1、Module 2 单元加餐练.阅读理解Fantasies for young readers really began with the fairy tales of writers such as the Brothers Grimm. Of course, all the children who grow up reading these books and tales never, at heart, really grow up at all, for such wonderful stories are forever carved in their minds. And fair
2、y tales are as much fun to read when we are fifty, only for memorable reasons, as they are when we are children.But its obvious these days that fantasies arent only for the little ones. In 1977, 23 years after The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien was published, Terry Brooks published his first novel, Th
3、e Sword of Shannara. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller List, where it remained for over five months. Following the release of Tolkiens work, earlier works of fantasy, like TH. Whites Once and Future King and Eric Eddisons The Mezentia
4、n Gate(in 1958) came out before The Sword of Shannara, but neither had an influence quite like The Sword of Shannara. Fantasies were truly reborn.As the popularity of fantasies began to grow quickly, the film and television industry climbed_aboard_the_bandwagon. During the eighties, the fantasy/adve
5、nture movie was born. Conan is a classic to the eighties. Other less memorable films can still be found in video stores. The lack of really good fantasy movies in the recent past can be blamed on substandard (标准以下的) special effects. However, now, in an age of postmodern computer technology, the impo
6、ssible is no longer a concern. Since the release and popularity of The Lord of the Rings, cinema screen production rights have been purchased for scores of fantasy novels, from Terry Brooks to Robert Jordan.The future of fantasies has never looked so assured. Even childrens cinema has had its own su
7、ccesses through the big screen release of the Harry Potter series and the classic Peter Pan. While there remains a choice to go beyond the reality we know, there will always be fantasies.语篇解读：本文介绍了奇幻文学的发展。1What can we learn from the first paragraph?AFairy tales live in peoples mind.BFantasies are at
8、tractive to persons of all ages.CFantasies appear earlier than fairy tales.DThe Brothers Grimm is famous for The Sword of Shannara.解析：选B推理判断题。根据第一段的“And fairy tales are as much fun to read when we are fifty, only for memorable reasons, as they are when we are children.”可知，不论是孩子还是中老年人都觉得童话这类书很有趣，由此可推
9、知，童话对各个年龄段的人都具有吸引力。2Which of the following fantasy books showed the rebirth of fantasies?AThe Sword of Shannara.BThe Lord of the Rings.COnce and Future King.DThe Mezentian Gate.解析：选A细节理解题。根据第二段的“. The Sword of Shannara. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times Trade P
10、aperback Bestseller List . but neither had an influence quite like The Sword of Shannara. Fantasies were truly reborn.”可知，The Sword of Shannara的出版标志着奇幻文学的重生。3The underlined phrase “climbed aboard the bandwagon” probably means “_”Afaced challengesBgave up hopeCmade an announcementDfollowed the trend解
11、析：选D词义猜测题。根据第三段的“As the popularity of fantasies began to grow quickly .”可知，奇幻文学的受欢迎程度迅速提高；由“.now, in an age of postmodern computer technology, the impossible is no longer a concern. Since the release and popularity of The Lord of the Rings .”可知，由于电脑技术的发展，随着奇幻文学的流行，电影业和电视业也加入到这个大潮中来，由此可判断本短语的含义为“顺应潮流
12、”。4What does the passage mainly talk about?ATypes of fantasies.BFamous fantasy works.CThe development of fantasies.DThe popularity of fantasies.解析：选C主旨大意题。本文以时间为线索，介绍了奇幻文学的发展。.阅读七选五How to Write a NovelMany people start novels but never finish them. If you are thinking about writing one, here are som
13、e ways to follow through.Talk to yourself. Handwrite or type an overview of the story, translating from emotional concepts to concrete story ideas._1_Outline the story. Break the story into inciting incidents, problems, and solutions. This outline, which will be broken into three acts, will trace th
