1、双基限时练( 十一) Unit 8 Lesson 2.单词拼写1The great news caused great _ (兴奋) in the class.答案 excitement2_ (极度的) poverty still exists in many mountain areas.答案 Extreme3There are _ (各种各样的) flowers in our school.答案 various4What _ (确切地) did you mean by that last remark?答案 exactly5The store sells tents and other c
2、amping _ (设备) 答案 equipment6Many people expressed a strong _ (偏爱) for the former plan.答案 preference7There is never a _ (枯燥无味的) moment when Johns around.答案 dull8The tide began to _ (涌出) and our footprints were covered.答案 flow.单句语法填空(不多于 3 个单词)1 Why does the lake smell terrible? Because large quantitie
3、s of water _ (pollute)答案与解析 have been polluted 句意：这湖水怎么这么难闻？因为大量的水已经被污染了。water 与 pollute 之间是被动关系。2As a teacher, you must get _ what you teach to your students.答案与解析 across 句意：作为一名老师，你必须让学生清楚地理解你的意思。get across“使理解(某事) ”。3Although Mary wears fashionable clothes, everything in her room is upside _.答案与解
4、析 down 句意：玛丽虽然穿着时尚的衣服，但她房间的东西乱糟糟的。upside down“乱七八糟 ”。4She went through the forests, risking _ (meet) some fierce animals.答案与解析 meeting 句意：她穿越了森林，冒着遇见猛兽的危险。risk doing sth.“冒险干某事，冒着干某事的危险” 。5All of us thought that the problem was _ (good) worth discussing.答案与解析 well be well worth doing 为一固定句型，意为“某事很值得
5、做” ， worth 前用 well 修饰，而不能用其他副词。6On my way home, I came _ a girl who was run _ by a car.答案与解析 across; over 此题考查了两个固定搭配come/run/drop across 都有“偶然遇见”之意，而 run over“从轧过去” 。7He had a lot of evidence to back _ his arguments.答案与解析 up 句意：他有许多证据证实自己的观点。back up“证实；支持” 。8More and more people choose to shop in a
6、 supermarket as it offers a great _ (vary) of goods.答案与解析 variety 句意：越来越多的人选择去超市购物，因为它能提供大量的不同的商品。variety 意为“多样；品种” 。.阅读理解Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of football, hockey, golf, or te
7、nnis, or it may be mountaineering.Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between
8、 mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no manmade rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this fr
9、eedom from manmade rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.If we compare mountaineering with other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mis
10、taken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man.
11、 He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities.A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not un
12、usual for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skill and less waste of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.1. Mountaineering is a sport which involves _.A. hardship B. coldC. ph
13、ysical risks D. all of the above答案与解析 D 由文章第二段第二句话“Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains？ ”可知答案为 D 项。2. Mountaineering is also a team sport because _.A. it involves rulesB. it involves matches between teamsC. it requires mental and physical qu
14、alitiesD. mountaineers depend on each other while climbing答案与解析 D 由文章第四段最后一句话中的“. but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope .，there is obviously teamwork.”可知，队员之间没有竞争，而是当爬山者们在岩壁上由一条绳子连接着的时候，他们的生命是互相依赖的，那是明显的合作。因此答案为 D 项。3. Which of the following is TRUE?A. Mountaineers compete against ea
15、ch other.B. Mountaineers compete against other teams.C. Mountaineers compete against nature.D. Mountaineers compete against international standard.答案与解析 C 由文章第五段可知答案为 C 项。4. What is the best title for the passage?A. MountaineeringB. Mountain ClimbersC. Mountaineering Is Different from Golf and Footb
16、allD. Mountaineering Is More Dangerous Than Other Sports答案与解析 D 由文章上下文可概括得知。.七选五“Depend on yourself” is what nature says to every man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. _1_ But all these only help you to help yourself._2_ But many of them were very poor in childhood, and had no uncles, au
17、nts or friends to help them. Schools were few and low. They could not depend on them for education. They saw how it was, and set to work with their strength to know something. _3_ One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils, “_4_ However, I can help you make man of yourselves.
18、”_5_ So they are to be pitied. They never can succeed unless they see their foolishness and change their course. They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the advice of their parents and teachers, and depend on their own efforts.A. They worked their own way t
19、ill they became wellknown.B. Some young men have no ambition to do anything.C. There have been many great men in history.D. Nobody can help you except yourself.E. I cannot make worthy men of you.F. Dont blame those who have failed.G. Others still can help you.答案 1.G 2.C 3.A 4.E 5.B.短文改错I still remem
20、ber my middle school life in that small town. I am then in a school for students from Tibet. As we all left home at a early age, we met lots of problems in our daily life. We had to do the washing, cleaning and shopping by us. However, we seldom felt lonely or helplessly. We enjoyed our happy life.
21、At weekends, we would play basketball, swam in the pool or go for a picnic. We are lived in a big family. We treated each other brothers and sisters. If any one of us had any difficulty with his studies, the other student would help him out. It has been five years when we graduated, but those memori
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