Unit 4课时跟踪练(一) Warming Up & Reading — Pre-reading
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the storyline centers around three main characters: Eliza Doolittle, Professor Henry Higgins, and Colonel Pickering.Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl who is under the instruction of Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering to learn proper grammar and phonetics.Eliza can be characterized as a very sensitive and emotional person.She seeks to be treated like a duchess by men.Her personality clashes (冲突) with the
personality of Professor Higgins in an extreme way.Professor Higgins is an arrogant (傲慢的), work-obsessed expert in phonetics who views Eliza simply as an experiment.He is a bachelor who has never found a place for women in his life due to his obsession (痴迷) with language.Colonel Pickering is a gentleman from India who is also an expert in language.He is gentler than Higgins and treats Eliza with respect while maintaining a professional interest in her.These three characters make up the main action of the play as Eliza learns speech of the upper class from them.She manages to pass herself off as a Hungarian princess at a formal party.This achievement makes Eliza give_credence_to_the efforts of Higgins and Pickering.After experiencing life in the upper class, Eliza settles for a lower-class life with a man who loves her for who she is and wants to marry her.After some small and unimportant disputes.Eliza and Higgins remain friends later.Other memorable characters include Mrs.Higgins who maintains an authoritative (权威的) figure over her grown son and Mr.Doolittle who rises from a dustman to a respected speaker in the community.
I think that this is a good book because it shows that happiness can be achieved without wealth and fame.I highly recommend it due to its emphasis on grammatical and phonetic correctness.
语篇解读：本文作者分析了《卖花女》中各人物之间的关系，谈到了自己阅读这本书的体会，并向读者推荐这本书。
1．Eliza learns speech of the upper class because ________. A．she wants to do an experiment B．she wants to marry a gentleman C．she has to play a princess at a party D．she wants to be treated respectfully
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据第一段“She seeks to be treated like a duchess by men.”可知，伊莱扎·杜利特尔想让人们像对待公爵夫人那样对待她，也就是说她想让别人毕恭毕
敬地对待她。
2．The author highly recommends Pygmalion because it can teach people ________. A．to use and speak English in the right ways B．the right attitude towards life C．the ways to deal with different people D．the determination to succeed
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据最后一句“I highly recommend it due to its emphasis on grammatical and phonetic correctness.”可知，作者向人们推荐这本书的原因是它强调人们应该正确使用英语。
3．What does the underlined part “give credence to” in Paragraph 1 mean? A．Believe. C．Fancy.
B．Change. D．Obtain.
解析：选A 词义猜测题。根据上文可知，伊莱扎·杜利特尔想让人们像对待公爵夫人那样对待她，而通过希金斯教授和皮克林上校的努力后，她成功地冒充成了公爵夫人。由此可知，这次成功使伊莱扎·杜利特尔相信希金斯教授和皮克林上校的努力。
4．The passage is probably ________. A．a research paper C．a book report
B．a teaching plan D．a diary
解析：选C 推理判断题。作者首先分析了《卖花女》中各人物之间的关系，然后，谈到了自己阅读这本书的体会，并向读者推荐这本书，因此这篇文章可能是一篇读书报告。
B
God's Hotel Victoria Sweet
When Sweet applied for a job at one of the country's last almshouses (救济院), she had no idea she would stay there for 20 years, taking care of patients no other organization wanted while defending the hospital from those who consider it unnecessary.By recording her own experiences, Sweet's book takes a hard look at healthcare problems while raising questions about the true role of doctors in our society.
Gold Chris Cleave
It's about three best friends and fierce competitors in Olympic-level cycling.Zoe, Kate, and Jack are splendid athletes, but when their feet are on the ground, they're just like the rest of us: pretty much a mess.Gold discusses both excellent athletics and everyday life in depth.
What Dies in Summer Tom Wright
Texas teenager Jim and his family find Lee Ann, Jim's cousin, half-frozen at their door one day, unwilling to say a word about why she left home.What none of them know is that by taking her in, they've put themselves in a killer's path.This book is filled with an atmosphere of terror.
The Newlyweds Nell Freudenberger
It's hard to imagine two worlds more different than Rochester, N．Y.and Bangladesh, a country in South Asia.So we know there's culture shock coming when, after a sweet online courtship (恋爱期), George Stillman travels to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, to bring Amina Mazid back to his hometown.This novel examines love and family — and the enormous different meanings two people can attach to those seemingly simple words.
语篇解读：本文是应用文。文章是四本书的简介。
5．God's Hotel differs from the other three books in that ________. A．it has a happy ending B．it is written by a teenager
C．the author has written about her own life D．the author finished it with her family's help
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据第一段中的“By recording her own experiences, Sweet's book ...”可知，God's Hotel是一本自传。再结合另外三本书的作者及书中主人公的介绍可知，这三本书的主人公都不是作者本人。
6．What do we know about the main characters of Gold? A．They have won Olympic gold medals. B．They take part in team competitions. C．They are strong and handsome. D．They are very good friends.
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“It's about three best friends”可知答案。 7．Who mainly deals with affection in his or her book? A．Tom Wright. C．Victoria Sweet.
B．Chris Cleave. D．Nell Freudenberger.
