Ⅰ.单词拼写
1.All
the failures ________(毁灭) all Jane's hopes for success.
2.If you can't keep your pet, you can give it to an animal ________(庇护所).
3.If your brain ________(判断)the information important, it places it in your memory “files.”
4.Although we are suffering such a severe natural ________(灾难),we will never lose heart.
5.Everyone can do something for our environment. For me, I should try to save ________(电)in my daily life.
6.The wildlife at night is very dangerous, so you have to be ________(极其) careful.
7.I had spent much time on the work but the manager told me it was ________(无用的).
8.On reaching the top of the mountain, we were ________(震惊的) to see the view after the big fire.
9.David tried to use his left hand to work because he ________(受伤) his right hand in a fire.
10.It's a good time to go hunting after it snows, because it is easier to follow the animals' ________(踪迹).
答案
1.destroyed 2.shelter 3.judges 4.disaster
5.electricity 6.extremely 7.useless 8.shocked
9.injured 10.tracks
Ⅱ.用所给词的适当形式填空
1.In the ________ (judge), it was wrong to give children so much pocket money.
2.We could tell from his ________ (express) that he was very upset.
3.On seeing the ________ scene, the little girl was so ________ that she burst out crying. (frighten)
4.On arriving there, we expressed our ________ (congratulate) to him on his success.
5.We refuse to sign any treaty that is against our ________ (nation) interests.
6.It was an ________ (extreme) difficult and dangerous task.
7.It is ________ (reporter) that the accident occurred on the first Sunday in February.
8.Her ________ (dirt) clothes made her embarrassed.
9.The tracks became ________ (use) because of the earthquake.
10.The earthquake brought a lot of ________ (suffer) to the people.
答案
1.judgement 2.expression 3.frightening; frightened
4.congratulations 5.national 6.extremely 7.reported
8.dirty 9.useless 10.suffering
Ⅲ.单句语法填空
1.I can't imagine ________ (live) without water.
2.The meeting was ________ an end at ten o'clock.
3.My patience gave ________ at last.
4.Shelters were put ________ for the victims.
5.He was proud ________ his hometown and took pride ________ the achievement he had made.
6.We should pay attention ________ (protect) the environment.
7.________ (bury) in doing research on wild plants, he seldom returned home.
8.The survivors ________ houses were destroyed put up in the temporary tents.
9.The number of people who were killed ________ (reach) more than 40,000 so far.
10.Seeing his funny action, the audience burst out ________ (laugh).
答案与解析
1.living imagine 后跟动名词形式作宾语。
2.at at an end 结束。
3.out give out 耗尽。
4.up put up 搭建。
5.of; in be proud of 以……骄傲;take pride in 以……骄傲。
6.to protecting pay attention to doing 注意做……。
7.Buried buried in 埋头于……。
8.whose whose 引导定语从句,在从句中作定语。
9.has reached the number of...作主语,谓语动词用单数形式。
10.laughing burst out laughing 突然大笑。
Ⅳ.课文浓缩语法填空
Something strange were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. The water in the wells rose and fell. A __1__ (smell) gas came out of the cracks. The chickens and even the pigs were __2__ nervous to eat. __3__ (mouse) ran out of the fields, __4__ (look) for places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls and ponds. At about 3:00 a.m. on July 28, 1976, some people saw bright lights in the sky. At 3:42 a.m., one of the __5__ (great) earthquake of the 20th century began. Steam __6__ (burst) from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. Bricks covered the ground like autumn __7__ (leaf). Two dams and most of the bridges fell. The railway tracks were now __8__ (use) pieces of steel. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay __9__ ruins. It looked as if the world was __10__ an end.
答案
1.smelly 2.too 3.Mice 4.looking 5.greatest
6.burst 7.leaves 8.useless 9.in 10.at
White / blue-collar worker 白领,蓝领
Cyclists make Olympic history, 400-year-old shark 英国自行车运动员创英奥运历史,400岁格陵兰鲨鱼
Russian athletes and friendly robots 俄罗斯运动员服用兴奋剂,“合作机器人”
Clean up your act 改邪归正
Indian state introduces 'fat tax' 印度一省拟征收“脂肪税”
India's sewer workers and British school standards 印度下水道工人施工安全,英国在校生学习成绩下降
There's method to my madness 我有一个不合常理的办法
One good turn deserves another 以德报德,礼尚往来
It's on the cards 这件事十有八九会发生
The university of life 生活经历
To make a monkey out of me 捉弄我
To turn something upside down 把……翻个底朝天
Going forward 从今往后
To make a mountain out of a molehill 小题大做
California wildfires and cloned animals 加利福尼亚州野火,克隆动物衰老过程正常
The last/final straw 忍无可忍,使人最终崩溃的一击
It takes two to tango 一个巴掌拍不响
The cost of protecting the environment, Juno space probe 保护环境付出的代价,“朱诺”木星探测器
Canada wildfire and NASA discovery 加拿大林火,美国国家航空航天局发现系外行星
A recipe for disaster 后患无穷
Close, but no cigar 几近成功
Chelsea doctor and surfing in Australia 切尔西队医与球队和解,澳大利亚冲浪
Cyborg beetle and the teenage brain 半机械甲虫,青少年脑部发育
Pain in the neck 令人讨厌的事情或人
Hot potato 棘手的问题“烫手山芋”
Barefaced 厚颜无耻的
Earth-like planet, Pink cockatoo dies at 83 类地行星,83岁风头鹦鹉逝世
Crash course 速成课
Knee-jerk reaction 本能反映
Alligator takes boy and Tate Modern extension 鳄鱼拖走小男孩,泰特现代美术馆扩建完工