Unit 5 Languages Around the World Book One
Unit 5 Languages Around the World
Part Seven - Exercises
一、按要求完成句子
There were calls for ______ (主要的) changes to the system.
Let love be around me; let ______ (文明) follow you.
As time goes by, I have changed my ______ (态度) and I even think she is lovely.
After three years of study, she has a good command of the ______ (方言) here.
What is the ______ (确切的) aim since you are working so hard
There are two mainly different political parties to play an important part in the state ______ (affair) in this country.
This is an old building ______ (date) back to the 14th century.
They joined us in the discussion on how to stop ______ (globe) warming.
Beijing is filled with people from ______ (variety) of parts of China.
It helps children to develop an ______ (appreciate) of poetry and literature.
Our life has its ______ (兴衰) and we need someone to ride with us.
She could not speak, but she made her wishes known ______ (依靠) signs.
As everyone knows, she ____________ (在……中起重要作用) our organization.
He decided that he would drive ______ (一路上) home instead of putting up at a hotel for the night.
We visited a temple which ______ (追溯到) 2,000 years ago.
We’ve got a good ______ (制度) for dealing with complaints from customers.
No one will ______ (雕刻) your future other than you.
______ (尽管) her good salary, she measured out every dollar needed for household expenses.
Practising Chinese kung fu can not only build up one’s strength, but also develop one’s ______ (性格).
The main ______ (因素) in deciding whether or not to do so is the size of your project.
Mandela has become a ______ (象征) of the blacks fighting against the whites in South Africa.
They are busy now in preparation for the new ______ (学期).
Where is the nearest ______ (地铁) entrance
Our new ______ (公寓) is comfortable to live in.
We are running out of ______ (汽油). We must find a gas station before it runs out.
The scenery was so beautiful that it was almost beyond ______ (describe).
She demanded ______ (see) the headmaster immediately to settle the problem.
Anyone，whether he is an official or a bus driver, should be ______ (equal) respected.
I would like to give my opinion in ______ (relate) to this problem.
Do you mind ______ (tell) me how to use this function
______ (go) abroad for further education is an exciting experience for me.
To write a good news report, you have to make sure your information ______ (与……有关) something that has recently happened.
The girl ______ (过去常常) be shy, but she is gradually getting active in group work.
It is difficult to ______ (习惯于) another country’s customs.
I’m very glad to see that your ______ (词汇) is gradually building up.
It is a ______ (难事) for me to rid myself of my fears.
She is now crazy about ______ (古典的) music and will not miss any chance to attend a concert.
English is not the ______ (本国的) language for almost half of our overseas visitors.
What subject did you ______ (主修) in when you were in university
二、完形填空
When I was a young boy, my favorite thing was a toy gun.Sometimes I would shoot bullets (发射子弹) for practice.One day, I walked into the 1 with my gun.I 2 a John Wayne movie where he preferred shooting the gun with one hand. As I was 3 what he did, I heard a pop. I hadn’t 4 the bullets when I practiced shooting the day before. I watched 5 as the bullet parted the hair of my dad who was 6 on the sofa. One and a half inches lower, it would have shot him in the 7 . My dad woke up and saw what happened. He 8 took my toy gun, walked out and broke it on the stone. I wouldn’t have another toy gun for a long time after that and when I did, I 9 to put bullets in it.
What 10 me most, though, was seeing the anger in my dad’s eyes. I hid in my room for the rest of the day not 11 to face him. I 12 that he didn’t love me any longer. At dinner time he walked into the room and put his hand on my head. “It’s 13 , Joey, ” he said. “I forgive (原谅) you. Now come and 14 .” I felt so 15 at that moment. I felt loved once again.
In the years that followed, I 16 my dad more than once. I was a 17 learner and suffered a lot. I cried and struggled (挣扎), 18 I always felt loved. No matter how badly I did, my father loved me and never 19 . He was always 20 me to become better and kinder.
