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1、课时作业(二十八)选修Unit 3A healthy life.阅读理解A2019合肥市高三质量预测Annette Larkins is an incredible woman who looks like a healthy 40yearold, although she just turned 70. She follows a special raw diet and only drinks rainwater.She looks so young that people mistake her for the daughter, when shes out with her husba
2、nd of 54 years, but I suppose he isnt complaining.Mrs. Larkins says the secret to her beauty lies in her special diet, consisting of organic vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts grown in her own garden; she calls it the “fountain of youth”. The woman doesnt touch anything that has been cooked.And anot
3、her strange thing she does is to collect rainwater, to keep her garden blossoming, but also to drink. But the resident of MiamiDade County, Florida, didnt always have such a healthy lifestyle. In fact, she consumed meat regularly, as her husband used to own a meat factory way back in the 1960s. It w
4、as then that she decided to change her eating habits forever. And what a great decision that was. I mean, just look at her!When she started off, Mrs. Larkins was just looking for a few health benefits and never anticipated that she would look like a 40yearold at the age of 70. Over the 27 years, Mrs
5、. Larkins has been eating raw food, and she has written two booklets called Journey to Health and also produced a DVD containing all her healthy secrets.Her husband, Mr. Larkins, wishes he had followed her example, because now he looks much, much older and also suffers from diabetes (糖尿病) and high b
6、lood pressure. He takes prescription medicine every day, but Annette doesnt even take an aspirin.【解题导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了 Mrs. Larkins是如何保持健康年轻的。【长难句分析】Mrs. Larkins says the secret to her beauty lies in her special diet, consisting of organic vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts grown in her own garden;
7、 she calls it the “fountain of youth”分析：本句包含两个分句。第一个分句中“the secret to her beauty lies in her special diet”为宾语从句，省略了连接词that；“consisting of. seeds and nuts”为现在分词短语作定语；“grown in her own garden”为过去分词短语作定语。译文：Larkins夫人说她的美丽的秘诀在于她的由那些被种植在她自己的园子里的有机蔬菜、水果、种子和坚果组成的特殊饮食，她把这种特殊饮食称为“年轻的源泉”。1What does the underl
8、ined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?AThe organic food. BHer beauty.CSpecially cooked food. DHer raw diet.答案与解析：D考查词义猜测。根据第一段中的“she follows a special raw diet”及画线词所在句子的前半部分“Mrs.Larkins says the secret to her beauty lies in her special diet，consisting of organic vegetables，fruits，seeds and nuts gro
9、wn in her own garden”可知，it是指上文提到的那种生吃食物的饮食。故选D项。2What kind of person does the author think Mrs. Larkins is?AStrongwilled. BHonest.CModest. DOpenminded.答案与解析：A考查推理判断。根据第四段的倒数第二句“It was then that she decided to change her eating habits forever”及倒数第二段第二句中的“Over the 27 years，Mrs.Larkins has been eating
10、raw food”可知，Mrs.Larkins是一位意志坚定的人。故选A项。3What did the woman do with her healthy secrets?AShe sold them to the local people.BShe abandoned them at the age of 70.CShe publicized them in various ways.DShe improved them with her husbands help.答案与解析：C考查细节理解。根据倒数第二段最后一句中的“Mrs.Larkins has written two booklet
11、s called Journey to Health and also produced a DVD containing all her healthy secrets”可知，Mrs. Larkins利用各种方式推广她的健康秘诀。故选C项。4What is the authors attitude towards Mrs. Larkinss lifestyle?ADisapproving. BSupportive.CSympathetic. DSkeptical.答案与解析：B考查观点态度。根据第四段最后两句“And what a great decision that was.I mean
12、，just look at her”及最后一段对Larkins夫妇的情况的描述可知，作者对她的这种生活方式是支持的。B2019陕西检测Hunger has been troubling the world. In 2016, the number of hungry people in the world reached one billion for the first time. Its difficult not to be shocked by the fact that more than one in seven people in the world do not have en
13、ough to eat.The UN figures that almost two thirds of the worlds hungry people are in Asia, which is of course the worlds most populous continent. More than a quarter are in subSaharan Africa. Although this place has a much lower population than Asia, it has the highest percentage of hungry people. A
14、lmost all of the rest are in Latin America, North Africa and the Caribbean.There are many reasons for world hunger. They include wars, droughts, floods , and the overuse of farmland. All these factors affect food production. Many people also blame greedy businessmen for pushing up the prices of basi
15、c foods in the global market. In fact, many people are starving just because theyre poor. Therefore, the most important reason, quite simply, is poverty. If we cant pull out this root,_well never be able to solve food shortage.Although many people make the obvious point that there would be less hung
16、er if the global population were smaller, few people would argue that there is not enough food to go around. The basic problem seems to be not a lack of food, but its distribution. In the last 50 years, global food production has risen even more quickly than the global population.There are many areas of the
