Unit 2 Exploring English 课文语法填空-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

新外研必修一 Unit 2 Exploring English Understanding ideas Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple Have you ever asked yourself ________ people often have trouble ________ (learn) English? I hadn’t, until one day my five-year-old son asked me ________ there was ham in a hamburger. There isn’t. This made me realize that there’s no egg in eggplant either. ________ is there pine nor apple in pineapple. This got me thinking how English can be a crazy language ________ (learn). For example, in our free time we can sculpt a ________ (sculpt) and paint a ________ (paint), but we take a photo. And when we are traveling we say that we are in the car or the taxi, but ________ the train or bus! While we’re doing all this traveling, we can get seasick at sea, airsick in the air and carsick in a car, but we don’t get homesick when we get back home. And speaking ________ home, why aren’t homework and housework the same thing? If “hard” is the _________ (oppose) of “soft”, why are “hardly” and “softly” not ________ opposing pair? If ________ (harm) 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”. ________ when we see sunshine, we can’t say “it’s sunshining”. Even the ________ (small) words can be ________ (confuse). When you see the ________ (capitalize) “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 unique ________ (mad) of a language in ________ a house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm is only heard once it goes ________! English ________ (invent) by people, not computers, and it reflects the ________ (creative) of the human race. That is ________ when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are ________ (visible). And that is why when I wind up my watch, it starts, b