外研版英语初三下册Module2Unit3拓展训练

1. 短文填空 详细信息
B. 根据短文内容和所给中文提示, 在空白处写出单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。
When I began working at Hillcrest High School three years ago, I was introduced to Sharon Dunn, the school’s headmistress.
Her smart appearance and warm, friendly 【1】(表情)made me like her at once. She is a small-boned, smiling 【2】(女士)in her early fifties. She has shining blue eyes and soft【3】(银灰色的)hair. Although she dresses simply, she always manages to look nice.
She is a very fair-minded person who 【4】(对待)everyone at the school in the same way. Even when she is upset, she is actually very calm, which is shown by her ability to【5】(克制)her feelings in the most difficult situations. Her quiet voice and gentle, 【6】(有礼貌的)manner make her popular with the children.
Ms. Dunn has no children of her 【7】(自己的), however, she says that she feels like a mother to all of the children in her school. In fact, she has no time for family life, since she gives her life to her job completely. Besides dealing with different leading 【8】(任务)every day, she always takes time to talk to the teachers and parents 【9】(耐心地).
To my mind, Sharon Dunn is an educational 【10】(专家)who is a wonderful role model, not only for the children but for the teachers, as well.
2. 选择句子补全短文 详细信息
阅读短文,根据短文内容,从方框中选择五个选项分别填入空白处,使其文理通顺。只填序号。
In the city of Guiyang, China, lives a girl named Li Fang. When she was at teenager, she dreamed of going to the United States. 【1】 “I had a picture of the daddy sitting in the living room, the mommy doing some cooking and their kids playing games on the floor.
Li Fang decided to go to college in California. When she arrived, however, it was not the dream world she had imagined. “People were struggling with problems and often seemed unhappy and too busy,” she said. “【2】”
One of her most difficult classes was P.E. When the class played volleyball, th other students were good at it, but she wasn’t. One afternoon, the P.E. teacher had Li Fang hit the ball to her teammates so that they could knock it over the net. It was not a big deal for most people, but it made Li Fang scared. 【3】
A young man on her team seemed to understand what she was going through. He walked up to her and whispered(小声说), “【4】”
Li Fang said, “You will never understand how those words of encouragement made me feel. Four words: You can do that. I felt like crying with happiness.” Perhaps she thanked the young man; she can’t remember it.
Six years has passed. Li Fang is back in China, working as a salesclerk. “I have never forgotten the words. 【5】” She said, “I am sure the young man had no idea how much his kindness meant to me. He probably doesn’t even remember it. From this experience, I have learned a lesson: Whenever you say something to a person—cruel or kind—you have no idea how long the words will stay with them.” She is back in China. But still she hears those four simple words: You can do that.
A. I felt very lonely.
B. Come on. You can do that.
C. Don’t worry. I can help you.
D. When thing are not going well, I think of them.
E. She was afraid of failing and being laughed at by others.
F. Most of what she knew about American life was from textbooks.
3. 完型填空 详细信息
Tom worked hard in an office. But it seemed that there was little change in his life. He was unhappy and didn't want to improve himself any more. His father, Joe, knew this and decided to have a talk with _______.
One day, Tom and his father went for a walk after dinner. _______ they were walking along a river, Tom said, “Dad, you always tell me to learn something new. To be _______, I don’t want to make any change.”
Joe looked in the river, saw a dead _______ and pointed at it.
“Tom, what is that over there?”
“It’s a dead fish.”
“What’s the fish doing?”
It’s moving down with the running water.
“But the fish is dead. _______ can it be moving?” asked Joe.
“It’s moving as the river is moving.”
Joe turned to his son and said, “Life is _______ the river. It's always moving and always changing. Some people don’t want to change, but their life is always changing whether they like it not. A dead fish only moves along the river, while a living fish can control its journey. What’s your choice if you want to live a _______ life?”
This made Tom _______ his aunt who had already stopped learning and developing. And she just stayed the way she used to be, living like a dead fish.
Guided by his _______, Tom understood what he said. He didn’t want to become a person like his aunt. So he made up his mind to __________ learning and developing himself.
【1】A.you B.me C.her D.him
【2】A.Once B.While C.After D.Before
【3】A.honest B.happy C.quiet D.patient
【4】A.bird B.dog C.duck D.fish
【5】A.Who B.Which C.How D.When
【6】A.in B.over C.like D.by
【7】A.worse B.harder C.greener D.better
【8】A.give up B.think of C.wait for D.hear from
【9】A.aunt B.father C.uncle D.friend
【10】A.continue B.finish C.avoid D.stop
4. 阅读理解 详细信息
Sometimes, when you worry that you may fail an exam, you end up failing. Or during a seating arrangement (安排) in your class, when you are afraid to sit next to someone you don’t like, you end up sharing the desk with him or her.
This is what Murphy’s Law tells us: If things can go wrong, they will go wrong. But is it true?
Of the studies about Murphy’s Law, the most famous one is the buttered toast (烤面包片) phenomenon (现象): One toast with butter falls; it lands butter-side down most of the time.
To prove this, Robert Matthews did a lot of experiments with more than 1,000 British school kids in 2001.
In the first experiment, each student put a piece of buttered toast on a plate, let it fall off 20 times and noted which side it landed on. Of almost 10,000 experiments, toast landed butter-side down 62 percent of the time.
But you may ask: Is it the butter that plays a role? Here comes Matthews’ second experiment.
This time, instead of butter, the toast had a letter “B” written on one side. It still landed 58 percent of the time on the B-side.
This proved that Murphy’s Law is true: If the toast can land butter-side down, it will do so. Matthews did another experiment. When students threw the toast from a height of 2.5 metres, the toast landed butter-side down only 47 percent of the time.
“Toast lands butter-side down because humans aren’t tall enough to let it land any other way,” Matthews said.
根据上文内容判断正(T)误(F)
【1】According to Murphy’s Law, in an English class, if you don’t want to be questioned by the teacher, you may end up failing to answer the questions.
【2】In the first experiment of buttered toast, we know the toast landed butter-side down about 620 times.
【3】If the toast can land butter-side down, Murphy’s Law is true.
【4】In the first two experiments, either the butter or the letter “B” plays a role.
【5】The passage is mainly talking about Murphy’s Law depending on people’s mental states (心理状态).
5. 任务型阅读 详细信息
As a proverb says, "Your tongue has the power of life and death." This means that your words have power to finally cause things to happen, even life or death.
We may all experience the power of words in our life, even when we were very young. A child is blamed(责备)by teachers or parents, and after that, he might probably think of himself as a bad child. Most kids have that experience. They say it is important to praise children four times for each negative(负面的)word. Blaming will make things worse, while positive words are helpful especially when being in trouble or in need. When we fail the exam, encouraging words from our teachers or parents make us work harder at our lessons.
Encouraging words can go quite a long way. They lift people up. For example, encouraging words to someone who is sad can help them make it through the day. Words can have a powerful effect on your brain. And it will in turn(相应地)have a great influence on your action.
Everything you do depends on what you choose to do. It's not your parents, your past relationships or your job, but you and only you that are responsible for every goal you set. If you have dreams in life, write them down and speak them out. Your words are likely to bring out something amazing.

