Unit 1 课时达标训练(三)
Ⅰ.单句语法填空
1．With jobs so hard ________ (find) right now, the idea of being out of work really scares me.
2．Go to bed right away.Don't forget you need to get up as early as you can________ (catch) the early train.
3．—What will today's talk be about?
—In the lecture ________ (follow), the professor will tell us something about modern English usage.
4．The best way to avoid ________ (make) mistakes is to practice ________ (speak)． 5．________ (complete) all the homework assigned by the school, the students have to work at it till midnight.
6．Mr.Green stood up in defense of the 9-year-old boy, saying that he was not the one ________ (blame)．
7．The computer programs are a puzzle to me.The more I think of them, the more questions I think of________ (ask)．
8．Sandy could do nothing but ________ (admit) to his teacher that he was wrong.
9．She will tell us why she feels so strongly that each of us has a role ________ (play) in making the earth a better place to live.
10．I really appreciate ________ (have) time to relax with you on this nice island. Ⅱ.单句改错
1．Professor Smith suggested to put off the meeting till next saturday.____________ 2．I'll try my best speaking English pretty well.____________ 3．The little girl was heard sing in the next room.____________ 4．Mary did nothing but to read in bed the whole morning.____________
5．We were very surprised that he came to the party without inviting.____________ Ⅲ.阅读理解
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With the holidays just around the corner, you're probably starting to think about gifts. Situations, however, don't always lend themselves to easy gift giving. To help, we asked relationship advice coaches Leah Ingram, author of “Gifts Anytime: How to Find the Perfect
Present for Any Occasion，” and Scot McKay, founder of X and Y Communications, a dating-coach service, on gifting in awkward situations.
1．What do you do when one person has more money than the other?
“In those situations there has to be some conversation，” McKay says. If you're the one with less money, you want to make sure the recipient is aware of your money limits; if you're the one with more money, you want to make sure the recipient doesn't think you're expecting the equal gift in return. And McKay warns, “If you're giving with the expectation of getting in return, something's already wrong with the relationship.”
2．If someone's birthday is right around the holidays, do you buy one or two gifts?
McKay says that he would absolutely buy two gifts. “You can't shortchange people, especially if they bought you a Christmas present and a birthday present.” It's not the person's fault for being born around the holidays.
3．What if you really, truly can't think of a gift to get someone?
“Ask，” McKay says. “Talk.” Simply asking what someone's interests are and searching for it online will point you in the right direction. And be creative. “If someone's into basketball, I don't think you buy them a basketball. Find something that's unique and basketball-related that shows you put a little bit of thought into it.” It doesn't need to be expensive, he adds, just thoughtful.
1．What is the best title of the passage? A．Gift-Giving Politeness for Tricky Situations B．How to Find the Perfect Present for Any Occasion C．How to Give One Gifts Who Has More Money
D．How to Give One Gifts Whose Birthday around the Holidays 2．What does the underlined word “recipient” mean? A．One who has more money. B．One who has less money. C．One who receives the gift. D．One who gives the gift.
3．Which is TRUE of the following statements according to the passage? A．Giving gifts to others is never an easy thing.
B．One usually expects something in return when he gives gifts to others. C．You can certainly buy one gift for one whose birthday is around the holiday.
D．The gift you buy doesn't have to be expensive, but you should put some thought into it. 4．What would McKay absolutely buy two gifts for? A．One for his friend and the other for himself.
B．One for his friend's birthday and the other for his holiday. C．One for his friend and the other for his friend's wife. D．One for his friend and the other for his family. 5．What gift can never be wrong? A．An expensive gift. B．A cheap gift. C．An interesting gift.
D．A gift to the person's interest and unique.
B
Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, has created an online science education platform. He tries to “build a bridge” with things you know about, and then “bring you across that bridge to the strange place of modern physics”．
Recently I had a chance to ask Greene about wormholes (a hole which some scientists think might exist, connecting parts of space and time that are not usually connected), time travel and other mysteries of the universe. I asked him a milliondollar question: What if I went through a wormhole and prevented my parents from meeting? “Most of us believe that the universe makes sense，” Greene said. “Although there are several interesting theories about time travel，” he added, “the laws of physics would probably prevent something so illogical from taking place. The good news is that the time paradox (悖论) is open for future physicists to solve.”
When asked how physics could become more exciting for kids, Greene said that books by Stephen Weinberg, Leonard Susskind, and other physicists, “make it a great time for people who want to learn about big ideas but aren't yet ready, perhaps, to learn math.”
When I pointed out that some students still might find physics boring, Greene said that the key is to teach them about things that are strange. “The basic stuff is important，” Greene said.“But I think it's also really important to describe the more modern ideas, things like black holes and the Big Bang. If kids have those ideas in mind, then at least some of them will be excited to learn all the details.”
Greene has followed Albert Einstein's lead in trying to solve the mysteries of the universe. Now he wants kids to do the same. As Greene said, physics is “not just a matter of solving problems in an exam”. It's about experimenting, showing an interest in strange phenomena (现象) — and having fun!