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Unit 2 Presenting ideas
同步习题
一、阅读理解
阅读下面短文,从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能回答所提问题的最佳选项。
John was a top student in his class but he didn’t respect others. One day, his mother gave him a drum as a birthday gift. He often went around the classroom playing his drum. When the others asked him to keep quiet or play somewhere else, John rejected their suggestions.
John’s classmates couldn’t bear (忍受) the noisy drum, so they stopped playing with him. Peter, one of his classmates invented special earplugs (耳塞) which allowed people to hear normal sounds, but stopped the bad ones. John got very angry with Peter. He even had a big fight with Peter.
A few days later, a clock was put into the classroom, just next to John’s desk. The clock was making the noise like “Tick tock, tick tock.” John couldn’t concentrate on (专注于……) his study at all. However, the others, with their special earplugs, were OK. Soon John started to realise how much he had disturbed his classmates with the drum, and how silly it had been to fight with Peter. In order to change the situation, John decided to say sorry to his classmates. What’s more, he no longer played his drum in the classroom. Seeing John’s great changes, his classmates finally forgave him and decided to play with him again.
From then on, John changed a lot and got along well with his classmates.
( )1. What does the underlined word “rejected” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. Accepted. B. Satisfied.
C. Refused. D. Passed.
( )2. Why did John’s classmates stop playing with him?
A. Because they couldn’t bear his noisy drum.
B. Because he had a big fight with Peter.
C. Because Peter invented special earplugs.
( )3. How did John make his classmates forgive him?
A. By wearing a special earplug.
B. By putting a clock into the classroom.
C. By asking his teacher for help.
D. By saying sorry to his classmates and no longer playing his drum in the classroom.
( )4. What can we learn from this passage?
A. We should not play an instrument in the classroom.
B. We should respect and get along well with each other.
C. We should stop playing with others if they make noises.
D. We should have a big fight with the person who disturbs us.
二、语法填空
阅读下面短文,在空白处按要求填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。每空1个单词。
Mr. Smith worked in a company. He lived on the 1. ______ (four) floor of an apartment (公寓). He has lived here for many years. He was so impolite (没有礼貌的) to his 2. ______ (neighbour) that no one even knew his first name. He never said hello to anyone.
He even got angry when his next-door neighbour, Mary and David, had a baby. Instead of saying congratulations (祝贺), he loudly shouted 3. ______ (介词) them, “How boring it was! Your baby cried all night!” Mr. Smith thought that Mary and David would have 4. ______ (冠词) argument with him, but they didn’t.
One day before he left his home, he saw that his rubbish (垃圾) wasn’t there. In its place, he found a note from David. “Good morning, Mr. Smith. I 5. ______ (pass) by your door and saw your rubbish here. I picked it up for you. Have a nice day.”
Mr. Smith didn’t want to accept David’s 6. ______ (kind). But a few days later, outside his door Mr. Smith found another note that said, “We’re 7. ______ (deep) sorry for being noisy (吵闹的) last night. Our baby son didn’t feel well, 8. ______ (连词) he cried a lot.” That afternoon, when he returned from work, he said hello to his next-door neighbour and thanked 9. ______ (they) for their notes. From then on, he treated everyone with friendliness everywhere he went.
We live in a world full of many different kinds of people. The most important thing is to learn how to get along well with others. It’s good to see how kindness 10. ______ (encourage) more kindness.
Reflection—回归教材
一、根据汉语提示,用单词的正确形式填空。
Every afternoon, the children play in the Giant’s garden. It is a large garden with soft, green grass. Here and there, over the grass, stand beautiful flowers, like stars.
The Giant has been away for a long time. One day, he comes back and sees the children in his garden. “What are you doing here?” he 1. ______ (喊叫) in a very angry voice.
The children run away. The Giant closes the 2. ______ (大门) and builds a high wall around the garden. 3. ______ (自从……之后) then, he hasn’t seen a child there.
Then spring comes. But in the Giant’s garden, it is still winter. There are no birds or flowers. “I cannot 4. ______ (理解) why spring has not come since last year,” says the Giant. “I hope the weather changes soon.”
But spring never comes, 5. ______ (也不) summer. Autumn gives golden fruit to every other garden. But it gives none to the Giant’s garden.
One morning, the Giant suddenly hears birds singing. “I haven’t heard that beautiful birdsong for a while. I believe spring has come at last.” The Giant jumps out of bed and looks outside.
The Giant sees a 6. ______ (洞) in the wall. Also, there is a little child in every tree. And the trees are so 7. ______ (高兴的) that they have covered themselves with flowers. The birds fly about and sing with joy. “How 8. ______ (自私的) I’ve been!” he says. “Now I know why spring wouldn’t come here.”
He 9. ______ (拆毁) down the wall. The children look 10. ______ (害怕的). “Fear not, little ones,” the Giant says. “It’s your garden now.”
Adaptation from “The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde
二、语法填空
阅读下面短文,在空白处按要求填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。每空1个单词。
Narrow lanes are very common in China. They are usually about two metres wide, or six chi in 1. ______ (tradition) Chinese units. Most of them are nothing special. 2. ______ (连词) Liu-chixiang (Six-chi Lane) in Tongcheng, Anhui, is perhaps the most famous one.
Its story started back in the Qing Dynasty. Two local families, the Zhangs and the Wus, 3. ______ (argue) over the dividing line between their houses. They couldn’t reach 4. ______ (agree). The Zhang family was angry. Their relative, Zhang Ying, had a position high up in the government. They wrote him a letter, 5. ______ (ask) for advice. When his reply came, they opened it to find a poem inside.
A letter from far away just for a wall
Is not right or good at all.
Three chi to your neighbour as a gift
Is nothing as time continues to drift.
After reading it, the Zhang family felt ashamed. They stepped back three chi for their neighbour. This act 6. ______ (deep) moved the Wu family. In return, they decided to do the same thing. They gave up another three chi. And so came 7. ______ (冠词) six-chi-wide lane between the two houses.
Hundreds of years have 8. ______ (pass) since then, and the lane is still there. The people of Tongcheng still keep the poem 9. ______ (介词) mind. Whenever they walk down the lane, they remember how kindness encourages 10. ______ (much) kindness.
答案
Presenting ideas
一、1—4 CADB
二、1. fourth 2. neighbours 3. at 4. an 5. passed
6. kindness 7. deeply 8. so 9. them 10. encourages
Reflection—回归教材
一、1. shouts 2. gate 3. Since 4. understand 5. nor
6. hole 7. glad 8. selfish 9. knocks 10. afraid
二、1. traditional 2. But 3. argued 4. agreement
5. asking 6. deeply 7. the 8. passed 9. in 10. more
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