人教新课标高二英语选修6 Unit 4 基础练习
I. 用括号内单词的正确形式填空。
1. Plant ________ (grow) is most noticeable in spring and early summer.
2. The speaker gave an interesting ________ (present) on urban transport.
3. Scientists have many theories about how the universe first came into ________ (exist).
4. The school sees its job as preparing students to make a(n) ________ (contribute) to society.
5. There were ________ (disagree) among doctors about the best way to treat the disease.
6. Recycling also helps control environmental ________ (pollute) by reducing the need for waste dumps.
II. 用适当的介词填空。
1. She opened the book ________ random and started reading.
2. Before the end of the programme, let’s take a glance ________ the sports news.
3. ________ behalf of the entire company, I would like to thank you for all your work.
4. Some people were opposed ________ naming the high school after Martin Luther King.
5. These youth are ________ average better educated than those already in the marketplace.
6. Boys who wish to subscribe ________ the present for Mr. Smith should bring their money to me.
III. 选用方框内合适的短语并用其正确形式填空(每个短语限用一次)。
come about, keep on, even if, so long as, go up, result in, on the whole, put up with
1. ________________, I thought the film was pretty good.
2. How did it ________________ that he knew where we were?
3. A sudden change in temperature will ________________ rain.
4. My parents don’t care what I work at ________________ I’m happy.
5. If she could ________________ the conditions there, we could take her.
6. The neighbors asked them to stop making a noise, but they ________________.
7. —Do you think that housing price will keep ___________ in the years to come?
—Sorry, I have no idea.?
8. She won’t leave the TV set, ________________ her husband is waiting for his supper.
IV. 单项选择。
1. _____ with the size of the whole earth, the biggest ocean does not seem big at all.
A. Compare B. When comparing C. Comparing D. When compared
2. With more forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth _____ each year.
A.is washing away B. is being washed away
C. are washing away D. are being washed away
3. My friend Martin was very sick with a strange fever,_____, he could neither eat nor sleep.
A. as a result B. after all C. any away D. otherwise
4. The Minister was asked to make a /an______ on the progress of the talks.
A. statement B. decision C. agreement D. offer
5. — Can I shoot that bird at the top of the tree?
— No, it’s out of _______.
A. range B. reach C. control D. distance
6. He is nothing special. He is only the _____ man in the street.
A. average B. usual C. general D. common
7. There is no denying the fact that computers have generally _______ in size.
A. refused B. declined C. decreased D. fell
8. There is no evidence that life _______ on other planets.
A. is existing B. exists C. has been existed D. is existed
9. I don't know how people there can _______ such cold weather.
A.put up with B. put up C. put away D. put off
10. Some researchers believe that there is no doubt ______ a cure for AIDS will be found.
A. which B. that C. what D. whether
V. 将下面句子改写为强调句(对画线部分进行强调)。
1. A professor from Tsinghua University gave us a speech yesterday.
______________________________________________________
2. The students of our school often have a meeting in the hall.
______________________________________________________
3. The tourists were rescued with the help of the local guide.??
______________________________________________________
4. The telephone rang when she was about to go to bed.
______________________________________________________
5. I did not realize what had happened until the next day.
???______________________________________________________
VI. 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Melting ice on Greenland could expose an unused U.S. military (军事的) base 1. ________ contains harmful waste, scientists warn.
Camp Century was built in 1959. The base was to study the 2. ________ (possible) of deploying (部署) nuclear weapons from the Arctic during the Cold War. The base was closed in 1967. Scientists thought that any harmful material 3. ________ (leave) at the base would be covered with ice forever. Now, new research suggests the base could be exposed 4. ________ the environment by 2090.
The base is believed to contain biological, chemical and radioactive waste. The study warns that the waste could disrupt (打乱) Greenland’s environment. Researchers studied old engineering records 5. ________ (find) out how deeply the waste is buried and how much the ice has moved since the 1960s. All the waste could enter the environment as the climate warms and the ice sheet melts, researchers said.
Camp Century covers 6. ________ area about the size of 100 soccer fields. It is about 200 kilometers from Greenland’s coast. 7. ________ (near) 200 soldiers lived there when it was an operating U.S. base. Sometimes the camp 8. ________ (call) “the city under the ice.” Any possible cleanup of the site could be tricky. The base belongs to the U.S. However, Greenland belongs to Denmark. International law has clear rules about 9. ________ (deal) with harmful waste. But, it is not clear on 10. ________ is responsible for cleaning up the waste from a long time ago.
VII. 书面表达。
和其他的孩子相比,我不很擅长学数学。因为我不能忍受记忆那么多陌生的数据。但是,除了学习之外,我的兴趣很广泛,从玩游戏到听音乐。这使得我的父母很担心。他们认为正是因为这些才导致我的成绩差。于是他们开始想方设法来提高我的成绩,他们甚至花高价来找老师帮助我。然而,过了很长一段时间后,也没有效果。或许只有我自己才能改变我的现状。
参考答案:
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1. It was a professor from Tsinghua University who / that gave us a speech yesterday.
2. It is in the hall that the students of our school often have a meeting.
3. It was with the help of the local guide that the tourists were rescued.
4. It was when she was about to go to bed that the telephone rang.
5. It was not until the next day that I realized what had happened.
VI.
1. that / which ???????2. possibility 3. left? ? ? ? ? 4. to 5. to find?
?6. an 7. Nearly ?????? ?8. was called?? 9. dealing? ? ?10. who
VII.
Compared with other children, I am not good at math. Because I can’t put up with memorizing so many strange data. But I like almost anything but study. In fact, my interests rang from playing games to listening to music, which makes parents worried. They think it is because of this that results in my bad work. So they begin to try every possible ways to improve my study. Even they pay a large quantity of money to employ teachers to help me. However, after a long time, it made no difference. Maybe, it is I that can change my present situation.