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Unit 2 Poems
第2节 Learning about Language
一、选择合适的单词,完成句子。
transform, warmth, cottage, underline, poem, diamond, anger, aspect, appropriate, sparrow
1 Please explain the__________ word in the sentence.
2 That thing would__________ my life forever.
3 My necklace is made of__________.It is worth a lot of money.
4 I couldn't find an__________ word to express myself.
5 As a young boy I used to catch__________ with a sieve(筛子) on snowy days.
6 I am happy to see that you can look at a problem from every________.
7 My father tried not to show his________.
8 This is an 18th century_________, which has a special style.
9 Li Bai, an ancient poet, wrote lots of famous Tang________.
10 It was such a cold day that animals stay together for________.
【答案】
1 underlined 2 transform 3 diamond 4 appropriate 5 sparrows
6 aspect 7 anger 8 cottage 9 poems 10 warmth
二、词义辨析
1.用run out,run out of的适当形式填空
(1)—Will you lend me some paper?
—Sorry,mine has ________________.
(2)If we hadn’t ________________ money,we would have bought it.
(3)In a mine accident,the trapped miners were ____________________ energy when help came.
2.用common,ordinary,normal,usual填空
(1)It’s very disappointing that the violinist,popular with us,gave a very ________ performance at the concert last night.
(2)Letter boxes are much more ________ in the UK than in the US,where most people have a mailbox instead.
(3)The doctor said the child’s temperature was ________.
(4)As ________ he stayed up late last night.
(5)He is always acting foolishly;he has no ________ sense.
【答案解析】
1.(1)run out (2)run out of (3)running out of
(1)run out意为“用完”,是不及物动词短语,通常以物作主语,指时间、食物、金钱等被耗尽、用光。
(2)run out of表示“用完”时,是及物动词短语,主语通常为人,后接宾语,意为“耗尽、用光(时间、食物、金钱等)”。
2.(1)ordinary (2)common (3)normal (4)usual (5)common
(1)common侧重“常见的,普通的,不足为奇的”,表明其普通性。
(2)ordinary普通的,平常的,强调等级和类属方面普通,侧重没有特色,不特殊的。
(3)normal正常的,侧重无异常。
(4)usual多指习惯性的,遵循常规的,通常的,一贯如此的。
三、句型转换
1.We are running out of our money.
Our money ________ ________ ________.
2.We would