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课时作业(2) A卷 基础巩固
Ⅰ.单句语法填空
1.Please don't hesitate to contact (contact) me if you have any questions.
2.Hearing (hear) the soft footsteps outside his room below,he rose and felt afraid.
3.I want you to take charge of this operation.
4.All the afternoon he worked with the door locked (lock).
5.It was yesterday that he realized that he had made a big mistake.
6.The peasants kept on working even if/though it was raining heavily.
7.We were all shocked (shock) at the news that our team failed in the last match.
8.Having a bath after a long time of work is joyous (joy).
9.Who will work as the conductor (conduct) in the music competition?
10.The children were very excited when they heard they would go to the Great Wall for the first time.
11.Can you tell me the ending (end)of the movie that you watched yesterday?
12.Do you like the performance (perform)that was put on last week?
Ⅱ.完成句子
1.Lu Xun was regarded as one of the best writers of the last century.
鲁迅被认为是上个世纪最好的作家之一。
2.In no case should you give up.
在任何情况下,你都不应该放弃。
3.This may be in response to the government pressure.
这可能是对政府压力的响应。
4.All in all,the reasons above make me like the book best.
总而言之,以上原因让我最喜欢这本书。
5.Our information and services are free of charge.
我们的信息和服务是免费的。
6.He sat in the armchair,reading a newspaper.
他坐在扶手椅里读报。
Ⅲ.阅读理解
Watercolor is the oldest paints known.It dates back to the early cave men who discovered they could add life felike like qualities to drawings of animals and other figures on the walls of caves by mixing the natural colors found in the earth with water.
Fresco (壁画),one of the greatest of all art forms,is done with watercolor.It is created by mixing paints and water and applying these to wet plaster (灰泥).Of the thousands of people who stand under Michelangelo's heroic ceiling in the Sistine Chapel,very few know that they are looking at perhaps the greatest watercolor painting in the world.
The invention of oil painting by the Flemish masters in the fifteenth century made fresco painting