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20) The directions he gave me were so _________ that I found the place easily. 21) She is so ________ that I can never understand what she is trying to say.
22) The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece, is a picture of a young woman with the _________ half smile, which has been puzzling the world.
23) Each of us has unlimited __________ ability to achieve our goals---even those that seem the most far-reaching.
24) It is the ability to do the job that __________ not where you come from or what you are. 25) In such a close game, every point ___________.
26) Some people go back for their education to _______ another degree to impress the society. 27) I don?t think there is anybody who can ___________ him. He?s very stubborn.
28) Spring Festival is the most important time for Chinese people to get together. It's hard to _______ the temptation of the delicous foods.
29) Nowadays sending e-mails to each other is a way many a student ___________ what they think.
30) Dialogues on both sides are the best way to ________ any ambiguous concepts on either side.
31) She ___________ a diamond ring from the collection and showed it off to her friends.
32) Obama promised that, if elected, he would __________ US soldiers from Iraq within 16 months.
33) If we ________ water in our daily life, it will soon dry up and nothing can be left for our children, which will eventually lead to the ruin of the whole human beings.
34) If we sit on the same table, each side has the right to present what it has, and each side has the right to _______ or accept what the other presents
35) Think of others first when it comes to benefits. Never _________ others for your own gains. 36) China is firmly _______ _____ the bill on listing of the so-called \United Nations\议事日程) of the United Nations.
37) It displeases my parents when I stay out late at night. My parents don't _______ ____ my staying out late at night.
38) In the exams, make sure that everything you write is _______ ______ the question you have been asked.
39) The two paintings look so much alike that I I can?t ______ the authentic painting ______ the modern copy.
40) He is not easy to get on with. He easily _______ ______ at the slightest things.
41) Joe was stubborn and it was almost impossible to ___________ him ______ his mistakes. 42) What a pity! I have missed meeting my boss at the airport because my car was ______ ____ in the traffic jam.
43) Hard work leads to success while failure usually __________ ______ laziness. 44) _____ _________, I would like to wish you continued success in the future. 45) That's enough fun and games! Let's ______ _____ ____ work. 3. 根据汉语意思完成下列句子：（每空一词）
1) 如果想保护环境，必须讲清楚这些问题，说服人们采取行动。
If we want to protect the environment, we must _________ the problems and _____________ people to take action.
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2) 中国和其他国家都发现，即使农村孩子上了学，他们会常常缺课，到最后还得辍学。 China and other countries found that even when children from the countryside do start school, they have a ___________ to be ___________ and often ______ ______ later. 3) 大学生打工的意义还不仅在于钱和经验。
The ____________ for college students of doing a part-time job means _______ ________ money and ____________.
4) 这任务似乎很难,但当你真地做起来,并不是那么困难。
That task isn't as difficult as it _________ when you really ______ _______ _______ it. 5) 产品质量是企业通往世界的通行证。用户的认可和满意是他们的心愿。
Product ________ is the pass of an enterprise to the world. __________ and satisfaction of customers is their desire.
6) 世界各种文明和社会制度，应取长补短，共同发展。
Different civilizations and social systems should ______ _____ and ______ from each other to _______ common development.
课本相关内容扩展
1. 选用下列词或词组的适当形式填空：(每空一词)
accent; standard; model; pattern; dilemma; media; moral; variety; vocabulary; revolution; evolution; candidate; process; source; attention; impossible; traditional; initial; instant; relevant; nervous; ambiguous; proper; positive; active; passive; necessary; suitable; tell; wonder; spread; count; determine; convince; convey; clarify; increase; admit; expand; follow; even though; tell… apart; adapt to; make allowances (for); get… across
A. The quality of someone's voice and their choice of words have a person 1)______ recognized, even though you can't see him or her.
English is spoken as an official language in more than 60 countries across the world and it can sound very different from place to place. Pronunciation, as well as grammar and 2)_________, can change very quickly from one area to another. You can usually 3)_____ which part of the English-speaking world someone comes from by their 4)______. It is also quite easy to 5)______ British and American English _______.
Although most people believe there is a right and a wrong way to speak English, there is not really a 6)_______ form that everyone can agree on. English 7)______ across the world over hundreds of years because of trade, exploration and business, and this 8)_______ produced many different Englishes. There is hardly a perfect 9)______ provided to follow. It has become 10)______ to say which English is \and which is \Perhaps correctness doesn't matter -- as long as speakers can understand each other -- it's communication that 11)_______.
Ever since the invention of the first telegraph at the end of the 19th century, English has been spreading around the world. It has a powerful influence in the 12)______, on the Internet and in pop music. This communication 13)_________ has turned the world into a \which everyone needs to talk to each other.
Traditionally, British English has been taught across the world, but it is only one 14)______. Experts believe that the future shape and grammar of English, especially in its spoken form, will
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no longer be 15)_______ in the traditional English-speaking countries like Britain and America but in the rest of Europe, Asia and Africa.
International organizations and businesses communicate with each other in English. But a new 16)_______ of using English is developing that does not look the same to native speakers as \\English. Researchers are now investigating \English. Often meanings and words from other languages find their way into English to produce a new dialect. All of these processes are a form of natural 18)______. Experts are 19)________ that this will happen in the future as more and more people learn English and call it their own.
English has a huge number of colorful and splendid expressions which may be difficult to understand. Even if the meaning of the words is straight forward, the cultural associations of the phrase may be 20)__________. The 21)__________ is to know which are explicit, which are figurative (比喻的), and why they are 22)__________ to an everyday situation.
Idioms are absurd (违反常理的) expressions 23)________ a concept which is different from the literal meaning and have been common in English for many years. But some idioms are very new and you'll need to 24)_______ what they mean.
