外研版（2019）高中英语必修2：Unit 5 On the road单元过关测试

A visit to a zoo can be an amazing experience for people of all ages. If you want to get close to wildlife, why not visit one of the following zoos in the UK?

Longleat Safari (游猎) & Adventure Park

Wiltshire's Longleat Safari & Adventure Park is the UK's oldest safari park. Opened in 1966, it was the first safari park opened outside Africa. It was just a 100－acre lion reserve (保护区) in the beginning, but it has grown fast over the years. Now you can see parrots and other creatures here, although lions are still popular with many people.

Open from mid－February to early November, a day ticket costs ￡26 for adults. Admission (入场费) for 3－14­year－olds is ￡18. 50 and ￡21 for the over－60s.

Located just off the A36 between Bath and Salisbury, it can be reached by taking the A36.

Bristol Zoo

Bristol Zoo is one of the UK's oldest zoos.  It will celebrate its 180th anniversary (周年纪念日) in 2016. Here, you will find over 400 different species of creatures. It also has nine animal houses, so even if the weather isn't at its best, there are still lots of amazing creatures to look at, including the endangered red panda. Perhaps one of the most popular places is Bug World, where you can see all kinds of scary insects.

Admission for adults is ￡14 and ￡8. 50 for 3－14­year－olds.

Located in the Clifton region of Bristol, you can reach the zoo by taking either the No. 8 or 9 bus. Clifton Down train station is also close by, and if you are taking public transport, you can buy a discounted entry ticket to the zoo.

Vaping can be just as damaging to your health as smoking. But the minute you kick the habit, you'll feel a difference.

Vaping is the use of electronic cigarettes — e-cigarettes. Vaping became mainstream in the United States in the late 2000s. When e-cigarettes first hit the market, people believed they were a safer choice to tobacco cigarettes. We now know, however, that vaping, like smoking cigarettes can be quite damaging to your health and equally addictive.

Kids and teenagers are especially attracted to vaping, thanks to attractive flavors. Vape use in high school students rose by 900 percent between 2011 and 2015. Quitting vaping can be difficult, just like trying to stop smoking. There are some immediate, though often temporary, negative effects. The positive ones soon outpace the negative, however.

In as little as 20 minutes, your heart rate returns to normal, your blood pressure drops, and your circulation starts to normalize. Your breathing may improve, too. Daily e-cigarette doubles a persons risk for a heart attack. If you quit, however, the risk begins to fall very quickly. Also, vaping, like cigarette smoking, can blunt your senses, reducing your ability to smell and taste. After just 48 hours without vaping, you may begin to notice your ability to taste and smell food has improved. Nicotine affects more than your brain: new research suggests nicotine can raise your blood sugar, too.

Smokers often have a troublesome cough or make a breathless sound when they breathe that many refer to as a smokers cough. Smoking even e-cigarettes can badly harm your lung health and make fighting off infections difficult. Quitting, however, will help your lungs recover. After one month, your lung capacity improves. There will come a day when the bad habit of vaping won't have any lasting influence on your body and your health.

Honeybees can't swim, and when their wings are wet, they can't fly, either. But Chris Roh and other researchers at the California Institute of Technology found that when bees drop into bodies of water, they can use their wings to produce little waves and slide toward land-like surfers who create and then ride their own waves.

As with many scientific advances－Isaac Newton's apple or Benjamin Franklin's lightning bolt－Dr. Roh's experiment began with a walk. Passing Caltech's Millikan Pond in 2016, he observed a bee on the water's surface producing waves. He wondered how an insect known for flight could push itself through water.

Dr. Roh and his co-worker, Morteza Gharib, used butterfly nets to collect local Pasadena honeybees and observed their surf-like movements. The researchers used a wire to restrict each bee's bodily movement, allowing close examination of their wings. They found that the bee bends its wings at a 30-degree angle, pulling up water and producing a forward force. Bees get trapped on the surface because water is about three times heavier than air. But that weight helps to push the bee forward when its wings move quickly up and down. It's a tough exercise for the bees, which the researchers guess could handle about 10 minutes of the activity.

The researchers said the surf-like movement hasn't been documented in other insects and most semiaquatic (半水生) insects use their legs for propulsion (推进力), which is known as water-walking. It may have evolved in bees, they predicted.

Dr. Roh and Dr. Gharib have imagined many practical applications for bees'surfing. One plan is to use their observations to design robots able to travel across sky and sea. "This could be useful for search and rescues, or for getting samples of the surface of the ocean, if you can't send a boat or helicopter," Dr. Gharib said.

Learning a second language is tough at any age. Now, in a new study, scientist have found out the exact age after which your chances of reaching fluency (流利) in a second language seem to plummet:10.

The study published in the journal Cognition, found that it's "nearly impossible" for language learners to reach native-level (母语水平) fluency if they start learning a second language after age 10. "It turns out you're still learning fast," says study co-author Joshua Hartshorne. "It's just that you run out of time, because your ability to learn starts dropping at around 17 or 18 years old," People who start a few years after age 10 may still become quite good at a language, the authors say, but they are unlikely to become fluent.

