1、1Module 3 Interpersonal Relationships-Friendship Section Introduction people might become angry or _ while drinking, for example.(mood)6She worked hard to be more _ independent.(finance)7All their clothes are in the storage _.(lock)8When tired and unhappy I have no energy for _.(chat)答案：1.closely 2.
2、close 3.were 4.is 5.moody6financially 7.locker 8.chatting.阅读理解AFourYearOld Boy Becomes Queen Elizabeths Pen PalLondon, England: A fouryearold boy has become a pen pal of Britains Queen Elizabeth. Tom Stancombe started exchanging letters with the queen after he set free a balloon, carrying his name a
3、nd address, at a school party and it landed on the grounds of Windsor Castle.The queen spotted the balloon and asked her personal assistant, Angela Kelly, to write a letter on her behalf.She wrote: “The queen was delighted to find that your balloon had traveled all the way to the gardens at Windsor
4、Castle.”Tom, who proudly put the letter on his wall, wrote back to say that his great, great grandfather, the artist Petrus Johannes Arundzen, had been commissioned(受委托) to copy Dutch masters on display at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.Angela at once replied that she would contact the Royal C
5、ollection to find out what had happened to the art works. She kept her word and two weeks later wrote to Tom to tell him what had happened to the etchings,_explaining they now form part of the print collection in the Print Library.Angela then asked a favor of Tom, writing: “Would you be able to ask
6、your Mummy and Daddy for me if they know anything more about your great, great grandfather? Royal Collection would love to know more about him.”Along with his parents, Tom wrote back to fill in all the gaps about Petrus Johannes Arundzen.Although Toms parents dont think there will be any more letter
7、s exchanged between the pair, they were touched that she had taken time to contact them.Toms father said: “I dont expect well get another one, but I think its incredible they bothered replying at all.”1What is Windsor Castle?A. A playing ground. B. The queens home.C. A post office. D. A rose garden.
8、答案与解析：B 推理判断题。由文章中的“Tom Stancombe started exchanging letters with the queen after he set free a balloon, carrying his name and address, at a school party and it landed on the grounds of Windsor Castle.”及2下一自然段可知本题选 B。2What does the underlined word “etchings” mean?A. Photos. B. Paintings.C. Postcards
9、. D. Cartoons.答案与解析：B 词义猜测题。根据文章中的“Angela at once replied that she would contact the Royal Collection to find out what had happened to the art works.”及上一自然段可知本题选 B。3How does the queen know the boy?A. By chance occurrence.B. By exchanging letters.C. By letting go the balloon.D. By the queens secretar
10、y.答案与解析：A 推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句及第二段内容可知，女王知道这个小男孩纯属偶然，故 A 项正确。4Toms parents _.A. feel very much shocked about the letters and refuse to answer themB. try to deal with the friendship naturally but refuse to do anything about itC. dont take the matter very seriously but somehow feel good at heartD. dont thi
11、nk this friendship will last long but still look forward to new letters答案与解析：C 细节理解题。由文章的倒数第二自然段可知本题选 C。BResearch on friendship has established a number of facts, some interesting, some even useful. Did you know that the average student has 56 friends, or that a friend who was previously an enemy is
12、 like more than one who has always been on the right side? Would you believe that physically attractive individuals are preferred as friends to those less comely, and is it fair that physically attractive defendants are less likely to be found guilty in court? Unfortunately, such tidbits dont tell u
13、s much more about the nature or the purpose of friendship. In fact, studies of friendship seem to implicate more complex factors.For example， one function friendship seems to fulfil is that it supports the image we have of ourselves, and confirms the value of the attitudes we hold. Certainly we appe
14、ar to project ourselves onto our friends; several studies have shown that we judge them to be more like us than they(objectively) are. This suggests that we ought to choose friends who are similar to us rather than those who would be complementary. In our experiment, some developing friendships were
15、 monitored amongst firstyear students living in the same hostel. It was found that similarity of attitudes(towards politics, religion and ethics, pastimes and aesthetics) was a good predictor of what friendships would be established by the end of four months, though it has less to do with initial al
16、liancesnot surprisingly, since attitudes may not be obvious on first inspection.There have also been studies of pairings, both voluntary(married couples) and forced(student roommates), to see which remained together and which split up. Again, the evidence seems to favour similarity rather than compl
17、ementary as an omen(预兆) of a successful relationship, though there is a complication: where marriage is concerned, once the field has been narrowed down to potential mates who come from similar backgrounds and share a broad range of attitudes and values, a degree of complementary seems to become des
18、irable. When a couple 3are not just similar but almost identical, something else seems to be needed. Similarity can breed contempt, it has also been found that when we find others obnoxious(不愉快的), we dislike them more if they are like us than when they are dissimilar!The difficulty of linking friend
19、ship with similarity of personality probably reflects the complexity of our personalities: we have many facets and therefore require a disparate(全异的) group of friends to support us. This of course can explain why we may have two close friends who have little in common, and indeed dislike each other.
