Unit 4 Exploring poetry——Grammar
一、单词拼写
1. Her eyes are her most ____________ (引人注目的) feature.
2. The firm ended up deep in ____________ (债务).
3. In fact, there is no absolute ____________ (自由) in any country.
4. She has already ____________ (使出众) herself as an athlete.
5. Every day of our lives we ____________ (碰到) major and minor stresses of one kind or another.
6. There are ____________ (许多的) signs warning people not to feed the animals in the zoo.
7. I have every intention of paying her back what I ____________ (欠) her.
8. My ____________ (零花钱) was enough to afford my mom's birthday gift.
9. The plants are ____________ (能耐……的) of frost.
10. The moon's pale light ____________ (投射) soft shadows.
二、用所给词的适当形式填空
1. The bridge is not as______________(impress) as some guides would make you believe.
2. Business is a competitive activity. It is very fierce and very______________(forgive).
3. Such plain beauty is the right thing to______________(character) Chinese culture.
4. Instead, he made a generous________________(contribute) to help the community.
5. I'd like to know if you'd be willing to join us as a student________________(represent) on the interview committee.
6. He was the most________________(distinguish) scholar in his field
7. Being back with their family should provide emotional ______________(stable) for the children.
8. It is a______________(glory) thing to die for the people.
9. Character is not______________(separate) from physical form but is governed by it.
10. Let's be______________(practice) and work out the cost first.
三、阅读理解
Tang Dynasty poets sang for about three centuries in different tones.There were many famous poets living in the Tang period such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and Li Shangyin.Poems of the Tang Dynasty edited in the Qing Dynasty is a collection of more than 48,900 poems that were written by over 2,200 poets.But it didn't cover all the poems of the Tang Dynasty.
During the Tang Dynasty, poems were recited when lovers walked under the moonlight.Poems were also recited when soldiers fought on the battlefield.People recited them in the open air or at temple fairs.
Tang Dynasty poets wrote poems to win fame and also to develop their temperament (性情).They poured out deep feelings for their friends and criticized injustice in the world through poems.
In the Tang Dynasty scholars had to be poets.Their readers were not only people of high social position but also common people.Poets recited poems, women singers sang poems and other ranks of people, including old women and children, read Tang poems.This atmosphere affected foreigners who visited the country at that time.As a result, Tang poetry was introduced to some adjacent countries, like Japan and Vietnam.
Tang poetry is a most brilliant page in the history of ancient Chinese literature.It's a miracle in the cultural history of mankind.The Tang Dynasty was a powerful empire with a vast territory.It inherited(继承)Chinese civilization that went back to ancient times, was combined with the best of other cultures and adopted the benefits of other nations in the world.Tang poetry wasn't the only spiritual wealth created by the Tang Dynasty people.Philosophy and religion, handwriting and painting and music and dance all gained new peaks of development.Tang poetry, however, was the jewel in the crown and its greatest achievement.
1.We can conclude from the passage that________.
A.only people in the Tang Dynasty created poems
B.in total there were four famous poets in the Tang Dynasty
C.the Tang Dynasty probably existed for about three centuries
D.in the Tang Dynasty most common people were poets
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage
A.Why the poets created poems.
B.Some other kinds of spiritual wealth in the Tang Dynasty.
C.The significance and influence of the Tang Dynasty.
D.The editors of Poems of the Tang Dynasty.
3.The underlined word “adjacent” in Paragraph 4 probably means “________”.
A.strong B.neighboring
C.poor D.rich
4.What does the author really want to tell us in Paragraph 4
A.Tang Dynasty poems were quite popular.
B.In the Tang Dynasty all scholars were poets.
C.Many foreigners came to our country during the Tang Dynasty.
D.In the Tang Dynasty many poems were sung by women singers.
四、语法填空
To this day, Kevin Hart still recalls the exact moment he learned this lifelong lesson, __1__he says came about one afternoon while he was under the care of his after school babysitter, __2__kind, grandmotherly woman named Miss Davis.
__3__(typical), Hart helped Miss Davis with housework after school.One day, however, Hart skipped the housework and joined some friends __4__a “game”of throwing rocks at passing cars.
As it went, one of the __5__(stone) Hart threw broke a car window.On seeing this, Hart and his friends __6__(flee) from the scene.The car stopped and the driver stepped out to find who did it.Eventually,his friends all pointed to Hart.“They threw me under the bus so fast!” he says.
News of the incident quickly made __7__(it) way to Miss Davis.
He spent the rest of the day in panic,fearing what __8__(happen) when Davis told his mother.
Yet, Miss Davis never told.Her act gave Hart an important lesson about trust.“You've got to give trust __9__ (get) trust,” he says.He was so __10__?(thank) that he never got into trouble as a teenager from then on because of Miss Davis.
一、单词拼写
1.striking 2.debt 3.liberty 4.distinguished 5.encounter 6.numerous 7.owe 8. allowance 9.tolerant 10.cast
二、用所给词的适当形式填空
1.impressive 2.unforgiving 3.characterize 4.contribution 5.representative 6.distinguished 7.stability 8.glorious 9.separable 10.practical
三、阅读理解
1.C 推理判断题。根据第一段中的“Tang Dynasty poets sang for about three centuries in different tones.”可知,答案为C。
2.D 细节理解题。A项在第三段中提到了;B、C项在最后一段提到了。根据第一段内容可知,文章没有具体交代Poems of the Tang Dynasty这本书是谁编辑的。
3.B 词义猜测题。根据句中的“like Japan and Vietnam”可以推测,adjacent意为“邻近的”。
4.A 推理判断题。作者在第四段中谈到当时各种阶层的人都吟唱、背诵唐涛,并提到对外国人的影响,其真正的目的是说明唐诗在当时很受欢迎。
四、语法填空
1.which 考査定语从句。此处lesson是先行词,指物,后面的非限制性定语从句缺少主语和引导词,故填which。
2.a 考査冠词。此处“__2__ kind, grandmotherly woman named Miss Davis”是babysitter的同位语,故填a。
3.Typically 考查词性转换。副词修饰整个句子,故填Typically。
4.in 考查介词。join sb in sth 加入某人行列做某事,为固定搭配。故填in。
5.stones 考查名词的单复数。根据one of可知,后面的名词用复数形式,故可知,为stones。
6.fled 考查动词的时态。根据“一看到这个,Hart和他的朋友就逃离了现场”可知,句子应用一般过去时态,故填fled。
7.its 考查代词。形容词性物主代词修饰名词,故填its。
8.would happen 考查动词的时态。根据“他一整天都在恐慌中度过,担心当戴维斯告诉他的母亲时会发生什么”可知,句子用过去将来时态,故填would happen。
9.to get 考查非谓语动词。此处是动词不定式做目的状语,故填to get。
10.thankful 考查词性转换。此处是形容词放在be动词后面做表语,故填thankful。
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