1、Unit4 Natural disasters section 【基础训练】【基础训练】 单词拼写单词拼写 1. That mistake（毁坏）his chances of getting the job. 2.Prices have gone up 61(百分之) 3. He squeezed into a（裂缝）between two rocks. 4. Frank put a lot of（精力）into the work. 5.We need to find cleaner ways of generating（电能）. 6. Buildings at old times were
2、made of wood and b. 7. The frame of an spaceship is made of light but strong m. 8. You should be able to guess the meaning of the word from the c. 9.The country conducted an attempt to rthe steel industry. 10. People are concerned about the quality of the air they b. 单句语法填空单句语法填空 1. I(shock) when I
3、learnt she hadnt cooked once in all that time. 2.An average(electricity) bill might go up $2 or $3 per month. 3 . Many students were(trap) by smoke and fire on an upper floor. 4.Latest reports say that no life was found in those(bury) villages by mud slides. 5.1 became out of(breathe) and the once i
4、njured ankle hurt badly. 6.Alex rose to his feet with a single(effort) movement. 7. Health(wise) in the UK differs from that of the United States. 8. Six months after(suffer) our defeat, we won our first game. 9.His music(unify) traditional and modem themes. 10 . There has been a(revive) of interest
5、 in Picassos work. 单句写作单句写作 1.听起来他们似乎犯下了一个可怕的错误。 It soundshave made a dreadful mistake. 2.她还活着，但处于震惊屮并遭受了严重的头伤。 She was alive, butand suffering a serious head wound. 3.地震之后，这座美丽的城市沦为了一片废墟。 After the earthquake, the beautiful city was. 4.这是该地区不到两个月内的第二次空难了。 It was the second air disaster in the regio
6、ntwo months. 5.当你失业时，健身有助于你保持积极的心态。 When youre unemployed, working out will. 【综合训练】【综合训练】 完形填空完形填空 One day when I was 13, my family was working in the fields to clear away old brush when somehow the electric fence sparked and 1a fire. We didnt see the fire 2it had blocked the way to the only gate. I
7、 3to jump over the fence to safety but the fire was all around us. I could only watch in 4as the flames continued to rise. Little did I know that my father had once been a（n） 5 and knew what to do. 6only a pump sprayer , buckets，and his boots, he 7 down to the nearby pool, filled the buckets and the
8、 sprayer, and began spraying the 8 while my older brother threw water with the buckets. Soon the wind9， however, and with the Fire Department too far away to arrive in time, my father began to put out the flames as he moved to the 10, so that my family was able to move little by little toward the ga
9、te.11he arrived at the gate, he jumped into the truck, rolled up the windows, and drove12the fire. Then the fire was put out, and my mother was looking at my father with her13eyes. After that, my father began telling us about his days as a firefighter, and my brother and I became 14, asking him what
10、 other jobs he had done before he 15. Well, it turned out that he had done just about 16except as a brain doctor! He had even built B2 planes before being injured in an accident that had 17 him to retire. My father has a blood problem as a result of that 18, but that hasnt stopped him from being a f
11、ull-time electrician. To all those people whose fathers have worked in the military and in other dangerous jobs, be 19of them, and remember that some day their 20 might save your life. 1 .A.preventedB.permitted C .witnessedD.started 2.A.becauseB. unless C. afterD. until 3.A.wantedB. managed C. promi
12、sedD. happened 4A.angerBhorror CexcitementDEmbarrassment 5A.carpenterBelectrician CfirefighterDEducator 6.A.WithB.About C.AtD. Including 7.A.slidB. fell C. rushedD. walked 8A.treesB.grass CflamesDFlowers 9.A.died offB.took on C.turned outD. picked up 10.A. fenceB.truck C.furnitureD. bucket 11A.IfBOn
13、ce CSinceDWhile 12A.throughBalong CoverDacross 13.A.highB. wide C. fastD. far 14.A.curiousB. suspicious C. concernedD. anxious 15A.movedBresigned CretiredDSuffered 16.A.everythingB. nothing C. somethingD. anything 17.A.allowedB.encouraged C. invitedD. forced 18 .A. fireB.accident C.attemptD. explana
14、tion 19A.afraidBproud CcarefulDAshamed 20A.cultureBlearning CskillsDlanguages 阅读理解阅读理解 A When an earthquake hit a small town, many houses fell down.After the earthquake, all the newspapers reported many stories about who were in trouble. One Sunday, when I was reading a newspaper, a special picture
15、touched me. It gave the clothing sizes of each family member. I thought that this would be a good chance to teach my children to help those who were less lucky than themselves. I said to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Brett, and three-year-old Meghan, We have so much, and these poor people now ha
16、ve nothing. Well share what we have with them.” I filled a box with foods and clothes. While I was doing this, I encouraged the boys to choose their toys and donate some of their less favourite things. Meghan watched quietly as the boys took out their old toys and games and put them together. Then s
17、he walked away.A few minutes later she came back with Lucy, her much-loved doll. She put the doll on top of the other toys. Oh, dear, ” I said. You dont have to give Lucy. You love her so much. Meghan said, “Lucy makes me happy, Mommy. Maybe shell make another little girl happy, too. I looked at Meg
18、han for a long moment. She taught me a lesson. Its easy to give something that we dont want any more, but hard to give what we cherish, isnt it? 1 . The writer haschildren. A. oneB. two C. threeD.four 2. The underlined word donate in Paragraph 3 probably can be replaced by. A. giveB. exchange C. sho
19、wD. send 3. What can we learn from the passage? A. An earthquake happened in the writers hometown. B.The writer let Meghan give her much-loved doll. C. The writer decided to buy some clothes for those people in trouble. D.The writer thinks it is more difficult to give what we love a lot. 4.Whats the
20、 best title of this passage? A.AFamily Story B.The Spirit of Giving C.The Way of Helping Others D.ASad Experience B On 26th January, the biggest earthquake in India took the lives of 25,000 people. In the morning, when everybody was enjoying the holiday, the earthquake began. It was about 7.5 on the
21、 Richter scale. a There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. Everything has been pulled down, ” said one of the villagers alive. There is no water, no food and no one has come to help.” Nobody died in Pakistan, a country next to India. The city of Lahore was lucky. In Lahore Ameri
22、can School, where I was studying, all of the students were safe. They were on the field, so most children didnt feel anything. The earthquake was felt by the teachers that were on the second floor. However, though Mrs Young was also on the second floor, she didnt feel anything. She didnt know what h
23、appened until a teacher told her about it. Those teachers who were on the other floors had different feelings. Mr Emond,the maths teacher from Australia, said that when the earthquake started he thought there was something wrong with him, but then another teacher said that it was an earthquake. Mrs
24、Davis and Mr Frost didnt feel anything either. My mother didnt feel anything. She didnt even know that it was an earthquake till she saw a shaking light. My dad saw the computer shaking and then he looked out of the window and saw many people going out. 5. The biggest earthquake in India happened on
25、 theof January 26th. A.nightB. afternoon C. noonD. morning 6.People use Ricther scale to tell. A.where the earthquake takes place B.how serious the earthquake is C.when the earthquake takes place D.how long the earthquake lasts 7.We learn thatfrom the sentence There is nothing left between the sky a
26、nd the earth any more. A. India is a large country B.the Indian people had nothing after the earthquake C. there are no tall buildings in India D.the earthquake in India was serious 8.What can we learn from the passage? A. Mr Emond didnt feel anything about the earthquake. B.Lahore is a city in Paki
27、stan. C.Teachers on the second floor felt the earthquake. D.The authors father didnt feel the earthquake. C If the crust （外壳）of the earth were not pretty solid，it would be shaking about and moving up and down frequently.However, there are places in the rocks of the earths crust where it isnt strongl
28、y held togetherwhere faults exist. Along the faults, one rock might push against another with great force.The energy is changed to vibration in the rocks, so they begin to shake and we have an earthquake! The most famous one in North America was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Seven hundred pe
29、ople died and property damage amounted to about $425,000,000. The greatest destruction came from the fires that followed the quake. One of the most famous earthquakes in Europe took place in Lisbon, Portugal in 1755. The city was destroyed and at lest thirty thousand people were killed. In 1908, in
30、Calabria and Sicily, a quake killed about seventy-five thousand people. In 1915, in central Italy, hundreds of towns and villages were damaged and thirty thousand people were killed. Two great earthquakes that caused great damage in Asia took place in Tokyo, Japan, and in Gansu Province in China. Th
31、e Tokyo quake of 1923 killed more than one hundred thousand people and destroyed the city and the city of Yokohama, too The Chinese quake in 1920 covered more than three hundred square miles and killed about two hundred thousand people. 9.The underlined word vibration in the first paragraph probably
32、 means. A.shakingB. force C. energyD. losing 10.Which of the following is the correct order of the years when the earthquakes happened? the San Francisco earthquake the earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal the earthquake in Calabria and Sicily the earthquake in central Italy the earthquake in Gansu Provin
33、ce the Tokyo quake A.B. C.D. 11.According to the passage, the earthquake that killed the most people happened in. A. PortugalB. Italy C. JapanD. China 12.We can infer from the passage that. A.the earths crust in Europe is weaker than that in other places B.the fires following the San Francisco earth
