人教版必修三Unit 5 CanadaThe True North grammar课时作业2.docx

unit 5 canada-the true north grammar课时作业第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。carl walter was my piano teacher. during one of my lessons he asked how much practicing i was doing. i said three or four hours a day.“do you practice in long stretches(一段时间), an hour 1 ?”“i try to.”“well, dont,” he said loudly. “ when you grow up, 2 wont come in long stretches. practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, 3 household tasks. 4 the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your life.”when i was teaching at columbia, i wanted to 5 , but class periods, theme-reading, and committee meetings filled my days and evenings. for two years i got practically 6 down on paper, and my 7 was that i had no time. then i remembered what carl walter had said. during the next 8 i conducted an experiment. whenever i had five minutes unoccupied, i sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. to my 9 , at the end of the week i had a rather large manuscript ready for revision, later on i wrote novels by the same piecemeal method. 10 my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, in every day there were idle moments which could be caught and put to use. i 11 took up piano-playing again, finding that the small 12 of the day provided sufficient time for both writing and piano practice.there is an important 13 in this time you 14 get into your work quickly. if you have but five minutes for writing, you cant afford to waste four chewing your pencil. you must make your mental preparations 15 , and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. fortunately, rapid 16 is easier than most of us realize.i 17 i have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. but life can be expected to supply interruptions. carl walter has had a tremendous 18 on my life. 19 him i owe the discovery that even very short periods of time 20 all useful hours i need.1. a. at no timeb. at a timec. at one timed. in no time2. a. timeb. lifec. workd. success3. a. beyondb. amongc. beneathd. between4. a. separateb. spreadc. organized. arrange5. a. playb. restc. writed. read6. a. nothing b. anything c. something d. none7. a. excuseb. reasonc. caused. factor8. a. timeb. morningc. weekd. day9. a. satisfactionb. disappointmentc. depressiond. astonishment10. a. thoughb. becausec. whetherd. unless11. a. oftenb. evenc. everd. always12. a. quantitiesb. piecesc. intervalsd. ranges13. a. periodb. linkc. staged. trick14. a. mustb. canc. mayd. might15. a. in mindb. in advancec. without delayd. by chance16. a. developmentb. progressc. concentrationd. improvement17. a. admitb. confirmc. claimd. realize18. a. affectionb. influencec. promotiond. proposal19. a. onb. forc. ind. to20. a. add tob. look up toc. add up tod. break up with第二节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。acell phones are the new cigaretteswhen you get in your car, you reach for it. when youre at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. when you get into a lift, you play with it.cigarettes? cup of coffee? no, its the third most addictive thing in modern life, the cell phone. and experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their desire to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.with its shiny surface, its smooth and satisfying touch, its air of complexity, the cell phone connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away. in just the past couple of years, the cell phone has challenged individuals, employers, phone makers and counselors(顾问) in ways its inventors in the late 195s never imagined.the costs are becoming even more evident, and i dont mean just the monthly bill. dr. chris knippers, a counselor at the betty ford center in southern california, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality.sounds extreme, but weve all witnessed the evidence: the person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him.is it just rude, or is it a kind of unhealthiness? and pardon me, but how is this improving the quality of life?jim williams, an industrial sociologist based in massachusetts, notes that cell-phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation. he points to a study by duke university researchers that found one-quarter of americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. despite the growing use of phones, e-mail and instant messaging, in other words, williams says studies show that we dont have as many friends as our parents. “just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances via the internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends,” he says.if the cell phone has truly had these effects, its because it has become very widespread. consider that in 1987, there were only 1 million cell phones in use. today, something like 300 million americans carry them. they far outnumber wired phones in the united states.1. which of the following best explains the title of the passage?a. cell phone users smoke less than they used to.b. more people use cell phones than smoke cigarettes.c. cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes.d. using cell phone is just as cool as smoking cigarettes.2. the underlined word “curb” in paragraph 2 means _. a. control b. ignore c. develop d. rescue3. the example of a woman talking on the phone in the car supports the idea that .a. women use cell phones more often than menb. talking on the phone while driving is dangerousc. cell phones make one-on-one personal contact easyd. cell phones do not necessarily bring people togetherbnicknamed “the cradle of texas”, san augustine county is full of history. it is home to the first european settlement in the state and has a number of texas historic landmarks.the log cabinthe log cabin, which houses the san augustine county chamber of commerce as well as tourism center, is filled with information about attractions and events in the county and qualifies as an attraction itself. inside the log cabin, paintings show the history of san augustine and you will find a carving of the great americans eagle by san augustine woodcarver joe lander. address: 611 west columbia street, san augustine, tx, (91) 275-110.mission doloresmission dolores is listed in the national register of historic palaces and is a state archaeological archives landmark. mission dolores also houses an extensive archive, consisting of 7 different rolls of microfilm with about 1, 200 pages of photocopies and 10 color slides, which can be studied in the reading room next to the visitors center. address: mission dolores, 151 s. broadway, san augustine, tx, (91) 275-315.ezkiel w. cullen houseezkiel w. cullen house was an associated justice of the supreme court of the republic of texas, and a member of the third congress. his 182 house, designed by architect augustus phelps, is of greek revival style, and contains an impressive