A.classroom B.house C.store D.theatre
A.expected B.chose C.remembered D.showed
A.copying B.imagining C.asking D.watching
A.added B.cleaned C.bought D.prepared
A.sadly B.interestedly C.excitedly D.nervously
A.sleeping B.working C.laughing D.reading
A.back B.leg C.head D.arm
A.secretly B.angrily C.calmly D.simply
A.hoped B.failed C.forgot D.refused
A.troubled B.disappointed C.moved D.surprised
A.needing B.caring C.daring D.agreeing
A.heard B.feared C.accepted D.meant
A.easy B.bad C.late D.OK
A.eat B.rest C.practice D.see
A.strong B.happy C.hungry D.safe
A.thanked B.avoided C.ignored D.upset
A.slow B.lucky C.careful D.strict
A.or B.and C.but D.so
A.hurried up B.caught up C.warmed up D.gave up
A.advising B.ordering C.helping D.allowing
三、阅读理解
Some people don’t know whether to learn American English or British English. Here is my answer to it.
It’s really, really hard to pick up a native-sounding accent if you learn English as an adult. Children pick up accents very quickly, but adults don’t. Even after speaking English every day for twenty or thirty years, you’ll probably keep a bit of a foreign accent. I’ve met many English learners who’ve lived abroad for several years in an English-speaking country. For the most part, I can’t tell what country they’ve lived in unless they tell me.
Since it’s so hard to learn an accent, you probably shouldn’t spend a lot of time trying to guide yours to one accent or the other. There are better ways to use your time, like learning new vocabulary or phrases.
Even if you are able to get an American or British accent, it won’t make much difference. That’s because English speakers are used to hearing different accents. Americans hear British accents on TV and movies. And we all hear accents from other countries: Russian accents, Korean accents, French accents, and so on. Usually, British people like the way that Americans sound, and Americans like the way that British people sound. So you’re OK either way.
So just pick whatever language is most convenient for you. If you have friends or teachers from America, you should probably learn American English. If you have British friends or coworkers, maybe it’s better to learn British English.
It’s probably easiest to stick with (保持) just one kind. However, there’s nothing wrong with mixing a bit of British and American English together. It won’t hurt you!
The author mentions English learners in Paragraph 2 to show ______.
A.it’s hard to speak like native speakers
B.the author isn’t good at telling accents
C.people don’t like speaking with an accent
D.people like to live abroad to learn a language
2. What does the author think English learners should do
A.Choose a special country to live in. B.Make use of time to learn new words.
C.Tell the differences between accents. D.Learn British accents through movies.
3. Paragraph 4 mainly shows that ______.
A.there are many accents in the world
B.which accent to learn isn’t that important
C.American and British accents aren’t very different
D.Americans and British people understand each other
4. The author thinks mixing some British and American English together is .
A.okay B.necessary C.wrong D.dangerous
In American English, when someone says he has to “face the music”, it does not mean he is going to a musical performance or a concert.
Imagine a friend asks you to take care of her beautiful sports car. She says, “Please do not drive it. It is an extremely fast car.” But you want to pretend the car is yours. So, you drive it around one night. As bad luck would have it, you lose control of the car and drive it into a stop sign. When your friend returns, you must “face the music”. The damage is severe. It can be losing her friendship or paying for repairs to her car or both.
In 1851, the writer James Fenimore explained “face the music”. In a theater, the orchestra (管弦乐队) sits in front of the stage. So, actors on stage face the musicians. Many actors are very nervous, a condition called stage fright. They may want to run away. “Facing the music” means accepting it and not surrendering (屈服) to it.
Word experts say “face the music” may come from the army. A soldier could be forced out of the horse cavalry (骑兵团) because of the serious mistakes in the war. The army drummers would play a sad beat. The soldier would be carried away seated backward on a horse and facing the music of the drums.
To “take your medicine” is to accept the bad result from something you have done. And if someone says ,“You made your bed. Now lie in it, ” he means you create a bad situation and you must deal with it. But it’s fun to “lie in the bed and enjoy music”. “Pay the piper” is also similar to “face the music”.
According to Paragraph 2, when your friend comes back， .
