1、课时作业(一)Unit 1Section Starting out & Understanding ideas.阅读理解AHave you ever made your life look a little more charming than it actually is by posting truths on social media? If so, you may be damaging your mental health.The posts we make on social media platforms allow us to look back and see what we
2、 did on a given day. But what happens when, in an effort to impress our online friends, photos and videos we post become beautified versions of the things we did?A young girl named Sophia went out to a romantic anniversary dinner with her boyfriend, had a near relationshipending fight during dessert
3、, then came home and posted, “Had the best time out with the love of my life！”even with a photo of the meal. No surprise, but according to a new study, Sophia was by no means unique. Twothirds of users admit lying about their lives on social media with 20 percent of young people between the ages of
4、18 and 24 stating that they edit their own stories by frequently lying about relationships and promotions.By beautifying our online stories, we are harming our memories. We start believing the stories we tell rather than remembering what really happened. Soon, the real experience is lost and all tha
5、t remains is the beautified version of history.Scientists fear that these edited stories will end up changing our memories. Its well confirmed through research that our own memories are often unreliable and can be easily controlled. Writing down ones life in the form of a journal, or even on social
6、media can help us keep our memories undamaged, but only if we tell the truth. So recording our experiences through whatever medium, to later recall lessons we learned, is not only acceptable but desirable. In fact, looking back at our own pasthowever embarrassing or uncomfortableis not just healthy
7、but can be enjoyable.1Why did Sophia post her story with a photo of the meal?ATo make her post attractive.BTo show her photography skill.CTo convince others of her story.DTo show how enjoyable the meal was.2In what kind of tone did the writer write the text?AEncouraging. BCritical.CHumorous. DEnthus
8、iastic.3The last paragraph implies that many people dont realise _.Arecalling the unpleasant past can also be enjoyableBwriting down our life on social media does no good to usCrecording experiences through media is unacceptableDrecording our experiences through media is beneficial4What lesson can b
9、e drawn from the text?ALeaving others a good impression is desirable.BEditing our online stories weakens our memory.CPosting our experiences on social media is risky.DBeautifying our history ends up hurting ourselves.BCan you be too beautiful? It is hardly a problem that most of us have to botheras
10、much as we might like to dream that it were the case.Yet the blessings and curses of beauty have been a longstanding interest in psychology. Do those blessed with shiny faces and an attractive body live in a cloud of appreciationor does it sometimes pay to be ordinary?At the most basic level, beauty
11、 might be thought to carry a kind of halo (光环) around it; we see that someone has one good quality, and by association, our deep mind may assume that they have other good ones too.Even in the courts, a pleasing appearance can work its magic. Attractive criminals are likely to get less strict sentenc
12、es, or to escape punishment entirely; attractive plaintiffs (原告), meanwhile, are more likely to win their case and get bigger financial settlements. “Its an effect seen everywhere，” says Walker, a social psychologist.But if beauty pays in most circumstances, there are still situations where it can h
