1、1Unit 2 Heroes课时练(一) 阅读理解组块专练练速度(限时：35 分钟).阅读理解A(2019湖北四市七校联考)TECFIDERAWhat is TECFIDERA?TECFIDERA is a prescription (处方) medicine used to treat people with multiple sclerosis, a serious illness that gradually destroys your nerves, making you weak and unable to walk.It is not known if TECFIDERA is s
2、afe and effective in children under 18 years of age.Before taking and while you take TECFIDERA, tell your doctor if you have or have had low white blood cell counts or any other medical conditions.Tell your doctor if you are：pregnant or planning to become pregnant. It is not known if TECFIDERA will
3、harm your unborn baby. If you become pregnant while taking TECFIDERA, talk to your doctor about joining in the TECFIDERA Pregnancy Registry. You can join in this registry by calling 18668101462. The purpose of this registry is to monitor the health of you and your baby.breastfeeding (母乳喂养) or planni
4、ng to breastfeed. It is not known if TECFIDERA passes into your breast milk. You and your doctor should decide if you will take TECFIDERA or breastfeed.How should I take TECFIDERA?Take TECFIDERA exactly as your doctor tells you to take it.The recommended starting dose (剂量) is one 120mg capsule taken
5、 by mouth 2 times a day for 7 days.The recommended dose after 7 days is one 240mg capsule taken by mouth 2 times a day.TECFIDERA can be taken with or without food.Swallow TECFIDERA whole. Do not press, chew, or put capsule contents in food.Protect TECFIDERA from light. You can do this by storing the
6、 capsules in 2their original container. Throw away opened TECFIDERA after 90 days.What are the possible side effects of TECFIDERA?TECFIDERA may cause serious side effects including decreases in your white blood cell count, sickness, redness, stomach pain and so on.Redness and stomach problems are th
7、e most common reactions, especially at the start of the treatment, but they should decrease over time. Call your doctor if you have any of these symptoms and they bother you or do not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of TECFIDERA. Call your doctor for medical advice about side ef
8、fects. You may report side effects to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at 1800FDA1088.语篇解读：本文是一篇应用文，主要向人们介绍了处方药 TECFIDERA的适宜人群和注意事项。1Before taking TECFIDERA, you do NOT have to tell your doctor if you are _.Aunder 18 years old Babove 90 years oldCexpecting a baby Dbreastfeeding解析：选 B 细节理解题。
9、根据语境可知，文中没有具体提到 90岁以上的人需要在服用 TECFIDERA之前告诉医生，所以选 B项。2Which of the following is the correct way of taking TECFIDERA?ANever dividing the capsule by any means while taking it.BIncreasing the dose by 2 times every 7 days.CTaking it exactly as the instructions show.DNever taking it on an empty stomach.解析
10、：选 A 推理判断题。根据“How should I take TECFIDERA”部分中的“Swallow TECFIDERA whole. Do not press, chew, or put capsule contents in food”可知，药要整个吞服下去。不要挤压、咀嚼或者和食物混吃。因此选项 A“在服药时无论如何不能把胶囊打开来服用”是正确的。所以选 A。3If you suffer from TECFIDERA, you may _.Ahave some eye problemsBreport your doctor for prescribing the wrong me
11、dicineChave a high white blood cell countDcontact FDA解析：选 D 细节理解题。根据“What are the possible side effects of TECFIDERA”部分末段的“Call your doctor if you have any of these symptoms . 3You may report side effects to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at 1800FDA1088”可知，当你服用 TECFIDERA出现副作用时，你应该给医生打电话，你
12、还可以联系 FDA，故 D项正确。BWhen she was a little girl, Margarita Engle spent her summers in Cuba, where she says she fell in love with nature.Engle, 66, was born to a Cuban mother and an American father. Her annual visits to the Caribbean island from her home in California shaped her life and inspired her to
