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Module 1 Europe
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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[2020·沈阳市高三教学质量监测]Various cultural activities always take place on campus in springy March. This year, the Office of Student Affairs is going to organize the South and Southeast Asian Cultural Festival to present cultures of these two regions across the board—the opening ceremony, food and cultural booths, talks and workshops, and many others. Don't be spoilt for choice!
Local South and Southeast Asian Market
The Cultural Square will be transformed into a local market where diverse South and Southeast Asian cultures meet. Visitors can taste local food, meet the locals and experience some local ways of life, so remember to drop into this wonderful marketplace!
Date:6 & 7 March 2019(Wednesday & Thursday)
Time: 12:00-14:30
Venue: Cultural Square, Main Campus
Tofu Making Workshop
Soft or firm, salty or sweet, steamed or fried, tofu is wellknown for its nice taste and good nutrition. It plays an important role in East Asian and Southeast Asian food culture, so we may well have eaten it, but do you know how it is made? Here comes a chance for you to try your hand at making this widely enjoyed food!
Date: 10 March 2019(Sunday)
Time: 15:00-16:30
Venue: Room 201B, 2/F WS Centre
Fee: $ 100
An Introduction to Dandiya Raas
Dandiya Raas, a traditional folk dance of India, is associated with scenes of Holi, which is a famous spring festival known as the festival of colors. At this workshop, our Indian students will introduce the dance to the participants by dancing together and feel the soul of their unique music culture.
Date: 13 March 2019(Wednesday)
Time: 18:30-20:30
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Venue: Room 502, WFY Building
Quota: 20(First come, first served)
Thai Loy Krathong Festival
Loy Krathong, or Water Lantern Festival, is a widely celebrated occasion in Thailand where people pray for good things for the year ahead. In this workshop, participants can try their hand at making their own krathong under the guidance of Thai students!
Date: 14 March 2019(Thursday)
Time: 18:30-20:30
Venue: ILOUNGE, 3/F YIA
Quota: 20(First come, first served)
1.These activities above are aimed to ________.
A.introduce several traditional festivals
B.pray for good things for the coming year
C.spread cultures of some Asian countries
D.promote exchanges of some local dances
2.If you are free after 3 pm every Wednesday, you can go to ________.
A.Tofu Making Workshop
B.Thai Loy Krathong Festival
C.An Introduction to Dandiya Raas
D.Local South and Southeast Asian Market
3.What can we know from the text?
A.All the cultural activities are accessible free of charge.
B.All the activities don't limit the number of participants.
C.Loy Krathong is held to express thanks to the ancestors.
D.Dandiya Raas is linked with scenes of the wellknown festival Holi.
B
[2019·成都第二次诊断]Author Walter Dean Myers died at the age of 76 after a brief illness. Walter Dean Myers was the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults and received many top awards.
The prolific author was loved for his vivid description of the lives of African American children, and for writing books for young people that covered different subjects. “Myers has written about all those subjects with deep understanding and a hardwon, qualified sense of hope,” said Leonard S. Marcus in
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2008.
He was born in 1937 and was adopted by Florence Dean and Herbert after his mother died while giving birth to his younger sister. They loved him very much and his mother read to him from a very young age. Reading pushed him to discover worlds beyond his landscape.
He began writing at an early age. He wrote well in high school and an English teacher recognized this and advised him to keep on writing no matter what happened to him. “It's what you do,” she said.
He dropped out of high school at 17 and joined the army. After finishing his service, he entered a dark period in his life. Myers began writing at night to pull himself through that miserable time.
In an essay published in The New York Times earlier this year, Myers described how a short story by James Arthur Baldwin helped change the course of his life. “I didn't love the story, but I was lifted by it,” he wrote, “for it took place in Harlem, and it was a story concerned with black people like those I knew. By humanizing the people who were like me, Baldwin's story also humanized me. The story gave me a permission that I didn't know I needed, the permission to write about my own landscape, my own map.”
“I write books or the troubled boy I once was,” he wrote, “and for the boy who lives within me still.”
4.What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?
A.How popular Myers was.
B.How Myers became successful.
C.What makes Myers' works popular.
D.What people think of Myers' works.
5.Who discovered Myers' writing talent?
A.James Arthur Baldwin. B.His mother.
C.Leonard S. Marcus. D.One of his teachers.
6.What does the underlined word “prolific” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.Productive. B.Unfortunate.
C.Conservative. D.Humorous.
7.Why was the short story by James Arthur Baldwin so important for Myers?
A.It helped him survive the dark period.
B.It inspired him to pursue his writing career.
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C.He learned many writing techniques from it.
D.The author of the story permitted him to write.
