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Unit 4 Earthquakes Section
Ⅱ
Warming Up & Reading-
Language
Points
即时训练
Ⅰ.单词拼写
1
．
He has been
buried in the novel for 3 hours.
2
．
Females find it
extremely difficult to get a job in such a field.
3
．
was seriously
injured in the traffic
accident
，
so he was in
hospital.
4
．
You
may burst the balloon if you are not careful.
5
．
They organized
(
组织
)the youths to form a
group to protect the environment.
6
．
After the
war
，
the city lay in ruins(
废墟
)
．
7
．
We knew Bob had
cancer
，
but the news of his
death still came as a shock (
震惊
< br>的事
)
．
8
．
Hundreds of
people are still in the
water
，
waiting to be rescued(
援救
)
．
9
．
These bushes
grow well in the shelter
(
掩蔽
)of big oak trees.
10
．
A lot of
people lost their lives in the disaster(
灾难
)
．
Ⅱ
.
单句语法填空
1
．
When I
mentioned the incident later to
him
，
he burst out laughing.
2
．
By the end of
last year
，
he had learned
2
，
000 English words.
3
．
He was one of
the lucky survivors(survive) in the crash.
4
．
In fifteen
terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins in the
disaster.
5
．
The
job of firefighters is extremely(extreme)
dangerous.
6
．
We
were all shocked(shocking) at the news.
7
．
His
injured(injure) look made us believe that he was
treated unfairly.
8
．
The poor woman
was buried(bury) in grief after her son died.
9
．
Because
of
the
economic
crisis
，
a
great
number
of
workers
were
(be)
out
of
work.
10
．
When a pencil
is partly put into water
，
it
looks as if it were(be) broken.
Ⅲ
.
阅读理解
When she was
abandoned(
抛弃
) at only eight
weeks old because she was deaf
，
< br>Alice
，
who
was
dirty
，
sick
and
nervous
，
had
a
difficult
start
in
less
than
a month after being
saved
，
the little dog is
learning to recognize sign language
orders with her new family and now she
has already learned the signs for several
basic orders.
Marie
< br>Williams
，
41
，
and
，
Mark
Morgan
，
43
，
who
are
themselves
both
deaf
，
adopted
1
(
收养
) the dog from
the animal charity the Blue couple and their
three
sons Liam
，
1
6
，
Lewis
，
13
，
and Owen
，
5
，
who have normal
hearing
，
are teaching the
lovely dog sign language
orders
，
including
instructions for
sitting
，
coming and
rolling over.
Marie
Williams
，
from
West
Mersea
，
Essex
，
said
，
“
We
were
thinking
about
getting
a
dog
but
when
we
saw
Alice
was
deaf
，
we
just
couldn't
believe
was
so
beautiful
and
the fact that she was deaf just made us fall in
love with her even more
—
we
knew
that
she
would
fit
right
into
our
we
went
to
visit
her
at
the
centre
，
I had
tears in my eyes because she was so attractive and
we developed a special
relationship at
once.”
Julie
Stone
，
manager
of
the
Blue
Cross
，
said
，
“
It
was
amazing
to
see
how
Marie
，
Mark
and
their
children
immediately
got
along
well
with
Alice
and
how
they
knew
just
how
to
get
her
are
an
excellent
match
and
Alice
has
found
the
perfect
home where I know
she'll get love.”
The Blue
Cross
，
which depends
completely on public donations (
捐助
)
，
rehomes
thousands
of
dogs
，
cats
，
horses
，
and
other
small
animals
every
year
through
its
network
of adoption centres.
1
．
Marie Williams
had her first son at the age of
________
．
A
．
25
B
．
28
C
．
30
D
．
36
解析：数字计算题。根据第二段可知，
Marie
Williams
今年
41
岁，她的大儿子
Liam
16
岁。
由此可推知，她生第一个儿子的时候应该是
25
岁。
答案：
A
2
．
Marie Williams
and Mark Morgan adopted Alice because
________
．
A
．
they could get
along well with a deaf dog
B
．
they wanted to
teach her some sign language
C
．
their children
wanted to have a dog as their friend
D
．
they needed a
dog and also had pity on beautiful Alice
解析：
细节理解题。
根据第三段前两句可知，
他们正想养一只狗，
而且他们对如此美丽却失
聪的<
/p>
Alice
深感同情和爱怜，于是决定收养“她”。
答案：
D
3
．
What can we
learn about the Blue Cross?
