高中英语选修六 Unit 05 B.ppt

1. The wild flowers looked like a soft orange blanket _____ the desert. (2006 湖南卷)A. covering??? B. covered????????? ? C. cover??????????? ? D. to cover 2. Don’t sit there ________ nothing. Come and help me with this table. (2006 湖北卷) A. do? B. to do? C. doing? D. and doing 3. The glass doors have taken the place of the wooden ones at the entrance, ______ in the natural light during the day. (2007 天津卷) A. to let B. letting C. let D. having let 4. Peter received a letter just now ______ his grandma would come to see him soon. (2007 四川卷) A. said B. says C. saying D. to say 5. — Come on, please give me some ideas about the project. — Sorry. With so much work ____ my mind, I almost break down. (2007 福建卷) A. filled B. filling C. to fill D. being filled * Discovering useful words and expressions. Ex. 1 the questionnaire alongside The scientists were evaluating the experiment. made my way has potential appointed equipment diagram Ex. 2 The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 78 AD took the people of Pompeii by surprise. They had always known that the mountain was a ______ but it had been quiet for so long that nobody saw it as a threat. When the volcano finally did ____ , it was so quick and so severe that the town was soon covered in ___ and ____. A writer called Pliny, who was there during the _______, described how lava was thrown into the air like a _______. After it fell to earth, it turned into _____ of lava which travelled down the mountain faster than people could run away. It was an _______ disaster for those who could not escape in time. Many of the wooden houses and bungalows in Pompeii were ______ ___________, but the stone houses remained under the ash until they were redisc