1、Unit 4Body language.单项填空1Was the proposal passed at yesterdays meeting? Yes, but some members at the committee expressed_.Aassociations BauthorityCcorporations Dreservations答案D考查名词词义辨析。association社团；联盟；authority权力；权威；corporation公司；法人；reservation(保留)意见；异议。句意：但是委员会的有些成员表示保留意见。2At the class meeting, so
2、me top students introduced several_to the study of English.Aapproaches BmeansCmethods Dways答案A 考查名词与介词的搭配。approach to sth/doing sth做某事的方法；by means of/by this means/by that means通过某种方式；with the method of.用的方法；way to do./of doing 做的方式或方法。句意：在班会上，几个学习优秀的同学介绍了他们学习英语的方法。3At the conference, political lead
3、ers from many countries promised to work together to defend the world_terrorism and other threats.Afor BwithoutCbeyond Dagainst答案D考查动词与介词的搭配。defend against/with.保护免受的伤害。句意：会议上，来自多个国家的政治领导人承诺携手保护全球免受恐怖活动和其他威胁的伤害。4When the headmaster spoke out his plan，the_of the students in the class_against it.Amajo
4、rity; were Bmost; wereCmost; did Dmajority; did答案A考查固定搭配和主谓一致。the majority of“大多数的”，修饰可数名词复数作主语时，谓语动词用复数。故选A。句意：当校长说出他的计划后，班上的大多数学生都反对。5_，I can see that those terrible events shaped me into the person I am today.AHaving looked back BLooking backCBeing looking back DTo be looking back答案B考查非谓语动词用法。loo
5、k back与句子的谓语动词see同时发生，故应用现在分词的一般式作状语，表时间。looking back相当于when I look back。句意：回过头来看一看，我认为是这些可怕的事件使我成为了今天的样子。6What do you suppose_her look so upset?_by her boyfriend again.Amade; She was misunderstoodBhad made; Having been misunderstoodChas made; Being misunderstoodDmade; Misunderstood 答案C句意：你认为是什么使她看上
6、去如此难过？是再一次被她的男朋友误解了。由句意知第一个空应用现在完成时表示某事对现在的影响；第二个空回答第一句话询问的主语what，用动名词的被动形式，因为misunderstand 与she之间是动宾关系。7The peace talk broke down with no agreement_.Areaching Bto reachCreached Dto be reached答案 C句意：和谈破裂了，没有达成任何协议。在with复合结构中，reach与agreement为动宾关系，故用过去分词，表示被动意义。8_，the northerners like noodles while th
7、e southerners are fond of rice in China.AIn general BIn totalCIn other words DIn all答案A考查副词短语。A项意为“一般说来”，相当于generally speaking；B项意为“总计；总共”；C项意为“换句话说”；D项意为“总共；合计”。句意：一般说来，在中国，北方人喜欢吃面条，而南方人则喜欢吃米饭。9Many studies already link the first meal of the day to better classroom_.Aperformance BfunctionCbehavior
8、Ddisplay答案A考查名词词义辨析。performance表现；表演；function功能；作用；behavior行为；举止。句意：很多的研究把早餐与当天的更好的课堂表现联系在一起。10Thinking about the fact that I was not prepared well enough, and_to lose my face, I gave up this years civil service exam.Adidnt want Bnot wantedCnot wanting Dnot to want答案C考查非谓语动词。分析句子结构可知，应用and连接wanting与
9、前面的thinking，作并列的原因状语。句意：考虑到我还没有做好准备，并且也不想丢脸，我放弃了今年的公务员考试。11When _ the office, I found the naughty boy_beside my desk, trembling.Aentered; standing Bentering; stoodCentered; stood Dentering; standing答案D考查非谓语动词用法。enter与句子主语I之间是主动关系，故应用whenv.ing形式作时间状语；naughty boy与stand之间同样存在主动关系，故应用v.ing形式作宾语补足语。句意：当我
10、走进办公室时，我发现那个淘气的男孩站在我的办公桌旁，浑身发抖。12Hey, Mike. An Indian man recently sang for 80 hours straight, setting a new Guinness world record.Really? Its really a(an)_feat(本事)Aextraordinary BcuriousCspecial Dintelligent答案A考查形容词辨析。extraordinary非凡的；杰出的；curious好奇的；special特别的；intelligent聪明的；明智的；句意：嗨，迈克，最近有一个印度人连续唱
11、歌80小时，创造了新的吉尼斯世界纪录。真的吗？这真是了不起的本事。可知应选A项。13At the Qiantang River on September 24th, the tidal bore, a name for a large column of water produced by the tide，_as high as 1.9 metres，_the start of the autumn flood period of the river.Areaching; marking Breached; to markCreaching; to mark Dreached; markin
12、g答案D句意：涌潮是因潮水产生的巨大水柱的名字。9月24日，钱塘江涌潮高达1.9米， 标志着该河流秋季汛期的到来。结合句意，分析句子结构可知，第一个空用reached作句子谓语，第二个空用现在分词marking作伴随状语。14According to a UN report, one third of the world population have no_to clean drinking water and health care.Ameans BapproachCmethod Dway答案 Bapproach常和介词to搭配。means手段，强调行动，常和介词of搭配；method常和
