高中英语人教版 (2019)选择性必修 第一册Unit 2 Looking into the Future优秀同步练习题

Unit 2 Looking into the future

Part 1 Reading and Thinking

话题作文赏析

What Will Life Be like in the Future?

As may be imagined, there will be an android in every family. Of course, such an android should have artificial intelligence and it can deal with all housework. As for the means of transportation, we will see a kind of environmentally friendly car running everywhere. This kind of car will be powered by solar energy and it can run on its own without any driver. What’s more, in the future, the moon will become one of our best destinations.

The future life that I describe will come true sooner or later.

培优第一阶——基础过关练

I. 单词拼写  

1．Many of these new innovations are already a　　　　  and being used in some homes.

2．The players had to change their daily r________ and lifestyle for the coming match.

3．Do you have any r_________ experience in advertising?

4．The smart watch can monitor your health condition and warn you early on if there is something________ (不正常的) of your body.

5．To solve these problems, it’s essential to call on countries to take ________(有效的)measures and cooperate with each other.

6．Almost all companies recognize the importance of innovation today, but not many are able to ________(融合) innovation into their business.

7．We are trying to make politics more ___________(相关的) to younger people.

8．It’s impossible to ________ (说服) him to change his mind.

9．__________ (自动的) Teller Machine (ATM) is a machine connected to the bank’s computer system allowing customers to access their accounts.

10．Tom devotes most of their time to studying rather than playing computer games, so he has a ________(喜爱) for study.

11．Let me give you a word of _____________(警告).

12．I am not quite sure about the use of some English ________ ( 短语 ).

13．I persuaded my parents to allow me to work in ________(偏远的) areas.

14．Sometimes I wonder how________ (有关的) chemistry is to these students, most of whom will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway.

15．We’re faced with a__________(严重的)situation where we have to give up what we’re eager for most.

16．He worked in a hospital for ten years nursing ________(癌症) patients.

17．It is estimated that 170,000 gallons of oil l______(漏) from a wrecked barge in the accident.

18．Jim’s c______ (不断的) complaint was really beginning to try her patience.

II. 短语填空

1. Please                  the lights when you leave the office.

2. I can see the mountains                  .

3. I don’t think your essay                  the topic.

4. One building of the community                  last night.

5. Among all the subjects, I                  math.

6. I recognized her                  I saw Mary.

7. Applicants will be expected to                  English.

8. I knew                  that he told a lie.

9.                  , the manager is to blame for the accident.

III. 单句语法填空

1．We must encourage originality and________ (innovate).

2．In an era of information explosion, people can easily be confused by ______ (relevant) information.

3．Astronomers have discovered a _________ (distance) galaxy.

4．Answers to these questions and others like them could ________ (potential) help us avert catastrophe.

5．He has demonstrated a strong ________(prefer) for being shod in running shoes.

6．His house stands on a hill and can be seen from a ________of two miles while my house is ten miles________ from his, and our two families are ________ related.(distant)

7．In the era of information technology, workers no longer feel ________ about the future. (security)

8．________ (detect) by the device, the man was diagnosed with heart attack.

9．________ (persuade) by his adviser, he entered the competition.

10．________ (criticize) thinking is the most important thinking skill you need for your life.

IV. 翻译句子

1.最近一个月来，时令蔬菜大量上市，因其品种丰富，价格亲民，百姓的选择越来越多。（available）

2.正是民间艺术家们的大胆尝试、不断创新，才使传统技艺得到了保护和发展。（It）

3.专家们无法就他的计划达成一致，因为他没有考虑到各种潜在威胁。

4.他们正在考虑在产品和技术上进行创新。(innovation)

5.在场所有人刚准备就绪，这位历史学家就走了进来。(In…)

V. 课文语法填空

Have you ever forgotten to lock the door of your house or switch off the TV? These kinds of things often happen to us,      1      can lead to problems. However, in the near future, we      2       (live) in smart homes that will lock the door and switch off the TV      3       (automatic). These smart homes will provide us with a      4       (comfortable) environment.

