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基础·巩固
Ⅰ.用所给单词的正确形式填空
1.—Why did you make your first stop?
—I stopped________(get)a drink.I was very thirsty.
2.She didn’t feel like________(work),so he suggested________(spend)the day in the garden. 3.—That would mean________(waste)much more money. —Really? I don’t mean________(waste)any more money. 4.—Are you going to leave now?
—Unless you would prefer me________(stay)here.
5.Which do you enjoy________(spend)your spare time,playing cards at home or taking a walk in the park?
6.I’m looking forward to________(see)you this summer vacation. 7.The holiday you are looking forward to________(come)some day. 8.How about the two of us________(take)a walk down the garden? 9.The horse sensed danger ahead and stopped________(walk). 10.I refer________(ride)a bicycle rather than________(ride)a bus.
11.I like________(swim),but I don’t like________(swim)this afternoon. 12.Something is wrong with my watch.It wants________(repair).
答案:1.to get 2.working;spending 3.wasting;to waste 4.to stay 5.to spend 6.seeing 7.will come 8.taking 9.walking 10.to ride;ride11.swimming;to swim 12.repairing/to be repaired
Ⅱ.翻译
1.那时一英镑可以兑换2.80美元。(exchange)
2.不管发生什么事情,我们今晚都在这儿碰头。(whatever) 3.中国向许多其他国家和地区出口货物。(export) 4.心脏使血液绕着身体循环。(circulate)
5.你们一定要克服粗心,因为粗心常常引起错误。(get rid of)
6.因为你和你的妹妹长得很像,所以我常把你们搞混。(confuse with) 7.我们宁可接受钱而不希望收到通常的礼物。(would rather than) 8.吸烟的人不能在火车的某些地方走动。(certain)
答案:1.At that time one British pound can exchange for $2.80. 2.Whatever happens,we’ll meet here tonight.
3.China exports to many other countries and regions. 4.The heart circulates blood round the body.
5.You are supposed to get rid of carelessness,for it often leads to mistakes. 6.I always confuse you with your sister—you look so alike. 7.We would rather receive money than the usual gifts.
8.People who smoke cannot travel in certain parts of the train. Ⅲ.选择填空
1.It is________that he will attend this party.
A.certain B.sure C.uncertain D.surly
答案:A 本题主要辨析certain与sure。句意为:他肯定参加这次晚会。be certain of/about=be sure of/about,但是在It is certain that...句型中不可以用sure代替certain。
2.—Do you mind if I open the window? —_________I feel a bit cold.
A.Of course not. B.I’d rather you didn’t. C.Go ahead. D.Why not?
答案:B 本题考查口语情景问答。从后面的意思分析,此处应该表示“不同意”,也就是“介意”,所以使用B 项, 表示委婉的拒绝。
3.What a hard life they_________!You should have helped him.
A.had B.led C.played D.made
答案:B “they+空白处”作后置定语,修饰life,lead (led)a hard life “过着艰苦的生活”。 4.The news of enemy’s defeat quickly________round the town.
A.told B.said C.circulated D.spreaded 答案:C 句意为:敌人战败的消息很快传遍整个镇。circulate循环,流传。spread的过去时态是spread。
5.If you’re________about anything,phone my office.
A.confused B.confusing C.wonder D.wondering
答案:A 句意为:如果你对任何问题有疑问,打我办公室的电话。
6.After he was knocked down by a bike,he was badly hurt and had to________to his feet. A.stand B.struggle C.run D.sit 答案:B struggle to one’s feet 挣扎着站起来。
7.The man insisted________a taxi for me even though I told him I lived nearby.
A.find B.to find C.on finding D.in finding 答案:C 本题考查动词搭配。insist常接从句或介词“on+doing”,不接不定式或“in+doing”。如果insist后面接了一个从句,并且意义上表达是“坚持做某事”,从句的谓语要用should+动词原形,其中should 可以省略。但本题insist后面接的不是从句。
8. ________is reported in the newspapers,talks between the two countries are making progress.
A.It B.As C.That D.What
答案:B 本题考查as引导的非限制性定语从句。“As is reported in the newspapers”是分句,修饰主句。
9.—He will come tomorrow.
—But I’d rather he________the day after tomorrow.
