UNIT 2 Period Two
题组A 基础练 (建议用时：10分钟)
Ⅰ．单词拼写
1．Li Lei lay ________(舒服地) on the sofa, reading a new novel.
2．Wang Fei, a(an) ______(教授) from Hunan University, will come to give us a lecture next Saturday.
3．The letter “P” is the ________(符号) for parking, which means you can park your car there.
4．We must work hard to win the ________(最后的) victory.
5．Mr. Li made a big deal last month in foreign trade and made a large ________(巨款)． 6．We have ten roommates in our ________(宿舍)．
7．We have bought a lot of ________(家具) for our new house.
8．I would ________(欣赏；感激) it a lot if you could give us an early reply. 9．Now, we no longer suffer from cold and ________(饥饿) with enough food supply. 10．With her brother’s hand burnt by boiling water, the girl felt rather ________(内疚的)． 【答案】1．comfortably 2．professor 3．symbol 4．ultimate 5．fortune 6．dormitory 7．furniture 8．appreciate 9．hunger 10．guilty
Ⅱ．单句语法填空
1．Every day she has to spend a lot of time ________(help) her children with their homework. 2．________(read) aloud in the morning is of great help to English beginners. 3．It’s my ________(please) be invited to speak here.
4．He usually gives in ________ his wife in the end whenever quarrel breaks out between them.
5．Mike is a generous man ________ his brother never reaches out his helping hand to others. 6．My brother made the ________(choose) to go home on foot every day. 7．What I want best is ________(get) the chance of studying in Peking University. 8．Now no one will die ________ cold and hunger in our village now. 9．I’m sorry, but I didn’t mean ________(step) on your foot.
10．More and more people have come to see the fact ________ China is no longer what she used to be.
【答案】1．helping 2．Reading 3．pleasure 4．to 5．while 6．choice 7．to get 8．of 9．to step 10．that
Ⅲ．完成句子
1．She won the first prize in the singing competition, ________ ________ her parents happy. 她在歌唱比赛中获得了一等奖，这让她的父母很高兴。 【答案】which made
2．Mrs. Wang ________ ________ ________ ________ her husband after they quarreled. 王太太和丈夫吵了一架后就不理睬他了。 【答案】turned her back on
3．Lily ________ ________ ________ one of the top three students in my class. 莉莉被认为是我们班的前三名学生之一。 【答案】is regarded as
4．Wasting time means ________ ________ with your own hands. 浪费时间意味着自杀。 【答案】killing yourself
5．Mike ________ ________ ________ school at the age of fifteen to support his family. 迈克十五岁时辍学养家糊口。 【答案】dropped out of
题组B 提升练 (建议用时：30分钟)
Ⅰ．阅读理解
One of the most successful, influential and beloved women in American history, Eleanor Roosevelt once said that she had one regret: she wished she had been prettier. Who hasn’t felt the same way? We are all too aware of our physical imperfections. To overcome them, we spend billions upon billions every year. Why do we care so much about how we look? Because it matters. Because beauty is powerful. Because even we learn to value people mostly for being kind and wise and funny, we are still moved by beauty.
Aristotle said, “Beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.” It’s not fair, but it’s true. We simply treat beautiful people better than we do others. Attach a photograph of a beautiful author to an essay, and people will think that it is more creative and more intelligently written than exactly the same essay accompanied by the photo of a homely author. As children, beautiful people are more likely to become favorites with parents and teachers. Later, they are more likely to get good jobs. Attractive people in need are more likely to receive help from strangers.
These days, women and men both rely on advanced technology to improve their beauty. Wrinkles can be stretched away with a face lift. Special injections can make lips look young and plump (丰满的). Besides being a sign of youth, good skin also means that the person is likely to be healthy. Still, it is possible to go too far. At the end of the 19th century, some women even had
their ribs (肋骨) removed so they’d have that perfect narrow waist.
Our sensitivity to physical beauty is not something we can control at will. We are born with it. Experiments showed that even small infants prefer to look at attractive faces. Before they have met a single supermodel, before they have watched a single TV show, before they have opened up a single fashion magazine, they are drawn to the same faces which adults have judged to be attractive.
There are more important things in life than beauty. But as Nancy Etcoff says, “We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.” If you aim to be wise and kind and funny, it doesn’t mean that you can’t also try your best to look beautiful. There’s no reason to feel guilty about being moved by beauty’s power. It moves us all.
1．Which of the following proverbs has the opposite meaning of Aristotle’s sentence in Paragraph 2?
A．Never judge a book by its cover. B．Act on second thoughts. C．Leave your luck while winning. D．Great minds think alike.
2．The underlined word “homely” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by ________. A．attractive C．beautiful
B．plain D．handsome
3．According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? A．People are all slaves to beauty. B．Beauty can ensure good jobs.
C．Advanced technology helps improve beauty. D．People value beauty over other virtues. 4．What’s the best title of this passage? A．The Power of Beauty C．Bad Effects of Beauty
B．Huge Costs of Beauty D．Various Ways to Beauty
【语篇导读】 本文是说明文。文章讲述了美丽可以给人带来很多好处，例如：漂亮的人更有可能成为父母和老师的最爱、更有可能找到好工作、更有可能从陌生人那里得到帮助。但生活中有比美更重要的东西。另外，我们要被美的力量感动。
1．A 句意猜测题。根据第二段中的“Beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.”可知，亚里士多德说：“美是比任何介绍信都要有用的推荐函”。A．不要以貌取人；B．三思而后行；C．见好就收；D．英雄所见略同。因此A项与亚里士多德所说的相反。故选A项。
(新教材)2024版北师大版英语选择性必修第一册同步练习：UNIT 2 Period 2(含答案)
