牛津译林版必修二高中英语 Unit 1 Lights, camera, action! 单元检测练习

Robert Downey Jr. is famous for being a beloved Hollywood actor, but now he is adding "robotics environmentalist" to his list of good qualities. Earlier this week, the Iron Man actor went to the Amazon MARS Conference in Las Vegas to announce the creation of his new foundation which would use nanotechnology (纳米技术) and robotics as a means of cleaning up the planet.

Downey Jr. did not show many details on how the organization would begin its clean-up job, but a website went live shortly after the actor's announcement. As of right now, the website only includes a sign-up sheet for future newsletters and latest news. But Downey Jr. said that he would be spending the next 11 months working together with UN experts and building up the organization so the group could get to work by April 2020.

After that, Downey Jr. said that "Between robotics and nanotechnology we could clean up the planet significantly, if not totally, in ten years. " Downey Jr. also explained how his failure to look after the environment in the past is now inspiring him to take action. "I have this quiet sense of crisis (危机)," he said. "I used to spend a lot of energy on things like plane trips, but I want to change. " Regardless of the actor's plan, Downey Jr. 's net worth is about $81 million—more than enough to start tidying up the planet.

The Amazon MARS Conference, which stands for "Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space", hosted a lot of speakers who gave lectures on the benefits of artificial intelligence. In addition to announcing the start of his organization, Downey Jr. also talked about how he and his wife Susan would be the managing producers of a new documentary series on the wonders of AI.

"Film" and "movie" often mean the same thing. Either of the words you use may help others guess where you live or are from. First, let's look at the word "film". One definition of it is the special material used for taking photographs. But you can also see a film in a theatre. Used this way, "film" and "movie" mean the same thing.

And as a verb, "to film" means to record something with a video camera. Here is an example: "Do you want me to film the important moment so you can remember it?"

Now let's turn to "movie". The word—a noun—comes from the phrase "moving pictures". Movies and films are recordings of moving pictures that tell a story. Here are some example sentences with the word "movie":"Do you want to go to the movies tonight?" "If you go to Hollywood in California, you might see a movie star. " In the United States,it is common to say "the movies" when you talk about going to a movie theatre.

Stephen Follows is a writer, producer and film researcher who lives in England. He wrote that people who work in the film industry use "film" more than "movie". However, he found people who live in the US usually say "movie", while those in Britain use both. "Film" is still more popular in Europe and parts of Africa, but "movie" is best in America, as well as in Japan and India. So that is why Americans say "English at the movies" rather than "English at the films"!

The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.

Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer's life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called "Peggy", shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She is only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: "Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?' And today it'd be ‘Would you marry one who doesn't?'"

The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it "The Dump".

Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Across the rich world, well-educated people increasingly work longer than the less-skilled. Some 65% of American men aged 62—74 with a professional degree are in the workforce, compared with 32% of men with only a high-school certificate. This gap is part of a deepening divide between the well-educated well off and the unskilled poor. Rapid technological advance has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while squeezing those of the unskilled. The consequences, for individuals and society, are profound.

The world is facing an astonishing rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600 million to 1. 1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth, while the swelling ranks of pensioners will create government budget problems.

But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled. Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people,whereas older skilled folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers (生育高峰期出生的人) are putting off retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce.

Policy is partly responsible. Many European governments have abandoned policies that are used to encourage people to retire early. Rising life expectancy, combined with the replacement of generous defined-benefit pension plans with less generous defined-contribution ones, means that even the better off must work longer to have a comfortable retirement. But the changing nature of work also plays a big role. Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to get rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the previous generation. Technological change may well strengthen that shift: the skills that make up for computers, from management know-how(技能) to creativity, do not necessarily decline with age.

When everything goes wrong, always look at what you have, instead of what you have lost. Because it's not what the world takes away from you that counts; it's what you do with what is left.

Pain is part of growing.

Sometimes life closes doors because it's time to move forward. When times are tough, remind yourself that no pain comes without a purpose. Remember that there are two kinds of pain: pain that hurts and pain that changes you. When you roll with life instead of resisting it, both kinds help you grow.

