Unit 6 Nature in words Understanding ideas First Snow 语法填空-2025-2026学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第三册

B3 U6 Nature in words First Snow 语法填空 About the author John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984) was born in the English county of Yorkshire, and knew early on ①______ he wanted to become a writer. When World War I ②______ (break) out, Priestley joined the army, and escaped death on a number of ③______ (occasion). After the war, he gained a degree ④______ Cambridge University, and then moved to London, ⑤______ he worked ⑥______ a freelance writer. During World War II, he presented a weekly radio programme, ⑦______ became ⑧______ (immense) popular. Priestley wrote many successful articles, essays, novels and plays, but is ⑨______ (well) remembered ⑩______ his play An Inspector Calls. Priestley loved snow and expressed a desire ⑪______ (live) in a country ⑫______ it often snowed. Paragraph 1 Mr Robert Lynd once said of Jane Austen’s characters: “They are people in ⑬______ lives a slight fall of snow is an event.” Even ⑭______ the risk of appearing to this fair and witty reviewer as another Mr Woodhouse, I must insist that last night’s fall of snow here was an event. I was nearly as excited about it this morning as the children, ⑮______ I found all(同位语) looking ⑯______ the window at the magic outside and ⑰______ (talk) away as excitedly as if Christmas had suddenly come round again. The fact is, however, ⑱______ the snow was as strange and fascinating to me ⑲______ it was to them. It is the first fall we ⑳______ (have) here this winter, and last year I was out of the country, ㉑______ (sweat) in a hot climate, during the snowy season, so that it really does seem an age since I saw the ground so fantastically ㉒______ (carpet). Paragraph 2 The first fall of snow is not only an event ㉓______ it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up ㉔______ (find) yourself in another quite different, and if this is not magic, then where is it to be found? The very secrecy and ㉕______ (quiet) of the thing makes it more magical. Paragraph 3 When I got up this morning the world was a cold place of dead white and pale blues. The light ㉖______ came through the windows was very strange, and it made the familiar business of splashing and shaving and brushing and dressing very strange too. Then the sun came out, and by the time I had sat down to breakfast it was shining ㉗______ (brave) and ㉘______ (flush) the snow with delicate pinks. The dining-room window had been transformed ㉙______ a lovely Japanese print(日本浮世绘版画). The little plum tree outside, ㉚______ the faintly flushed snow ㉛______ (line) its branches and artfully ㉜______ (dispose vt.安排，摆放布置) along its trunk, stood in full sunlight. Paragraph 4 An hour or two later everything was ㉝______ cold sparkle of white and blue. The world had completely changed again. The little Japanese prints had all disappeared. I looked out of my study window, over the garden, the field, to the low hills beyond, and the ground went on and on, the sky was thick grey, and all the trees so many black and ㉞______ (threaten) shapes. There was indeed something curiously ㉟______ (disturb) about the whole prospect. It was as if our kindly countryside, close ㊱______ the very heart of England, had been turned into a cruel grassland. At any moment, it seemed, a body of horsemen might ㊲______ (see) breaking out from the black trees, so many weapons might be heard and some distant spot of snow be reddened. It was that kind of landscape. Paragraph 5 Now it has changed again. The glare has gone and no touch of the disturbing ㊳______ (remain). But the snow is falling ㊴______ (heavy), in great soft ㊵______ (flake), so that you can hardly see across the shallow valley, and the roofs are thick and the trees all bending, and the weathercock of the village church, still ㊶______ (see) through the grey ㊷______ (load) air, has become some creature out of Hans Andersen. From my study, ㊸______ is apart from the house and faces it, I can see the children ㊹______ (flatten) their noses ㊺______ the window, and there is ㊻______ (run) through my head a rhyme I used ㊼______ (repeat) when I was a child and flattened my nose against the cold window ㊽______ (watch) the ㊾______ (fall) snow: Snow, snow faster: White alabaster! Killing geese in Scotland, Sending feathers here! (㊿______(adapt) from First Snow by John Boynton Priestley) 二、答案+解析版 About the author ① that 引导宾语从句，从句结构完整，仅作连接词，无实义。 ② broke 动词过去式，break out 为固定短语，意为“（战争、冲突）爆发”。 ③ occasions a number of 后接可数名词复数，故变为 occasions。 ④ from 固定搭配 gain a degree from…，表示“从……院校获得学位”。 ⑤ where 关系副词，引导定语从句，在从句中充当地点状语。 ⑥ as 介词，work as 意为“担任；从事……职业”。 ⑦ which 关系代词，引导非限制性定语从句，指代前文 programme，在从句中作主语。 ⑧ immensely 形容词变副词，修饰后面的形容词 popular。 ⑨ best good的副词最高级，be best remembered for 表示“因……最为人熟知”。 ⑩ for 固定搭配 be remembered for，意为“因……被铭记”。 ⑪ to live 固定结构 express a desire to do sth.，不定式作后置定语。 ⑫ where 关系副词，引导定语从句，先行词为地点类名词，在从句中作状语。 Paragraph 1 ⑬ whose 关系代词，表所属关系，whose lives 意为“他们的生活”。 ⑭ at 固定搭配 at the risk of，意为“冒着……的风险”。 ⑮ whom 关系代词，指代人，在非限制性定语从句中作宾语。 ⑯ through 介词，look through the window 表示“透过窗户望去”。 ⑰ talking 现在分词，与 looking 并列，作宾语补足语。 ⑱ that 引导表语从句，不作句子成分，无实义。 ⑲ as 连词，固定结构 as…as…，意为“和……一样”。 ⑳ have had It is the first + 名词 + that 从句，从句需使用现在完成时。 ㉑ sweating 现在分词，在句中作伴随状语，逻辑主语与主句主语一致。 ㉒ carpeted 过去分词作宾语补足语，ground 与 carpet 为被动关系。 Paragraph 2 ㉓ but 固定句型 not only…but (also)…，意为“不仅……而且……”。 ㉔ to find 不定式结构，wake up to do sth. 表示“醒来意外发现……”，表出乎意料的结果。 ㉕ quietness 形容词变名词，与 secrecy 并列作句子主语。 Paragraph 3 ㉖ that 关系代词，指代事物，在定语从句中作主语。 ㉗ bravely 形容词变副词，修饰动词 shining。 ㉘ flushing 现在分词，与 shining 并列，共同作谓语。 ㉙ into 固定搭配 transform…into…，意为“把……转变为……”。 ㉚ with 引导 with 复合结构，在句中作伴随状语。 ㉛ lining 现在分词，snow 与 line 为主动关系。 ㉜ disposed 过去分词，snow 与 dispose 为被动关系。 Paragraph 4 ㉝ a 不定冠词，a cold sparkle 表示“一片清冷的光影”，表泛指。 ㉞ threatening 动词变形容词，修饰名词 shapes，意为“令人压抑的”。 ㉟ disturbing 形容词，专门用来修饰事物，意为“令人不安的”。 ㊱ to 固定搭配 close to，意为“靠近；接近”。 ㊲ be seen 情态动词后接被动语态，主语与 see 构成被动关系。 Paragraph 5 ㊳ remains / has remained remains 为一般现在时，描述当下状态；has remained 为现在完成时，强调状态从过去持续至今，两个答案均成立。 ㊴ heavily 形容词变副词，修饰动词 falling，表“雪下得大”。 ㊵ flakes 可数名词，前文有 great soft 修饰，使用复数形式。 ㊶ to be seen 不定式被动形式，still to be seen 为固定用法，表“依稀可见”，逻辑主语与 see 为被动关系。 ㊷ loaded 过去分词作形容词，loaded air 意为“沉闷厚重的空气”。 ㊸ which 关系代词，引导非限制性定语从句，指代 my study，作主语。 ㊹ flattening 现在分词，固定结构 see sb. doing sth.，表示“看见某人正在做某事”。 ㊺ against 介词，flatten one's nose against the window 意为“把鼻子贴在窗户上”。 ㊻ running 现在分词，用于倒装结构，描述思绪在脑海中萦绕。 ㊼ to repeat 固定搭配 used to do sth.，意为“过去常常做某事”。 ㊽ to watch 动词不定式，在句中作目的状语。 ㊾ falling 现在分词作定语，修饰 snow，表“正在飘落的雪”。 ㊿ Adapted / Adaptation Adapted 为过去分词，Adapted from 是文本出处常用表达；Adaptation 为名词，表“改编作品”，二者语法、语义均合规。 P87阅读文本语法填空 There is no month in the whole year in ①______ nature wears a more beautiful appearance ②______ in the month of August. Spring has many ③______ (beauty), and May is a fresh and ④______ (bloom) month, but the charms of this time of year ⑤______ (enhance) by their contrast with the winter season. August has no such advantage. It comes ⑥______ we remember nothing ⑦______ clear skies, green fields, and sweet-smelling flowers — when the memory of snow, and ice, and bleak winds, has faded ⑧______ our minds as completely ⑨______ they have disappeared from the earth — and yet ⑩______ a pleasant time it is! Orchards and fields sing with the sound of work. Trees bend beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit ⑪______ bow their branches to the ground; and the wheat, ⑫______ (pile) in graceful sheaves, or ⑬______ (wave) in every gentle wind that ⑭______ (sweep) above it, ⑮______ (tinge vt.（使）略带颜色；渲染) the landscape with a golden colour. A soft, pleasant light appears ⑯______ (hang) over the whole earth; the influence of the season seems to extend ⑰______ (it) even to a passing wagon, ⑱______ slow motion across the well-reaped field is seen by the eye, but ⑲______ (make) no loud noises upon the ear. (Adaptation from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens) 生词注解：tinge (v.) （使）略带颜色；渲染 参考答案 + 逐题解析 ① which 介词 + 关系代词引导定语从句，先行词为 month，in which 在从句中作地点状语。 ② than 句中出现比较级 more beautiful，构成 more...than... 比较结构，意为 “比……”。 ③ beauties many 后接可数名词复数；beauty 此处表示 “一处处美景”，复数形式为 beauties。 ④ blooming 现在分词作前置定语，修饰 month，意为 “繁花盛开的”。 ⑤ are enhanced 主语 the charms 与 enhance 为被动关系，全文为一般现在时，用一般现在时被动语态。 ⑥ when 引导时间状语从句，在从句中作时间状语，意为 “当…… 的时候”。 ⑦ but 固定搭配 nothing but，意为 “仅仅；只不过”。 ⑧ from 固定短语 fade from，意为 “从…… 中消失”。 ⑨ as as...as... 同级比较结构，表示 “和…… 一样”。 ⑩ what 引导感叹句，遵循 What + a/an + 形容词 + 单数可数名词 + 主谓 结构。 ⑪ that/which 限制性定语从句，先行词 fruit 指物，关系代词在从句中作主语。 ⑫ piled 非谓语动词作定语，wheat 与 pile 为被动关系，用过去分词。 ⑬ waving 非谓语动词作定语，wheat 与 wave 为主动关系，用现在分词。 ⑭ sweeps 定语从句先行词 every gentle wind 为单数，一般现在时，谓语用第三人称单数。 ⑮ tinges 主句主语 the wheat 为单数，通篇一般现在时，谓语用第三人称单数。 ⑯ to hang 固定用法 appear to do sth.，意为 “似乎、好像做某事”。 ⑰ itself 反身代词，指代 the influence，起强调作用。 ⑱ whose 定语从句，whose 表所属关系，修饰 slow motion。 ⑲ makes 主语 slow motion 为单数，一般现在时，谓语用第三人称单数。 Paragraph 1 There was a strange ① (still). The birds, for example--where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, ② (puzzle) and ③ (disturb)（备注：adj作主补, VS adv.）. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds ④ (see) anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. Paragraph 2 Rachel Carson was a scientist ⑤ profession, ⑥ these lines from the opening chapter of her 1962 book Silent Spring, “A Fable for Tomorrow”, show her talent as a writer. By imagining a world without birds, she aimed to alert not only the scientific community but also the general public to the damaging effects of human activity on natural ecosystems--in particular, to the harmful use of pesticides, such as DDT. She believed that the chemical industry was knowingly(=deliberately) causing harm to plants, animals and even humans, and wished to see pesticides used in a more responsible, limited and carefully monitored way. Paragraph 3 Carson urged people to make themselves aware of the facts and do something about the situation. Silent Spring contains a lot of scientific research and case studies. The book (detail) the gypsy moth eradication programme, which killed birds, in addition to gypsy moths. case study was the fire-ant programme that killed cows, but not fire ants. The book also gives dozens of other examples of eradication programmes that did nothing to reduce the problems they were originally designed ⑦ (solve). The 50 or so pages at the end of the book list Carson’s sources, showing ⑧ thorough and precise she was as a scientist. Paragraph 4 Carson’s message was very ⑨ (alarming), causing a great increase in environmental awareness. Its impact was immediate and far-reaching: the use of DDT was banned and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established in the US. Silent Spring was therefore regarded as a milestone in the launch of the green movement in the Western world. It also earned Carson a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom and put her face on the 17-cent US stamp. Paragraph 5 Silent Spring was not, however, received positively by everyone. Though Carson’s research was strong and was supported by most scientists who reviewed her work, the book quickly became a target for ⑩ (critic) in the pesticide industry. They said that Carson did not understand the science behind her arguments because she was a marine biologist rather than a chemist. Some also said that her work was more emotional than scientific. These were ⑪ (attempt) to damage Carson’s reputation and stop her work from influencing public policy, but she remained determined to stand by her research. Carson appeared in public and on television to defend her claims--and today, more than 50 years after it was published, the voice of Silent Spring is still ringing loud and clear. Paragraph 6 Personally, I enjoy Carson’s book. She made a crucial but potentially difficult-to-understand subject interesting