課時作業(十七)　[必修4　Unit 2 Working the land]

　　[限時：35分鐘]

　　Ⅰ.單項填空

　　1．First impressions are the most lasting. After all, you never get ________ second chance to make ________ first impression.

　　A．a; the

　　B．the; the

　　C．a; a

　　D．the; a

　　2．He told us whether ________ a picnic was still under discussion.

　　A．to have

　　B．having

　　C．have

　　D．had

　　3．Tim is in good shape physically ________ he doesn't get much exercise.

　　A．if

　　B．even though

　　C．unless

　　D．as long as

　　4．Peter's jacket looked just the same as Jack's, but it cost ________ his.

　　A．as much twice as

　　B．twice as much as

　　C．much as twice as

　　D．as twice much as

　　5．—Sorry, I have to ________ now. It's time for class.

　　—OK, I'll call back later.

　　A．hang up

　　B．break up

　　C．give up

　　D．hold up

　　6．I'm sure you'd rather she went to school by bus，________？

　　A．hadn’t you

　　B．wouldn’t you

　　C．aren’t you

　　D．didn’t you

　　7．I have to see the doctor because I ________ a lot lately.

　　A．have been coughing

　　B．had coughed

　　C．coughed

　　D．cough

　　8．If the food tastes nice, I'll go to buy some more; ________， I won't go.

　　A．if not

　　B．when not

　　C．if any

　　D．whenever

　　9．It is required that the football match ________ put off ________ the bad weather.

　　A．be; thank to

　　B．be; due to

　　C．was; thanks to

　　D．was; owing to

　　10．________ of their bad habits, the boys ________ from being dependent on their parents to ________ for others.

　　A．Having rid; have switched; sacrificing

　　B．To rid; are switching; sacrifice

　　C．Rid; switched; sacrificing

　　D．Having been rid; are switched; sacrifice

　　11．She prefers ________ her clothes by hands rather than by machine.

　　A．having washed

　　B．washing

　　C．being washed

　　D．to wash

　　12．Strangely, the two men look ________ alike that nearly all the people think they are twin brothers.

　　A．too much

　　B．such much

　　C．much too

　　D．so much

　　13．He was very busy, and ________ he didn’t go to the party that night.

　　A．however

　　B．otherwise

　　C．therefore

　　D．anyhow

　　14．Joseph ________ to evening classes since last month, but he still can't say “What's your name？” in Russian.

　　A．has been going

　　B．went

　　C．goes

　　D．has gone

　　15．—Is it all right if I keep this photo?

　　—________.

　　A．No, you don't

　　B．No, it shouldn't

　　C．I'm afraid not

　　D．Don't keep it

　　Ⅱ.閱讀理解

　　A

　　Jackie Heinricher's love affair with bamboo started in her backyard. “As a child, I remember playing among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when there was a slight wind, the bamboos sounded really musical.”

　　A fisheries biologist, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in the salmon industry in Seattle, where she lived with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, but she found it too competitive. Then her garden gave her the idea for a business: She'd planted 20 bamboo forests on their seven-acre farm.

　　Heinricher started Boo-Shoot Gardens in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to be known to the rest of the world. It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, furniture, floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen.

　　First she had to find a way to mass-produce the plants—a tough task, since bamboo flowers create seed only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it.

　　Heinricher appealed to Randy Burr, a tissue culture expert, to help her.“People kept telling us we'd never figure it out，” says Heinricher.“Others had worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were doing, though, so I just kept going.”

　　She was right to feel a sense of urgency. Bamboo forests are being rapidly used up, and a United Nations report showed that even though bamboo is highly renewable,_as many as half of the world's species are threatened with dying out.Heinricher knew that bamboo could make a significant impact on carbon emissions(排放)and world economies, but only if huge numbers could be produced. And that's just what she and Burr figured out after nine years of experiments—a way to grow millions of plants. By placing cuttings in test tubes with salts, vitamins, plant hormones, and seaweed gel, they got the plants to grow and then raised them in soil in greenhouses.

　　Not long after it, Burr's lab hit financial difficulties. Heinricher had no experience running a tissue culture operation, but she wasn't prepared to quit. So she bought the lab.

　　Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimillion-dollar company, working on species from all over the world and selling them to wholesalers(批發商). “If you want to farm bamboo, it's hard to do without the young plants, and that's what we have，” she says proudly.

　　16．What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely?

　　A．They didn't have enough young bamboo.

　　B．They were short of money and experience.

　　C．They didn't have a big enough farm to do it.