A.will come B.is coming C.came D.had come 答案:C I would rather=would rather意为“宁可;宁愿”。 would rather后面接从句时, 表示主语宁愿让某人干某事。这时,从句谓语动词要用虚拟语气,即用一般过去时表示现在或将来要做的事;用过去完成时表示过去要做的事。
10. ________ the programme,they have to stay there for another two weeks. A.Not completing B.Not completed
C.Not having completed D.Having not completed
答案:C complete the programme 与句子主语they 的关系是主动的,应该用现在分词形式,可以排除B项。not complete的动作发生在have to stay之前,所以应该用完成式的现在分词,可以排除A项。D项的否定形式不对,非谓语动词的否定式一般是在其前加not。
综合·应用 Ⅳ.阅读理解
Cannes will rock to the sound of a cancan dance this year when Moulin Rouge by the Australian director Baz Luhrmann opens the French film festival(电影节)in May.The musical stars Nicole Kidman as a singer,and John Leguizamo as the artist Henri de Youlouse-Lautree.It will be competing for the palme d’Or,the festival’s top prize.The festival runs to May 21.
The American actor Tommy Lee Jones,54,has married his longtime girlfriend,Dawn Maria Laurel,36,in a private wedding in San Antonio.“It wasn’t a big to-do,” said Fred Biery,a U.S.District Judge who performed the service.He refused to discuss things further.“These are very private people,” he said.
Loretta Lynn is being treated for a very bad cold in Tennessee and will miss several appearances.The country dinger,65,was admitted to a hospital near her home in Hurricane Mills.“She is in good condition,but the doctors are watching her closely,” a spokeswoman said.
The Frech-Algerican singer Enrico Macias was named a United Nations peace messenger.Enrico joins eight other people who act as goodwill envoys(使者)for the writer Elie Wiesel and the basketball player Magie Johnson.
1.We can learn from the text that Henri de Toulouse-Lantree is________. A.a figure in a film B.a dancer in a show C.a country singer D.a prize winner 2.We know from the text that________.
A.Moulin Rouge won the top prize in a film festival B.Loretta Lynn is under the doctor’s care C.eight people serve as UN goodwill enjoys D.Fred Biery was Tommy Lee Jones’ assistant 3.This text most probably appears in________. A.a book on film stars B.a film review in a magazine C.a newspaper D.a notice
答案:1.A 第一段“...and John Leguizamo as the artist Henri de Youlouse-Lautree.”可知,as前省略了will act,as前的人是一个演员,其后的人是电影中的角色。
2.B 第四段“She(Loretta Lynn)is in good condition,but the doctors are watching her closely”可知答案。Moulin Rouge(一部电影)即将参加电影节,尚未获奖,排除A。Enrico Macias同其他八人一道,共九人,排除C项。Fred Biery 是一个法官,故排除D。
3.C 全文四小段文章均是关于影视娱乐圈的事,应该是从报纸的休闲娱乐栏目中选取的文章。
视野·新知
古人确实给我们留下了宝贵的经验财富。你还想对贾思勰作进一步的了解吗?那就仔细读下面这篇文章吧!
Jia Sixie
Jia Sixie,an outstanding agronomist and the author of China’s first agricultural encyclopedia(百科全书),was one of the leading agronomists in Chinese history.In the late years of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534),he wrote Qimin Yaoshu(Important Arts for the People’s Welfare).It is the earliest and most complete agricultural encyclopedia still in existence in China.
Jia Sixie was born in Yidu County (today’s Shouguang County)in China’s Shandong Province.He completed the book amid(在……之中)chaos(混乱)caused by wars during the years of 533 to 544.He saw the sufferings of the poor farmers in his hometown and other places while traveling through North China’s Hebei and Shanxi provinces and Central China’s Henan Province.With his profound knowledge on agriculture,he believed that the development of agriculture could help those farmers out.
The book,which has 92 chapters in 10 volumes and nearly 120 000 characters,covers a wide range of topics and records on production experiences and methods.It includes advice on farming,forestry(林业),animal husbandry(农牧业),fishery and sideline occupations.
Qimin Yaoshu was first distributed mainly among common people.In the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127),it became an official guiding book on agriculture.In the late Tang Dynasty (618-907),the book was introduced to Japan who now still has the earliest incomplete(不完全的)version of the Northern Song Dynasty.Now,the book has been translated into several languages.
Qimin Yaoshu is considered as an important summary of farming knowledge.At present,it is still studied by Chinese farmers and students majoring in agriculture.
【个性思考】 What do you think of Jia Sixie? In my view______________________________________________________________
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袁隆平及他的卓越贡献震惊了世界,这到底是为什么呢?读下面的文章你就会找到答案。
Yuan Longping,China’s Most Famous “Farmer”
It says every scientist cherishes a childhood dream indicating his or her future success,but for YuanLongping,dubbed(授予称号)as “father of hybrid rice”,the dream is that he cultivates rice as plump as peanuts,and farmers can relax in the cool shadow of big rice plants.
Yuan,71,won a 5 million yuan State Supreme Science and Technology Award today,known as the Nobel Prize in China,for his outstanding achievements in breeding high yield-Hybrid rice,which has substantially increased China’s grain output.
YUAN LONGPING
Yuan came up with the idea of hybridizing rice for the first time in the world in 1960s.Since then,50 percent of China’s total rice cultivation fields have grown such rice,which added some 300
billion kilograms to the country’s grain output.
Furrows(皱纹)grown on his sunburnt face,a slim figure and coiled-up trousers legs would confuse foreign reporters who came to interview the most famous scientist in China,who would rather be called “a farmer”.Indeed,like many Chinese farmers,Yuan in his 70s and has devoted most of his life growing rice in paddy fields,but unlike those farmers,he reaps the seed from experimental fields only for hybridizing rice.
The urbanite-turned-farmer graduated from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953 has his name related to the world’s most advanced agricultural technology.Four minor planets,a listed seed company’s and a science college in China were named after him,which were the first time that a Chinese scientist’s name is valued for its intellectual assets.
By lending his name to the Longping High-tech,a seed company,Yuan obtained a 5 per cent stake,or 2.5 million shares worth 2 million yuan,in the firm.However,Yuan said his research requires the lifestyle of a farmer,or rather a migrating farmer,as he has conducted extensive research related to the cultivation of new strains of hybrid rice “Super Hybrid Rice” in some 10 provinces.
In the year 1999,more than 300 billion kilograms of grain were increased from about 240 million hectares(公顷)of hybrid rice,which signified the success of his research.And this made Yuan firmly believe that China can surely feed her 1.2 billion population with her limited cultivated land.
The “Super Rice”yields are 30 percent higher than those of common rice.The record yield of 17 055 kilograms per hectare was registered in Yongsheng County in Yunnan in 1999.But even after that achievement Yuan won’t take a break.He has a dream,more realistic than that of his young age,that popularizing new strains of grain with higher yields around the world,can eliminate starvation on earth.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)has vowed to get involved in the work of spreading the coverage of Yuan’s high-yield hybrid rice,which it considers the best way to increase the world’s grain output.
The FAO’s 1991 statistics show that 20 percent of the world’s rice output was yielded from 10 percent of the world’s rice fields,which grow hybrid rice.“If the new strain was sown in the rest of the rice acreage,the present grain output around the world can be more than doubled.This can be a solution to the grain shortage,” the unselfish scientist.
In 1980,Yuan went to the United States at the invitation of the International Rice Research Institute to share his knowledge about the cultivation technology of hybrid rice.He was also employed in 1991 as the chief consultant of FAO to bring his research methods to other countries.With the help of Chinese scientists,the acreage(面积)of hybrid rice in Viet Nam and India increased to 200 000 hectares and 150 000 hectares in 1999,respectively
The rice research costs time to prove its value.At the age of 43,Yuan cultivated the world’s first hybrid rice.At that time the country’s grain yield was about 4500 kilogram per hectare.“The natural disaster and policy miscarriage further deteriorated starvation in China by then,” Yuan recalled tearfully.
This is his motivation to stimulate his research.Largely due to his scientific progress,China’s total rice output rose from 5.69 billion tons in 1950 to 19.47 billion tons last year.The growth rate of rice output far exceeded the population growth speed.
Some people estimate Yuan’s actual fortune might amount to more than 100 million