北师大版（2019）选择性必修第一册Unit 2 Success单元检测卷（AB卷）（含解析）

（4）Unit 2 Success—高二英语北师大版（2019）选择性必修第一册单元检测卷（B卷） 一、语法填空（共10小题；每小题4分，满分40分） 1.Despite the fact _____ they are of an age, they share no interests in common. 2.Individual success makes sense only in _____(refer) to its social values. 3.At the age when most people retire _____ work, he is ready to face a new career. 4.The nurses are tending to the _____(injure) carefully. 5.It was _____(normal) for him to turn up late, for he set off early. 6.Like children, parents are _____(defend) about their personal privacy. 7.The new work with a high _____(intense) causes the new employee too much stress. 8.About 1,500 active volcanoes can be found across the world though _____(count) others are sleeping on the ocean floor. 9.Besides those measures in schools, 47 football training camps have also been built in _____ effort to promote the sport among young people. 10.Covering an area about three times _____ size of Yellowstone National Park, the GPNP will be one of the first national parks in the country. 二、阅读理解（共4小题；每小题5分，满分20分） By day, Robert Titterton is a lawyer. In his spare on stage beside pianist Maria Raspopova—not as a musician but as her page turner. “I’m not a trained musician, but I’ve learnt to read music so I can help Maria in her performance.” Mr Titterton is chairman of the Omega Ensemble but has been the group’s official page turner for the past four years. His job is to sit beside the pianist and turn the pages of the score so the musician doesn’t have to break the flow of sound by doing it themselves. He said he became just as nervous as those playing instruments on stage. “A lot of skills are needed for the job. You have to make sure you don’t turn two pages at once and make sure you find the repeats in the music when you have to go back to the right spot.” Mr Titterton explained. Being a page turner requires plenty of practice. Some pieces of music can go for 40 minutes and require up to 50 page turns, including back turns for repeat passages. Silent onstage communication is key, and each pianist has their own style of “nodding” to indicate a page turn which they need to practise with their page turner. But like all performances, there are moments when things go wrong. “I was turning the page to get ready for the next page, but the draft wind from the turn caused the spare pages to fall off the stand,” Mr Titterton said, “Luckily I was able to catch them and put them back.” Most page turners are piano students or up-and-coming concert pianists, although Ms Raspopova has once asked her husband to help her out on stage. “My husband is the worst page turner,” she laughed. “He’s interested in the music, feeling every note, and I have to say: ‘Turn, turn!’ Robert is the best page turner I’ve had in my entire life.” 11.What should Titterton be able to do to be a page turner A. Read music. B. Play the piano. C. Sing songs. D. Fix the instruments. 12.Which o ... ...