now made the decision to write a series of short stories featuring Holmes and Watson, and he persuaded Strand Magazine to publish the stories. The “image” of Sherlock Holmes was created by Sidney Paget, a very talented artist who used his handsome brother Walter as a model for the detective. In 1891, after a nearly fatal illness, the author made the decision to give up his medical career and concentrate on his literary one
In 1893, however, Conan Doyle took a decision that was to horrify (使惊恐) his readers: he decided to kill off Sherlock Holmes. In The Final Problem Sherlock Holmes plunges (跳下) over the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland and dies. As a result, 20,000 readers stopped their subscription to Strand Magazine. Gonan Doyle did not mind at all, feeling that he could now get on with the kind of writing that most interested him.
However, after a visit to the west of England, Conan Doyle was inspired by the wildness of the area and the famous prison there. He started writing a new novel but realized that there was something missing from his story—a hero. “Why should I invent such a character when I already have him in the form of Sherlock Holmes?” he asked. So, to the delight of thousands of frustrated fans, Sherlock Holmes returned: Rather than bringing the detective back to life, the author wrote the story as if it was a previously untold adventure. The Hound of the Baskervilles first appeared in episodes in Strand Magazine in 1901, and immediately became a worldwide sensation.
After this great success, a lot more short stories about the detective followed. The final collection of the stories of Sherlock Holmes appeared in 1927. By this time, it seemed that Conan Doyle had accepted his hero’s destiny.
30. Conan Doyle didn’t enjoy writing his Sherlock Holmes novels because ______.
A. they were not liked by readers
B. they didn’t bring him a fortune
C. he didn’t consider them well written
D. he thought they were commercial writing
31. When The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe was submitted to Blackwood’s Magazine, it ______.
A. motivated Conan Doyle to write more B. made Conan Doyle well-known
C. was an immediate success D. wasn’t highly thought of
32. Why did Conan Doyle begin to write fiction in his medical practice?
A. He was greatly inspired by his patients.
B. He wanted to entertain his patients.
C. He believed writing would be a promising career.
D. He wanted to find something to do in his spare time.
33. How did Conan Doyle react to the success of A Study in Scarlet?
A. He was extremely happy. B. He found it difficult to believe.
C. He decided to write more such stories. D. He thought he deserved the reward.
34. The decision Conan Doyle made in 1893 showed that ______.
A. his severe illness prevented him from writing
B. he wanted to play a joke on the fans of his novels
C he didn’t really like writing his Sherlock Holmes novels
D. he wanted people to remember his Sherlock Holmes novels
35. What does “his hero’s destiny” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. Sherlock Holmes will never die.
B. Sherlock Holmes will return one day.
C. Sherlock Holmes has died in Switzerland.
D. Dr Watson will always help Sherlock Holmes.
参考答案
完形填空
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阅读理解
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