Module 1 Wonders of the world
学习目标 语音 词汇 长句子的断句 wonder, band, review, ancient, composition, grade, pyramid, pupil, meeting, call, listen up, event, natural, get out of, light, reply, clear, rise, ground, below, edge, on the edge of, bottom, at the bottom of, side, disappear, distance, huge, face, height 时态复习：一般现在时，一般过去时，现在进行时，过去进行时，一般将来时和现在完成时 Is the Grand Canyon the greatest wonder in the natural world? She sings with the band Crazy Feet. We're having a meeting. She went to our school. It was raining. I've written down some ideas. I'll do an interview with Becky Wang. 加深对中国自然和人文景观的认识；了解世界上其他一些国家的著名奇观 语法 功能用语 文化意识 质量检测 一、词汇
A．根据句意及提示写出形式正确的单词。
1．What ________ you ________（do）at seven yesterday evening?
2．The Grand Canyon is one of the ________（wonder）of the natural world. 3．I ________（be）to Xinjiang twice. It's really a beautiful place. 4．When I ________（arrive）, it was raining.
5．Some of the pyramids are over 200 feet in ________.（high）. 6．The rain stopped and the sun ________.（rise）. B．用方框中所给单词的正确形式填空。 quick keep be talk seem make use laugh say happy The best way of learning a language is 1 it. The best way of learning English is 2 in English as much as possible. Sometimes you'll get your words mixed up and people will not understand you. Sometimes people will say things 3 and you can't understand them. But if you 4 your sense of humor, you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you make. Don't be 5 if people 6 to be laughing at your mistakes. It's better for people 7 at your mistakes than to 8 angry with you, because they don't understand what you 9 . The most important thing for learning English is: “Don't be afraid of making mistakes because everyone 10 mistakes.” 二、单项选择
1．— When ________ you ________ the computer? — Three years ago. A．have; bought B．had; bought C．do; buy D．did; buy 2．—Hi, Kate. You look tired. What's the matter? —I ________ well last night. A．didn't sleep B．don't sleep C．haven't slept D．won't sleep
3．— Did anyone ________ the football match yesterday evening? — Yes, we won. A．watch B．watched C．watches D．watching 4．Do you know where our headmaster ________? A．living B．live C．lives D．to live 5．It's 4 o'clock. They ________ their compositions. A．write B．writes C．wrote D．are writing 6．—My mother ________ to do some shopping after work. —So am I. A．will go B．goes C．went D．is going 7．The little girl ________ in the kindergarten when her mother came in. A．cry B．cries C．was crying D．is crying
8．There will be a parents' meeting tomorrow. But my parents can't come because they ________ to Shandong. A．has gone B．have gone C．has been D．have been 9．—Hasn't Betty come yet?
—No, I ________ for her for nearly 2 hours. A．wait B．waited C．have waited D．had waited 10．The story ________ in London many years ago.
A．was happening B．will happen C．happened D．happens 11．Peter was playing the piano while Alice ________.
A．was singing B．sang C．would sing D．singing 12．She told me that she ________ my aunt the next week.
A．will visit B．would visit C．is going to visit D．visited 13．—Who's taken away my English textbook?
—________. A．I have B．He had C．She did D．He took it 14．—Mary, could you help me?
—Wait a moment. I ________. A．read a book B．did my homework C．was watching TV D．am cooking dinner 15．—Do you know Huang Ting well?
—Yes. She and I ________ friends since we met in Wuhan last summer. A．made B．were C．have been D．become 三、阅读理解
A
Here are six business cards. They are three persons'. They are Andrew Irvine, Sandy West and Emma Bell. The cards on the left are old ones and the cards on the right are new. Read the cards and then choose the right answers.
MORISON 200 FIFTH AVENUE BAKER NEW YORK, NY 10010 Andrew M. Irvine, Lawyer Home: 12 East 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 （212）555-1819 Sandy A. West Assistant Sales Manager 111 Commercial Street San Francisco, CA 94109 （415）772-3622 Home: 350 Arbor Lane San Francisco, CA 94103 （415）474-6188 Northern University English Language Institute Boston, MA 02115 （617）264-3132 Emma B. Bell, Assistant Professor Home: 189 Washington Street, Apt. 7A Brookline, MA 02115 （617）347-6661 MORE 250 Mercer Street IRVINE New York, NY 10012 （212）555-2617 Andrew M. Irvine, Lawyer Home: 12 East 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 （212）555-1819 Sandy A. West Sales Manager 111 Commercial Street San Francisco, CA 94109 （415）772-3622 Home: 350 Arbor Lane San Francisco, CA 94103 （415）474-6188 Northern University English Language Institute Boston, MA 02115 （617）264-3132 Emma B. Bell, Professor Home: 373 Park Place Brookline, MA02116 （617）525- 8054
1．If you want to get some advice about law, you can ring the number ________. A．（415）772-3622 B．（617）264-3132 C．（212）555-2617 D．（415）474-6188 2．If you want to visit Professor Bell's home, you can go to ________. A．Washington B．San Francisco C．New York D．Brookline 3．________ haven't changed their places of work. A．Sandy West and Emma Bell B．Andrew Irvine and Sandy West C．Emma Bell and Andrew Irvine
D．Andrew Irvine, Sandy West and Emma Bell
B
I first started playing the piano when I was three. My parents are musicians, so they were both very encouraging. It was their dream, I think, to raise a child who could one day become a world-class pianist. So they asked an expensive personal teacher to teach me, and I practiced every day, sometimes for five or six hours at a time. Despite（尽管）the long hours and frustration（挫折）, I did enjoy it, especially at first, and I was good. According to my parents and my teacher, I was really excellent, and I was on the road to becoming a professional musician, just like my mother and father.
