Unit 4 Earthquakes
培优练习
一、完形填空。
In 1989, an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened America, killing over 30,000 people in less than four minutes. In the middle of complete damage and disorder, a father rushed to the school where his son was supposed to be, __1__ that the building was __2_.
After the unforgettably initial shock, he __3__ the promise he had made to his son: “No matter __4_, I’ll always be there for you! ”And tears began to __5__his eyes. As he looked at the pile of ruins, it looked hopeless, but he kept remembering his __6__ to his son. He rushed there and started __7__ the ruins.
As he was digging, other helpless parents arrived, __8__: “It’s too late! They’re all dead! __9__, face reality, there’s nothing you can do! ”To each parent he responded with __10__: “Are you going to help me now? ”No one helped. And then he continued to dig for his son, stone by stone.
Courageously he went on alone because he needed to know__11__: “Is my boy __12__ or is he dead? ”He dug for eight hours...12 hours...24 hours...36 hours...then, in __13__ hour, he pulled back a large stone and heard his son’s __14__.He screamed his son’s name, “ARMAND! ”He heard back, “Dad! ? ! It’s me, Dad! I told the other kids not to worry. I told them that if you were alive, you __15__ me and __16__ you saved me, they’d be saved. You promised, ‘No matter what happens, I’ll always be there for you! ’You did it, Dad! ”
“What’s going on in there? ”the father asked.
“There are 14 of us __17__ __18__ 33, Dad. We’re scared, hungry, thirsty and thankful you’re here. When the building collapsed, it made __19__, and it saved us”.
“Come out, boy! ”
“No, Dad! Let the other kids out first, __20__ I know you’ll get me! No matter what happens, I know you’ll always be there for me! ”
1. A. only finding B. only to find C. only realizing D. only to realize
2. A.as flat as a pancake B. as high as a mountain
C. as strong as an ox D. as weak as a kitten
3. A. memorized B. forgot C. kept D. remembered
4. A. what B. what happen C. which D. who
5. A. fill B. fill in C. come D. burst
6. A. picture B. promise C. present D. encourage
7. A. digging B. digging through C. digging out D. digging into
8. A.to say B. said C. and saying D. saying
9. A. Come out B. Come again C. Come on D. Come off
10. A.one word B. one sound C. one row D. one line
11. A. for himself B. of himself C. by himself D. to himself
12. A. live B. living C. alive D. lively
13. A.38 B. the 38 C. 38th D. the 38th
14. A. sound B. voice C. noise D. tone
15. A. will save B. would save C. save D. would have saved
16. A. when B. because C. even if D. though
17. A. remained B. missing C. left D. gone
18. A. for B. behind C. out of D. over
19. A. a promise B. space C. room D. a triangle
20. A. because B. though C. when D. even though
二、阅读理解。
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When an earthquake hit a small town, many houses fell down. After the earthquake, all the newspapers reported many stories about some of the families who were in trouble.
One Sunday, when I was reading a newspaper, a special picture touched me. It gave the clothing sizes of each family member. I thought that this would be a good chance to teach my children to help those who were less lucky than themselves. I said to my seven- year- old twins, Brad and Brett, and three -year -old Meghan, “We have so much, and these poor people now have nothing. We’ll share what we have with them.”
I filled a box with foods and clothes. While I was doing this, I encouraged the boys to choose their toys and donate some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched quietly as the boys took out their old toys and games and put them together. Then she walked away. A few minutes later she came back with Lucy, her much-loved doll. She put the doll on top of the other toys. “Oh, dear, ”I said.“You don’t have to give Lucy. You love her so much.”Meghan said, “Lucy makes me happy, Mommy. Maybe she’ll make another little girl happy, too.”
I looked at Meghan for a long moment. She taught me a lesson. It’s easy to give something that we don’t want any more, but hard to give what we cherish(珍爱), isn’t it?
21. The writer has ________ children.
A. one B. two C. three D. four
22. The underlined word “donate” probably means “________”.
A. 捐赠 B. 丢掉 C. 展出 D. 放好
23. Lucy is the name of ________.
A. a girl B. a game C. a doll D. an earthquake
24. Which of the following is true?
A. An earthquake happened in the writer’s hometown.
B. The writer let Meghan give her much-loved doll.
C. The writer decided to buy some clothes for those people in trouble.
D. The writer thinks it is more difficult to give what we love a lot.
25. What’s the best title of this passage?
A. A Family Story B. The Spirit of Giving
C. The Way of Helping Others D. A Sad Experience
B
If you are in charge of a project, the key to success is getting everyone to want to help you. As a director, I point, I suggest, I gently push the actors in the direction I want them to go. In the 1986 movie, “Nothing in Common”, Jackie Gleason’s character, Max Basner, gets fired from his job as a clothing salesman. The scene, shot on a boat, shows Max’s despair about being out of work. I was looking for some gesture that would allow Max to show his feelings.
Jackie had far more experience at everything than I did, and at first I was frightened. What could I possibly tell “The Great One” about acting? Out of fear I decided to direct by suggestion, and I sat down with Gleason to talk about the scene.“So Max is sad, right? ” I said.
Gleason nodded.
“And he’s probably still carrying his pens with his name on them—the ones he used to hand out to his customers, right? ”
Gleason nodded.
“So what would you want to do with the pens after you were fired? ”
He was silent for a moment. “Why don’t I throw them overboard? ”
I stood up and turned towards the crew. “Hey, everybody, Jackie has a wonderful idea. Let’s shoot it.”
After filming the scene, Gleason called me over and said with a smile.“Garry, what kind of wonderful idea am I going to have tomorrow? ”
You and your team can discover the answers to problems together. When there are no prizes or gold stars for those who get the solution first, you’ll all benefit when everything turns out right.
26.The author tells us that to succeed in the project you are in charge of you should ________.
A. make everyone work for you B. get everyone willing to help you
C. let people know you have the final say D. keep sending out orders to them
27. It can be inferred that ________.
A. Jackie Gleason is the director of the film “Nothing in Common”
B. Jackie Gleason is very angry when he is fired from his job
C. Max, a character in a film, is in very low spirits when he loses his job
D. Jackie Gleason is the writer of the film“Nothing in Common”
28. “The Great One” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.
A. Gleason B. the director himself
C. Max D. Max’s boss
29. Why did Gleason call the director over and smile at him?
Because Gleason ________.
A. thought his wonderful idea was accepted by the director
B. succeeded in hitting upon a wonderful idea
C. was confident about his work the next day
D. appreciated the director’s skill
30. The most suitable title for the passage is “________”.
A. Directing a Film B. The Key to Success
C. A Wonderful Experience D. Working with Film
三、翻译句子。
好像他的事业就快要结束了。(It seems/ seemed that…, at an end)
百分之六十的旅客宁愿住在窗朝南的房间。(用定语从句）
消防员没有多考虑个人的安危, 像平常一样将困在大火中的人员援救出来。
(think little of, rescue, be trapped in)
在村外往东有一幢蓝顶的白房子。(to the east, with)
听完他的话, 那个可怜的女孩泪水夺眶而出, 冲出门外。(burst, rush out)
2008年5月12日约下午两点半, 距离成都159公里的汶川发生了一次强烈地震。(strike)
在灾难中, 三分之二的幸存者是战士们挖出来的。(two-thirds of, dig out)
城市一片废墟, 上百万的人无家可归。(in ruins, millions/thousands of)
市政府为孤儿搭起避难处。(put up, without)
10. 不是所有的伤员都送到了医院。(all)
四、基础写作。
假如你(李华)是一名中学生, 假期中做了一次社会实践活动。在这次活动中你认识到水是生命之源, 水资源越来越匮乏, 传统的农业灌溉方式对水资源的浪费太大。请你就该问题给人民日报社写一篇倡议信, 建议农民使用现代化的浇灌方式, 节约用水, 保护水资源, 为子孙后代造福。写信时间: 2018年10月10日。
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Yours,
Li Hua
答案和解析
一、完型填空。
1. B 【解析】only to find“结果却发现”。
2. A 【解析】这四个选项都是英语成语, 根据本段第一句判断, 选择A项。
3. D 【解析】从意义上判断, “他想起了他曾对他儿子许下的诺言”；memorized是“背诵, 熟记”。与前remembering对应。
4.A 【解析】从结构上分析, 该句是省略了谓语动词的省略句, 省略谓语之后, 意义仍然清楚, 如不省略动词, 则使用第三人称单数happens。从意义上分析, 可排除C、D项。
5. A 【解析】fill“使充满；装满”, 此处指眼里噙满了泪水。
6. B 【解析】从上下文意义判断, “他不停地想起他对儿子许下的诺言”。后promise对应。
7. B 【解析】此处不是考查dig短语。
8. D 【解析】从结构上分析, 应该用现在分词作伴随状语, 应用saying, 相当于and said。
9. C 【解析】come on“得了吧”。
10.D 【解析】line“话；言语”。
11. A 【解析】“介词＋反身代词”有固定含义, for oneself“独自地, 亲自”；by oneself“独自地”；of oneself“自行地, 自动地”；to oneself“对(着)自己”。
12. C 【解析】这四个词都有“活着的”之意, live仅用作定语, 作表语用living, alive。living和alive在意义上有细微差别, living可作定语和表语, 含有“本以为死了, 然而还活着”, 又如: I can't believe my first teacher is still living. alive作表语和后置定语, 其意与dead相对应。lively“生动的；活跃的”。
13. D 【解析】序数词前应加the。
14. B 【解析】voice指人的声音。
15. B 【解析】这里表将来的虚拟语气, 主句中用would＋动词原形, 从下文的句子中也能找到类似的句子。
16.A 【解析】从句意知, 为时间状语从句。
17. C 【解析】此题包含一个固定句型: There are...left“还有……剩余下来”。
18.C 【解析】14 out of 33“33人中有14人”。
19. D 【解析】从意义上判断, “房屋倒塌时, 自然形成的三角空隙”。而make room；make space意为“(有意识的)为……腾出空间”。
20. A 【解析】从上下文意判断, 此句为原因状语从句。
二、阅读理解。
A篇
21. C【解析】细节理解题。根据“I said to my seven -year- old twins, Brad and Brett, and three -year- old Meghan.”判断可知。
22. A【解析】细节理解题。由孩子们找玩具及“Lucy makes me happy, Mommy. Maybe she’ll make another little girl happy, too.”判断可知。
23. C【解析】细节理解题。由“...she came back with Lucy, her much-loved doll.”判断可知。
24. D【解析】细节推理题。根据短文最后一段分析可知。
25. B【解析】主旨归纳题。全文介绍作者看了报纸报道地震之后许多家庭陷入困境, 她想借此机会让孩子们学会关爱他人, 结果女儿给自己上了一课。
B篇
26. B 【解析】细节理解题。在第一段中就给出了本题的答案。final say意为“最后的决定权”。
27. C【解析】推理判断题。从第一段倒数第二、三句可得出答案。despair意为“沮丧”。
28. A【解析】词义猜测题。从第一段可知, Jackie Gleason是电影Nothing in Common中扮演Max Basner的演员。接着第二段说Gleason具有比“我”多得多的经验, 像这样的“大人物”(The Great One), 作者认为自己不能给予指导。
29. D 【解析】细节理解题。由全文内容可知, Gleason是欣赏作者的技巧。
30. B【解析】主旨归纳题。第一段的第一句和最后一段的最后一句话前后呼应, 都点明了文章的主题。
三、翻译句子。
1. It seems that his career is at an end.
2. Sixty percent of the travelers prefer to live in the rooms whose windows face south.
3. The firefighters thought little of their personal safety and as usual rescued the people who were trapped in the fire.
4. To the east of the village, there is a small white house with a blue roof.
5. After hearing his words, the poor girl burst into tears and rushed out of the room.
6. At about 2:30 pm on May 12, 2008, a strong earthquake struck Wenchuan, which is 159 kilometers away from Chengdu.
7. In the disaster, two-thirds of the survivors were dug out by the soldiers.
8. The city lay in ruins and millions of people / hundreds of thousands of people had no place to live in.
9. The city government put up a shelter for the children without parents.
10. All the injured people were not sent to hospital.
四、基础写作。
Dear Editor,
My name is Li Hua. I’m a middle school student. I’m writing this letter to put forward a proposal to make good use of water. As is well known to us all, water is the source of life. Without water there would be no living things. Besides, fresh water is becoming less and less.
But it is a fact that farmers are still watering crops and vegetables using the traditional way. It’s a waste of water to irrigate farm lands in this way. In my opinion farmers play an important role in saving water. I think it would be better for farmers to use modern technology when they use water for farming. Only in this way can we save as much water as possible. I propose that every one of us should try our best to save water, especially the farmers, so that we can leave more fresh water for our young generations.
Yours,
Li Hua
Unit 4 Earthquakes
基础练习
一、基础单词小测。
1． /b??st/ vi. ；n.
2． /dI′str?I/ vt.
3． /′reskju?/ n．& vt.
4． /tr?p/ vt. ；n.
5． /I′vent/ n．
6． /′?elt?/ n．
7． /′ru?In/ n． ；vt.
8． /Ik′stri?m/ adj. → adv．
9． /′beri/ vt. → adj．
10． /sIn′sI?lI/ adv. →sincere n．
11． /Ik′spres/ vt. ；n. →expression n．
12． /′Ind??/ vt. → n． → adj.
二、词组小测。
1．满不在乎；轻视；认为……没有价值__________________________
2．结束；终结 ____________________________
3．严重受损；破败不堪________________________________
4．掘出；发现_________________________________
5．许多；大量的_______________________________
6．向……表达谢意________________________
7．以……为骄傲_____________________________
8．搭起__________________________
三、课文小测。
1）课文内容
Before the earthquake:
The water in the wells ______ and fell and well walls had deep ______.
Chickens and pigs were ______. Mice ran out of the fields and fish jumped out of the ponds.
People saw _____ in the sky and heard the sound of planes and the water pipes in some buildings cracked and _______.
During the earthquake:
At 3:42a.m. everything began to ______. Then, later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tangshan.
The large city lay ______. Two thirds of the people were killed or _______.
Some of the ____ workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins. Water, food and electricity were hard to get.
After the earthquake:
The army sent soldiers to help the rescue workers.
Workers built _______ for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
_____ was taken to the city by train, truck and plane. And electricity was hard to get.
2) 课文填空
Strange things happened ____1___ the Tangshan earthquake happened. The well walls had deep cracks. A __2_____ (smell) gas came out of them. The water pipes cracked and burst. At 3:42 ___3___ the morning of July 28, 1976, everything began to shake. 4 seemed as if the world was at an end. Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. The whole city lay in 5 (ruin). Many people died or were 6 (injure). Everything in the city ___7_____(be) destroyed. People were ____8____(shock) at this and wondered how long the disaster would last. The army organized teams to dig out those ____9_____ were trapped and to bury the dead. Workers built shelters for __10_____(survive). Fresh water was taken to the city. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.
