外研版（2019）高中英语必修1：Unit 2 Exploring English 单元过关测试

Here are four fantastic experiences for you to enjoy wonderful countryside spots, breath­taking scenery and clean, fresh air. Pack your bags and get outside!

Horse­riding

Here's a novel way of chasing the Northern Lights—on horseback, which is a back­to­nature experience hunting for the aurora borealis. You'll saddle up (给马备鞍) at dusk and head deeper into the wilds near the Pallas Yllas National Park.

GO: Three­night full­board guided trip, including two nights in a cottage and one night glamping, from ￡965 per person. See aurora zone. com.

Mountain­biking

You can choose from guided downhill or cross­country mountain biking to road cycling and families can enjoy peaceful, slower paths and farm trails.

Extra activities include hiking, water park.

GO: Five­night B & B packages including transfers and guided biking, from ￡374 per person. Bike hire from around ￡15 a day. See wizzair. com.

Camping

Get back to basics on a campsite with none of that fancy glamping. The pitches are large so you can light your own campfire at night. Walkers are in heaven here, hiking among the limestone hills filled with traditional stone walls.

Also a great destination for fishing, sailing and windsurfing on nearby Lake Semerwater.

GO: Non­electric grass tent pitches from ￡20 a night. Tipi already pitched from ￡70 a night. See pitchup. com.

Whale­watching

Scotland's west coast, one of Europe's best places to catch sight of whales, has launched a new whale trail. It features 30 top places offering opportunities to see the wildlife and showcases whale heritage sites.

GO: Accommodation along the trail is reasonable including B & B in a double room at Torran in Ullapool from ￡70 a night. See bandbullapool. co. uk.

The latest sports craze is not even a sport. According to a recent article, "e­sports" are attracting a large number of audience.

In e­sports, players and teams compete in popular video computer games such as Dota 2 and Ovenvatch. Fans fill arenas to watch the action live on huge television screens.

The games have gone way past kids playing against each other while sitting on a sofa at home. The International, a major competition for players of Dota 2, awarded $24 million in prizes, with the winner taking home almost $11 million. A recent e­sports competition attracted more than 80,000 fans to the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, China.

I have to admit that I am not a big fan of computer games. I know that some games can be educational, but I think too many kids spend too much time sitting in front of a screen shooting space aliens. I think it would be better if kids spent more time reading or playing real sports such as basketball, baseball and soccer.

And please don't tell me that competitive gaming is real sport because it requires hand­eye coordination. According to my American Heritage Dictionary, a sport is "an activity involving physical exertion and skill". I don't think anyone works up much of a sweat playing video games.

Too often, regular sports send kids a kind of message. Competition starts early, when lots of kids are not ready for the ups and downs of games. Tryouts and travel teams come next, giving too many kids the message they are "not good" at sports. So lots of kids quit sports and start playing more video games.

Maybe everyone in youth sports, including coaches, parents and kids, should think more about the advantages of real sports.

When we learn to drive, we need to learn basic skills such as how to switch on the engine, turn on the wipers, operate the brakes, etc. before we actually take to the road. Once the lower order operations and skills listed above have been automatized or at least routinized to the extent that we do not have to pay attention to them (by­pass Working Memory's attentional systems), we can actually be safe in the assumption that we can wholly focus on the higher order skills which will allow us to take the split seconds decisions that will prevent us from getting lost, clash with other cars, break the traffic laws while dealing with our children messing about in the back seats.

This is what the brain does, too, when learning languages. Because Working Memory has a very limited space available when performing any task, the brain has learnt to automatize lower order skills so that, by being performed "subconsciously" they free up cognitive(认知)space. So, for instance, if I am an advanced speaker who has routinized accurate pronunciation, grammar and syntax to a fairly high degree, I will be able to devote more conscious attention (Working Memory space) to the message I want to put across. On the other hand, if I still struggle with pronunciation, word order, irregular verb forms and tenses most of my attention will be taken up by the mechanics of what I want to say, rather than the meaning; this will slow me down and limit my ability to think through what I want to say due to cognitive overload.

In language teaching this important principle translates as follows: in order to enable our students to focus on the higher order skills involved in comprehension and production we need to ensure that the lower­order ones have been acquired or performance will be reduced.

Computer programmer David Jones earns ￡35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank ready to let him have a credit card(信用卡). Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

The 16­year­old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm releases(推出) two new games for the fast throwing computer market each month.

But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money. Even though he earns a lot, he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage(抵押贷款), or get credit cards. David got his job with the Liverpool­based company four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O­levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs，" he said. David spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother 50 pounds a week. But most of his spare time is spent working.

"Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school，" he said. "But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway. " David added, "I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement(退休) is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear. "

Earlier this summer, after packing my rucksack for a wild­camping holiday, I gazed at my belongings, and made a final adjustment to the contents of my bag.