13、ave opposite results. While attractive men may be considered better leaders, for instance, hidden sexist prejudices (偏见) can work against attractive women, making them less likely to be hired for highlevel jobs that require power. And as you might expect, goodlooking people of both sexes run into en
14、vyone study found that if you are interviewed by someone of the same sex, they may be less likely to employ you if they judge that you are more attractive than they are.More worryingly, being beautiful or handsome could harm your medical care. We tend to link good looks to health, meaning that illne
15、sses are often taken less seriously when they affect the goodlooking. When treating people for pain, for instance, doctors tend to take less care over the more attractive people.Ultimately, scientists point out that focusing too much on your appearance can itself be harmful if it creates stress and
16、anxietyeven for those already blessed with good looks. “If you are crazy about attractiveness, it may affect your experience and interactions，” a scientist says. Its an outdated saying, but no amount of beauty can make up for a bad personality. As the writer Dorothy Parker put it so elegantly: “Beau
17、ty_is_only_skin_deep,_but_ugly_goes_clean_to_the_bone.”5From Paragraph 1, we can learn that _.Asome may be bothered by their unattractive appearanceBmost people are not afraid of being too beautifulCwe might always dream about being bothered by othersDbeing too beautiful can be a problem bothering e
18、veryone6Which is the benefit for beautiful people?AAll attractive plaintiffs have more chances to get away with punishment.BWomen with pleasing appearance will always be considered as better leaders.CGoodlooking people are often regarded as having many good qualities.DBeautiful criminals are more li
19、kely to persuade the judge and win the case.7The writer mentioned the underlined sentence in the last paragraph to _.Aencourage us to focus more on improving our personalityBsuggest that beauty can help make a better personalityCpersuade us to pay more attention to our looks from now onDask ugly peo
20、ple to have more confidence in their personality8What might be the best title for the passage?ABenefit Beauty Holds BSexist PrejudiceCReal Beauty DBeauty, a Blessing？.完形填空Sometimes people around you can change your values. My elder brother Steve, in the _1_ of my father who died when I was six, gave
21、 me important lessons in _2_ that help me grow into an adult.Once when I returned in tears from a baseball game, it was Steve who took his time to _3_ me what had happened. When I explained that my baseball had _4_ through Mrs. Holts basement window, breaking the glass, Steve encouraged me to admit
22、to her. After all, I should have played in the park but not in the path _5_ buildings. Although my legs trembled as I stood explaining, I offered to _6_ the window if she would return my ball.I also learnt that personal property is a(n) _7_ thing. After I found my teachers shiny silver pen in my fif
23、thgrade classroom, I wanted to keep it, but Steve explained that it might be important to someone else _8_ the fact that it had little value. He reminded me of how much Id hate to lose to someone else the small dog my father _9_ from a piece of cheap wood. I _10_ the pen to my teacher, and still rem
24、ember the smell of her perfume (香水) as she patted me on my shoulder.Yet of all the lessons Steve gave me, his respect for life is the most _11_ in my mind. At twelve I killed a sparrow with a catapult (弹弓). Excited with my _12_， I screamed to Steve to take a look. I shall never forget the way he sto
