1、Learning About Language【基礎(chǔ)鞏固】I .選用適當(dāng)?shù)倪B接詞填空why, that, whether, as if, what, who, because, where. The question discussed at the meeting was whether it was worth trying. All this was over ten years ago, but it is as if it were only yesterday. The trouble is that I lost the key to my room. r m a bit sle

2、epy, and it s because I was up all night. Go and get your coat.It, s where you left it. The problem is who we can get to take the place of Ted. We missed the early bus.That is why we were late last time. The village is no longer what it used to be.n .單句寫作.事實(shí)是他非常有資格擔(dān)任報(bào)紙上刊登的職位。(The fact is that.)The f

3、act is that he is quite qualieed for the position adveitised in the newspaper.似乎世界末日到了。(It seems as if.)It seems as if the world we】e at an end.我非常高興。這是因?yàn)槲以谏现苋张e行的演講比賽中獲得了一等獎(jiǎng)。(This is because) I am wild with joy.This is because I have won the first prize in the speech competition held last Sunday.這就是

4、她毫不費(fèi)力用英語與外國人交流的原因。(This is why.)This is why she has no difficulty (in) communicating with foreigneis in English.我的建議是我們應(yīng)該為了保護(hù)環(huán)境過低碳生活。(The suggestion is that.)My suggestion is that we (should) live a low-ca】bon life to protecl the environment.這就是我們應(yīng)該為父母做的事情。(what)This is what we should do for our par

5、ents.問題仍然是父母是否能夠給他們的孩子樹立好的典范。(remain)It remains a question whether parents can set a good example to theii childien.【能力提升】in.閱讀理解AEinstein was not only the outstanding scientist of the 20th century, but also a gifted and enthusiastic musician.He once said that had he not been a scientist, he would h

6、ave been a musician. Life without playing music is unthinkable for me, “ he said. I live my daydreams in music.I get most joy in life out of music.”Einstein s mother, Pauline, was a talented pianist who brought music to life in the family home.Einstein began to learn the violin at the age of 6.Howev

7、er, he worked hard until discovering the joys of Mozart, s sonatas（奏鳴曲）at the age of 13.From that point on although he had no further lessons, his violin remained his companion（伴侶）.When Einstein moved to Aarau in Switzerland in 1895 to complete his schooling, he seemed to have devoted a good deal of

8、 his time to music.Just before his 17th birthday Einstein played at a music examination in the school.The examiner reported that “a student called Einstein shone in a deeply felt performance of one of the Beethoven sonatas n . Besides his great skill in playing the violin, he also played the piano a

9、nd, in particular, loved to improvise（即興創(chuàng)作）.In later life, Einstein s reputation as a physicist often led to invitations to perform at benefit concerts, which he generally accepted happily.At one such event, a critic一not knowing Einstein? s real reputation as a physicist-wrote, “Einstein plays excel

10、lently.However, his world-wide reputation is undeserved.There are many violinists who are just as good.”Probably the summary of Einstein the violinist that comes nearest to the mark comes from his friend Janos Plesch, who wrote, uThere are many musicians with much better skills, but none, I believe,

11、 who ever played with more sincerity or deeper feeling.語篇解讀 本文是一篇記敘文。文章主要介紹了物理學(xué)家愛因斯坦對(duì)音樂的熱愛與投入。We learn from Paragraph 1 that Einstein .had stopped playing music for a whileB enjoyed daydreaming in musichad a great love for musicpreferred to be a musician rather than a scientistK答案X ck解 析I 推理判斷題。由第一段

12、中的“a gifted and enthusiastic musician”和愛因斯坦所說 的話get most joy in life out of music,可知，愛因斯坦非常熱愛音樂。應(yīng)選C。After discovering the joys of Mozart? s sonatas, Einstein .began to create his own musicspent a lot of time playing his violinstarted learning the piano by himselfmoved to Switzerland to learn the vio

13、linK答案1 BK解析細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第二段最后兩句可知，愛因斯坦在13歲時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)莫扎特奏鳴曲 的樂趣，從那時(shí)開始，小提琴一直陪伴他左右。應(yīng)選B。What can we infer from Paragraph 3?A. Einstein did excellently in the examination.B Einstein s life in Aarau affected his musical taste.C Einstein s performance disappointed the examiner.D. Einstein practiced the Beethoven sonat

14、as for his birthday.K答案工AK解 析 推理判斷題。由第三段第三句可知，考官對(duì)愛因斯坦在考試中的表現(xiàn)贊賞有加。 應(yīng)選A。By mentioning the critic s words, the author probably wants to show . A. Einstein didn? t live up to his reputationEinstein wished there would be more benefit concertsEinstein played better than professional violinistsEinstein was

