课时提升练(十九)
Ⅰ.单词拼写
1．You can't see through the telescope until it is________(adjustment) to your eyes.
2．Standing in the watchtower, we admired the________(surround) scenes.
3．He walked about the whole country in the next d________.
4．The twists and turns on the mountain road ________(与……相似)the shape of a huge snake.
5．I cannot g________ to deliver your goods within a week.
6．We were ________(激动的，兴奋的)to hear his exciting story.
7．After a long ________(absent)，she came back to work again.
8．I made some ________(购买物)in the supermarket yesterday.
9．Don't laugh at others，which ________(使窘迫)others.
10．She broke the dish on ________(目的，意图)just to show her anger.
【答案】 1.adjusted 2.surrounding 3.decade 4.resemble 5.guarantee 6.thrilled 7.absence 8.purchases 9.embarrasses 10.purpose
Ⅱ.完成句子
1．据说孙俪和邓超正在准备他们的婚礼周年庆。
________________ Sun Li and Deng Chao are preparing for their wedding anniversary.
2．无论你喜欢与否，将来某一天你不得不去面对它。
________________， you'll have to face it one day.
3．只要你开车小心，你就可以用我的车。
________________， you can use my car.
4．吸烟者有权吸烟，但是另一个方面，他们没有权利威胁别人的健康。
Smokers have the right to smoke, but________________，they do not have the right to endanger the health of others.
5．你在美国期间请随时告知我你电话的变化。
Please________________the change of your telephone while you are in America.
【答案】 1.It is said that 2.Whether you like it
or not
3．Provided that you drive carefully 4.on the other hand
5．keep me informed of
Ⅲ.完形填空
A king in Africa had a close friend whom he grew up with. The friend had a(n) __1__ of looking at every situation that had ever occurred in his life，no matter whether it was good or not，and __2__，“This is good！”
One day，they were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and __3__ guns for the king. The friend had apparently done something __4__ in preparing one of the guns，for after taking the gun from his friend，the king fired it and his __5__ was blown off.
Examining the __6__， the friend remarked as usual，“This is good！”The king was so angry that he sent him to __7__.
One year later，the king was hunting in an area that he had known to stay away from. Cannibals(食人部落) __8__ him. They piled up some wood, __9__ a stake (木桩) and bound him to the stake. When they came near to set fire to the wood，they __10__ the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious(迷信)，they never ate anyone that was less than whole. So they set him __11__.
Returning home，he was __12__ of the event that had taken his thumb and felt sorry for his __13__ of his friend. He went __14__ to the prison. “You were right，”he said. “It was good that my thumb was blown off.” And he __15__ to tell the friend all __16__ just happened. “And I'm __17__ for putting you into prison for so long. It was __18__ for me to do this.”
“No，”his friend replied. “This is good！”
“What do you mean __19__ this？”
“__20__ I had not been here，I would have been with you then.”
[语篇解读] 文章叙述了一个国王和朋友之间发生的故事。
1．A.customB．habit
C．manner
D．experience
【解析】 根据后半句可推知他有这样一个习惯。custom指一个民族或一个社会在发展过程中长期沿袭下来的礼节和风俗。habit通常指一个人长时间养成的自然“习惯”。
【答案】 B
2．A.remarking
B．complaining
C．explaining
D．announcing
【解析】 根据后文两次事情可知国王的朋友不管遇到任何事情都说“很好”以及第三段中可知答案。
【答案】 A
3．A.organize
B．repair
C．prepare
D．shoot
【解析】 根据The friend would load和下文的in preparing one of the guns可知，朋友为国王装弹药。
【答案】 C
4．A.special
B．strange
C．careful
D．wrong
【解析】 根据第二段最后的情节，显然是朋友在装弹药时出现了失误。
【答案】 D
5．A.hand
B．eye
C．thumb
D．arm
【解析】 根据第四段中the king was missing a thumb可知，这里是国王的一个大拇指被打飞了。
【答案】 C
6．A.position
B．direction
C．situation
D．condition
【解析】 结合上下文看，这里是国王的朋友看看什么情形(situation)。
【答案】 C
7．A.shelter
B．palace
C．hospital
D．prison
【解析】 根据第五段的内容尤其是to the prison可知，国王把自己的朋友送进了监狱。
【答案】 D
8．A.ran
B．seized
C．respected
D．followed
【解析】 联系本段的内容可知，食人部落捉住了国王。
【答案】 B
9．A.picked up
B．made up
C．took up
D．set up
【解析】 根据bound him to the stake可知，这里是竖起木桩。
【答案】 D
10．A.watched
B．observed
C．noticed
D．understood
【解析】 当他们靠近木桩要点火时，他们发现国王少根手指。
【答案】 C
11．A.free
B．useless
C．fresh
D．safe
【解析】 根据后文国王回到了自己的家可知，食人部落把国王放了。set free释放。
【答案】 A
12．A.remembered
B．reminded
C．made
D．thought
【解析】 回到家后，这让国王想起了失去手指的(那件)事。
【答案】 B
13．A.carelessness
B．treatment
C．punishment
D．way
