【小初高学习]2017-2018学年高中英语 Unit 3 Amazing people课时跟踪练(
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课时跟踪练(一) Welcome to the unit & Reading—Pre reading Ⅰ.阅读理解AWilla Sibert Cather, Nebraska's most famous novelist, was born in 1873 in Virginia. At the age of ten, she moved with her family to Webster County, Nebraska, and lived on a farm there for two years before moving into the town of Red Cloud. Many of Cather's characters and Red Cloud area scenes can be recognized in her writings. Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1895.She worked for Home Monthly and the Daily Leader in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later taught English and Latin at Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York and served as managing editor of McClure's Magazine from 1906 to 1912. Cather continued her education and received a doctorate of letters at the University of Nebraska in 1917. She also received honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, and from Columbia, Yale, and Princeton.Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning many awards including the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1922 she won the Pulitzer Prize (普利策奖) for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy who went off to World War Ⅰ. Her novel, A Lost Lady, was made into a silent movie in 1925. Other wellknown Ca ther's novels include My Antonia, O Pioneers！，Death Comes for the Archbishop, and The Professor's House.Cather died on April 24, 1947 in New York. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation at Red Cloud, Nebraska preserved her childhood home and other buildings connected with her writings. In 1961 Cather was the first woman voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame (群英殿). She was introduced into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1974 and into the National Women's Hall of Fame at Seneca, New York in 1988.语篇解读：Willa Sibert Cather是美国著名女作家，擅长诗歌、散文、小说和短篇故事等的研究与创作。
本文重点介绍了她的文学作品及文学成就。
1．Cather experienced the life on the farm ________.A．in Virginia B．in Webster CountyC．in Red Cloud D．in New York解析：选B 细节理解题。
根据第一段第二句可知，她是在Webster County体验了两年的农场生活。
故选B。
2．If you want to learn about Red Cloud, you'd better ________.A．get to know CatherB．talk with those who like itC．read Cather's worksD．pay a visit to Webster County解析：选C 推理判断题。
根据第一段倒数第二句可知，Cather的作品中有很多关于Red Cloud地区的景象的描写。
故选C。
3．Cather received her Pulitzer Prize when she was ______.A．35 B．44C．49 D．52解析：选C 数字计算题。
Willa Cather出生于1873年，根据第三段第二句她获得普利策奖的时间是1922年，因此荣获普利策奖时，她49岁。
故选C。
4．Which of the following works of Cather was made into a film?A．One of Ours B．A Lost LadyC．My Antonia D．The Professor's House解析：选B 细节理解题。
根据第三段中的“Her novel, A Lost Lady, was made into a silent movie in 1925.”可知选B。
BOn the first day of the new term, I met my new headmaster at the school gate. “Follow me, please！” he said. He had a quiet,kind voice. He took me into my new classroom and left. In front of me, thirty pairs of eyes looked at me. I knew he had told the students that I was blind. I could almost feel the question behind their eyes: “Blind？” I felt the answer too: “If she's blind, this should be good！”I heard quiet voices in a corner of the classroom. For a moment, I felt afraid. I knew at once that I had to be strong.“Class，” I said as loudly as I could. “I may be blind. But I am not foolish. Take those naughty smiles off your faces, and stop talking, please！” Of course, I could not see their faces; I just guessed that some of them were smiling. The class were quiet. They were very surprised. I knew that I had done the right thing.As the days went by, the students had more surprises. I could smell when the children were eating sweets. I could easily hear combs going through hair, students passing messages, and so on. Once I found a girl passing a message to a friend. I took the message to the teachers' room. A teacher read it to me. On one side it said, “Do you think she can see？” On the other it said, “I think so. She always knows what we're doing.”Soon the students stopped being naughty, and started to work hard. Before long, they brought in photos of their families for me to look at. I knew then they were my friends. I also knew they had forgotten that I could not see.语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文，主要讲述了身为盲人的作者在新学期开学面对新的班级时的一段特殊的经历。
5．In Paragraph 1 the writer said she must be strong because ________.A．she was too weakB．the students laughed at herC．the headmaster left her aloneD．she felt the students were not friendly to her解析：选D 细节理解题。