There are traditional proverbs which express a 25)_______ or a piece of advice. For example, When in Rome, do as the Romans do suggests you should 26)____ ____ local conditions.
B. The demand for Chinese as a foreign language is growing fast. As China develops economically, opportunities for doing business 27)_______ greatly. But there is also a renewed interest in the culture and traditions of China; the fact that Chinese culture has continued uninterrupted for more than 5,000 years is a 28)_______ of curiosity for people in other parts of the world.
With so much interest in the language, the Chinese government introduced an international exam system. Set up in 1990, the HSK test was 29)_______ meant for those learners who regard Chinese as a second or foreign language. Later, it was introduced abroad. At the moment, there are more than 100 exam centres in 27 countries around the world, with nearly 150,000 30)_______ taking the exam every year.
C. Although many Chinese students say their knowledge of English grammar is good, most would 31)_______ that their spoken English is poor. There may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English.
First, they fail to find 32)_______ words to express themselves due to limited vocabulary, which means they don?t know how to express their meaning 33)________. Obviously the better answer is to 34)_______ their vocabulary. However, you can speak with a limited vocabulary if your attitude is 35)_______. Others will 36)________ you as long as you use the words that you know.
Second, they are afraid of making mistakes. Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking because they are shy and 37)_______. Yet students should remember that their goal should be FLUENCY NOT ACCURACY. You want to 38)_____ your message _______, to talk to someone in English, as quickly and as well as you can, 39)_____ _______ sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense, but it doesn?t matter because the person you are speaking to will understand you and 40)______ _________ for any mistakes he hears.
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The third, not enough 41)_________ is paid to listening. You have one mouth but two ears! All that hearing is 42)_________ for you to start speaking.
Fourth, most Chinese students are reactive (被动的) rather than proactive (主动的) language learners. Instead of 43)________ seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English, they 44)________ wait for speaking opportunities to come to them and 45)_______ why their spoken English always remains poor. If you have this proactive outlook, then you will see English opportunities wherever you go.
2. 背诵并默写下面的范文，然后进行仿写或改写练习（词数120-150）
The students of Class 2 had a discussion about whether it is necessary to start learning English from childhood. Some of them think that English learning should start from children. As little boys and girls have a very good memory, they can learn a lot of words by heart. They will help them lay a solid foundation for their future English learning. But others do not agree. Young children have to Chinese pinyin at the same time, it will be very easy for them to mix them up. This will do a lot of harm not only to their Chinese learning but also to their future English learning. In short, the students have not arrived at any agreement yet.
综合能力训练
1. 完形填空
If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like “Shakespeare” “Samuel Johnson” and “Webster”, but 1 _ of these men had any 2 at all compared to a man who didn?t 3 _ speak English - William the Conqueror.
Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic (凯尔特) language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, 4 not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a 5 of Anglos, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke 6 we now call Anglo-Saxon (or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be 7 German. But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William 8 the Saxons and began their 9 over England. For about a century, French became the 10_ language of England while Old English became the language of 11 __. As a result, English words of politics and the law come from 12 rather than German. In some cases, modern English even show a __13 between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the _14_ or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the 15 . When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more “ 16__” than France because the German they see on 17 and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does. _ 18 _ realize that the English language is __19 _ Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man?s 20 . 1. A. all B. nobody C. neither D. none 2. A. effect B. effort C. association D. significance 3. A. ever B. never C. even D. either 4. A. since B. though C. as D. unless
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5. A. copy 6. A. how 7. A. far from 8. A. defeated 9. A. victory 10. A. official 11. A. workers 12. A. Old English 13. A. difference 14. A. tables 15. A. shopping 16. A. local 17. A. signals 18. A. Few 19. A. normally 20. A. offence 2. 阅读理解
B. substitute B. what B. free from B. removed B. rule B. popular B. merchants B. Modern English B. association B. barbecues B. eating B. country B. symbols B. Many B. eventually B. ambition
C. mixture
C. whether C. independent of C. sacrificed C. advantage C. local C. politicians C. French C. link C. factories C. hunting C. foreign C. senses C. Nobody C. initially C. prejudice
D. reflection D. which D. closed to D. resisted D. dilemma D. relevant D. peasants D. Celtic D. tendency D. fields D. reading D. relative D. signs
D. Somebody D. actually D. conflict
A
During the early years of the settlement of the American continent, a highly distinctive form of English spoken by the black population, was beginning to develop in the islands of the West Indies and on the southern part of the mainland.
The beginning of the seventeenth century saw the emergence(出现) of the slave trade. Ships from Europe traveled to the West African coast, where they exchanged cheap goods for black slaves. The slaves were shipped in terrible conditions to the Caribbean islands and the American coast, where they were in turn exchanged for such products as sugar and molasses. The ships then returned to England, completing an \again. Britain and the United States had outlawed the slave trade by 1865, but by that time, nearly 200 years of trading had taken place. By the middle of the nineteenth century, there were over four million black slaves in America.
The policy of the slave-traders was to bring people from different language backgrounds together in the ships to make it difficult for groups to Plan rebellion. The result was the growth of several pidgin (混杂的) forms of communication, and in particular a pidgin between the slaves and the sailors, many of whom spoke English. Once they arrived in the Caribbean, this pidgin English continued to act as a major means of communication between the black population and their new owners, and among the blacks themselves. Then, when children were born, pidgin English became their mother tongue, thus producing the first black Creole (克里奥尔语) speech in the region. This Creole English rapidly came to be used throughout the cotton plantations, and in the coastal towns and islands.
21. Which of the following correctly describes the route taken by the slave traders?
A. Europe---the West African coast---the Caribbean islands and the American coast---
England.
B. Europe ---the West African coast --- England --- the Caribbean islands and the American
coast.
C. The West African coast --- Europe --- the Caribbean islands and the American coast ---
England.
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