1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 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 wasnt forced on us either. He took Samuel Johnsons dictionary, Addisons essays, and m any other literary wonder
2、s from the eighteenth century and made them hilarious, even at eight oclock 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 his explanation, I couldnt believe that I hadnt seen the humor. The stor
3、ies, 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 si
4、x-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 others journals. Mine was passed to Joe, the class clown, who a
5、lways behaved in a funny or silly way. He saw it fit to make a joke of and said, “This writing i snt 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?
6、 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 .
7、 A.teaching B.literature C.humor D.knowledge 2.The underlined word “hilarious” in Paragraph 1 probably means . A.funny B.tiring C.inspiring D.brilliant 【 精品教育资源文库 】 3.With his favorite English teacher, the writer found it most amazing that . A.his teacher was very learned B.his teacher was very hum
8、orous C.the works by Johnson and Addison were very humorous D.few were able to find humor in works by Johnson and others 4.The English teacher the writer disliked most . A.was not able to make students laugh B.hurt his students feelings C.didnt let his students do the grading D.had no sense of humor
9、 B (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 schools 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 milli
10、on 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 its a great way to teach kids lif
11、elong fitness, especially those kids who arent interested in hockey, soccer or basketball,” said the teacher, Tracy Haraf from Illinois Stony Creek Elementary, which devotes half of its PE days to CrossFit exercises.“They think its tough, but I think they have a lot of fun doing it.” Senior Alexus W
12、iltz, 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
13、that involve lifting weights can lead to injuries, particularly when performed by few inexperienced people. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 Doctor Craig Finlayson at Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago said he was worried that while strength training is fine for kids, heavy weights could be trouble for teenagers who
14、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 other fitness routines. Gym teachers in Waukegans Greg Moisio, whose two-campus school has about 73% kids taking
15、CrossFit each day, also say the risk of injury can be reduced with proper teaching and CrossFits 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
16、 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 its effective. D.Most of them think its of no use. 7.What does th
17、e underlined word “workout” in Paragraph 5 refer to? A.The physical exercise. B.The basketball court. C.Wiltzs 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
18、. C.Kids may protect themselves if theyre trained properly. D.A great number of kids taking CrossFit lack flexibility. .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。 (2017 课标全国 ) 【 精品教育资源文库 】 There has been a recent trend in the food service industry toward lower fat content and less salt. This trend, w
19、hich was started by the medical community(医学界 ) 1 a method of fighting heart disease, has had some unintended side 2 (effect)such as overweight and heart diseasethe very thing the medical community was trying to fight. Fat and salt are very important parts of a diet. They are required 3 (process)the
20、 food that we eat, to recover from injury and for several other bodily functions. When fat and salt 4 (remove)from food, the food tastes as if it is missing something. As 5 result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing. Even 6 (bad), the amount of fast food that peop
21、le eat goes up. Fast food 7 (be)full of fat and salt;by 8 (eat)more fast food people will get more salt and fat than they need in their diet. Having enough fat and salt in your meals will reduce the urge to snack(吃点心 )between meals and will improve the taste of your food. However, be 9 (care)not to
22、go to extremes. Like anything, it is possible to have too much of both, 10 is not good for the health. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 答案精解精析 .阅读理解 A 语篇解读 本文讲述了不同的老师如何使自己的教学精彩、幽默 , 而不同的教学方式对学生产生了两种截然不同的影响。 1.C 主旨大意题。本文作者写了自己最喜欢的英语老师和最不喜欢的英语老师所表达的不同的幽默 , 一位让他很喜欢 , 一位让他不喜欢。故 C 正确。 2.A 词义猜
23、测题。根据第一段中的 after his explanation, I couldnt believe that I hadnt seen the humor 及这一段中多次出现其近义词 , 如 humor, amazed 等可知选 A。 3.C 细节理解题。根据第一段第四句可知在老师讲解后 , 发现这些著作中有很多幽默之处。 4.B 细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句 It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven my writing and teaching ever since. 可知作者很受伤。 B 语篇解读 为了应对青少 年的肥
24、胖问题 ,美国伊利诺斯州的一所中学推出了一项新的体育课程 CrossFit。 5.D 细节理解题。根据第三段中的 at a time of a rising weight problem among young people 可知 ,在这个青少年肥胖越来越严重的时刻 ,学校体育课推出这个项目是为了让学生减肥 ,所以答案为 D 项。 6.C 推理判断题。根据第三段中的 and most say it really works compared with traditional gym classes 可以推断出大多数学生 认为这种方法是很有效的。 7.A 词义猜测题。这项活动让他在篮球场上表现更好了 :速度更快、注意力更集中、防守更强了
