2014-2015学年高中英语选修8（人教版）《Unit 5　Meeting your ancestors》课时作业（九）　Warming Up Reading Word版含答案.docVIP

Unit 5　Meeting your ancestors 课时作业(九)　Warming Up Reading Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．We agreed with his ________(分析)of the political situation. 2．It is a race against time to stop people dying from ________(挨饿)． 3．I cant________(假设)anything in this case. 4．________(准确)is more important than speed in his new job. 5．These questions may be included in the same ________(类别)． 6．We are waiting for the first crops to ________(成熟)． 7．Small seashells were often used as a ________(原始的)kind of money. 8．The way was blocked，so we went by an ________(供选择的)road. 9．It is not polite to ________(打断)when someone is talking. 10．The soldiers ________(使锋利)up their knives. Ⅱ.完形填空 Some myths are stories told since ancient times to explain the causes for natural happenings.The Greek myth that explains why there are changes of __1__ is about Demeter，the goddess of the harvest.She had a daughter，Persephone，whom she loved very much.Hades，god of the underworld，fell in love with Persephone，and he asked Zeus，the __2__ of the gods，to give Persephone to him as his __3__.Zeus did not want either to disappoint Hades or to upset Demeter，so he said he would not agree to the marriage，but neither would he __4__ it.Hades，therefore，decided to take the girl without __5__.When Persephone was picking flowers in the garden，he seized her and took her to the underworld.When Demeter found out what happened to Persephone，she became so __6__ that she caused all plants to stop growing.People were in __7__ of starving.But Demeter was determined not to let crops grow until her daughter，Persephone，was returned to her.__8__，still not wanting to disappoint Hades，decided upon a condition for Persephones __9__.She could go back to her mother if she had not __10__ anything while she was in the underworld.Demeter __11__ it because she did not know that Persephone had eaten several pomegranate(石榴) seeds in the underworld.When Zeus __12__ this，he agreed that Persephone could spend part of the year with her __13__，but he added that since she h