A.you can go to a concert
B.you can refuse to repair the car
C.you can pretend the car is yours
D.you have to accept the bad result
2. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to
A.A theater. B.Stage fright. C.The stage. D.The orchestra.
3. According to the passage, the soldier _______.
A.wanted to be a cavalry officer
B.would play the drum in the army
C.must have done something terrible
D.would be punished by the army drummers
4.Which of the following is different from other three expressions
A.Pay the piper. B.Take your medicine.
C.Lie in the bed and enjoy music. D.You made your bed.Now lie in it.
四、七选五
The guy who tried to edit English
The English vocabulary is not only huge, but also full of words that mean practically the same thing. Get, obtain, acquire. Shine, gleam, glow, sparkle. 1
That was the thinking of a British writer named C.K.Ogden, who in the 1930s proposed (提议) a new form of English with a vocabulary of just 850 words. He called the project Basic English. 2
Ogden arrived at his 850-word list through experimentation, rephrasing texts over and over until he was satisfied. The words he finally included were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete. 3 Because any verbal idea could be expressed with a small number of “operators”—words like come, go, get, take, have, make, be, and do. Ogden argued that most verbs were unnecessary. In Basic English, eat is “have a meal.” and forget is “go from memory.”
Winston Churchill was a fan of the concept as a way to get foreigners to speak English, and he encouraged the BBC to use it. 4 Roosevelt, who expressed mild interest, joked that Churchill’s famous speech about offering his “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” to his country wouldn’t have been so exciting if he “had been able to offer the British people only blood, work, eye water, and face water, which I understand is the best that Basic English can do with five famous words.”
5 Churchill didn’t use it either. When seeking to express ourselves, we don’t necessarily need fewer words; we need the right words. So it’s to our benefit to have a large supply on hand.
Do we really need them all How many words are there in English Ogden himself didn’t actually use Basic English. Plenty of seemingly basic words did not make the list at all. He also tried to persuade President Franklin Roosevelt to promote it. He believed it would make the language more efficient and easier to learn. Despite attention from world leaders, Basic English never got very far off the drawing board.Unit 5 Languages Around the World Book One中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台
Unit 5 Languages Around the World
Part Seven - Exercises
一、按要求完成句子
There were calls for ______ (主要的) changes to the system.
Let love be around me; let ______ (文明) follow you.
As time goes by, I have changed my ______ (态度) and I even think she is lovely.
After three years of study, she has a good command of the ______ (方言) here.
What is the ______ (确切的) aim since you are working so hard
There are two mainly different political parties to play an important part in the state ______ (affair) in this country.
This is an old building ______ (date) back to the 14th century.
They joined us in the discussion on how to stop ______ (globe) warming.
Beijing is filled with people from ______ (variety) of parts of China.
It helps children to develop an ______ (appreciate) of poetry and literature.
major; civilisation; attitudes; dialect; specific; affairs; dating; global; varieties; appreciation;
Our life has its ______ (兴衰) and we need someone to ride with us.
As everyone knows, she ____________ (在……中起重要作用) our organization.
We visited a temple which ______ (追溯到) 2,000 years ago.
We’ve got a good ______ (制度) for dealing with complaints from customers.
No one will ______ (雕刻) your future other than you.
______ (尽管) her good salary, she measured out every dollar needed for household expenses.
Practising Chinese kung fu can not only build up one’s strength, but also develop one’s ______ (性格).
The main ______ (因素) in deciding whether or not to do so is the size of your project.
Mandela has become a ______ (象征) of the blacks fighting against the whites in South Africa.
ups and downs; plays an important role; dates back to; system; carve; character; factor; symbol
They are busy now in preparation for the new ______ (学期).
Where is the nearest ______ (地铁) entrance
Our new ______ (公寓) is comfortable to live in.
We are running out of ______ (汽油). We must find a gas station before it runs out.
The scenery was so beautiful that it was almost beyond ______ (describe).
She demanded ______ (see) the headmaster immediately to settle the problem.
Anyone，whether he is an official or a bus driver, should be ______ (equal) respected.
I would like to give my opinion in ______ (relate) to this problem.
