课时作业(二) [必修1 Unit 2 English around the world]
[限时：30分钟]
Ⅰ.多项选择
1．The book which________at the end of last year turned out to be a great success in Shanghai.
A．came about
B．came up
C．came out
D．came around
2．The openair celebration has been put off ________ the bad weather.
A．in case of
B．in spite of
C．instead of
D．because of
3．Many newspapers claim to be politically neutral, but few________ are.
A．seriously
B．actually
C．immediately
D．anxiously
4．He________a good knowledge of Chinese history.You can ask him about the ancient china.
A．conducts
B．controls
C．contains
D．commands
5．The Chinese ________ for crisis consists of two words—Wei Ji, the former meaning danger and the latter referring to opportunities.
A．expression
B．impression
C．explanation
D．information
6．I haven't seen Sara since she was a little girl, and she has changed beyond________.
A．hearing
B．strength
C．recognition
D．measure
7．Don't respond to any emails ________personal information，no matter how official they look.
A．searching
B．acquiring
C．requesting
D．questioning
8．After long and hard work，the police at last discovered the________of the baby found by the side of a road.
A．dialect
B．identity
C．situation
D．condition
9．I didn't________ my primary school classmate Jane until I listened to her selfintroduction.
A．know
B．recognize
C．find
D．realize
10．It is said that sandstorms will become more ________ as a result of global warming.
A．frequent
B．normal
C．formal
D．rare
Ⅱ.阅读理解
A
People around the world watched Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton get married. The royal wedding broke records for live streaming on the Internet. It also produced more than two million tweets on Twitter.
The ceremony took place on Friday at Westminster Abbey in London.
Kate wore a flowing white gown designed by Sarah Burton, the creative director of Alexander McQueen. William wore a red army uniform.
It was Britain's biggest wedding since William and Harry's parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, were married in nineteen eightyone.
Nearly two thousand guests filled the church on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people went to the streets and parks of London to watch the wedding on video screens.
Among the wedding guests were English football star David Beckham and his wife Victoria, British Prime Minister David Cameron, the king of Norway and singer Elton John.
Bahrain's crown prince(皇储)was invited but decided not to attend because of unrest in his country. Britain took back an invitation to the ambassador from Syria over violence against protesters there.
After the ceremony, the royal couple traveled to Buckingham Palace. Crowds cheered when the newlyweds appeared on a balcony, greeting to them.
Later, William drove his wife out of Buckingham Palace in an opentop Aston Martin car. William and the newest member of the royal family will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Kate is twentynine years old. William will be twentynine in June. His grandmother is Queen Elizabeth. His father, Prince Charles, is first in line to become king. William, as the older son, is second in line. Kate would not become queen, however, since she is not in the royal blood line. There was a big celebration at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. That was where William and Kate first met as art history students in two thousand one.
11．Which of the following is NOT true about Prince William?
A．He has been in love with Kate for over ten years.
B．He wore a red army uniform in the ceremony.
C．As a prince, he is first in line to become king.
D．He once majored in art history.
12．Which of the following was absent from the wedding?
A．The Beckhams.
B．Elton John.
C．The king of Norway.
D．The crown prince of Bahrain.
13．Why can't Kate become queen despite her marriage to the prince?
A．Because she has no royal blood.
B．Because she gave up this right.
C．Because his husband is not first in line to become king.
D．Because she has become Duchess of Cambridge.
14．What can be the best title of the passage?
A．The Britain's biggest wedding takes place.
B．The most luxurious wedding in the world.
C．David Beckham attends the wedding.
D．Royal wedding draws a worldwide crowd.
B
Today, we complete our story about the influential English writer William Shakespeare. He wrote plays and poems during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which remain very popular today.
During earlier times, people would probably have learned several ancient Roman and Greek plays. It was not unusual for writers to produce more current versions of these works. For example, in Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors Shakespeare borrowed certain details from the ancient Roman writer Plautus. For his play Macbeth, Shakespeare most likely used a work on Scottish history by Raphael Holinshed for information. Shakespeare might have borrowed from other writers, but the intensity(强度)of his imagination and language made the plays his own. While many plays by other writers of his time have been forgotten, Shakespeare and his art live on.
