Module 2 Highlights of My Senior Year阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
A(2017河北邯郸一模,D)My favorite English teacher could draw humor out of the driest material. It wasn’t forced on us either. He took Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, Addison’s essays, and m any other literary wonders from the eighteenth century and made them hilarious, even at eight o’clock in the morning. The thing that amazed me most was that the first time I read these works on my own some of them seemed dead, but the second time, after hi s explanation, I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t seen the humor. The stories, poems and plays were suddenly filled with allusions(典故)and irony and hilarious moments. I learned more from him than from any other teacher.My least favorite English teacher also made people laugh. Some students found him wonderfully funny. Many others did not. He assigned journals over a six-week period, to be written in every day. At the end of the six weeks I had a notebook full of bits and pieces about my ideas, short stories, reactions to what we had read, and so on. Our teacher announced that we would be grading each other’s journals. Mine was passed to Joe, the class clown, who always behaved in a funny or silly way. He saw it fit to make a joke of and said, “This writing isn’t fit to line the bottom of a birdcage.” Our teacher laughed at that funny remark. It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven my writing and teaching ever since.So what makes the difference? Humor is one of the most powerful tools teachers or writers have. It can build up students and classes and make them excited about literature and writing, or it can tear them apart. It is true that humor is either productive or counter-productive and self-defeating.1.The passage mainly discusses .A.teachingB.literatureC.humorD.knowledge2.The underlined word “hilarious” in Paragraph 1 probably means.A.funnyB.tiringC.inspiringD.brilliant3.With his favorite English teacher, the writer found it most amazing that .A.his teacher was very learnedB.his teacher was very humorousC.the works by Johnson and Addison were very humorousD.few were able to find humor in works by Johnson and others4.The English teacher the writer disliked most .A.was not able to make students laughB.hurt his students’ feelingsC.didn’t let his students do the gradingD.had no sense of humorB(2017山东日照一模,C)The most popular PE class at Waukegan High School in Illinois, US, takes place in a basement field house.It is the school’s version of CrossFit, the difficult physical exercise that has exploded in popularity over the last 16 years at thousands of gyms. It has more than one million devotees and a professional competition shown on ESPN.Schools around the Chicago area have adopted CrossFit to interest students at a time of a rising weight problem among young people, and most say it really works compared with traditional gym classes.“I think it’s a great way to teach kids lifelong fitness, especially those kids whoaren’t interested in hockey, soccer or basketball,” said the teacher, Tracy Haraf from Illinois’ Stony Creek Elementary, which devotes half of its PE days to CrossFitexercises.“They think it’s tough, but I think they have a lot of fun doing it.”Senior Alexus Wiltz, 18, said the workout had improved her performance on the basketball court. “I noticed I was faster. I paid more attention on the court, and my defending was better,” she said after a recent class.“It just really helped me.”But some doctors and researchers advise caution, saying the exercises that involve lifting weights can lead to injuries, particularly when performed by few inexperienced people.Doctor Craig Finlayson at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago said he was worried that while strength training is fine for kids, heavy weights could be trouble for teenagers who might hurt themselves by trying to do too much or using poor form.CrossFit Inc., the company that certifies trainers and licenses gyms, disagrees that its program is more dangerous than o ther fitness routines. Gym teachers in Waukegan’s Greg Moisio, whose two-campus school has about 73% kids taking CrossFit each day, also say the risk of injury can be reduced with proper teaching and CrossFit’s flexibility.5.Why have schools around the Chicago area adopted CrossFit?A.To improve the students’ performance in competitive sports.B.To introduce something more challenging to the students.C.To make traditional gym classes more attractive.D.To help solve the students’ weight problem.6.How do the students react to the strength training?A.73% agree it has a bad influence.B.They show little interest in it.C.The majority believe it’s effective.D.Most of them think it’s of no use.7.What does the underlined word “workout” in Paragraph 5 refer to?A.The physical exercise.B.The basketball court.C.Wiltz’s performance.D.A lot of fun.8.What can we learn from the last paragraph?A.CrossFit is more dangerous than other fitness routines.B.The number of the injured in CrossFit classes is rising.C.Kids may protect themselves if they’re trained properly.D.A great number of kids taking CrossFit lack flexibility.Ⅱ.语法填空阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