13、介词of搭配，一般多指比较系统、理论性较强的方法；way“方式，方法”，最普通的词汇，常和介词of搭配或与不定式符号to连用。15_ she come to see you today?Of course, please. And I would rather she told me the truth.AShall BCan CWill DShould答案A考查情态动词。shall与第三人称连用，用在一般疑问句中表示征求对方许可。句意：要她今天来见你吗？当然了。我想让她告诉我真相。.完形填空Most parents，I suppose，have had the experience of r
14、eading a bedtime story to their children.And they must have _16_ how difficult it is to write a _17_ childrens book.Either the author has aimed too _18_，so that children fail to follow what is in his(or her)story，_19_ the story seems to be talking to readers.The best childrens books are _20_ too dif
15、ficult nor too simple，and satisfy both the _21_ who hears the story and the adult who reads it.Unfortunately，there are in fact _22_ books like this，so the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not _23_ to solve.It may be true that many books regarded as _24_ of childrens literature are in fa
16、ct written for _25_.Alices Adventure in Wonderland is perhaps the most _26_ of this.Children often _27_ the least possible interest in literature.Just leave a child in a bookshop or _28_ and he will _29_ willingly choose the books written in an imaginative way，or have a look _30_ childrens comics，fu
17、ll of stories and jokes，which teachers and many parents _31_ to.Perhaps we parents should stop trying to brainwash children into _32_ our taste in literature.After all，children and adults are so_33_ that we parents should not expect that children will enjoy the _34_ books.So I _35_ well just have to
18、 compromise on the bedtime story.【解题导语】 本文主要探讨了什么样的书才是孩子真正需要的。作者认为父母不能把自己的思想强加给孩子，要尊重孩子的选择。16A.hoped Brealized Ctold Dsaid答案B考查动词。根据下文的内容可知，此处表示家长们一定意识到写出一本好的儿童读物是多么的难。realize意为“意识到”。17A.short Blong Cgood Dbad答案C考查形容词。解析见上题。18A.easily Bshortly Chigh Ddifficultly答案C考查形容词。根据“so that children fail to f
19、ollow what is in his(or her)story”可知，孩子们难以理解故事内容，由此可以推断出，有的作者写作的目标定得太“高”了。19A.and Bbut Cso Dor答案D考查语境与固定搭配。根据上文中的either可知，应用or。either.or.是固定搭配，表示“或者或者”。20A.both Bneither Ceither Dall答案B考查固定搭配。此处表示最好的儿童读物既不太难也不太简单。根据下文中的nor可知应用neither，构成neither.nor.的固定搭配，意为“既不也不”。21A.child Bfather Cmother Dteacher答案A
20、考查名词。根据语境和常识可知，听故事的应该是孩子，故用child，与后文的adult相对应。22A.few Bmany Clittle Dmuch答案A考查形容词。不幸的是，事实上能达到这样的标准的书很少。根据“Unfortunately”一词可知，此处应该用含否定意义的形容词few来修饰books。23A.hard Beasy Cenough Dfast答案B考查形容词。根据上文可知，好的儿童读物很少，因此找到合适的睡前故事书不“容易”，所以答案为B。24A.passages Bessays Carts Dworks答案D考查名词。根据下文所举的例子可知，这里指的是儿童“文学作品”。work
21、s“作品”。25A.adults Bgirls Cboys Dchildren答案A考查名词。根据上文的内容可判断出，很多儿童读物孩子们看不懂，实际上却是给“成年人”看的。26A.positive Bhidden Cobvious Dsimple答案C考查形容词。根据上下文意思可知，此处表示爱丽丝梦游仙境就是典型代表。obvious意为“明显的”。27A.are Bshow Cfind Dadd答案B考查动词。根据常识可知，孩子们对文学并不是很感兴趣。show interest in意为“对感兴趣”。28A.school Bhome Coffice Dlibrary答案D考查名词。此处表示把孩
22、子们留在一个书店或图书馆。or连接的词语应该意思相近，由bookshop可知答案为library。29A.more Bless Cmuch Dbe答案A考查上下文语境。孩子们更愿意选择那些富有想象力的作品。此处应用比较级，与上文中的literature形成对比。30A.over Bfor Cat Dacross答案C考查固定短语。孩子的另一个选择是看儿童连环画。have a look at意为“看一看”。31A.love Binterest Cobject Dread答案C考查名词。这些书都是老师和很多父母反对孩子们看的书。object意为“反对”。32A.receiving Baccepti
23、ng Chaving Drefusing答案B考查动词。我们家长应该停止给孩子们洗脑使他们“接受”；自己的文学爱好。accept指主观“接受”，receive指客观“收到”。33A.same Bfriendly Cdifferent Dcommon答案C考查形容词。根据上文和常识可知，大人和孩子的趣味是不一样的，所以用different。34A.common Baverage Cspecial Dsame答案D考查形容词。此处表示父母不应该期望孩子们和他们喜欢“一样的”书。35A.find Brecognize Csuppose Dknow答案C考查动词。下文表达的是作者的观点：我们家长应该在
24、睡前故事上让步，即尊重孩子自己的选择。suppose意为“认为”。.阅读理解Language learning begins with listening.Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners.Most children will “obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, thoug
