Unit 3 The world of science Period 2 Using language练习-2020-2021学年下学期高一英语同步精品课堂(外研版新教材必修第三册)

Unit 3 The world of science Period 2 Using language 练习-2020-2021学年下学期高一英语同步精品课堂(外研版新教材必修第三册) 原卷版 一、单句语法填空 1．A great many machines (produce) by the factory since the technological revolution. 2．Great changes (take) place in my hometown and a lot of factories ________________________(set) up there in the past ten years. 3．The book (finish) and will come out next month. 4．Up to now, a lot of high­rise buildings (build) in our city. 5．Because Jack was always late for work, Lily just told me he (fire) since last month. 6．The robots (use) to help humans do some dangerous work since the late 1990s. 7．—Why did you leave that position? —I (offer) a better position at IBM. 8．Professor Yang (invite) to the film festival twice so far. 9．A great deal of money (devote) to those schools in the countryside so far. 10．More than a dozen students in that school _(send) abroad to study medicine last year. 二、阅读理解 A When I was a child, my father bought me a new toy every other week when he received his pay check.I loved to take the toys apart to learn their basic principles, and then put them back together. Most of the time, the toys still worked，but I clearly remember getting a toy robot that would walk either forwards or backwards.I took the robot apart but when I put it back together, it couldn’t walk any more.I figured out what was wrong with it but I was not able to fix it.It was especially disappointing because I really liked the robot. By the time I was ten or so, my parents allowed me to play outdoors alone.During the summer, on the junk day, I would check out what people were throwing away.People did not use garbage bags then, so all waste was in metal cans, which made it easy to check out what was in the waste.I took home some equipment, radios, and televisions.I took them apart and