Your home will learn your daily routine and      5       (preference), so everything will be ready for you when you get home each evening. For example, lights will come on      6      (instant) you enter the door along with your favourite music. All controls will respond to voice commands, so you just say      7       you want and the home system will obey. Besides, it will give you suggestions on a healthier diet and how      8       (sleep) better.

This smart technology is not a fantasy.     9      , it will take some years      10       most new homes begin to use it.

1.                 2.                 3.                  4.                  5.               

6.                 7.                 8.                  9.                 10.               

培优第二阶——拓展培优练

阅读理解

Having a microchip implanted in a man’s brain may be common in sci-fi movie plots, but it may soon become an actual possibility.

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and co-founder of electric car maker Tesla — has been working on this technology. On Aug 28, Musk gave a livestream demonstration of the chip, which was implanted into the head of a pig named Gertrude.

The chip, developed by Musk’s company, is the size of a coin. But don’t let its size fool you. The tiny chip has over 3,000 electrodes (电极) attached to flexible threads, which can monitor about 1,000 neurons (神经元). It collects neural signals from an area of the brain, and then transmits those signals wirelessly to nearby computers. In the livestream, Gertrude could be seen walking around her pen sniffing the ground while a monitor showed her brain activity.

Though the technology is still in its early stage, it is encouraging for humans. This technology “would solve a lot of brain injuries”, which allows the human brain to combine with an artificial intelligence, Musk said.

When the device can be applied to humans, its main goal will be to help those who have mobility(移动的) issues, such as those suffering from paralysis. Musk hopes this technology could also be used to help those with hearing and eyesight issues and one day lead to a cure for epilepsy (癫痫).

Although such a device could, in principle, repair those problems, putting it into practice is by no means a piece of cake. Currently, the device can transmit signals from about 500 neurons in the pig’s brain. Compared to 80 billion neurons in a human brain, this number is tiny. And to cover the whole human brain also means the electrodes have to be much smaller.

Also, implanting the chip into the brain poses a potential danger. There is a risk of the immune system attacking this foreign body.

Right now, the hope of controlling the brain via controlling a few neurons seems overly optimistic. “There are many technological challenges … to overcome before Neuralink can put its devices to the purposes,” Yuan Lanfeng, an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, told China Daily.

1．What do we know about Elon Musk’s microchip according to the first three paragraphs?

A．It is able to collect wireless signals.

B．It was inspired by sci-fi movie plots.

C．It has no more than 1,000 electrodes.

D．It is tiny in size but powerful in function.

2．What is the major goal of the microchip in human applications?

A．To develop a cure for epilepsy.

B．To monitor animals’ brain activity.

C．To help people with difficulty in moving freely.

D．To contribute to the research in AI technologies.

3．What do paragraphs 6-7 mainly talk about?

A．Potential problems in applying the chip to humans.

B．Key differences between pigs’ and humans’ brains.

C．The amount of time and money implanting the chip could cost.

D．How the immune system is the major obstacle to the implant.

4．How does Yuan Lanfeng feel about implanting the chip into the human brain?

A．Excited. B．Optimistic. C．Cautious. D．Worried.

语法填空

阅读下面材料，在空白处填上适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

A Chinese university has built the world’s longest 3D-printed bridge. The creation has a ____12____ (long) of 26.3 meters and a width of 2.6 meters. Its design came from the historical Zhaozhou Bridge ____13____ (build) in AD 605.

____14____ the ancient Zhaozhou Bridge required a decade to build, the team spent only 450 hours ____15____ (complete) all of their new bridges concrete parts. Besides, the bridge’s cost came in at just two thirds of that of ____16____ ordinary bridge.

The bridge consisted ____17____ 44 individual 3D-printed concrete units, each of them approximately 3 by 3 by 5 feet. The sides, influenced by the Zhaozhou Bridge, ____18____ (make) with 68 single concrete plates moved into place by robot arms.

The leader of the team noted that “the demand for labor in construction projects will be in short supply ____19____ (increasing) ” in the future. If China cannot find people to build bridges, “intelligent construction ____20____ (become) on important channel to solve this problem”.

