Unit 2 Finding balance in life Focusing on culture 同步分层作业2026-2027学年沪教版初中英语九年级下册

Unit 2 Finding balance in life Focusing on culture 分层作业 建议用时：30分钟 一、单词汉译英（Focusing on culture：竹石与假如生活欺骗了你 Bamboo in the Rock / If by Life You Were Deceived） 1. 竹子 ____________ 2. 岩石 ____________ 3. 根 ____________ 4. 诗人 ____________ 5. 诗 ____________ 6. 意志 ____________ 7. 坚毅的 ____________ 8. 欺骗 ____________ 9. 忧郁的 ____________ 10. 鼓舞 ____________ 11. 逆境 ____________ 12. 信心 ____________ 二、短语汉译英（教材原短语） 1. 咬定青山 ____________ 2. 千磨万击 ____________ 3. 站立得稳 ____________ 4. 保持冷静 ____________ 5. 相信未来 ____________ 6. 被生活欺骗 ____________ 7. 振作起来 ____________ 8. 著名诗句 ____________ 三、词形变换（写出下列动词的名词形式） 1. inspire → ____________ 2. believe → ____________ 3. deceive → ____________ 4. encourage → ____________ 5. succeed → ____________ 一、单句填空（用括号内单词的正确形式填空） 1. Zheng Banqiao ____________ (paint) bamboo all his life. 2. The bamboo ____________ (bite) into the rock and will not let go. 3. Pushkin ____________ (live) far from the capital in 1825. 4. The poem ____________ (translate) into Chinese long ago. 5. Hard times ____________ (teach) us to stand firm. 二、根据汉语意思完成句子（每空一词） 1. 竹子咬定青山，根扎在裂石之中。 The bamboo bites into the mountain, its roots ____________ in the ____________ rock. 2. 千磨万击还坚劲。 After thousands of blows, the bamboo is still ____________ and ____________. 3. 假如生活欺骗了你，不要悲伤。 ____________ life ____________ you, do not be sad. 4. 忧郁的日子总会过去。 The ____________ days will ____________ soon. 5. 而那过去了的，会成为亲切的怀恋。 What has ____________ will become a ____________ memory. 三、句型转换 1. The bamboo bites into the green mountain.（对画线部分提问） ____________ ____________ the bamboo bite into? 2. The poem is very encouraging.（改为感叹句） ____________ ____________ encouraging poem it is! 3. Pushkin wrote the poem in 1825.（改为一般疑问句） ____________ Pushkin ____________ the poem in 1825? 4. Life is not always kind to us.（改为反意疑问句） Life is not always kind to us, ____________ ____________? 5. People often quote these famous lines.（改为被动语态） These famous lines ____________ often ____________. 四、选词填空（诗歌与文化） 【bamboo, root, willpower, inspire, deceive】 1. The ____________ holds the rock together with its roots. 2. Deep ____________s keep the plant standing in the storm. 3. It takes ____________ to stand firm in hard times. 4. Great poems ____________ readers across centuries. 5. Do not let bad days ____________ you into giving up. 五、情景补全对话（5个空，6个选项，1项多余） A. What does the bamboo stand for in the poem? B. Who wrote If by Life You Were Deceived? C. Why do Chinese students learn both poems? D. What does the last line of Pushkin's poem mean? E. When did Pushkin write it? F. Do you like reading poems in English? Lily: Ben, our culture lesson was about two famous poems. Lily: Bamboo in the Rock and the Russian poem about life. Ben: 1.____________ Lily: It stands for people who will not give up, however hard the wind blows. Ben: 2.____________ Lily: Pushkin, in 1825, when he was far away in the countryside. Ben: 3.____________ Lily: That the hard days you have passed will become a gentle memory. Ben: 4.____________ Lily: Because both teach balance in life: stand firm and stay hopeful. Ben: 5.____________ Lily: Both are short, but students remember them for decades. 拓展提高（课内同源 + 课外同源） Passage1（课内同源：石头缝里的一丛竹） 　　Zheng Banqiao, the Qing dynasty painter, was famous for three things: orchids, rocks and bamboo. His best-known poem, Bamboo in the Rock, is only four lines long, yet it has been quoted by students for three hundred years. / The picture is simple. Bamboo — a plant that usually grows tall and soft in warm valleys — is here growing straight out of a cracked rock on a bare mountain. Its roots bite into the stone; it has tasted poverty of soil since the day it sprouted. / Then come the winds and rains of all four seasons, thousands of blows from every direction. The poem's answer to the storm is one of the calmest lines in Chinese literature: still the bamboo stands firm, whatever winds blow from east, west, south or north. / Readers have always understood the bamboo as a person. Zheng himself knew hardship: he was poor in his youth, passed the imperial examinations late, and lost positions for defending ordinary people. He painted bamboo because bamboo bends but does not break. / In a unit about finding balance in life, the poem teaches the first half of the balance: when circumstances are hard, grip your rock and stand. The second half comes from another poem, written by a Russian — and it teaches what to do after the storm has passed. 