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Unit 6 When was it invented?
Section B 2 (2a-2e)
Ⅰ. 根据句意及汉语提示完成句子
1. The teacher ________(分开;分散) the whole class into five groups and started the game.
2. The thirtyfirst ________(奥林匹克运动会) were held in Brazil in 2016.
3. Put these things into the ________(篮;筐), please.
4. Yao Ming was a ________ (职业的) basketball player a few years ago.
Ⅱ. 用所给单词的适当形式填空
1. The people who help save the girl are ________(hero) in my eyes.
2. I’m too young to lift the two ________(basket).
3. The population of that city has ________(rise) to over three million.
4. The ________(popular) of Square Dance makes people of all ages interested in it.
5. My brother wants to be a ________(profession) pingpong player.
6. The background music was provided by a piano ________(play).
7. There are about 600 people in the small village, ________(include) the old people and children.
8. The whole class ________(divide) into three groups yesterday.
Ⅲ. 完形填空
It has been more than two thousand years since we began to use an umbrella on rainy days. However, people often felt it not 1 to hold an umbrella while walking. Then the rubber (橡胶) raincoat was invented by an Englishman named Macintosh in 1823.
In 1492, Columbus, a wellknown Italian voyager, 2 the New World—America. He brought a lot of things to Europe from South America. Rubber was one of them, 3 people didn’t know its usage at that time. In 1770, people found that the rubber could be used 4 erasers.
Macintosh was a worker in an eraser factory in Scotland. One day 5 spilled (洒出) some rubber liquid (液体) over his coat 6 when making erasers. He was too busy to clean it and went back home wearing the 7 coat. On the way home, it rained heavily. Having no 8 , Macintosh had to run home quickly. When he got home, he 9 the wet coat. To his surprise, the area of the 10 with rubber wasn’t wet. “Why not make a rubber raincoat?” Macintosh 11 . The next day he brushed the rubber liquid all over his coat. He wore the “