Kids may be better than adults at learning new languages for many reasons. Children's brains are more plastic than those of adults, meaning they're better able to adapt and respond to new information. Kids may also be more willing to try new things than adults are. Their comparatively new understanding of their native language may also be advantageous.

These findings may seem discouraging, but it was inspiring for scientists to learn that the key period for fluent language learning might be longer than previously thought. Some scientists believed that the window begins to close shortly after birth, while others made it longer to very early childhood. Compared with those judgments-age 17 or 18 —when language learning ability start to drop off—seems relatively old.

For this study, the researchers created an online test promising to guess people's native language and home country based on their responses to English grammar questions. Almost 670,000 people took it, giving the researchers huge amounts of data from English speakers of many ages and backgrounds. Examining the responses and grammar mistakes allowed them to made unusually exact judgments about language learning.

FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS

Festivals and celebrations of all kinds have been held everywhere since ancient times. Most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.

Festivals of the Dead

Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors. The Western holiday Halloween is now a children's festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbors' homes to ask for sweets

Festivals to Honour People

The Dragon Boat Festival in China honors the famous ancient poet, Qu Yuan. India has a national festival to honour Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India's independence from Britain.

Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals can be very happy events. People are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter. China and Japan have mid-autumn festivals, when people admire the moon and in China, enjoy moon-cakes.

Spring Festivals

The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and the coming of spring. In some Western countries, Easter is an important religious and social festival for Christians around the world. It celebrates the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life.

People love to get together to eat, drink and have fun with each other. Festivals let us enjoy life, be proud of our customs and forget our work for a little while.

A. Harvest Festivals.

B. Traditional Festivals.

C. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.

D. Festivals can also be held to honour famous people.

E. If the neighbors do not give any sweets, the children might play a trick on them.

F. During the Spring Festival in China, people eat dumplings and may give children lucky money in red paper.

G. Today's festivals have many origins: some are religious, some seasonal, and some for special people or events.

I was recently involved in a bad traffic accident. I was knocked unconscious by the impact so I don't1anything about the accident. My first memory is being given oxygen as the doctors and nurses tried to 2 me back to life.

As I lay in the emergency room, I found myself 3 my life and thanking God that I was still 4. The good news is that nobody else was 5.

Since that day, the physical recovery has been 6 but not as tough as the emotional recovery. I've learned a lot about myself and about what really 7 in this world. Things that are really important are not "things". I'm not invincible(无敌的)and I cannot8 everything that happens in my life. I need to be better at 9 the things that come into my way that I didn't plan for. As someone who was always in a10, it taught me to slow down a little. I have learned to live each day honestly and 11.

12 I continue to heal physically and emotionally，I have a different opinion on 13. When tragedy strikes, you can either let it 14 your spirit，or use it as an opportunity to grow. I have chosen to 15 from it.

The fireworks are being prepared. The red envelopes (fill). And around the world, hundreds of millions of people are coming together (celebrate) the Chinese New Year. Across the UK, (lantern) are being hung in Manchester. Liverpool, Nottingham and many of our other great cities, including here in London, home to one of (big) Chinese New Year celebrations outside Asia. The festivities are (undoubted) one of the highlights of Britain's cultural calendar, showcasing the (strong), vibrancy and diversity of our multicultural society. And they are reminder of the incredible role that our Chinese community plays in British life—from students who have just arrived here to study, families whose roots in this country go back well over a century. It is a legacy and a contribution that I celebrated here at Downing Street last week, (bring) together leading figures from across our Chinese community, people without the UK would not be the successful, dynamic country it is today. So wherever and however you are celebrating. let me wish you a very happy new year, and a prosperous and auspicious year of the Pig.

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In 2000, when I was around seven years old, all my family were coming back from a T­ball game, which was our usual weekend adventure, but unlike every other weekend, a surprise was waiting for us in our driveway – two adult geese and a small goose. Obviously startled by our return, the adults flew away in panic, with their baby, too young to fly, left in place, tiny and delicate.

Hours passed one after another, and night eventually fell. However, with it also came a deep chill and a fear of watchful animals. It was apparent that the gosling needed protection, warmth, and food to make it to the morning, so we had to help it, and we brought him onto our back yard.

We all pretty much slept with one eye open till morning came. And then another morning. And still another. Each morning, we would try to drive the goose away to his parents, who kept coming back to our yard. He wouldn't go to them, though, and neither would they come close enough to claim him. We kept this up for five days, but no luck. Realizing the young goose had clearly decided we were his family by then, we had to give him a name, calling the little guy Peeper, because he would often follow us around the yard making a peeping (唧唧叫) noise, nonstop. Besides, we decided that Peeper was a boy. I don't know why; it just felt right.

A year passed and we settled into a routine. Peeper slept on our back yard each night and, in typical goose fashion, used it as a latrine (公共厕所). My dad would spray off all the goose droppings daily. Part of this ceremony included Dad throwing Peeper up into the air so he could flap its wings and flew a loop (圈) around the house, and then came back again once the porch was clean.

Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months.

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Before we knew it, the little thing had grown into a big bird with two powerful wings.

……

It came as a total surprise to me when, in 2019, an adult goose made his way back to my family home.