2021高考英语一轮复习Unit1Alandofdiversity课时训练新人教版选修8

Unit 1 A land of diversity

Ⅰ.阅读理解

A

[2020·湖北省武汉市高中毕业生调研]In American countryside, the message we hear is this: Go and get an education. Leave your small town and make something of yourself. Success and opportunity are found elsewhere.

After graduating from a high school in Helena, Arkansas, I did go.

I went to Colby College in Maine. I had visited the school ahead of time, so I knew what I was getting myself into. I knew about the difference in weather. I understood the difference in social atmosphere. But I wanted to stretch myself and get out of my comfort zone. And you know what? I absolutely loved my time there. But one thing took me by surprise — the lack of countryside representation. Most of the other students at Colby were from big cities: New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco ... And when I had conversations with these students — in or outside of class — we almost always focused on topics facing large American cities. In my education classes, it was always “urban this” and “urban that”．

It was like small town America didn't exist.

And this urban interest doesn't just happen in college. I went to an education conference a couple of years ago, and a professor — someone who had been at the forefront of educational reform — was there to deliver a keynote. I was chosen to be part of a small group that got to meet with him. So there we were, five or six of us sitting in a room, and I asked him, “What are your thoughts on the state of education in the countryside？” And this man was speechless.

I'll never forget that moment. It speaks to a larger truth. Towns like mine are forgotten.

This trend of exporting talent and resources to our big cities — this mindset of leaving small towns and never coming back — I don't want to add to that movement. I want to reverse that movement.

Now it's my turn to help people younger than me. And you know what? I'm a sixth grade teacher in Helena now.

1．What do people in American countryside think of the future of the youth at home?

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A．Secure. B．Fragile. C．Promising. D．Bright.

2．What did the author find in his college classroom? A．Students chatted freely. B．Countryside was ignored. C．He was looked down upon.

D．Students concentrated on education.

3．How would the author feel about the professor's reaction? A．It's emotional. B．It's natural. C．It's positive. D．It's disappointing. 4．What is the author doing now? A．Teaching in a college. B．Fighting for the movement. C．Working with the professor. D．Devoting himself to his hometown.

B

[2020·太原模拟]We're often reminded of the importance of preserving the planet as we see it for future generations — and children at St Oswald's CE Primary School Chester certainly agree.

Nine-year-old Isobel Kelleher from the school's Hummingbirds class thinks adults need to take note. “Sometimes they can be busy and I don't think they think they can make a difference, but if everyone does a little bit it all adds up，” she tells HuffPost UK. “We started looking at plastic pollution in our oceans and the things like plastic bags that are polluting them，” she says. “Fish can eat the plastic and they can die, or we might even eat the fish ourselves.”

Mr Timms, Isobel's teacher, has been spearheading a new project at the school which lets children loose creatively to raise awareness of the need to be more environmentally friendly. The entire Hummingbirds class, which is made up of 9- and 10-year-old pupils, has been busy writing poems and creating online video adverts to warn adults about the serious situation of our oceans and wildlife.

Mr Timms thinks children have an important role to play in teaching us how to take care of the things around us. “We sometimes overlook how much we can really learn from children，” he says. “It has been really hard to believe having parents come in saying that their children have been asking them to stop using plastic, and

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to recycle more, and even stopping them using plastic straws.”

Mr Timms is proud of his Hummingbirds class. “The message that they would like to send to the world is simple: stopping this isn't someone else's job: and it won't be OK if we just leave it.”

5．What can we infer about adults according to Isobel Kelleher? A．They just pretend to be busy. B．They haven't done their part well. C．They can do nothing to stop pollution. D．They have started to care about the ocean. 6．What is the purpose of the school project? A．To help adults to learn more about their kids. B．To remind adults to be friendly to the environment. C．To persuade students to stop using plastic bags. D．To teach students how to write poems creatively. 7．Why does Mr Timms mention parents in Paragraph 4? A．To prove kids are creative in teaching. B．To attract people to support his work. C．To have adults care about education. D．To show the effects of the project. 8．What is the text mainly about? A．An inspiring school project. B．An appeal to stop plastic bags. C．Serious situations of our planet. D．Adults' ignorance of the environment. Ⅱ.完形填空

[2020·陕西省部分学校第一学期摸底检测]My cousin is nine years old, a little bit fat and doesn't do really well at school. She is heavily __1__， and thus has developed some resistance and __2__ towards adults, who usually don't put high hopes in her.

Yesterday we went to an art __3__ together. There were paintings from kids with disabilities. My little girl has a __4__ eye, for the paintings she liked most were also the best of the show. She voluntarily helped to __5__ the chairs and table for a sharing session, painted by herself alongside new friends while I attended the sharing, and also __6__ helped me to get my bag from another room. That's __7__ that doesn't happen often at home as she's usually __8__ to her iPad.

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