20、 By and large, though, it looks as though we would do well to choose friends(and spouses) who resemble us. If this were not so, computer dating agencies would have gone out of business years ago.5Research on friendship has demonstrated that _.A. every student has five or six friendsB. judges are alw
21、ays influenced by a pretty faceC. ugly people find it harder to make friends than beautiful peopleD. we tend to grow fond of people if we dislike them at first sight答案与解析：C 细节判断题。外貌难看的人发现自己很难像外貌漂亮的人那样与他人交友。第一段第三句“physically attractive individuals are preferred as friends to those less comely”，外貌好的人比
22、之不好的人易受人青睐，所以选 C。6Studies of friendship have indicated that in seeking friends we _.A. are looking for sympathyB. insist on them having similar attitudes as oursC. think they resemble us more than they really doD. want to be flattered答案与解析：C 细节理解题。我们往往会过分地认为他们和我们相像。第二段指出，人们似乎喜欢把自己设想成处于其朋友们的境况，因而过分地认
23、为他们和自己相像，所以选 C。7The experiment conducted on students living in a hostel suggested that _.A. in the long run, people get on better with those who are like themB. it was impossible to predict which friendships would developC. students immediately recognized others with similar attitudes and interestsD
24、. students split up as soon as they discovered differences in attitude答案与解析：A 细节理解题。从长远的观点看，人们与自己习性相像的人相处较好。第二段最后一句指出，观察表明，四个月之后，学生间的友谊关系才能确立，而且具有相同的经历、兴趣和观点的人之间更能建立友谊，所以选 A。8Which of the following best illustrates the major view of the passage?A. Birds of a feather flock together.B. Opposites attra
25、ct each other.C. Great minds think alike.D. A friend in need is a friend indeed.答案与解析：A 主旨大意题。物以类聚，人以群分。根据全文的阐述，其中心思想是：具有较为相同的经历、兴趣和观点的人之间往往容易建立友谊，所以选 A。.七选五阅读NOISEThe people who lived in Rome 2,000 years ago were already talking about the noise in their city. They couldnt sleep, they said, with all
26、 the people and carriages in the streets. For them noise was only a trouble, but for us it has become a real danger. We know that sounds of an ordinary city are loud enough to cause serious harm to the peoples hearingin the United States, one person 4out of twenty has suffered some hearing loss. _1_
27、 It has increased greatly in the 20th century with the development of machines. We live surrounded by loud planes, trucks, buses, radios, machinesthat make such loud noises day and night up to 90 or 100 decibels(分贝). A usual talk reaches 55 decibels. A jet plane goes to 100 decibels and more. “Pop”
28、music reaches around 118 decibels. At 120 decibels the ear stops hearing sound, and the ear suffers a lot.However, the human ear does not judge clearly the degree of loudness of a noise. A sound ten decibels louder than another one is felt as twice as loud, when, in fact, it is ten times louder. _2_
29、 But it is not only our hearing that is harmed. It has been known that loud noises, over a period of time, cause loss of sleep, anger, and many other problems. _3_ Can anything be done to make our world more quiet? We know how to build quieter machines, if the public wants them. But shop assistants
30、say that people who buy motorbikes like the loudest ones because they sound more loudly. _4_ In America the drivers in some cities are fined(罚款) fifty dollars for honking (打喇叭); they may lose their right to drive if they do it again. People who carry noisy radios in public places may lose them if th
31、ey are caught with them._5_ Even so, say the scientists, in twenty years the cities will be twice as loud as they are today because of the increase of the population. People will have to shout to be heard at the dinner table. Unless, of course, they have all become completely deaf!A. Some countries
32、are trying to make laws.B. People will become completely deaf in the future.C. When a sound is getting louder and louder, our ears are in danger.D. In fact, it will take everybodys hard work to keep city noises from increasing.E. Since we cannot measure the increase or decrease of noise, we never kn
33、ow in what danger we are.F. And all over the world the situation is getting worse all the time since noise increases with the population.G. Such problems have been found among factory workers, and people who operate loud machines, or often go to pop music concerts.答案：1.F 2.E 3.G 4.A 5.D1Module 3 Int
34、erpersonal Relationships-Friendship Section Grammar.用括号内动词的适当形式填空1They refused _ _ (accept) my suggestion.2She suggested _ (spend) another week in the country.3When did you begin _ _ (learn) French?4Lets try _ (do) the work in this way.5_ (leave) something in the cloakroom, I went inside to get it.6
35、I dont like _ (play) basketball，but I like _ (play) basketball just the moment.7I remembered _ (post) the letter this morning.8I regret _ (inform) you that you wont be able to attend the class.9Failing this exam means _ (wait) for a year.10_ (lose) all my friends，I felt very shy and lonely in my new
