【广东专用】2014届高考英语一轮复习 课时作业二 unit2 english around the world 新人教版必修1.docVIP

课时作业(二)　[必修1　Unit 2　English around the world] (限时：45分钟) 　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Ⅰ.语法填空 In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear 1.________ spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly with confidence and without hesitation. 2.________， we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct. There is no easy way to success 3.________ language learning. 4.________ good memory is a great help, but it is not enough only 5.________ (memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is no much use learning by heart long lists of words and their meanings, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn 6.________ using the language. 7.________ we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of 8.________ (advise) for those 9.________ are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practise speaking and 10.________ (write) the language whenever we can. Ⅱ.阅读理解 A Today, we complete our story about the influential English writer William Shakespeare. He wrote plays and poems during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which remain very popular today. During earlier times, people would probably have learned several ancient Roman and Greek plays. It was not unusual for writers to produce more current versions of these works. For example, in Shakespeares play The Comedy of Errors Shakespeare borrowed certain details from the ancient Roman writer Plautus. For his play Macbeth, Shakespeare most likely used a work on Scottish history by Raphael Holinshed for information. Shakespeare might have borrowed from other writers, but the intensity(强度)of his imagination and language made the plays his own. While many plays by other writers of his time have been forgotten, Shakespeare and his art l