高二英语人教版选修六练习UNIT2课下能力提升(五)

Unit 2 课下力量提升〔五〕
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A
For 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 post it 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 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 poem and write a response to it. I chose to respond to Robert Frost’ s 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 magazines and contests. I won second place in the North Carolina Poetry Society’ s 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 self published three collections of poetry in both print and e book formats, which can be found at my store on Lulu.
Now, I love writing poetry, but I don’ t 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：本文作者表达了自己写诗的经受。

1．When the author was a pupil, he ________.
A．liked writing stories
B．was good at writing poetry
C．could understand poetry well
D．was often praised by his teacher
解析：选A细节理解题。

依据其次段“Back in elementary school, I loved to write stories.〞可知，答案为A。

2．When given the poetry project in high school, the author was ________.
A．excited B．annoyed
C．confident D．worried
解析：选D推理推断题。

依据第三段“I still remember my limerick assignment and was afraid of doing the poetry project.〞可推断，答案为D。

3．The author took up writing poetry as a hobby when he ________.
A．was in Grade Three in high school
B．worked as a storekeeper
C．was in Grade One in high school
D．was at college
解析：选A推理推断题。

依据第三段“Many years later in my freshman year 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。

4．How did the author increase his confidence in writing poetry?
A．He wrote a lot of poems and asked advice from his teacher.
B．He published three collections of poetry by himself.
C．He submitted his poems to magazines and contests.
D．He gave up writing stories and only wrote poetry.
解析：选C细节理解题。

依据第四段“To learn how good or bad my poems were, I handed them in to some magazines and contests.〞可知，答案为C。

B
A recent Stanford study found that America’ s students are shockingly bad at telling fact from fiction in this digital age. It’ s apparent that something has to change in the nation’ s classrooms. That something, according to Professor Sam Wineburg, one of those Stanford researchers, is “practice.〞
“How do they bee prepared to make the choices about what to believe, what to forward, what to post to their friends，〞Wineburg asked on NPR’ s 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. It es from the nonprofit The News Literacy Project.
Hunt’ s students, most of them seniors, work in threes or fours. They’ re 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 don’ t know which is 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 it’ s 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 (Centers for Disease Control) is now telling people not to get a flu shot.
“I mean, I’ ve heard many unconfirmed reports that the flu shot’ s bad for you，〞student Autumn Cooper says. But instinct (直觉) tells her the story’ s wrong. “It just doesn’ t look like a reliable source. It looks like this is off Facebook and someone shared it.〞Cooper labels the story “fiction〞. And she’ s right.
Instead of teaching students the fundamentals of fact-checking, many schools simply ignore the problem, blocking social media sites on school puters.
“It’ s like teaching students to drive in the parking lot and then sending them out on the highway and saying ’ Good luck！’ 〞says Audrey Church, president of the American Association of School Librarians.
语篇解读：本文是谈论文。

的一些学校开设了教同学如何鉴别网络消息真假的课程，许多专家学者表示赞同。

5．What does the underlined word “they〞in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A．Stanford researchers.B．Media people.
C．Students. D．Teachers.
解析：选C代词指代题。

依据第一段中的“America’ s students are shockingly bad at telling fact from fiction in this digital age〞可知，在电子时代，的同学缺乏区分真假消息的力量，由此可推想，这里是问“这些同学〞怎样才能做好预备选择信任、传递、发布哪些消息呢？另外，依据其次段末的“when teachers give no practice to them〞也可推想，这里的they 指的是同学。

6．How does Hunt run the digital course?
A．By inviting experts to give students lectures.
B．By asking students to go on the Internet together.
C．By taking students to a news organization regularly.
D．By letting students identify factual information in groups.
解析：选D细节理解题。

依据第四、五段内容可知，Hunt让她的同学三四人一组鉴
别真假消息。

7．According to Church, what should schools do?
A．Help students improve driving skills.
B．Teach students how to spot false news.
C．Allow students to drive on the highway.
D．Ask students to avoid using social media.
解析：选B推理推断题。

依据最终两段内容可知，Church认为学校屏蔽社交媒体的做法就像是在停车场教会同学们开车后让他们直接上高速，这样做无疑风险很大。

由此可推想他反对学校屏蔽社交媒体的做法，而是盼望学校能够教孩子们如何识别假新闻。

8．What does the text mainly discuss?
A．The findings of a recent Stanford study.
B．An educational issue in the digital age.
C．The influence of a widely spread post.
D．An experienced high school teacher.
解析：选B主旨大意题。

通读全文可知，本文争论了在电子时代，老师如何关心同学们学会鉴别网络消息的真假，这是一个教育问题。

C
Public libraries have had another bad year. They are like local railways. People like having them around, 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 stage with a mirror for backdrop (背景幕布) that reflects only the reader〞. In Britain, the library was a grammar school, a teach-yourself 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 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. Print was yesterday, one more victim of the great digital wipeout. But Waterstones last year stopped selling Kindles and changed the 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 writers and experience books with a group. It is in plays, concerts, edy, lectures, debates, quizzes, performances of every sort. It should bine coffee shops, book exchanges, playgroups, art galleries, museums and performances.
Ever since the days of Alexandria, the library has been the palace of the mind, the “University of All〞. The Internet has removed its plete control of knowledge, but cannot copy its sense of place, its joy of human gathering.
语篇解读：本文是谈论文。

文章争论了图书馆的数量虽然削减了，借书的人少了，但是书却并没有消逝。

9．What is stressed by mentioning Matthew Battles?
A．The meaning of the American Dream.
B．The role of libraries in Americans’ life.
C．The things people can learn in a library.
D．The decrease in the number of libraries.
解析：选B推理推断题。

依据其次段可知，Matthew Battles强调了图书馆是时机之地，人们可以在图书馆中寻求自己的个人胜利等，说明白图书馆对于人们的影响。

10．What did people use to think about books?
A．Digital technology left books dying.
B．A lot of books were being rubbish.
C．Physical books took up too much space.
D．Books in libraries were better than ebooks.
解析：选A推理推断题。

依据第三段中的“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消失，使得实体书快要灭亡了。

11．How can the library gain its popularity again?
A．By offering readers better books.
B．By holding live events for readers.
C．By buying more books to fill its shelves.
D．By providing relaxed atmosphere for readers.
解析：选B细节理解题。

依据倒数其次段可知，在数字时代，图书馆要想重新恢复它是学问代表的称号，需要举办各种现场活动。

12．What might be the most suitable title for the text?
A．Libraries are dying but not for books
B．Libraries will have no physical books
C．Libraries are not about books any more
D．Libraries play new roles in modern times
解析：选A标题归纳题。

本文主要争论了随着数字技术的开展，图书馆的作用好像越来越小了，但是书并没有消亡。