【名师一号】高一英语人教版必修4双基限时练4 Unit 2 Working the land Warming Up Reading.docVIP

双基限时练(四)　Unit 2　Part Ⅰ Ⅰ.单句语法填空 1．The prisoner ________ (struggle) against the guard, but couldnt escape. 答案　struggled 2．The soldiers were well ________ (equip) with weapons (武器) and ready to start. 答案　equipped 3．Many great events ________(take) place in the past. 答案　have took 4．Put on a hat to protect yourself from sun or youll get ________ (sunburn)． 答案　sunburnt 5．The news of his death ________ (circulate) all over the village. 答案　circulated 6．Some of the violent scenes in the film are very ________ (disturb)． 答案　disturbing 7．A balloon ________ (expand) when you let air into it. 答案　will expand 8．Thanks ________ the success of the business, we can afford a flat this year. 答案　to 9．The government provided coats, quilts, carpets to the school to help rid the students ________ cold. 答案　of 10．The rural pupils are ________ (satisfy) with the textbooks which are free of charge for them. 答案　satisfied 11．Will you have a free evening tonight? ________ so, lets have a dinner together. 答案　If 12．I dont think ________ possible to master a foreign language without much memory work. 答案　it Ⅱ.阅读理解 A Let us consider what we can do for the food problem. The simple way to increase food production, one might suppose, is to bring more land into farmland and put more people to work on it. But it is proved in some developing countries that this will bring some problems. It will quickly make the soil poorer there and destroy forest growth. Further more, the people there will always find they need more people to work on this land to produce more food. During the past twenty years, some developing countries have increased a lot more farmland in their countries, but their populations have in the meantime grown faster; therefore they are farther than before. And their food increase has been gained at the cost of using up the rich lands. Many of the lands have become poor lands and are producing less food now. Meanwhile, farming in the developed countries has produced more food through improved