collection of works by san augustine artist s. seymour thomas. address: 205 south congress street, san augustine, tx, (91) 275-1110.jerusalem cme churchthe jerusalem memorial cme church is considered to be the first african american church in texas. it was established in 1810 as the cme church, but in 1815 it changed its name to the jerusalem cme church. address: south augustine, tx, (91) 275-5183.every october, san augustine holds a sassafras festival that has live entertainment, arts and crafts, and contests.4. san augustine county is called “the cradle of texas” because _.a. it is the origin of texas b. it has many places of interestsc. many tourists visit it every year d. its the most developed area in texas5. in the log cabin, you can find _.a. some works of artb. some cultural remainsc. lots of beautiful photosd. many ancient monuments6. you can learn about the works of s. seymour thomas in _.a. the log cabinb. mission doloresc. jerusalem cme churchd. ezkiel w. cullen house7. where does this passage most probably come from? a. a book review. b. a history book. c. an advertisement. d. a news report.cenvironmentalists said our planet was bound to die. now one man says they are wrong. “everyone knows the planet is in bad shape,” thundered a magazine article last year. “species are being driven to die out at record rates, and the rivers are so poisonous that fish are floating on the surface, dead.”but theres growing belief that what everyone takes for granted is wrong: things are actually getting better. a new book is about to overturn our most basic assumptions about the worlds environment. rivers, seas, rain and the atmosphere are all getting better.the total amount of forests in the world is not declining. the skeptical environmentalist by bjorn lomborg, professor of statistics at the university of aarhus in denmark, is an attack on the misleading claims of environmental groups, and the “bad news” culture that makes people believe everything is getting worse.now the attacks are increasingly coming from left-wing environmentalists such as lomborg, a former member of greenpeace. the accusation is that, although the environment is improving, green groups with profits of hundreds of millions of pounds a year are using scare tactics (战术) to gain donations. lomborgs book doesnt deny global warming probably the biggest environmental threat but destroys almost every other environmental claim with many official statistics.the worldwatch institute claims that deforestation has been accelerating over the last 30 years. buy lomborg says that is simply rubbish. since the dawn of agriculture the world has lost about 20% of its forest cover, but in recent decades the forest areas depleting has come to a stop. according to un figures, the area of forests has remained almost steady, at about 30% of total land area, since 195s. forests in countries such as the us, uk and canada have actually been expanding over the past 5 years. despite all the warnings the amazon rainforest has only shrunk by about 15%.nor are all our species dying out. some campaigners claim that 10% of all species will have died out within 10 years. but other studies show only 0.08% of species are dying out each year. conservation efforts have been successful. whales are no longer threatened and the bald eagle is off the endangered list.environmental groups claim that many of the improvements are the results of their campaigns. stephen tindale, director of greenpeace uk, said, “there are important examples, such as acid rain and ozone, where things werent as bad as predicted, and thats because our behaviour changed.”8. what is lomborgs main argument in the skeptical environmentalist?a. our planet is in bad shape. b. the total amount of forests in the world is not declining.c. conservation efforts have been successful. d. the worlds environment is improving.9. what is lomborgs main accusation of environmentalists?a. they changed their behaviour toward the environment.b. they only told people bad news about the environment.c. they scared people into making donations.d. they overturned our basic assumption about the worlds environment.10. the underlined word “depleting” is close to “_” in meaning.a. accelerating b. limiting c. expanding d. reducing11. which of the following can be the best title for the passage?a. are all species dying out? b. isnt conservation powerful? c. is our planet bound to die? d. arent environmentalists wrong?dben walked quietly. he wanted to surprise the hunter. but then, what would he do?suddenly he heard a birds wings beating the dry grass. ben moved quickly toward the sound.he saw a colored head the head of a beautiful bird. the bird did not move until ben came close. then it tried to fly away, but one wing was broken.ben lifted the bird and held it close against his body. the bird fought to escape, but soon lay quietly in bens arms.ben decided to take the bird home and fix its broken wing so that it could fly again.he was almost out of the woods when he heard the hunter behind him.“you just found that bird?” the hunter asked.“yes,” ben answered.“it is mine!”ben was afraid and tried to answer, but his mouth was too dry to speak. nevertheless, he wetted his lips and said, “no.”“i shot him and i say he is mine!”“but he is not dead yet,” ben answered, “and besides, anything on my land belongs to me.”the hunter looked down at the little man and smiled. “say, who are you?”bens voice shook with both fear and anger. “i own this land. there are signs everywhere that say, no hunting.”“no need to get angry, mister,” the hunter said, “control yourself.”there was something threatening in the mans cool quiet voice. and he had a gun. his arms were free and bens were not.the hunter stepped closer and said, “give me that bird!”ben was white with anger, “no!” he answered. his eye glasses became wet and he had to look over the top of them to see the other man.“give me the bird and i will go away,” the hunter said.“you get off my land,” ben told him. “get off right nowyou do not belong here!”the mans face got red. “mister,” he said, “i have been hunting here all my life. i grew up here.”“that is a thing of the past.” ben said. “i do not know who you are and i do not care. i own this place now and im telling you to leave. you go back through the woods and get off my land!”“now look, mister,” the hunter said, “be reasonable.”the hunter raised his gun.a cold wind blew across bens face. he looked into the hunters gray eyes. ben was frightened. it was not too late, he thought. he could still give the bird to the hunter and return safely home that would end this whole ugly business.the bird struggled weakly and made a wild, strange noise.then ben knew he could never give this bird to the hunter. this feeling gave ben great strength, and he was no longer afraid.“i will never let you kill this bird,” he said. “get away from here. if you try