1、Unit 4 Astronomy:the science of the stars 同步练习(七)一、用动词的适当形式填空 1. They shouldnt allow _ (park)in the street，its too narrow. 2. I had meant _ (get)a good mark in the exam，but I failed. 3. My brother improved his English by _ (practice)it every day. 4. Although China is a _ (develop)country，it has many
2、 friends in the world. 5. Did you have any difficulty _ (do)your homework? 6. The gravity of the earth stops you _ (fly)off into space. 7. _ (drive)on the wet road is very difficult. 8. P1ease pay attention to _ (read) the passage carefully. 9. The film _ (call) Saving Private Rain，was very popular
3、last year. 10. The old man came in _ (follow)his son and daughter. 二、阅读理解(A) Every country has many good people who help to take care of others. Some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as Volunteers in hospitals， orphanages(孤儿院)or homes for the aged. 0ther y
4、oung people volunteer to collect food or money，or they work in the homes of people who are sick or o1d. There is a group of v01unteers to meet almost every need. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other mates take these boys to ball
5、 games or on fishing trips and help them to know about things that boys usually learn from their fathers. Every city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or to learn crafts(技艺). some of these clubs have films or organize short trips to the mountains，museums or other places
6、 of interest. Most of these clubs use many high schoo1 and college students as volunteers because they still remember the problems of younger boys and girls. If a young person 1ives on a farm far from any city，an organization called Future Farmers of America will help that boy or girl to learn more
7、about raising flood and animals to have more film by meeting young people from other farms. Volunteers believe that the happiest people in the world are those who help to b ring happiness to others. ( )1. According to the passage，a volunteer is a person _ A. willing to do something unpleasant or dan
8、gerous B. who works in a hospital C. who seldom helps others D. who collects food or money for the sick and poor( )2. The members of“Big Brothers_ A. are boys who no longer have fathers B. ate college students C. help the boys who no longer have fathers D. usually 1earn from their fathers( )3. Why d
9、o most of the clubs use many high school or college students? Because _. A. they are volunteers B. they know the problems of younger boys and girls C. they work very hard D. they ask for less pay for their work ( )4. How does the Future Farmers of America help the children? A. It raises f00d or anim
10、als for them. B. It acts as their fathers. C. It organizes short trips to the mountains，museums or other places of interest. D. it helps them to learn more about farming and let them meet young people from other farms. ( )5. Who are some of the happiest persons? A. Those who believe they are the hap
11、piest people in the world. B. Those who bring happiness to others. C. The members of“Big Brothers. ” D. Those who join the Big Brothers of Future Farmers of America. ”(B) Technology has been an encouragement of historical change. It acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth centur
12、y， and across the entire Western World in the nineteenth. Rapid advances were made in the use of scientific findings in the manufacture(制造)of goods，which has changed ideas about work. One of the first changes was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. Along with this is came
13、 the increased use of machines to manufacture products in less time. People also developed machines that could produce the same parts for a product：each nail was exactly 1ike every other nail，meaning that each nail Could be changed for every other nail. This means that goods could be mass production
14、， although mass production required breaking production down into smaller and smaller tasks. Once this was done，workers no longer started on the product and labored to complete it. Instead，they might work only one thousandth of it，other workers completing their own parts in certain order. There is n
15、othing strange about this manufacturing work by todays standards. Highly skilled workers were unable to compare with the new production techniques，as mass production allowed goods of high standard to be produced m greater number than could ever be done by hand. But the skilled worker wasnt the only
16、loser，the common workers lost too. Similar changes forced farmers away. The increased mechanization(机械化)of agriculture freed masses of workers from p10ughing the land and harvesting its crops. They had little choice but to stream toward the rapidly developing industrial centers. Increasingly，standar
17、ds were set by machines. Workers no longer owned their own tools，their skin was no longer valued，and pride in their work was no longer possible. Workers fed，looked after and repaired the machines that could work faster than humans at greatly reduced cost. ( )6. In this passage，which of the following
18、 is not considered as a change caused by the rise of scientific findings in the production of goods? A. other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. B. The increased exploitation 0f workers in the l 9th century. C. The increased use of machines to make products in less time. D. The use
19、 of machines producing parts of the same standard. ( )7. The underlined word“this”in the first paragraph refers to _. A. the use 0f scientific findings B. the practice of producing the same parts for a product C. the human power being replaced by other forms of energy D. the techn010gy becoming the
20、encouragement of historical change ( ) 8. The underlined word“this”in the second paragraph refers to the change that _. A. each nail Could be taken the place of by every other nail B. each nail was exactly like every other nail C. producing tasks became smaller and smaller D. goods could be mass pro
21、duced( )9. According to the writer，highly skilled workers _ A. completely disappeared with the coming of the factory system B. were dismissed by the boss C. were unable to produce goods of high stardard D. were unable to produce fine goods at that same speed as machines( )1 0. According to the passage，what did the farmers have to do with the coming of mechanization of agricullure? A. Many of them had to leave their farmland for industrial centers. B. They stuck to their farm work. C. They refused to use machines. D. They did their best to learn how to use the machines. Key:
