高中英語選擇性必修一 5.4 Reading for writingUsing language 2 練習(xí)（原題版）

1、2020-2021學(xué)年高中英語新教材同步備課（人教版選擇性必修第一冊）第五單元Working the land第四課時Reading for Writing課后練習(xí)（原題版） 第一部分 閱讀(共兩節(jié)，滿分50分)第一節(jié) (共15小題：每小題分，滿分37.5分)閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中選出最佳選項。AIm about to begin my fifth season of tree planting. Each year, around this time, I have mixed feelings about the job. Never have I loved

2、a job so much while hating it with equal measure. Before a season, after living in the coziness of my home for the winter months, I begin to romanticize and desire the challenges of life in the bush.I mainly plant trees on the coast of British Columbia and get paid between 25 and 45 cents a tree. Th

3、e job can be profitable: It gives planters the opportunity to lead a roaming lifestyle, with a temporary obligation to spend a few months filling their bank accounts. But there are many challenges.In the early hours of the morning, we join our teams and travel along rough roads deep into the woodlan

4、ds. During the ride, we prepare ourselves for the difficult challenges that lay ahead.When stepping out of the trucks, often in the pouring rain, were faced with a steep chunk (塊) of land thats just been logged (砍伐). I step into the rain and fill my bags with hundreds of tiny trees. The conversation

5、s with my team become strategic with a few jokes to boost the mood. Seasoned tree-planters treat this more like a sport than a job, and competition fills the air.Once our bags are full, we suppress (抑制) any reluctance and charge up that hillside. We jump from log to log, and if they roll out from un

6、der our feet, we catch onto branches or anything within reach and swing (搖擺) around like monkeys. We push through stinging bushes. We stumble (跌跌撞撞) and fall constantly, always pushing ourselves to go faster among groups of insects that we often breathe in.While tree planting, I am confronted with s

7、omeone else; a self I thought I knew. It is a person I try to come to peace with on those hillsides, during those strange days of isolation and deep thinking.Tree planting is a laboratory of self-examination and growth. You master your mind, confronting the worst and the best in your nature, pushing

8、 yourself as hard as you can. A new version of yourself awaits at the end of the experience.What can we know from the first two paragraphs?A. Tree planters can make a fortune from the job.B. The author is mainly addicted to the roaming lifestyle.C. Tree planting is a bittersweet job to the author.D.

9、 The job is by no means tough to the author.What do we know about tree planting?A. Helping teammates is a very important part of the job.B. The planters rarely talk to one another.C. Planters enjoy climbing the hillside.D. Planters are confronted with challenging conditions.According to the author,

10、what is the main advantage of tree planting?A. It promotes harmony with nature.B. It enables one to explore a new self.C. It benefits your physical well-being.D. It expands ones social network.BManyyoung people are getting creative when it comes to incorporating (包含) their personal interests into th

11、eir professions. Yi Cheng used to be an engineer at a State-owned company. In 2013, he changed his career path and became a scenario (場景) designer of escape room games, where one has to find secret clues and passwords within physical spaces in order to gain entry into the next room. It is a new ente

12、rtainment activity for thrill seekers in China and has attracted a large number of young consumers.Later, he founded his own escape room company Second World. Now, the brand has eight sites nationwide with stable revenue (收益). His favorite challenge is to design different suspenseful (懸疑的) scenes an

13、d passwords for entry to the various secret rooms.During the May Day holiday break, spending on new types of entertainment increased rapidly. Booking volumes (量) for escape room games in Shanghaisurged264 percent over the pr-holiday level, according to Meituan Dianping, an online consumption service

14、 provider.In recent years, those born in the 1980s and 1990s have taken up 90 percent of the new jobs in Chinas emerging services sector. The development of the internet economy, which refers to an economy that is based on the use of digital technologies to conduct business via the world wide web, i

15、s also broadening the ambitions and horizons of many young entrepreneurs (創(chuàng)業(yè)者) in China.One such entrepreneur is Ke Xuan, who turned her passion for design into a career. Noticing the rise of hanfu among young Chinese women, she took a class centered around hanfu hairstyles, makeup and clothing, and

16、 became a full-time stylist in 2018 an industry worth over $141 million (1.09 billion yuan).“My goal is that more people will be able to accept the traditional culture of hanfu. Sometimes I even wear it when I travel abroad. This shows the confidence of our culture,” she said.Other groups of new pro

17、fessions, such as online restaurant decorators, pet photographers, and owners of bed-and-breakfast homestays, have sprung up (出現(xiàn)) alongside burgeoning (迅速發(fā)展的) industries and digital transformations in China.Internet-based recruiting (雇傭) platform Meituan Dianping attributes this rise to the increase