13、 become a poet and writer. The Poetry Foundation recently named her its Young Peoples Poet Laureate, a role Engle plans to use to encourage children and teenagers to write down their feelings.Magic happens when you put your emotions (情感) in writing, she said.Engle says she has always liked poetry. A
14、t age 6, she wrote her first poem about nature. After looking around while taking a walk one day in California, she wrote a rhymed poem about the shapes of hills. As a teen, she wrote sonnets (十四行诗) about nature and stories about people in Cuba.Some of her books explore the island, its people, marke
15、ts and landmarks. Her new picture book, All the Way to Havana, features American cars from the 1940s and 1950s. Forest World, a new novel, introduces Edver to readers, an 11yearold who lives in Miami, Florida, with his mother and is shipped off to Cuba to see his birthplace and meet his Cuban family
16、. When he arrives in Havana, the capital, he learns he has an older sister, Luza, who stayed on the island with her father and grandfather. The two go on an adventure into a Cuban forest.The emotions of the characters are similar to what many children feel when they are separated from loved ones, En
17、gle said. She hopes that people facing similar challenges can find support and comfort in poetry.语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。Engle 童年时每年往返于古巴和美国，这让她亲近自然，并激发了她的创作热情，最终成为一位知名的诗人兼作家。4What made Engle a poet?AHer visits to Cuba.BDays spent in California.CMagic skills in practicing writing.DEncouragement from the Poetr
18、y Foundation.解析：选 A 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Her annual visits to the Caribbean 4island from her home in California shaped her life and inspired her to become a poet and writer”可知 A项正确。5We can learn from the text that young Engle probably _.Aenjoyed indoor gamesBfound inspiration in natureCliked exploring citi
19、es in FloridaDmade friends with Cuban people解析：选 B 细节理解题。根据第一段和第四段中的“At age 6, she wrote her first poem about nature . she wrote sonnets (十四行诗) about nature”可知，儿时的 Engle爱上了大自然，还写了关于大自然的诗，因此她从大自然中获得了创作灵感，故选 B。6What is TRUE about Forest World?AIt is a new picture book.BIt is based on a reallife event.
20、CIt talks about an adventure story.DIt describes family ties between countries.解析：选 D 推理判断题。根据第五段提到的小说 Forest World的内容可知，该书描写的是 Edver离开美国佛罗里达州前往古巴哈瓦那探亲的故事，揭示的是分隔在两个国家的家庭亲情，故选 D。7What does Engle stress in the last paragraph?AThe frequent changes of emotions.BThe challenges in writing poems.CThe separ
21、ations from family members.DThe links between life and literature.解析：选 D 推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，Engle 认为无论是在作品中还是在现实中，孩子离别亲人时心底迸发的情感有相似之处，她希望面临这种处境的人能从诗歌中寻觅到支持和慰藉。故 Engle在此强调生活与文学作品的联系。CThink of a seed buried in a pot. Its dark down there in the potting soil. Theres no light, no sunshine. So how does it kno
22、w which way is up and which way is down? It does know. Seeds routinely send shoots up toward the sky, and roots the other way. Darkness doesnt confuse them. Somehow, they get it right.More amazingly, if you turn a seedling (秧苗) or a whole bunch of seedlings upside down, as Thomas Andrew Knight of th
23、e Royal Society did around 200 years 5ago, the tips and roots of the plant will sense, “Hey, Im upside down， ” and will wiggle (扭动) their way to the right direction, doing a Uturn.How do they know? According to botanist Daniel Chamovitz, Thomas Knight about 200 years ago assumed that plants must sen
24、se gravity. Knight proved it with a crazy experiment involving a spinning plate.He attached a bunch of plant seedlings onto a disc. The plate was then turned by a water wheel powered by a local stream at a speed of 150 revolutions per minute for several days.If youve ever been at an amusement park i
