1、Unit 2 课时跟踪检测（一） Warming Up & Reading Pre-reading阅读理解AFor about three years now, I have been writing poetry. It was not until my junior year in high school that I developed an interest, love, and skill for writing poetry.Back in elementary school, I loved to write stories. I would write stories on p
2、ostit notes and anywhere I could. Yet when I had to write a limerick (五行打油诗) for an assignment, I could not wrap my head around poetry. I had a very hard time figuring out how to rhyme words and have the words make sense. I eventually tossed the paper with the attempted limerick in the trash. I did
3、not try my hand at poetry again until several years later.Many years later in my freshman year of high school, my English teacher gave my class a poetry project as an assignment. I still remember my limerick assignment and was afraid of doing the poetry project. For the project, we had to analyze a
4、poem and write a response to it. I chose to respond to Robert Frosts poem Fire and Ice. I also wrote my own poem first. I became really excited when writing the poem.Two years later, I started writing poetry as a hobby and for fun. To learn how good or bad my poems were, I handed them in to some mag
5、azines and contests. I won second place in the North Carolina Poetry Societys Sherry Pruitt Award Contest with a poem called The Ocean, and had my two poems published as high merit (优等) poems. I have continued to write poetry, and have even selfpublished three collections of poetry in both print and
6、 ebook formats, which can be found at my store on Lulu.Now, I love writing poetry, but I dont hate writing short stories. I just find it more difficult and not my style of writing, even though I still write short stories occasionally. 语篇解读：本文作者叙述了自己写诗的经历。1When the author was a pupil, he _.Aliked wri
7、ting storiesBwas good at writing poetryCcould understand poetry wellDwas often praised by his teacher解析：选A细节理解题。根据第二段“Back in elementary school, I loved to write stories.”可知，答案为A。2When given the poetry project in high school, the author was _.AexcitedBannoyedCconfident Dworried解析：选D推理判断题。根据第三段“I sti
8、ll remember my limerick assignment and was afraid of doing the poetry project.”可推断，答案为D。3The author took up writing poetry as a hobby when he _.Awas in Grade Three in high schoolBworked as a storekeeperCwas in Grade One in high school Dwas at college解析：选A推理判断题。根据第三段“Many years later in my freshman y
9、ear of high school”及第四段第一句“Two years later, I started writing poetry as a hobby and for fun.” 可推断，答案为A。4How did the author increase his confidence in writing poetry?AHe wrote a lot of poems and asked advice from his teacher.BHe published three collections of poetry by himself.CHe submitted his poems
10、 to magazines and contests.DHe gave up writing stories and only wrote poetry.解析：选C细节理解题。根据第四段“To learn how good or bad my poems were, I handed them in to some magazines and contests.”可知，答案为C。BA recent Stanford study found that Americas students are shockingly bad at telling fact from fiction in this
11、 digital age. Its apparent that something has to change in the nations classrooms. That something, according to Professor Sam Wineburg, one of those Stanford researchers, is “practice.”“How do they become prepared to make the choices about what to believe, what to forward, what to post to their frie
12、nds，” Wineburg asked on NPRs All Things Considered, “when teachers give no practice to them？”Patricia Hunt, an experienced teacher at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., is doing something she has never done before: helping to pilot a new, digital course called the checkology virtual classroom.