Do you mind ______ (tell) me how to use this function
______ (go) abroad for further education is an exciting experience for me.
semester; subway; apartment; petrol/gas; description; to see; equally; relation; telling; Going
I’m very glad to see that your ______ (词汇) is gradually building up.
It is a ______ (难事) for me to rid myself of my fears.
She is now crazy about ______ (古典的) music and will not miss any chance to attend a concert.
English is not the ______ (本国的) language for almost half of our overseas visitors.
What subject did you ______ (主修) in when you were in university
vocabulary; struggle; classic; native; major
二、完形填空
When I was a young boy, my favorite thing was a toy gun.Sometimes I would shoot bullets (发射子弹) for practice.One day, I walked into the 1 with my gun.I 2 a John Wayne movie where he preferred shooting the gun with one hand. As I was 3 what he did, I heard a pop. I hadn’t 4 the bullets when I practiced shooting the day before. I watched 5 as the bullet parted the hair of my dad who was 6 on the sofa. One and a half inches lower, it would have shot him in the 7 . My dad woke up and saw what happened. He 8 took my toy gun, walked out and broke it on the stone. I wouldn’t have another toy gun for a long time after that and when I did, I 9 to put bullets in it.
What 10 me most, though, was seeing the anger in my dad’s eyes. I hid in my room for the rest of the day not 11 to face him. I 12 that he didn’t love me any longer. At dinner time he walked into the room and put his hand on my head. “It’s 13 , Joey, ” he said. “I forgive (原谅) you. Now come and 14 .” I felt so 15 at that moment. I felt loved once again.
In the years that followed, I 16 my dad more than once. I was a 17 learner and suffered a lot. I cried and struggled (挣扎), 18 I always felt loved. No matter how badly I did, my father loved me and never 19 . He was always 20 me to become better and kinder.
A.classroom B.house C.store D.theatre
A.expected B.chose C.remembered D.showed
A.copying B.imagining C.asking D.watching
A.added B.cleaned C.bought D.prepared
A.sadly B.interestedly C.excitedly D.nervously
A.sleeping B.working C.laughing D.reading
A.back B.leg C.head D.arm
A.secretly B.angrily C.calmly D.simply
A.hoped B.failed C.forgot D.refused
A.troubled B.disappointed C.moved D.surprised
A.needing B.caring C.daring D.agreeing
A.heard B.feared C.accepted D.meant
A.easy B.bad C.late D.OK
A.eat B.rest C.practice D.see
A.strong B.happy C.hungry D.safe
A.thanked B.avoided C.ignored D.upset
A.slow B.lucky C.careful D.strict
A.or B.and C.but D.so
A.hurried up B.caught up C.warmed up D.gave up
A.advising B.ordering C.helping D.allowing
BCABD; BCADA; CBDAB; DACDC
三、阅读理解
Some people don’t know whether to learn American English or British English. Here is my answer to it.
It’s really, really hard to pick up a native-sounding accent if you learn English as an adult. Children pick up accents very quickly, but adults don’t. Even after speaking English every day for twenty or thirty years, you’ll probably keep a bit of a foreign accent. I’ve met many English learners who’ve lived abroad for several years in an English-speaking country. For the most part, I can’t tell what country they’ve lived in unless they tell me.
Since it’s so hard to learn an accent, you probably shouldn’t spend a lot of time trying to guide yours to one accent or the other. There are better ways to use your time, like learning new vocabulary or phrases.
Even if you are able to get an American or British accent, it won’t make much difference. That’s because English speakers are used to hearing different accents. Americans hear British accents on TV and movies. And we all hear accents from other countries: Russian accents, Korean accents, French accents, and so on. Usually, British people like the way that Americans sound, and Americans like the way that British people sound. So you’re OK either way.
So just pick whatever language is most convenient for you. If you have friends or teachers from America, you should probably learn American English. If you have British friends or coworkers, maybe it’s better to learn British English.
It’s probably easiest to stick with (保持) just one kind. However, there’s nothing wrong with mixing a bit of British and American English together. It won’t hurt you!
