2020届一轮复习外研版必修1Module4ASocialSurvey—MyNeighbourhood单元作业（12页

2020届一轮复习外研版必修1Module4ASocialSurvey—MyNeighbourhood单元作业（12页

‎2020届一轮复习外研版必修1 Module 4 A Social Survey — My Neighbourhood单元作业 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Dear Mary，‎ It was so nice to read your letter the other day. I have always dreamed about having a pen friend. Hopefully, we can learn from each other and grow to be the very best of friends. It is my wish that our letters will let us get to know each other and share parts of our lives.‎ Your horse Shannon sounds beautiful. I am very jealous (羡慕的) that you get to live on a farm. I cannot imagine how much fun it is to ride a horse through endless fields and I would love to come and visit you one day. Your siblings (兄弟姊妹) also sound lovely. I am an only child, so I can only imagine what it is like to have older brothers and sisters.‎ Life in New York is so busy and it is difficult to find the time to get to know people. Even becoming close to my classmates has proved to be quite difficult over the years. However, at times it can be the most amazing city in the whole wide world. At night it is so bright and lively and the whole place is full of things to do.‎ I love reading too! I have never read any books by your favorite author Enid Blyton though. I will have to go to my local library and find some. I also enjoy dancing and often enter competitions. My other favorite hobby is ice skating. In winter, I skate in Central Park. In the other seasons, I go to an indoor rink (溜冰场). I am hoping to start entering ice skating competitions next year.‎ Anyway, I have to go now and do my homework. I really hope that I hear from you soon!‎ Lots of love，‎ Megan 语篇解读：本文是一篇应用文。作者通过这封信向对方介绍了一些自己的情况并表示非常高兴能和对方成为好朋友。‎ ‎1．What is mainly described in Paragraph 3?‎ A．Mary's family.‎ B．Megan's hobbies.‎ C．Mary's life in New York.‎ D．Megan's opinion of New York.‎ 解析：选D　段落大意题。梅甘在本段中主要谈论了自己对纽约这个城市的看法，故选D项。‎ ‎2．How is Mary similar to Megan?‎ A．She likes reading.‎ B．She loves horse riding.‎ C．She has an older brother.‎ D．She lives in the countryside.‎ 解析：选A　细节理解题。由第四段中的“I love reading too！”可知，玛丽和梅甘都喜欢读书，故选A项。‎ ‎3．What do we know about Megan?‎ A．Her favorite author is Enid Blyton.‎ B．She goes ice skating all year round.‎ C．Some of her classmates are her best friends.‎ D．She'll enter a dancing competition next year.‎ 解析：选B　细节理解题。由倒数第二段中的“My other favorite hobby is ice skating. In winter, I skate in Central Park. In the other seasons, I go to an indoor rink(溜冰场)．”‎ 可知，梅甘一年四季都去滑冰，故选B项。‎ B Jack Ma: Asia's richest man just became $2.8bn richer in one day Jack Ma's net worth increased by $2.8bn overnight as Alibaba forecast sales growth that topped every analyst's estimate on June 8,2017, despite the fact that China's economy is slowing down.‎ Mr Ma, aged 52 this year, is now the richest person in Asia and the 14th wealthiest in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His net worth has climbed $8.5bn this year to $41.8bn.‎ The latest surge came after China's largest ecommerce company forecast 45 to 49 per cent revenue (收入) growth in the year ending March, demonstrating how investments in online shopping are paying off. Shares in Alibaba, where Mr Ma is chairman, rose 13 per cent to a record high.‎ Alibaba and Tencent, which dominate online shopping and social media respectively, have ventured (冒险) deeper into new areas from cloud computing services to streaming music and video as the country's economy slows. Alibaba is capturing more digital advertising spending by incorporating (吸收) social elements such as video in its shopping sites.