1、Unit 9WheelsWarm-up & Lesson 1On Your Bike一、根据句意及首字母提示补全句子,使句子完整正确1.Most probably theyll post them somewhere so people elsewhere can have the b of what you have sitting in the classroom.答案:benefit2.Will it be c for you to start work tomorrow?答案:convenient3.Progress so far has been very good.We are,t
2、,confident that the work will be completed on time.答案:therefore4.Things might get better,but it doesnt look very h right now.答案:hopeful5.W she goes,there are crowds of people waiting to see her.答案:Wherever6.It is now a lot harder for these companiesi,impossible for someto raise money than it was a y
3、ear ago.答案:indeed7.There will be serious c if the cost of life continues to rise.答案:consequences8.The countryside near there is f like a pancake.答案:flat9.Dont a with me,John.Just do what I tell you.答案:argue10.Mr.Smith asked his secretary to i a new paragraph in the annual report she was typing.答案:in
4、sert二、用所给单词的适当形式填空1.(actual),on second thoughts,I dont think I want to go out tonight.答案:Actually2.The Internet was designed for (convenient)and reliability,not security.答案:convenience3.Do you agree with the (argue)that violence on TV makes people behave violently?答案:argument4.I couldnt find a (park
5、)space near the shops.答案:parking5.(cycle)are demanding more and safer cycle paths in the city.答案:Cyclists6.The environmental (pollute)is one of the most serious problems that mankind faces today.答案:pollution7.Practise (speak)slowly and clearly at the beginning.答案:speaking三、用所给动词的正确时态完成下列句子1.You shou
6、ld go to bed.You (watch)TV for 5 hours.答案:have been watching2.I (write)letters since 6 oclock.答案:have been writing3.I (look)for him everywhere.Where can he be?答案:have been looking4.They (help)us since five oclock this morning.答案:have been helping5.I (read)the book the whole day,yet I havent finished
7、 it.答案:have been reading6.I (work)in this school since I graduated from college.Now I am still working here.答案:have been working四、用括号中所给单词或短语翻译下列句子1.我相信你会从这次活动中受益匪浅。(benefit from)答案:I believe youll benefit greatly from the activity.2.你方便四点钟来接我吗?(convenient)答案:Would it be convenient for you to pick m
8、e up at 4?3.无论到哪里,都要记住你是个中国人。(wherever)答案:Remember you are a Chinese wherever you go.4.彼得对自己的工作厌烦了,决定辞职。(fed up)答案:Peter was fed up with his job and decided to quit.5.他们在争论怎么花那笔钱。(argue)答案:They were arguing about how to spend the money.五、阅读理解1.Andrew Ritchie,inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle,
9、once said that the perfect portable bike would be “like a magic carpet.You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”.Then he paused:“But youll always be limited by the size of the wheels.And so far no one has invented a folding wheel.”It was a rareindeed uniqueoccasion when I was able
10、 to put Ritchie right.A 19th-century inventor,William Henry James Grout,did in fact design a folding wheel.His bike,predictably named the Grout Portable,had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces.All the bits fitted into Grouts Wonderful Bag,a leather
11、 case.Grouts aim:to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train.Now doesnt that sound familiar?Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel:his bike was a huge beast.And importantly,the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage:in Grouts day,tyres were solid,
12、which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple.You couldnt do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated(充气的) tyre.So,in a 21st-century context,is the idea of the folding wheel dead?It is not.A British design engineer,Duncan Fitzsimons,has develop
13、ed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse(椭圆).Throughout,the tyre remains inflated.Will the young Fitzsimonss folding wheel make it into production?I havent the foggiest idea.But his inventiveness shows two things.First,people have been saying for more than a century that
14、 bike design has reached its limit,except for gradual advances.Its as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago:theres plenty still to go for.Second,it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions.You can buy a folding bike for less than 1,000 that can be kno
15、cked down so small that it can be carried on a planeminus wheels,of courseas hand baggage.Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible.Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchies imagination?No.But its progress.1We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike .A.was p
16、ortableB.had a folding wheelC.could be put in a pocketD.looked like a magic carpet答案:A解析:推理判断题。由第一段可知安德鲁里奇是Brompton folding bike的发明者,而从他之后说的话“like.a folding wheel”可推知B、C、D三项都是那时未能实现的,故排除这三项,A项正确。2.We can learn from the passage that the wheels of the Grout Portable .A.were difficult to separateB.coul
17、d be split into 6 piecesC.were fitted with solid tyresD.were hard to carry on a train答案:C解析:推理判断题。由文章的第三段中“in Grouts day,tyres were solid,.”和最后一句可知C项正确。3.We can learn from the passage that Fitzsimonss invention .A.kept the tyre as a whole pieceB.was made into production soonC.left little room for im
18、provementD.changed our views on bag design答案:A解析:推理判断题。文章倒数第三段最后一句提到“Throughout,the tyre remains inflated”,结合其前一段的最后一句,可知这个时期菲茨西蒙斯发明的便携自行车的轮胎是“一条完整的充气轮胎”。4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A.Three folding bike inventorsB.The making of a folding bikeC.Progress in folding bike designD.Ways of separating a bike wheel答案:C解析:主旨大意题。从19世纪格鲁特发明的便携自行车,21世纪菲茨西蒙斯发明的便携自行车,到布罗普顿发明的便携自行车,每个时期便携自行车都较前有很大提高,这表明本篇文章一直在讲述便携自行车的发展历程。
