Unit 1 Growing up—高二英语外研版(2019)选择性必修第二册单元检测卷(B卷) 一、填空题(共10小题;每小题4分,满分40分) 1.Don't worry. You won't miss him. He_____ (wear) a red T-shirt at that time. 2.I feel so excited! At this time tomorrow morning, I_____ (fly) to Shanghai. 3.Social media allows users to experience news events_____ (intimate) and immediately. 4.I'm very sorry that I can't lend my car to you tomorrow morning because I_____ (use) it then. 5.There is growing_____ (evident) that staying up late at night has a serious impact on people's health. 6.It is_____ (dishearten) not to get an A in a semester but what's important is having the drive to go forward. 7.I think that she_____ (work) on this experiment until next morning. 8.Sheena told me that she cannot make it to the reception tomorrow because she_____ (travel) to Bangalore. 9.In 1580 Peter withdrew to Switzerland, where he devoted himself entirely to_____ (write). 10.Some experts fear that too early exposure to computers will have harmful_____ (consequent) for children's development. 二、阅读理解(共4小题;每小题5分,满分20分) When I was growing up, I had an old neighbour named Dr Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was a lot nicer. When Dr Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life's goal was to make it a forest. The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant care and growth. He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them so that each successive tree generation would grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out (淘汰) the weaker trees early on. He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren't watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture (水分).I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured. So he never watered his trees. He would plant an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he'd beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's attention. Dr Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that Td watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They're extremely tall, big and robust However, the trees in my garden trembled in a cold wind although I had taken care of them for several years. Adversity (逆境) and suffering seemed to benefit these trees of Dr Gibbs in ways comfort and ease never could. Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often hope that their lives will be easy. But I think it's time to change my wish because now l know my children are going to encounter hardship. 11.What can ... ...
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