　　D．They were not understood by other people.

　　17．What does Heinricher think of bamboo?

　　A．Fragile and affordable.

　　B．Productive and flexible.

　　C．Useful and earth-friendly.

　　D．Strong and profitable.

　　18．The underlined word “renewable” in Paragraph 6 probably means “________”．

　　A．able to be replaced naturally

　　B．able to be raised difficultly

　　C．able to be shaped easily

　　D．able to be recycled conveniently

　　19．What do you learn from the passage?

　　A．Heinricher's love for bamboo led to her experiments in the lab.

　　B．Heinricher's determination helped her to succeed in her work.

　　C．Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing.

　　D．Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream.

　　B

　　All over my garden I've planted nothing but roses, because I especially love the flower. A close friend came for a visit the other day. I told her that she should pick a bunch of roses to beautify her bedroom. I promised that the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away.

　　That girl friend of mine, walking into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there, but in the end she didn't pick a single rose. I said that she could pick many flowers; I told her that I was not a flower farmer and didn't make a living out of them. Saying so, I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers, but she stopped me, crying no, no, no!

　　To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said. With her hands seizing at my sleeves, she told me that by no means should they be cut. Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so iron-hearted as to destroy such a charming smile?

　　My mind was shocked: the ugly earth, the tough earth, the plain earth—it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people.

　　20．The writer plants nothing but roses in her garden probably because ________.

　　A．she can make money out of them

　　B．her friends like them

　　C．she enjoys the roses very much

　　D．the roses sell well

　　21．The underlined word “wafted” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “________”．

　　A．given off

　　B．lost

　　C．destroyed

　　D．thrown away

　　22．Why did the writer's close friend refuse to pick a single rose?

　　A．Because the roses were not beautiful.

　　B．Because she loved the roses very much.

　　C．Because she did not like this kind of roses.

　　D．Because the writer did not want to give her any.

　　23．What is the best title for the passage?

　　A．The Pity of People to the Roses

　　B．A Lover of Flowers

　　C．A Lovely Rose Garden

　　D．The Smiling Face of the Earth

　　Ⅲ.短文填詞

　　閱讀下面短文，根據以下提示：1)漢語提示，2)首字母提示，3)語境提示，在每個空格內填入一個適當的英語單詞，并將該詞完整地寫在下邊相對應的橫線上。所填單詞要求意義準確，拼寫正確。

　　Chen Shuling saw huge business opportunities when she greeted a large number of c__24__ at the ongoing 5th China Agricultural Trade Fair. A lot of visitors buy green food products at our e__25__ stand despite the much __26__ prices. This impresses me very much, she told Xinhua on Saturday, the first day of the four-day fair in Jinan, c__27__ of east China's Shandong Province. The trade fair, __28__ the theme of “Green Agriculture, Harmonious Countryside”， has __29__ (包括) more than 1,600 food companies, particularly green food makers, from home and __30__， and 300 international purchasers.

　　“I buy more green food products now. T__31__ they are more expensive, at least I don't need to worry about __32__ (安全)” said Du Wanying, a citizen in Beijing.“For example, they sell well although their price is more than twice that __33__ the common apples. So do our other products，” she noted.

　　24．______　25.______　26.______　27.______

　　28．______　29.______　30.______　31.______

　　32．______　33.______

　　答案

　　課時作業(十七)

　　.1.C　考查冠詞用法。句意：第一印象最持久。畢竟，你不會再有機會去形成第一印象。第一空后有second，在此表示再一次機會，而不是表順序，應用不定冠詞；第二空中的第一印象是泛指，也不是表示順序，又根據題干可以判斷impression在此處是可數名詞，可數名詞單數表泛指時須用不定冠詞，故選擇C項。

　　2．A　考查非謂語動詞。句意：他告訴我們是否去野營還在討論當中。分析句子可知“whether ＋to do sth.”作賓語從句的主語，He told us 后省略了賓語從句的引導詞that。

　　3．B　考查狀語從句。句意：盡管Tim不經常鍛煉，但他身材很好。前后是讓步關系，故選B項。

　　4．B　考查倍數的表達。

　　5．A　考查動詞短語辨析。句意：“對不起，現在我得掛斷電話了。該上課了。”“好吧，等會兒我再打電話。”hang up意為“猛地掛斷，中止(與某人的)電話交談”，符合語境。break up意為“(集會)結束，解散；(戀愛或婚姻中的男女)分手”；give up意為“放棄；認輸；猜不出，交出；自首；泄露”；hold up意為“舉起，支持，支撐，攔住，耽擱”。

