4 Unit4知能演练轻松闯关
阅读理解 A (2019·湖州模拟)As a child,I was generally happy,singing and dancing to my favorite songs,smiling and laughing with my friends and family.But as far back as second grade,I noticed a “darkness” about me.I didn’t enjoy participating in many things. In middle school,things in my life began to get even worse.I began withdrawing from everything I once enjoyed.I was always tired.Everything was horrible.Finally,midway through eighth grade,I was told I had a chemical imbalance,diagnosed(诊断)with clinical depression,and had to take medicine.It took months for me to feel the effects of the medicine. When I began to feel happy again is when I realized that I had to take the responsibility for getting better myself,rather than relying on medicine.Aristotle said,“To live happily is an inward power of the soul,” and I believe that this quote describes what I had to do to achieve happiness.Happiness is a journey.Everyone seems to need different things to be happy. “The essentials(要素) to happiness are something to love,something to do,and something to hope for,”a quote from William Blake sums up what I believe people need to realize to be truly happy in life.People need love.I feel they need their family and their friends more than anything else in the world.People need work to do,something to make them feel they are making a difference in the world.People need to know that more good is to come in the future,so they continue to live for “now” instead of constantly worrying about the bad that could come.Love and hope are happiness. 【解题导语】 作者依据自己克服抑郁症的经验总结出了华蜜生活的要素。 1.What do we know about the author in Paragraph 2? A.He hated going to sleep because he couldn’t sleep well. B.He spent months recovering from the clinical depression. C.He was diagnosed with clinical depression in Grade Seven. D.He suffered a great deal from clinical depression. D 解析:细微环节理解题。依据其次段中的“I began withdrawing from.take medicine.”可知,在中学时,作者受到临床抑郁症的熬煎。故选D项。 2.Who helped the author to be happy again? A.The author’s friends. B.Aristotle. C.The author himself. D.William. C 解析:细微环节理解题。依据文章第三段第一句“When I began to feel happy again is when I realized that I had to take the responsibility for getting better myself,rather than relying on medicine.”可知,作者并不是依靠药物而是靠自己克服病症,重新欢乐起来。故选C项。 3.What may be the best title for the text? A.The Essentials to Happiness B.Ways to Overcome Shortcomings C.Everyone Needs to Be Happy D.Happiness Is Love A 解析:标题归纳题。通读文章,作者依据自己克服抑郁症的经验,总结出华蜜生活的要素,文章最终一段详细阐述了要素的内容,由此可知A项契合文章主旨。 B Some pigs tend to be optimistic while others are pessimistic,according to a new research that is meaningful to animal welfare. The study,published in the journal Biology Letters,is the first to show that mood and personality interact in an animal,influencing judgment. Asher,a researcher at the University of Newcastle’s Institute of Neuroscience,and her team housed groups of pigs in two types of environment. One reflected standard commercial conditions and the other