13、 It comes from the nonprofit The News Literacy Project.Hunts students, most of them seniors, work in threes or fours. Theyre presented with a series of stories that are rapidly and broadly spread via the Internet. Some are false information. Some are ads. And some are pure fact.“We dont know which i
14、s which at this point，” laughs student Kahder Smith. “We actually have to sit down, take our time, and actually read them. And probably Google some stuff to see if its real or not.”A post claims that more than a dozen people died after receiving the flu vaccine (疫苗) in Italy and that the CDC (Center
15、s for Disease Control) is now telling people not to get a flu shot.“I mean, Ive heard many unconfirmed reports that the flu shots bad for you，” student Autumn Cooper says. But instinct (直觉) tells her the storys wrong. “It just doesnt look like a reliable source. It looks like this is off Facebook an
16、d someone shared it.” Cooper labels the story “fiction”. And shes right.Instead of teaching students the fundamentals of factchecking, many schools simply ignore the problem, blocking social media sites on school computers.“Its like teaching students to drive in the parking lot and then sending them
17、 out on the highway and saying Good luck！” says Audrey Church, president of the American Association of School Librarians.语篇解读：本文是议论文。美国的一些学校开设了教学生如何鉴别网络消息真假的课程，很多专家学者表示赞同。5What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refer to?AStanford researchers.BMedia people.CStudents. DTeachers.解析：选C代词指代
18、题。根据第一段中的“Americas students are shockingly bad at telling fact from fiction in this digital age”可知，在电子时代，美国的学生缺乏辨别真假消息的能力，由此可推测，这里是问“这些学生”怎样才能做好准备选择相信、传递、发布哪些消息呢？另外，根据第二段末的“when teachers give no practice to them”也可推测，这里的they指的是学生。6According to Church, what should schools do?AHelp students improve dr
19、iving skills.BTeach students how to spot false news.CAllow students to drive on the highway.DAsk students to avoid using social media.解析：选B推理判断题。根据最后两段内容可知，Church认为学校屏蔽社交媒体的做法就像是在停车场教会学生们开车后让他们直接上高速，这样做无疑风险很大。由此可推测他反对学校屏蔽社交媒体的做法，而是希望学校能够教孩子们如何识别假新闻。7What does the text mainly discuss?AThe findings of
20、 a recent Stanford study.BAn educational issue in the digital age.CThe influence of a widely spread post.DAn experienced high school teacher.解析：选B主旨大意题。通读全文可知，本文讨论了在电子时代，老师如何帮助学生们学会鉴别网络消息的真假，这是一个教育问题。CPublic libraries have had another bad year. They are like local railways. People like having them a
21、round, and are angry if they close. But as for using them, there is so little time these days.To the US historian Matthew Battles the library is a metaphor (隐喻) for the land of chance, a place where, lost in the piles, new Americans could “dream of personal success, unaided by unnamed others, a stag
22、e with a mirror for backdrop (背景幕布) that reflects only the reader”. In Britain, the library was a grammar school, a teachyourself academy, a way of learning.Digitization has changed everything. The public library is no longer a place sacred to knowledge. Its walls have been bombed open. So much rubb
23、ish is said and written about the death of books. Five years ago, when Amazon ebook sales were higher than those of paperback copies, it was assumed the book was dying. Print was yesterday, one more victim of the great digital wipeout. But Waterstones last year stopped selling Kindles and changed th
24、e shelf space to physical books. It saw a 5% rise in sales. Though the bookshop has suffered, the book has not.But these are buyers, not borrowers. The library must rediscover its specialness. This strength lies not in books, but in its readers, in their desire to gather, share with each other, hear
25、 writers and experience books with a group. It is in plays, concerts, comedy, lectures, debates, quizzes, performances of every sort. It should combine coffee shops, book exchanges, playgroups, art galleries, museums and performances.Ever since the days of Alexandria, the library has been the palace
26、 of the mind, the “University of All”. The Internet has removed its complete control of knowledge, but cannot copy its sense of place, its joy of human gathering.语篇解读：本文是议论文。文章讨论了图书馆的数量虽然减少了，借书的人少了，但是书却并没有消失。8What is stressed by mentioning Matthew Battles?AThe meaning of the American Dream.BThe role
27、 of libraries in Americans life.CThe things people can learn in a library.DThe decrease in the number of libraries.解析：选B推理判断题。根据第二段可知，Matthew Battles强调了图书馆是机会之地，人们可以在图书馆中寻求自己的个人成功等，说明了图书馆对于人们的影响。9What did people use to think about books?ADigital technology left books dying.BA lot of books were becom
28、ing rubbish.CPhysical books took up too much space.DBooks in libraries were better than ebooks.解析：选A推理判断题。根据第三段中的“So much rubbish is said and written about the death of books. Five years ago, when Amazon ebook sales were higher than those of paperback copies, it was assumed the book was dying”可知，过去人们认为数字技术的出现，使得实体书快要灭亡了。10What might be the most suitable title for the text?ALibraries are dying but not for booksBLibraries will have no physical booksCLibraries are not about books any moreDLibraries play new roles in modern times解析：选A标题归纳题。本文主要讨论了随着数字技术的发展，图书馆的作用似乎越来越小了，但是书并没有消亡。