I quickly emailed my travel companion, a photographer friend called Jacob to make sure I could have some pictures of our trip afterwards, so I could pop a few up on Instagram when I returned. And then I set off, feeling—for the first time in a number of trips—that I was genuinely escaping the stresses and strains of my everyday life. Because the way stress locates us, these days, is via our phones.

However, I've realized that for a holiday really to function as a holiday, I need an escape from social status anxiety, from caring about "likes", and from having to photograph every tiny detail of life to prove our existence. When we overshare a glossy version of our trip online, we miss out on talking about our trips when we return, which is part of the joy of travel. Posting in the moment denies us this opportunity to relive (回味) our experience, and prolong that holiday feeling.

During my three­day Insta­break, my stress levels decrease quickly within 24 hours. I made mental notes of funny moments, cultural observations, tips and when I returned, I had interesting, detailed chats with friends about my time away.

A. I also changed how I processed the trip itself.

B. So I am fully supportive of screen­free holidays.

C. I took out my iPhone, and threw it under my bed.

D. I would lose track of my coworkers, my friends and my family.

E. None of them could touch me for the next three glorious days.

F. So this summer, as you plan your trip, ask if you can delete Instagram.

G. As a travel writer, abandoning my phone for my holiday felt like the extreme betrayal.

Growing up in the 1960s, I was taught from an early age to send a handwritten thank­you note expressing1for kindness. My mother used to buy me a box of paper and 2 me in the art and value of saying "thank you". She 3 to be right.

A study showed that it took less than 5 minutes to write the thank you notes. Just 5 minutes to make another person feel overjoyed! 4, in our "instant" world, the idea of getting an actual pen and writing an actual note seems to never come to mind. We tend to do what is 5to us—a quick text or an email.

It is easy to use the excuse of being busy, but even very busy and 6 businessmen find time to 7 thank you notes. For example, when Douglas Conant became CEO of Campbells, the company had 8 half of its market value and morale (士气)was at an all­time low. He 9 fixing that by doing some simple things that probably not 10 in any MBA class. For one thing, Conant wrote to every 11. He gained their confidence and naturally, turned the company around.

In his ten years as CEO, Conant wrote over 30,000 notes to employees. It's 12 not to ask how he did it. 13, he had many other things to do 14 writing thank­you note. Conant made time for it because he knew the impact each one would have. An expression of 15 in this crazy world still makes a difference.

After growing up in Korea and moving to the United States during high school, it was very hard for me (adjust). Worse still, even if I made efforts to overcome every difficulty, with a language barrier and lack motivation from some schools, (horrible), I found myself (lose) and unsure of my future. I wasn't interested in anything but when I (hear) about WMS, I was very excited with the school had to offer. What's more, the teachers made me have a sense of self­determination that allowed me to study hard and do my (good). As a result, I benefited a lot from WMS. I will encourage any student who has motivation to open up a future full of opportunities. (look) back as a graduate, I have nothing but (thank) and gratitude towards WMS. I will say though I was only a high school student when I came to WMS, I will never forget it.

I received an urgent call from my aunt. "Turn on the TV. Granny's on the Channel 10 news. " It turned out that Granny had made a sandwich run for her office and was stopped at a red light downtown. She had the window rolled down to enjoy the breeze when a man rushed up to the driver's side window, intending to carjack (劫车) her.

Now, what the would be carjacker couldn't have known was that this woman simply wasn't "a granny". This was Nancy Johnson—the same woman who owned and lived on a Texas cattle farm, drove her own tractors, and dug her own post holes to lay fence. The week before, she had shot a rattlesnake and chopped off its head with a shovel. She was the proud owner of the new minivan (小型货车) she was driving. In other words, she was not your normal kind of granny.

The carjacker leaned into the open window, one hand stuffed in his pocket, and said, "Get out of this car. I have a gun, and I will shoot you." A statement like that would have terrified anyone else. Instead, Granny saw it as a challenge. "If you really had a gun in your pocket, you would've pulled it out and led with that first," she shouted at him, apparently unworried.

She was right. The criminal didn't have a gun. He instead reached into the window, grabbed her, and tried to pull her out of the van. He pulled open the door, wildly catching Granny's arms. Granny leaned her shoulder inside to press the horn (喇叭) and started yelling to make people around notice what was happening. With the door now open, she held tight the steering wheel with one arm and started kicking the man anywhere her foot could make contact. This tall woman had quite a reach.

注意：

1）续写词数应为150左右；

2）请按如下格式作答。

Para. 1 After a well­placed kick, the man was done, and attempted to release her and run.

Para. 2 Later, we asked "Granny, don't you realize you could have got yourself killed？"