2019届高考英语(浙江专版)一轮复习练习：必修2 4 Unit4知能演练轻松闯关 Word版含解析

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(2018·浙江名校协作体高三模拟)“Her grades are fine; I’m not worried about that, but she just doesn’t seem to love learning any more，” Alice’s mum said.

She’s absolutely right. I’d noticed the same thing about her daughter over the previous two or three years when I’d been Alice’s middle school English, Latin, and writing teacher, and I have an answer, right there on the tip of my tongue, to what has gone wrong. Yet I’m torn between my responsibility to help Alice and the knowledge that what I have to say is a truth I’m not sure this mother is ready to hear.

The truth for this parent and so many others is this: Her child has sacrificed her natural curiosity and love of learning at the altar(圣坛) of achievement, and it’s our fault. Alice’s parents, her teachers, society at large—we are all supposed to be blamed in this crime against learning. From her first day of school, we pointed her toward that altar and trained her to measure her progress by means of points, scores, and awards.We taught Alice that her potential is tied to her intellect(智力), and that her intellect is more important than her character. We taught her to come home proudly bearing grade As, championship prizes, and college acceptance, and not on purpose, we taught her that we don’t really care how she obtains them.

We taught her to protect her academic and extracurricular perfection at all costs and that it’s better to quit when things get challenging rather than risk losing that perfect record. Above all else, we taught her to fear failure. That fear is what has destroyed her love of learning.

【解题导语】本文通过Alice的例子说明了父母、老师和社会有时会扼杀孩子的好奇心和对学习的热爱。

1．Both the mother and the author have noticed that________．A．Alice hates to tell them the truth

B．Alice’s test scores are not so good

C．Alice chooses several subjects to learn

D．Alice doesn’t enjoy studying any more

D解析:细节理解题。根据第一段中的“but she just doesn’t seem to love learning any more”和第二段中的“I’d noticed the same thing about her daughter”可知，Alice的妈妈和作者都注意到了Alice 不再喜欢学习。

2．What does the underlined word “torn” mean in the passage?

A．Pained to choose. B．Guilty to quit.

C．Tired to manage. D．Certain to decide.

A解析:词义猜测题。根据画线词后的“between my responsibility...and the knowledge that what I have to say is

a truth”可知，作者在两者之间很难选择。

3. What does the teacher think of the girl?

A．Her academic perfection results from her character.

B．She is a gifted girl with spirits of challenging.

C．She is perfect in her character development.

D．Her academic performance is great.

D解析:细节理解题。根据第三段中的“We taught her to protect...at all costs”可知，Alice的学业表现很好。

B

Despite being used by 1.34 billion people

each year，traveling on the Tube in London can

actually be quite lonely.

One citizen，however，is trying to change this.“You get on the Tube and it’s completely silent and it’s weird，” says Jonathan Dunne，who has started a worldwide dialogue after giving out badges(徽章)with the words “Tube chat？” last month，encouraging passengers in London to get talking to one another.“I handed out 500 badges during rush hour in a city of 8 million，expecting most of them to be thrown away，but after about 24 hours it completely snowballed，”he says.Dunne and his “Tube chat” campaign have since been reported by media across the world，seeing TV interviews in Sweden, Brazil and the U．K.，as well as countless website，newspaper and magazine appearances.

Although Dunne says he’s received mostly positive feedback，not everyone agrees with his idea.Londoner Brian Wilson responded with a campaign of his own，handing out 500 badges with the words “Don’t even think about it” on them.