1、Unit 4 Humour-Section C基础+综合双向提升【基础巩固】【选词填空】be related to,focus on,in particular,let alone,end up,aside from,go after perfection1.The discussion the death rate in traffic accidents.2.They had no more food, a few loafs of bread.3.She works hard and always .4.This kind of animal is rare anywhere in th
2、e world, in China.5.In the exam,make sure that everything you write the questions you have been asked.6.Every time she tried to argue with her husband she crying her eyes out.7.The whole meal was good but the wine was excellent.【单句语法填空】1.The talks will focus economic development of the area.2.They s
3、et a bronze statue in memory of him.3.Please set me at the street corner.4.I can safely say that you will be great demand someday.5.Maybe youll end up a lawyer,like me.6.I think it is time you woke up and (focus) your thoughts on these matters.7.There is no sense in (look) for the coin under the bed
4、.8.Yet political news was often (relate) to economic and social problems.9.If you dont watch the road more carefully,youll end up (have) an accident.10.She burned the letters so her husband would never read them.11.People often lose confidence when they are (批评).12.Fat people c more energy than slim
5、 people.13.What we (要求) is not only quantity but also quality.14.It was (不幸的) that he couldnt speak English.15.The teacher kept explaining the use of the (成语) to me until I understood it.16.Aside the little savings I have no other money.17. a sense it doesnt matter any more.18.He never joins with us
6、;he always plays his own.19.He often goes perfection.20.When did this kind of style go of fashion?21.We need to set about (find) a solution.22.This kind of work (demand) great patience.23.We are at a (critically) time in history.24.(loose) translated,the word means “important”.25.(unfortunate),there
7、 is nothing we can do to improve matters.26.He is a very kindly and rather (幽默的) man.27.Mother had to b the baby before going to bed.28.My travel a has made all the arrangements for my journey.29.He is widely regarded as the most skillful (政治家).30.When I asked her,she p as if she had no idea at all
8、about it.【完成句子】1.她开始检查一些没有意义的事情。(make sense)She started checking things .2.如果你摆弄火柴,最后可能烧到自己。(end up doing)If you fool about with matches,youll .3.我会给你所有的事实以便你可以自己判断。(so that)I will give you all the facts for yourself.4.这就是我第一次体验生活的经过。(such位于句首用倒装形式)of life.5.尽管我愿意帮忙,但是我没有多少时间。(while虽然),I do not have
9、 much time available.【综合提升】【语篇语法填空】Its one of the 1.(great) novels in world literature.First published in 1791,A Dream of Red Mansions,also 2. (know) as The Story of the Stone,is to Chinese people as William Shakespeares famous plays are to westerners.The novel,3. reflects the history of the Qing Dy
10、nasty,follows the rise and fall of the noble Jia family.Originally,the family seems to be wealthy and 4. (power),thanks in part to its close relationships with the royal family.Yet,the heir to the family,Jia Baoyu,enjoys 5.(live) a pure,carefree life,having no interest 6. politics at all.Expected to
11、 marry Xue Baochai,Jia falls in love with his delicately brilliant cousin,Lin Daiyu.As the lovers head toward a tragic end,the family falls on hard times,fading away eventually.The 7. (appreciate) of the classic novel is surely both a pleasant treat and a challenge.In the past decades the novel 8. (
12、experience) various adaptations.Making the detailed 120-chapter novel into just several hours is 9. (absolute) no piece of cake.“Still,choices have to be made,” the operas stage director Stan Lai concluded.“For everyone else,the challenge is to make it 10. excellent opera.”【阅读理解】AMy best friend trav
13、elled to stay with my family last weekend.When she arrived,she went straight to the kitchen and,without asking,ate some dried fruit.She wasnt being rude.I knew she would do this.Weve known each other for almost 20 years.She can eat anything she wants from my kitchen.Indeed,I bought her favourite fru
14、its and snacks at the shop that morning.Our long weekend together was simple.I was recovering from surgery and couldnt go to shopping malls.But there were no quiet moments.Weve lived in different cities for almost a decade.Reunions demand conversation.Our personalities are matched,to be sure,and a s
15、hared history is indescribably (难以形容地)valuable.We were competitors at high school before bonding.Then we discovered the many interests that we had in common.Our friendship developed itself quickly.We stayed companions and supported each other through law school and through our first jobs.Ours is a f