任务一：单项选择 1.What is unusual about the bamboo in the poem? A.It grows straight out of a cracked rock on a bare mountain. B.It grows in a warm valley. C.It never bends. D.It was painted blue. 2.What does the bamboo stand for, according to readers? A.A person who bends but does not break. B.A rich official. C.A summer storm. D.A kind of food. 任务二：判断正误(T/F) 3.Zheng Banqiao passed the imperial examinations late in life. (　　) 4.The poem teaches readers to give up when storms come. (　　) 任务三：简答 5.What is the poem's answer to the storm? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Passage2（课外同源：乡村里写下的安慰） 　　In 1825, the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was living in enforced isolation in his family's country house, forbidden to travel to the capital. He was twenty-six, cut off from friends, and the future looked like a locked door. / During that summer he wrote a short poem for the daughter of a neighbour, a teenage girl named Olenina. It was not a love poem. It was a piece of advice, folded into eight lines: if by life you were deceived, do not be impatient and gloomy; stay calm on the day of sadness, and believe: the day of joy will come. / The poem says something surprising next. The heart, it says, likes to live in the future; the present is always dreary — and all of it is fleeting, all of it will pass. And what passes, Pushkin adds in the famous last line, will become dear to us. / He could not have known how widely those words would travel. A century later, schoolchildren in dozens of countries were reciting them in translation; generations of Chinese students have met the poem in textbooks, usually during their hardest exam years. / Pushkin himself lived to see worse days than 1825 — exile, debts, and a duel that ended his life at thirty-seven. But the advice has outlived every one of his troubles. It does not promise that life will be kind. It only promises that gloom is temporary — and that memory, given time, softens even the days we thought we could not survive. 任务一：单项选择 1.Why was Pushkin living in the countryside in 1825? A.He was forbidden to travel to the capital. B.He was studying at school. C.He was on holiday. D.He was looking for work. 2.For whom did he first write the poem? A.A teenage neighbour named Olenina. B.His mother. C.The king. D.A Russian soldier. 任务二：判断正误(T/F) 3.The poem was a piece of advice rather than a love poem. (　　) 4.Pushkin died young in a duel at thirty-seven. (　　) 任务三：简答 5.What does the famous last line promise? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 任务四：单元微写作 文化课上要分享“一句给我力量的诗”。请写一段话，不少于6句话。请写清诗句内容、它出现的时刻，并用上 stand firm 和 cheer up。 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 参考答案 夯实基础 一、单词汉译英 1.bamboo 2.rock 3.root 4.poet 5.poem 6.willpower 7.firm 8.deceive 9.gloomy 10.inspire 11.adversity 12.confidence 二、短语汉译英 1.bite into the green mountain 2.thousands of blows 3.stand firm 4.stay calm 5.believe in the future 6.be deceived by life 7.cheer up 8.a famous line of poetry 三、词形变换 1.inspiration 2.belief 3.deception 4.encouragement 5.success 能力进阶 一、单句填空 1.painted 2.bites 3.lived 4.was translated 5.teach 二、根据汉语意思完成句子 1.fast; broken 2.strong; firm 3.If; deceives 4.gloomy; pass 5.passed; gentle 三、句型转换 1.What; does 2.What; an 3.Did; write 4.is; it 5.are; quoted 四、选词填空 1.bamboo 2.root 3.willpower 4.inspire 5.deceive 五、情景补全对话 答案：1.A 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.E；多余项：F 拓展提高 Passage1 任务一：1.A 2.A 任务二：3.T 4.F 任务三简答：5.Still the bamboo stands firm, whatever winds blow from east, west, south or north. Passage2 任务一：1.A 2.A 任务二：3.T 4.T 任务三简答：5.That what has passed will become dear to us — memory softens even the hardest days. 任务四范文：The line that gives me strength comes from Bamboo in the Rock: after thousands of blows, the bamboo still stands firm, whatever winds blow. I first needed the line in Grade Seven, when I failed the mid-term maths exam by a large margin. For a week I could not open my exercise book at all, and I kept telling myself that I was simply not a maths person. My grandmother, who finished only primary school, copied the four lines of the poem onto a card and put it on my desk. She said the bamboo in the picture had worse soil than I did. Slowly I cheered up, made a plan, and asked questions until the hard chapters made sense. Two years later the card is still there, a little yellow at the edges. Every time life blows hard, I remember that roots can bite into rock, and that standing firm is itself a kind of victory. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $