高中英语人教版 选修八 Unit 4 Pygmalion Learning about Language

1. 详细信息
完形填空
阅读下面的短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
The professor’s house,big and untidy,stood alone at one end of a huge garden. The place was totally uncared for, quite and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.
I was glad that I had found him. In twenty minutes, he me right on all the
that had puzzled me. I was on the of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said, “You’re very fond of gardening, I see.”
“No, I’m not,” he said. “ , I love this garden, though. It’s I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”
“It could be made lovely. It a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don’t that way?” said I.
“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child, and I had of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby,you see. Unfortunately, he wasn’t enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade (叶片) of grass was an enemy to be by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”
“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even!”
“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the it had. It used to
me. It appeared in my dreams?a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”
“And now it’s yours,you’re just letting it go to...”
“ ?” he said. “No,I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like it grow its own way. I make no demands on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has at last, and so have I.”
“But the path is over grown. It’s inconvenient for you,isn’t it?”
“That’s part of my ,” he laughed. “You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”
【小题1】A. wild B. crazy C. large D. nice
【小题2】A. lost B. felt C. took D. made
【小题3】A. let B. put C. taught D. explained
【小题4】A. gardening? B. plants C. problems D. solution
【小题5】A. time B. point C. permission D. request
【小题6】A. Even if B. So C. As though D. Even so
【小题7】A. as B. where C. why D. whether
【小题8】A. seems B. is C. proves D. sounds
【小题9】A. recognize? B. sense C. see D. know
【小题10】 A. fond B. short C. free D. enough
【小题11】A. interested B. fit C. content D. demanding
【小题12】 A. fought against? B. cleared up C. rooted out D. cut down
【小题13】A. effect B. reason C. cause D. result
【小题14】A. astonish B. shock C. worry D. disappoint
【小题15】A. thought? B. supposed C. ordered D. expected
【小题16】 A. Sell B. Develop C. Ruin D. Grow
【小题17】A. noticing? B. attending C. watering D. watching
【小题18】A. on B. in C. with D. of
【小题19】A. freedom B. time C. sunlight D. space
【小题20】A. life B. pleasure C. job D. research
 
2. 详细信息
阅读理解
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项 (A 、B 、C? 和 D )中,选出最佳选项。
Here are some of the world’s most impressive subways.

The Tokyo Metro and Toei Lines

Features: The Tokyo Metro and Toei lines that compose Tokyo’s massive subway system carry almost 8 million people each day, making it the busiest system in the world. The system is famous for its oshiya--- literally, “pusher”--- who shove passengers into crowded subway cars so the doors can close. And you think your commute is hell.

The Moscow Metro
 

Features: The Moscow Metro has some of the most beautiful stations in the world. The best of them were built during the Stalinist era and feature chandeliers, marble moldings and elaborate murals. With more than 7 million riders a day, keeping all that marble clean has got to be a burden.

The Hong Kong Metro
 

Features: The Hong Kong MTR has the distinction of being one of the few subway systems in the world that actually turns a profit. It’s privately owned and uses real estate development along its tracks to increase income and ridership. It also introduced “Octopus cards” that allow people to not only pay their fares electronically, but buy stuff at convenience stores, supermarkets, restaurants and even parking meters. It’s estimated that 95 % of all adults in Hong Kong own an Octopus card.

Shanghai Metro
 

Features: Shanghai is the third city in China to build a metro system, and it has become the country’s largest in the 12 years since it opened. Shanghai Metro has 142 miles of track and plans to add another 180 miles within five years. By that point, it would be three times larger than Chicago “L”. The system carries about 2.18 million people a day.

The London
Metro

Features: Londoners call their subway the Underground, even though 55 percent of it lies above ground.No matter when you’ve got the oldest mass-transit system in the world, you can call it anything you like. Trains started in1863 and they’ve been running ever since. Some 3 million people ride each day, every one of them remembering to “Mind the gap”.

【小题1】 Which one can provide the riders some wonderful decorations at the stations?
A. The Tokyo Metro and Toei Lines.
B. The Moscow Metro.
C. The London Metro.
D. The Hong Kong MTR.
【小题2】We can learn from the passage that Shanghai Metro ________.
A. carries the most people each day
B. is the world’s largest
C. may be larger than the Chicago “L” in the future
D. is the busiest in the world
【小题3】How many subways carry more than 5 million people per day?
A. 2. B. 3. C. 4.? D. 5.
 

3. 详细信息
单词拼写。
结合语境,根据首字母或汉语提示用单词的适当形式填空。
【小题1】I quite know ________(佛教); I have read a few books about Chinese religions.
【小题2】I saw a beautiful old fireplace in the ________ (古玩) shop today.
【小题3】Police are looking for a man who ________ (抢劫) a gas station on Van Ness Avenue.
【小题4】My ________ (长袜) is always full of presents at Christmas.
【小题5】Her teachers told her she had no ________ (音乐的) ability whatsoever.
【小题6】Now that he was a bank manager, he wanted a car that would reflect his s________.
【小题7】My voice has got so low now I was m________ for a man the other day on the phone.
【小题8】He nodded his head instead of saying anything where his voice might b________? him.
【小题9】Men in the post office c________ mail according to places it is to go.
【小题10】Just because they make more money than we do, they think they’re so s________.