Unit 1 Great cities in Asia 同步练习（无答案）

Unit 1 Great cities in Asia 同步练习
Ⅰ. Choose the best answer
( )1. There will be _______ exhibition _____ our city next Sunday.
A. the; about B. a; on C. an; on D. a; in
( )2. Kitty’s favorite city is Shanghai. So is _______.
A. me B. my C. myself D. mine
( )3. How long _____ it _____ to travel to Beijing by train fifteen years ago?
A. does; take B. does; spend C. did; take D. did; spend
( )4. Can you tell me______ city is the capital of France?
A. what B. which C. where D. this
( )5. In the past, people travelled to ________ places by ship.
A another B other C others D the other
( )6. Most people go to work _______ Monday _____ Friday.
A. on ; to B. on ; on C. from ; to D. from ; and
( )7. Jenny _______ three hours _________.
A. cost; to draw B. takes; drawing C. spends; drawing D. spends; to draw
( )8. There are under 1500 people in the hall.
A. fewer than B. less than C. few than D. little than
( )9. There is ________ rain this year.
A . many B. much C. plenty D. any
( )10. They _______ like eating spicy food.
A. too B. either C. also D. already
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the given words
1. _________________ usually go sightseeing in big cities. ( travel )
2. The Oriental Pearl TV Tower is one of the tallest _________________in Shanghai.（build）
3. France is a __________________ country. ( Europe )
4. Let ______ say something about _______ to you first. ( I )
5. I have got plenty of ________________ about the space. ( inform )
6. Does your brother like _______________? ( run )
7. Have you finished _____________ (write) the letter to Jane?
8. I am too tired to keep ________________(walk) now.
9. They have 8 _____________ ( million ) yuan in that bank.
10. How many _________________ ( Japan ) are there in your class?
11. Jenny _______ never ________ (be) to this beautiful seaside town.
12. There __________ ( be ) some important news in yesterday’s newspaper.
13. The children ________ (fly) the kites in the park now.
14. We spend two and a half hours ________ (do) our homework every day.
15. Susan ________ (go) abroad after leaving school next year.
Ⅲ. Rewrite the sentences
1. It took about eight minutes to travel to the airport. （对划线部分提问）
_______________________________________________________________________
2. It’s about 3,500 kilometres from Garden City to Singapore. （对划线部分提问）
_______________________________________________________________________
3. Our school is twenty minutes’ walk from the supermarket. （对划线部分提问）
_______________________________________________________________________
4. It takes Tom about two hours to read this novel.（保持句意不变）
Tom_____________________________________________________________________
5. Why don’t we have a picnic in the afternoon? （同意句转化）
Why _________________________________________________________________
6. The movie “Titanic ” will last for 120 minutes. （对划线部分提问）
_______________________________________________________________________
7. She often takes a bath once a day. （对划线部分提问）
_______________________________________________________________________
8. Alice will come back in 5 days. （对划线部分提问）
_______________________________________________________________________
IV. Reading
( A )
Sometimes it is better not to know the ___1__ of a country that you are visiting than it is to know just a little of it. The __2__ is this: the native of your host(东道主) country will often come to __3__ you if you seem helpless. But they will usually misunderstand your small attempts(尝试) to speak their language. They will think you know __4__ than you do. For example, I once asked 3 people in poor Spanish how to get to a bus stop. Each of them answered very __5__ and used difficult Spanish words. I didn’t understand a word and __ 6__ round for an hour before I found the bus stop.
( )1. A. habits B. rules C. people D. language
( )2. A. cause B. reason C. answer D. hope
( )3. A. help B. show C. tell D. ask
( )4. A. a little B. no C. a lot D. more
( )5. A. clearly B. quickly C. loudly D. slowly
( )6. A. walked B. waited C. looked D. traveled
（ B ）
Do you know Eskimos? Let me tell you something about their l_______. The Eskimos live near the N______ Pole. There are only two s_______ there: winter and summer. There is no spring and autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can’t see the sun for m_______ than two months, even at noon. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never goes d______ and there is no night. Eskimos have warm clothes. They make their clothes from the skins of a__________. They make coats, hats and shoes. The Eskimos have to make their h_______ from skins, stones or snow. When they go out in a storm and can’t get b______ home, they make houses of snow. They leave these snow houses when the storm is over.