Unit 4课时跟踪练(一) Warming Up & Reading Pre-reading.阅读理解AIn George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion, the storyline centers around three main characters: Eliza Doolittle, Professor Henry Higgins, and Colonel Pickering. Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl who is under the instruction of Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering to learn proper grammar and phonetics. Eliza can be characterized as a very sensitive (敏感的) and emotional person. She seeks to be treated like a duchess by men. Her personality clashes (冲突) with the personality of Professor Higgins in an extreme way. Professor Higgins is an arrogant (傲慢的), workobsessed expert in phonetics who views Eliza simply as an experiment. He is a bachelor who has never found a place for women in his life due to his obsession (痴迷) with language. Colonel Pickering is a gentleman from India who is also an expert in language. He is gentler than Higgins and treats Eliza with respect while maintaining a professional interest in her. These three characters make up the main action of the play as Eliza learns speech of the upper class from them. She manages to pass herself off as a Hungarian princess at a formal party. This achievement makes Eliza give_credence_to_the efforts of Higgins and Pickering. After experiencing life in the upper class, Eliza settles for a lowerclass life with a man who loves her for who she is and wants to marry her. After some small and unimportant disputes. Eliza and Higgins remain friends later. Other memorable characters include Mrs. Higgins who maintains an authoritative (权威的) figure over her grown son and Mr. Doolittle who rises from a dustman to a respected speaker in the community.I think that this is a good book because it shows that happiness can be achieved without wealth and fame. I highly recommend it due to its emphasis on grammatical and phonetic correctness.语篇解读：作者分析了卖花女中各人物之间的关系，谈到了自己阅读这本书的体会，并向读者推荐这本书。1Eliza learns speech of the upper class because _.Ashe wants to do an experimentBshe wants to marry a gentlemanCshe has to play a princess at a partyDshe wants to be treated respectfully解析：选D细节理解题。根据第一段“She seeks to be treated like a duchess by men.”可知，伊莱扎杜利特尔想让人们像对待公爵夫人那样对待她，也就是说她想让别人毕恭毕敬地对待她。2The author highly recommends Pygmalion because it can teach people _.Ato use and speak English in the right waysBthe right attitude towards lifeCthe ways to deal with different peopleDthe determination to succeed解析：选A细节理解题。根据最后一句“I highly recommend it due to its emphasis on grammatical and phonetic correctness.”可知，作者向人们推荐这本书的原因是它强调人们应该正确使用英语。3What does the underlined part “give credence to” in Paragraph 1 mean?AbelieveBchangeCfancy Dobtain解析：选A词义猜测题。根据上文可知，伊莱扎杜利特尔想让人们像对待公爵夫人那样对待她，而通过希金斯教授和皮克林上校的努力后，她成功地冒充成了公爵夫人。由此可知，这次成功使伊莱扎杜利特尔相信希金斯教授和皮克林上校的努力。4The passage is probably _.Aa research paper Ba teaching planCa book report Da diary解析：选C推理判断题。作者首先分析了卖花女中各人物之间的关系，然后，谈到了自己阅读这本书的体会，并向读者推荐这本书，因此这篇文章可能是一篇读书报告。B“Theres really no better playground for kids in America than right here，” says Tom Hart, an artist from Easton, Maryland. Hes talking about the Chesapeake Bay, which is indeed a huge playground. Surrounded by Maryland and Virginia, its the nations largest estuary (河口湾), with 64,000 square miles of bays and rivers. This vast inland ocean hosts more than 300 species of fish and is best known for its Eastern oyster, blue crab (螃蟹), and abundant bird life.Eastons Farmers Market open from May through October has a large number of farmers and craftsmen who produce astonishingly tasty vegetables, handmade soaps, homemade lemonade and tomato pie, and Harts folk art.From there, head to the Oxford Ferry, where youll find a small beach and boat transport for cars, bikes, and walkers to the seaside town of Oxford. Or you can just randomly explore ask kids to count the cows while driving down roads, perhaps ending up at a wild shoreline where they will come face to face with pure nature.“To me, a tide pool was always much more interesting than an electronic game，” recalls former chef Barton Seaver, author of For Cod and Country. “I grew up spending summers on the Patuxent River near Chesapeake Bay. My brother and I would pull large male Jimmy crabs from the tide pool. Wed fish for rockfish from the dock.”“But the time I became a chef, crabs were impossibly expensive，” he continues. “There was a ban on bass (鲈鱼). Bluefish had been overharvested. So I realized the abundance of sea life I had seen as a child had disappeared within 10 or 15 years. It is a real lesson that all kids should understand.”But the oyster and blue crab populations have begun to return. One fiveyearold boy now comfortably is walking to the end of a friends Chesapeake dock and watching wideeyed as a crab pot is lifted. Always at least three or four blue crabs try to escape as you pull them up. For a child, he can look at an extraordinary wild crea