江苏省连云港市赣榆县智贤中学高中英语 Unit 3 Amazing people同步练习（十二）牛津译林版必修2 .doc

unit 3 amazing people 同步练习(十二)period 3 reading (2) 预习作业 一、句型转换(每题4分, 共20分)1. as soon as he entered the room, the telephone rang. _ _ the the room, the telephone rang.2. he went ill not long after his journey fron france. he _ ill _ _ his his journey fron france.3. i think he has something to do with it._ _ think he _ _ to do with it?4. the neat year, when he was 17 years old, he began his adventure for the first time.the _ year, _ _ _ _ 17, he began his _ _.5. on saturdays and sundays, the dining hall provides dinner , together with breakfast._ _, the dining hall _ dinner, _ _ _ brakfast.课堂作业 二、多项式选择填空 (每题2分, 共40分) edmund halley was an _(1)_ scientist who lived over 2000 year ago. he _(2)_ the observations of comets which _(3)_ scientists had made. the orbit of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem. he could not figure it out. _(4)_could other scientists who dealt with _(5)_ problems. however, halley had a friend named issac newton, who was also a brilliant english mathematician. newton thought he had alreadly worked out that problem, but he could not find the papers _(6)_ he had done it. he told halley that the _(7)_ of a comet had the shape of an ellipse(椭圆). now halley _(8)_ to work. he _(9)_ out the orbits of some of the comets that had been _(10)_ by scientists. he made a surprising _(11)_. the comets that had appeared in the years 1531,1607 and 1682 all had the _(12)_ orbit. yet their appearances had been 75 to76 years _(13)_. this seemed very _(14)_ to halley. three different comets followed the same orbit. the _(15)_ halley thought about it, the more he thought that there had not been _(16)_ combets, as people thought. he _(17)_ that they had simply seen the same comet three times.the comet had gone away and had come back again. it was an astonishing idea! halley felt _(18)_ enough to make a predition of what would happen in the future. he decided that this comet would appear in the year 1758. there were 53 years to go before halleys prediction could be tested. in 1758 the combet _(19)_ in the sky. halley did not see it, for he had died some years before. ever since then, the comet had been called _(20)_ comet, in his honor.1) a a.english b.american c. french d.australian2)b a. observed b.studied c. learned d. serached3) c.a.the other b. another c.other d.others 4) a a. neither b. both c. all d. none5) b a.that b. such c. easy d. difficult6) ca. which b. in which c.on which d. that7)ca. form b. track c.orbit d. course8)da.get b.start c. begin d. set9)da.found b.made c. work d.figured10) ca.studied b.found c.observed d.noticed11) da.invention b. ending c.study d.discovery12)aa.same b.different c.another d.other13)aa.apart b.together c.in all d.away14)aa.strange b.familiar c.funny d.interesting15)ba.less b.more c. much d.hard 16)ba.one b.three c. two d. four17)ba.knew b.decided c.dicovered d.thought18)aa.certain b.sured c.uncertain d.puzzled19)ca.disappearedb. turns up c.appeared d.show up 20)ca.newtons b. edmunds c.halleys d.issacs创新作业 三、根据句子的上下文, 猜划线词的词义(每题5分, 共20分) 1. a the young girl keeps on dieting in order to preserve her youthful and slim figure. a. keep b. break c. search d. save 2. b seeing father was that angry, we had to sit as still as mummies. nobody dared to move.a. soldiers b. dead people c. dried wood d. cats3. clittle tom is a curious boy who wants to searchinto things under the earth and in heaven.a. adventurous b. good c. interested d. srrange 4. d -were you present at the meeting in the our school? -yes. didnt you see me? i saw you speak at the meeting. a. absent b. showing c. given d. appearing 课后作业 四、阅读理解(每题5分, 共20分) when one of your car tire goes flat, there are two things you can do. complain and change it or, if you dont have a spare, stand helplessly beside the road and hope someone comes to your rescue. now comes a third choice, called quickwheel. it is designed to get disabled motorists driving again as quickly as possible. quickwheel is basically a tiny emergency trailer(拖车) complete with three tough little