　　6．B　考查would rather 的反意疑問句。

　　7．A　考查動詞的時態。句意：我得去看醫生，因為我近來一直咳嗽得很厲害。根據句子中的lately可知，設空處表示現在的事情，故用現在時態，排除B、C兩項；D項表習慣性動作，故被排除。現在完成進行時表示動作從過去開始，持續到現在且現在還在進行。

　　8．A　考查省略。句意：如果這些食物好吃，我再去買些。否則，我就不去買了。if not意為“否則”；if any意為“若有的話”；whenever意為“無論什么時候”；無when not這種表達。根據句意，正確答案為A項。

　　9．B　考查虛擬語氣及固定短語辨析。句意：由于天氣不好，足球賽被要求推遲了。在It is required that…句型中，從句的謂語動詞用“should ＋ 動詞原形”，should可以省略，所以排除C和D兩項。沒有thank to這種用法，所以排除A項，正確答案為B項。

　　10．C　考查非謂語動詞。rid of 是一個固定搭配，意為“使擺脫；使去掉”。switch from…to…也是固定搭配，意為“從……轉向……”，其中to是介詞，后面需跟名詞或動名詞形式。所以正確答案為C項。

　　11．D　考查非謂語動詞。句意：她喜歡用手洗衣服而不愿用洗衣機洗。固定表達prefer to do sth. rather than do sth.意為“寧可做……而不做；喜歡做……而不做……”，所以正確答案為D項。

　　12．D　考查副詞用法。句意：奇怪的是，這兩個人看起來這么相像，以至于幾乎所有人都認為他們是雙胞胎兄弟。too much 后跟不可數名詞或單獨使用，意為“太多”；much too后跟形容詞或副詞原級，意為“太，很”；沒有such much這種表達；so后可跟形容詞或副詞，所以正確答案為D項。

　　13．C　考查副詞辨析。根據上下文可知是因果關系，因此選C。

　　14．A　考查動詞的時態。句意：約瑟夫從上個月就開始上夜校，但是他還不會用俄語說“你叫什么名字”。本題從時間狀語“自從上個月開始”可知需用現在完成時，又因為說話時他還在繼續上課，所以要用現在完成進行時。

　　15．C　考查交際用語。句意：“這張照片我保存行嗎？”“恐怕不行。”答語應為委婉拒絕。A、B、D均不符合題意。

　　.A

　　本文是一篇記敘文。其大意是說Jackie Heinricher創辦了一家生意獨特的公司——出售對地球環境有很大好處的植物竹子。文章還介紹她栽種竹子的艱辛歷程。

　　16．A　細節理解題。根據文章的最后一句“If you want to farm bamboo, it's hard to do without the young plants, and that's what we have…”可知沒有小竹子很難廣泛地栽種竹子。

　　17．C　推理判斷題。根據第三段最后兩句“It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, furniture, floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen.”可推知竹子是“有用的”以及“環保的”。

　　18．A　詞義猜測題。由renewable的構成可知其詞根是new，加后綴-able意思是“能夠更新的”；加前綴re-意思是“再，又，重新”，由此可知本題選A。

　　19．B　推理判斷題。通讀最后一段可知Heinricher的生意很成功，前幾段講了她的艱辛的歷程，故本題選B。

　　B

　　本文為夾敘夾議文。主要講述了“我”種了一園的玫瑰，朋友來訪時，“我”建議她可以把花摘回，放在屋里，可朋友說玫瑰是地球的笑臉，決不能采摘。

　　20．C　細節理解題。根據第一段第一句“All over my garden I've planted nothing but roses, because I especially love the flower.”可知，“我”種玫瑰是因為“我”非常喜歡玫瑰，故選C項。

　　21．A　詞義猜測題。根據畫線詞所在句“…the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away.”可猜出玫瑰的香味應該能散發到很遠，故選A項，give off意為“散發出”。B項意為“遺失，失敗”；C項意為“毀滅”；D項意為“扔掉”。

　　22．B　推理判斷題。根據第二段第一句“That girl friend of mine, walking into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there…”以及第三段第三句“Roses are the smiling face of the earth…”可知，作者的這個朋友應該是非常喜歡玫瑰，故選B項。

　　23．D　主旨大意題。綜觀全文，以及倒數第二段最后一句“Roses are the smiling face of the earth…such a charming smile？”以及最后一段“My mind was shocked: the ugly earth, the tough earth, the plain earth—it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people.”可知選D項。