Unit 2 Working the land (1)
Ⅰ.课文缩写
Famous scientist as he is，Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer.As a young man，Yuan Longping saw the great need for increasing the rice __1__.At that time，__2__ was a disturbing problem in China.He wanted to increase rice harvests without __3__the area of the fields.In 1974，a special strain of rice made it possible to produce onethird more of the __4__ in the same fields.__5__ to his research，the UN has more tools in the __6__to rid the world of hunger.He is now __7__ his rice knowledge in less developed countries to increase their rice harvests and he wants to __8__ his rice so that it can be grown around the globe.Though he has __9__ for the past five decades，Dr.Yuan is quite __10__ with his life.In his spare time，he enjoys listening to violin music，playing mahjong，swimming and reading.
答案 1.output 2.hunger 3.expanding 4.crop5．Thanks 6.battle 7.circulating 8.export 9.struggled10．satisfied
Ⅱ.单词拼写
1．We should learn to ________ (斗争) with difficulties.
2．Great changes have taken place in the first ________(十年) of the 21st century in China.
3．Leonardo DiCaprio became a ________(超级的) star by acting in a famous film called Titanic.
4．People in this area were hit by ________(饥饿) and poverty.
5．We must ________(装备) the army for the modern war.
6．The blood ________(循环) around the body.
7．You can ________ (拓展) your knowledge by reading more books.
8．America will increase its food ________ (出口) this year.
9．In our country，everyone has rights and ________ (自由) to express his or her thoughts and ideas.
10．Don't walk around without a sunhat when you travel in Sanya，or you will get ________(晒黑的)．
答案 1.struggle 2.decade 3.super 4.hunger 5.equip
6．circulates 7.expand 8.export 9.freedom 10.burnt
Ⅲ.翻译与仿写
If so，what did you do to grow them？If not，what kind of plant would you like to try growing?
翻译：____________________________________________________________
仿写：下周你会有一个晚上有空吗？如果有，让我们一起吃个饭；如果没有，让我们再找个机会。
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Although he is one of China's most famous scientists，Yuan Longping considers
himself a farmer，for he works the land to do his research.
翻译：____________________________________________________________
仿写：我没有去看他，因为下大雪了。
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3．In 1974，he became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has
a high output.
翻译：____________________________________________________________
仿写：你是最后一个离开办公室的人。
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4．This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce onethird more of the crop in the same fields.
翻译：____________________________________________________________
仿写：无论在哪里，他都把每天读一小时英语作为规定去执行。
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5．Using his hybrid rice，farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.
翻译：____________________________________________________________
仿写：新桥比旧桥长两倍。
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答案 1.如果种过，你是如何种植的？如果没有，你想种植哪种植物呢？
Will you get a free evening next week？If so，let's have a dinner；if not，let's get another chance.
2．虽然他是中国最著名的科学家之一，袁隆平认为自己是一个农民，因为他在田间耕作，进行科学研究。
I didn't go to see him，for a heavy snow was falling.
3．1974年，他成为世界上第一位种植高产水稻的农业先锋。
You are the last one to leave the office.
4．这种特殊的稻种使得同样的田地多收获三分之一的粮食。
Wherever he is，he makes it a rule to read English for an hour every day.
5．用他发明的杂交水稻种子，农民们种出的粮食比以前多了一倍。
The new bridge is three times as long as the old one.
Ⅳ.句型转换
1．He would rather visit his parents than go traveling with his friends during the Spring Festival.
He prefers ________ ________ his parents ________ ________ go traveling with his friends during the Spring Festival.
2．China has gradually developed into a modern socialist country in the past 20 years.
China has ________ ________ a modern socialist country in the past two ________.
3．“Why does an apple fall to the ground？” resulted in Newton's discovery of the law of nature.
“Why does an apple fall to the ground？”________ ________ Newton's discovery of the law of nature.
4．He wanted to get rid of his parents and their authority.
He wanted to ________ himself ________ his parents and their authority.
5．The government is taking various measures to free school children from violent
attacks.
The government is taking various measures to ________ school children ________ ________ violent attacks.