wheels of its own that supports the flat tire and enables the motorist to drive to a service station without losing much time or expending much energy. the product is made in the netherlands but is owned and marketed by a us company, quickwheel inc.of greenwich, connecticut. according to the firms president, robert bockweg, the product meets each of the major worries that customers relate with flat tires:safety, lost time and physical labour. to use it, motorsts simply unfold the product to its fully extended position, set it in front of the disabled tire, drive the car onto the quickwheels ramp(斜坡) and fix a special safety strap over the tire. the tire is then locked, or cradled, in quickwheels mental frame. its three wheels do the rest of the work. according to quickwheel inc. its product can be driven “for miles” at a speed of up to 45 miles per hour “without any noticeable change in the vehicles braking(车辆刹车) or steering operation”. the company also says that it can be used on just about any type of car, jeep, mini-van or trailer. bockwey says that quickwheel will be sold first in the united states, at a price of $150. sales agreements now being talked over should make the product ready for use in japan,canada and western europe in the near future.1) c what does th underlined phrase “ disabled motorists”( paragraph 1) probably mean?a. motorists who cant move b. motorists who have disabilitiesc.drivers who cant drive on because of the flat tire d. drivers who are hurt in an accident.2) d according to information of the passage, quickwheel _.a. can be used to repalce a flat tire. b. provide a kind of support to the flat tire for a short timec.is able to move as quickly as wheel. d. is as changeable and lasting as an ordinary wheel3) d it is suggested but not clearly stated that quickwheel _.a. it can be used in place of a tire over long distances b. will be first used in usac. can be folded and unfolded d. performs well over various kinds of road surfaces4) dthe main purpose of writing this text is _.a. to announce a business agreement. b. to share information about flat tire changingc. to introduce the advantages of a new tire. d. to introduce a new product quickwheel . period 3一1. on/ upon entering 2. fell , shortly after 3. do you, has anything4. following, at the age of, first adventure 5. at weekends, supplies, as well as二1 10 abcab ccddc 11 20 daaab bbacc1a由下文牛顿也是位英国人可知。2b作为科学家，哈雷通过对别的科学家所观测到的现象进行分析研究，后来才推算证实了哈雷彗星的轨道和公转周期，而不是通过观测“observed”了解“learned”或搜寻“ serached”。.所以b是最佳选项。3c文中只提到其他科学家，没有特指，故不选a项。b项中another修饰单数名词或者修饰数词加复数名词，故不选。d项中others 不修饰名词，既后不跟宾语。所以c正确。4aneither could other scientists这是个倒装句式，表示也不能。通常否定词在句首时，句子用部分倒装。所以a是最佳选项。5ba项中作为副词，that 修饰形容词，副词，不修饰名词。c项不合题意；d项不和逻辑。.所以b是最佳选项。6cc项中介词on加关系代词 which引导定语从句，修饰前面先行词the papers。意思是“他找不到他在上面进行演算的纸”。其他不符合题意。7c由上下文所知，哈雷在研究计算哈雷彗星的运行规律，所以这里orbit指的是哈雷彗星运行的轨道形状。form是指物体的“轮廓，形态”；track是指人，动物等留下的“足迹，踪迹”，以及交通工具的“车撤，航迹”；course是指“水道”以及轮船，飞机的“航道”。8dset to work表示“着手做某事”；get/ start/ begin to do 也表示“着手做某事”，但动词的时态形式不正确。9dfigure out 有“计算出；理解明白”的意思，在本文中表示“计算出”，哈雷计算出了哈雷彗星的轨道和公转周期。find out表示 通过调查询问“发现，了解到”; make out表示 “辩出，理解推断出”; work out虽有 “计算出”的意思，但形式不符合题意。由此得出d项最佳。10c根据第一段he studied the observations of comets which other scientists had made.可知，其他科学家只进行观测彗星运转，没有计算出其轨道和公转周期.而哈雷根据其他科学家观测所得计算出哈雷彗星的轨道和公转周期。11dinvention 表示“第一次发明出原来没有的东西”；discovery表示“第一次发现原来存在的东西”。这里哈雷计算出彗星的轨道和公转周期是原来就存在的。12a由上下文可知，1531,1607 and 1682年出现的彗星在同一个轨道运行，所以a是正确选项。13a由上文可知，1531,1607 and 1682年三次出现的彗星分别相距75 to76 年。away 通常表示“离远”, 构成be away from 。apart表示（在空间，时间方面）成距离，相间隔。又如：towns five miles apart,彼此相距五英里的城镇。所以apart 符合题意和用法。14a哈雷开始发现1531,1607 and 1682年出现的彗星在同一个轨道运行时感到非常奇怪，因为这是他原来没有想到的，所以srange符合题意。familiar 表示“熟悉的”；funny 表示“滑稽可笑的”；interesting 表示“有趣的”, 用于科学研究不符合逻辑。由此得出b项是最佳选项。15b结构：the more the more表示“越就越”.16b根据第三段“the comets that had appeared in the years 1531,1607 and 1682 ”句中彗星出现过“三次”可知，哈雷要否定掉 “三颗”彗星。所以b是最佳选项。17bknew表示“知道 ”；decided “断定”；dicovered“发现”； thought“原以为”。哈雷经过分析研究思考得出结论，所以decided “断定”符合题意。18a结构：sb. be sure / certain to do表示 “对做确信，有把握”。uncertain表示“不确信”; puzzled“困惑的”，故这两项不符合题意。19c由the comets that had appeared in th