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Unit 6 When was it invented?
第一课时 Section A (1a-2c)
一、根据句意和汉语提示完成句中单词。
1.I like the __style__(风格) of the shoes. It's the most popular one.
2.__Electricity__(电) makes our life really convenient. We can't live well without it.
3.The hot icecream __scoop__(勺) is used for serving really cold icecream.
4.Do you like that pair of shoes with special __heels__(鞋跟)?
5.I think the TV was __invented__(发明) around 1927.
6.Thomas Edison was a great __inventor__(发明家) in America.
7.The Internet is __widely__(广泛地) used in our life now.
8.Both the TV and the telephone are useful __inventions__(发明).
二、根据句意,用合适的词完成句子,每空限填一词。
1.Do you know who the computer was invented __by__?
2.The car was invented __in__ 1885.
3.—Which was invented earlier, the telephone or the television?
—I learned in the history class that the telephone was invented __before__ the television.
4.—What's the machine used __for__?
—Don't you know?It's used for cooking.
5.The flashlight helps people to see __in__ the dark.
6.The personal computer wasn't invented __until__ 1971.
7.I always hit my toe __against__ something on the way to the bathroom at night.
三、将下列句子改为被动语态。
1.They clean their classroom three times a day.
→Their classroom __is__ __cleaned__by them three times a day.
2.He bought a sweater yesterday.
→A sweater __was__ __bought__by him yesterday.
3.The old man looked after the house last year.
→The house __was__ __looked__ __after__ by the old man last year.
4.Our teacher gave me a book.
→I __was__ __given__ a book by our teacher.
5.I heard her speak English aloud in the garden.
→She __was__ __heard__ __to__ speak English aloud in the garden.
四、完形填空。
The famous British inventor George Stephenson was born in 1781 and died in 1848. One of his most important __1__ was the train. He __2__ his first train when he was fortyfour years old. When he was experimenting(试验) with the steam engine on the train, he met with __3__ from the government, the newspaper reporter and the gentlemen in the country. They said