1、自我小测.根据句意和单词首字母或括号内汉语，写出单词的正确形式。1Television soon_ the cinema as the most popular form of entertainment.2Water e_ as it freezes.3The tree is _(估计) to be at least 700 years old.4The people up there speak a Hunan _(方言)5His mother t_ is Spanish.用所给单词或短语的适当形式填空。estimateapart fromas well asas wellhave a p
2、opulation ofmore or lessin addition tounder the control ofbe based onprevent from1It _ that the damage was over one million dollars.2_ English，he has to study a second foreign language.3Business makes a man _ tries him.4Im coming to London and my sisters coming _.5Canada _ twenty millionrather less
3、than six months increase in world population.6He was _ evil men and forced to do wicked things.7The content of the two articles is _ the same.8Who _ their plans _ being carried out?9_ the injuries to his face and hands，he broke both legs.10Early music _ single tunes or melodies.阅读理解Francis Bacon，one
4、 of the most important philosophers of England，was born in London and educated at Cambridge University.When he was only 15，he went to France to work for the English ambassador.Two years later he went back to England to study law.At the age of twentythree he was chosen to parliament (议会)His ideas abo
5、ut how scientists should study things in nature help to bring the modern way of thinking，called the scientific method.One of the Bacons bestknown books was his Essays.Each essay was a short piece of writing in which he tried to give a lesson by discussing sides of a subject such as studying，conversa
6、tion，friends and healthy living.In many of his books，Bacon explained how scientists should study things as they really existed in nature and then tried to figure out what caused a particular thing to be as it was.Later，by doing experiments，the scientist could see that any one cause would always have
7、 the same result.This method，which is called inductive_reasoning，is used by all the scientists today，but it was new in Bacons time.1According to the passage we know that _.AFrancis Bacon was the most important philosopher of EnglandBFrancis Bacon had a good educationCFrancis Bacon worked for a Frenc
8、h ambassador at the age of 15DFrancis Bacon stayed in France until he was 232It can be known that Francis Bacon was famous for_.Ainventing the scientific method of studying things in natureBhis booksChis EssaysDbeing a member of parliament3His essays gave many useful lessons on _.Astudying Bconversa
9、tionCfriends and healthy living Dall of the above 4The underlined phrase “inductive reasoning” in the last paragraph means_.Ato discover general laws from particular facts or examples Bto reach a conclusion by reasoning from general laws to a particular case Cto study things as they used to be Dto s
10、tudy things in a particular way 5Which of the following is NOT true?ABacon was a learned man.BBacon did a lot of philosophy.CThe inductive reasoning was widely used both today and in Bacons time.DBacon gave scientists much useful advice.参考答案.1答案：overtook2答案：expands3答案：estimated4答案：dialect5答案：tongue.
11、1答案：is/was estimated2答案：In addition to/Apart from3答案：as well as4答案：as well5答案：has a population of6答案：under the control of7答案：more or less8答案：prevents；from9答案：Apart from/In addition to10答案：was based on.1解析：本题为推断题。根据第一段第一句可知，培根是在剑桥大学接受的教育，可知他受过良好的教育。本题也可用排除法选出正确答案，由短文的“one of the most important philos
12、ophers”可把A项排除；由“he went to France to work for the English ambassador”可把C项排除；由“Two years later，he went back to England to study law”可知，培根17岁就回到了英国学习法律，因此D项是错误的。答案：B2解析：本题为细节考查题。由短文第二段的第一句“One of the Bacons bestknown books was his Essays.”可知培根因他的书籍而出名，Essays只是他著名书籍中的一部。答案：B3解析：本题为细节考查题。由第二段的“Each essa
13、y was a short piece of writing in which he tried to give a lesson by discussing sides of a subject such as studying，conversation，friends and healthy living.”可知，正确答案为D项。答案：D 4解析：本题为词义猜测题。词义猜测题应根据其上下文的意思来猜测生词或词组的意思。本题可由该词组所在句的上句“Later，by doing experiments，the scientist could see that any one cause would always have the same result.”得出答案。答案：A 5解析：本题为判断题。本文最后一句告诉我们归纳推理(inductive reasoning)的方法在培根时代并没有得到广泛运用，由此判断出C项是错误的。答案：C