Shakespeare was also influenced by the world around him. He described the sights and sounds of London in his plays. His works include observations about political struggles, the fear of diseases, and the popular language of the city's tradesmen. Shakespeare's knowledge of the English countryside is also clear. His works include descriptions of deep forests, local flowers, and the ancient popular traditions of rural people.
It would be impossible to list all of the ways in which Shakespeare's works have influenced the world culture. But the first and greatest example would be his great influence on the English language. During his time, the English language was changing. Many new words from other languages were being added. Shakespeare used his sharp mind and poetic inventiveness to create hundreds of new words and rework old ones. For example, he created the noun forms of “critic”， “mountaineer” and “eyeball”. Many common expressions in English come from his plays, including “pomp and circumstance(装腔作势)”from Othello, “full circle(绕圈子)” from King Lear, etc. The list of cultural creations influenced by Shakespeare is almost endless. From paintings to television to music and dance, Shakespeare was well represented. Shakespeare's plays have been translated into every major language in the world.
Shakespeare became a wellknown writer during a golden age of theater. His years of hard work paid off.
15．What can we infer from the passage?
A．Many of Shakespeare's works were influenced by earlier writings.
B．Shakespeare was hardworking when he was a student.
C．The experience of living in London helped a lot with Shakespeare's works.
D．Shakespeare became rich later because of the popularity of his works.
16．Shakespeare might have learnt some information from ancient Roman works in________.
A．King Lear
B．The Comedy of Errors
C．Macbeth
D．Othello
17．Why could Shakespeare's works survive his time?
A．Because there were so few people writing plays in his time.
B．Because he produced too many works that nobody else could do.
C．Because he was a rich and influential person of his time.
D．Because his works were rich in imagination and language.
18．The passage is mainly about ________.
A．an introduction to Shakespeare's life and his works
B．the main features and styles of Shakespeare's plays
C．how culture influenced Shakespeare and he influenced culture
D．Shakespeare's greatest influence on the world culture
Ⅲ.完成句子
阅读下列各小题，根据每句后的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。
19．I requested that he ____________________ an hour earlier.(come)
我要求他提前一个小时到。
20．They'll stand by you ____________________. (succeed)
即使你不成功他们也会支持你的。
21．Over the past 10 years, big changes ________________ in the world. (take)
在过去的十年里，世界发生了翻天覆地的变化。
22．Today the number of people learning English in India ____________________ rapidly. (increase)
目前，印度学习英语的人数在迅速增加。
23．I ____________________ English learner as him who speaks English like a native speaker. (see)
我从未见过像他这样把英语说得像自己的母语一样好的英语学习者。
24．Of these two men, the former is dead but ____________________. (alive)
那两个人中，前者死了而后者还活着。
25．The teacher ordered me ____________________ games in the classroom. (play)
老师命令我不要在教室里玩游戏。
26．John asked his classmate ________________________________________________________________________.
