课时同步（外研版）高二下英语选修8-1-2课时练习

Sorry to d______ you，but do you know where Miss Yang is?
The police didn't know who committed the crime，but they s________Jones.
He is a ________(职业的)basketball player.
This is a good article on the________ (主题)of space travel.
The prospect of living in a city holds little________(吸引力)for me.

In China，people enjoy freedom of speech. So you're________to say what you like.
He likes to have control over everyone，that is，he________power.
His behaviour is________a matter of impoliteness. In fact，it is a form of crime.
The government decided to________vehicles.
The lights of the city were soon________.
________he's been all around the world.

The new law has come into________；surely it will have________on industry of the country.

－What do you know about the traffic accident________yesterday?
－It was the drunken driver who was________for it.

If you ask the fast runner to set the pace，then most of them will be left________.

When the family moved to Canada，the children________very quickly to the new environments.

－My father is coughing heavily.
－You'd better________.It's bad for his health.

You have been sitting on my hat and now it is badly out of________.

I will telephone you________I________your country.

—Honey，the cat's stuck in the tree. Can you turn off the TV and get a ladder...?
—Oh，it jumped off.________.

Powered by courage and determination，Felicity Aston,33，became the first person to ski alone across Antarctica on 15，Jan,2012.
Aston finished the 59day trip almost exactly a century after Roald Amundsen first reached the South Pole in 1911.Aston crossed 1,084 miles from the Ross Ice Shelf to Hercules Inlet.
Aston，a freelance travel writer，and explorer，faced temperatures that averaged－25 degrees as she pulled two sleds across the ice and thick snow on her nearly twomonth trip. The scariest moment came when her two lighters failed to work while she was in the Transantarctic Mountains. The lighters started working again at lower altitudes.
While early Antarctic explorers were cut off from the outside world，Aston's access to a satellite phone meant that friends and family could follow her online as she regularly tweeted(在Twitter上发微博)and made almost daily podcasts(播客)about her journey. An interactive map showed Aston's progress in real time. And while she skied，Aston listened to bands.
On New Year's Eve she noted that there would be no champagne.“No wine with me to toast the new year but treating myself to spoonfuls of the peanut butter，” Aston tweeted as the new year approached.
In Aston's last podcast，the emotional traveler recorded after she reached Hercules Inlet, “I seem to have got here in a rush or something and I don't really feel prepared for it，”said Aston.“It feels amazing to be finished and greatly sad that it's over at the same time.”
Weather permitting，Aston will return home today where she says she is looking forward to some “red wine and a hot shower”．
What is Aston's most possible purpose to ski alone across Antarctica?

What is the difference between Aston's trip and the early explorers'?

It was the most difficult for Aston when ________.

Aston feels ________ about the ending of her trip.

A pioneering head teacher is calling for all high schools to follow his lead and start classes at 11 am，allowing teenagers two hours extra in bed.

Dr. Paul Kelley，head of Monkseaton Community High School in North Tyneside，said it would mean the end of sleeping in lessons before lunch，after experiments showed teenagers could have different body clocks from adults and younger children.
Russell Foster，an Oxford professor of neuroscience(神经系统科学)，tested the memory of 200 Monkseaton pupils at 9 am and 2 pm using pairs of words，and discovered a 9% improvement in the afternoon. Students correctly identified 51% of word pairs in the later session，compared with 42% in the morning. Tayler McCullough,15，one of the test subjects，said the majority of students would welcome the extra hours in bed.“I'm extremely hard to get up in the morning. One or two people like to get to school early，but most of us would be up for going in later. I'm sure it would make a big difference to our learning ability.”
Kelley is adamant that a change of school timetable will have a meaningful effect on exam performance. He wants his school's governors to approve his plan and put the new timetable in place before the opening of Monkseaton's new school building，the most technologically advanced in the country，in September.
Kelley hopes his latest idea will be just as successful.“We have to be practical. But this proves that，by starting later，children's learning improves，as does their health.”
Foster said，“This is preliminary(初步的) data，but what's exciting is that it matches more detailed studies carried out in Canada and the US. Teenagers get up late not because they are lazy but because they are biologically programmed to do so.”
How many professors are mentioned in the passage?

According to Russell Foster's research，________.

What does the underlined word “adamant” in the fourth paragraph mean?

Foster's opinion on teenagers' getting up late is that ________.