Every time you get hurt, you will heal. After darkness there is always light—you are reminded of this every morning, but still you often forget, and instead choose to believe that the night will last forever. It won't. Nothing lasts forever.

Complaining changes nothing.

It's always better to attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. It's not over if you've lost; it's over when you do nothing but complain about it. If you believe in something, keep trying. Don't let the shadows of the past darken the doorsteps of your future.

The best thing you can do is to keep going.

Don't be afraid to get back up—to try again, to love again, to live again, and to dream again. Don't let a hard lesson harden your heart. Life's best lessons are often learned at the worst times and from the worst mistakes. There will be times when it seems like everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong.

A. Everything in life is temporary.

B. And even if you fall short, keep going.

C. Your scars are symbols of your strength.

D. Those who complain the most, accomplish the least.

E. Here are a few tips to inspire you when you need them most.

F. That's a good thing because we often won't move unless life forces us to.

G. When you feel like quitting, remember that sometimes things can be right eventually.

Three brothers left home for college, and they all became successful people.

Some years later, they got together again. While having dinner, they1for a long time. They discussed the2they had given their elderly mother who lived far away in another city. The oldest said, "I had a3house built for Mama. " The second said, "I had my Mercedes-Benz dealer (奔驰经销商) send a4to her. " The youngest said,"You know5Mama loves reading poems and you know she can't read any more because she can't 6very well. I met a businessman who has a parrot that can recite many7. It took him 12 years to8it to speak and he earns his living by renting it out. I have to pay him $100,000 a year for twenty years,9it is worth it. " 

Two weeks later, their mother sent out her thank-you notes, which read, "Milton, the house you built is so huge. I only live in one room, but I have to clean the whole house. It's a (an)10 job. Thanks anyway. ""Marvin, I am too old to11. I stay home and have others work for me, so I'll12 use the car. The 13 is good, although not realistic. Thanks. " 

"Dearest Melvin, you are the14 son to have the good sense to give a little thought to your gift. The chicken tasted so15. I liked it very much. Thank you. " 

Little Women, written by US writer Louisa May Alcott, tells a story of four poor sisters growing up during the American Civil War (1861—1865). Their father is away at war, so their mother takes the (responsible) of caring for them.

Jo,a (talent) writer, leaves the family circle to go to New York, she works as a governess(家庭女教师) and meets her Mr. Right. Meg is a beautiful girl,  story is mostly about her marriage. Amy, the youngest, goes the (far). She meets Laurie in Europe. As you might have guessed, they also end  married.

However, Beth is(fortunate). While taking care of the other sisters when their mother is at the front attending to their father who is badly sick, Beth falls seriously ill and dies young. (get) over the tests and challenges life (bring), the four girls try their best. Eventually, they complete the journey from girlhood  being "little women".

1）简要介绍中国书法；

2）学习书法的建议；

3）表达美好祝愿。

注意:

1）词数80左右;

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

The Bicycle Ride

Jennifer, a wealthy Swedish girl, came to India to get a portrait (画像) made by Rajesh, a poor but very gifted Indian artist.

Never before had Rajesh seen a more beautiful woman from the Western world. By the time the portrait was finished, the two had fallen in love. They had fallen so deeply in love that they got married according to Indian tradition.

Sadly, the time came when Jennifer had to leave in order to complete her studies in Sweden. Thousands of miles separated the two but their feelings for each other never changed. They kept in touch through letters, which they exchanged almost weekly with each other. Jennifer missed her husband so much that she offered to buy him air tickets, but he refused. He decided to finish his own studies first. He promised that he would do anything he could to see her again on his own.

After Rajesh finished his studies, he sold what he had except his paintings and brushes. However, the money he made couldn't afford a flight ticket. Not allowing the difficulty to stop him from seeing his wife again, he made up his mind to use what he had to realize his dream.

All he could afford was a cheap and used bicycle, which meant a very long bicycle ride, half round the world.

注意:续写词数应为150左右。

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So his bicycle journey from India to the Western world began.

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Welcomed by Jennifer and her parents with open arms, he felt very excited.