3.3 A taste of English humour Learning about Language & Using Language
Ⅰ.根据句意和汉语提示写出单词的正确形式
1.She shrugged her shoulders in a (姿态) of impatience.
答案:gesture
2.I’ve seen Julie with Jack on several (场合).
答案:occasions
3.Look!The children are (滑行) on the ice of the lake.
答案:sliding
4.He got (醉酒的) on only two glasses of beer.
答案:drunk
5.Lakes,surrounded by (辽阔的) grasslands,look like jewels.
答案:vast
6.I live in a (多山的) area in the northwest.
答案:mountainous
7.The teacher’s clear (解释) left the students no confusion over that abstract theory.
答案:explanation
8.He likes reading the (侦探的) novels in particular.
答案:detective
9.Lucy has a great sense of humour and always keeps her colleagues (开心的) with her stories.
答案:amused
10.As we all know,she is a famous (女演员).
答案:actress
Ⅱ.句型转换
1.With time going by,she came to understand her teacher.
by,she came to understand her teacher.
答案:As time went
2.He told me his secret in a low voice.
He told me his secret .
答案:in whispers
3.The students are content with their progress in English learning.
The students their progress in English learning.
答案:are satisfied/pleased with
4.They had a good time last night there.
They last night there.
答案:enjoyed themselves
5.They looked at each other,astonished.
They looked at each other .
答案:in astonishment
Ⅲ.单句改错
1.He made it a rule check his papers carefully before handing them in.
答案:check前加to
2.The group of police went into the woods in search for the missing pilot.
答案:for→of
3.They had the candles burned all the night to get everything ready before daybreak.
答案:burned→burning
4.She worked day and night even if she never felt tired.
答案:even→as
5.On arriving at the station,Shirley picked up her cousin from the crowds.
答案:up→out
6.The young man is not content in what he has achieved in his business.
答案:in→with
7.When I got there,I found him repair the farm tools.
答案:repair→repairing
8.Do you know the newcomer seating at the back of the classroom
答案:seating→seated/sitting
9.We found it astonished that the top student in our class hadn’t passed the entrance exam.
答案:astonished→astonishing
10.Charlie Chaplin walked around stiffly carried a walking stick.
答案:carried→carrying
Ⅳ.七选五
Jean is a bright young woman who comes from a rich and famous family.She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy.Well,almost everything. 1 In fact,Jean is quite lonely.
So Jean spends a lot of time on her QQ. 2 She uses the name Linda on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she keeps in touch with quite often.
Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ.His name was David and lived in San Francisco.David was full of stories and jokes. 3 So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot their time.Of course,they wanted to know more about each other.David sent a picture of himself.He was a tall,good-looking young man with a big,happy smile. 4
When Jean’s father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco,she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday.She would take him the latest DVD of their favorite rock singer. 5
A.As time went by,they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.
B.The problem is that the people in Jean’s family are so busy that they can hardly find time to be with her.
C.The unexpected meeting made Jean heart-broken.
D.But when she knocked on David’s door in San Francisco,she found that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim!
E.She likes being anonymous(匿名),talking to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life.
F.Jean’s mother works in a government office and often returns home very late.
G.He and Jean had a common interest in rock music and modern dance.
答案:1~5 BEGAD
Ⅴ.语法填空
A young man once went into town and bought 1.(he)a pair of trousers.When he got home,he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on.He found that they were about two inches 2. long.He went downstairs to the kitchen.His mother and two sisters 3. (wash) up the tea-things there.
“These new trousers are too long,” he said.“They need 4. (shorten)by about two inches.Would one of you mind 5. (do)this for me,please ” His mother and sister were busy and none of them said anything.But as soon as his mother had finished washing up,she went quietly upstairs to her son’s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches.She came downstairs 6. saying anything to her daughters.
Later on,after supper,the elder sister 7. (instant)remembered her brother’s trousers.She was a kind-hearted girl,8. she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone,and shortened the trousers by two inches.
The 9. (young)sister went to the cinema,but when she came back,she,too,remembered what her brother 10. (say).So she ran upstairs and took two inches off the legs of the new trousers.
答案:1.himself 2.too 3.were washing 4.shortening/to be shortened 5.doing 6.without 7.instantly
8.so 9.younger 10.had said
Ⅵ.短文改错
Last Sunday,it was my father’s funny day.After supper,my father went to see the film.But in our surprise,he came back just about half an hour later.I asked him what was the matter.He smiled and told us about the funny thing what had happened in the cinema.He was sitting in his seat while a woman came to her and said the seat was hers.They were all surprising,so they looked at their ticket carefully,only to find the seats shown in their tickets were the same while the colors were different.So they looked at the tickets carefully.After a while,my father apologized to the woman,saying,“Sorry,I make a mistake.Take this seat,please.” The fact was that his ticket found out under the glass on his desk was for the film a month ago.
答案:第二句:the→a
第三句:in→to
第五句:what→that
第六句:while→when;her→him
第七句:surprising→surprised;ticket→tickets
第八句:carefully前加more
第九句:make→made
第十句:去掉out