《2025年红对勾高考一轮复习金卷英语》

Test 3（2025·江苏部分学校调研）
Wendell Berry was almost 30 when he packed up his life as a New York intellectual and moved to Port Royal, a tiny community in Kentucky where generations of his forebears (祖先) had farmed the land. His friends thought he was mad. But he felt it was his inner calling to record the history of the place.
Since moving to Port Royal in 1964, he has lived as if he were in the 19th century, writing by hand and ploughing his fields with horses. His eight novels and more than 50 short stories are usually set in Port William, a stand - in (代替物) for Port Royal. Nick Offerman, an actor, wanted to adapt his work for the screen. However, the actor was refused.
In Mr Berry’s opinion, humans must take care of the earth that grants them life. “The soil is the greatest connector of lives,” he has written. “Without proper care for it we can have no community.” This philosophy dominates his writings. In The Unsettling of America, published in 1977, Mr Berry criticized the natural damage caused by large agribusinesses. He thinks capitalism has separated farming from culture and disconnected people from nature.
Mr Berry’s fiction explores the decline of values by following Port William’s interconnected clans (家族) as they enter the modern age. In Dismemberment, a short story, Andy Catlett loses a hand to a harvesting machine and becomes a loner. He sees his withdrawal is mistaken and reconnects with the town, finding “the wealth of an intimate history” in belonging to “his ancestral place”. In Hannah Coulter, Mr Berry’s seventh novel, the main character Hannah Coulter grows old after a sad life and anticipates loneliness when her children leave to find work in the city. Instead her hope is restored when her grandson returns to run the farm.
These stories offer insightful advice for readers living through ecological disaster. Though few can return to farming basics, Mr Berry’s messages of building communities, being a good neighbor and resisting the invitation of modern life are still valuable.
9. Why did Mr Berry’s friends think he was mad?
A. He moved to live in the countryside.
B. He turned down Offerman’s request.
C. He wrote most of his novels by hand.
D. He gave up his career as an intellectual.
★10. What do Mr Berry’s writings often imply?
A. The challenges of farming in old days.
B. The harmony between man and nature.
C. The real benefits of large agribusinesses.
D. The hard lives of his forebears in Kentucky.
11. What do Andy Catlett and Hannah Coulter have in common?
A. They are from the same novel.
B. They both choose to live alone.
C. They are victims of country life.
D. They both find their values again.
12. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Wendell Berry: a rural writer living a modern life
B. Wendell Berry: a strong voice for modern farming
C. Discover why Wendell Berry’s rural tales shine
D. Find out how Wendell Berry adapts to new environments

答案： 9. A 10. B 11. D 12. C