20152016高中英语 unit3 A taste of English humour section1练习 新人教版必修4概要1.doc

Unit 3　 Section Ⅰ Ⅰ.单项语法填空 1．My friend knows where he can pick ________a good used car at a reasonable price. 答案：up　句意：我的朋友知道在哪里买到价格公道而质量尚好的旧车。pick up“(便宜地)买到”。 2．Up to now, the program________(save) thousands of children who would otherwise have died. 答案：has saved　考查时态。up to now表示“直到现在”，句中谓语动词往往用现在完成时态。 3．________was expected, only five people turned up at the party，________disappointed the hostess very much. 答案：As; which　as引导非限制性定语从句，位置比较灵活，表示在意料之中；which 引导非限制性定语从句，表示在意料之外。本句话意思是“正如所预料的，只有5个人参加了那次聚会，这使女主人非常失望。” 4．Two middle－aged passengers fell into the sea.________(fortunate)，neither of them could swim. 答案：Unfortunately　从neither of them could swim判断，可知应该是“不幸的是”。句意：两个中年乘客掉入海中，不幸的是，他们两个都不会游泳。 5．He often listens to music in his spare time to entertain________. 答案：himself　句意为“他经常在空闲时间听音乐来愉悦自己”。 6．Jack was ________ failure as a leader, but he achieved great success in writing. 答案：a　考查抽象名词及抽象名词具体化。failure，[U]失败；[C]失败者，失败的人或物。句意为“杰克作为一个领导来说是一位失败者，但是在写作方面他取得了巨大的成功。” 7．The worker had a finger cut________ by the machine he was operating. 答案：off　cut off“中断，切断”。句意为“这个工人的一个手指头被他开的机器切断了”。 8．—Can you lend me some money? —I am ________(bad) off than you. You know I live from hand to mouth. 答案：worse　badly off“穷的，境况不好”，比较级形式worse off“情况更糟”。句意：——你能借给我点钱吗？——我比你情况还糟，你知道我现在仅够糊口。 9．—Is he really content ________ the low pay? —Of course not. He wants to get some extra pay. 答案：with　be content with“对……满意”。句意：——他真对这份低工资满意吗？——当然不。他想得到额外报酬。 10．Its easy to pick________ the boy who will meet you at the airport because he is rather tall. 答案：out　pick out“挑出，辨别出”。句意为“你很容易认出在车站接你的男孩，因为他相当高”。 .阅读理解 A (2015·陕西卷) When the dog named Judy spotted the first sheep in her life，she did what comes naturally.The four－year－old dog set off racing after the sheep across several fields and，being a city animal，lost both her sheep and her sense of direction.Then she ran along the edge of a cliff(悬崖)and fell 100 feet，bouncing off a rock into the sea. Her owner Mike Holden panicked and called the coastguard of Cornw