1、Language Awareness 2,Culture Corner and Bulletin Board课时过关即时巩固一、用所给单词的适当形式填空1.While he (be) in Japan,he helped a lot of people.答案:was2.Look!Those people (argue)with the salesmen about the bags of salt.答案:are arguing3.I first met Lucy two years ago.She (work) at a shop at that time.答案:was working4.Yo
2、u always (watch)TV.Why not do something more active?答案:are;watching5.Mary is living in our city now,but she (work) in Japan in the past.答案:worked二、完成句子1.早上大声朗读对你有好处。Reading aloud in the morning .答案:does you good2.他正在准备明天会议的演讲。He is the meeting tomorrow.答案:preparing his speech for3.他应该勇于正视自己不再年轻这一事实。
3、He should that he is no longer young.答案:face up to the fact4.过去在厂里上班的时候,我通常起得很早。I when I worked in the factory.答案:used to get up early三、阅读理解A(2018全国高考)We may think were a culture that gets rid of our worn technology at the first sight of something shiny and new,but a new study shows that we keep usi
4、ng our old devices(装置) well after they go out of style.Thats bad news for the environmentand our walletsas these outdated devices consume much more energy than the newer ones that do the same things.To figure out how much power these devices are using,Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochest
5、er Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its lifefrom when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device.This method provided a readout for how home energy use has evolved since the early 1990s.Devices were grouped by generation.Des
6、ktop computers,basic mobile phones,and box-set TVs defined 1992.Digital cameras arrived on the scene in 1997.And MP3 players,smart phones,and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002,before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.As we accumulated more devices,however,we didnt throw out our old ones.“The livin
7、g-room television is replaced and gets planted in the kids room,and suddenly one day,you have a TV in every room of the house,”said one researcher.The average number of electronic devices rose from four per household in 1992 to 13 in 2007.Were not just keeping these old deviceswe continue to use the
8、m.According to the analysis of Babbitts team,old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions(排放) more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.So whats the solution(解决方案)?The teams data only
9、went up to 2007,but the researchers also explored what would happen if consumers replaced old products with new electronics that serve more than one function,such as a tablet for word processing and TV viewing.They found that more on-demand entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop
10、 computers could cut energy consumption by 44%.1.What does the author think of new devices?A.They are environment-friendly.B.They are no better than the old.C.They cost more to use at home.D.They go out of style quickly.解析:根据第一段的最后一句“Thats bad news for the environmentand our walletsas these outdated
11、 devices consume much more energy than the newer ones that do the same things.”可知,过时的设备要比新设备消耗更多的能源,因此可推测出新设备对环境有好处。答案:A2.Why did Babbitts team conduct the research?A.To reduce the cost of minerals.B.To test the life cycle of a product.C.To update consumers on new technology.D.To find out electricit
12、y consumption of the devices.解析:根据第二段的第一句“To figure out how much power these devices are using,Callie Babbitt.tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life.”可知,Babbitt和她的同事做这项研究是为了发现这些设备所消耗的能量。答案:D3.Which of the following uses the least energy?A.The box-set TV.B.The tablet.C.T
13、he LCD TV.D.The desktop computer.解析:根据文章的最后一句“They found that more on-demand entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop computers could cut energy consumption by 44%.”可知,tablets使用的能量最少。答案:B4.What does the text suggest people do about old electronic devices?A.Stop using them.B.Take t
14、hem apart.C.Upgrade them.D.Recycle them.解析:根据第一段中的“We may think were a culture that gets rid of our worn technology.”以及第三段中的“As we accumulated more devices,however,we didnt throw out our old ones.”可知,文章建议人们不要再使用旧的电子设备。答案:ABThere is an English saying,“Laughter is the best medicine.” Until recently,fe
15、w people took the saying very seriously.Now,however,doctors have begun to study laughter and the effects it has on the human body.They have found that laughter really can improve peoples health.Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the human body.People watched funny films while
16、 doctors checked their heart rate,blood pressure,breathing and muscles.It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise.It increases blood pressure,makes the heart beat quicker and makes people breathe deeper;it also works several groups of muscles in the face,the stomach,and even
17、 the feet.If laughter exercises the body,it must be beneficial.Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body.In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programmes.The group that tolerated (忍耐) the p
18、ain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny programme.The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemical in the brain which diminishes both stress and pain.There is also another fact to suggest that laughter helps the bodys immune sys
19、tem,that is,the system which fights infection.In an experiment,one group of students watched a funny video while another group of students served as the control groupin other words,a group with which to compare the first group.Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that t
20、he people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their white blood cells,that is,the cells which fight infection.As a result of these discoveries,some doctors and psychiatrists in the United States now hold laughter clinics,in which they help to improve their patients
21、 condition by encouraging them to laugh.They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing,making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.5.We can learn from the passage that laughter can .A.make people feel youngerB.change peo
22、ples habitsC.improve peoples healthD.make people love their lives解析:从第一段的最后一句“They have found the fact that laughter really can improve peoples health.”可知选C项。答案:C6.Laughter does good to people because .A.people who like to laugh can have more white blood cellsB.laughter can help fight infection,exer
23、cise our body,and reduce stress and painC.the less endorphins our body produces in the brain,the less stress and pain we haveD.laughter helps fight infection,and people with more laughter will not catch a cold解析:从文章的第二段、第三段和第四段可知选B项。答案:B7.Smiling can produce .A.more effects than laughterB.similar ef
24、fects as laughterC.less effects on the human bodyD.no effects on the human body解析:从文章的最后一段可知,微笑可以对人体产生和大笑一样的影响。答案:B四、短文改错Last Saturday,we organise a trip to the countryside.The countryside has taken on a new look everywhere.All around us,the hills are covering with green trees and colorful flower.Ri
25、vers are clean with bridges over them,that makes a beautiful picture.Farmers are living in nice houses which are equipped fine furniture.Nowadays the farmers there is caring more about our life quality.With their life greatly improve,they have more time for a leisure.That may be why people look more energetic and young for their age.答案:第一句:organiseorganised第三句:coveringcovered;flowerflowers第四句:thatwhich第五句:equipped后加with第六句:isare;ourtheir第七句:improveimproved;去掉a第八句:youngyounger