25、n a spinning teacup, you know that because of centrifugal (离心的) force you get pushed away from the center of the spinning object toward the outside.Knight wondered, would the plants respond to the centrifugal pull of gravity and point their roots to the outside of the spinning plate? When he looked,
26、 thats what theyd done. Every plant on the disc had responded to the pull of gravity, and pointed its roots to the outside. The roots pointed out, and the shoots pointed in. So Thomas Knight proved that plants can and do sense the pull.语篇解读：本文为说明文。植物能辨别方向，但植物是怎么做到的呢？事实是，植物通过感知引力来辨别方向。作者借助 Knight的圆盘试
27、验说明植物能够并确实感知到引力。8How does the author write about the young seedling in Paragraph 2?ABy lively description.BBy accurate statement.CBy objective presentation.DBy gentle persuasion.解析：选 A 写作手法题。从第二段中的“Hey, Im upside down， and will wiggle (扭动) their way to the right direction, doing a Uturn”得知，作者对这株幼苗的描
28、写十分生动形象。9What determines the direction the plants choose?ASoil. BSunshine.CDarkness. DThe pull of the earth.解析：选 D 细节理解题。根据第一段得知，土壤、阳光和黑暗均不决定植物对方向的判定；根据第三段的内容和最后一段 Knight的圆盘试验结果得知，地球引力影响植物对方向的判定。10What did Knights experiment prove?6APlants can tell up from down.BPlants can feel gravity.CSpeed influe
29、nces plants growing.DPlants have their own desires.解析：选 B 细节理解题。根据第三段中的“Thomas Knight about 200 years ago assumed that plants must sense gravity. Knight proved it with a crazy experiment involving a spinning plate”得知，Knight 的圆盘试验证明植物能够感知到引力。11Whats the best title for the text?AWhat does a plant know
30、?BWhich direction do plants grow in?CHow do plants decide: up or down?DWhy do plants grow towards the sun?解析：选 C 标题归纳题。本文重点讲述的是植物是怎么辨别生长方向的，故选 C。DIn our research, we surveyed nearly 1,400 consumers about what they had eaten over the last 24 hours and how often they bought foods at supermarkets. We a
31、lso took note of individual characteristics. When it came to making unhealthy food choices, a consumers individual characteristics mattered more than where they shopped.Young consumers were less likely to eat fruits and vegetables. People without college degrees consumed significantly more sugar and
32、 butter. With age and education came better eating habits. Older people and college graduates ate more fruits and vegetables.The clear role played by these connections argues for approaches to helping people improve the diet choices they make. Particularly when it comes to eating less junk food, tar
33、geted interventions (干预) are needed in addition to building supermarkets and stocking them with “good for you” foods. Policymakers should consider putting in place proven strategies (策略) that push consumers to change their shopping behaviors, such as taxing foods high in added sugars.In 2014, Berkel
34、ey became the first city in the US. to put a tax on sugarsweetened drinks, and consumption of such drinks dropped by more than 20 percent. In Mexico, an 8 percent tax on highcalorie foods put in place the 7same year reduced junk food purchases by about 5 percent.Evidence that people with lower level
35、s of education may be more likely to reduce their consumption of sugarsweetened drinks in the face of such a tax also comes from Mexico. With more US. cities following suit, muchneeded additional research should follow on whether these taxes effectively reduce consumption.Some strategies that are no
36、t obvious and are aimed at changing individual behaviors also could make a difference in eating and shopping habits. Instore marketing where and how foods are put has shown promise of increasing the sales of healthy foods in supermarkets of lowincome neighborhoods.Technology may also play a role. Re
37、search has shown that just being exposed to electronically delivered dietary feedback (反馈), including advice on how to eat more fruits and vegetables, led to increased consumption of such foods among lowerincome individuals with lower levels of education.语篇解读：本文为议论文。研究发现，个人特点，如年龄和受教育程度，与个人饮食习惯存在关联。对