A
．
It mainly
adopts sick animals.
B
．
All its money
comes from public donations.
2
C
．
It
earns money mainly by selling all kinds of pets.
D
．
It regularly
receives money from the government.
解析：细节理解题。根据最后一段可知，
Blue
Cross
这一组织的全部资金来自大众捐款。
答案：
B
4
．
It can be
learned from the passage that a deaf dog
________
．
A
．
is good at
learning sign language
B
．
is clever
enough to learn all orders
C
．
can be trained
and become a wonderful pet
D
．
can easily get
along well with deaf people
解析：
< br>推理判断题。
根据文中讲述的
Alice
的实例可推知，
一只失聪的狗经过训练也能看懂
手语，
从而读懂主人的指令，成为很好的宠物。
答案：
C
5
．
What is the
purpose of the passage?
A
．
To call on
people to treat deaf dogs well.
B
．
To prove the
importance of animal charities.
C
．
To show a deaf
couple's kindness to animals.
D
．
To tell us
about a deaf dog that is learning sign language. <
/p>
解析：
主旨大意题。
通读全文可知，
本文主要讲述了一只失聪的狗学会了识别手语这一事件。
作者写这篇
文章的目的是将这一事件告诉读者。
答案：
D
Ⅳ
.
完形填空
My old neighbour Dr Gibbs didn't look
like any doctor I'd ever Dr
Gibbs
wasn't __1__ lives
，
he
was planting house sat on ten
acres
，
and his life's __2__
was to make it a forest.
The good
d
octor came from “no
pains，
no gains
”
school of had
some __3__ theories
about plant __4__ watered his new
I
asked
why
，
he
said
that
watering
plants
spoiled(
宠坏
)
them
，
and
that
if
you
__5__
them
，
they would
grow __6__
．
So you had to
make things __7__ for them and then you
could get rid of the weak trees early
on.
He talked about how watering trees
made for __8__ roots
，
and how
trees that
weren't watered had to grow
deep roots in __9__ of water.
So he
never watered his planted an
oak(
橡树
)
and
，
__10__ watering it
every
morning
，
he
would
__11
__
it
with
a
rolled?up
newspaper.I
asked
him
__
12__
he
did that
，
and he
said it was to get the tree's attention.
3
Dr Gibbs
__13__ a couple of years after I left the trees
he planted
are __14__ now.
I planted some trees a few years
ago
，
__15__ water to them for
a whole summer
，
and
prayed
for
l
years
of
careful
care
has
__16__
trees
that
grow
weaker
and weaker.__17__ a
cold wind blows
，
they will
tremble.
So
I'm __18__
my
view
on
life
，
because
life
is
many
times
we
pray
for
comfortable
fact
，
what
we
need
to
do
is
to
pray
for __19__
that
reach
deep
into
the
eternity
(
永恒
)
，
s
o
when
the
rain
falls
and
the
wind
blows
，
we
won't
be
__20__
．
1
．
ng
C
．
saving
B
．
seeing
D
．
enjoying
解析：本句意为：当
Gibbs
医生不治病救人的时
候，他就种起了树。医生治病“救”人，故
此处用
save
。
答案：
C
2
．
C
．
time
B
．
use
D
．
money
解析：本句意为：
Gibbs
医生的家坐落在十英亩大的土
地上，他的人生“目标”就是将它变
为树林。
答案：
A
3
．
ening
C
．
peaceful
B
．
interesting
D
．
successful
解析：根据本段第三句到第五句
Gibbs
医生
谈种树与浇水的关系可知，
Gibbs
医生这种不给
新种的树浇水的理论在作者看来很“有趣”。
答案：
B
4
．
C
．
never
B
．
sometimes
D
．
often
解析：
根据本段第四句中的
watering
plants
spoiled(
宠坏
)them
可以推知，
Gibbs
医生“从
来不”给新种的树浇水。
答案：
C
5
．
d
C
．
heated
B
．
preferred
D
．
watered
解析：根据本段第四句中的
watering
plants
spoiled(
宠坏
)them
进行逻辑推理可知，此处
表
示如果给新种的树“浇水”，将会带来怎样的后果。
答案：
D
6
．
B
．
weaker
4
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