必修4 Unit3 A taste of English humour Learning about Language-课时同步练习

一、用所给词的适当形式填空
1. The _____________ (miss) boy was last seen _____________ (play) near the East Lake.
2. I’m really tired of Jim. I won’t have him always _____________ (play) a trick on others.
3. Before becoming a pilot, he spent quite a long time _____________ (train).
4. —Why did you go back to the shop?
—I left my friend _____________ (wait) there.
5. Who did you see _____________ (sit) in the middle of the front row make that much noise?
6. —Come on, please give me some ideas about the project.
—Sorry, with so much work_____________ (fill) my mind, I almost break down.
7. The old couple often take a walk after supper in the park with their pet dog _____________ (follow) them.
8. I found the man _____________ (lie) on the ground, dead.
9. He was deeply _____________ (move) because the story was _____________ (move).
10. I looked up and noticed a snake _____________ (wind) its way up the tree to catch its breakfast.
11. The student was caught _____________ (cheat) in the exam and would be punished.
12. When I was on my way to school this morning, I saw two women _____________ (argue).
13. They should not leave us _____________(wonder) what they will do next.
【答案】

3. being trained 【解析】spend time (in) doing sth花费时间干某事，根据句意，＂他＂是被培训，故用being trained。
4. waiting 【解析】leave sb doing sth使/让某人做某事。waiting作宾语补足语，与宾语my friend存在逻辑上的主动关系。

7. following 【解析】句意：这老两口常常在晚饭后到公园里散步，他们的宠物狗则在后面跟着。在with复合结构中，dog与follow是逻辑上的主动关系，因此这里用现在分词作宾补，表主动。
8. lying 【解析】表示＂这个人正躺在地上＂，因为是表示当时的状态，故填lying。
9. moved; moving 【解析】第一空为＂他感动＂，表示＂人的情感状态＂，应用过去分词moved；后一个空表示＂这个故事令人感动＂，＂令人……＂表示一个事物的特征、特性，应用现在分词moving。
10. winding 【解析】句意：我抬头看，注意到一条蛇正沿树蜿蜒而上，捕捉它的早餐。此处用现在分词表示正在进行的主动动作。
11. cheating 【解析】catch sb doing sth 意为＂抓住某人在做某事＂。
12. arguing 【解析】句意：我今天早上在上学的路上，看到两个妇女在争论。此处表示的是我在上学的路上时看到的正在发生的事情，且two women与argue之间是主动关系，故用现在分词作宾补。
13. wondering 【解析】句意：他们不应该让我们琢磨他们下一步要做什么。v-ing形式用在have, leave, keep等表示＂使＂的动词后作宾语补足语，表示使宾语一直处于某种状态。
二、单句语法填空
1. Our ________ life makes us ________(satisfy).
2. The baby ________(sleep)on the floor is my nephew.
3. As he spoke, he observed everybody ________ (look at) him curiously.
4. The new building ________(build) in the east of our city now will be a hospital.
5. The camera is ________(break), so I’ll have it ________(repair).
6. Her hobby is ________(paint).
7. You won’t catch me ________(do) that again.
8. Can you smell anything ________(burn)?
9. Anybody ________(swim)in this river will be fined.
10. People in this area need much ________(drink)water.
【答案】
1.satisfying; satisfied 2.sleeping
3.looking at 4.being built
5.broken; repaired 6.painting
7.doing 8.burning
9.swimming 10.drinking
三、完成句子
1. 自从她的第一部影片,巩俐已经主演了许多其他的成功影片。
Since her first film, Gong Li has __________ ___________ many other successful films.
2. 与村民们在一起我感到非常自在，也对那里的生活感到满足。
I felt at ease with the village people and__________ __________ __________ my life there.
3. 他与外界隔绝了，唯一的信息渠道是电话。
He is __________ __________ __________ the outside world and his only channel of information is the telephone.
4. 他被挑选出来作为全班同学的代表，到另一所学校去。
He __________ __________ __________ __________ the whole class to represent them at the other school.
5. 对于那些不太富裕的家庭来说，这是获得帮助的最佳途径。
This is the best way of getting help to those families who are __________ __________ __________.
