Unit 4 Sharing
Ⅰ.语法填空阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
M：Can you get a babysitter for tonight?
W：I don't know. Why?
M：Well, I __1__(think) we could go out for dinner and go to a movie afterwards.
W：I __2__(call) Susan and see if she has time.
M：Who is Susan?
W：She lives next __3__ to us. She is a university student.
M：Do you think she __4__(agree)?
W：Well, we haren't asked her yet. She once mentioned that she didn't like to sit during the weekend.
M：But today is the weekend.
W：That's __5__ I say she may be able to come.
M：All right. Do that, and __6__ call me at the office if you have any luck.
W：Okay, __7__ don't get your hopes too high. It's hard to find __8__ good babysitter these days. When do you expect her __9__(come)?
M：Will six o'clock be too early?
W：No. She needs a while to get __10__ with our baby.
答案 1.thought 2.can call 3.door 4.will agree
5．why 6.then 7.but 8.a 9.to come 10.along/on
Ⅱ.完形填空
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To celebrate the end of our exams，my friends and I went to a fast food restaurant.We __1__ hamburgers and Coca Cola at the counter.When our __2__ came，I started walking towards an empty table.By bad luck，my purse strap(带子) got __3__ on a chair and the tray(托盘) that I was holding slipped __4__ my hands and went flying in the air.The tray，and its contents，__5__ on a man who was just about to __6__ a bite of his sandwich.I stared，greatly __7__，as the drinks soaked(浸湿) his white shirt.
Then I__8__ my eyes and prepared myself for his burst of __9__.Instead，he said “It's OK” to __10__ me before he disappeared into the washroom.
Still shaky and unsure __11__ to do next，my friends and I went to a table and sat there，trying our best to look __12__.A moment later，the man came out of the washroom and __13__ our table.My heart almost stopped __14__.I thought he was going to ask for my father' s __15__ and call him.
To my surprise，he merely smiled at us，handed us some cash and said，“__16__ yourself new hamburgers.” He then walked __17__without even finishing his food.
He could have made what was already an uncomfortable situation worse，__18__ he chose a different way and gave us a reason to believe that there is still __19__ in this world.I'll never __20__ his actions.
【解题导语】 文章叙述了发生在快餐店里的一件小事，使“我”感受到在我们生活的世界里仁慈友好的行为一直存在于我们之中。
1．A.ordered
B．made
C．arranged
D．demanded
答案 A [order此处作动词，意为“点(饭菜)”。make做，制作；arrange安排；demand要求。]
2．A.food
B．turn
C．bill
D．menu
答案 A [根据上下文语境，可知此处指“我们”点的食物(food)。turn轮流，转动；bill账单；menu菜单。]
3．A.fixed
B．caught
C．cut
D．tied
答案 B [“我”的钱包带挂到(get caught)了椅子，符合语境。fix固定；cut切；tie系。]
4．A.by
B．in
C．from
D．out
答案 C [托盘从(from)手中滑落。D项out为副词，而slip out of...意为“从……滑出，溜出”。]
5．A.knocked
B．fell
C．stood
D．hung
答案 B [托盘和托盘里的食物掉在(fell)了一位男顾客身上。knock敲，叩击；stand站；hang悬挂。]
6．A.take
B．taste
C．swallow
D．chew
答案 A [那位男子正要咬他的三明治。take a bite of...咬一口……。]
7．A.discouraged
B．disappointed
C．shocked
D．annoyed
答案 C [意外发生后，“我”惊呆(be shocked)了。discourage使气馁；disappoint使失望；shock使吃惊；annoy使恼怒。]
8．A.rolled
B．rubbed
C．narrowed
D．closed
答案 D [“我”闭上(close)眼睛，等着那个人发火。roll滚动；rub one's eyes揉眼睛；narrow one's eyes眼睛眯成一条缝。]
9．A.bitterness
B．anxiety
C．anger
D．sorrow
答案 C [根据上文可知，“我”在等待着他发怒。bitterness苦，怨恨；anxiety焦虑；sorrow悲伤，悲痛。]
10．A.satisfy
B．comfort
C．encourage
D．praise
