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课时达标作业(十三)
Section Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Ⅰ. 单词拼写
1. Learn to use your heel (脚后跟) as well as the ball of your foot.
2. Every individual (个人) has rights which must never be taken away.
3. We owe it to our descendants (后代) to leave them a clean world to live in.
4. The street is lined with enormous mansions (豪宅) where the rich and famous live.
5. The famous poet was buried in this cemetery (公墓).
Ⅱ. 短语填空
lead to; as to; be similar to; hold on; be different from
1. We should know that learning language is different from learning other courses.
2. They managed to hold on until help arrived.
3. This programme is similar to the American show.
4. Diligence leads to success while laziness results in failure.
5. We differ with you as to the structure of this sentence.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
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I visited Elba last June, joining Mary and John on a cycling vacation. They made the arrangements for the car, hotel and bicycles. I studied the history of the island, which of course particularly features Napoleon.
Napoleon picked Elba as a place for peace when he was forced to give up the throne as Emperor of France in 1814. Far from being a prison island, Elba is beautiful with towering mountains, thick forests and sweeping bays and beaches.
It is also an island filled with treasures. Very early on this island, the locals discovered rich deposits of iron. Soon outsiders, too, discovered the iron and 150 other valuable minerals on this little piece of land. Long before Etruscans and other Greeks set foot on it, Dorians had moved in by the tenth century BCE and were mining the island. The Romans ruled next, obtaining the minerals and building grand houses overlooking the sea. From the twelfth century until the nineteenth, the island was traded back and forth and was passed to France in 1802. Then came Napoleon, the new ruler of Elba.
I was eager to visit his house in Portoferraio. The Emperor lived with his court and his mother, but his wife, Marie Louise had ensconced herself in the splendi