C
[2020·辽宁省五校联考]In a longsleeved shirt and jeans, Dieudonne Twahirwa looks nothing like the traditional African farmer. The 30yearold owner of Gashora Farm knows what a difference that makes.
“You need more role models,”he said, standing among kneehigh rows of chilli(辣椒) plants. “If you have young farmers, they have land and they drive to the farm, others may think, ‘Why can't I do that?’”
Mr.Twahirwa, a university graduate, bought a friend's tomato farm six years ago for $150. He made $1,500 back in two months. “You have to link farming with entrepreneurship and real numbers,” he said.
Many young Africans are abandoning areas in the countryside, choosing not to work hard and for a long time in the fields — a job made tougher by climate change.
But Twahirwa is one of the growing band of successful farmers working to make agriculture's image on the continent more attractive. Some 1,000 farmers now produce chillies for him. He is starting a fourth farm of his own, and exports fresh and dried chillies and oil to Britain, the United States, India, and Kenya.
Africa has the world's youngest population and 65 percent of its uncultivated arable land(耕地后备资源). Yet accessing land and loans is difficult, and African productivity is low with crop yields just 56 percent of the international average.
“Agriculture is mainly associated with suffering and no young person wants to suffer,” said Tamara Kaunda. She believes African agriculture needs a change to get rid of its oldfashioned image of very hard and tiring work with a hoe. “Show young people tractors, green fields, nice irrigation systems and smartphones,” she said.
Getting young people involved in agriculture does not mean they have to work on a farm. For example, in coffee production, the beans go from the farm to the washing station, then to be separated from the husks(外壳).
8.What does “Why can't I do that?” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.Why can't I drive to the farm?
B.Why can't they farm?
C.They follow the example of those farmers.
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D.They bought a friend's tomato farm.
9.What makes it harder for farmers to work?
A.Poor land. B.Climate.
C.Low income. D.Long working hours.
10.What can we learn about Twahirwa according to Paragraph 5?
A.He made a fortune by growing chillies.
B.His chillies are superb in the world.
C.Farmers working for him live a simple life.
D.The locals aren't willing to buy his chillies.
11.When it comes to agriculture in Africa, what do people think about it?
A.Loans are difficult.
B.Most land is uncultivated.
C.Crop yields are rather low.
D.Farming methods are out of date.
Ⅱ.阅读七选五
[2019·江西八所重点中学高三联考]Flextime is a flexible hours schedule in which employees choose their own working hours, usually working within approximate limits set by the employer or by the government. __1__
For employees, flextime has a clear advantage. __2__ For example, people can use flextime to create schedules which will allow them to go to school, handle childcare, assist relatives, and perform other tasks. Employees may also use their flextime to create a schedule which optimizes creativity, as in the case of someone who would prefer to work earlier in the day to get more accomplished.
__3__ First, it tends to increase employees' satisfaction. This makes the company a better and more productive place to work. In addition, flextime can allow companies to serve clients for a greater portion of the day, as employees will be around at varying hours to answer phones, attend meetings, and so forth.
Most flextime schedules include core time. __4__ Employees are also usually given an hourly, daily or weekly limit to ensure that they do not violate laws about working hours. Or the company is only willing to pay wages for so many hours of work each week.
A classic example of a flexible time schedule is that someone who works four 10hour shifts a week can take three days off. Flextime can also be combined with flexplace, in which the environment is better than that of the office. __5__ Employers
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may also allow people to work in untraditional settings such as coffee houses.
A.Employers benefit from flextime a lot.
B.It's also seen as a familyfriendly policy.
C.However, flextime may not be applicable to all fields.
D.It is a period of the day in which everyone is expected to be at work.
E.Many employers all over the world offer this method to their employees.
F.For example, home offices are increasingly popular among many companies.
G.It allows them to make changes to their work schedule which will suit their lives.
课后提能练(十三)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
【语篇解读】 本文是应用文,主要介绍了学生事务办公室计划组织的四个文化节活动的相关情况。(quota配额;限额)
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1.C 考查细节理解。根据第一段第二句中的“This year, the Office of Student Affairs...to present cultures of these two regions across the board”可知,这些活动旨在传播一些亚洲国家的文化。
2.C 考查细节理解。根据An Introduction to Dandiya Raas部分中的“Date: 13 March 2019(Wednesday) Time: 18:30-20:30”可知,如果你每周三下午三点以后有空,你可以去参加An Introduction to Dandiya Raas这个活动。
3.D 考查细节理解。根据An Introduction to Dandiya Raas部分中的“Dandiya Raas, a traditional folk dance of India, is associated with scenes of Holi”可知,D项正确。
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇记叙文,主要介绍了美国著名作家Walter Dean Myers的生平。
【熟词生义】 cover常用义:v.遮盖
例句:Cover the chicken loosely with foil.用锡箔把鸡肉松松地盖起来。
本句义:v.涉及
例句:The survey covers all aspects of the business.调查涉及这家公司的各个方面。
【难句分析】 He wrote well in high school and an English teacher recognized this and advised him to keep on writing no matter what happened to him.