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“a sweet online courtship”及“This novel examines love and family”可知，最后一本书描述了爱和家庭，是有关情感方面的，其作者是Nell Freudenberger。
C
Boy In The Tower by Polly Ho-Yen is a story of fear and hope, loneliness and friendship.Ade and his mother live right at the top of a tower block.It can get a bit lonely up there, but Ade loves to spend hours sitting at the window watching the whole city unfold down below.
Things are pretty quiet in the flat since his mother fell ill.She has stopped cooking meals and doing the housework and singing the songs she always used to sing.In fact, these days she hardly gets out of bed.Ade doesn't know what to do, so he watches the world outside.But suddenly that starts to change.
One day, one of the other tower blocks crashes to the ground and Ade watches the disorder with disbelief.Have some of his school friends died in the disaster? Is his best friend Gaia still alive？Then another building falls down and then another.The world around Ade's tower block is disintegrating under his very eyes. And then huge plants start to spring up and grow at an alarming rate.Where have they come from? It looks like the plants are pulling the buildings down and they are preventing the emergency services from helping people.
Is this only happening in the area where Ade lives? The residents (居民) are deserting the tower blocks, and soon Ade is stuck in his flat because he can't leave his mother.Who or what can rescue him?
Ho-Yen has written a thrilling story with Boy In The Tower, but the most successful part is the narrative (叙述的) voice of the boy at the centre of the story.He doesn't understand what is going on around him and this adds a fascinating dimension to the plot that moves the novel along.
Taking place in an urban environment that many of the novel's readers will immediately identify with, Ho-Yen's first novel is an interesting read about an ordinary boy facing a tough struggle to survive.
语篇解读：本文是议论文。文章对小说Boy In The Tower作了内容概述和评论。 8．What do we know about Ade? A．He lives in a noisy tower block. B．He tries to help his mother recover. C．He often helps his mother with housework.
D．He likes seeing the world outside through the window.
解析：选D 细节理解题。由第一段中的“Ade loves to spend hours sitting at the window watching the whole city unfold down below”可知，Ade喜欢看窗外的风景。
9．What does the underlined word “disintegrating” in Paragraph 3 probably mean? A．Showing up.
B．Breaking up.
C．Moving away. D．Coming back.
解析：选B 词义猜测题。由第三段中的“crashes to the ground”和“falls down”可知，此处指Ade周围的高楼一栋接着一栋坍塌，他周围的世界破碎了。
10．The plants mentioned in the book are ________. A．poisonous C．violent
B．delicate D．beautiful
解析：选C 推理判断题。由第四段中的“huge plants start to spring up and grow at an alarming rate”和“the plants are pulling the buildings down and they are preventing the emergency services from helping people”可知，这些巨大的植物摧毁了高楼，并阻止救援队救助人们，由此可推断，这些植物非常凶猛。
11．It can be inferred that Boy In The Tower is ________. A．a personal diary B．a detective story C．a science textbook D．a science-fiction novel
解析：选D 推理判断题。由文中提到奇怪的植物在楼宇坍塌的瞬间突然出现并摧毁楼宇以及倒数第二段中的novel一词可知，该书是一部科幻小说。
Ⅱ.阅读七选五
How to Stay Positive No Matter What Happens
No matter what happens, you can stay positive by following a few simple steps.
__1__ If you have something to look forward to that motivates you and makes you feel needed, your self-esteem will skyrocket.Pick one or two activities, such as doing volunteer work or teaching your favorite lessons to others, and promise to do it on a regular basis.
Pick a goal that is important to you and reach for it.Create a structured schedule that leads you to a goal that is important to you.Make it something you are passionate about and enjoy talking about.__2__ Keep away from negative people.If certain people always make you down, minimize your time around them.__3__ If you don't have a strong social structure, then start taking part in some activities you enjoy so that you can meet people with similar interests.
Build close connections with family and friends.Reach out and keep in touch with people you are close to.__4__ Go for walks.Call old friends.Fill your life with the small important things that keep your spirits up.
__5__ A lot of us spend time struggling to achieve our goals that don't suit us and aren't meaningful to us.If you get stuck in a job or relationship that doesn't work for you, do something about it.Don't stay in the situations that add to your stress and anxiety levels.
A．Do what works for you.
B．Deal with negative situations positively. C．You can stay positive by living a regular life.
D．Stay positive by filling your life with meaningful activities.
E．Working towards something every day will add positivity to your life. F．Go out of your way to spend time on fun activities that you can do together. G．Surround yourself with people who lift you up and give you encouragement. 语篇解读：本文是说明文，介绍如何保持积极乐观的心态。
1．选D 根据本段后两句中的说明和举例可以概括出本段的主旨，即要让生活充满有意义的活动以保持积极乐观的心态，故选D。
2．选E 选项中的“Working towards something”与上一句中的it都指的是奋斗目标，与本段的首句相对应，故选E。
3．选G 本选项中的“lift you up”与上一句中的“make you down”相对应，两句构成相对应的关系，说明要远离让你情绪低落的人，多和鼓励你的人在一起，故选G。
4．选F 本选项承接上一句来说明如何和周围的人建立联系，选项与后两句之间构成平行并列关系，故选F。
5．选A 本段主要讲不要做那些对你毫无意义的事，即要做那些你能做好并对你有益的事，故选A。
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