高中英语Unit5Thepowerofnature课课练四新人教版选修

1、Unit 5 The power of nature第一节：语法填空 Mary will ever forget the first time she saw him. He suddenly appeared in class one day,1_ ( wear ) sun glasses. He walked in as if he 2_( buy ) the school , And the word quickly got around that he was from New York City .For some reason he sat beside Mary. Mary fe

2、lt 3 _ ( please ), because there were many empty seats in the room. But she quickly realized that it wasnt her, it was probably the fact that she sat in 4_last row. 5_ he thought he could escape attention by sitting at the back ,he was wrong . It might have made it a little 6_( hard ) for everybody

3、because it meant they had to turn around ,but that didnt stop the kids in the class. Of course whenever they turned to look at him, they had to look at Mary, 7_ made her feel like a star. “Do you need those glasses for medical reasons?” the teacher asked .The new boy shook his head.” Then Id appreci

4、ate it if you didnt wear them in class. I like to look at your eyes when Im speaking to you.” The new boy looked at the teacher 8_ a few seconds and all the other students wondered 9_the boy would do .Then he took 10_ off, gave a big smile and said “That is cool.第二节：短文改错:Dear Diana,Thank you for the

5、 lovely day we have with you. It was so kind tor you to let us bring Annes friend. Gina. Unfortunate, the only problem was the journey home. There had been a terrible accident on the highway and, for a result, there was a long line of traffic for at least six mile. In the end, we drove to a service

6、station and waited there unless the road was clear. In the car park Gina nearly got knocked over as a car drove out far too quickly from behind a lorry. They finally dropped Gina off at her parents and made our own way to home.第三节：七选五：Training for a marathon requires careful preparation and steady,

7、gradual increases in the length of the runs.36, buy the best-fitting running shoes you can find. No one can say which brand will work best for you or feel best on your feet, so you have to rely on your experience and on the feel of each pair as you shop. When you have found shoes that seem right, wa

8、lk in them for a few days to double-check the fit.37. As always, you should stretch(伸展) at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.During the first week, do not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day.38, it is wise to take a day off to rest. But during the next week

9、, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.39. After two weeks, start timing yourself.40. Depending on the kind of race you plan to enter, you can set up a timetable for the remaining weeks before the race.A.Aftersixdays.B.Foragoodmarathonrunner.C.Beforeyoubeginyourtraining.D.Witheachday,inc

10、reasethedistancebyahalfmile.E.Iftheystillfeelgood,youcanbeginrunninginthem.F.Timespentforpreparationraisesthequalityoftraining.G.Nowyouarereadytofigureoutagoalofimprovingdistanceandtime.第四节：阅读理解To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians (基督教徒) ever cooked up. Fo

11、r them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil. So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion. Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.What made it particularly t

12、errifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell. What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits. Though the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red

13、 or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch. Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700smost of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert wrote that the most

14、interesting part of an afternoon tea at her fathers house had been the introduction of this wonderful new fruit - or is it a vegetable? As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an evil fruit. But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomat

15、o was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. What are you afraid of? he shouted. Ill show you fools these things are good to eat! Then he bit into the tomato. Some people fainted. But

16、he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.1. The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because _.A.it made Christians evil B.it was the apple of EdenC.it came from a forbidden landD.it was religiously unacceptable2. What can we infer from the un

17、derlined part in Paragraph 3? A. The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down. B. There was little progress in the study of the tomato. CThe tomato was still refused in most western countries. DMost western people continued to get rid of the tomato.3.What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly? A. To make himself a hero. B. To remove peoples fear of the tomato. C. To speed up the popularity of the tomato. D. To persuade people to buy products from his factory.4. What