【解析】 国王对自己对待朋友的方式感到很惭愧。treatment“待遇，对待”。
【答案】 B
14．A.immediately
B．casually
C．fortunately
D．hopefully
【解析】 国王感到愧疚就立刻去了监狱。
【答案】 A
15．A.wanted
B．decided
C．regretted
D．continued
【解析】 根据上下文可知，国王首先道歉接着说了事情的经过。
【答案】 D
16．A.what
B．which
C．why
D．that
【解析】 that引导定语从句，all作先行词，引导词必须用that。
【答案】 D
17．A.surprised
B．sorry
C．satisfied
D．glad
【解析】 根据前文“felt sorry for...”可知，国王在此表示歉意。
【答案】 B
18．A.foolish
B．clever
C．bad
D．kind
【解析】 国王认为自己这样做很差劲，他是在为自己的行为而自责。
【答案】 C
19．A.in
B．by
C．for
D．on
【解析】 你这样说是什么意思？by“依，按照”。
【答案】 B
20．A.Because
B．If
C．Since
D．Before
【解析】 这是一个虚拟条件句，意思是如果我不在这里，那天我就会和你一块儿在那儿了。言外之意是如果我也去的话，被吃的可能就是我了。
【答案】 B
Ⅳ.阅读理解
A woman from Japan，who had visited major business and investment companies in New York City，was telling a friend about her trip to the U S．“I studied English before I left home. But I still was not sure that people were speaking English.”
Her problem is easy to understand. Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. They have a language of their own. Some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry.
One such saying is “get your act together”．
When things go wrong in a business，an employer may get angry. He may shout，“Stop making mistakes. Get your act together.”
Or，if the employer is calmer，he may say，“Let us get our act together.”
Either way，the meaning is the same. Getting your act together is getting organized. In business，it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of an action.
It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made a lot of mistakes. The director may have said，“Calm down，now. Get your act together.”
Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s.He says The Manchester Guardian used it in 1978.The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British government get its act together.
Now，this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet. One company even calls its yearly report，“Getting Our Act Together”．
[语篇解读] 本文主要介绍了“get your act together”这个短语的应用以及起源。
1．Paragraph 1 is written mainly to ________.
A．tell us the Japanese woman's English is poor
B．lead to the subject of the whole passage
C．tell us it is important to grasp spoken English
D．tell us traveling in the US is very difficult
【解析】 篇章结构题。第一段由一位日本女士在国内学习了英语之后，在纽约依旧会遭遇语言交流障碍的经历，引出文章的话题。
【答案】 B
2．The reason why the woman was not sure that people were speaking English was that ________.
A．they spoke too fast to follow
B．they didn't want the woman to learn their experience
C．they had some special words and expressions of their own in their field
D．they were from the theater and movie industry
【解析】 细节理解题。根据第二段的内容可知，这位日本女士依然会有语言交流障碍的原因是各个行业都有自己专门的词汇或表达。
【答案】 C
3．The saying “get your act together” in Paragraph 3 means “________”．
A．Don't do that again
B．You are dismissed
C．Calm down
D．Get organized
【解析】 细节理解题。根据下文尤其是第六段的前两句可知，该短语的意思是“有条理地筹划”。
【答案】 D
4．The best title for the passage is ________.
A．Different countries，different languages
B．The experience in the US
C．The expression and its story：get your act together
D．How to learn English well
【解析】 主旨大意题。根据全文内容可知，文章主要讲述“get your act together”这一短语的应用和起源。
【答案】 C
Ⅴ.语法填空
Once there lived a rich man 1.________ wanted to do something for the people of his town. But
first he wanted to find 2.________ whether they deserved his help.
In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed 3.________very large stone. Then he 4.________ (hide) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.
“Who put this stone in the centre of the road？” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. Another
man came along and did 5.________ same thing; then another came，and another. All of them complained 6.________ the stone but not tried to remove 7.________. Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone, saying to himself: “The night 8.________ (be) very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone.”
Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his 9.________(strong) to move it. How great was his surprise at last! 10.________ the stone, he found a bag of money.
【答案】 1.who 2.out 3.a 4.hid 5.the 6.about /of
7．it 8.will be 9.strength 10.Under