‎ Alibaba is holding meetings with investors this week. On Friday, the former English teacher said he wasn't going to discuss corporate forecasts. He took the stage instead to describe how his company had become effectively the world's 22nd largest economy — just after Argentina — in terms of transactions (交易) by never fearing to think big. Mr Ma, who said Alibaba revised 10year plans annually, foresaw the ‎ company becoming the fifthlargest eventually by 2036 by serving burgeoning (迅速发展) Chinese middle classes, taking advantage of global trade and making use of its valuable data.‎ Ma's comments about the evolution of datadriven technology echoed those of Masayoshi Son, chairman of Japan's SoftBank. SoftBank — Alibaba's largest shareholder — has invested billions in companies such as ARM with the intention of staking out a leading position in the future Internet of Things.‎ ‎“The Internet of Things is going to be big because in the past, machines ‘drank’ electricity，” Mr Ma told investors. “In the next 20 years, machines will ‘drink’ data. In the future, no company, no country, no business can survive without data.”‎ 语篇解读：本文介绍了阿里巴巴集团股票股价上涨13%，使董事长马云净身家在一天之内增加28亿美元，成为亚洲首富的故事。‎ ‎4．The text is intended to tell us that ________.‎ A．China's economy is not satisfying B．Jack Ma has become Asia's richest man C．online shopping grows rapidly worldwide D．Alibaba is the largest company in the world 解析：选B　主旨大意题。通览全文可知，本文介绍了阿里巴巴集团股票股价上涨13%，使董事长马云净身家在一天之内增加28亿美元，成为亚洲首富的故事。故选B。‎ ‎5．The underlined word “surge” in Paragraph 3 probably means “________”．‎ A．sudden increase　　　　 B．rapid decline C．dead time D．uncertainty 解析：选A　词义猜测题。根据第一段中的“Jack Ma's net worth increased by $2.8bn overnight”和第三段中的“China's largest ecommerce company forecast 45 to 49 per cent revenue (收入) growth in the year ending March”可以推测画线词意为“急剧上升”。‎ ‎6．What do we know about Alibaba?‎ A．It is China's largest social media company.‎ B．It makes profits mainly from digital advertising.‎ C．It is providing cloud computing services.‎ D．It is new to streaming music and video.‎ 解析：选C　细节理解题。根据第四段的第一句“Alibaba and Tencent, which dominate online shopping and social media respectively, have ventured (冒险) deeper into new areas from cloud computing services to streaming music and video ...”可知，由于国家经济下滑，阿里巴巴已进军云计算服务领域。‎ ‎7．What does Jack Ma stress in the last paragraph?‎ A．The investment of global trade.‎ B．The importance of data.‎ C．The necessity of sharing information.‎ D．The future of the Internet of Things.‎ 解析：选B　推理判断题。根据最后一段的最后一句“In the future, no company, no country, no business can survive without data.”可知，在将来，任何公司的发展和存在都离不开数据，因此他强调了“data”的重要性。‎ C ‎(2018·华南师大附中模拟)Many years ago, when we were a young couple with two small children, aged 2 and 4, we were practically ‎ impecunious. My parentsinlaws lived from hand to mouth, so we didn't expect any help from them. My parents lived a great distance away, and I was too ashamed to let them know about our situation.‎ My husband was trying to earn a living with an old pickup truck, carrying groceries for local shopkeepers, but it was constantly breaking down. It took almost all the money we had to have it fixed. The truck was also the only means of transportation for us.‎ We lived in the countryside, and we always used the back door because the driveway led to it. One winter evening, I stepped outside to take a bag of trash to the barrel and almost tripped over something. It was nearly dark, and I had to bend down to see what it was. I could hardly believe my eyes. There sat a large basket loaded with food.‎ It was heavy, so I called my husband to carry it into the house. Once inside, we discovered two loaves of bread, some butter, several cans of vegetables, a can of orange sauce, and a large turkey. There was so much that I couldn't remember it all, but it was everything we needed to fix a wonderful dinner — everything except potatoes.‎ A little while later I remembered that I hadn't taken the trash to the barrel. By now it was dark, so I had to turn on the yard light — and that's when I spotted a small bag of potatoes sitting on the porch.‎ That dinner was the best I could remember.‎ We weren't able to thank our donators, though, because we never found out who had been so generous in helping a struggling young family. Whoever it was, we are forever grateful.‎ 语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。“我”和丈夫有两个孩子，很多年前，我们生活贫困。一天晚上，“我”在家门口发现一篮子丰盛的食物，那一餐让“我”终生难忘。“我”将永远感谢那位送食物给“我”家的人。‎ ‎8.Which of the following can replace the underlined word ‎ “impecunious” in Paragraph 1?‎ A．Generous. B．Harmonious.‎ C．Penniless. D．Stubborn.‎ 解析：选C　词义猜测题。根据第一段最后一句可知，“我”的父母住在很远的地方，“我”羞于让他们知道我们的处境；结合第一段第一句可知，我们是有着两个孩子的年轻夫妻，据此可以推知，我们的日子过得相当贫穷，才会羞于让远方的父母知道我们的情况。据此可以判断，画线词意为“贫穷的”，故C项正确。‎ ‎9．How did the author's husband support the family?‎ A．By starting a garage.‎ B．By selling food door to door.‎ C．By delivering goods.‎ D．By working as a shop assistant.‎ 解析：选C　细节理解题。根据第二段第一句可知，“我”的丈夫用一辆旧卡车为当地的店主送货谋生，故C项正确。‎ ‎10．How did the author feel when she saw the basket?‎ A．She was annoyed. B．She was astonished.‎ C．She was terrified. D．She felt a sense of relief.‎ 解析：选B　推理判断题。根据第三段最后两句可知，看到一篮子的食物，“我”几乎不能相信自己的眼睛；据此可以判断，作者很惊讶，故B项正确。‎ ‎11．What may be the best title for the text?‎ A．A helping hand in time B．A struggling young couple C．A tale of potatoes D．A reward from a stranger 解析：选A　标题归纳题。通读全文可知，本文主要讲述了“我”和丈夫有两个孩子，生活贫困。一天晚上，“我”在家门口发现一篮子丰盛的食物，那一餐让“我”终生难忘。“我”将永远感谢那位送食物给“我”家的人。据此可以判断，A项最能概括文意，体现文章主旨，故A项正确。‎ D People, who believe they are healthy, may live longer. In fact, what you think of your own health is the best guide to how long you will live. According to researchers, it provides a more reliable estimate of lifespan (寿命) than whether you smoke, have lots of friends or are on many medicines.‎ Researchers analyzed 29 years of data on the lives and health of more than 6,000 men and women from Newcastle and Manchester.‎ The volunteers aged between 41 and 96 at the start of the study were put through regular mental tests, and were also asked a range of questions about their daytoday lives. This provided 65 factors which could potentially influence how long the volunteers lived. Perception (感知) of health proved to be the most important, ranking above all other factors when it came to protecting their lifespan. In other words, how healthy people said they felt provided the best indicator of whether they would still be alive almost 30 years later.‎ Researcher Stephen Aichele said, “A person's perception of his or her own health status should be taken seriously. However, people's view of their overall health is likely to provide more information.”‎ ‎“An active mind also ranked highly. People, whose brains remained agile (敏捷的) over the years, live longer than those whose processing power obviously slowed down，” the journal Psychological Science reports.‎ Dr Aichele added that because various illnesses could affect the brain, a loss of mental sharpness could be a good indicator of deteriorating (退化的) overall health.‎ He said, “Our study shows that both lower selfrated health and agerelated decrease in processing speed appear to be specially important indicators of death risk in middleage and older adults. If you know how healthy a person feels at a given point in time, and then you track changes in his/her mental processing speed with age, you can combine those sources of information to improve prediction about how long the person will likely live.”