2015年高二英语课时作业：Unit4SectionⅢ（Word版含答案）（新人教版选修八）.docVIP

Ⅰ.阅读理解 A 66-year-old Dai once worked as a boat tracker along the Yangtze River. “It was something that required brute strength，but not that alone，” Dai said at his home in Xialong village，which sits at the entrance to Wuxia Gorge，one of the famous Three Gorges in Southwest China.“You needed a lot of skills to do what we did.” When outboard motors became available in the 1980s，boat trackers became a thing of the past.Today，they are seen only occasionally along the river during festivals and cultural events. However，Dai can still remember a time when being pulled by tracker along the Yangtze was the only way for people to travel from village to village in the mountainous Wushan county.Due to the area’s rich mining resources，his services were vital for companies that wanted to ship their goods. “I was 15 or 16 when I started，”said the retiree，explaining that his father also worked as a tracker.“He died in 1964，when I was a teenager.I can’t even remember us tracking together，but we did.It was so long ago.” Dai said that boats crews worked in teams with a first，second and third master.The first master was the most essential because he sat in the boat and steered(操纵) it along the safest route.nced boatmen and the most familiar with the Yangtze River. “My tracker days were dangerous，”Dai said.“If the boat got caught in a whirlpool，it could have swallowed the boat and all the trackers down with it.The same thing would have happened if the halter(缰绳) broke.”【语篇解读】　本文介绍了一个人作为纤夫时的工作和生活情况。船是那时候当地唯一的交通方式。因此纤夫的工作至关重要。当然他们的生活也充满艰辛。________． entrance to Xialong village D．Dai is still often seen along the river as a tracker 解析：选B。推理B项正确。e was the most familiar with the Yangtze River. 解析：选C。推理判断题。根据第七、八段内容的介绍可知这个职位是最重要的。因为这个职位的人很熟悉水情他必须要让船避开危险的漩涡和水下的礁石等。因此C项正确。________．s were once pulled by tracker along the Yangtze River B．actually Dai didn’t track with his father at all C．the most experienced boatmen were sure to be the first masters D．if the boat was caught in a whirlpool，all