The trouble was, my head really wasn't in it. My real interest was something quite different—mathematics（maths）. Numbers were the things that really shone brightly in my mind. I found more beauty in a mathematical equation（相等）, I told my parents, than in a piano sonata（奏鸣曲）. So when I went to college, I chose to study mathematics, not music. Then I got a job, working as an accountant.
Now I work with numbers every day. My parents couldn't understand, and even now I guess they are still angry with me. They say I wasted a special gift. But I still believe what I did was right for me.
1．It cost the writer's parents a lot to ________. A．help him with his lessons
B．raise their son to be an excellent pianist C．become professional musicians D．practice playing the piano
2．At first what the writer did showed that ________. A．he was hopeful in music B．he hated playing the piano C．he didn't have a gift for music D．he liked mathematics better
3．The writer's parents felt very sorry for their son because they thought ________. A．his heart wasn't really in music
B．they didn't like his job of an accountant C．he wasted a special gift D．he didn't realize his mistake 4．Which is the best title of this story? A．Nobody Understood Me B．The Road to My Career C．My Parents' Dream D．Don't Be Sorry for Me
C
Matt Mason has seen the future—and it's fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easier by doing the work we hate, such as cleaning. He shows a hard floor cleaning system（系统）that's built into the wall: it will blow dirt to a part of the room where it will be collected by a vacuum（吸尘器）. Then the system will drop some cleaner on the floor and an arm will mop（用拖把擦）it up. “This may trouble you,” says Kara, an expert in Mason's company. “But you can program it to come on at 3 a. m., and it will just wet-mop the floor for
you.”
When it comes to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax. “More than just fun, future kitchens will be environmentally friendly,” he says. “A new system will be built in the house which can recycle energy（能量）lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm.”
“The fridge will be the center of the home,” says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch screen（触摸屏幕）where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your e- mail, keep a shopping list and order vegetables. “Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night,” says Lee.
Ever wonder why a 1.9-meter man and a 1.6-meter woman have to cook meals on counters（工作台）of the same height. “The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the height of ordinary women,” says Jane Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines. “But times have changed. We have made a new counter where you press a button and it moves to whatever height you want.” At the same time, Ted Selker at MIT's Counter lab has made the Dishmaker which lets you make dishes and bowls out of plastics at home. After each meal, the dishes are changed straight back into plastics.
1．How many inventions are mentioned in the passage? A．Three. B．Four. C．Five. D．Six. 2．In future, if you want to clean your house, you will ________. A．have a recycling system built in the wall B．get up early to start your cleaning system C．use your fridge to give orders to a cleaner D．leave the work to a kind of cleaning machine 3．What is future kitchen work like? A．Terrific and relaxing. B．Easy and interesting. C．Enjoyable and exciting. D．Funny and amazing. 4．From the passage, we know ________.
A．people will have more and more time enjoying themselves B．future kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every day C．the fridge can be found in the center of a future house
D．people must be expert at computers to use these inventions 四、完形填空
Mr. Klein told the class that a new student, Inez, would join them soon. He 1 that Inez was deaf. She “talked” with others by using sign language. Mr. Klein knew sign language, and he decided to teach 2 students so that they could also “talk” with Inez.
First, they learned to sign the letters. Some letters were hard to 3 . Other letters, such as C, were easier because the shape（形状）of the hand was the same as the shape of the letter.
The 4 thing they learned was fingerspelling. They signed one letter after another to spell a word. They 5 with two-letter words such as ‘at’ and ‘on’. Then they spelled 6 words.
Finally, Mr. Klein showed that 7 one sign could be used for a whole word. To make the sign for the word fine, a person spreads out（张开）the fingers on one hand, 8 the thumb（拇指）to the chest（前胸）, and moves the hand away from the chest. Signing is not just 9 with the hands. Expressions on the face are also 10 The students learned to sign a question