The Power of Words
Your words have power to finally cause things to happen, even life or death.

Example 1
【1】being blamed, a child might probably think of himself as a bad child.

Example 2
Encouraging words make students who can't 【2】the exam work harder at lessons.
Example 3
Encouraging words help 【3】people make it through the day.

Words have a powerful effect on your brain, and in turn it influences your action 【4】.
Everything you do depends on the 【5】you make.

Your words are likely to bring out something amazing.

6. 单选题 详细信息
-- Are you watching the football matches of the World Cup these days?
-- Sometimes, and I'll watch the match ______ Japan and Poland tonight.
A. against
B. about
C. through
D. between
7. 单选题 详细信息
—Would you like to have some more tea?
—No, thanks. There is ________ in my cup.
A.few B.a few C.little D.a little
8. 单选题 详细信息
Kids should learn how to protect ______ in the face of danger.
A. himself B. yourself C. ourselves D. themselves
9. 单选题 详细信息
—Sonia, is this your dictionary?
—Oh, no, it’s not _______. Ask Tom, he is looking for ______.
A. mine, his B. my, him C. me, his D. yours, his
10. 单选题 详细信息
He can't pass the exam ________ the help of his teacher.
A.with B.without C.under D.of
11. 单选题 详细信息
(题文)The Dragon Boat Festival is _____ the fifth day of May
on the lunar calendar( 阴历).
A. in B. on C. at D. by
12. 单选题 详细信息
Li Ming was quite sad about the exam. I went to his home to cheer ________ up.
A.me B.he C.him D.her
13. 单选题 详细信息
—Do you like to talk with your friends on the phone or by writing letters to them?
— .I enjoy using QQ.
A.Both B.Neither C.None D.Either
14. 单选题 详细信息
________ the Spring Festival, travel is very difficult in winter.
A.Because B.So C.Because of D.Since
15. 单选题 详细信息
I want to learn a second foreign language English.
A. except B. beside C. besides D. except for
16. 单选题 详细信息
-I don't have enough money for the T-shirt.
-Don't worry. I can lend ___________to you.
A. any B. some C. many
17. 单选题 详细信息
Ben was helping his mother when the rain began to beat heavily ________the windows.
A. against B. across C. above D. below
18. 单选题 详细信息
---When will the movie The King Lion《狮子王》return to movie theatres in America?
---_______ July.
A. On B. At C. In
19. 单选题 详细信息
Except for working hard, we should give more attention to proper exercise and enough sleep.
, health always comes first.
A.For example B.After all C.So far
20. 单选题 详细信息
-Two tickets for Sunday, please!
-Sorry. There is ____left.
A. nothing B. none C. some D. anything
21. 单选题 详细信息
Students here often do physics experiments___________small groups.
A. by B. in C. for D. at
22. 单选题 详细信息
----Where would you like to go tomorrow, Beijing or Xi'an?
---- is OK. It’s up to you.
A. Either B. Neither C. Both D. All
23. 阅读理解 详细信息
Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed, we couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from the mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience.
Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing. But as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before you reach the top. Only there can you see all of the nice things, which is just like your life.”
At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got to know the meaning of hope in life. I found myself standing at the top of the mountain, and the sky was as clear as crystal.
【1】The passage tells us that the mountain-climbing was ________ for the father and the son.
A.hard B.enjoyable C.painful D.comfortable
【2】The underlined word “crystal” in the passage means ________.
A.岩石 B.火焰 C.水晶 D.寒冰
【3】Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the father's words in the second paragraph?
A.You will get all you need at the top of the mountain.
B.The sky is always as clear as crystal.
C.You can find life is full of nice things.
D.Never give up halfway.
【4】We can infer(推断) from the last paragraph that ________.
A.the writer was very successful in his life
B.the writer reached the top of the mountain
C.though the writer was young, he could understand his father
D.the writer used to stop halfway when he climbed the mountain
【5】The best title for the passage is ________.
A.Reaching the Top of the Mountain B.Standing at the Top of the Mountain
C.Conversations between Father and Son D.How to Get to the Top of the Mountain
24. 任务型阅读 详细信息
阅读下面短文,根据短文内容,从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,使短文意思通顺。选项中有一项为多余项。
What is life's greatest gift? It is choice. Choice is the ability to choose some actions from a set of things to achieve a goal.【1】 The reason is that it turns us from dumb animals into artists. Choice becomes the tool we use to sculpt(雕刻) our life. The tool doesn't come free, however, for the price of choice is responsibility. 【2】 It is enjoyment.
Choice is power. Choice is at the heart of life. It's the creative power of life. Life is always changing and we have to make lots of choices. 【3】 We often need to check where we are on our journey. We need to ask questions: Am I moving closer to my goals? If not, what action will I take now to make myself realize my goals?
【4】 And our life becomes more convenient or comfortable because of them. For example, you decide which stores to shop at and which bus station to go to.But the decisions that we make to sculpt our lives are much more important than deciding where to shop. The more we understand the difference between small and big decisions, the more pleasure we will get.
Life is like a chess game.【5】 All chess lovers realize that it isn't necessary to win to enjoy the game. Make the best moves you can under the conditions. Then you can enjoy your life.
A.Why is choice so great?
B.The pleasure is in the playing.
C.In fact, we have to make choices every day.
D.But when we accept and carry it out, we get a great return.
E.Because making right choices is more important than working hard.
F.Every choice we make leads us closer to or farther from our goals.