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UNIT 8 Literature
Lesseon 1 The Last Leaf
课本练习题
课本46页1. At the school's Written Word Club, Li Zhen tells the story "The Last Leaf" to her fellow students. Help complete her presentation using the correct form of the words below.
icy slip stare fetch blank aside curtain three -story blanket backwards
"The Last Leaf" is a beautiful short story written by O.Henry. In the story, the two main characters, Johnsy and Sue, lived in a studio apartment in a 1_________________building.
three -story
The author describes the illness "pneumonia" as a person who placed an 2________ finger on Johnsy making her terribly ill.
icy
She lay in bed under a 3____________, looking 4___________ at the wall. The doctor took Sue 5______________and told her that Johnsy had only a small chance of surviving the illness.
blanket
blankly
aside
Sue noticed that Johnsy wasn't 6______________at the wall but was actually looking out the window at leaves on an ivy vine and counting7___________. She said they had been falling for days and when the last one fell,she would die.
staring
backwards
Sue went to 8__________ her neighbor Mr Behrman and told him what Johnsy said about wanting to 9 ____________away like the leaves. Mr Behrman said that was nonsense.
fetch
slip
The next morning, Johnsy asked Sue to open the 10____________ and found that the last leaf remained on the vine, despite the rain and snow having fallen all night.
curtains
Johnsy came to realise her foolish thought and started to become healthier. However, Mr Behrman died from pneumonia. In a snowing and raining night, he painted his masterpiece-a vine leaf on the wall outside of Johnsy's window.
课本83页1 Lesson 1 Complete the text using the correct form of the words below.
slip sail stare unseen
clothing curtain blanket
backwards disbelief three-story
The evening was cold and dark.He changed out of his 1—————and 2—————— into bed. He still felt uncomfortably cold,even under a heavy 3——————
clothing
slipped
blanket
The house was old with 4———————— and a look of somewhere that had not been taken care of for many years.
three-story
The 5—————— in the bedroom swayed in the wind that blew through the old window frame. If someone had ever told him that he would be back here after so long, he would have looked at them with 6——————.
curtains
disbelief
He fell into a restless sleep. He dreamt he was on a boat, 7 _______through a black, stormy sea. As he looked at the waves crashing, he felt himself falling 8________
and awoke with a shout.
sailing
backwards
He opened his eyes and looked around. He could sense some 9__________ person in the room and was certain that he saw a pair of dark eyes near the door 10_______at him.
unseen
staring
His heart began to beat faster and he felt a terrible unease.He recognised those eyes ...