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1、Unit 1 课时跟踪练(一) Welcome to the unit & Reading Prereading.阅读理解AToo Much Happiness was written by Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction and the owner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorke
2、r, The Atlantic Monthly, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.The main character is Sophia Kovalevsky, a great Russian mathematician, writer and advocator (拥护者) of womens rights in the late nineteenth century. After visiting her lover Maxsim Kovale
3、vsky in Riviera, she travels in Europe, ending up in Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician. The book writes about her journey from Riviera to Sweden.The story tells the typical struggle of an intellectual woman to achieve success and happ
4、iness. However, when she is going to die, Sophia says “too much happiness”. I think its irony. As reading the story, she has too many mental problems. First, as a woman mathematician, she was born at a wrong time. She was married to Vladimir Kovalevsky without love, called “a white marriage”. She ex
5、plained that “not a young Russian woman who was unmarried could leave the country”. She sacrificed her marriage to seek her career.Furthermore, when she sees a man who looks like Maxsim in the station, she says to herself, “Of course, it would not be Maxsim, what could he be doing in Paris？” She doe
6、snt want to face the_fact because she doesnt want to lose her hope. She believes they will marry in spring. And in her letter to Julia she sys, “It is to be happiness after all, happiness after all. Happiness.” She is cheating herself. In fact, the man does not want to marry her, and the happiness s
7、he expected doesnt take place at all.Finally, I conclude that the end must be a tragedy (悲剧). From the very first pages the atmosphere is gloomy and threatening. “One of us will die this year.” “Because we have gone walking in a graveyard (墓地) on the first day of the New Year.” and “a black cat acro
8、ss their path” all reflect it will be a bad ending. Not because she has some problems with her lung, but because her life does not bring her happiness with some disharmonious things happening.1According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?ASophia was born at a wrong time and was mentally
9、ill.BWomen were not fairly treated in Europe in Sophias time.CSophia loved travelling around Europe to meet different people.DUnmarried women were forbidden to learn mathematics at that time.解析：选B推理判断题。根据文章第三段倒数第二句中的“not a young Russian woman who was unmarried could leave the country”可知，妇女的出行在当时是受限制
10、的，由此可推知，妇女在当时受到不公平的对待。2What can we conclude from Sophias experience?AIts hard for an educated woman to achieve success in Europe at that time.BRussian women were not allowed to go abroad without a white marriage.CMarried women could travel freely across Europe in the late nineteenth century.DSeeing
11、a black cat across the path would bring people to death in the end.解析：选A推理判断题。根据文章第三段第一句“The story tells the typical struggle of an intellectual woman to achieve success and happiness.”可推知，在当时的欧洲，知识女性要获得成功是很不容易的。3The underlined phrase “the fact” in Paragraph 4 most probably refers to the fact that _
12、.Aher husband refuses to divorceBshe cant teach in universityCshe falls in love with MaxsimDMaxsim doesnt want to marry her解析：选D词义猜测题。根据文章第四段最后一句“. the man does not want to marry her .”可推知，Maxsim并不想娶她。4In a newspaper, this passage is most probably in the section of _.AEntertainmentBTravelCCareer DCu
13、lture解析：选D推理判断题。文章主要介绍Alice Munro的作品Too Much Happiness，所以应该出现在报纸的文化栏目里。BAt 26, Sharath Kamath was diagnosed with osteitis pubis, a common injury among athletes. He felt like his dream of being a footballer was fading away. He began his football journey in 2002 in his teenage years, and pushed himsel
14、f too much. He then not only played for his college but was soon part of the state team as well. “The coaches used to praise me for putting in long hours but there was no proper advice on injury management, which is one of the most important aspects of sports professionals development，” says Sharath
15、.The injury happened every few months, which meant that there was no chance of attending trials. During this process, Sharath completed his engineering, then started his own online tutoring and sports management firm and engaged in online tutoring of K12 students in the US. It aimed at recruiting ta
16、lented young footballers, developing them and trading them to different clubs and created a network of over 100 tutors across the country serving more than 3,000 students.Later, seeing that there were small coaching centres but not an academy, he went on to create Dream United Football Academy.Setting up a football academy has its own challenges, the biggest
