1、Communication Workshop课时过关即时巩固一、单词拼写1.Hes bought a specially big TV at vast e.答案:expense2.She remains under treatment in s condition.答案:stable3.Im not used to your (随意的)standards.答案:arbitrary4.The country i much oil from other countries every year.答案:imports5.He is very rich and he will s this footb
2、all game.答案:sponsor二、短语填空hand overkeep offhold outlook intosort out1.We were short of water but we could for another day.答案:hold out2.We had to think of a way to the spread of the infection.答案:keep off3.I informed the police of a theft that took place,and they promised to the matter.答案:look into4.Th
3、e king decided to retire and the power to his son.答案:hand over5.Lets start to the books and newspapers.答案:sort out三、完成句子1.咱们得把好苹果拣出来,同坏的分开。We must the good apples from the bad.答案:sort out2.所有的文件都签字以后,我们才能拥有这所房子。We cannot the house until all the papers have been signed.答案:take possession of3.你学习越努力,取
4、得的进步就会越大。 you study, progress you will make.答案:The harder;the greater4.我打算让汤姆跟我一块去听音乐会。I to the concert with me.答案:intend Tom to go5.警察将很快调查这起案件。The police will this case soon.答案:look into四、阅读理解AFor many parents,raising a teenager is like fighting a long war,but years go by without any clear winner.
5、Like a border conflict between neighboring countries,the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do?Both sides want peace,but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict.In part,this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility
6、for starting it.From the parents point of views,the only cause of their fight is their adolescents complete unreasonableness.And of course,the teens see it in exactly the same way,except oppositely.Both feel trapped.In this article,Ill describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between tee
7、ns and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap.The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things.Examples include the colour of the teens hair,the cleanliness of the bedroom,the preferred style of clothing,the childs failure to eat a good breakfast before school,or his tenden
8、cy to sleep until noon on the weekends.Second,blaming,the goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong.Third,needing to be right,it doesnt matter what the topic ispolitics,the laws of physics,or the proper way to break an eggthe po
9、int of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong,for both wish to be considered an authoritysomeone who actually knows somethingand therefore to command respect.Unfortunately,as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other,theyll
10、continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.1.Why does the author compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict?A.Both can continue for generations.B.Both are about where to draw the line.C.Neither has any clear winner.D.Neither can be put to an end.解析:细节理解题。根据第一段的第二句
11、可知,像邻国间的冲突一样,父母与孩子间的战争就是关于边界的问题。答案:B2.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?A.The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict.B.The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict.C.The teens accuse their parents of misleading them.D.The teens tend to have a full unde
12、rstanding of their parents.解析:句意猜测题。根据第二段可知,父母与十几岁的青少年都不想承认是自己引起了冲突,都在指责对方挑起事端。答案:A3.Parents and teens want to be right because they want to .A.give orders to the otherB.know more than the otherC.gain respect from the otherD.get the other to behave properly解析:细节理解题。由最后一段中的“Third,needing to be right,
13、it doesnt matter what the topic ispolitics,the laws of physics,.and therefore to command respect.”可知应选C项。答案:C4.What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?A.Causes of the parent-teen conflicts.B.Examples of the parent-teen war.C.Solutions to the parent-teen problems.D.Fu
14、ture of the parent-teen relationship.解析:推理判断题。由最后一段的第一句“In this article,Ill describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap.”可知C项正确。答案:CBI am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval,he learns to love himself
15、and will be successful in his own way.Several weeks ago,I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair to go over the math lines.I kept asking him to sit down,telling him that he should concentrate better.He sat but seconds later,as if he didnt even notice
16、 he was doing it,he got up again.I was getting frustrated,but then it hit me.I started noticing his answers were much quicker and more accurate when he stood up.Could he be more intent while standing up?This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe.I was raised to belie
17、ve that a quiet,calm child was a sure way to success.This child would have the discipline to study hard,get good grades and become someone important in life.Now those same people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA and personality traits,and all you can do is
18、loving and accepting them.As parents,throughout their growing years and beyond that,we need to be our kids best cheerleaders,guiding them and helping them find their way.I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate.Obviously,he is concentrating just in his own way and not mine.We need to
19、 learn to accept our kids ways of doing things.Some way may have worked for me but doesnt mean we need to carry it through generations.There is nothing sweeter than being individual and unique.It makes us free and happy and thats just the way I want my kids to live their own life.5.At the beginning,
20、the author tried to keep his son seated in order to make him .A.pay more attention to his studyB.keep silent in the roomC.finish his homework on timeD.get right answers解析:细节理解题。根据第二段前半部分中的“I kept asking him to sit down,telling him that he should concentrate better.”可知作者让儿子坐下来是想让他更专心地学习。答案:A6.Inspire
21、d by the case of his son,the author began to doubt .A.the importance of parentsB.the old form of educationC.the relationship between kids and their parentsD.the good grades of some kids解析:推理判断题。结合第三段的内容可推断作者开始怀疑传统的教育方式。答案:B7.The author has stopped asking his son to sit down because .A.he has changed
22、 his traditional ideasB.his son wants to be uniqueC.his son doesnt follow his adviceD.his sons DNA is different解析:推理判断题。第三段是对传统教育的质疑,第四段指出父母应该引导并帮助孩子发现适合他们自己的学习方式,最后一段提到作者不再要求孩子坐下来专心学习,由此可以推断作者改变了他的传统教育观念。答案:A8.Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?A.Study Hard and Youll Be S
23、uccessfulB.Be Friendly to Your ChildrenC.Childrens Success in Their Own StylesD.Parents Help with Their Childrens Study解析:主旨大意题。文章第一段开门见山地提出了本文的主题,如果孩子得到了认同,就能学会自爱并用自己的方式取得成功,所以C项最能概括文章大意。答案:C五、语篇填空In some of the scariest(最惊悚的)science fiction scenarios,evil robots refuse to die,no matter how 1.(fier
24、ce) people fight back.Now,science fiction has edged 2. science fact.For the first time,researchers have created a robotic machine 3. can take a beating and keep on trucking.4.(develop)by scientists from Cornell University and the University of Vermont,the new robot looks like a spider with four legs
25、.Until now,even the most 5.(advance) robot was almost certain to break down when 6.(damage).Thats 7. its internal(内部的) computer simply doesnt know how to operate the machine after its shape has changed.To get around this problem,the spidery robots developers equipped their 8.(invent) with eight moto
26、rs and two sensors that read how the machine is tilting(倾斜).The motors and sensors all provide electrical signals to the machines software.9.(use) this information,the system follows a new procedure to figure out the machines shape at any given moment.The program chooses from among 100,000 possible
27、10.(arrange) of parts.答案:1.fiercely2.into3.that/which4.Developed 5.advanced6.damaged7.because8.invention9.Using10.arrangements六、短文改错Some day I happened to find a chatting room in my QQ,there people were chatting in English.I tried to chat some of them.To my surprised,I found the oral English of some
28、 junior students was better than me.I asked them for advice and they told me to practise more on QQ.But every day after that I would spend one hour practise my oral English on QQ.Day by day I learned from many useful words and expressions.With time went by,I found that I could even communicate some college students freely.答案:第一句:SomeOne;therewhere第二句:chat后加with第三句:surprisedsurprise;memine第五句:ButSo;practisepractising第六句:去掉from第七句:WithAs或wentgoing;communicate后加with