【答案】
1. starred in
2. was content with
3. cut off from
4. was picked out from
5. less well off
四、句型转换
1. Up to now, Chaplin had done the best in the world.
Up to now, ________ ________ had done ________ ________ Chaplin.
2. As time went by, Chaplin began making films.
With ________ ________ by, Chaplin began making films.
3. When he walked around stiffly, he carried a walking stick with him.
He walked around stiffly ________ a walking stick with him.
4. He enjoyed every mouthful.
He ate each mouthful ________ ________ ________.
5. He was lucky to pass the exam.
________, he passed the exam.

五、阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Humor is a most effective, yet frequently neglected means of handling the difficult situations in our lives. It can be used for patching up differences, apologizing, saying ＂no＂, criticizing, getting the other fellow to do what you want without losing his face. For some jobs, it’s the only tool that can succeed. It is a way to discuss subjects so sensitively that a serious dialogue may start a quarrel. For example, many believe that comedians on television are doing more today for racial and religious tolerance than people in any other forum.
Humor is often the best way to keep a small misunderstanding from escalating into a big deal. Recently a neighbor of mine had a quarrel with his wife as she drove him to the airport. Airborne, he felt miserable, and he knew she did, too. Two hours after she returned home, she received a long distance phone call. ＂Person to person for Mrs. an apologize,＂ intoned the operator. ＂That’s spelled ‘P’ as in...＂. In a twinkling, the whole day changed from grim to lovely at both ends of the wire.
An English hostess with a quick wit was giving a formal dinner for eight distinguished guests whom she hoped to enlist in a major charity drive. Austerity(节俭)was a fashion in England at the time, and she had asked her children to serve the meal. She knew that anything could happen and it did, just as her son, with the studied concentration of a tightrope walker, brought in a large roast turkey. He successfully elbowed the swinging dining room door, but the backswing threw the bird onto the dining room floor.
The boy stood rooted; guests stared at their plates. Moving only her head the hostess smiled at her son, ＂No harm, Daniel,＂ she said. ＂Just pick him up and take him back to the kitchen＂, she enunciated clearly so he would think about what she was saying, ＂and bring in the other one.＂
A wink and a one liner instantly changed the dinner from a red faced embarrassment to a conspiracy of fun.
1. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Humor is the key to success in our work and our lives.
B. Humor enables us to cope with difficult situations effectively.
C. Humor is the only best way to criticize someone without losing his face.
D. Humor makes fun of difficult situations.
2. Which of the following is NOT stated in the passage?
A. Comedians on TV are believed to have done a lot in making people more tolerant of racial and religious differences.
B. To make up differences, humor is a most acceptable as well as a most effective means.
C. People often turn to humorous ways when meeting with difficult situations because of its effectiveness.
D. Only by adopting the means of humor can one succeed in some jobs.
3. What caused the roast turkey to drop onto the floor?
A. The backward movement of the door.
B. The son’s hasty behavior.
C. Someone happened to be at the door.
D. The bird raised by the family.
4. By saying ＂...and bring in the other one.＂, the hostess meant that_____________.
A. the son had to cook another turkey for the guests
B. she already had made more than one turkey ready for the dinner
C. some other dish would be served instead of a turkey
D. the son could serve the same turkey after it was cleaned
【答案】
【语篇解读】本文阐述幽默在生活中的作用。


3. A 【解析】细节理解题。由第三段的最后一句可知＂他成功地用肘部推开了门，但是复位的门却将火鸡打到了地上＂。故选A。
4. C 【解析】推理判断题。文中并未提及是否有第二只火鸡，但是这里含有幽默的意思，同时联系文章最后一段的叙述，可推知女主人的意思是让她的孩子把火鸡拿到厨房，用其他饭菜招待客人。
B
Parties and social gatherings no longer excite us the same way they once did. This is not due to a lack of desire to socialize, but the smartphone.
