2019届高考英语一轮复习 Unit 4 Wildlife protection知能演练轻松闯关 新人教版必修2

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Unit 4 Wildlife protection

Ⅰ 阅读理解

A

(2018·浙江名校协作体高三模拟)“Her grades are fine; I’m not worried about

that, but she just doesn’t seem to love learning any more，” Alice’s mum said.

She’s absolutely right. I’d noticed the same thing about her daughter over

the previous two or three years when I’d been Alice’s middle school English, Latin,

and writing teacher, and I have an answer, right there on the tip of my tongue, to

what has gone wrong. Yet I’m torn between my responsibility to help Alice and the

knowledge that what I have to say is a truth I’m not sure this mother is ready to

hear.

The truth for this parent and so many others is this: Her child has sacrificed

her natural curiosity and love of learning at the altar(圣坛) of achievement, and

it’s our fault. Alice’s parents, her teachers, society at large—we are all supposed

to be blamed in this crime against learning. From her first day of school, we pointed

her toward that altar and trained her to measure her progress by means of points,

scores, and awards.We taught Alice that her potential is tied to her intellect(智力), and that her intellect is more important than her character. We taught her to

come home proudly bearing grade As, championship prizes, and college acceptance,

and not on purpose, we taught her that we don’t really care how she obtains them.

We taught her to protect her academic and extracurricular perfection at all costs

and that it’s better to quit when things get challenging rather than risk losing

that perfect record. Above all else, we taught her to fear failure. That fear is

what has destroyed her love of learning.

【解题导语】 本文通过Alice的例子说明了父母、老师和社会有时会扼杀孩子的好奇心和对学习的热爱。

1．Both the mother and the author have noticed that________．

A．Alice hates to tell them the truth

B．Alice’s test scores are not so good

C．Alice chooses several subjects to learn

D．Alice doesn’t enjoy studying any more

D 解析：细节理解题。根据第一段中的“but she just doesn’t seem to love learning

any more”和第二段中的“I’d noticed the same thing about her daughter”可知，Alice的妈妈和作者都注意到了Alice 不再喜欢学习。

2．What does the underlined word “torn” mean in the passage?

A．Pained to choose. B．Guilty to quit.

C．Tired to manage. D．Certain to decide. 唐玲 A 解析：词义猜测题。根据画线词后的“between my responsibility...and the

knowledge that what I have to say is a truth”可知，作者在两者之间很难选择。

3. What does the teacher think of the girl?

A．Her academic perfection results from her character.

B．She is a gifted girl with spirits of challenging.

C．She is perfect in her character development.

D．Her academic performance is great.

D 解析：细节理解题。根据第三段中的“We taught her to protect...at all costs”可知，Alice的学业表现很好。

B

Despite being used by 1.34 billion people each year，traveling on the Tube in London can actually be quite lonely.

One citizen，however，is trying to change this.“You get

on the Tube and it’s completely silent and it’s weird，”

says Jonathan Dunne，who has started a worldwide dialogue

after giving out badges(徽章)with the words “Tube chat？”

last month，encouraging passengers in London to get talking to one another.“I handed

out 500 badges during rush hour in a city of 8 million，expecting most of them to

be thrown away，but after about 24 hours it completely snowballed，”he says.Dunne

and his “Tube chat” campaign have since been reported by media across the world，seeing TV interviews in Sweden, Brazil and the U．K.，as well as countless website，newspaper and magazine appearances.

Although Dunne says he’s received mostly positive feedback，not everyone agrees

with his idea.Londoner Brian Wilson responded with a campaign of his own，handing

out 500 badges with the words “Don’t even think about it” on them. Michael Robinson，24，a student from London，agrees.“Being on the Tube is the only peace and quiet

some people get on their journeys to and from work.It doesn’t need to be spoiled

by people coming up and chatting to you，” he says.

“People assume that I just walk up and talk to strangers, which I don’t，but it’s been a great way to meet people you would never have normally spoken to，”

Dunne says.

So if you ever end up using public transport in the West, why not say hello to

the person next to you？Just make sure to check for a badge first.

【解题导语】 每年乘坐伦敦地铁的乘客众多，可是人们仍然感到孤独；为此Jonathan

Dunne发起了一个旨在鼓励乘客相互交谈的运动，此举引起了世界媒体的关注。尽管如此，人们对此仍有不同的态度。

4．How did Dunne encourage London passengers to talk with each other?

A．By putting up posters on the Tube.

B．By advocating his idea on the media.

C．By offering passengers special badges.

D．By starting a dialogue with passengers.

C 解析：细节理解题。根据第二段的“who has started a worldwide dialogue after

giving out badges(徽章)with the words‘Tube chat？’”可知，Dunne给乘客们分发写着“Tube chat？”的徽章来鼓励乘客聊天，故C项正确。