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牛津高中英语选修一单元二(Working the land)套题
(词汇、课文缩读<重要词汇填空>、语法讲练、完形填空、阅读理解、七选五、高端时讯英语语法填空、作文一练)
1. 词汇
识记
till vt. 耕种,翻耕,犁地 prep. 到……为止,直到 conj. 直到,一直到 n. 放钱的抽屉,收银盒
freshly tilled fields 刚犁过的田地
till the end of life 直到生命的最后一刻
till we meet again 待到重逢时
from morning till night 终日
I waited till ten o’clock.
Alex didn’t read fluently till he was nearly seven.
Till last year I’d never been to France.
The doctor’s surgery is from ten till two. (医生的门诊时间为十点到两点。)
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Not till then did I realize the danger of the situation.
We must stick to our task till it is finished.
People do not know the value of health till they lose it.
There is money in the till. (钱柜里有钱。)
We till the land for eating.
plough/plow vi. & vt. 耕田,耕犁,犁,耕 n. 犁,雪犁,扫雪机
Peasants can only plough the land plot by plot. (农民犁田只能一块一块地犁。)
The ground was ploughed and planted with corn.
We have to plough out the weeds.
The tractors will plough on throughout the night.
We ploughed our way through the crowd. (我们用力从人群中挤过去。)
The farmer is at the plough. (那个农民在种田。)
After a really big snow last night, we had to use ploughs to clear up the snow on the road this morning.
fertility n. 肥沃,富饶,丰产,生育力
to be fertile ground for … 有利于……生长的温床
Doctors will tell you that pregnancy is the only sure test for fertility.
It will be a fertility of year for much raining.
It’s rich there because of the fertility of soil.
The fertility of the soil has been greatly improved by the use of pesticides.
But they had the effect of increasing fertility. (但它们却产生了促进生育率的效应。)
He is famous for the fertility of his imagination.
Canada has been a fertile breeding ground of enterprise, genius, and innovation.
Rabbits are often considered to be the most fertile animals. (野兔常被认为是繁殖能力最强的动物。)
The soil here is very fertile.
collaboration n. 合作,协作,合作的产物,通敌
She faced charges of collaboration. (她面临通敌指控。)
They allowed the piece to evolve organically in collaboration with the dancers.
He wrote the book in co