36、 school.答案：1.to accept 2.spending 3.learning/to learn 4.doing 5.Having left 6.playing; to play 7.posting8to inform 9.waiting 10.Having lost.单句改错1I am sorry for what I said, but I didnt mean hurting you._2The coffee was very bad. He tried to put some sugar in it._3After he finished doing maths exerci
37、ses, he went on reading the novel._4The flowers need to water._5Having shown around the Water Cube, we were then taken to see the Birds Nest for the 2008 Olympic Games._6Working in the country for three years, he knew how to grow vegetables._答案：1.hurtingto hurt 2.to putputting 3.readingto read 4.to
38、waterto be watered/watering5Having shownHaving been shown 6.WorkingHaving worked.完形填空I always remembered the first time I took part in an English composition competition. “Right! Dean would be the _1_ of our class to participate in the English composition competition， ” my classmates said. (Applaudi
39、ng)I was too _2_ to speak when I heard what my classmates said. In order not to _3_ short of my classmates _4_. I trained myself very hard for the hope of being the _5_ of the competition, which would take place a month later. I _6_ a lot of vocabulary, sentence structures and _7_ rules and read man
40、y good or renowned articles. Though I havent _8_ pretty well, the day came. Every candidate _9_ me looked so wellprepared and _10_. “Only 1.5 hours. Start， ” a supervisor suddenly said. Seeing the _11_ “What do most teenagers concern nowadays？” I was nervous and got _12_ block. Whats 2worse, other c
41、andidates had begun writing. Moments later, I _13_ myself，took a deep breath，and began brainstorming ideas _14_ the topic. I quickly wrote down the composition structure, central theme, and _15_ necessary elements. As the finishing time was _16_， I tried my best to accelerate my writing. Unfortunate
42、ly, _17_ my failure of time management, I left my composition incomplete. My final draft looked like a robot _18_ legs were broken.The result came out two weeks later. To my surprise, I got the second prize! All my classmates cheered for me. This encouraged me a lot. _19_ I was not the first prize w
43、inner, I could still _20_ the scent of pride and happiness spreading around me.1A. player B. choiceC. representative D. person2A. proud B. delightedC. nervous D. surprised3A. get B. beC. lose D. fall4A. promises B. expectationsC. dreams D. words5A. success B. beaterC. winner D. victory6A. memorized
44、B. copiedC. read D. wrote7A. grammar B. phraseC. pattern D. term8A. remembered B. preparedC. started D. completed9A. besides B. except C. except for D. as well as10A. easy B. nervous C. interested D. unconfident11A. problem B. idea C. topic D. theme12A. writers B. teachers C. thinkers D. composers13
45、A. persuaded B. told C. encouraged D. calmed14A. with B. towards C. at D. for15A. another B. the other C. other D. others16A. approaching B. accessing C. finishing D. ending17A. thanks for B. due to C. as a result D. on account18A. of which B. which C. whose D. that19A. However B. As a result C. Wor
46、se still D. Although20A. smell B. touch C. sense D. realise答案与解析：31C 从下文可知：我当选为我们班的代表，参加比赛。2D 听到自己当选，出乎我的意料，而不是紧张。3D fall short of.“辜负” 。4B 从下文可知我为了不辜负同学们的期望(not to fall short of.expectations)，刻苦练习。5C 刻苦训练的目的是为了成为竞赛的获胜者。6A 背诵单词更能体现我的刻苦。7A 词汇、句型和语法规则是写作的基础。8B 从下文可知，我还没有做好充分准备，比赛的时间就到了。9B 在我看来除了我之外，其他
47、的选手准备都很充分。except 用在这里表示只有我没有准备好。10A 其他选手看上去都很轻松“easy” 。11C 根据下文可知，比赛开始时，监考老师宣布了写作的“topic” 。12A got writers block 意思是思维拥堵，写不出东西来，这一点从下文可以推断出来。13D 从上文可知，开始时很紧张，一会儿后才开始平静下来。calm myself“使我自己平静下来” 。14D ideas for the topic“有关那个话题的一些想法” ，for 表示所属关系。15C 除了前面所说的，就是其他的了，other necessary elements“其他必需的要素” 。16A
48、approach 表示时间的临近。17B 作文没有写完是因为(due to.)我时间掌控的不好。18C legs 和前面的 robot 是所属关系，在定语从句中要用 whose。19D 从句意可知本句是让步状语从句，因此选择 although。20C sense“感觉到，意识到” 。.语法填空Lucy: You look so tired, Steve.Steve: Ive been ill for a few days.Lucy: What has been happening?Steve: Well, I was feeling great _1_ Saturday, _2_ I star
49、ted to feel sick on Sunday afternoon. I thought Id get better, but I feel _3_ (bad) than before.Lucy: Have you seen a doctor yet?Steve: Yes, I went to hospital on Monday.Lucy: What seems to be _4_ problem?Steve: Well, the doctor said it was just a bad cold. He gave me some medicine and told me _5_ (
50、rest)at home and drink more water. I _6_ (take) the medicine for three days but _7_ doesnt seem to help.Lucy: Oh, forget about his medicine! Just try some of my mums _8_ (tradition) Chinese medicine and youll be fine _9_ no time.Steve: Really? Well, Ill try it.Lucy: I _10_ come with my mum to your place at 7：30 this evening.Steve: Thank you! See you then.答案：1.on 2.but 3.worse 4.the 5.to rest6have taken 7.it/that 8.traditional 9.in 10.will