答案 B [那位男子没有发怒，反而说了一句“It's OK”。这说明他要安慰(comfort)“我”。satisfy使满意；encourage鼓励；praise赞扬。]
11．A.how
B．who
C．what
D．which
答案 C [那位男子去洗手间后我仍旧不知所措。what to do要做什么。此处do为及物动词，代词what作其宾语；how是副词，无法作do的宾语。]
12．A.mild
B．honest
C．calm
D．modest
答案 C [虽然心里不安，但“我”和朋友们努力地让自己看起来很镇定(calm)。mild温柔的；honest诚实的；modest谦虚的。]
13．A.pushed
B．approached
C．drew
D．laid
答案 B [根据下文可知，那位男顾客从洗手间出来后就走近(approach)“我们”。push推；draw拉；lay放，搁。]
14．A.beating
B．breaking
C．sinking
D．trembling
答案 A [当他走近“我们”的时候，“我”被吓得心脏都几乎停止跳动了。“我”以为他要问父亲的电话号码，并给他打电话。beat(心脏)跳动；break破碎；sink下沉；tremble颤抖。]
15．A.help
B．position
C．number
D．job
答案 C [由下文“call him”可知。]
16．A.Prepare
B．Buy
C．Find
D．Cook
答案 B [由上文“...handed us some cash...”可知，他让“我们”再买(buy)些吃的东西。]
17．A.on
B．around
C．up
D．away
答案 D [由下文“...without even finishing his food.”可知，他没吃完饭就走了(walk away)。walk on继续走；walk around游荡，无目的地行走；walk up沿……走，走近。]
18．A.so
B．since
C．although
D．but
答案 D [他本能使原本已经不愉快的局面更加难堪，但是(but)他选择了一种不同的解决方法。]
19．A.kindness
B．happiness
C．politeness
D．brightness
答案 A [那位男顾客不仅没有对“我”发火，还给“我们”钱买食物。他是一个善良的人。这使得“我们”相信这个世界上还有善良(kindness)。]
20．A.forget
B．refuse
C．oppose
D．ignore
答案 A [我一定不会忘记(forget)他的善行。refuse拒绝；oppose反对；ignore忽视，不理睬。]
Ⅲ.阅读理解
A
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说明文 话题：
产品介绍 词数：332 难度：
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7分钟
There's an old dream shared by artificial intelligence researchers：a method that can create perfect translation of any text，in any language，at the press of a button.
And then there is today's automated
translation technology.Services like Google Translate can provide the main idea of a passage of a text.Computers learn to translate by searching for correlations in texts that have been translated by humans.But if you're a newspaper publisher seeking foreign readers or an expert wanting to educate speakers of another language，human translation remains the only option.
Martin Benjamin wants to change that.His attempt is called Kamusi and it's a multilingual dictionary that contains all the world's languages.Unlike
other online dictionaries, Kamusi is built around concepts as well as words.So the word“spring”，
for
instance，is linked to
several
concepts，including the season that comes before summer and a sudden upward or forward motion.
This structure could solve one of the biggest challenges for machine translation.Asked to translate “spring in her step” into French，for example，Google chooses printemps—the season—for “spring”．The inability of computers to deal with homonyms—words that are spelled the same but have different meanings—is one reason why machine translations are often
so misrepresented.Kamusi avoids this problem by recognizing that “spring” is associated with multiple concepts and prompting the user to say which is relevant.
Kamusi has come this far by relying on volunteers and money from the US National Endowment for the Humanities.Benjamin thinks that speakers of minority languages will be motivated to add more terms for free，since they will gain the ability to translate their language into those that are already represented in the dictionary.Benjamin is also trying to get some topdown support：companies that do business in Africa，a continent that is poorly served by existing dictionaries，for instance，might be motivated to pay for large numbers of local
words to be added to Kamusi.