and ⑫ (accessible) to millions of people. This is not so much because of the quality of her arguments, strong though they are, but because of the beauty and elegance of her writing. Her book not only changed the world; half a century later it remains a book that deserves ⑬ (reread) today, so that we can once again feel ourselves warm to the fire of its passionate message. For ⑭ we do listen to Rachel Carson’s warning, one day we may wake up ⑮ the strange and quiet horror of another silent spring. Silent Spring答案 Paragraph 1 There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example--where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed（备注：adj作主补, VS adv.）. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. Paragraph 2 Rachel Carson was a scientist by profession, but these lines from the opening chapter of her 1962 book Silent Spring, “A Fable for Tomorrow”, show her talent as a writer. By imagining a world without birds, she aimed to alert not only the scientific community but also the general public to the damaging effects of human activity on natural ecosystems--in particular, to the harmful use of pesticides, such as DDT. She believed that the chemical industry was knowingly(=deliberately) causing harm to plants, animals and even humans, and wished to see pesticides used in a more responsible, limited and carefully monitored way. Paragraph 3 Carson urged people to make themselves aware of the facts and do something about the situation. Silent Spring contains a lot of scientific research and case studies. The book details the gypsy moth eradication programme, which killed birds, in addition to gypsy moths. Another case study was the fire-ant programme that killed cows, but not fire ants. The book also gives dozens of other examples of eradication programmes that did nothing to reduce the problems they were originally designed to solve. The 50 or so pages at the end of the book list Carson’s sources, showing how thorough and precise she was as a scientist. Paragraph 4 Carson’s message was very alarming, causing a great increase in environmental awareness. Its impact was immediate and far-reaching: the use of DDT was banned and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established in the US. Silent Spring was therefore regarded as a milestone in the launch of the green movement in the Western world. It also earned Carson a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom and put her face on the 17-cent US stamp. Paragraph 5 Silent Spring was not, however, received positively by everyone. Though Carson’s research was strong and was supported by most scientists who reviewed her work, the book quickly became a target for critics in the pesticide industry. They said that Carson did not understand the science behind her arguments because she was a marine biologist rather than a chemist. Some also said that her work was more emotional than scientific. These were attempts to damage Carson’s reputation and stop her work from influencing public policy, but she remained determined to stand by her research. Carson appeared in public and on television to defend her claims--and today, more than 50 years after it was published, the voice of Silent Spring is still ringing loud and clear. Paragraph 6 Personally, I enjoy Carson’s book. She made a crucial but potentially difficult-to-understand subject interesting and accessible to millions of people. This is not so much because of the quality of her arguments, strong though they are, but because of the beauty and elegance of her writing. Her book not only changed the world; half a century later it remains a book that deserves to be reread today, so that we can once again feel ourselves warm to the fire of its passionate message. For unless we do listen to Rachel Carson’s warning, one day we may wake up to the strange and quiet horror of another silent spring. ( 1 ) 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $