Unit 2 Period 2
Ⅰ.词汇基础 A．单词拼写。
1．It is ridicu lously a________ to predict that the sun will not rise tomorrow. 2．How to solve this problem is only my a________； please don't try to persuade me any more.
3．Almost all black people have a great voice; I really e________ them. 4．Can you guess how long the longest ________ (手指甲) in the world is? 5．You are late again.Your ________ (奖金) will be reduced by fifty percent. 6．Nobody dares to tell Richard that his painting is really ________ (糟糕的)． 7．Carl is a wonderful dancer, whose moves are so ________ (优雅的)．
8．Much to his parents' s________， the boy has again made great progress in his schoolwork.
【答案】1.absurd 2.affair 3.envy 4.fingernail 5.bonus 6．awful 7.elegant 8.satisfaction B．短语填空。
set aside，ring up，have sympathy for，be bound to，test out，let sb alone，or rather，turn around，in all，be absent from 1．He ______________ go for a college education though he was poor at that time. 2．He is in a temper today so ______________. 3．We numbered 20 ______________.
4．After Boeing(波音公司)had the plane built，it ______________ thoroughly. 5．He didn't know how to do his homework because he ______________ the class. 6．A man who often ______________ others will be done a favor.
7．He went home very late last night，______________，in the early hours this morning. 8．She ______________ a bit of money every month.
9．Some women especially enjoy passengers ____________ to see them.
10．My classmate ________ me ________ saying that the school football team had got three victories this month against other schools.
【答案】1.was bound to 2.let him alone 3.in all 4．was tested out 5.was absent from 6．has sympathy for 7.or rather 8.sets aside 9．turning around 10.rang；up C．用适当的介词或副词填空。
1．Don't ring ________； I haven't finished my story. 2．Please turn the sentence ________ English. 3．I really expected him to turn ________ on time. 4．I'm sure things will turn ________ all right.
5．Hundreds of people have to be turned ________ from the stadium. 6．The bus had to back up and turn ________.
【答案】1.off 2.into 3.up 4.out 5.away 6.around D．根据所给提示将下列句子翻译成英语。
1．我回来和他们一起生活，更确切地说，是和他们待在一起。(or rather)
________________________________________________________________________ 2．劳驾， 我在打电话， 把收音机的声音调小点好吗？ (favour)
________________________________________________________________________ 3．她仔细看着他的脸，寻思他在想什么。(scan)
________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】
1．I came back to live with them, or rather, to stay with them.
2．Do me a favour and turn the radio down while I'm on the phone, will you? 3．She scanned his face, looking for signs of what he was thinking.Ⅱ.完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Are forests always created by nature? A man from rural India proves that this is not __1__ true.
Abdul Kareem, who used to be an airline ticketing agent, has a great love for the __2__.Though he never went to college, he can talk about plants and trees like a(n)__3__.In 1977, he bought a piece of rocky wasteland with the hope of __4__ trees on it.In the beginning, people thought he was __5__ to waste his time and money on the land.But he __6__ ignored them and kept working on the soil and planting trees there.The land was so__7__ that it had to be watered several times a day.Kareem had to fetch the water from a__8__ that was a kilometer away.In the first two years, none of the trees he planted __9__.However, in the __10__ year, several young trees started growing.Greatly __11__ by the result, Kareem planted more trees and this man made forest began to take __12__. Kareem let his forest grow__13__， without using fertilizers or insecticides.He believed in the __14__of nature to renew itself without the interference of humans.That's__15__ he did not allow fallen leaves or branches from the forest to be removed.
After years of __16__， Kareem has not only realized his dream but also__17__ a piece of deserted land into a beautiful forest.Today, his forest is __18__ to 1,500 medicinal plants, 2,000 varieties of trees, rare birds, animals, and insects.Now，__19__ from all over the world come to visit his creation.They hope to do research on the secret of his happiness so that other parts of the world could __20__ from it. ( )1.A.strangely
C．necessarily ( )2.A.jobs C．tickets ( )3.A.expert C．guide ( )4.A.watering C．examining ( )5.A.pleased C．crazy ( )6.A.simply C．rarely ( )7.A.damp C．poor
( )8.A.resource C．force
( )9.A.died C．survived ( )10.A.third C．fourth ( )11.A.surprised C．challenged ( )12.A.place C．steps ( )13.A.slowly C．naturally ( )14.A.ability C．quality ( )15.A.how C．where ( )16.A.effects C．comforts
( )17.A.persuaded C．transformed ( )18.A.home C．access
B．importantly D．naturally B．planes D．woods B．actor D．farmer B．growing D．expecting B．wise D．disappointed B．hardly D．rudely B．hard D．dry B．source D．course B．recovered D．succeeded B．second D．last B．satisfied D．encouraged B．shape D．risks B．quickly D．nicely B．activity D．possibility B．when D．why B．efforts D．harvests B．cheated D．guided B．key D．way
( )19.A.children C．tourists
( )20.A.suffer C．prevent
B．parents D．scientists B．benefit D．escape
【答案】1－5 CDABC 6－10 ADBCA 11－15 DBCAD 16－20 BCADB
人教高中英语选修七同步课时规范训练：nit 2 Robot Period 2 含答案