【解题导语】 这是一篇说明文，在评论了普遍使用的电脑翻译的优缺点后，作者介绍了一种新的在线多语言词典：Kamusi。
【长难句解读】 (1)Benjamin thinks that speakers of minority languages will be motivated to add more terms for free，since
they will gain the ability to translate their language into those that are already represented in the dictionary.
分析：此句是一个复合句，since引导原因状语从句，主句中的thinks后是that引导的宾语从句，从句中的those后是that引导的定语从句。
(2)Benjamin is also trying to get some topdown support：companies that do business in Africa，a continent that is poorly served by existing dictionaries，for instance，might be motivated to pay for large numbers of local words to be added to Kamusi.
分析：冒号后的内容是对冒号前内容的进一步解释，冒号后句子的主干是companies might be motivated to...；Africa后的a continent that...是同位语，是对Africa的解释说明；for instance是插入语。
1．By using automated translation technology，we can________.
A．know the general meaning of a text
B．read a newspaper published in another language
C．educate speakers of another language
D．distinguish different concepts of a word
答案 A [细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Services like Google Translate can provide the main idea of a passage of a text.”可知，这种自动翻译技术可以让我们知道文章或段落的大意。]
2．Which is the biggest challenge for machine translation according to the passage?
A．Learners can't learn a language through it.
B．It can't offer completely right translation.
C．It can't deal with homonyms.
D．Users can't search the proper meaning of a word.
答案 C [细节理解题。由第四段中的“The inability of computers to deal with homonyms”可知，电脑翻译面临的最大挑战之一是无法应对同形异义词。]
3．The advantage of Kamusi is that________.
A．it is mainly based on concepts of words
B．it focuses on the origin of words
C．it can recognize the proper meaning of a word
D．it has enough words and terms needed
答案 A [细节理解题。根据文章第三段中的“Kamusi is built around concepts as well as words”可知，这种在线词典的特点是它建立在概念的基础上，因此选A。]
4．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Kamusi can translate some of the world's languages.
B．The word “spring”has more than one meaning.
C．Kamusi can't be used by newspaper publishers who seek foreign readers.
D．In Africa，there are a variety of languages as well as dictionaries.
答案 B [细节理解题。根据第三段中的”So the word‘spring'，for instance，is linked to several concepts”可知，spring有好几个意思，故答案为B。根据此段中的“that contains all the world's languages”可以排除A；通过上文可知，这种在线词典可以解决电脑翻译的缺陷，因此选项C不对；由最后一段中的”a continent that is poorly served by existing dictionaries可知D不对。]
B
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Scientists may have discovered the world's oldest dinosaur—not buried under the earth，but sitting on a shelf.A team led by Sterling Nesbitt found the beast's bones in the Natural History Museum in London.They decided to take a second look at these forgotten fossils，which consist of six vertebrae(椎骨)and an upper arm bone.
The scientists studied minerals from the earth where the bones were discovered and compared them with rocks from around the globe.They found that the bones were from the Middle Triassic period,10 million to 15 million years before the oldest known dinosaurs were thought to have existed.
The upper arm fossil had traits(特点)seen in dinosaurs and their closest relatives.The shape of the arm bone also matched that of early dinosaurs.
Nesbitt's team concluded that the specimen was most likely a new species of dinosaur,
which they called Nyasasaurus parringtoni.This species was about the size of a large dog.It had a long tail and stood upright on two legs.
The newly discovered species proves that the earliest dinosaurs lived in the southern hemisphere.These dinosaurs probably developed alongside several other reptile species before finally
taking their place as the dominant life forms on Earth.
