【课堂新坐标】2016-2017学年高中英语 Module 3 The Qin Tomb and the Terracotta Warriors Section Ⅱ Introduction Reading and Vocabulary（1）-Language Points 学业分层测评 外研版选修9.docVIP

Module 3 The Qin Tomb and the Terracotta Warriors Section Ⅱ Introduction Reading and Vocabulary（1）-Language Points Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．She teaches________(考古学) at the university. 2．When he came to himself, he found himself in a________(空旷的)valley. 3．The tombstone was________(镌刻着) with her name and the date of her death. 4．All these small states were________(统一) into one nation. 5．The leaves of the book were________(粘) together and I had difficulty trying to pull them apart. 6．They dug a________(坑) to bury the rubbish. 【答案】　1.archaeology　2.hollow　3.inscribed　4.unified　5.glued　6.pit Ⅱ.阅读理解 (2016·成都市高三第一次诊断性检测)One afternoon in November 1918，Moina Michael hurried through the streets of New York.She wore a bright red silk poppy(罂粟) on her coat collar and carried a bouquet of 24 smaller poppies.World War Ⅰ was going on overseas and Moina was determined to do_her_part. Moina was a teacher at the University of Georgia when the war broke out.She planned to do more than making socks or sweaters for the Red Cross.She wanted to encourage the soldiers before they left for war.Moina traveled to New York to care for soldiers at the medical center at Columbia University.There was nothing she enjoyed more than sitting and chatting with the soldiers.She looked at the photos of their families and brought fresh flowers to brighten the rooms when the weather outside turned grey. Earlier that November morning，she found a well known poem in a magazine，which began，“In Flanders fields，the poppies blow between the crosses，row on row...” Moina had read the poem before.She knew that John，a Canadian physician，wrote it while treating soldiers on the battlefields of Flanders in Belgium.The poem，remembering the dead，always touched her.But that morning，Moina was struck by the last verse and pictures.Soldiers with sad eyes stared at a battleground full of white crosses and bright red poppies.“Remember us，” the soldiers seemed to be speaking to her. Moina thought about the soldiers at the medical center—how t