At parties, more people are on their smartphones than on their drinks. According to a recent International Data Corporation study, well over half of all Americans have a smartphone and reach for it the moment they wake up, keeping it in hand all day. In addition, too many people in society are using smartphones while driving and as a result, they get into car crashes. 34 percent of teenagers admit to texting while driving, and they confirm that text messaging is their number one driving interruption. People’s attachment to their smartphones is unbelievably becoming more important than the lives of themselves and others.Just as drivers dismiss the importance of focusing while on the road, many people also fail to recognize the significance of human interaction. When with their friends, some people pointlessly check or send text messages in the presence of a friend, which sends a message to that friend: the person I am texting is more important than you. In addition, relying on our smartphones to make friends does not give us the same advantage as being able to make new friendships in the real world. Face-to-face conversations will give us much stronger communication skills in the long run.
As many people risk their lives and the lives of people around them just to send a text or mindlessly check their messages, smartphones are in many ways more dangerous to people. The quality of this technology is hindering(阻碍) social achievements and weakening the value of communication. Not only is the smartphone affecting our desire to interact (交流) face-to-face, but it is also lowering society’s ability to communicate.
5. The purpose of this text is to ___________.
A. call for an end to use the smartphone while driving
B. appeal to us to pay attention to communication skills
C. express a concern about the overuse of the smartphone
D. advise us to be cautious about the addiction to the smartphone
6. The second paragraph is developed by ______________.
A. giving examples B. listing figures
C. comparing facts D. analyzing the effects
7. The author advises us to make new friends ______________.
A. by using smartphones
B. in a face-to-face way
C. in different ways
D. under a free circumstance
8. Overdependence on the smartphone leads to the fact that ______________.
A. parties and gatherings limit their social circle
B. people are more and more narrow-minded
C. people’s communication skills are weakened
D. face-to-face communication becomes less important
【答案】
【语篇解读】本文是一篇议论文，讲述了人们在参加聚会、开车的时候，也在用手机收发短信，这极大地影响了人与人之间的交流，甚至导致事故的发生。

6. A 【解析】推理判断题。第二段讲述了人们使用智能手机的情况，比如聚会上、开车时，并提到了开车时使用手机发短信的青少年的比重，因此该段是通过举例子来阐述观点的。
7. B 【解析】细节理解题。根据第三段的最后两句话＂In addition, relying on our smartphones to make friends does not give us the same advantage as being able to make new friendships in the real world. Face-to-face conversations will give us much stronger communication skills in the long run＂可知，作者提倡面对面交朋友，而不是通过手机，因此选B。
8. C 【解析】推理判断题。由最后一段中的＂The quality of this technology is hindering(阻碍) social achievements and weakening the value of communication＂可知，对手机过于依赖会削弱交流的价值，即人们的社交技能会变弱，因此选C。
六、完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Many years ago I was on a bicycle trip through some countryside. Suddenly, dark clouds ___1___ up overhead and rain began to fall, but ___2___ to relate, several hundred yards ahead of me the sun shone brilliantly. I rode as rapidly as I could.___3___, I found it impossible to get into the clear. The ___4___ with their rain kept advancing faster than I could ___5___ forward. I continued this unequal ___6___ for an exhausting half hour, before realizing that I could not win my way to the bright area ahead of me.
Then it dawned on(使开始明白) me that I was ___7___ my strength, while paying no attention to the ___8___ for the sake of which I was making the trip.
The storm could not last forever and the discomfort was not ___9___. Indeed, there was much to look at that might otherwise have ___10___ me. I saw colours, lines and contours(轮廓) that would have appeared ___11___ under the brilliant light. My anger at the rain was ___12___ and my desire to escape it disappeared. It had ___13___ me with a new view and helped me understand that the sources of beauty and satisfaction may be found close at hand within the __14__ of one’s own sensibility.
It made me think, then and later, about other matters to which this incident was __15__. It helped me realize that there is no __16__ in fleeing from circumstances and conditions which cannot be __17__, but I could bravely meet and often turned them to good ones. I know that half the battle is won if I can face trouble with __18__, disappointment with spirit, and victory with humility(谦虚). It has become __19__ to me that danger is far from disaster, that defeat may be the forerunner of final victory, and that all achievements are fragile __20__ based on enduring principles of moral conduct.
