Unit 5 Languages around the world-Discovering Useful Structures同步课时练习
【单句语法填空】
1.It was ________ real struggle to be ready on time.
2.Do you understand the reason ________ I've encouraged you not to give up
3.English textbooks and dictionaries are on ________ (sell) everywhere.
4.I think ________ (study) a language is not only for a better job, but also for culture understanding.
5.I want to live in a country ________ English is spoken.
6.We went through a period ________ communications were very difficult in the rural areas.
7.The days ________ they travelled together meant a lot to him.
8.I saw a house, the windows of ________ were broken.
9.She has two sons, both of ________ graduated from Harvard University.
10.The old man has two sons, and both of ________ are lawyers.
11.The reason ________ she changed her mind is quite clear.
12.The children, all of ________ had played the whole day long, were worn out.
13.We visited the car factory ________ my uncle once worked three years ago.
14.This is the factory ________ I visited last year.
15.Nobody knows the reason for ________ she didn't attend the meeting.
16.I happened to meet an old friend on the ________ (地铁).
17.One of the biggest expenses in the home is ________ (汽油) and electricity.
18.He put on a pair of ________ (短裤) and an undershirt.
19.She promised to help me move into my new ________ (公寓套房) on the weekend.
20.It's very rude to stick your ________ (舌头) out at people.
【完成句子】
1.巨大的广场是花的海洋。
The immense square was ________________ flowers.
2.慢慢地,我感觉英语就是我的母语。
Slowly, I felt like that English is my _______________.
3.这本书是从父亲的角度写的。
The book is written from the father's ______________.
4.我还没有发言,你已经完全知道了。
Before a word is ________________, you've known it completely.
5.抱歉,可以麻烦您重复一下刚才的问题吗?
I'm sorry. ________________ repeating your questions
6.毕业以后,他回到那个他长大的小镇上。
After graduation he returned to the small town ________________.
7.我们在学生中进行了一次调查,78%的学生投票支持Lee来当班长。
We made a survey among the students, ________________________ Lee their monitor.
8.他是我的一个老同学,我前几天在街上偶然遇见了(come across)他。
He is one of my old schoolmates, ________________ the other day in the street.
9.我不喜欢你跟你父母讲话的方式。
I don't like the way _________________.
10.我们生活在许多事情可以在电脑上做的时代。
We are living in an age ________________ on computer.
11.他不能到那里去的原因是他卧病在床。
The reason ________________ was that he was ill in bed.
12.那间在大火中被毁坏的屋子已经被重新修好了。
The house ________________ in the terrible fire has been repaired.
13.我永远也不会忘记和你一起工作的日子。
I'll never forget the days ________________.
【完形填空】
My parents came to America in the early 1970s. My grandmother on my mother's side was a very wise woman. She was probably the__1__person I have known,__2__she only went to second grade. But she had her daughters go to school and asked them to tell her everything they were__3__in school.
She got along well with everyone. She used to say, “If you do right to people, most of them will do__4__to you.” She advised us to stay away from gossip. She taught us to treat people with good __5__. It was the essence (精髓) of living in harmony with other people. She was always__6__to help a neighbor. If a woman just had a baby, she would__7__soup. My grandmother was everybody's mother and grandmother.
She__8__99 years.She died during a nap (小睡). She had gone to take a(n)__9__in a rocking chair. She told her daughter that she was__10__and needed a nap. The next thing I__11__, “Mama!” They say that you see the person you love just before you die, so she probably saw her mother! All of us were in deep sorrow. Over the years I have stayed in__12__with cousins.
I've never been back to Cuba. The last time I was there was 1959. I do__13__the people and the beaches. However, the people are not there anymore. My friends and family are not there. I miss things like carnival (狂欢节) which is great__14__with singing and dancing in the streets. I even went to a nightclub or two when I was very young. All of these__15__me a wonderful and unforgettable memory.
1.A.oldest B.laziest
C.wisest D.shortest
2.A.yet B.so
C.and D.or
3.A.reading B.writing
C.learning D.teaching
4.A.right B.wrong
C.good D.harm
5.A.manners B.luck
C.methods D.habits
6.A.generous B.out going
C.ready D.satisfied
7.A.order B.cook
C.heat D.buy
8.A.lived B.stayed
C.developed D.lasted
9.A.trip B.adventure
C.meal D.rest
10.A.hopeless B.bored
C.tired D.brave
11.A.noticed B.said
C.made D.heard
12.A.distance B.mind
C.touch D.condition
13.A.meet B.call
C.divide D.miss
14.A.interest B.fun
C.happiness D.craziness
15.A.left B.expressed
C.marked D.created
【阅读理解】
Learning Chinese could be one of the most important decisions you have ever made. Chinese is becoming the language to learn in the 21st century. With the world's largest population and the rapidly growing middle class, China stands to become the engine of the world's economy in the coming years. This will make learning Chinese very important for people in many industries, or for those who wish to visit China or learn from its culture and history.
There is an ongoing effort to modernize the writing system and standardize the language. An increasing number of people learning Chinese are learning Mandarin, so unless you absolutely need to learn another dialect (such as Cantonese), be sure you are studying Mandarin.
For native English speakers, Chinese is one of the most difficult and most different languages to learn. The vocabulary is wholly unfamiliar and unlike anything we know. In addition, in the Chinese tone system, words are spoken in rising or falling tones, which help to distinguish them. Furthermore, there is the Chinese writing system — a collection of thousands of individual ideograms (表意文字), or symbols, which represent a word or an idea. These ideograms have no phonetic (语音的) value — that is to say, we can't tell how the word is pronounced by how it is written. There is a method of presenting written Chinese in a phonetic script called pinyin. If you are learning Chinese, you'll be working with this pinyin system, but the beauty of the traditional writing system shouldn't be passed up. All these factors make learning Chinese difficult for us. Yet, for a determined learner, there's always a way to overcome these difficulties.
1.Why is learning Chinese becoming more and more important
A.Chinese engines are very welcome.
B.China has the world's largest population.
C.There are more and more rich people in China.
D.China is becoming more and more important to the world's economy.
2.What can we learn from the text
A.The author thinks Chinese is as difficult as English.
B.The author is interested in the Chinese language and its culture.
C.Foreign languages can play a great role in industrial development.
D.As long as the pinyin system is learned well, one can learn Chinese well.
3.What's the last paragraph mainly about
A.The difficulties of learning Chinese.
B.The advantages of learning Chinese.
C.The Chinese tone system.
D.The Chinese writing system.
4.What would be probably written following this text
A.The sources of Chinese characters.
B.The importance of learning Chinese.
C.The advice on how to learn Chinese.
D.The difficulties of learning other languages.
参考答案:
【单句语法填空】
1a
2why
3sale
4studying
5where
6.when
7.when
8.which
9.whom
10.them
11.why/for which
12.whom
13.where
14.that/which
15.which
16subway
17petrol
18pants
19apartment
20tongue
【完成句子】
1a sea of
2native tongue
3point of view
4on my tongue
5Would you mind
6.where/in which he grew up
7.78% of whom vote
8.who/whom I came across
9.(that/in which) you speak to your parents
10.when many things are done
11.why he could not go there
12.which was destroyed
13.when I worked together with you
【完形填空】
1-5CACAA
6-10CBADC
11-15DCDBA
【阅读理解】
DBAC