15、 also an outstanding and brilliant violinistK答案Dk解 析R 推理判斷題。由倒數(shù)第二段中的 “Einstein plays excellently.who are just as good.可知，愛因斯坦是一名出色的小提琴家。應(yīng)選D。BAlthough it has been shown in recent years that plants can see, hear and smell, they are still usually thought of as silent.But now, for the first time, they h

16、ave been recorded making ultrasonic（超聲的）cries when stressed, which researchers say could open up a new field of precision agriculture where farmers listen for water-starved crops.Itzhak Khait and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that tomato and tobacco plants made cries at frequ

17、encies humans cannot hear when stressed by not having enough water or when their stem is cut.Microphones placed 10 centimetres from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of 20 to 100 kilohertz, which the team says insects and some mammals would be able to hear and respond to from as fa

18、r as 5 metres aw ay. A moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant that sounds water-stressed, the researchers suggest.Plants could even hear that other plants are short of water and react accordingly, they speculate（推斷）.On average, drought-stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour, while tob

19、acco plants made 11 .When plant stems were cut, tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following hour, and tobacco plants 15.Unstressed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour, on average.Enabling farmers to listen for water-stressed plants could “open a new direction in the field o

20、f precision agriculturev ， the researchers suggest.They add that such an ability will be increasingly important as climate change exposes more areas to drought.“The suggestion that the sounds that drought-stressed plants make could be used in precision agriculture seems feasible(可行的)if it is not too

21、 costly to set up the recording in a field situation, “ says Anne Visscher at the royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the UK.She warns that the results can, t yet be broadened out to other stresses, such as salt or temperature, because these may not cause sounds. Besides, there have been no experiments t

22、o show whether moths or any other animal can hear and respond to the sounds the plants make, so that idea is still based on guesses for now, she says.語篇解讀 本文是一篇說明文。盡管近年來已經(jīng)證明植物可以看到、聽到和聞到氣味，但它 們通常仍然被認(rèn)為是無聲的。文章介紹了最新的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，西紅柿和煙草植物在缺水或莖被 割時(shí)發(fā)出人類聽不到的頻率的叫聲。植物甚至可以聽到其他植物缺水的聲音，并做出相應(yīng)的 反響。The experiment by resear

23、chers at Tel Aviv University shows that .humans can hear water-hungry plants crying clearlyplant sounds can be heard by plants quite far awaytomato plants cry more often than tobacco when hurtmoths like laying eggs on stressed plantsK答案X cK解析細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段第二句可知，番茄受到傷害時(shí)比煙草植物發(fā)出更多的 聲音。應(yīng)選C。What is Anne Vis

24、scher s attitude towards the finding of the experiment?A. Cautious.B. Disappointed.C. Appreciative.D. Optimistic.k答案U AK解 析U 推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段第二句可知，她(Anne Visscher)認(rèn)為目前的研究只是 基于猜想，沒有完全被證實(shí)。由此推知，她對(duì)此實(shí)驗(yàn)的研究結(jié)果是謹(jǐn)慎的。應(yīng)選A。Taking advantage of the new research finding, farmers can .harvest crops in timeB reduce green

25、house effectsdetect and remove insects easilyidentify plant condition fasterK答案X DK解析H 推理判斷題。根據(jù)第五段第一句可推知，利用這項(xiàng)新的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，農(nóng)民可以更 快地確定植物狀況。應(yīng)選D。Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? A. Plants Get Stressed Just like UsB . Sounds of Plants Detected Far Away C. Plants Scream in the Pre

26、sence of Stress D Cries of Plants Break Farmers Hearts K答案X cK解析H 標(biāo)題歸納題。文章介紹植物可以看到，聽到，聞到氣味，緊接著詳細(xì)介紹了新 的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，植物可以發(fā)出聲音，文章以番茄和煙草為例，介紹了植物在缺水或莖被切斷的 情況下發(fā)出的叫聲頻率，植物在受到壓力時(shí)會(huì)發(fā)出聲音。應(yīng)選c。IV .語法填空Young people born in 1995 or later have another name in English一Generation Z. Now entering adulthood and soon to join the

27、 workforce, Generation Z grew up in a special period of time when technology 1.(develop) so fast and the Internet became universal.lt is 2. (believe) that Generation Z is a generation that is going to shape our future, which is 3. policy-makers are trying their best 4.(understand) these young people

28、.Most people agree that the big difference between Generation Z and other generations is 5. well connected they are.This is a group of people 6. have been familiar with social media as soon as they came to the world.lt may be true that Generation Z-ers have a 7.(short) attention span than a goldfish does, but since they grew up among social cha