答案 1.to visit，rather than 2.built up，decades 3.led to
4．rid，of 5.keep，free from/of
Ⅴ.单项填空
1．(2017·杭州高一检测)The children talked so loudly at dinner table that I had to struggle ________.
A．to be heard
B．to have heard
C．hearing
D．being heard
答案 A [考查struggle 的用法及不定式的被动语态。句意：孩子们在餐桌上说话声音很大，以至于我必须努力(喊)才能被听到。struggle to do sth努力做某事；根据句意应当用不定式的被动形式，故选A。]
2．My mother doesn't want to find a job and would rather ________ at home and be a housewife.
A．stay
B．staying
C．stayed
D．have stayed
答案 A [考查would rather 的用法。句意：我妈妈不想找工作，她宁愿待在家里做一名家庭主妇。would rather 后加动词原形。]
3．I think we'd better open the window to make air ________.
A．spread
B．circulate
C．remove
D．float
答案 B [考查动词辨析。句意：我认为我们最好打开窗子让空气流通。circulate“循环；流通”，符合题意。spread传播，伸展；remove 取走，移走；float漂浮；飘动。]
4．(2017·鹤岗高一检测)________ his being late again，he lost his job and had to stay at home.
A．Owe to
B．As a result of
C．In case of
D．Thank to
答案 B [考查短语用法。句意：由于他又一次迟到，他丢了他的工作，不得不待在家里。表达“因为，由于”的短语有：owing to；as a result of；because of；thanks to；due to。A项应为owing to；C项的意思是“以防，万一”；D项应为thanks to，但往往表达正面的含义。]
5．In the last two decades the advanced technology ________ people live longer.
A．make
B．made
C．has made
D．had made
答案 C [考查动词时态。句意：在过去的20年里，先进的技术已经能让人们更长寿。in the last two decades 作时间状语，句子常用现在完成时。]
6．After a few meetings，they came up with a ________ idea that everybody agreed with.
A．super
B．gradual
C．fluent
D．straight
答案 A [考查形容词辨析。句意：经过几次会谈，他们提出了一个大家都同意的好主意。super“特级的；超级的”，符合题意。gradual 逐步的；fluent 流利的；straight 直的。]
7．When there is a football match，he is always the first boy ________.
A．comes
B．coming
C．come
D．to come
答案 D [句意：当有足球赛时，他总是第一个来的男孩。“the first＋n.”后常接动词不定式作定语，表示“第一个做……的……”。]
8．(2017·宁波高一检测)To the surprise of many people，in ten years the city's population ________ by 12%.
A．gained
B．expanded
C．developed
D．spread
答案 B [考查动词辨析。句意：令许多人惊奇的是，十年里这个城市的人口增长了12%。gain 获得，增加；expand 膨胀，扩充；develop发展；spread 传播。]
9．(2017·芜湖高一检测)Left at home alone，he felt afraid and couldn't ________ himself ________ fear.
A．put；into
B．tire；of
C．rid；of
D．protect；from
答案 C [考查短语用法。句意：被单独留在家里，他感到害怕，无法摆脱恐惧。rid...of...意为“使……摆脱或除去”，与句意相符。]
10．(2017·漳州高一检测)The boy tried his best to ________ his girlfriend's needs，but the girl was still not ________.In fact，what the boy did was not ________.
A．satisfy；satisfied；satisfying
B．satisfy；satisfying；satisfied
C．satisfied；satisfied；satisfying
D．satisfying；satisfied；satisfied
答案 A [考查satisfy的用法。句意：这个男孩尽力满足他女朋友的需要，但是这个女孩依旧不满意。事实上这个男孩所做的也不是令人满意的。第一空考查短语satisfy one's needs“满足某人的需要”；第二空主语为人，故用形容词satisfied“满意的，满足的”；第三空主语为“男孩所做的事”，因此用形容词satisfying“令人满意的”。]
11．(2017·济南高一检测)We students should ________ ourselves with knowledge for the competition which nowadays is very fierce.
A．supply
B．equip
C．relate
D．feed
答案 B [句意：我们学生应该用知识武装自己，因为现在竞争非常激烈。equip sb with sth 用……武装、装备……。]
12．British agricultural ________ has been falling for four months.
