1、Module 3 Section III.根据句意和所给汉语提示语提示写单词1The meat was declared unfit for human _ (食用)2The demonstrators were _ (数量上超过) by the police.3Her investment had disastrous _ (后果)4The _(趋势) of prices is still upwards.5The weather was bad and the food dreadful. _(总而言之) the holiday was very disappointing.6A smal
2、l piece of cake will be _(充足的)答案:1.consumption2.outnumbered3.consequence4.trend5.Altogether6.ample.用方框中词组的正确形式填空1As a conscientious parent, she always _ her daughters homework and signed it.2How does your new house _ your old one?3The weather _ hour _ hour in some mountainous areas.4The teacher aske
3、d the children to _ a poem about Christmas.5She _ strenuous _ to force her mind to other questions.6Still I dont want to _ any _.7She _ the little book and gave it to him.8I had forgotten the date of the battle so I _ a history book.9In the evening the Gadfly _ to the appointed meetingplace.10We mus
4、t _ the truth of the matter.答案:1.glanced through “匆匆看一遍”pare with “和相比”3.varies from; to “由到情况不一样”4.make up “创造;编造”5.made a; effort “(做出)努力”6.take; risks “冒危险”7.picked up “拾起;拿起”8.referred to “查阅;参阅”9.made his way “前往(某处)”10.find out “了解;弄清楚”.单项填空1_, China is developing very rapidly. Which is wrong?
5、AIn all BIn shortCFor short DIn brief答案:C句意:总之,中国正在飞速发展。in all/short/brief“总之,表总结”,for short“简称,略写”。2The host _us with fresh fruit and cookies.Atreated BentertainedCwelcomed Dpraised答案:B句意:主人用新鲜水果和小甜饼款待我们。entertain sb. with sth.意思是“用款待某人”,treat用于treat sb. to sth.结构;welcome一般用于welcome sb. to sp.结构;pr
6、aise意思是“赞扬”,不合语境。故B项最佳。3He had a habit of making humorous_.Aremarks BmarksCsparks Dremarkably答案:A句意:他有说话幽默的习惯。make remarks“发表评论,发表看法”。mark“痕迹;污点”;spark“火花;火星”;remarkably“引人注目的;明显的”。4Tom was consumed_guilt.Ato BforCas Dwith答案:D句意:汤姆心中充满负罪感。be consumed with“心中充满”。5Time and time again she was warned of
7、 the _of her actions.Aeffects BresultsCimportance Dconsequences答案:D人们一次又一次地警告她行为的后果。consequences“结果,后果”,常指不好的结果,常用复数形式。effect“效果,作用,影响”;result“结果”。由题意知应选D。6Our country is abundant_natural resources.Ato BofCwith Din答案:D句意:我们国家自然资源十分丰富。be abundant in“在丰盛/富”。7The coming of the railways in the 1830s_our
8、 social and economic life.Atransformed BtransportedCtransferred Dtransmitted答案:A句意:19世纪30年代铁路的到来改变了我们的社会和经济生活。transform“改变”;transport“运输”;transfer“转移;迁移”;transmit“传送;传达”。8They are trying their best to find out_.Awho set fire on the housesBwho set a fire to the housesCwho set the houses in fireDwho s
9、et fire to the houses答案:D句意:他们在尽最大努力查出到底是谁放火烧的房子。set fire to the houses set the houses on fire。9They often_their friends at weekends and they always have a good time.Aenvy BinterestCentertain Dencourage答案:C句意:他们常在周末招待朋友,而且总是过得很愉快。entertain“款待,招待”,符合句意。interest“使感兴趣”;envy“嫉妒”;encourage“鼓励”。10_the the
10、ory, a new machine was invented.ABasing BBased onCTo base DBeing based答案:B句意:依据这个理论,一种新机器发明出来了。based.是过去分词充当状语,与主句的主语在逻辑上构成被动关系,符合语法要求。.完成句子1They are talking over a plan _ (高声地)2The person who _(放火烧学校) was sentenced to life imprisonment.3If theres something _(我想要的), is it OK to ask for it?4_(说完了此事),
11、 let us return to our subject.5The party _ (明天我们即将举行的) is very important.答案:1.at the top of their voice2.set fire to the school3.that I want4.This having been said5.we are going to hold tomorrow.句型转换1He got up early in order to catch the first bus.He got up early _ he could catch the first bus.2I li
12、ke to go to Beijing, but I dont like to go to Qingdao.I would go to Beijing _ go to Qingdao.3We found the lesson was difficult to understand.We found the lesson _.4When we should hold the meeting is still to be discussed.When _ the meeting is still to be discussed.5The progress which will be made so