答案与解析
一、单词小测。
1.burst 2. destroy 3. rescue 4. trap 5.event 6. shelter 7. ruin 8. extreme
9. bury 10. sincerely 11.express 12. injure
二、词组小测。
1．think little of 2．at an end 3．in ruins 4．dig out
5．a (great) number of 6．express one's thanks to 7．be proud of
8．put up
三、课文小测。
1) 1. rose fell nervous bright lights burst
2. Shake in ruins injured rescue
3. Shelters Fresh water
2) 1.before 2.smelly 3.on 4.It 5.ruins 6.injured
7.was 8.shocked 9.who 10.survivors
Unit 4 Earthquakes
提高练习
一、单词拼写，根据首字母给出适当的单词。
1. It is an area where natural __________（灾难）often happen.
2. The firemen ___________(营救) the boy from the burning house.
3. Teachers have ___________ (表达) concern about the emphasis on testing.
4. The hurricane left the whole city in __________(严重受损)
5. A great many houses were _________(破坏)in the earthquakes and many people became homeless.
6. The machine is driven by e_______________.
7. We b_______ into laughter when we heard the funny story.
8. Many men were b_______ underground when the accident at the mine happened.
9. The sun r_______ in the east every day.
10. When food goes bad, it becomes s___________.
11. Back from the cinema, the couple were s__________ on seeing their house broken in.
12. They o__________ the youths to form a group to protect the environment.
13. The soldiers t__________ their enemies and forced them to give in.
14. B________ are still a main kind of building material now.
15. When water is heated to 100℃, s________ comes out from it.
二、用所给短语的正确形式填空。
She was __________her son. He did well at university and now is a doctor.
The house began to shake , so all the students must leave the house __________.
In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay _____________
He acted_________ he was a doctor.
Since she left, he is ____________ his work.
My father has _____________ his heart illness for about 20 years.
The year is ________________.
Such _______________people died because the quake happened while they were sleeping.
The soldiers organized teams to ________ those persons who were__________ the danger.
三、语法练习。
用适当的关系词连接两个句子为定语从句。
1.They built the house in 1987. It stayed up in the earthquake.
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2. The earthquake hit the city in 1906. It was the biggest in American history.
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3. Luckily, none of the people were killed in the earthquake. I know them.
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4.She was talking with a lady. Her son was ill.
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5.You sent my sister a present. Thank you very much for it. [来源:网]
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6.The clothes have been cleaned. I am wearing them.
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7.He is sitting in a chair. It is broken.
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8.She is a person. Everyone likes to make friends with her.
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四、翻译句子。
1、昨天我们在街上看到的那个女孩是Tom的妹妹。
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2、他们种植一些不需要很多水的树。
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3、今天早上我们买的那条鱼不够新鲜。
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4、打破窗户的那个男孩叫Jim。
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5、上个星期我去看了在地震中失去丈夫的那位老师。
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答案解析
一、单词拼写。
1.disasters, 2. rescued, 3.expressed, 4.ruins, 5.destroyed, 6.electricity, 7.burst, 8.buried 9.rises, 10.smelly, 11.shocked, 12.organized, 13.trapped , 14.Bricks, 15.steam
二、用所给短语的正确形式填空。
1.proud of , 2.right away, 3.in ruins, 4.as if, 5.buried in, 6.suffered from
7.at an end, 8.a great number of , 9.dig out ;trapped in
三、语法练习。
用适当的关系词连接两个句子为定语从句。
1. The house which/ that they built in 1987 stayed up in the earthquake.
2. The earthquake which/that hit the city in 1906 was the biggest in American history.
3. Luckily none of the people whom I know were killed in the earthquake.
4. She was talking with a lady whose son was ill.
5. Thank you very much for the present which/that you sent to my sister.
6. I am wearing the clothes which/that have been cleaned.
7. He is sitting in a chair which/that is broken.
The chair which/that he is sitting in is broken.
8.She is a person with whom everyone likes to make friends.
四、翻译句子。
1. The girl whom we saw in the street yesterday was Tom’s sister.
2. They planted some trees which did not need much water.
3. The fish which we bought this morning were not fresh enough.
4. The boy who broke the window is called Jim.
5. Last week I went to see my teacher whose husband lost his life in the earthquake.
