2021版英语全能大一轮复习外研版话题语篇专攻练 二十二 必修4 Module 4 Great Scientists

话题语篇专攻练二十二必修4Module 4(限时35分钟)Ⅰ. 阅读理解AHarry is eighteen now. He studies in a high school. His parents like him very much and hope he can become a famous man. So they often tell him to study hard and they do all for him. They call him at six in the morning, after breakfast his father takes him to school in a car and in the afternoon, as soon as the young man comes back, the supper is ready. Of course, he never washes his clothes or goes to buy something in the shops.Once Harry’s father was s ent to London on business. He would stay there for half a year. Leaving, he told his wife to take good care of their son. The woman had to get up earlier and did all that her husband did before. And two months later she was so tired that she was ill in bed. Now the young man got into trouble. He couldn’t do any housework. He had to do as his mother told him. Even he didn’t know where to get on the bus!Yesterday Harry’s mother found his shoes were worn out and told him to buy a new pair in the shop. But h e didn’t know how to choose. The woman had a sigh and gave him a shoe pattern and told him to buy a pairof shoes himself. It’s Saturday today and Harry doesn’t go to school. With a policeman’s help, he found a shop. The shopkeeper was friendly to him. The man brought a lot of shoes and asked him to choose. When he was trying on a pair, suddenly he remembered something and took them off. The man was surprised and asked, “What’s the matter, young man? ”“I’m sorry. I’ve left the shoe pattern at home! ”【文章大意】本文叙述了Harry的父母一心想让他成为名人, 只让他读书学习, 任何家务都不用他去做, 可是等到爸爸出差不在家, 妈妈因为照顾他而累病了, 因为他的鞋破了让他去买鞋, 他让警察帮忙找到商店, 走到商店又不知怎么挑选, 又把妈妈给他的鞋样忘在了家里。

从这个故事里作者提醒家长要适当让孩子做些家务。

1. Harry’s parents do all instead of him because ______.A. he’s too youngB. he has poor healthC. he’s busy with his studiesD. they hope he spends all time on studies【解析】选D。

细节理解题。

根据His parents like him very much and hope he can become a famous man. So they often tell him to study hard and they do all for him. 所以父母为他做好一切事情目的是让他一心读书, 故选D项。

2. The woman had to look after her son by herself because ______.A. her husband wasn’t at homeB. she was stronger than her husbandC. she knew the young man wellD. she was freer than her husband【解析】选A。

细节理解题。

根据Harry’s father was sent to London on business. 可知她的丈夫出差不在家, 故选A。

3. When the man was in London, ______.A. Harry had to stay at homeB. Harry didn’t find the bus stopC. Harry fell behind in his classD. Harry wouldn’t go to school【解析】选B。

细节理解题。

根据第二段Even he didn’t know where to get on the bus! 可知B项正确。

4. The woman told her son to buy a pair of shoes because ______.A. she didn’t know what kind he neededB. she was busy with the houseworkC. something was wrong with herD. she wanted her son to do something himself【解析】选C。

细节理解题。

根据she was ill in bed. 因为她病了, 所以让儿子自己去买鞋, 故选C项。

【知识拓展】词汇积累1. wear out穿破2. sigh v. &n. 叹息3. pattern n. 花样, 样式BHawking was perhaps the most famous scientist in theworld when he died in 2018 at age 76. His 1988 book, ABrief History of Time, sold ten million copies and made himan unlikely superstar even to people who sweated through high school science.Humor was always a big part of Hawking’s effort to bring physics to the masses. In his 2010 book, The Grand Design, for instance, he recounts how, in 1277, the Catholic Church declared scientific laws such as gravity to be wrong, since they seemed against God’s idea. “Interestingly, ” the text adds jokingly, “Pope John was killed by the effects of the law of gravity a few months later when the roof of his palace fell in on him. ”Hawking was only 21 when he was diagnosed with the disease ALS. For most people, the condition would have been a disaster. But Hawking rolled over hardship as if it were just a pebble under his wheelchair. “Life would be tragic, ” he once said, “if it weren’t funny. ” He kept smiling even though he spent more than 50 years in a wheelchair.“He loved adventure and fun, ” says Mlodinow, who once tookHawking on a punt-boat trip down the fiver Cam in Cambridge, England, despite the obvious danger of the boat turning over. “You know about when he went on the Vomit Comet? It’s a plane that flies in a parabolic (抛物线的) path so you are weightless, like you are in space. A lot of people vomit, but he loved that sort of thing. ” And he was 65 at the time.Hawking’s greatest hit, humor-wise, was probably the cocktail party he threw in 2009. It was a “welcome reception for future time travelers, ” he said, so naturally, he sent out the invitations the day after the party. No one showed up yet. “Maybe one day someone living in the future will find the information and use a wormhole time machine to come back to my party, proving that time travel will one day be possible, ” Hawking explained. And if that happens, don’t be surprised if Hawking is there too. After all, he never missed a chance to have fun. 【文章大意】本文属于说明文, 介绍霍金不仅用幽默的方式让大家理解物理学, 同时也是一个幽默乐观的人。