A．organization
B．outline
C．output
D．origin
答案 C [考查名词辨析。句意：英国农业产量已经持续四个月下降。output“产量；输出”，符合题意。organization组织，机构；outline外形，轮廓；origin起源。]
13．The lack of experience makes ________ impossible for Jane to get along well in her new job.
A．it
B．that
C．itself
D．so
答案 A [句意：缺乏经验使简不可能对她的新工作应对自如。此处为“make＋it＋adj.＋to do sth”结构，it作形式宾语，动词不定式短语为真正的宾语。]
14．But even in Germany ________ signs of economic crisis have emerged.
A．disturbed
B．disturbing
C．encouraging
D．encouraged
答案 B [考查形容词辨析。句意：但是甚至在德国都出现了令人担忧的经济危机迹象。v.ing类形容词一般修饰或描述物，v.ed类形容词一般修饰或描述人，故排除A、D两项。disturbing 引起烦恼的；令人不安的，符合题意。encouraging 鼓舞人的。]
15．We do not have enough money.________ we can not afford to buy the new car.
A．Therefore
B．But
C．Besides
D．However
答案 A [考查副词词义辨析。句意：我们的钱不够。因此买不了这辆新车。therefore 因此，所以，符合题意。]
Ⅵ.阅读理解
Let us consider what we can do for the food problem.
The simple way to increase food production，one might suppose，is to bring more land into farmland and put more people to work on it.
But it is proved in some developing countries that this will bring some problems.It will quickly make the soil poorer and destroy forest growth.Furthermore，the people there will always find they need more people to work on this land to produce more food.
During the past twenty years，some developing countries have increased a lot more farmland in their countries，but their populations have in the meantime grown faster，therefore，they are further behind than before.And their food increase has been gained at the cost of using up the rich lands.Many of the lands have become poor lands and are producing less food now.
Meanwhile，farming in the developed countries has produced much more food through improved technology.Since 1940，farmland has been reduced by 7 percent in the United States but cereal production has jumped by 60 percent.The increase in the corn output，thanks to hybrid corn，has been even greater.
The “secret”is to apply fertilizer，in scientific ways，of course.And compared to the developing countries，the populations in developed countries have increased just a little larger than twenty years ago.
On the whole，world population today is increasing at the speed higher than ever before.Every year the population is two percent larger，so that the 6,000,000,000 people on the earth today will present another 120,000,000 mouths to be fed by the time next year.It is a fearsome thought that this time tomorrow there will be about 330,000 persons added to this world population.
What can we do about the increase of population，or the lack of food to feed such a large，growing population？That's a very important problem before everyone on the earth，young or old，men or women.
1．In the author's opinion，________ seems to be the most serious problem today.
A．pollution
B．lack of food
C．poor farmland
D．the increase of world population
答案 B [细节理解题。本文主要讲述了如何解决世界上的粮食短缺问题，故选B。]
2．From the agriculture history in the US，we can conclude that ________.
A．the more population there is，the less food there is
B．the richer a country is, the richer it will become
C．science will be helpful in feeding the world population
D．developing countries cannot settle their food problem
答案 C [推理判断题。根据第五段可知，美国的耕地减少了百分之七，但是通过高科技，谷物产量却增加了百分之六十。]
3．The author seems to suggest that the food problem cannot be settled unless ______.
A．we stop getting more land into farmland
B．everyone realizes how serious the problem is
C．pollution is stopped
D．there is no more room for no more people
答案 B [推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“That's a very important problem before everyone on the earth，young or old，men or women.”可知，粮食短缺问题是世界上每一个人所面临的大问题。大家都应行动起来，共同应对这一难题。]
4．The best title for this passage should be “________”．
A．More people feed on less food
B．The population problem
C．How to deal with the food problem
D．Science and technology in food production
答案 C [主旨大意题。本文主要讲述了世界上的粮食短缺问题以及解决这一问题的途径。A项只提出了粮食短缺问题。B项离话题太远。D项只说明了科技在粮食问题上的作用。这三项都不全面。]