1、SectionReadingandThinking课后训练提升一、根据句意及首字母提示写出单词1.She is 4 years j to her husband.答案junior2.I need to c on my career.答案concentrate3.Tom is a really nice g.He is always helping others.答案guy4.I had the i that she wasnt very happy that day.答案impression5.All the players have c in their manager.答案confiden
2、ce二、单句语法填空1.Are you still anxious the exam result?答案about2.The first (impress) is very important in looking for a job.答案impression3.Please tell the kids outside (keep) quiet.答案to keep4.With the noise going on,I cant concentrate my lesson.答案on5.Sometimes I feel (frighten) at night when Im alone.答案fri
3、ghtened三、完成句子1.要是他不能按时到达该怎么办呢?he cant arrive on time?答案What if2.他比上学期感觉自信多了。He feels he felt last term.答案much more confident than3.保罗一搬到这儿就交了几个朋友。Paul as soon as he moved here.答案made a few friends4.现在碰到陌生人时,她不再紧张了。She now when meeting strangers.答案is not nervous any more四、阅读理解Heres the story of my gr
4、owth over the past year.If anyone is inspired(激励) by this,thats wonderful.Id been stuck as this under-confident,fat and just frightened girl for years and years and years.Since I was a little girl,Id been stuck like this,and I had lived a life where Id be afraid of everything.But then it all started
5、 changing.Somethingclicked,and in over a period of six months I finally managed to stick to one of my diets,bringing me from overweight straight down to underweight.This proved(证明) that I could change myself.One single time,I heard about a public speaking thing going on at my university,and for the
6、first time,I managed to keep up the courage to go there.For the first time I was able to share my story,and able to do it in front of so many people possibly judging(评判) me,and suddenly all the fears about speaking publicly started vanishing.I never felt more confident.This taught me I could get rid
7、(去除) of my fears.It was from that point on that my road to change went from a rocky mess to a full-on empty highway.Using the fact that I could change,and that I could get rid of my fears,I started working on them one by one.My fear of talking to strangers,my fear of asking simple questions,my fear
8、of hanging out with people,my fear of being myself.All of them were gone.And I still continue to progress to this day.Ive never stopped.1.When did the author know she could change herself?A.When she refused a diet.B.When she was overweight.C.When she was underweight.D.When she was in her childhood.答
9、案C解析根据第二段中的“.fromoverweightstraightdowntounderweight.ThisprovedthatIcouldchangemyself.”可知,减肥成功让作者意识到自己可以改变。2.What does the underlined word “vanishing” in paragraph 3 refer to?A.Moving.B.Increasing.C.Changing.D.Disappearing.答案D解析根据后文的“Ineverfeltmoreconfident.”可知,作者感到非常自信,不再害怕了,即害怕消失了。3.What can be in
10、ferred from paragraph 4?A.The road to change was always smooth.B.Many other fears were on the way.C.The author felt empty in face of fear.D.The author started changing rapidly.答案D解析根据本段中的“fromarockymesstoafull-onemptyhighway”可知,作者的蜕变之路如同一条空荡荡的高速公路,形容速度很快。4.Whats the purpose of the text?A.To inspire
11、the readers.B.To prove a new idea.C.To teach how to speak publicly.D.To show how to get rid of fears.答案A解析根据第一段中的“Ifanyoneisinspiredbythis,thatswonderful.”可知,作者写这篇文章是希望有人从中受到鼓励。五、完形填空I did very badly at school.My headmaster thought I was 1 and when I was 14,he said,“Youre never going to be 2 but a f
12、ailure.”After five years of 3jobs,I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl.It was the best 4 that could have happened to me.I5 to do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove to 6 that what people said about me was 7.So I tried hard with my 8 and went to college.My first nov
13、el came 9 while I was at college.After college I taught during the 10 in high school and attended evening classes at London University,where I got a 11 in history.I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of giving up that job to write full-time 12 I was offered a part-time job at Leeds Univ
14、ersity.I began to feel proud of myself:here was a working-class boy whod 13 school early,now teaching at university.My writing career(职业) took off when I discovered my own style.Now Im rich and 14,have been on TV.I 15 wish all the people that have put me down had said,“I believe in you.Youll succeed
15、.”1.A.brightB.uselessC.simpleD.hopeful答案B解析根据上文“我”在学校表现很差可知,校长认为“我”没有用处。2.A.anythingB.somethingC.everythingD.nothing答案A解析anything用于否定句,任何事物。这里是指校长认为“我”永远都不会成功。3.A.dirtyB.usefulC.goodD.poor答案D解析联系下文可知,此处指的是“不好的”。4.A.supportB.happinessC.surpriseD.thing答案D解析此处指的是这是发生在“我”身上的最好的事情。5.A.admittedB.decidedC.
16、plannedD.told答案B解析根据句意可知,“我”决定要做一些积极的事情。6.A.meB.themC.herD.it答案C解析联系前文描述可知,此处代词指的是“我”爱上的那个女孩。7.A.wrongB.rightC.stupidD.faulty答案A解析此处指的是“我”想让她知道人们说的关于“我”的话是错误的。8.A.experimentB.practiceC.writingD.composition答案C解析根据下文的novel可知,“我”努力写作。9.A.onB.inC.outD.back答案C解析comeout“出版”。此处指的是“我”的第一本小说在“我”上大学的时候出版了。10.
17、A.dayB.nightC.monthD.year答案A解析与下文的“我”参加了伦敦大学的夜校形成对比,可知“我”白天在高中教学。11.A.graduationB.passC.degreeD.success答案C解析这里是指“我”得到了学位。degree“学位”。12.A.whileB.ifC.whenD.or答案C解析结合语境可知,此处指的是当“我”在利兹大学获得一份兼职工作时。when“当时”。13.A.leftB.attendedC.changedD.graduated答案A解析这里指的是早早地离开了学校。14.A.tiredB.calmC.nervousD.famous答案D解析“我”既富裕又有名气。15.A.justB.exactlyC.soD.very答案A解析“我”只是希望那些曾经贬低“我”的人当时说:“我相信你,你会成功的。”just“仅仅,只是”。
