全国通用版2019版高考英语大一轮复习单元检测卷22Unit2TheUnitedKingdom新人教版必修.docVIP

Unit 2 The United Kingdom Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (状元桥原创) The British drinking culture I first met alcohol in the late 1980s. It was the morning after one of my parents parties. My sister and I, aged 9 or 10, were up alone. We were searching for abandoned cans. I remember being methodical(有方法的): pick one up, give it a shake to see if theres anything inside, and if there is, drink! I can still remember the warm taste of the beer on my tongue. In my mid-teens, I started to drink more often. I found that drinking made being a human easier. Drinking meant I could talk to people more easily, sometimes even dance. After I graduated, I found myself in a new city but with the same habits. I ended one night by getting drunk. The next morning I had a black eye and a need for a tetanus injection(破伤风注射). I didnt feel that I had a problem with alcohol, nor did any of my friends. We got drunk, and then suffered the consequences. We were just doing what young people did. But recently, with nearly 20 years of drinking, I started to wonder if my generations relationship with alcohol was abnormal. When I looked into the numbers, I realized that it was. I discovered that 2004 was __Peak_Booze__:_the year when Brits drank more than they had done for a century. No other generation drank so much in their early twenties. Why us? In 1950, Brits drank an average of 3．9 liters(公升) per person. Then, in 1960, it began to move upward. The climb became steadier during the 1970s. However, the rising trend ended in 1980, but that turned out to be temporary. By the late 1990s, consumption was rising rapidly again. In 2004, we were drinking 9．5 liters of alcohol per person. For many of us nowadays, its still normal to go to the bar after work on Friday. We drink maybe because were happy or sad. Today the drinking commercials are more tightly regulated, but the wine-sponsored TV cooking contest and beer-branded soccer shirt are here, reminding us that alcohol is a normal part of everyday life. 语篇导读 本文为说明文。英国的饮