16、riendship for the ages.There is something special about friends who know everything about you.They are rare.They have seen your achievements,your desperation and your boring routine of the in-between.Its special to unpack feelings without wasting time filling in the blanks.As my long weekend shows,w
17、ith such friends we dont have to do well,but we simply have to be ourselves.We drop the act,the performance and the public version of ourselves.The special friendships are those which never fail to delight us,whose continuation is worth the extra effort,despite distance and difference in our separat
18、e lives.I had the very great joy of this reminder last weekend.Im lucky to have found this friend,and to see a future where her companionship remains.Being together is perfection.1.What message is conveyed in the last paragraph?A.Real friends are easy to make.B.Good friendships need devotion.C.Speci
19、al friendships may fail to delight us.D.Distance and difference bring a friendship.2.Why does the author write this text?A.To express thanks to her best friend.B.To share the friendship she treasures.C.To describe what her best friend is like.D.To explain how she offers help to her friend.3.What can
20、 we infer from Paragraph 2?A.They talked constantly about their lives.B.They enjoyed going shopping.C.They had a boring weekend.D.They quarrelled at times.4.What does the author appreciate about their friendship?A.They help each other achieve success in their fields.B.Theyre best friends despite dif
21、ferent hobbies.C.They inspire each other to be their best selves.D.Theyre comfortable just being themselves.BI was born and raised in England in a culture where privacy and “keeping yourself to yourself” were valued traditions.Speaking to strangers was not encouraged.People were most hospitable(好客的)
22、 and friendlybut only once they had been introduced to new people.However,I have been lucky enough to spend some time in both Italy and the US,where I found traditions of hospitality and politeness to be very different.I experienced Italian hospitality first-hand on a crowded railway carriage travel
23、ling,one afternoon,from Genoa to Florence.Sinking gratefully into an empty seat,I was berated(斥责) in rapid Italian by a gentleman who was returning to this seatit had not been “spare” after all.I apologised in English,and got up to allow him back into the seat.The gentleman obviously had no understa
24、nding of the English language,but he,too,realised my genuine mistake.He smiled and gestured for me to remain in the seat,and he himself remained standing in the corridor for the remainder of the journey.The other occupants of the carriage smiled and nodded at me and made me feel quite welcome among
25、them.I feel that if this had been in England,a foreigner who made a mistake would not always be so kindly treated.Transport also featured in the differences I noticed between English and American culture.I flew to New York on a plane with mainly English passengers.We sat together in near silence.Nob
26、ody spoke to me nor,as I expected,to anyone else they did not know.They felt it was not polite to intrude on someone elses privacy.However,when I travelled across the United States,whether by plane or Greyhound bus,I was never short of conversation.Conversation was going on all around me and whoever
27、 sat next to me was happy to introduce themselves and ask me about myself.They obviously felt it would have been rude not to speak to another person,whether they were strangers or not.5.What do we know about the occupants of the carriage when the author was travelling in Italy?A.They all laughed at
28、the author for his mistake.B.They were all on the side of the gentleman.C.They would not bear a mistake like the authors in public.D.They all showed their understanding of the authors mistake.6.The author finally believes the Italian people are .A.coldB.rudeC.hospitableD.helpful7.According to the la
29、st paragraph,English passengers sat in near silence because .A.they were all strangers to each otherB.they were too tired to speakC.privacy was a valued tradition in EnglandD.everybody had their own share of privacy8.The purpose of the author is to tell us .A.his travelling experienceB.cultural diff
30、erences to show hospitality and politenessC.the culture shock he experienced in Italy and the USD.how to adapt ourselves to a new cultureCMost funny stories are based on comic situations.In spite of national differences,certain funny situations have a universal attraction.No matter where you live,yo
31、u would find it difficult not to laugh at,say Charlie Chaplins early films.However,a new type of humour,which starts largely from the US,has recently come into fashion.It is called “sick humour”.Comedians base their jokes on tragic situations like violent deaths or serious accidents.The following “s
32、ick humour” will enable you to amuse yourself.A man who had broken his right leg was taken to hospital a few weeks before Christmas.From the moment he arrived there,he kept on bothering his doctor to tell him when he would be able to go home.He was afraid of having to spend Christmas in hospital.Tho
33、ugh the doctor did his best,the patients recovery was slow.On Christmas Day,the man still had his right leg in plaster(石膏).He spent a miserable day in bed thinking of all the fun he was missing.The following day,however,the doctor consoled him by telling him that his chances of being able to leave h
34、ospital in time for New Year celebrations were good.The man took heart and,sure enough,on New Years Eve he was able to hobble(蹒跚) along to a party.To make up for his unpleasant experiences in hospital,the man drank a little more than what was good for him.In the process,he enjoyed himself thoroughly
35、 and kept telling everybody how much he hated hospitals.He was still murmuring something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg.9.What can we infer from the passage?A.No pains,no gains.B.Extreme joy begets sorrow.C.Once a thief,always a thief
36、.D.Good medicine tastes bitter.10.Whats the main idea of the passage?A.A new kind of humour came into being.B.How to cure your legs is important.C.Christmas is more necessary than anything else.D.Holding a party is interesting for the westerners.11.Which of the following is RIGHT according to the pa
37、ssage?A.All the humour stories are funny in spite of different nationalities.B.One can realise the humour of the stories in his own country.C.Charlie Chaplin made it difficult to laugh at his action.D.Almost all the audience can be made to laugh at some famous comedians action.12.What does the under
38、lined word “consoled” mean?A.Comforted.B.Overcame.C.Confused.D.Disturbed.【应用文】假定你是李华,最近你们学校举行了一次面向全社会的活动“校园开放日”(School Open Day),你的英国朋友汤姆对此很感兴趣,请你给他写封邮件,介绍此活动,要点包括:1.活动的目的;2.活动的内容:来访者听课、观看课间操、提建议等;3.活动的意义。参考词汇:课间操class-break exercise注意:1.词数80左右;2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;3.开头已给出,不计入总词数。Dear Tom,How are you r
39、ecently? Yours sincerely,Li Hua【读后续写】阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。“Once there was a ship travelling on the tough sea and on the ship there was a couple.All of a sudden,the ship met with an accident and the couple had no choice but to run to the lifeboat without delay.After reaching there,the
40、y realised that there was space only for one person.At that very moment,the husband pushed his wife behind him and jumped onto the lifeboat himself,leaving his wife standing on the sinking ship and shouting something desperately to her husband with her eyes filled with tears.”The teacher stopped her
41、 storytelling and asked her students,“Guys,guess what it was that she shouted.”Most students answered,“I hate you!”After listening to this reply,the teacher glanced through the whole class again and noticed that there was a boy sitting silently throughout.Then she asked him the same question.The boy
42、 answered,“I believe she would have shoutedtake care of our child.”Listening to his remark,the teacher was surprised and asked the boy doubtfully,“Have you heard of this story before?”Shaking his head,the boy said softly and sadly,“No,I havent.But thats what my mother said to my father before she di
43、ed of a deadly disease.”Moved and feeling sad,the teacher replied,“Your answer is absolutely right!”Then she continued,“Lets take up the story.The ship sank eventually and the husband went home and brought up their daughter alone.Many years later after the death of the man,their daughter was tidying
44、 up all his belongings when she found his diary.In his diary she found that when her parents were on the ship,her mother had already been diagnosed(诊断)with advanced cancer and at the critical moment,the father rushed to the only chance of survival.”注意:续写词数应为150左右。In his diary,the man mentioned he wished to sink to the ocean with his wife but for their daughter he had to live. The story was finished and the class was silent.
