高二英语必修5 课后阅读训练 十四 Unit 4Period 2.docx

1、高二英语必修5 课后阅读训练 十四 Unit 4 Period 2 课后阅读训练 十四Unit 4Period 2. 阅读理解ANewspapers are one method of bringing the news to the public. Reporters, photographers, correspondents, and editors are some of the people who create newspapers. They are known as journalists. Reporters are journalists who go out and ge

2、t the news. They attend meetings. They cover events such as court cases, plays, and sporting events. They interview people to get their views about what is going on. Reporters must be able to write a story quickly so as to meet a deadline. People do not want to read old news. They want to know what

3、is going on as soon as it happens. Reporters sometimes phone or email their notes and quotations (引用语) to the paper from the scene. A reporter in the office then writes the story. Photographers work with the reporters. They take pictures and edit them in time to appear with the story. Usually large

4、newspaper groups have correspondents in foreign countries to report news there. A paper may have a correspondent who covers just medical news. An editor is a journalist who works at a desk in a newspaper office. Editors prepare the reporters stories to be printed in the paper. They decide which stor

5、y is most important and gets the front-page headline. They decide which pictures to use. People who work as journalists have some things in common. They are curious, they like to write, and they have a “nose” for news. They can spot news as it happens. They know what people want to read about. 【语篇概述

6、】本文介绍了记者不同的工作岗位和职责。1. The underlined word “They” in Paragraph 2 refers to_. A. readers B. journalistsC. reporters D. strangers【解析】选A。词义猜测题。根据上文中人们不喜欢读旧的新闻, 可推知此处they代指的是readers。2. A journalist working abroad to report news may be called_. A. a stranger B. a photojournalistC. an editor D. a correspon

7、dent【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第四段Usually large newspaper groups have correspondents in foreign countries to report news there可知答案。3. According to the passage, both the reporter and the editor_. A. usually work in the officeB. decide which pictures to useC. have the ability to discover newsD. often write editor

8、ials for their paper【解析】选C。细节理解题。综合文章第二段和第五段可知记者和编辑都有能力发现新闻。4. How many kinds of people mentioned in the passage are called journalists?A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据文章第一段Reporters, photographers, correspondents, and editors are some of the people who create newspapers. They are

9、known as journalists. 可知本文提到了四类记者。B (2017全国卷) When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesnt sit quietly. Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get. These chemicals

10、come from the injured parts of the plant and seem to be an alarm. What the plants pump through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds, VOCs for short. Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out VOCs when being attacked. Its a plants way of crying out. But

11、is anyone listening? Apparently. Because we can watch the neighbors react. Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away. But others do double duty. They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers. Once they arrive, the tables are tu

12、rned. The attacker who was lunching now becomes lunch. In study after study, it appears that these chemical conversations help the neighbors. The damage is usually more serious on the first plant, but the neighbors, relatively speaking, stay safer because they heard the alarm and knew what to do. Do

13、es this mean that plants talk to each other? Scientists dont know. Maybe the first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches, and so, in effect, was talking to itself. Perhaps the neighbors just happened to “overhear” the cry. So information was exchanged, but it was

14、nt a true, intentional back and forth. Charles Darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate(亲密的) than the world we can see and hear. Our senses are weak. Theres a whole lot going on. 【语篇概述】当植物受到攻击时, 它们不是坐以待毙, 而是释放出一种化学物质来保护自己并通知周围的植物。5. What does a plant do when

15、 it is under attack?A. It makes noises. B. It gets help from other plants. C. It stands quietly. D. It sends out certain chemicals. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第一段的内容可知当植物受到攻击时, 它们不是坐以待毙, 而是释放出一种化学物质来保护自己并通知周围的植物。故选D。6. What does the author mean by “the tables are turned” in Paragraph 3?A. The attackers get atta

16、cked. B. The insects gather under the table. C. The plants get ready to fight back. D. The perfumes attract natural enemies. 【解析】选A。词义猜测题。根据画线句子后面的The attacker who was lunching now becomes lunch. (要吃午餐的攻击者现在变成他人的午餐。)可知, 此处指攻击者遭到攻击。the tables are turned 表示“局面扭转过来了”。故选A。7. Scientists find from their studies that plants can_