The author mentions English learners in Paragraph 2 to show ______.
A.it’s hard to speak like native speakers
B.the author isn’t good at telling accents
C.people don’t like speaking with an accent
D.people like to live abroad to learn a language
2. What does the author think English learners should do
A.Choose a special country to live in. B.Make use of time to learn new words.
C.Tell the differences between accents. D.Learn British accents through movies.
3. Paragraph 4 mainly shows that ______.
A.there are many accents in the world
B.which accent to learn isn’t that important
C.American and British accents aren’t very different
D.Americans and British people understand each other
4. The author thinks mixing some British and American English together is .
A.okay B.necessary C.wrong D.dangerous
In American English, when someone says he has to “face the music”, it does not mean he is going to a musical performance or a concert.
Imagine a friend asks you to take care of her beautiful sports car. She says, “Please do not drive it. It is an extremely fast car.” But you want to pretend the car is yours. So, you drive it around one night. As bad luck would have it, you lose control of the car and drive it into a stop sign. When your friend returns, you must “face the music”. The damage is severe. It can be losing her friendship or paying for repairs to her car or both.
In 1851, the writer James Fenimore explained “face the music”. In a theater, the orchestra (管弦乐队) sits in front of the stage. So, actors on stage face the musicians. Many actors are very nervous, a condition called stage fright. They may want to run away. “Facing the music” means accepting it and not surrendering (屈服) to it.
Word experts say “face the music” may come from the army. A soldier could be forced out of the horse cavalry (骑兵团) because of the serious mistakes in the war. The army drummers would play a sad beat. The soldier would be carried away seated backward on a horse and facing the music of the drums.
To “take your medicine” is to accept the bad result from something you have done. And if someone says ,“You made your bed. Now lie in it, ” he means you create a bad situation and you must deal with it. But it’s fun to “lie in the bed and enjoy music”. “Pay the piper” is also similar to “face the music”.
According to Paragraph 2, when your friend comes back, ______.
A.you can go to a concert
B.you can refuse to repair the car
C.you can pretend the car is yours
D.you have to accept the bad result
2. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to
A.A theater. B.Stage fright. C.The stage. D.The orchestra.
3. According to the passage, the soldier _______.
A.wanted to be a cavalry officer
B.would play the drum in the army
C.must have done something terrible
D.would be punished by the army drummers
4.Which of the following is different from other three expressions
A.Pay the piper. B.Take your medicine.
C.Lie in the bed and enjoy music. D.You made your bed.Now lie in it.
ABBA; DBCC
四、七选五
The guy who tried to edit English
The English vocabulary is not only huge, but also full of words that mean practically the same thing. Get, obtain, acquire. Shine, gleam, glow, sparkle. 1
That was the thinking of a British writer named C.K.Ogden, who in the 1930s proposed (提议) a new form of English with a vocabulary of just 850 words. He called the project Basic English. 2
Ogden arrived at his 850-word list through experimentation, rephrasing texts over and over until he was satisfied. The words he finally included were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete. 3 Because any verbal idea could be expressed with a small number of “operators”—words like come, go, get, take, have, make, be, and do. Ogden argued that most verbs were unnecessary. In Basic English, eat is “have a meal.” and forget is “go from memory.”
Winston Churchill was a fan of the concept as a way to get foreigners to speak English, and he encouraged the BBC to use it. 4 Roosevelt, who expressed mild interest, joked that Churchill’s famous speech about offering his “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” to his country wouldn’t have been so exciting if he “had been able to offer the British people only blood, work, eye water, and face water, which I understand is the best that Basic English can do with five famous words.”
5 Churchill didn’t use it either. When seeking to express ourselves, we don’t necessarily need fewer words; we need the right words. So it’s to our benefit to have a large supply on hand.
Do we really need them all How many words are there in English Ogden himself didn’t actually use Basic English. Plenty of seemingly basic words did not make the list at all. He also tried to persuade President Franklin Roosevelt to promote it. He believed it would make the language more efficient and easier to learn. Despite attention from world leaders, Basic English never got very far off the drawing board.
AFDEC