34、quake caused more damage than the earthquake did C.there were 75,000 people killed in the San Francisco earthquake D.the city of Yokohama was not greatly influenced by the Tokyo quake 语法填空语法填空 Diets have changed in Chinaand so too has its top crop. Since 2011, the country 1(grow) more corn than rice
35、. Corn production has jumped nearly 125 percent over 2past 25 years, while rice has increased only 7 percent. Ataste for meat is 3(actual) behind the change: An important part of its corn is used to feed chickens, pigs, and cattle. Another reason for corns rise: The government encourages farmers to
36、grow corn instead of rice 4(improve)water quality. Corn uses less water 5 rice and creates less fertilizer runoff. This switch has decreased 6(pollute) in the countrys major lakes and reservoirs and made drinking water safer for people. According to the World Bank, China accounts for about 30 percen
37、t of total 7 (globe) fertilizer consumption. The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture finds that between 2005when the government 8(start) a soil-testing program 9gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers-and 2011,fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons. That prevented the emission ( 排 放 )of
38、 51.8 million tons of carbon dioxide. Chinas approach to protecting its environment while 10(feed) its citizens u offers useful lessons for agriculture and food policymakers worldwide, ” says the banks Juergen Vbegele. 读后续写读后续写 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。 The event that stands out in Toms memory
39、happened one morning when Tom was only ten years old. He was at home with his elder sister Jane. Tom was doing his homework when he heard raised voices. At first he thought nothing of it since customers in the motorcycle shop directly below their flat often became loud, but he soon realized this tim
40、e it was different. Quick! Quick! Remove the motorcycles from the shop. someone yelled. Then a thick burning smell filled the air. When Tom opened the front door of their flat to investigate, a thick cloud of smoke greeted him. The motorcycle shop had caught fire and people were running and crying.
41、Jane, who had been playing the violin in her room, hurried to the living room. They rushed out of the door and along the corridor through the smoke. They were heading towards the stairway at the far end of the corridor when Jane stopped in her track. She turned around and headed back the way they ca
42、me. Tom had no idea what she was doing, but he followed her. Jane had suddenly remembered the lady in her 70s who lived next door to them, who they called Makcik, Malay for auntie. Jane began pounding on Makciks door, but got no answer. As the smoke thickened around them, Tom could see many of their
43、 neighborssome still in their pyjamas （睡衣； 宽长裤）一 running fbr safety. The thought of fear crossed his mind. She might have run for safety like everyone else!Tom cried. However, Jane refused to give up. I know Makciks still inside. She said she was familiar with Makciks daily routine and was certain s
44、he would still be sleeping. She pounded the door. Go downstairs. Go now! Go ! ” 注意： 1.所续写短文的词数应为 150 左右； 2.至少使用 5 个短文中标有下划线的关键词语； 3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好； 4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。 Paragraph 1： Tom noticed the flame was reaching up. Paragraph 2： Luckily, some neighbors passing by stopped and offered
45、help. 参考答案： 【基础训练】 *单词拼写 1.答案：ruined 2.答案：percent 3.答案：crack 4.答案:effort 5.答案:electricity 6.答案:brick 7.答案：metal 8.答案:context 9.答案：revive 10. 答案：breathe *单句语法填空 1.答案:was shocked 2.答案：electric 3.答案：trapped 4.答案：buried 5.答案：breath 6.答案：effortless 7.答案：wisdom 8.答案：suffering 9.答案：unifies 10. 答案：revival *
46、单句写作 1.答案:as if they might 2.答案:in shock 3.答案：in ruins 4.答案:in less than 5.答案:help you stay positive 【综合训练】 *完形填空 1-5DDABC6-10ACCDB11-15AABAC16-20ADBBC *阅读理解 1-4CADB5-8DBDB9-12ACDB *语法填空 1.has grown 2.the 3.actually 4.to improve 5.than 6.pollution 7.global 8.started 9.that/which 10.feeding *写作 Parag
47、raph 1： Tom noticed the flame was reaching up. Frozen with fear, he stood rooted to the spot. He comprehended the gravity of the situation and held Janes hand tightly By then, both of them were coughing and their eyes were stinging. Time seemed to stand still, though they were probably there for onl
48、y two or three minutes. Tom begged Jane to run for safety as quickly as possible. Jane tried to shield her nose from the choking smoke and shook her head. She kept pounding against the door. Tom burst out crying. Paragraph 2： Luckily, some neighbors passing by stopped and offered help. A sense of st
49、rength immediately replaced the mounting fear and anxiety in Janes mind. She told them Ms Makcik must be still m the room. They forced the door open with all their might. Sure enough, Makcik was lying in bed, unconscious. She was carried downstairs and then rushed to the hospital, where she finally came to herself. People in the neighborhood felt relieved and Jane and Toms joy was immense.
