【高考领航】2015届高三英语一轮复习辅导与测试 第1部分 Unit 2 Healthy eating课时训练 新人教版必修2

Healthy eating

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(2014·郑州一中二模)A pioneering headteacher is calling for all high schools to follow his lead and start classes at 11 am，allowing teenagers two hours extra in bed.

Dr.Paul Kelley，head of Monkseaton Community High School in North Tyeside，said it would mean the end of sleeping in lessons before lunch，after experiments showed teenagers could have different body clocks from adults and younger children.

Russell Foster，an Oxford professor of neuroscience(神经学)，tested the memory of 200 Monkseaton pupils at 9am and 2pm using pairs of words，and discovered a 9% improvement in the afternoon.Students correctly identified 51% of word pairs in the later session，compared with 42% in the morning.Tayler McCullough,15，one of the test subjects，said the majority of students would welcome the extra hours in bed.“I'm extremely hard to get up in the morning.One or two people like to get to school early，but most of us would be up for going in later.I'm sure it would make a big difference to our learning ability”．

Kelley is adamant that a change of school timetable will have a meaningful effect on exam performance.He wants his school's governors to approve his plan and put the new timetable in place before the opening of Monkseaton's new school building，the most technologically advanced in the country，in September.

Kelley hopes his latest idea will be just as successful.“We have to be practical.But this proves that，by starting later，children's learning improves，as does their health.”

Foster said，“This is preliminary(初步的)data，but what's exciting is that it matches more detailed studies carried out in Canada and the US.Teenagers get up late not because they are lazy but because they are biologically programmed to do so.”

1．How many professors are mentioned in the passage?

A．One. B．Two.

C．Three. D．Four.

2．According to Russell Foster's research________.

A．the students tested had very good memories

B．the students tested did better jobs in the afternoon

C．42% of the students tested could do very good jobs

D．51% of the students tested could master 9% of words

3．What does the und erlined word “adamant” in the fourth paragraph mean?

A．Angry. B．Absorbed.

C．Adaptable. D．Determined.

4．Foster's opinion on teenagers' getting up late is that________.

A．teenagers are practical

B．teenagers are lazybones

C．it's based on their body development

D．it's good for their learning and health

B

(2014·银川质检)Almost no one can resist a good mystery novel or detective novel，so these novels sell thousands of copies each year.And many readers regard famous mystery author Agatha Christie as Queen of Crime，whose stories are known for their tense atmosphere and strong psychological suspense and have a great effect on the English mystery novels.

Christie was born in September 1890 in England.When she was growing up，her mother often told her stories.Christie loved these stories，which took her into a world of fantasy.Christie's mother also encouraged her to write from a young age and also took her to travel a lot.

She married Archie Christie in 1914 at the beginnings of World War Ⅰ.During the war，Christie wrote her first detective story：The Mysterious Affair at Styles.She chose the crime，and then invented a detective named Hercule Poirot，ranking second to Sherlock Holmes，to solve it.She sent the book to a publisher，but it was rejected.

After the war ended，Christie sent her book to more publishers，and finally，in 1920，one published it.She earned just $ 25 for it.Over the next few years，Christie wrote more books and short stories，gaining experience as a writer.In spite of her literary success，life was not going well at home.In 1928，Archie and Agatha got a divorce(离婚)．A short time later，she met a young archaeologist，Max Mallowan.After getting married in 1930，they began to spend some time each year in