‎ 语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。研究人员通过对6 000名41到96岁的中老年人长达29年跟踪调查发现，对自己身体健康状况持乐观态度的人可能会更长寿。‎ ‎12．What is the major finding of the study?‎ A．Healthy lifestyles may increase lifespan.‎ B．Positive attitude towards life may increase lifespan.‎ C．Firm belief in one's health may increase lifespan.‎ D．Constant use of brains may increase lifespan.‎ 解析：选C　细节理解题。研究人员通过对6 000名41到96岁的中老年人长达29年跟踪调查发现，对自己身体健康状况持乐观态度的人可能会更长寿。文章多处(尤其开篇People, who believe they are healthy, may live longer.)提到此意。‎ ‎13．What do we know about the volunteers?‎ A．Most of them were old people.‎ B．They were tracked for 29 years.‎ C．How they answered influenced their lifespan.‎ D．They went through many physical and mental tests.‎ 解析：选B　细节理解题。根据第二段“Researchers analyzed 29 years of data ... Newcastle and Manchester.”可知。‎ ‎14．Which will Stephen Alichele probably agree with?‎ A．Extending our life isn't a simple matter.‎ B．Many illnesses come from the loss of mental sharpness.‎ C．To live longer, people should take health seriously.‎ D．A loss of mental sharpness may be a sign of bad health.‎ 解析：选D　细节理解题。根据倒数第二段的内容可知，脑子慢有可能真是一个身体退化的标志。‎ ‎15．What's the purpose of the text?‎ A．To entertain. B．To advertise.‎ C．To inform. D．To persuade.‎ 解析：选C　推理判断题。通过全文内容可知，这是一篇说明文，作者主要要向读者介绍了一个研究发现的成果，所以C项正确。‎ Ⅱ.阅读七选五 Why Leaving Your Comfort Zone ‎ Gives You a Chance to Grow All of us want to be comfortable. Whether it comes from a warm apartment, a stable job or financial freedom, we feel safe in our familiar surroundings. While there's nothing wrong with feeling comfortable, there are also many surprising benefits of being uncomfortable. Here are the details.‎ It pushes us to our limits.‎ ‎__1__ We become faster and more creative as we deal with problems. When we realize we don't have a choice but to succeed, we are more determined and stronger.‎ It forces us to move on.‎ Whether it's a personal or a professional problem, discomfort forces us to move forward. When facing certain challenges, we have two options: remain stagnant (停滞不前的) or move on. __2__ Discomfort is not pleasant, but it accelerates our growing process.‎ It makes us stronger.‎ When we take ourselves out of that comfortable place, we will experience the highs and lows of our life. This might seem exhausting, but it's also beneficial. __3__‎ It makes us have new experiences.‎ All new experiences are learning opportunities. __4__ We grow wiser and gradually have the ability to make correct decisions that bring us closer to achieving our goals.‎ ‎__5__‎ The more we explore ourselves to discomfort, the more directions we'll have. Facing discomfort means we have the opportunity to figure out exactly what we want in life. We can choose any direction we wish on the basis of those situations that may have been uncomfortable at first.‎ A．It helps us find directions.‎ B．It makes us more confident.‎ C．We become more aware of what will do in the future.‎ D．We can pick up some knowledge and new skills from the experiences.‎ E．From every learning experience we become stronger and more confident.‎ F．Only when we decide to focus on the latter do we grow and get improved.‎ G．Facing the unknown allows us to challenge ourselves and ‎ accomplish things we thought impossible.‎ ‎1．选G　本段的标题是“It pushes us to our limits.”， 所以本句“探索未知的事物能够让我们挑战自己，实现我们原来认为不可能的事情”是对标题的进一步阐释和有力支持。‎ ‎2．选F　承接上文“When facing certain challenges, we have two options: remain stagnant(停滞不前的)or move on.”，对上句内容做进一步陈述。‎ ‎3．选E　本句是对上段的总结，又呼应了段落标题“It makes us stronger.”。‎ ‎4．选D　承接上文“All new experiences are learning opportunities.”，并对上文做进一步陈述。‎ ‎5．选A　根据本段第一句话可知，我们越是接触不熟悉的东西，我们越能找到方向。因此本段的标题为走出舒适区帮助我们找到方向。‎