1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Unit 2 Sporting events 一、阅读理解。 Gregory Talley used to sleep in a park or under a bridge. The 50-year-old has been homeless for more than 10 years. “It is hard. Its hard to live homeless. You filled every day trying to find out where you are going to get something to eat. If I hadnt fou
2、nd wonderful Fairfax County Kennedy Shelter, I wouldnt know where I would be by now. I might be dead,“ Talley said. The Kennedy Shelter is one of the facilities New Hope Housing provides for homeless people. Pam Michell has devoted her life to making the lives of this vulnerable (易受伤的 )population be
3、tter as executive director of the non-profit organization. “I went to Africa in 1985. And I saw a huge amount of poverty, but I saw so much hope. And I decided that I should try to do something that would bring hope to people,“ Michell said. When Michell began working with New Hope Housing 25 years
4、ago, its three shelters had about 80 beds. Now, it has 350 beds and serves about 1,500 homeless people every year. She has expanded the program beyond just providing beds for the night. “We do outreach(拓展 ), we do prevention, we do permanent housing, we do transitional housing. We have an education
5、program with all sorts of different things to move people to end their homelessness,“ she said,“Our Out of Poverty program is not just about money. Its about you could be spiritually poor, you could be relationship poor . you could be educationally poor. So it is focusing on how you get out of this
6、poverty that has brought you to being homeless.“ The program tries to teach the shelter residents self-reliance (自立 ) and work values, and includes courses on planning and personal responsibility. “l learned I still have opportunities to change it and I can change it,“ said shelter resident Lewis We
7、bster. “It is just about going forth in doing necessary work to do it. I mean if you really want better, you would do better and thats the frame of mind 【 精品教育资源文库 】 of me now.“ 1. Gregory Talleys story is told at the beginning of the text to _ . A.tell readers the situation for the poor in the US
8、is getting worse B.introduce a non-profit organization that is trying to help the poor in the US C.disclose the truth that more and more homeless people are dying from hunger D.remind readers that the homeless people in the US have no trouble getting food 2. According to Paragraph 6. Pam Michell sta
9、rted to bring hope to the homeless by _ . A.providing clothes for them B.offering food for them C.building new houses for them D.offering them shelters for the night 3. What is the final purpose of the education program? A.To tell the homeless people the ways to make money. B.To help the homeless pe
10、ople find the causes of their poverty. C.To encourage the homeless to work and rely on themselves. D.To teach the poor how to live a better life in the shelters. 4. What may be the best title for the text? A.Comfort in the Kennedy Shelter B.Ways to achieve success C.An Opportunity to Fight Homelessn
11、ess D.An Organisation to End Homelessness 【 文章大意 】 文章介绍美国非营利组织 Fairfax County Kennedy Shelter 帮助无家可归者结束流浪生活。 1. B【解析】细节理解题。根据文章第二段的句子 “If I hadnt found wonderful Fairfax County Kennedy Shelter, I wouldn t know where I would be by now. I might be dead”可知，文章开头介绍 Gregory Talley 的故事是 为了介绍一个努力帮助穷人的美国非盈利组
12、织。故选 B。 2. D【解析】细节理解题。根据文章第六段的句子 “She has expanded the program beyond just 【 精品教育资源文库 】 providing beds for the night.” 可知， Pam Michell 一开始给无家可归的人提供夜晚的住宿，故选 D。 4. D【解析】标题判断题。根据文章和第三段的句子 “The Kennedy Shelter is one of the facilities New Hope Housing provides for homeless people.” 可知，文 章介绍美国非营利组织 Fair
13、fax County Kennedy Shelter 帮 助无家可归者结束流浪生活。故选 D。 二、词汇练习 1. 愉快的 a d_ 2. in honor of? 3. 现代的 a c_ 4. 奖牌 n 5. championship 6. hang on 7. 尝试 n&v 8. 居民 n 9. 谷物 n 10. frequent a 11. 预算 n 12. 去除 v 13. make way for 14. whistle 15. bitter 16. 与此同时 ad 17. tie 18. 宝贵的 a 19. _ against each other 【 精品教育资源文库 】 a
14、fierce _ a _ society (竞赛，竞赛者 ) All the _ have tried their best. 20. be _ from school （缺席） His _ from school made his teacher annoyed. 21. one s noble(高贵的 ) _ （起源） It is _ from an old African custom 22. be of great _ be very _ （重要） 23. the whole _ a _ campaign （全民，全民的） 24. win the gold medal in the _
15、 arrive here _ （决赛，终于） 25. make an _ He _ to do the job better.（尝试） 三、完形填空 Falling off a boxcar and landing on my head， I lost my sight when I was four years old.Now I am thirtytwo.I can _1_ remember the brightness of sunshine.It would be wonderful to see again， _2_ a tragedy can do strange things t
16、o people. It _3_ to me that I might not have come to love life as I do now if I hadnt been blind.My parents and my teacher saw something _4_ me， and they made me want to _5_ against blindness. The hardest _6_ I had to learn was to believe in myself.If I hadnt been able to do that， I would have _7_ d
17、own for the rest of my life.When I say _8_ in myself I am not talking about _9_ the kind of selfconfidence that _10_ me down an unfamiliar staircase(楼梯 )alone.But I mean something bigger than that： the assurance that I am a real positive person _11_ imperfections. It took me years to obtain this _12
18、_.It had to start with the _13_.Once a man gave me an indoor _14_.“I cant use this ， ”I said.“Take it with you ， ” he _15_ me， “and roll it around.”The _ 16_ stuck in my head.“Roll it around ！ ” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went.This gave me an idea how to achieve 【 精品教育资源文库 】 a goal I
19、 had thought _17_. At the School for the Blind I _18_ a new kind of baseball called the “ground ball” All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them， one at a time.I had to learn my _19_.I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made _20_. 1 A.randomly B abruptly C ro
20、ughly D completely 2 A.so B but C thus D and 3 A.occurred B referred C brought D turned 4 A.of B for C to D in 5 A.get B fight C find D drop 6 A.method B experience C lesson D manner 7 A.broken B put C settled D lay 8 A.courage B ambition C belief D power 9 A.firmly B simply C fairly D slightly 10 A
21、.stops B helps C finds D gives 11 A.despite B besides C without D unlike 12 A.description B existence C accusation D recognition 13 A.intelligence B incident C trouble D determination 14 A.chair B baseball C game D design 15 A.urged B blamed C greeted D teased 【 精品教育资源文库 】 16 A.goals B words C imag
22、es D ideas 17 A.valuable B reasonable C impossible D unbearable 18 A.discovered B equipped C formed D invented 19 A.limitations B advantages C puzzles D personalities 20 A.sense B progress C mistakes D decisions 【解题导语】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章主要讲述了 “ 我 ” 在四岁的时 候失去了视力，但通过一件小事， “ 我 ” 学会了自信，并逐渐取得进步的过程。 【核心词汇】 tragedy 悲剧 imperfection 缺点 on the average 一般来
