(高考讲义）2015-2016学年高一英语北师大版必修1课时训练：Unit 1 Period 2　Reading Comprehension.docVIP

Period 2　Reading Comprehension .缩写课文 Brian is a couch potato. He doesn’t get up 1.________ when he wakes up. Instead，he watches TV 2.__________ half-past ten. For lunch，he watches 3.____________ and in the afternoon，he often watches another 4.____________.At nine thirty，if there is a good play on BBC 2，he 5.____________ and watches it. He also takes his dog for a 6.________ but doesn’t go far. He always takes his 7.________ TV while walking. He couldn’t live this lifestyle 8.________ a good wife. Bob is a thirty-six-year-old man.He likes being 9.________. It takes him 10.________ 15 minutes to get ready for work. He is always the 11.________ to get to the office.12.________ and 13.____________ take up a large part of the day. He gets to bed around 14.__________. His family 15.________ that he seldom has time for fun with them，but he has to work hard to make more money. Ⅱ.句型转换 1．A：What do you usually do when you are free? B：What do you usually do ________ ________ ________ ________？ 2．A：We spent an hour in finishing our homework. B：It __________ ________ an hour ________ ________ our homework. 3．A：I like music best in my spare time. B：I like music ________ than ________ ________ ________ in my spare time. 4．A：The huge stone is very heavy. We can not lift it. B：The huge stone is ________ heavy ________ we can not lift it. 5．A：She is a lovely girl. They all like to play with her. B：She is ______ ________ ________ ________ __________/________ ________ ________ ________ ________ they all like to play with her. .阅读理解 Before 1492，no one living in Europe ate corn cakes or corn bread.They didn’t know there was corn in the world.Scientists believed corn was first grown by Indians thousands of years ago. As Indian groups moved north，they brought corn with them.American Indians were growing corn in many parts of North America long before Europeans arrived.Columbus and the people who followed him took corn back to Europe and introduced it to the people there. In the 1600s，early