38、此，作者提到从税收政策、市场营销和科技三个方面来改善个人饮食习惯。12Which of the following would the author agree from the first paragraph?APersonal tastes vary greatly.BYou are what you eat.CYou eat what you are.DMore supermarkets should be built.解析：选 C 推理判断题。根据第一段中的“a consumers individual characteristics mattered more than where
39、they shopped”得知，在选择食品时，消费者的个人特点要比购物地点更有决定性，因为年龄和受教育程度决定购买食品的种类，进而形成饮食习惯，即你的个人特点决定你的饮食习惯。第二段对此阐释得更加清楚，故 C项最佳。13What does the underlined word “connections” in Paragraph 3 refer to?AEducation backgrounds decide economic income.BAge and education affect the choices of foods.COlder consumers tend to buy
40、cheap foods.DIndividual characteristics influence where to shop.解析：选 B 名词指代题。根据第二段中的“With age and education came better eating habits”得知，饮食习惯受年龄和受教育程度的影响，故此处 connections指上文提及的年龄和受教育程度与个人饮食习惯之间的关联，故选 B。814How does the author feel about the taxes?ADoubtful. BOpposed.CIndifferent. DCautious.解析：选 D 观点态度
41、题。从第四段的数字得知，作者认为征税政策在特定城市的确有效，再结合第五段中的“With more US. cities following suit, muchneeded additional research should follow on whether these taxes effectively reduce consumption”得知，作者认为征税政策的效果还需进一步论证，故作者对征税的做法持谨慎态度，故选 D。15What does the author mainly talk about in the text?AAdvice on improving eating ha
42、bits.BThe importance of healthy foods.CPeoples different food preferences.DA latest research discovery.解析：选 A 主旨大意题。作者开篇提到一项研究发现，由此引出改善个人饮食习惯的几种方法。故作者主要在文中谈了改善个人饮食习惯的方法，故选 A。.阅读七选五(2019重庆市九校联考)Experiencing bad dreams every night can be frightening for anybody. Bad dreams can disturb sleep. _16_ That
43、s why one should take steps to stop them as soon as they happen every day.Studies have shown that when a person is under some sort of physical or mental stress, hes more likely to get bad dreams and disturbed sleep. _17_ For example, if youre overworked, learn to take things slow.Besides, an unpleas
44、ant experience that a person is unable to get over can make the person suffer from bad dreams. _18_ In such a case, receiving treatment and dealing with the unpleasant experience is the only way to stop bad dreams.Eating fatty and highprotein (高蛋白质的) foods is also known to cause bad dreams in some p
45、eople. _19_ Taking a light dinner of soups and salads is the best, both for health and for stopping disturbed sleep in some cases._20_ For example, your bedroom should be the most comfortable place in the world. So remove all electronic equipment including televisions. In addition, if you have negat
46、ive thoughts, it can have side effects on the kind of dreams you have. So from now on try to be a happy and positive person.AFirst, we need to know the bad effects of bad dreams.9BFor example, death of a very close one can result in bad dreams.CThey may also make a person feel stressed throughout th
47、e next day.DBad dreams occurring because of this can be stopped if the diet is changed.EReading something you enjoy can make you feel relaxed and help you sleep better.FBesides these, there are many other things a person can do to have a good nights sleep.GTo stop bad dreams, its necessary to find o
48、ut the causes of stress in life and remove them.语篇解读：本文是说明文。本文主要介绍了做噩梦的原因及避免噩梦的方法。16解析：选 C 该空前一句介绍的是噩梦会影响睡眠，后一句说那就是为什么我们应该想办法避免做噩梦，由此可知，应选“噩梦还会让一个人第二天一整天感到有压力” 。17解析：选 G 根据该空前一句及后面的例子可知，应选“为防止做噩梦，我们需要找到生活中压力的起因并消除这些压力” 。18解析：选 B 结合该空后一句中的“In such a case”可知，该空内容与一个例子有关，故选“例如一位很亲近的人的去世会导致噩梦” 。19解析：选 D
49、 该空所在段内容与日常饮食有关，D 项中的 the diet是提示，故选“由不良日常饮食引起的噩梦可以通过改变饮食来避免” 。20解析：选 F 该空后所举的几个例子是避免噩梦的其他方法，故选“除了这些，还有其他很多办法可以保证一晚的好睡眠” 。课时练(二) 语言知识运用组块专练练准度(限时：30 分钟).完形填空(2019成都诊断)When Heather McHugh, a poet, won a 500,000“genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation, she didnt buy a luxurious car or fly to Paris. _1_， she put the money in the bank and _2_ writing poems.In 2011, she finally _3_ what to do with i
