高中英語外研版高中選修8Module7Revision高考英語閱讀理解考點路標(biāo)（課后作業(yè)）

1、高考英語閱讀理解考點路標(biāo)Practice & consolidationAs a young girl growing up in the 1930s, I always wanted to fly a plane, but back then it was almost unheard of for a woman to do that. I got a taste of that dream in 2023，when my husband arranged for me to ride in a hot air balloon for my birthday. （2023年高考英語北京A篇

2、） What happened to the author in 2023？ A. She flew an airplane. B. She entered a competition. C. She went on a hot air balloon ride. D. She moved into a retirement community.2. He longs for conversations with an editor who will help him turn his good ideas into great ones. He wants someone to get ex

3、cited about what hes doing and to help him turn his story idea upside down and inside out， exploring the best ways to report it. He wants to be more valuable for your paper. （2023年高考英語北京B篇） What does the reporter want most from his editors in their talks？ A. Finding the news value of his stories. B.

4、 Giving him financial support. C. Helping him to find issues. D. Improving his good ideas.3.She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. “Were moving house”; “No space

5、for her any more with the baby coming.” “We never really wanted her，but what could we have done？She was a present.” People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.（2023年高考英語北京A篇） How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie c

6、ame to the house？ A. Shocked. B. Sympathetic. C. Annoyed. D. Upset.（2023新課標(biāo)2）Metrorail（地鐵） Each passenger needs a farecard to enter and go out. Up to two children under five may travel free with a paying customer. Farecard machine are in every station, Bring small bills because there are no change m

7、achines in the station and farecard machine only provide up to $ 5 in change. Get one of unlimited Metrorail rides with a One Day Pass. Buy it from a farecard machine in Metro stations. Use it after 9:30 a.m. until closing on weekdays, and all day on weekends and holidays. 32. What should you know a

8、bout farecard machine? A. They start selling tickets at 9:30 a.m. B. They are connected to change machines. C. They offer special service to the elderly. D. They make change for no more than $5. 5. （2023山東卷）It was one of those terribly hot days in Baltimore. Needless to say, it was too hot to do any

9、thing outside. But it was also scorching in our apartment. This was 1962, and I would not live in a place with an air conditioner for another ten years. So my brother and I decided to leave the apartment to find someplace indoors. He suggested we could see a movie. It was a brilliant plan. In which

10、year did the author first live in a place with an air conditioner? A. 1952. B. 1962. C. 1972. D. 1982. 6. (2023新課標(biāo)全國卷閱讀B節(jié)選)Since the first Earth Day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot “greener” toward the environment. “We didnt know at that time that there even was an environment, let alone that t

11、here was a problem with it，” says Bruce Anderson, president of Earth Day USA. But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement. Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grassroots Americans are taking part in the move

12、ment. “The understanding has increased many, many times，” says Gaylord Nelson, the former governor from Wisconsin, who thought up the first Earth Day.25According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about _.Athe social movement Brecycling techniquesCenvironmental problems Dthe importa

13、nce of Earth Day7.（2023山東卷）For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashleys wife tried to strike Mumbets sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, M

14、umbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued（起訴）for her freedom. 52. Why did Mumbet run away from the Ashleys? A. She found an employer. B. She wanted to be a lawyer. C. She was hit and got angry. D. She had to take care of her sister.2023全國新課標(biāo)IPassenger pigeons(旅鴿) once

15、flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks (群) so large that they darkened the sky for hours. It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point, they were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons a n

16、umber equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cin

17、cinnati. Sadly, the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing.Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an everlasting supply and killed them by the thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to fe

18、ed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants. By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans need for wood, which scattered (驅(qū)散) the flocks

19、 and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again. In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons, but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time, a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on Se