1. A. climbed B. piled C. picked D. went
2. A. strange B. skeptical C. optimistic D. constant
3. A. Therefore B. Moreover C. However D. Otherwise
4. A. winds B. sky C. sun D. clouds
5. A. race B. drive C. watch D. look
6. A. struggle B. contest C. trip D. power
7. A. gathering B. recovering C. saving D. wasting
8. A. landscape B. pleasure C. hurry D. feeling
9. A. adequate B. uncertain C. slight D. unbearable
10. A. interested B. pleased C. escaped D. found
11. A. beautifully B. slowly C. fortunately D. differently
12. A. great B. gone C. obvious D. hard
13. A. provided B. replaced C. compared D. equipped
14. A. range B. demand C. process D. contribution
15. A. devoted B. applied C. related D. adjusted
16. A. doubt B. way C. sense D. wonder
17. A. treated B. received C. understood D. avoided
18. A. hesitation B. courage C. difficulty D. ease
19. A. secret B. clearer C. stranger D. private
20. A. unless B. once C. when D. though
【答案】
【语篇解读】一次淋雨的经历让作者明白了这样一个道理：对于无法避免的事情，逃避是毫无意义的。只要面对困难不失勇气，面对失望不沮丧，面对成功不骄傲，那我们的人生之战便取得了一半的胜利。
4. D 云和雨不断向前，远快于作者骑车前进的速度。
5. A 联系空前的＂their rain kept advancing faster＂以及空后的＂forward＂可知，＂我＂向前赶。
6. B 云和雨的速度远比作者要快，因此说这是不公平的竞赛。
7. D 作者突然明白这是在白费力气。
8. A 作者去旅行的目的是看风景，但现在却只顾赶路而忽略了途中的风景，故选A。
9. D 作者认为淋雨这种不舒服的感觉并不是不能忍受的。adequate＂足够的；合格的＂，uncertain＂不确定的＂，slight＂微小的＂，均不符合语境。
10. C 作者认为事实上，在雨中有很多可能会错过的值得看的风景。
11. D 作者在雨中所欣赏到的美景和在太阳照耀下的时候会有所不同。
12. B 根据空后的disappeared可知，此空与之并列，指作者对下雨的怒火熄灭了，而且渴望逃离这个地方的想法也消失了。
16. C 逃离这些情况是没有意义的。there is no sense in doing sth表示＂做某事没有意义＂，符合语境。
17. D 那些情况是不可避免的。
18. B with后接的＂spirit＂＂humility＂等词都属于褒义词，故B正确，表示＂鼓起勇气去面对困难＂。
19. B 由于下面讲的道理是作者通过以上的情况感悟出来的，所以此处应用clearer，表示＂这些道理作者更清楚了＂，感悟更递进一层。
20. A 一切成就都是脆弱不堪的，除非它们能经得起道德准则的持久考验，用unless表示条件，意为＂除非＂。
七、短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
When I was a child, I hope to live in the city. I thought I would be happy there. Now I am living in a city, but I miss my home in countryside. There the air is clean or the mountains are green. Unfortunate, as industrialization develops, the environment has been polluted. Lots of studies have been shown that global warming has already become a seriously problem. The airs we breathe in is getting dirtier and dirtier. Much rare animals are dying out. We must found ways to protect our environment. If they fail to do so, we’ll live to regret it.
【答案】
When I was a child, I hope to live in the city. I thought I would be happy there. Now I am living in a city, but I miss my home in countryside. There the air is clean or the mountains are green. Unfortunate, as industrialization develops, the environment has been polluted. Lots of studies have been shown that global warming has already become a seriously problem. The airs we breathe in is getting dirtier and dirtier. Much rare animals are dying out. We must found ways to protect our environment. If they fail to do so, we’ll live to regret it.
第四处：Unfortunate→Unfortunately 此处为句首，作状语修饰整个句子，应用副词形式Unfortunately。
第五处：shown前的been去掉 这里表示＂许多研究表明＂，study与show是主动关系，故去掉been。
第六处：seriously→serious 考查形容词。表示＂一个严峻的问题＂，应该用形容词修饰名词。
第七处：airs→air 考查名词。空气是不可数名词，不能加s。
第八处：Much→Many 考查可数名词。animal为可数名词，应该用many修饰。
第九处：found→find 考查情态动词。情态动词后需用动词原形，所以将must后面的found改为find。
第十处：they→we 考查人称代词。文章是用第一人称写的，所以用we。