There have been other 3D-printed architectural projects over the last few years, as the technology has become ____21____ (popular) than before. A team at MIT built a sample house in 14 hours. If there are ever houses on Mars NASA suspects the houses also will be built by robots using 3D printing.

培优第三阶——高考沙场点兵

阅读理解

主题语境：人与社会   难易度：☆☆☆   语篇类型：说明文  建议用时：8 min

（2022·全国·高考真题）Over the last seven years, most states have banned texting by drivers, and public service campaigns have tried a wide range of methods to persuade people to put down their phones when they are behind the wheel.

Yet the problem, by just about any measure, appears to be getting worse. Americans are still texting while driving, as well as using social networks and taking photos. Road accidents, which had fallen for years, are now rising sharply.

That is partly because people are driving more, but Mark Rosekind, the chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said distracted（分心）driving was "only increasing, unfortunately."

"Big change requires big ideas." he said in a speech last month, referring broadly to the need to improve road safety. So to try to change a distinctly modern behavior, lawmakers and public health experts are reaching back to an old approach: They want to treat distracted driving like drunk driving.

An idea from lawmakers in New York is to give police officers a new device called the Textalyzer. It would work like this: An officer arriving at the scene of a crash could ask for the phones of the drivers and use the Textalyzer to check in the operating system for recent activity. The technology could determine whether a driver had just texted, emailed or done anything else that is not allowed under New York's hands-free driving laws.

"We need something on the books that can change people's behavior,” said Félix W. Ortiz, who pushed for the state's 2001 ban on hand-held devices by drivers. If the Textalyzer bill becomes law, he said, “People are going to be more afraid to put their hands on the cell phone.”

1．Which of the following best describes the ban on drivers' texting in the US?

A．Ineffective. B．Unnecessary.

C．Inconsistent. D．Unfair.

2．What can the Textalyzer help a police officer find out?

A．Where a driver came from. B．Whether a driver used their phone.

C．How fast a driver was going. D．When a driver arrived at the scene.

3．What does the underlined word "something" in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Advice. B．Data. C．Tests. D．Laws.

4．What is a suitable title for the text?

A．To Drive or Not to Drive? Think Before You Start

B．Texting and Driving? Watch Out for the Textalyzer.

C．New York Banning Hand-Held Devices by Drivers.

D．The Next Generation Cell Phone: The Textalyzer.

七选五

（2019·浙江·高考真题）Some people are so rude. Who sends an e-mail or a text message that just says “Thank you?” Who leaves a voice mail message rather than texts you? Who asks for a fact easily found on the Internet? ______27______

Maybe I’m the rude one for not appreciating life’s little courtesies(礼节). But many social norms(规范) just don’t make sense to people drowning in digital communication.

Take the thank-you note. Daniel Post Senning, a coauthor of Emily Post’s Etiquette，asked, “At what point does showing appreciation outweigh the cost?”

_____28_____ Think of how long it takes to listen to one of those messages. In texts, you don’t have to declare who you are or even say hello. E-mail, too, is slower than a text. The worst are those who leave a voice mail and then send an e-mail message to tell you they left a voice mail.

This isn’t the first time technology has changed our manners, ____29____ Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, suggested that people say, “ Ahoy!” . Finally, hello won out, and the victory sped up the greeting's use in face-to-face communications.

In the age of the smart phone, there is no reason to ask once-acceptable questions about: the weather forecast, a business’s phone number, or directions to a house, a restaurant, or an office, which can be easily found on a digital map. _____30_____ And when you answer, they respond with a thank-you e-mail.

How to handle these differing standards? Easy: Consider your audience. Some people, especially older ones, appreciate a thank-you message. ____31____ In traditional societies, the young learn from the old. But in modern societies, the old can also learn from the young. Here's hoping that politeness never goes out of fashion but that time-wasting forms of communication do.

A. Then there is voice mail.

B. Others, like me, want no reply.

C. But people still ask these things.

D. Don’t these people realize that they’re wasting your time?

E. Won't new technology bring about changes in our daily life?

F. Face-to-face communication makes comprehension much easier.

G. When the telephone was invented, people didn't know how to greet a caller.