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课时分层作业(九)
[语言知识练习固基础]
Ⅰ.单句语法填空
1.Email,as well as telephone,is(be) playing an important part in daily communication.
2.Your room was in a mess and it needed cleaning.
3.The whole meal was good,but the soft drink in particular was excellent.
4.Tom tried to escape from the burning building.Unfortunately(fortunate),he was hit by a piece of burning wood and was killed.
5.He is said to have left(leave) the stage already as he has become an official.
6.Now it is time for us to learn(learn) from the advanced countries.
7.It is known(know) as the most dangerous part of the city.
8.I'll carry on with my writing till the bell rings.
9.She resigned her child to an adoption(adopt) agency.
10.I am much honoured to have(have) the opportunity to visit your company.
Ⅱ.完成句子
1.他把工作暂时搁下以便有更多时间陪儿子。
He put aside his work to spend more time with his son.
2.晚餐后我们不妨离开桌子。
We may as well leave the table after dinner.
3.她说宠物能把屋子弄得一团糟。
She says pets can make a mess of the house.
4.你该结婚并安居下来了。
It is time that you got married and settled down.
5.公园多么漂亮啊!我想再参观一次。
How beautiful the park is! I want to visit it a second time.
[高考题型练习提能力]
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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Carnival today is an international,multicultural experience.But how did it become so? To understand what carnival is all about,we need to look at the history of America and the meeting of two cultures—European and African.
The arrival of Europeans in America,and the opening of huge farms and plantations (种植园) to grow cotton,fruit and vegetables,meant there was an immediate need for people to work on them.This marked the beginning of the slave trade.For more than two hundred years,until the beginning of the 19th century,when the trade was finally stopped,millions of people were taken by force from their homes in Africa and transported to the New World to work as slaves.Six million were taken to the Caribbean islands where there were British and French landowners.
Naturally,the Europeans also imported their own festivals.So the slaves were forced to watch