18、d demand for personalization. Their report said, “The stereotype (刻板印象) of low education, low skills and low income that were associated with those in the service industry is being transformed in new ways.”So, when considering what classes to take or what major to choose, remember the most lucrative

19、 (獲利多的) and fun career could be based on your interests.Why is Yi Chengs change in career path mentioned in the text?A. To praise his entrepreneurship.B. To encourage reader to choose careers carefully.C. To show a growing trend among young peoples career choices.D. To prove escape room games are ve

20、ry popular.What does the underlined word “surged” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. increased sharply B. remained steadyC. reduced quickly D. developed slowlyWhich is true about Ke Xuan?A. She is passionate about design.B. She is dreamed of traveling abroad.C. She taught herself to be a stylist.D. She started

21、an international business.What has led to the rise of various new professions, according to Meituan Dianping?A. The lower requirements for these professions.B. The fun associated with these professions.C. The growth of personalized needs.D. The pursuit of a different lifestyle.CWhy do mosquitoes buz

22、z (嗡嗡叫) in your ears? They cant help it. Mosquitoes wings make that annoying buzz whenever they fly.Both male and female mosquitoes buzz, but you probably wont notice the noise of the males, because they dont desire your blood. They stay away from your ears, eating nectar (花蜜), while the females com

23、e to annoy you.Scientists have discovered that buzzing is to help mosquitoes find suitable mates. Since female mosquitoes are larger, they move their wings more slowly. Males can recognize the distinctive pitch (音高) of the females buzz. Louis M. Roth, who studied yellow fever mosquitoes for the US A

24、rmy during World War II, noticed that males ignored females whenever the females were quietly resting, but when the females were flying, and therefore buzzing, the males wanted to mate (交配) with them. The males even reacted to recordings of female mosquitoes.Scientists discovered what made the sound

25、. Its not actually caused by the wings flapping. Theres an organ at the base of the wings that makes the sound when the wings move.It wasnt until more recently that researchers Gabriella Gibson and Ian Russell discovered that mosquitoes actually change their buzz to “sing” to each other before they

26、mate. When males and females fly nearby, they change the pitch of their buzz to match each other, and if they match well enough, they mate.As scientists learn more about why mosquitoes buzz, they can possibly keep them from mating. Fewer mosquitoes mean fewer mosquito bites, and fewer diseases being

27、 spread. Researcher Lauren Cator suggests that if scientists can make sterile (不生育的) male mosquitoes who “sing” to females just as well as fertile males, the females will choose the sterile males, and wont produce fertile eggs.There are also some myths about the mosquitoes you hear buzzing in your e

28、ars. Some people say that mosquitoes that buzz, dont bite. Indeed, as long as theyre buzzing, theyre flying, so they wont bite you. But once they land, look out.According to the text, people seldom notice male mosquitoes when they buzz because _.A. their buzz is too low to be noticedB. they dont buz

29、z when they biteC. they avoid humans and feed on nectarD. they prefer to stay in the darkWhat did Louis M. Roth discover from his research?A. Male mosquitoes move their wings slower.B. Quiet female mosquitoes are more attractive to males.C. A mosquitos wing beat is responsible for its buzz.D. Male m

30、osquitoes are attracted by a females buzz.Before mosquitoes mate, they _.A. buzz at a high pitch to each other B. change and match their buzzC. dance with each other in mid air D. fly in opposite directionsLauren Cator hopes the research on the buzz of mosquitoes can help people _.A. cure some deadl

31、y diseasesB. control the mosquito populationC. tell different mosquito species apartD. change the way mosquitoes communicateDEach year around Tomb Sweeping Day, or Qingming Festival, villagers busy themselves picking leaves at tea gardens in southern China.You may have already known this tea traditi

32、on, because tea is Chinas favorite drink. You may be surprised, however, that the UK also has tea traditions.The UK has been in love with tea since the 17th century, when merchants first brought it to the country. Its popularity has never waned (減少). According to the Tea and Infusions Organization,

33、the average British person drinks more than 900 cups a year.In demographic (人口特性的) terms, Britain is quite varied. There are significant differences between people according to region, ethnicity (種族) and age. But a very basic difference social difference is reflected in the ways that people drink te

34、a.When people think of the UK and tea, they generally have an image of the upper class in their heads. They imagine finely dressed ladies and gentlemen, sitting down with tiny sandwiches, drinking from delicate porcelain (瓷器) cups, with their pinkie fingers raised.This is known as “afternoon tea”. I

35、t definitely (絕對地) happens, but it only involves a small minority of the nations people. Most tea is drunk by the working population. These people enjoy tea at their jobs, not while they are at their leisure.Nor do they drink the same kind of tea as the ladies and gentlemen in the posh (豪華的) hotels.

