Unit 1 Period 4-【新课程能力培养】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册同步练习（人教版）

Unit1 SCIENCEFICTION 练 基 础 训 练 单元语法填空 A. 用所给动词的正确形式填空 1. （ surround ） for a month, the en鄄 emy had to give in. 2. He could not bear （ make ） fun of like that. 3. What worried the child most was his （ not, allow ） to visit his mother in the hospital. 4. While we蒺re developing industry and agri鄄 culture, we must prevent the earth from （ pollute ） . 5. （ not, tell ） when the play started, he came late to the theatre and missed the first scene. B. 同义句转换 6. Would you mind if Jim was left alone at home? →Would you mind alone at home? 7. With the protection of the thick wall, they felt they were quite safe. → by the thick wall, they felt they were quite safe. 8. Though he had been told many times, he still did the wrong thing. → many times, he still did the wrong thing. 9. I hear they蒺ve promoted Tom, but he didn蒺t mention that he was promoted when we talked on the phone. →I hear they蒺ve promoted Tom, but he didn蒺t mention when we talked on the phone. 10. The problem that is discussed in the class meeting is about safety awareness. →The problem in the class meeting is about safety awareness. Period4 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 Up till about 130 years ago, newspapers in the United States attracted only the most se鄄 rious readers. They used no illustration （ 插 图 ） and the articles were about politics or business. Two men changed that — Joseph Pulitzer bought the New York World and William Ran鄄 dolph Hearst of the New York Journal. Pulitzer bought the New York World in 1883. He 拓 展 训 练 13 高中英语选择性必修 练 第四册 （人教版） changed it from a traditional newspaper into a very exciting one overnight. He added lots of illustrations and he told his reporters to write articles on every crime they could find. And they did. One of them — a woman reporter, even pretended she was mad and was sent to a hos鄄 pital. She then wrote many articles about the poor treatment of patients in those hospitals where mad men were kept. In 1895, Hearst came to New York from California. He wanted the Journal to be more exciting t