2013年高考英语一轮复习课时作业24：Unit 4 Making the news（新人教版必修5广东专用）.docVIP

PAGE  课时作业(二十四)　[必修5　Unit 4　Making the news] [限时：30分钟] 　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Ⅰ.语法填空 In every school a “top” crowd sets the pace，while the others follow their lead. Lets say the top crowd decides that it is smart to wear bright red sweaters. Pretty soon everybody is wearing 1.________ bright red sweater. There is nothing wrong with that, 2.________ the fact that on some people a bright red sweater is 3.________ (extreme) unbecoming(不得体的). The situation can even become dangerous，if the top crowd decides that it is smart to drink or to drive cars at seventy miles an hour. Then the people 4.________(follow) the lead are endangering their lives. They are like the sheeps 5.________(lead) to the butcher. Now, chances are 6.________ you have come across situations like these more than once in life; your chances are that one time or 7.________ you probably did something you knew to be wrong. You may have excused yourself by saying，“Gee，the crowd does it.”Well，let the crowd do it，but dont do it yourself. Learn to say “No”． Develop your own standards and your own judgment. 8.________ you know the crowd is planning something you 9.________ (agree) with，have the courage to bow out(退出) politely. Youll have the 10.________ (satisfy) of standing on your own two feet. Ⅱ.阅读理解 A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better. A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, s