高中英语外研版 (2019)必修 第一册Unit 6 At one with nature当堂达标检测题

UNIT 6 课时跟踪检测（三） 阅读写作融会练

Ⅰ.阅读理解

Gardening is popular in many parts of the world. This outdoor activity gives us beautiful plants, pleasant smelling flowers and fresh fruits and vegetables. But it also does a lot of good to our health.

Gardening connects people. When you are gardening, you are outdoors. So it is a perfect chance to meet and spend time with your neighbors. Most people love to talk about their hobbies, and gardeners are no different. They usually enjoy showing people what they are growing. And most enjoy sharing advice and stories about their gardens almost as much as sharing flowers and vegetables from their gardens.

Gardening is a great activity for children. It gets them outdoors and off computers, televisions and cell phones. Gardening is also a great teacher. It can teach a child about where food comes from and healthy eating. It also helps them to understand that the natural resources are not inexhaustible and the importance of using them carefully.

Then, when you garden, you must move around. All the different movements needed for gardening, like bending and lifting, work small muscles (肌肉) in the body. And you can easily get good exercise when you are digging holes or pulling grasses.

In a study, researchers looked at more than 2,800 people over the age of 60. They studied their lifestyle habits, activities and health over a 16-year period. They found that gardening could lower the risk of future dementia (痴呆) by 36%. Gardening requires people do many repeated actions, such as picking off dying flowers. These actions have a calming influence on the brain. The brain is still active but not in the same way when we use computers.

You'll feel wonderful when what you grow in a garden looks, smells, feels and tastes good.

语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了园艺对人的好处，它能让人保持与他人的联系，而且园艺对孩子也有很多好处。

1．What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?

A．Gardeners don't feel lonely.

B．Gardeners are fond of sharing.

C．Gardeners have many hobbies.

D．Gardeners care about the environment.

解析：选A　推理判断题。根据第二段中的“When you are gardening ... with your neighbors.”可知，当你做园艺时，你可能会遇到邻居并和他们共度时光，由此可推知，你不会感到孤独，故选A。

2．What does the underlined word “inexhaustible” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Useless.　　　　　　　 B．Special.

C．Endless.  D．Cheap.

解析：选C　词义猜测题。根据第三段中的“It can teach a child ... healthy eating. (它能教会孩子粮食从哪里来及健康饮食)”和画线词后的“the importance of using them carefully”可知，孩子要理解自然资源不是取之不尽的，因此，inexhaustible 的意思是“用不完的”，故选C。

3．What is the study used to show?

A．Gardening is popular with the old.

B．Gardening is good for health.

C．Gardening can be a tiring activity.

D．Gardening is better than playing computers.

解析：选B　推理判断题。根据第五段中的“They found that gardening ...by 36%.”可知，作者提到这个研究是为了表明园艺有利于健康，故选B。

4．What's the purpose of the text?

A．To show how to garden.

B．To encourage us to garden.

C．To show gardening is popular.

D．To encourage us to do outdoor activities.

解析：选B　写作意图题。本文全篇都在介绍做园艺的各种好处，由此可推断出作者写这篇文章的目的是鼓励我们去做园艺，故选B。

Ⅱ.读后续写

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Mother's gift

I grew up in a small town where the primary school was a ten-minute walk from my house. When the noon bell rang, I would race breathlessly home. My mother would be standing at the top of the stairs, smiling down at me.

One lunchtime when I was in the third grade will stay with me always. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had rehearsed my lines so hard with me. But no matter how easily I acted at home, as soon as I stepped on stage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator's part to the play, and asked me to change roles. Her word, kindly expressed, still hurt, especially when I saw my part go to another girl.

I didn't tell my mother what had happened when I went home for lunch that day. But she sensed my pain. Instead of suggesting we practise my lines, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine was turning green. Under the huge trees, we could see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) in the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with a bit of gold. I watched my mother casually bend down by one dandelion. “I think I'm going to dig up all these weeds，” she said, pulling it up by its roots. “From now on, we'll have only roses in this garden.”

“But I like dandelions.” I protested. “All flowers are beautiful — even dandelions.”

My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn't it？” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded, pleased that I had won her over. “And that is true of people too，” she added. “Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no shame in that.” Relieved that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry as I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled reassuringly.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；

2．请按如下格式作答。

Paragraph 1：

“But you will be a beautiful narrator，” she said，　

Paragraph 2：

After the play, I took home the flower.　

参考范文：

Paragraph 1：

“But you will be a beautiful narrator，” she said，encouraging and comforting me as always as she did. My beloved mom, wearing a shining smile on her soft face, added.“The narrator's part is important, too.”Thanks to her encouragement, which calmed me down gradually, I began to accept that the narrator part was of vital significance. Time went so fast that it reached to the performance day. At first I was still nervous, but it was at that very moment that I found a dandelion in my pocket. I knew my mom  passed the flower to me, which meant to be in company with me.

Paragraph 2：

After the play, I took home the flower. Mom carefully gazed at the dandelion, gently pressed it into the dictionary and grinned happily as she did. “We were perhaps the only people who would press such a sorry-looking weed.” Though decades have passed, I constantly recall our precious lunchtimes being together, grateful, because smiles on mother's face and her kind act foster a man like me now! And all those inspiring words like “Cease to struggle and you cease to live.”have been echoing in my mind as fresh as a daisy.