分析:该句为复合句。句中“no matter what happened to him”为让步状语从句;advise sb. to do sth.意为“建议某人做某事”;keep on doing sth.意为“继续做某事”。
译文:他在高中时写作就很好,一位英语老师认识到这一点并建议他无论发生什么事都要坚持写下去。
4.C 考查段落大意。通读该段可知,该段首句“The prolific author... covered different subjects”为该段主题句。结合该段其他内容可知,这位多产的作家因其对非裔美国儿童生活的生动描述,以及为年轻人写的涉及不同话题的书籍而深受喜爱。由此可知,该段主要介绍了他的作品受欢迎的原因,故C项正确。
5.D 考查细节理解。根据第四段第二句“He wrote well in high school and an English teacher recognized this and advised him to keep on writing no matter what happened to him”可知,他在高中时写作就很好,一位英语老师认识到这一点并建议他无论发生什么事都要坚持写下去。据此可知,他的写作天赋是他的一位英语老师发现的,故D项正确。
6.A 考查词义猜测。根据第一段第二句“Walter Dean Myers was the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults and received many top awards”可知,Walter Dean
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Myers写了100多本儿童和年轻人读物,并获得了许多最高奖项。由此可推知,他是一位多产的作家。productive意为“多产的”,故A项正确。B项意为“不幸的”,C项意为“守旧的”,D项意为“幽默的”,都与语境不符。
7.B 考查细节理解。根据倒数第二段第一句中的“how a short story... the course of his life”以及最后一句“The story gave me a permission that I didn't know I needed,the permission to write about my own landscape, my own map”可知,Baldwin写的故事鼓励了Myers追求他自己的写作事业,故B项正确。
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇记叙文。非洲青年Dieudonne Twahirwa从事农业生产,他通过自己的努力,获得了巨大的回报;非洲有世界上最年轻的人群与大量的耕地后备资源,但是由于气候与农业技术的落后,很多年轻人都不愿意从事农业;Dieudonne Twahirwa则为非洲青年树立了榜样。
8.C 考查句意理解。根据第二段中的“If you have young farmers,they have land and they drive to the farm, others may think,‘Why can't I do that?’”可知,此处表示如果你有年轻的农民,他们有土地,而且开车去农场,其他人可能会想,为什么“我”不能那样做?该句意在表明其他人认为他们可以效仿这些农民的做法,故选C。
9.B 考查细节理解。根据第四段“Many young Africans are abandoning areas in the countrside...a job made tougher by climate change”可知,在非洲,让农民的劳动难度加大的原因在于气候变化,故选B。
10.A 考查推理判断。根据第五段中的“Some 1,000 farmers now produce chillies for him.He is starting a fourth farm of his own”可推知,Twahirwa通过种植红辣椒赚了很多钱,故选A。B项中的superb意为“质量极高的”。
11.D 考查推理判断。根据第七段中的“African agriculture needs a change to get rid of its oldfashioned image of very hard and tiring work with a hoe”可知,非洲农业需要改变,以摆脱其传统的形象:使用锄头的非常辛苦和累人的工作。由此可推知,当谈及非洲的农业时,人们想到的是落后的耕作方法,故选D。A、B、C三项均为非洲农业的实际情况,不是人们对它的看法。
Ⅱ.阅读七选五
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇说明文,主要介绍了弹性工作时间制的相关内容。(violate vt.违反)
1.E 根据空处所在位置可知,空处承上启下;空前一句是说弹性工作时间制是指员工可以选择自己的工作时间,通常在老板或政府的设定范围内工作;紧接着下段开头说弹性工作时间制对员工有好处,故E项“世界上的许多雇主都会向他们的雇员提供这种方法”符合语境,衔接上下文。
2.G 空前一句是说对于雇员而言,弹性工作时间制有明显的好处,由此可推知空处应是具体介绍好处体现的方面,故G项“这允许他们对自己的工作时间表作出改变来适合他们的生活”符合语境。
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3.A 根据文章结构和空处所在的位置可知,空处为该段的主题句;通读该段可知,该段主要介绍了弹性工作时间制对于雇主的好处,故选A。
4.D 根据空前一句“Most flextime schedules include core time”可知,大多数弹性工作时间包括核心时间。据此可推知,空处应是介绍核心工作时间的内容,即每个人被要求工作的时间段,故D项正确。
5.F 根据空处上文的内容可知,弹性工作时间制与弹性工作地点也可以结合在一起;据此可推知,空处应是举例说明弹性工作地点的相关情况,故F项符合语境。
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