14、e threat, the fight, and the conquest.Create the protagonist (主人公). Create your lead character or protagonist and other principals, working out the back story or history of that person, their wants and needs, friends, family, schooling everything you can imagine._2_ Provide individual features for t
15、he protagonists philosophical and immediate motivations, and try to explain them fully or properly. What is the conflict within? Who blocks his efforts in the real world? Then build your villain (反面人物), the one blocking the protagonist, in the same way.Build characters. _3_ Write a treatment tracing
16、 how each plays into the main dramatic action, with one event leading to another.Redraft the idea. Redraft your original idea and story to adjust for what you have learned so far. _4_ None of this needs to be perfect, nor does the novel have to remotely resemble your plans and outlines. You are char
17、ting a path to tell the story.Write every day. Write five or six good pages every day, even if you throw most of them out the next day. _5_ADetail the protagonist.BExpand on the story and subplots.CQuality in writing is achieved through rewriting.DBuild each supporting character and their back stori
18、es.EMap out the basic plot before you start to ensure you create a logical story.FInclude only information that adds to the story or enhances the characters.GCreate characters that act consistently to help satisfy the expectations you create for the audience.语篇解读：本文主要介绍了写小说的七个步骤。1解析：选B根据空前的“把情感概念转化成
19、具体故事”可知，此处进一步解释如何转化，即：展开故事和情节。故B项正确。2解析：选A下文的“为主人公的哲学和即时动机提供具体细节，并试图充分而正确地予以解释”与A项“详述主人公的细节故事”相对应，故A项正确。3解析：选D根据本段的小标题“塑造其他人物”可知，应选D项“创建每一个配角以及他们的背景故事”。4解析：选F根据上文中的“改写你最初的想法和故事来调整到目前为止你所了解到的东西”可知，此处是改写的原则“只包括一些能增加故事性或优化人物的信息”，故F项正确。5解析：选C本段的小标题“坚持写作”与C项“写作质量是通过重写达到的”相对应，故C项正确。.完形填空Last year around H
20、alloween, I was invited to participate in a carnival (狂欢节) for Tuesdays Child, an organization that helps children _1_ the AIDS virus. At the carnival they had all kinds of booths and anyone who wanted to could _2_ a square. Later that square was going to be _3_ together with the others, to make a _
21、4_. The quilt would be presented to a man who had _5_ his life to this organization and would soon be retiring.After a while, as I _6_ at all the squares, I saw the pictures were all bright and _7_. The boy sitting next to me was painting a _8_， but it was dark, empty, lifeless.At first I thought ma
22、ybe he took the only paint that was left and it just happened to be dark. _9_ when I asked him about it, he said his heart was that color because his own heart felt _10_. I asked him why and he told me that he was very _11_. Not only was he very sick, _12_ also his mom was very sick. He looked strai
23、ght into my eyes and said, “There is nothing anyone can do that will _13_.”I told him I was _14_ that he was sick and I told him that _15_ he would like, I would be happy to give him bear hugs. He _16_ crawled into my lap and I thought my own heart would _17_ with the love I felt for this sweet litt
24、le boy.He sat there for a long time and when he had had _18_， he jumped down to finish his _19_. I asked him if he felt any better and he said that he did. As the day was coming to an end and I was getting ready to head home, the little boy came over and said, “My heart is getting _20_ . I think tho
25、se bear hugs really do work.”On my way home I felt my own heart and realized it, too, had changed to a brighter color.语篇解读：帮助别人之后，自己也会心情舒畅，看看本文作者是怎么做的吧！1A.in Bwith Cat Dof解析：选Bwith表示“伴有”，这里表示携带艾滋病病毒的孩子们。2A.paint Bdraw Cmake Dwrite解析：选A下文多次提到paint，如第8空所在的句子“The boy sitting next to me was painting a .
26、”，这里表示用颜料涂或抹。3A.sewn Bput Cgot Dthrown解析：选A这里表示把他们涂的方形棉块缝(sewn)在一起，因为下文出现了quilt(被子)，所以只有A项最符合题意。4A.picture Bsquare Cquilt Dbed解析：选C根据下文“The quilt would be presented to a man .”可知选择C。5A.applied Btaken Cspent Ddevoted解析：选D只有全心投入到这个组织的人才会有这个殊荣，所以D项构成devote . to“全心投入到中”，符合题意。6A.looked around Blooked int
