2020高中英语 Unit 1 Women of achievement Period 4课后阅读作业 新人教版必修4

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课后阅读作业 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A Queen Victoria was monarch of Great Britain from 1837 until her death in 1901. This period is often called the Victorian Age. Queen Victoria was a stern and serious woman. One reason she was so serious was that she had suffered a great loss. When she was twenty years old, she married a German prince named Albert. Victoria and Albert were deeply in love, and their marriage was extremely happy. In 1861, after they had been married for twenty-one years, Albert died, leaving Queen Victoria heartbroken. For the rest of her life, the lonely Victoria mourned his loss. It was customary in those days for a widow to dress in black for a short time after the death of her husband. But Queen Victoria dressed in black for forty years. And for forty years, as another sign of her grief, she wrote her letters on white paper edged in black. Even before Prince Albert died, Queen Victoria was known as a very serious woman. She had a strong sense of duty and worked very hard at all her tasks. In her diary she wrote, “I love to be employed; I hate to be idle. ”She never forgot that she was Britain’s queen and always acted with great dignity(尊严). Victoria had high ideals and moral standards(道德标准)that sometimes made her seem stuffy(古板的). She was also very sure of herself. She always thought that she was right, and expected everyone to agree with her. 【语篇概述】本文主要讲述了维多利亚女王的故事。 1. Which of the following statements about Queen Victoria is NOT true according to the passage? A. She had great confidence in herself. B. She ruled Great Britain for sixty-four years. C. She enjoyed her marriage to a German prince. D. She became a serious woman after her beloved husband died. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第三段第一句“Even before Prince Albert died, Queen Victoria was known as a very serious woman. ”可知在她丈夫死前她就是一个很严肃的人。 2. Queen Victoria wrote her letters on white paper edged in black because______. 精品试卷 精品试卷 A. she was a stern woman

B. black was her favourite colour C. that was one way to show her feeling of sadness D. it was a custom among monarchs of Great Britain 【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句“And for forty years, as another sign of her grief, she wrote her letters on white paper edged in black. ”可知, 她用镶有黑边的纸写信表示她对丈夫的哀悼和怀念。 3. All of the following characteristics EXCEPT______ can be used to properly describe Queen Victoria. A. confident B. lonesome C. workaholic D. indecisive 【解析】选D。推理判断题。第二段第六句“For the rest of her life, the lonely Victoria mourned his loss. ”说明她孤独; 第三段第二句“She had a strong sense of duty and worked very hard at all her tasks. ”说明她工作很努力; 第四段第一句“She was also very sure of herself. ”说明她很自信。只有D项没有涉及。 4. The underlined word“mourned”in the second paragraph means______. A. felt sad or sorrowful in a social situation B. expressed publicly one’s sadness because someone has died C. checked regularly in order to find out what was happening D. included in a group of numbers, ages, measurements with particular limits 【解析】选B。词义猜测题。从下文来看, 她丈夫死后, 女王一直穿黑衣服, 用镶有黑边的纸写信表示她对丈夫的哀悼和怀念, 由此可推断该词为“悼念; 哀悼”。 B I came to live here where I am now between Wounded Knee Greek and Grass Greek. Others came too, and we made these little grey houses of logs that you see, and they are square, It is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square. You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the respectful circle of the nation, and so long as the circle was unbroken, the people were getting rich. The flowering tree was the living center of the circle, and the circle of the four quarters nursed it. The east gave peace and light, the south 精品试卷 精品试卷 gave warmth, the west gave rain, and the north with its cold and strong wind gave strength and continuous

power. This knowledge came to us from the outer world with our brief. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. Birds make their nests in circle, for theirs are the same as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our places were like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation’s circle, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to nurse our children. But the Wasichus(Indian word for“white people”)have put us in these square boxes. Our power is gone and we are dying, for the power is not in us any more. You can look at our boys and see how it is with us. Where we were living by the power of the circle in the way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of age. But now it takes them very much longer to be bull-grown. 【语篇概述】本文描述了一名印第安人认为自己的民族被白人从领地赶到方形房子之后, 以前生活中的种种祥和就此消失了。 5. According to the passage, the Indians______. A. don’t have modern instruments in their homes B. refused to move from round places C. lived in round places, but were forced to live in square houses D. lived in round places, but then decided to move into square houses 【解析】选C。主旨大意题。阅读全文可知A、B、D不符合原文之意, 而答案C是本文大意的描述。 6. Two things being compared in the passage are______. A. the Indians’ past and present living conditions B. the Indians’ past and modern beliefs C. the Indians’ old and new power D. people and nature 【解析】选A。推理判断题。根据本文内容可知全篇作者都在把过去的祥和与现在的不如人意进行对比, 故选A。 7. In the second paragraph“the four quarters”refers to______. A. the four rooms of the Indian’s house B. the four kinds of natural power C. the four seasons