必修一 Unit 2 课文挖空及答案 - 2023-2024年高一英语课文挖空词汇基础训练（新教材外研版）

必修一 Unit 2 课文挖空 Understanding Ideas Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple Have you ever asked yourself why people often _______________________________________(学习英语有困难)? I hadn’t, until one day my five-year-old son asked me whether there was ham in a hamburger. There isn’t. This made me realize that there’s no egg in eggplant either. Neither is there pine nor apple in pineapple. This _______________________________(开始让我思考) how English can be a crazy language to learn. For example, in our free time we can sculpt a sculpture and paint a painting, but we take a photo. And when we are traveling we say that we are in the car or the taxi, but on the train or bus! While we’re doing all this traveling, we can get ___________(晕船的)at sea, ___________(晕机的) in the air and ____________(晕车的)in a car, but we don’t get __________(思乡的) when we get back home. And speaking of_____________(谈及，说到) home, why aren’t _____________(作业) and ____________(家务) the same thing? If “hard” is the ______________(反义词;相反的) of “soft”, why are “hardly” and “softly” not an _____________(相对的；对面的；反对的) pair? If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions, why are shameless and shameful behaviors the same? When we look out of the window and see rain or snow, we can say “it’s raining” or “it’s snowing”. But when we see sunshine, we can’t say “it’s sunshining”. Even the smallest of words can be _______________(令人困惑的). When you see the _________________(大写的) “WHO” in a medical report, do you read it as the “who” in “Who’s that?” What about “IT” and “US”？ You also have to wonder at the ______________(独一无二的) madness of a language in which a house can burn up as it ________________(燃烧；焚毁), in which you ______________(填写) a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm is only heard once it ________________(爆炸；响)! English was invented by people, not computers, and it _____________(反映) the ________________(创造性)of the human race. That is why when the stars are out, they are ____________(看得见的), but when the