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Unit 8 Lesson 2 and Lesson 3 同步练习 Ⅰ.语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在标号为1～10的相应位置上。 Computers are now part of our daily life.Experts predict before long all schools， businesses and most families will own computers of some kind.Among the general public，computers arouse strong feelings—people __1__ love them or hate them. The computer lovers talk about __2__ useful computers can be in business，in education and at home—apart __3__ all the games.You can do your accounts on them， learn languages from them，write letters on them，use them __4__(control) your central heating，and in some places even do your shopping with __5__.Computers，they say， will also bring more leisure，as more and more __6__(pleasure) jobs are taken over by robots. The haters，on __7__ other hand，argue the computers dont bring leisure __8__ unemployment.They worry，too，that people who spend all their time __9__(talk) on computers will forget how to talk to each other.But __10__ biggest fear is that computers may eventually take over altogether. 【解题导语】 本文是一篇议论文，论述了人们对电脑或爱或憎的不同态度。 【重点词语】 spend...(in) doing sth./spend...on sth.“花费……(做)某事”，固定搭配。例如：She spent a lot of money(in) buying clothes/on clothes. 1．解析　either...or...“要么……要么……”，固定搭配。 答案　either 2．解析　电脑在商业、教育和家庭领域是多么有用。how引导感叹句。 答案　how 3．解析　apart from固定短语，意为“除……之外”。 答案　from 4．解析　不定式作目的状语，“使用它们来控制你的中央暖气系统”。 答案　to control 5．解析　指代computers。 答案　them 6．解析　此处应该填形容词修饰jobs。unpleasant“令人不适的”。 答案　unpleasant 7．解析　on the other hand“另一方面”，固定短语。 答案　the 8．解析　not...but...“不是……而是……”，电脑带来的不是休闲而是失业。 答案　but 9．解析　spend...(in) doing sth.“花费……(做)某事”，固定搭配。 答案　talking 10．解析　他们最大的担忧是电脑也许最终会完全占上风。 答案their Ⅱ.阅读理解(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分) A Imagine it is fall and that you have just arrived on a visit to Washington.The leaves on many of the trees have already begun to change colors and drop to the ground.The summer crowds of visitors have thinned.Places of interest will be easier to photograph.There are fewer people to walk in front o