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1、Unit 4 Pygmalion阅读理解组块专练练速度(限时：30分钟).阅读理解AI can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I was a college freshman and had stayed up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first class of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was
2、drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow. A few minutes nap time before class couldnt hurt, I thought.Boom! I lifted my head immediately and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my heart beating quickly trying to find the cause of the noise. My young professor was loo
3、king back at me with a mischievous,_boyish smile on his face. He had intentionally dropped the pile of textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning！” he said, still smiling. “Im glad to see everyone is awake. Now lets get started.”For the next hour I wasnt sleepy at all. It wasnt from the
4、shock of my professors textbook alarm clock either. Instead, it was from the attractive discussion he led. With knowledge and good humor, he made the material come alive. His insights were full of both wisdom and loving kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy which he taught with were contagious (有感染力的
5、). I left the classroom not only wide awake, but a little smarter and a little better as well.I learned something far more important than not sleeping in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with joy, and make it an expression of your lo
6、ve. What a glorious place this world would be if all of us did our work joyously and well! What a beautiful world we could create if every doctor, teacher, musician, cook, waitress, poet, miner, farmer, and laborer made their work an expression of their love! Dont sleepwalk through your life then. W
7、ake up! Let your love fill your work and your soul. Life is too short not to live it well.语篇解读：本文通过作者大学第一节课的经历告诉我们：无论从事什么职业，我们都应该带着热情和快乐去做好它1What did the author want to do just before his first class of the day?ATalk with his friends. BTake a short sleep.CGet his eyes examined.DStay away from the cl
8、ass.解析：选B细节理解题。根据文章第一段最后两句“. my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier . A few minutes nap time before class couldnt hurt, I thought.”可知，作者很困，想在上课前小睡一会儿。故选B项。2The underlined word “mischievous” in Paragraph 2 probably means “_”AnaughtyBtrickyCsensitiveDdishonest解析：选A词义猜测题。画线词与boyish共同修饰smile，感情色彩应一
9、致。根据boyish的含义“男孩子气的”可推测，mischievous应表示“调皮的；淘气的”，与naughty意思相近。故选A项。3What else did the author learn that day?AStudents should not sleep in class but respect their teachers.BEveryone should love his job and sleepwalk through his life.CLife is too limited to make your work an expression of your love.DPe
10、ople from all walks of life should do their jobs with joy and love.解析：选D细节理解题。根据文章最后一段中的“I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with joy, and make it an expression of your love.”和“What a beautiful world we could create if every doctor . made their work an exp
11、ression of their love！”可知，作者还学到无论你从事什么职业，都应该用充满快乐与爱的心去把工作做好，从而创造一个更美好的世界。故选D项。4What can be inferred from this passage?AThe professor often kept his students sharp by using a textbook alarm.BThe author was attracted by the professors great joy and enthusiasm.CThe author left the twohour period not on
12、ly wide awake, but a little smarter.DThough the author was frightened awake, he was not clearheaded in the class.解析：选B推理判断题。根据文章第三段中的“With knowledge and good humor, he made the material come alive. His insights were full of both wisdom and loving kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy which he taught
13、with were contagious(有感染力的)”可知，作者被教授的快乐和热情所吸引，故选B项。BLife can sometimes go haywire rather like the feeling you get when youve lost control of your moving car.Its a feeling of complete helplessness and panic that makes us feel overwhelmed (被压垮的)In most cases, there is a difference between our expectat
14、ions and reality.The greater the difference, the greater the feeling is of being overwhelmed.This difference is often created when our expectations are too demanding or when reality changes in a way we did not expect.Think of the weather ruining your carefully made travel plans to get across the sta
15、te.Think of that illness that made you stay in bed.While we may be feeling overwhelmed with everything going on in our lives right now, there are some steps we can take to regain a sense of control of our lives.We all know we should control our emotion properly and we can be affected greatly when we
16、 are overwhelmed, but feeling overwhelmed is part of life.When were feeling overwhelmed, it only means we are living, breathing human beings.For life is like a roller coaster ride with its ups, downs and turns.Its also like the season with its alternating periods of relative calm and periods of varying degrees of stress and anxiety.Sometimes we forget this.No