36、 Manual workers (體力勞動者) drink what is known as “builders tea”. The tea bag is left to “stew (燜)” in the mug (not cup) for a long time. It will usually be heavily sweetened, perhaps because sugar is a source of energy and people at work always need energy.There are many British tea traditions. “After

37、noon tea” and “builders tea” are only two ways that British people enjoy tea. No matter what kind of tea people drink, nor where people drink it, all tea-drinking in the UK has a kind of ritual (儀式的) significance.Almost all British people would agree that tea is the first part of solving a problem.

38、When trouble arises, someone will invariably say, “Lets put the kettle on.” Nothing looks bad when you have a warm cup or mug of tea in your hands. As English actor Arthur Wing Pinero put it, “Where theres tea, theres hope.”What do we know about tea drinking in the UK?A. Its history dates back to th

39、e 18th century.B. British people enjoy tea in different ways.C. Afternoon tea is gaining popularity in the country.D. An average British person drinks a cup of tea every day.What is builders tea?A. It is a delicate tea for people at leisure.B. It is a sweet tea drunk at dinner for energy.C. It is ma

40、de by workers and served in posh hotels.D. Its a type of tea commonly drunk by workers at their jobs.Arthur Wing Pineros words are mentioned to _.A. express his great love for teaB. show British tea has a long historyC. stress that drinking tea makes people work harderD. show that drinking tea has s

41、pecial meaning to British peopleWhat is the text mainly about?A. Tea drinking culture in the UK.B. The difference between Chinese tea and British tea.C. How tea drinking influences the lives of British people.D. British tea traditions among different social classes. 第二節(jié)(共5小題；每小題分，滿分12.5分)閱讀下面短文，從短文后

42、的選項中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。Art, to many, is a kind of human expression of creativity. But in recent years, you may have read news about artificial intelligence (AI) creating its own art, such as painting or writing poems. Some people worry that AI might someday replace artists.1. _ Many artists

43、today are turning AI into a useful tool. Instead of replacing artists, AI is bringing artists more possibilities.A piece of music created by AI recently attracted attention. AI was used to turn the novel coronavirus into a piece of nearly two-hour long music based on its protein structure. The proje

44、ct was led by Markus Buehler, an American musician and MIT professor of engineering. He assigned (指定) a unique note to each amino acid (氨基酸) in the protein. 2. _Listeners found the project to be “mind-blowing”. “It allows me to see the virus from a new angle,” said one listener. 3. _ As The Verge wr

45、ote, “AI helps artists play around in unpredictable ways, creating things beyond what they have ever thought was possible before.”4. _ For example, in the comic and animation industries, there are now AI tools that can automatically (自動地) color in black-and-white line drawings. Although the results

46、can be unpredictable and require a little cleanup, it “could give artists room to experiment, by cutting down the time it takes to color each frame (畫面)”, said Joao Do Lago, animator of Netflixs Castlevania.As Peter Ward wrote for The Culture Trip, art of every kind has always been influenced by tec

47、hnological breakthroughs. 5. _ if its welcomed and not unjustly feared.A. The AI then translated these notes into music.B. AI can become a useful tool to bring change to the art world.C. AI has become an important part of our everyday life.D. But this worry seems to be unnecessary, at least for now.

48、E. Besides the music industry, AI has entered the world of poetry as well.F. Apart from co-creating imaginative works, AI can also take care of repetitive tasks for artists.G. This surprising marriage between science and art could not be achieved without AI.第二部分 寫作(共兩節(jié)，滿分40分)第一節(jié)（滿分15分）假如你是李華， 你向英國朋友Jim介紹對有機(jī)農(nóng)業(yè)的了解(organic farming),請你據(jù)此給Jim寫一封郵件，開頭和結(jié)尾已經(jīng)給出，不計入詞數(shù)。字?jǐn)?shù)不少以100你更傾向于有機(jī)農(nóng)業(yè)，至少說明三點原因希望Jim能回信告訴你英國的有機(jī)農(nóng)業(yè)的情況及他的看法自行腦補.Dear JimGlad to hear from you._ Hope to hear from you as soon as possible. YoursLi Hua第二節(jié)(滿分25分)閱讀下面材料，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容和所給段落開頭語續(xù)寫兩段，使之構(gòu)成一篇完整的短文。續(xù)寫的詞