27、oClooked through Dlooked up解析：选A只有环顾四周(look around)才会发现下文的情况。look into“直视，调查”；look through“浏览”；look up“向上看，查询”。7A.negative BpositiveCeffective Dthick解析：选B根据前面的bright可知孩子们的画的颜色是明亮的、积极的(positive)。注意连词and的用法。8A.bear BheartCmother Dboy解析：选B根据下文第10空所在的句子“. he said his heart was that color because his own
28、 heart felt .”可知选择B项。9A.Otherwise BMeanwhileCTherefore DHowever解析：选D接下来男孩的回答和作者的想法是不一致的，所以选择D项，表示转折关系。10A.dark BdropCsink Dfall解析：选A根据第二段最后一句“. it was dark, empty, lifeless.”和第三段第一句可知答案为A。11A.sad BsickCweak Ddead解析：选B根据下一句很明显选择B项。12A.but BandCso Dnor解析：选A这里用到了not only. but (also).(不仅而且)，为固定搭配。13A.wo
29、rk BdoChelp Duse解析：选C任何人能做的事对此也毫无帮助(help)，这里指小男孩的无助和心里的压抑。14A.excited BunexpectedCastonished Dsorry解析：选D根据常识应该知道作者对于小男孩的家庭情况表示同情(sorry)，然后才会有下面的帮助。15A.if BonceCwhen Dunless解析：选A如果(if)他愿意，我很高兴给他一个拥抱，这里表示假设。16A.regularly BinstantlyCquietly Dcontinuously解析：选B根据下文的“crawled into my lap”可知小男孩听到作者的话后的激动心情，
30、所以应该指一个快速的动作，故选B项。17A.burst BbreakCcry Dflow解析：选A作者理解小男孩当时的心情，同时能感受到自己的爱心也随之迸发。18A.little BmuchCenough Dmore解析：选C得到足够的(enough)拥抱后，他从我的大腿上跳下来画画去了，这里表示小男孩当时情感缺失而作者正好及时给予了他足够的爱心，这使他很激动。19A.coloring BstayingCdrawing Dwriting解析：选A根据当时的情景可知小男孩开始涂上(coloring)明亮的颜色。20A.later BbrighterCcleaner Dcolder解析：选B根据下
31、文可知作者的拥抱起作用了，作者的心也开始变得愈发明朗起来。get brighter“变得更加明朗”。.语法填空The Storytime School of Storytelling offers _1_ variety of courses to anyone _2_ is interested in the ancient art of storytelling. A wide range of people have studied with us, including tour guides, teachers, lawyers, librarians, bankers and bus
32、iness owners.Their motives (动机) for _3_ (attend) our courses vary enormously. They may be keen to develop their _4_ (confident) as public speakers, learn how _5_ (use) stories in the classroom, or activate their creativity in a playful environment. Whatever their reasons, participants usually find t
33、he experience _6_ (extreme) fascinating, as you can see from the enthusiastic comments on our website. Many of these point to the school visits to give performance to local _7_ (child) as the highlight of their course. Others mention the supportive atmosphere in our school and the quality of the tea
34、ching.Not surprisingly, many people come back to Storytime again and again. We offer an almost _8_ (limit) number of courses ranging _9_ Animal tales to Using your voice or Creating your stories. Why not _10_ (contact) us? Were sure to have a course for you.语篇解读：本文就开设多种多样课程的讲故事学校作了介绍。1aa variety of意
35、为“各种各样的”。2who/that设空处引导限制性定语从句，修饰先行词anyone(指人)，且在从句中作主语，故填who/that。3attending设空处在句中作介词for的宾语，且attend和其逻辑主语they之间是逻辑上的主谓关系，故填attending。4confidence设空处作develop的宾语，意为“信心”，故填confidence。5to use此处是“疑问词不定式”结构作learn的宾语，故填to use。6extremely设空处修饰形容词fascinating，意为“非常地”，故填extremely。7children由语境可知，设空处所在句表示“给当地的孩子们
36、表演节目”，故填children。8limited设空处在句中作定语修饰number，意为“有限的”，故填limited。9fromrange from . to .意为“(范围)从到”。10contactwhy not do sth.意为“为什么不做某事”，表示建议，故填contact。.应用文写作请根据下面的英文短诗，展开适当的想象，写一篇短文，标题为：My Teacher Mr. Moore。My Teacher Mr. MooreTheres a teacher Mr. Moore.Who is lovely and thirtyfour.Always encouraging us t
37、o try.He leads us to a world of “why”We all admire him more and more.注意：1.不得照抄短诗原文。2必须结合短诗的内容，发挥想象，适当展开。3必须突出短诗的主题，结构完整，语言连贯。4短文不能写出诗歌形式。5词数80左右。参考范文：My Teacher Mr. MooreDuring my life, I have many teachers, but there is no other teacher who impresses me more than Mr. Moore. Though he is 34, he look
38、s very young for his age. And hes one of the most popular teachers in our school.Compared with other teachers, Mr. Moore pays more attention to his way of teaching. He tries various ways to make his classes lively and interesting. In his opinion, we should not only know “what”， but also understand “
39、why”. So, instead of giving us answers immediately, he encourages us to think by ourselves whenever he puts forward questions. With his help, weve learned how to analyze and solve problems. What a wonderful world of “why” he leads us to!He is such a learned person that we all admire him a great deal.
