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课时达标作业(十七)
Section Ⅱ Reading and Thinking — Language Points
Ⅰ. 单词拼写
1. We only have miles with one airline (航空公司).
2. He claimed he ploughed all his money into his antique (古董) business.
3. Skiing in the Rockies is a pleasant (令人愉快的) mix of downhill and crosscountry.
4. Too many unforeseen political consequences could arise (出现) from such a decision.
5. The mistake landed the company with a massive (巨大的) bill.
6. When I went to Mount Tai for the first time, the sight there took my breath (呼吸) away.
7. They were lost in admiration of the scenery (景色).
8. The awesome (可怕的) power of the atomic bomb is beyond our imagination.
9. The match between the two universities is likely to be the highlight (最精彩的部分) of the tournament.
10. Police and the villagers all agreed the forest fire resulted from thunder (雷)and lightning.
Ⅱ. 短语填空
take one's breath away; in addition to; wake up; all the way; pull back
1. When I looked through the window, I saw a waterfall whose beauty took my breath away.
2. But every day they get up, and that old fear wakes up with them.
3. In this book Mr Fogg made a bet that he would travel all the way around the world.
4. Miss Brown went over to the window and pulled back the curtain and looked outside.
5. In addition to all of the above, she won a Pulitzer prize in 1980.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
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The number of people in my house has grown from six to seven recently. A young man from Spain has come to spend six weeks with us. He is no ordinary young man; he's actually my second cousin, and is here to spend time with this side of the family, and of course, to learn English.
Thankfully, he is the same age as my youngest son, and is very funloving. I'm sure that he will pick up a lot of English while he plays with my kids. That was actually how I picked up a lot of Spanish when I was a child. My mother would take me to Mallorca in Spain, to spend about a month in the summers. Because children play so much, and are less inhibited (羞怯的) than adults, they absorb language