25、h the word “obey” is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child.Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their f
26、irst spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But since these cant be said to show the babys intention to c
27、ommunicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This selfimitation(模仿)leads on to deliberate(有意的)imitation of sounds made or
28、words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.It is a problem we need to get our teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it i
29、s clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world.Thus the use at seven months of “mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he lik
30、es. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.1Before children start speaking_.Athey need equal amount
31、of listeningBthey need different amounts of listeningCthey are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructionsDthey cant understand and obey the adults oral instructions答案B根据第一段“Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking”，可直接得到答
32、案；C选项错在all。2Children who start speaking late_.Amay have problems with their listeningBprobably do not hear enough language spoken around themCusually pay close attention to what they hear Doften take a long time in learning to listen properly答案D根据第一段“Language learning begins with listening.”，“later
33、starters are often long listeners”，可知晚说话的孩子晚在花很长时间在听上，听也就是接受说前的指导。3A babys first noises are_.Aan expression of his moods and feelingsBan early form of languageCa sign that he means to tell you somethingDan imitation of the speech of adults答案A根据第二段“during the first few months one or two noises sort t
34、hemselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on.”可知，孩子的“first noises”只是情感的表露，不能被看成是最初的语言形式，也还远没到模仿大人语言的阶段。4The problem of deciding at what point a babys imitations can be considered as speech_.Ais important because words have different meanings for different peopleBis
35、not especially important because the changeover takes place graduallyCis one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with ageDis one that should be completely ignored(忽略)because childrens use of words is often meaningless 答案B从最后一段，尤其是最后一句话可知，作者对大人利用孩子的模仿能力教给他们新的语言是否会有
36、成效持怀疑态度。但也不能“be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply”。IV.书面表达假如你叫Linda，是一位来中国学习的美国中学生，待人热情友好。昨天你收到中国学生李华的邮件，邮件中提到他无意中看到你和Mary昨天上午一见面就拥抱，感觉很奇怪。现请你给他回信，解释一下拥抱的含义(在西方国家，见面时拥抱是一种很自然的现象，表示友好)。感谢他的来信，并表示非常愿意和他交流各自的习俗。注意：词数120左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。参考词汇：文化背景cultural backgroundDear Li Hua，Thank you for your
37、recent email. There appears to be some misunderstandings between us. So please let me explain._Yours，Linda【范文】Dear Li Hua，Thank you for your recent email. There appears to be some misunderstandings between us. So please let me explain. You mentioned that I gave Mary a big hug yesterday morning when
38、we met, and you felt quite surprised at that. As a matter of fact, in our country, it is quite common and natural for people to hug each other, because it shows friendship. I think it must be our different cultural backgrounds that have led you to question what had happened. You know, the same body language may not mean the same thing in different cultures.I really appreciate your writing me this letter. I am interested in learning more about Chinese customs. I am also very glad to share our customs with you if you like.Yours，Linda