13、on is of great importance.The progress _ soon is of great importance.答案:1.so that2.rather than3.difficult to understand4.to hold5.to be made .阅读理解(2009湖南)People diet to look more attractive. Fish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group, and getting eaten as a result. That is
14、the fascinating conclusion of the latest research into fish behavior by a team of Australian scientists.The research team have discovered that subordinate fish voluntarily diet to avoid challenging their larger competitors. “In studying gobies we noticed that only the largest two individuals, a male
15、 and female, had breeding (繁殖) rights within the group,” explains Marian Wong. “All other group members are nonbreeding females, each being 510% smaller than its next largest competitor. We wanted to find out how they maintain this precise size separation.” The reason for the size difference was eas
16、y to see. Once a subordinate fish grows to within 510% of the size of its larger competitor, it causes a fight which usually ends in the smaller goby being driven away from the group. More often than not, the_evicted_fish is then eaten up.It appeared that the smaller fish were keeping themselves sma
17、ll in order to avoid challenging the boss fish. Whether they did so voluntarily, by restraining how much they ate, was not clear. The research team decided to do an experiment. They tried to fatten up some of the subordinate gobies to see what happened. To their surprise, the gobies simply refused t
18、he extra food they were offered, clearly preferring to remain small and avoid fights, over having a feast.The discovery challenges the traditional scientific view of how boss individuals keep their position in a group. Previously it was thought that large individuals simply used their weight and siz
19、e to threaten their subordinates and take more of the food for themselves, so keeping their competitors small.While the habits of gobies may seem a little mysterious, Dr. Wong explains that understanding the relationships between boss and subordinate animals is important to understanding how hierarc
20、hical (等级的) societies remain stable.The research has proved the fact that voluntary dieting is a habit far from exclusive to humans. “As yet, we lack a complete understanding of how widespread the voluntary reduction of food intake is in nature,” the researchers comment. “Data on human dieting sugge
21、sts that, while humans generally diet to improve health or increase attractiveness, rarely does it improve longterm health and males regularly prefer females that are fatter than the females own ideal.”1When a goby grows to within 510% of the size of its larger competitor, it _. Afaces dangerBhas br
22、eeding rightsCeats its competitorDleaves the group itself答案:A细节判断题。文章第三段指出:当稍小一些的鱼一旦长到它竞争者体积的510%时,将引发战争。结果大多是小一点的刺鳍鱼被逐出群体,最终被吞食掉。2The underlined words “the evicted fish” in Paragraph 3 refer to _.Athe fish beaten upBthe fish found outCthe fish fattened upDthe fish driven away答案:D词义猜测题。紧承前一句.which u
23、sually ends in the smaller goby being driven away from the group可知the evicted fish指的是被逐出群体的挑战失败者。3The experiment showed that the smaller fish _.Afought over a feastBwent on diet willinglyCpreferred some extra foodDchallenged the boss fish答案:B推理判断题。文章第四段结尾the gobies simply refused the extra food they
24、 were offered, clearly preferring to remain small and avoid fights, over having a feast说明刺鳍鱼的节食是自愿的。而第六段更指出小一点儿的刺鳍鱼节食对于维护鱼类社会稳定的重要性。4What is the text mainly about?AFish dieting and human dieting.BDieting and health.CHuman dieting.DFish dieting.答案:D主旨归纳题。文章主要论述了刺鳍鱼节食的问题。指出这一行为是它自愿的,一种目的在于维护它们的整体稳定的行为。版权所有:高考资源网()版权所有:高考资源网()