2021版高考英语一轮复习Unit5Travellingabroad课后达标检测新人教版选修7

Unit 5 Travelling abroad (建议用时：35分钟)Ⅰ.阅读理解A(2020·太原一模)New Haven, Connecticut—A surprise awaited stud

Unit 5Travelling abroad (建议用时：35分钟) Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2020·太原一模)New Haven, Connecticut—A surprise awaited students in Yale who showed up for Professor Laurie Santos’s class. They got slips of paper that said, “No class today.” There was only one rule for the students’ unexpected free time—They were not allowed to study, but to relax. Since exams and papers were coming up, everyone was tired and stressed. At this moment they were touched. With around applause, nine students hugged Santos, and two burst into tears. Yet, cancelling class was not just abreak. It was also achallenge, as she was asking them to stop worrying about their grades, even if it was just an hour. One student went to the Yale University Art Gallery for the first time in her four years at Yale. Agroup of students went to arecording studio and played anew song. More people were outside, and more were smiling. That’s why about 1，200 students were taking Santos’s class, called “Psychology and the Good Life”， the largest class in Yale’s 317­year history. Even non­Yale students had the chance to take Santos’s class. It was offered as an online course and she immediately became an Internet hit. Skyler Robinson, one of her students, was at aloss for awhile about what to do during his break, and then decided to take anap. “It was agreat nap，” he commented. Santos designed the class after she realized that her students kept busy through long days that seemed far more depressing and joyless than her own college years. “They feel they’re in this crazy rat race. They’re working so hard that they can’t take asingle hour off. That’s awful.” The ideas behind the class are simple. Santos said, “It is the hope that