2017-2018学年高中英语 Unit 3 Australia Using Language课时跟踪训练 新人教版选修9.docVIP

Unit 3 Australia Using Language Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．The Great Wall winds (蜿蜒) its way from west to east until to the sea. 2．The economy is at last beginning to recover. 3．Hold on to that bag, or someone in the crowd may snatch (抢走) it. 4．This wounded soldier was unconscious (无意识的)from his loss of blood. 5．I put another steak on the barbecue. Ⅱ.单句改错 1．Sunshine, fresh air, and rest often accelerate a persons recovery from sick. sick_→sickness 2．We havent yet recovered in the shock. in→from 3．She is unconscious in the effect she has on people. in→of 4．The boy talked his mother into bought him a home computer. bought→buying 5．The medicine had a good effort on me. effort→effect Ⅲ.阅读理解 A The koala is Australias second most famous animal.This gentle, slow-moving animal has lived in the forests of Australia for over half a million years.In the first quarter of the century, early settlers killed about ten million koalas for their fur.Today, the koala is strictly protected. Gum leaves are the koalas only food.And instead of a tail the animal has a pad that enables it to sit comfortably for hours in the fork of a gum tree. The Aborigines named this animal koala meaning “I dont drink”．The gum leaves supply all the moisture it requires.So Koala is an aboriginal word. The koala lives in trees in forests.It doesnt eat any meat and it doesnt drink any water.The koala is active at night and during the day it sleeps in the fork of a tree.The koala has long arms and sharp curved claws for climbing trees and for grasping branches.It has a large hairless nose and it hasnt got a tail. The koala usually has only one baby a year.At birth the baby is very small.At first it cannot see and it hasnt got any fur.The female koala has a pouch on her stomach.Inside this pouch the mother produces milk for her baby.The baby stays in its mothers pouch until it is about six months old.Then it clings to its mothers back for another six months.After this the young koala starts to live a solitary (单独的) life. 1．The