Module 4
A Social Survey—My Neighbourhood
培优练习
一、语法填空。
My aunt lives in the city. And she always wants my grandma 1 (live) in the suburb to stay several days in her family. However, my grandma doesn’t think it 2 (attract) and usually refuses her, because she thinks my aunt’s family just like a jail(牢房), where she cannot talk with other people in the 3 (neighbor) when my aunt is busy with work outside during the daytime. She has been used to 4 (contact) others at spare time in the suburb. ?
According to this thing I realized that the neighborhood relationship in the city is pretty different 5 that in the suburb or the countryside. People living in cities are busy with their 6 (employ) all day and they are ignorant of neighborhood relationship. They may not know 7 their neighbor’s names are and even cannot recognize their neighbors in the road. How regretful it is! I think good relationship is very important to us. ?
Good neighborhood relationship can prevent our house from 8 (steal). Once my house’s lock was picked by a thief. 9 (fortunate), my neighbor heard the sound and called the police. This experience let me know the importance of good neighborhood relationship. ?
As the saying goes, “A far-off relative is not so helpful 10 a near neighbor.” I sincerely hope the neighbor relationship can become better and better.?
二、完形填空。
We may look at the world around us, but somehow, we manage not to see it until whatever we have become used to suddenly disappears. 1 , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I 2 to see—or look at on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter 3 the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On 4 days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime 5 out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. 6 , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I 7 all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how 8 I expected to see her each morning. You might say I 9 her.
“Did she have an accident? Something 10 ?” I thought to myself about her 11 . Now that she was gone, I felt I had 12 her. I began to realize that part of our 13 life probably includes such chance meeting with familiar 14 : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who 15 walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are 16 markers in our lives. They add weight to our 17 of place and belonging.
Think about it. 18 , while walking to work, we mark where we are by 19 a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though 20 , person?
1. A. Make B. Take C. Give D. Have
2.A.happened B. wanted C. used D. tried
3.A.what B. how C. which D. when
4.A.sunny B. rainy C. cloudy D. snowy
5.A.took B. brought C. carried D. turned
6.A.Clearly B. Particularly C. Luckily D. Especially
7.A.believed B. expressed C. remembered D. wondered
8.A.long B. often C. soon D. much
9. A. respected B. missed C. praised D. admired
10.A.better B. worse C. more D. less
11.A.disappearance B. appearance C. misfortune D. fortune
12.A.forgotten B. lost C. known D. hurt
13.A.happy B. enjoyable C. frequent D. daily
14.A.friend B. strangers C. tourists D. guests
15.A.regularly B. actually C. hardly D. probably
16.A.common B. pleasant C. important D. faithful
17.A.choice B. knowledge C. decision D. sense
18.A.Because B. If C. Although D. However
19.A.keeping B. changing C. passing D. mentioning
20.A.unnamed B. unforgettable C. unbelievable D. unreal
三、书面表达。
假定你是李华，你校即将举办英语演讲比赛，题目为：My neighbourhood。请以此为题写一篇演讲稿，可以从以下几个方面着手：人和环境、存在的问题和建议。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
答案与解析
语法填空。
1.living 此处是现在分词短语作定语,修饰前面的名词grandma。
2.attractive 此处是形容词作宾补。
3.neighborhood in the neibourhood“在附近”,是固定搭配。
4.contacting be used to doing“习惯做……”。
5.from 固定短语be different from,意思是“不同于”。
6.employment 此处需要名词,指城里人忙着自己的工作。
7.what 此处是what引导宾语从句,在从句中作表语。
8.being stolen 此处逻辑上是动宾关系,且介词from后面跟动名词,故此处应用being stolen。
9.Fortunately 此处是副词作状语。
10.as 此处是固定短语not as / so...as...,意思是“不如……那样……”。
二、完形填空。
1—5 BCADB 6—10 ACDBB 11—15 ACDBA 16—20 CDBCA
本篇作者通过个人的经历，指出许多人都犯的一个通病：对我们常见到的人或事物熟视无睹，直到有一天这个人或事物突然不见了，我们才发觉我们失去了什么。从而呼吁人们多关注我们周围的人。
36. B 【解析】Take…for example意思为“以……为例”。
37. C 【解析】used to do sth.意思为“过去常常做某事”，言外之意是现在不做了。本句意为过去常看到的一位穿着整洁的女士，现在看不到了。
38. A 【解析】what是代词，作like的宾语。我们常用“what's the weather like?”来询问天气。
39. D 【解析】本句后半部分说她穿着厚重的衣服，戴着毛线手套，天气一定很冷，所以要填snowy／cold／winter才合理，晴朗、下雨及多云都不必如此穿着。
40. B 【解析】本句属拟人用法。这位女士夏天会穿着棉布连衣裙，戴上（遮阳）帽子及太阳镜，就像夏天把这一切带到外面似的，故填brought。bring out意为“将……带出来，使显出”。
41. A 【解析】上文得知，这位女士穿着整洁、守时、坐公共汽车，她应该是一个普遍的工作女性，这一点是很清楚的，显而易见的。
42. C 【解析】紧扣首句和下文。再也见不到这位女士了，才记起了这一切。天天见到她的时候，却不曾真的留意。
43. D 【解析】much作状语，表程度，是I expected very much to see her…改成的感叹结构，作realize的宾语，整句意思是：直到那时（我再也见不到那位女士时）我才意识到我多么想每天早上都见到她。
44. B 【解析】上句作者说非常盼着见到那位女士，那么也就是想念她了。
45. B
46. A 【解析】作者以前天天见到那位女士，却从不真正留意。现在她再也没有出现，作者便对此（她的消失）产生猜测，而这些猜测都应是足以让那位女士不再出现的（坏）事。故45空填worse，46空填disappearance。
47. C 【解析】now that表一种原因及一件事的后果。全句意为：她不见了（结果）我倒感觉着我认识她了，（天天见她时却很陌生）
48. D
49. B
50. A 【解析】那位女士对于作者来说是一个“熟悉的陌生人”，所谓熟悉是因为常见，所谓陌生，是因为彼此不了解，从未交谈过。这样的人在生活中不少，所以由于这位女士的突然不见，作者怅然若失，才开始意识到日常生活包括了这样一些个“熟悉的陌生人”，然后举了一些例子，这些例子都是日常生活中常见的人，所以48填daily，49填stranger，50填regularly（有规律地，经常地，因而对作者来说才是familiar。）
51. C
52. D 解析：上文提到的那些“熟悉的陌生人“增加了我们对某些地方及环境的感觉份量（没有这样的人，我们不会对这些地方及环境有这么深的感情和印象），故52空填D。既然这些人起到这样的作用，那么他们也就重要了，所以51空填important。
53. B
54. C
55. A 【解析】走路上班时，我们会借助建筑物来标识（判断）我们走到那里了，为什么我们不该借助那些常见的人来判断一下我们走到那里了呢（还不只是走路吧）？因此，55空较易：一个熟悉（常见）的但又不了解（包括姓名）的人，unnamed是“未命名或未被知道名字的”，54空填passing也合理，经过某个建筑，我们就知道走到什么地方了。53空填if，表条件，结合全句可知。
三、书面表达。
略。
Module 4 A Social Survey—My Neighbourhood
基础练习
完成句子。
If we park the car over there, we can go for a walk along the __________(港口).
The rent for a modern __________(公寓) in Xiamen is usually very high.
The time is __________(靠近) when we must think about buying a new house.
Don't __________(打扰) me. I'm busy now.
He lives for the day when he can __________(负担得起) to buy an apartment in the provincial capital.
For further details, please __________(联系) the local office.
I considered myself fortunate to have __________(survive) the crash.
The United Nations is an international __________(组织) which was founded in 1945.
The government ought to create more jobs for __________(失业的) people.
Work done by machines has replaced __________(手工的) labor.
语法填空。
One winter evening, he fell into the water. But luckily, he __________(survive).
In the past few years, the committee __________(help) many elderly people in the neighbourhood.
We __________(be) friends since we moved to this apartment block.
So far, dozens of posters __________(put) up in the campus.
Up to now, we __________(exchange) addresses and cards.
三、阅读理解。
During the nineteenth century, the population of some American cities greatly increased. People were coming to the cities to work in new factories that were being built. Land in cities was not enough and became expensive. There was no longer enough room for every family to have a house.
Because buildings were needed that could hold a number of families under one roof, many apartment buildings were built. An apartment building that could hold forty families was less expensive to build than forty houses.
Two of the first apartment buildings were built in New Orleans. The Baroness Pontalba decided to build apartment buildings on land she owned. She hired the best architect in New Orleans to design the buildings. The most skilled workers built them.
The two Pontalba Apartment Buildings were built in 1849. They were red brick（砖） buildings with gorgeous iron balconies across the front. Each of the sixteen apartment buildings was a block long and four stories high. On the first floor were fine shops. Above the shops were huge apartments with marble fireplaces and tall windows. Many important people moved into the Pontalba Apartments. Today people still live in these apartments, which are some of the most elegant apartments in New Orleans.
1. Why were apartment buildings needed?
A. Because people in the cities were too busy to build their own houses.
B. Because people preferred apartment buildings to houses.
C. Because people could get close to each other in this kind of buildings.
D. Because land was not enough for all separate houses.
2. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The Pontalba Apartment Buildings were covered with white stones.
B. It’s inconvenient for people living in apartment buildings to go shopping.
C. Two of the first apartment buildings in America were built in New York.
D. Land in American cities became expensive in the century.
3. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. One Roof, Many People
B. Land in America
C. Pontalba—the Best Architect
D. The Best Apartment Buildings
答案和解析
完成句子。
1. harbour 2. apartment 3. approaching 4. bother 5. afford
6. contact 7. fortunate 8. organization 9. unemployed 10. manual
二、语法填空。
1. survived 2. has helped 3. have been 4. have been put 5. have exchanged
三、阅读理解。
1-4 DDA
1. D【解析】根据第一段There was no longer enough room for every family to have a house.没有足够的空间供每个家庭都有一座房子。以及第二段Because buildings were needed that could hold a number of families under one roof, many apartment buildings were built.因为需要楼房可以让许多家庭居住在一个屋顶下，许多公寓楼就建起来了。
2. D【解析】根据第一段Land in cities was not enough and became expensive.城市的地不够用，也变得很昂贵。
3. A【解析】One roof, Many people指的就是适应时代发展需求的apartment，即文章的核心词。
Module 4
A Social Survey—My Neighbourhood
提高练习
一、完成句子。
1. __________(fortune), people are beginning to realize how serious the situation is.
2. So far this year we __________(see) a fall in house prices by between 5 and 10 percent.
3. She is extremely __________(profession), so we all turn to her for help whenever we have any questions.
4. I don't know how he can a a new car with so little money he earns every month.
5. The tower looks so charming and g with many ancient buildings around.
6. I thought he was very __________(attract) and obviously very intelligent.
7. With winter __________(approach), we shouldn’t waste time any more.
8. I suppose I was looking for an __________(occupy) which was going to be an adventure.
9. Would you mind __________(exchange) places with me so that I can be closer to the fire?
10. There was a sign on the wall, saying “No __________(park).”
二、完形填空。
Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.
When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn't 1 drive to a store and back home. He always looks 2 up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything 3 such as strange cars, loud noises, 4 windows, or people gathering on street corners.
Tim 5 to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana, USA. The neighborhood watch group 6 on the third Wednesday of every month. That's 7 Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community 8 . Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police 9 their homes, streets, and families safe.
Tina Stedman, president of 10 neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime(犯罪) happens to other people but not 11 them. Well, it's never happened to me,” she said，“but I don't think anyone has the 12 to steal from other people or to make them feel 13 sitting in their own homes.”
Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors 14 out for one another. “We 15 each other's homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a 16 of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn't look right, then we call the 17 . For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for 18 , or someone destroying property(财产), we report to the police.”
Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups 19 a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can't do 20 .”
1. A.yet B. still C. just D. rather
2. A.carefully B. clearly C. nervously D. coldly
3. A.familiar B. unusual C. expensive D. interesting
4. A.curtained B. open C. old D. broken
5. A.attends B. belongs C. goes D. turns
6. A.meets B. quarrels C. sings D. searches
7. A.where B. why C. when D. how
8. A.politics B. wealth C. health D. safety
9. A.keep B. hold C. let D. protect
10. A.its B. her C. their D. your
11. A.round B. on C. about D. to
12. A.right B. chance C. courage D. mind
13. A.unlucky B. unsafe C. disappointed D. discouraged
14. A.set B. let C. hold D. look
15. A.care B. enter C. watch D. manage
16. A.group B. set C. number D. crowd
17. A.judges B. police C. firemen D. doctors
18. A.work B. burden C. service D. trouble
19. A.produce B. find C. get D. help
20. A.anything B. everything C. harm D. wrong
三、翻译。
1. 自从我开始学习英语以来，已有十年。
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2. 这是我第一次在考试中获得第一名。
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3. 快到邮局的时候，你就可以看到对面的书店了。
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4. 这是块极好的金表，但我买不起。
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5. 随着技术的发展，人们之间很容易保持联系。
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答案与解析
一、完成句子。
1. Fortunately 2. have seen 3. professional 4. afford 5. gorgeous
6. attractive 7. approaching 8. approaching 9. exchanging 10. parking
二、完形填空。
1-5 CABDB 6-10 ACDAC 11-15 DABDC 16-20 ABDDB
1. 【解析】just在这里等于only(仅仅)。Tim Becker开车买东西时，不只是去商店然后回家。yet“然而”；still“仍然”；rather“相当”。
2. 【解析】从上下文可知，Tim是治安联保队员。他在开车买东西时，仔细地观察周围的情况，以便发现问题。clearly“清楚地”；nervously“紧张地”；coldly“冷淡地”。
3. 【解析】只有发生了不正常的事才表明出现了问题，如陌生的车辆、大的噪音、破碎的窗子或者人们聚集在街头等。
4. 【解析】拉上窗帘的窗户(curtained windows)、开着的窗户(open windows)或旧的窗户(old windows)都不能说明发生了意外的事。只有破碎的窗户(broken windows)才可能发生了意外的事。
5. 【解析】从上下文可知，Tim是Stoneville，Indiana，USA的治安联保队员。belongs to属于。
6. 【解析】从下文中的discuss一词可知，他们在每月的第三个星期三举行会议，讨论社区的安全问题。quarrel“吵架”；search“搜查”。
7. 【解析】这是一个表语从句。that指代的是他们开会的时间，所以填when。
8. 【解析】因为治安联保队的目的是保卫社区的安全，所以他们讨论的是社区的安全问题。而不会讨论政治(politics)、财产(wealth)或健康(health)问题。本段末的safe也为相关信息。
9. 【解析】许多考生没有注意这个句子的结构，而误选了protect。在这个句子中，their homes，streets，and families作宾语，safe作宾语补足语。只有keep有这种结构，意为：保卫他们住房、街道和家庭成员的安全。
10. 【解析】一个社区是由许多住户组成的，所以要填their。
11. 【解析】happen to sb.意为“某人发生了某事”。but连接的成分与前面(to other people)相同，所以要填介词to。人们似乎认为，犯罪发生在别人身上而不会发生在自己身上。
12. 【解析】right作名词的意思是“权利”。任何人都没有偷别人东西的权利。
13. 【解析】全文讨论的是保卫社区安全问题。这里指“但是我认为，任何人都没有偷别人的东西或使别人在自己家里却感到不安全的权利”。unlucky“不幸的”；disappointed“失望的”；discouraged“泄气的”。
14. 【解析】look out“注意”。为了保证社区的安全，邻居们都互相注意对方的安全问题。set out“出发”；let out“发出”；hold out“伸出，坚持”。
15. 【解析】watch one's homes“看家”。邻居们互相看家。care作及物动词时的意思是“介意，计较”；enter“进入”；manage“管理”。
16. 【解析】a group of意为“一组；一群”。平常人们三五结队而行。a set of意为“一套”，语义不符；a number of“许多”；a crowd of “一群”，这两个短语都不和含有数词的宾语连用，故排除。
17. 【解析】一旦发生问题要和警察取得联系。
18. 【解析】look for trouble“找麻烦”。当他们注意到一伙年轻人在找麻烦或有人损坏财产，他们就会向警察报告。
19. 【解析】社区治安联保队起到了很大的作用，他们帮助警察使犯罪率下降。
20. 【解析】虽然警察在保卫人们的财产和生命安全方面起到了很大作用，但是他们也不可能什么事都能做到。所以Jim说：“警察都是些好人，但是他们不可能做所有事情。”
三、翻译。
It is/has been ten years since I began to learn English.
This is the first time that I have got the first place in the exam in our class.
As you approach the post office, you’ll see the bookstore opposite it.
It is a gorgeous gold watch, but I cannot afford it.
With the development of technology, people find it easy to keep in contact with each other.