25、od for a long moment and _13_ the bird on the ground. Then in a dead, quiet voice, he asked, “Did it hurt you first, Mark？” I didnt know what to answer. He continued with his eyes _14_， “The only reason why you think of hurting a living thing is that it hurts you first.” I really felt terrible then,
26、 but that moment _15_ as the most important lesson my brother has taught me.,1A.absence Binfluence Cpresence Dappearance2A.personalities Bbeliefs Cimpressions Dvalues3A.remind Breply Cask Dsuggest4A.dashed Brocketed Cswelled Dpaced5A.beneath Babove Cin Dbetween6A.pay for Bbreak down Caccount for Dpu
27、ll through7A.authentic Bsacred Cmagical Dspecific8A.in advance Binstead of Con account of Din spite of9A.produced Bshaped Cpurchased Dcarved10A.handed Bdelivered Creturned Dshowed11A.vivid Bcasual Ctemporary Daccessible12A.prediction Bintelligence Caccuracy Dexpectation13A.stared at Bpicked up Cglar
28、ed at Dcaught sight of14A.blank Bshut Cfirm Dwide15A.passes by Bstands out Ccrowds in Dfades away课时作业(一).阅读理解A【语篇解读】本文是一篇科普文。文章主要说明在社交媒体上美化自己的故事会损害我们的健康，因为如此无异于在撒谎，欺骗别人就是欺骗自己，最终自己免不了受伤。1答案与解析：C细节理解题。根据第三段中的“even with a photo of the meal”和第二段中的“in an effort to impress our online friends”可知Sophia发帖时配上
29、吃饭的照片目的就是要使别人信服她的故事。故选C项。2答案与解析：B推理判断题。从第一段中的“If so, you may be damaging your mental health.”和第四段中的“By beautifying our online stories, we are harming our memories.”以及最后一段中的“but only if we tell the truth”可知作者对美化我们的网络故事持批判的观点，故而文章的笔调是批判性的。故选B项。3答案与解析：A推理判断题。从本段最后一句话“In fact, looking back at our own pa
30、sthowever embarrassing or uncomfortableis not just healthy but can be enjoyable.”尤其是这句话里的In fact可推断出应选A项。in fact在句中起强调的作用，作者强调回忆不愉快的过往也可能是令人愉悦的暗示，人们大多没有意识到这一点。故选A项。4答案与解析：D主旨大意题。全文主要说明在社交媒体上美化自己的故事会损害我们的健康，因为如此无异于在撒谎，欺骗别人就是欺骗自己，最终自己免不了受伤，故选D项。B【语篇解读】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了美貌带给人们许多不利，科学家指出，过分关注自己的外表本身是有害的。同
31、时再多的美丽也弥补不了一个不良性格的缺陷，所以关键在于提高自己本身的素质。5答案与解析：B细节理解题。根据第一段中“Can you be too beautiful? It is hardly a problem that most of us have to botheras much as we might like to dream that it were the case.”可知，大部分人不担心变得太过美丽，故选B项。6答案与解析：C细节理解题。根据第三段可知，外表美丽的人往往被视为具有许多优秀品质。故选C项。7答案与解析：A推理判断题。根据上文“Its an outdated sa
32、ying, but no amount of beauty can make up for a bad personality.”可知，画线句子是承接上文继续说明，可推断通过最后一段画线句子，作者想要鼓励人们提高自己的个性品质。故选A项。8答案与解析：D主旨大意题。根据第二段中“Yet the blessings and curses of beauty have been a longstanding interest in psychology.”以及文章主要内容介绍了美丽的不利方面，故D项“美丽，是一种祝福吗？”概括全文内容，适合作文章标题。故选D项。.完形填空【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙
33、文。文章讲述作者六岁时父亲去世，哥哥史蒂夫一路陪伴并帮助作者成长，哥哥教给作者许多东西，帮助他树立了正确的价值观。1答案与解析：A根据下文“my father who died when I was six”可知，父亲去世了，即不在了(absence)。故选A项。2答案与解析：D根据上文“Sometimes people around you can change your values.”中的提示可知，D项符合题意。3答案与解析：C根据下文“When I explained that.”可知，作者在向哥哥解释，故此处意为“史蒂夫慢慢地问我发生了什么事”，C项符合语境。4答案与解析：B根据下文
34、“breaking the glass”可知，棒球穿过了霍尔特太太地下室的窗户，打破了玻璃。故选B项。本题容易误选A项，但dash一般修饰人。5答案与解析：D句意为：毕竟我本应该在公园里玩耍，而不是在建筑物之间的小路上玩耍。根据句意可知，此处表示“在之间”。故选D项。6答案与解析：A主句句意为：我主动提出如果她把球还给我，我就付窗户玻璃的钱。根据常识可知，打碎了别人的窗户要赔钱(pay for)。故选A项。7答案与解析：B根据本段所描述的事例可知，一些没有什么价值的东西可能对别人很重要，所以此处是指“我还认识到，个人财产是神圣(sacred)的东西”。故选B项。8答案与解析：D句意为：我在五年
35、级教室里发现了一支闪闪发亮的银色钢笔。我想据为己有，但史蒂夫解释说它对其他人可能很重要，尽管它没有什么价值。根据语境可知，前后两句是转折关系，分析选项可知D项符合题意。in spite of意为“尽管”。9答案与解析：D分析语境可知，那是父亲用一块廉价的木头雕刻出来的小狗。此处表示用木头雕刻出动物。故选D项。10答案与解析：C句意为：我把笔还给老师，现在仍然记得她拍我肩膀时散发出的香水味。根据上文的“I found my teachers shiny silver pen”可知，作者发现了老师的钢笔，故此处表示作者将钢笔还给(returned)老师。11答案与解析：A句意为：然而在史蒂夫给我的
36、所有教训中，他对生命的尊重最让我记忆犹新。分析选项可知A项符合题意。vivid意为“(记忆、描述等)清晰的”。12答案与解析：C根据“I killed a sparrow with a catapult”可知，作者用弹弓杀了一只麻雀，并因自己的精准度(accuracy)而兴奋。故选C项。13答案与解析：A根据语境可知，此处是指“我永远不会忘记他站了很久，盯着地上那只鸟的样子”。分析选项可知A项正确。stare at意为“盯着看”。14答案与解析：C根据语境可知，此处是指“我不知道该怎么回答。他继续坚定地看着”。分析选项可知选C项。firm意为“坚定的”。15答案与解析：B句意为：我那时真的很难过，但那是我哥哥给我上的最重要的一课。分析选项可知B项正确，stand out意为“出色；突出”。
