2019版高考英语一轮复习 Unit 24 Society课时练 北师大版选修8.doc

1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Unit 24 Society 授课提示：对应学生用书第 363 页 课时练 (一 ) 阅读理解提速练 练速度 (限时： 35 分钟 ) . 阅读理解 A (2018 江西新余一中模拟 ) My Favourite Travel Books The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux Choosing my favorite Paul Theroux book is like picking my favorite place in the world: Its impossible to settle on just on

2、e.But The Old Patagonian Express, which is about a train journey Theroux made from Boston, USA to southern Argentina, is right up there at the top of my list.Theroux has a wicked sense of humor.He brings so much wisdom and experience to his travels. Walden by Henry David Thoreau If he were alive tod

3、ay, Thoreau would probably frown if he heard someone refer to Walden as a travel book.But I regard it as a travelwriting masterpiece.“I went into the woods， ” he writes ， “because I wish ed to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to t

4、each，and not， when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Thats the same spirit of discovery that defines so many great contemporary travel records. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Like so many people, I fell in love with Kerouacs novels in my late teens and early 20s.On the Road gets all th

5、e press, but I always love The Dharma Bums.Kerouac beautifully captures the romance of California trains, Berkeley, and backpacking in the Sierras.Its hard to read this book without wanting to leave for the mountains to brainstorm bad haikus on the trail and cook canned macaroni and cheese over a cr

6、ackling campfire. Confucius Lives Next Door by T R.Reid This is sort of A Year in Provence in Japan, only the crosscultural differences are much greater.Reid and his family moved to Tokyo when he became the chief for The Washington Post, enabling him to uncover truths about the country.Among the hig

7、hlights are his observations about Japanese schools, including Yodobashi No.6 Elementary School， where his daughters were greeted by the whole school staff. 【语篇解读】 本文作者为大家推荐了几本书。 1 Which book enables readers to experience great crosscultural differences? A The Old Patagonian Express. B Confucius Liv

8、es Next Door. C On the Road. D Walden. 解析： B 细节理解题。根据 Confucius Lives Next Door by T R.Reid.This is sort of A Year in Provence in Japan, only the crosscultural differences are much greater。可知选 B。 2 What will people feel after reading Jack Kerouacs The Dharma Bums? A A strong desire to follow. B A lo

9、ve for novels. C A wish to learn cooking. D An excitement to write poems. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 解析： A 推理判断题。根据 Like so many people, I fell in love with Kerouacs novels in my late teens and early 20s.On the Road gets all the press, but I always love The Dharma Burns.Kerouac beautifully captures the romance o

10、f California trains, Berkeley, and backpacking in the Sierras. Its hard to read this book without wanting to leave for the mountains to brainstorm bad haikus on the trail and cook canned macaroni and cheese over a crackling campfire.可知读了小说 The Dharma Bums，人们有一种想要追随的强烈渴望，所以选 A。 3 Which writer based h

11、is book on a train journey from home to abroad? A T.R.Reid. B Henry David Thoreau. C Paul Theroux. D Jack Kerouac. 解析： C 细节理解题。根据 But The Old Patagonian Express, which is about a train journey Theroux made from Boston, USA to southern Argentina, is right up there at the top of my list.可知选 C。 B (2018

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22、feet 6 inches and weighed about 60 pounds，fell feet first and used her arms to support herselfbut that the injury was too severe to have been survivable. The researchers estimate that Lucy was going about 35 miles an hour when she hit the ground after falling from a height of roughly 40 feet， accord

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