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必修二 Unit 2 单元话题语篇训练（每单元3练）
练(一) 阅读理解组块专练——练速度 (限时：35分钟) Ⅰ.阅读理解 A
(2020·名校原创预测卷六)Don't miss out on student competitions available from NASA.Check this page often for new additions.
NASA_Earth_&_Space_Air_Prize Audience: Higher Education Students Registration Deadline: Dec.13, 2020
The competition asks individuals to design and develop sensors (探测装置) useful in spaceflight as well as on Earth.Three finalists will receive ＄50,000 each to build a functioning sensor according to their suggestions.The winner will receive a ＄100,000 award.
Future_Engineers:_Two_for_the_Crew_Challenge Audience: K－12 Students
Registration Deadline: Dec.19, 2020
Use your head to create a tool that combines the functions of two objects already being used by crew aboard the International Space Station! Visit the Challenge Website to find out about space station tools
and to get brainstorming resources to help you create a design.The site provides links to free 3-D design software.The winning design will be 3-D printed on the station.Prizes include “3-D Printing in Space” prize packs, a 3-D printer for your school and a trip to Washington, D．C.!
Mission_X_2020:_Train_Like_an_Astronaut_—_Walk_to_the_Moon_Challenge
Audience: All Educators and Students, Home School Parents and After-school Groups
Registration Deadline: Dec.31, 2020
Mission X encourages children of all ages to seek healthy lifestyles based on training like an astronaut.In 2020, Mission X is challenging fit explorers around the world to work together to perform activities in which all will move online mascot (吉祥物) Astro Charlie the 478 million steps required to walk from the Earth to the moon! That's 238,857 miles, or 384,403 kilometers! The challenge starts in January.Visit the website for full challenge details.
语篇解读：本文是一篇应用文，主要介绍了美国国家航空航天局主办的面向不同层次的学生的三项竞赛。 1．Who is NASA Earth & Space Air Prize most likely intended for? A．High school students. B．Home school parents. C．College students.
D．College educators.
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据NASA Earth & Space Air Prize部分中的“Audience: Higher Education Students”可知，此项比赛主要针对的是受过高等教育的学生；结合选项可知，只有C项“大学生”符合文章内容。故选C。
2．What can we know about the “Mission X 2020”？ A．It kicks off in the year of 2020. B．It aims to find potential astronauts. C．It allows of an experience of flying. D．It provides participants with cash prizes.
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据最后一部分中的“The challenge starts in January”及“Registration Deadline: Dec.31, 2020”可知，Mission X 2020这项竞赛在2020年开始。故选A。
3．What's the purpose of this passage? A．To call on people to visit NASA. B．To stress the importance of creativity. C．To introduce the development of NASA. D．To attract people to NASA competitions.
解析：选D 写作意图题。纵观全文尤其是第一段中的“Don't miss out on student competitions available from NASA”可知，本文主要介绍了美国国家航空航天局主办的面向不同层次的学生的竞赛，目的是吸引他们去参加。故选D。
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(2020·太原模拟)With their large glass windows and clear views of the hospital's newest arrivals, it's hard to imagine hospitals without newborn nurseries. But how did this slightly unusual, if precious, concept of putting babies on show come into being?
Well, they're not really for putting babies on show. Firstly, they were created as an area for nurses to take care of all of the new babies, separate from their mothers. Newborn nurseries have been around pretty much since moms started having babies in hospitals. In the early 1900s, hospitals replaced homes as the primary place to give birth. Hospitals built maternity wards (产科病房), and those wards had nurseries with windows.
According to Smithsonian. com, a 1943 publication gave two main purposes for the nurseries. The first purpose was to allow the relatives to see the new babies. The windows, however, were to keep the babies safe and clean while they were being admired by relatives. And that sanitary concern is right and reasonable. Babies' immune systems (免疫系统) are not yet developed, which has to do with the frightening reason you should be careful about letting people kiss your new baby. However, the Smithsonian. com article does admit that solid walls would be even more effective at keeping bacteria and viruses out than windows. Not to mention they would be more cost-effective. So, yeah ... the primary