(borrow)
约翰问他的同学能否借他的钢笔。
27．English ____________________ in many other countries at that time. (begin)
那个时期，许多其他的国家开始讲英语。
28．Internet mainly uses American English because ____________________ in the world. (play)
网络上主要使用的是美式英语，因为美国在世界上起着重要作用。
答案
课时作业(二)
Ⅰ.1.C 考查动词短语辨析。句意：去年年底出版的那本书在上海被证明是个巨大的成功。come about产生，发生；come up发芽，流行，发生，讨论，出现；come out出版，长出，露出，传出，出现；come around 恢复知觉，回来。
2．D 考查介词短语辨析。句意：由于恶劣的天气，露天庆祝活动被推迟了。because of 由于；in spite of尽管；in case of万一；instead of代替。
3．B 考查副词词义辨析。句意：许多报纸都声明政治上中立，可实际上中立的很少。seriously严重地，严肃地；actually其实，事实上；immediately迅速地；anxiously焦急地。
4．D 考查动词词义辨析。句意：他掌握了大量的中国历史知识。关于古代瓷器的知识你可以问他。command在此处意义为“掌握”。
5．A 考查名词词义辨析。句意：中国人表达“crisis”用两个字：危机，前者意味着危险，后者指的是机会。expression表达；词，词语；impression印象；explanation解释，说明；information信息。
6．C 考查名词词义辨析。句意：我看到Sara时，她还是一个小女孩；现在她变得我认不出来了。hearing听力；strength力气，力量； recognition认出，识别，认识； measure测量，措施。
7．C 考查动词词义辨析。句意：不要回应询问有关个人信息的任何电子邮件，无论它们看起来如何正式。request要求，请求。
8．B 考查名词词义辨析。句意：经过长期努力，警方终于发现了被弃在路边的婴儿的身份。identity身份；dialect方言；situation形势，局面，关系；condition状态，状况，情形。
9．B 考查动词词义辨析。句意：我直到听到了我的小学同学Jane的自我介绍时才认出她来。recognize辨认出；know知道，认识；find找到，发现；realize意识到，实现。
10．A 考查形容词词义辨析。frequent频繁的，经常的；normal正常的；formal正式的，正规的；rare稀少的，罕见的。根据常识可知，全球变暖会导致沙尘暴的频繁发生，故A项正确。
Ⅱ.A
经过这么多年的爱情长跑，威廉王子和凯特终于步入婚姻的殿堂。婚礼盛况空前，人们涌向街头或公园，观看婚礼庆典，送上美好祝福。
11．C 细节理解题。由最后一段的His father, Prince Charles, is first in line to become king. William, as the older son, is second in line. 可知C 项错误。
12．D 细节理解题。根据文章第七段首句Bahrain's crown prince was invited but decided not to attend because of unrest in his country.可知，巴林王储因为国家动荡未能应邀前往观礼。
13．A 细节理解题。根据文章末段Kate would not become queen, however, since she is not in the royal blood line.可知，由于Kate没有皇室血缘，故不能成为王后。
14．D 主旨大意题。通读全文可知，这是一篇资讯报道，在第一段点明了文章的主题：Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton get married，紧接着说明这次婚礼吸引了世人的眼球。因此D项最能概括全文。从第四段可以看出，这是戴安娜婚礼之后的最盛大的婚礼，而没有说是英国最盛大的婚礼，由此可以看出A项错误；B 项“世界上最豪华的婚礼”在文章中找不到根据；C项是文章的一个细节，因此也不能概括全文。
B
文章向我们介绍了一代文豪莎士比亚的作品为什么能够从古代众多的作家的作品中脱颖而出，以其顽强的生命力幸存于世的，就是继承古代优秀作品之长，并具有自己的特色。
15．A 考查细节理解。由第二段的“Shakespeare borrowed certain details from the ancient Roman writer Plautus. For his play Macbeth, Shakespeare most likely used a work on Scottish history by Raphael Holinshed for information. Shakespeare might have borrowed from other writers，…”可以看出，莎士比亚的作品受到了早期作品的影响。
16．B 考查细节理解。由第二段的“in Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors Shakespeare borrowed certain details from the ancient Roman writer Plautus.”可知答案。
17．D 考查细节理解。由第二段最后一句“but the intensity(强度)of his imagination and language made the plays his own. While many plays by other writers of his time have been forgotten, Shakespeare and his art live on.”正是他的语言和想象力的强度使得作品独具特色，具有了极强的生命力，留存到了现在。
18．C 考查主旨大意。纵观全文可以看出，文章向我们介绍了古代文化对莎士比亚作品的影响，以及其作品对后世尤其是对英语语言的影响。
.19.(should) come request后跟宾语从句，从句的谓语部分应该用虚拟语气。
20．even if/though you don't/can't succeed 本题考查even if/though引导的让步状语从句。
21．have taken place 本题考查时态。在含有“over/in/during the past/last＋一段时间”的时间状语的句子中，谓语部分应该用现在完成时态。
22．is increasing 本题考查主谓一致和时态。 the number作主语时，谓语动词应该用单数。
23．have seen no such/have never seen such an 本题考查时态。
24．the latter is still alive
25．not to play 本题考查order sb (not) to do sth的用法，不定式短语作宾语补足语。
26．if/whether he could borrow his pen 本题考查if/whether引导的宾语从句。
27．began to be spoken
28．America plays an important part/role