The fossilized bones were first found near Lake Nyasa in Tanzania by F．Rex Parrington.Parrington gave the bones to his student Alan Charig.Charig studied the fossils for 40 years.He named the unknown species Nyasasaurus，or “Nyasa lizard”．
Charig believed the bones were either from the earliest dinosaur or from
a very close relative.Others didn't
agree with
him，so he never published his findings.The fossilized bones were tucked_away in a storeroom at the Natural History Museum，where Nesbitt and his team recently found them.
“What's really neat about this specimen is that it has a lot of history，”Nesbitt said.“Found in the 30's，first described in the 1950s but never published，then its name pops up but is never validated(证实)．Now 80 years later，we're putting it all together.”
Nesbitt's team is now planning to do further research on Nyasasaurus parringtoni—this time in the field，not in a storeroom!
【解题导语】 科学家可能已经发现了世界上最古老的恐龙——尼亚萨龙，其生存年代比目前已知的最早的恐龙早约一千万至一千五百万年。
【长难句解读】 They decided to take a second look at these forgotten fossils，which consist of six vertebrae(椎骨)and an upper arm bone.
分析：这是一个复合句。which引导了一个非限制性定语从句，修饰前面的these forgotten fossils。
译文：他们决定再一次看看这些被遗忘的化石，它们一共包含六块椎骨和一块上臂骨。
5．What do we know about the species of dinosaur“Nyasasaurus parringtoni”？
A．It was as big as a large dog.
B．It could stand on two of its legs.
C．It lived 10 million to 15 million years ago.
D．It had a long neck in its early time.
答案 A [细节理解题。根据第四段第二句“This species was about the size of a large dog.”可知，这个恐龙的大小几乎和一条大狗差不多，因此选A。根据第四段最后一句可知，该恐龙只有两条腿，故B项错误。]
6．Nesbitt judged the fossils in the museum depending on________.
A．the rocks from Lake Nyasa
B．the minerals in the earth
C．the length of the tail
D．the weight of the upper arm bone
答案 B [细节理解题。根据第二段第一句“The scientists studied minerals from the earth where the bones were discovered and compared them with rocks from around the globe.”可知，科学家们是利用发现这些恐龙化石的土壤中的矿物质来判断的，故选B。]
7．Why didn't Charig publish his findings?
A．Because they weren't discovered by himself.
B．Because he was afraid of being laughed at.
C．Because other scientists had different ideas.
D．Because his teacher didn't allow him to do it.
答案 C [细节理解题。根据倒数第三段第二句“Others didn't agree with him，so he never published his findings.”可知选C。]
8．The underlined phrase“tucked away”in Paragraph 7 can be replaced by________.
A．thrown
B．covered
C．buried
D．placed
答案 D [词义猜测题。根据画线词后面的“in a storeroom at the Natural History Museum，where Nesbitt and his team recently found them”，再结合文章第一段第一句话可知，这些骨头化石应是被放到了一个储存室中，因此选D。]
Ⅳ.书面表达
假如你是李华，上周在英国参加了你校组织的“中学生文化交流周”活动，并住在Kelly家里。请你给在英国期间认识的新朋友Kelly写封感谢信，内容包括：
1．交流活动中的收获；
2．难忘在Kelly家的美好日子；
3．感谢她送你的英文词典。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头语和结束语已为你写好(不计入总词数)。
提示词汇：文化交流周Cultural Exchange Week
Dear Kelly，
I've been back home safely from England.________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Welcome to China when it's convenient for you!
Yours，
Li Hua
【参考范文】
Dear_Kelly，
I've_been_back_home_safely_from_England.Thank you for the warm help during my stay in England.
Last week, I participated in the Cultural Exchange Week.I enjoyed myself in your country.We visited the city museum and some places of interest, which made me have a better understanding of the English society, culture and history.Of course, I also made many new friends.
What's more, I was lucky enough to stay at your home.And I'll never forget the days we spent together.
Here I especially thank you for the dictionary you offered me as a gift.It's a great help for me to learn English well.I will treasure and make full use of it.
Welcome to China when it's convenient for you!
Yours，
LiHua