【名师一号】高中英语-Unit-5　Part ⅠVocabulary and Useful Expressions双基限时练新人教版必修3.docVIP

Vocabulary and useful expressions Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．The town lies on the ________ (边界) between the US and Canada. 答案　border2．The rural ________ (风景) was so beautiful that he decided to stay one more week. 答案　scenery 3．The British Secretary is the ________ (大臣) who looks after foreign affairs. 答案　minister 4．The Antarctic is a ________ (大洲) centered roughly on the South Pole. 答案　continent 5．They have ________ (包围) the town with troops. 答案　surrounded 6．We reached the ________ (海港) at sunset. 答案　harbour 7．He left his ________ (行李) at the railway station. 答案　baggage 8．You are only ________ (轻微地) underweight for your height. 答案　slightly 9．We saw them sailing ________ (向东)． 答案　eastward 10．The government has taken proper ________ (措施) to control the swine flu in order to keep the nation fit. 答案　measures Ⅱ.单句语法填空(不多于3个单词) 1．— Were you busy last weekend? — Very. Rather than ________ (waste) time playing cards as usual, I devoted every effort to designing an advertisement. 答案与解析　wasting　答句句意：非常忙。我没有像往常一样打牌，而是全力倾注于设计广告。“devote ... to ...”中的to是介词，后跟动名词。rather than连接两个并列成分。 2．After the explosion the army got the building ________ (surround) and the ________ (surround) area was also cut off from the outside. 答案与解析　surrounded; surrounding　句意：爆炸以后，军队包围了那栋楼房，周边地区也与外界隔绝了。第一个空构成“get ... done”结构；第二个空用surrounding(附近的；四周的)，在名词前作定语。 3．Although it was a hard problem, he managed ________ (settle) it all by himself at last. 答案与解析　to settle　manage to do sth.“设法完成某事”，表示成功做某事。 4．When he was a child, he seemed to have a gift ________ drawing. 答案与解析　for　have a gift for“对……有天赋”。 5．Hands ________ (cross) behind his head, John lay on the sand with his eyes looking straight upward into space. 答案与解析　crossed　hands与cross之间是被动关系，故用过去分词。 6．There are so many tall trees in the forest, some of them ________ (measure) 50 metres. 答案与解析　measuring　现在分词短语作状语。 7．She likes to chat ________ Grandma ________ every detail of her life over the phone. 答案与解析　with; about　句意：她喜欢在电话里和祖母聊天，谈论有关生活的任何一个细节。chat with sb. about sth. “与某人闲谈