Unit 4 Topic 2 How can we protect ourselves from the earthquake Section A同步练习

Unit4 Our world
Topic 2 How can we protect ourselves from the earthquake?
Section A 同步练习
一、单选题。
1.Some old houses ????in my hometown last summer.
A.fall down B.fell down C.write down D.wrote down
2.We should do something ???????the animals in danger ???????being killed.??
A.?to protect, from ?B.?protect, from
??C.?to protect, for D.?protect, for
3.Ya'an earthquake happened??? an ordinary morning . ???
A.?at????????????????????????????????B.?on????????????????????????????????C.?in?????????????????????????????????D.?of
4.Air pollution has become ______ than ever before. We must do something to stop it.
A.?serious??????????????? ??B.?more serious??????????????????
C.?most serious?????????????? ????D.?the most serious
5.— The earthquake in Wenchuan in 2008 killed ????????people.— We were sad to hear that.
A.?thousands???????????? ???? B.?thousands of????????????????
C.?thousand of???????????????? ?D.?two thousand of
6.__________ earthquake happened in Ya'an Sichuan, on the morning of April 20.
A.?An????????????????????????????B.?A?????????????????????????????C.?The???????????????????????????????D.?/
二. 完形填空。从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。??? About five hundred years ago, an earthquake happened in a small village.? 1 for them, nothing was destroyed（毁坏）and no one was hurt. But a huge stone? 2 ?from a nearby mountain and stopped in the middle of the road.? ??? 3 the earthquake stopped, many people came to the road and saw the stone. Some of the? 4 men tried to lift the stone out of the road. But they couldn't move it. They tried to push it? 5 failed. They tried to pull it with ropes but nothing? 6 .? ??“Well," they said sadly, “there's nothing we can do about it. We'll have to change the way." At this time a boy about 12 years old said,? “I think I can help you to move the stone away." “You?" they shouted. “What are you talking about?" The men all? 7 the boy.??? The next morning, some people came into the road. One of them shouted, “The stone is gone." More people ran out to see 8 had happened. It was true. The stone wasn't on the road any longer. It wasn't even near the road.??? The boy walked over to where the stone had been and said, “I buried it."??? The people looked very? 9 .“You see," he said, “I dug a deep hole next to the stone and I dug a small incline(斜坡)up to the stone and the stone rolled(滚)down into the hole? 10 . Then I covered it with earth."?? ?The villagers shouted, “Clever boy! Clever boy!" And some of them said, “Why didn't we think out this good idea?"
1. A. Unluckily
B. Luckily?
C. Suddenly?
D. Sadly
2. A. fell?
B. rose??
C. raised??
D. felt
3. A. While?
B. As?
C. When
D. Before
4. A. weakest
B. strongest??
C. oldest
D. cleverest
5. A. and??
B. or
C. but
D. so
6. A. did??
B. worked
C. made?
D. followed
7. A. looked at?
B. shouted at??
C. laughed at
D. pointed at
8. A. what?
B. why??
C. how??
D. which
9. A. excited??
B. bored????
C. interested?
D. surprised
10. A. myself??
B. themselves
C. itself??
D. it
三. 阅读理解。?? On 26th January, the biggest earthquake（地震）in India took the lives of 25000 people. In the morning, when everybody was enjoying holiday, earthquake began. It was about 7.5 on the Ritcher scale. "There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. Everything has been pulled down," said one of the villagers alive. "There is no water, no food and no one has come to help."?? Nobody died in Pakistan, a country next to India. The City of Lahore was lucky. In Lahore American school, where I was studying, all of the students were safe. They were on the field, so most children didn't feel anything. The earthquake was felt by the teachers that were on the second floor. However, though Mrs Young was also on the second floor, she didn't feel anything. She didn't know what happened until a teacher told her about it. Those teachers who were on the other floors had different feelings. Mr Emond, the maths teacher from Australia, said that when the earthquake started he thought there was something wrong with him, but then another teacher said that it was an earthquake. After those words Mr Emond felt better. Mrs Davis and?? Mr Frost didn't feel anything either.?? My mother didn't feel anything. She didn't even know that it was an earthquake till she saw a shaking (moving from side to side) light. My dad saw the computer shaking and then he looked out of the window and saw many people going out.
（1）People use "Ritcher scale" to tell ______.
A.?where the earthquake takes place??????????????????B.?when the earthquake takes placeC.?how serious the earthquake is????????????????????????D.?how long the earthquake lasts
（2）We learn that ______ from the sentence "There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more."
A.?India is a large country??????????????????????B.?the Indian people had nothing after the earthquakeC.?there is no tall building in India????????D.?the earthquake in India was serious
（3）The city of Lahore is ______.
A.?in India????????????????????????B.?in America????????????????????????C.?in Pakistan????????????????????????D.?in Australia
（4）Which one is true?
A.?I was with my parents when the earthquake happened.B.?The earthquakes in the city of Lahore wasn't serious.C.?People in the City of Lahore were frightened when they knew if was an earthquake.D.?The teachers in Lahore American school were afraid of the earthquake.
四. 写出下列词的比较级。
1. big _________?? ?? 2. little _________??
3. friendly _____________ ? 4. early _________? ?
5. beautiful _____________ 6. expensive_________
7. easy _________ ? 8. late _________
9. far _____________ 10.useful_________
11.clever_________ 12.dangerous_________
同步练习答案
一、单选题
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. B 6. A
三. 阅读理解。
（1）C（2）B（3）C（4）B
四. 写出下列词的比较级。
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