1、课时跟踪练（三) Word power, Grammar and usage amazed Bamazed; amazingCamazed; amazed Damazing; amazing解析：选 C 句意：她脸上吃惊的表情表明当她听到这个消息时，她非常吃惊。amazed“(内心)吃惊的，惊讶的 ”；amazing “令人吃惊的 ”。修饰人的表情通常用 amazed。2Doctor Smith _ us on the developments of computers.Aupdated BinformedCreminded Dspoke解析：选 A 句意：史密斯博士为我们提供了有关电脑发展的
2、最新信息。update sb.on sth.“为某人提供关于某事最新的信息” 。3Here are some _ for you to follow when you take a test in chemistry.Apatterns BtipsCtopics Defforts解析：选 B 句意：下面给你提出几点忠告，当你参加化学测验时应该遵循。tip “忠告；意见” ；pattern“样式，花样，图案 ”；topic “题目，论题，话题” ；effort“努力，尽力”。4Where did you come across our chemistry teacher?It was in th
3、e supermarket where I _ mooncakes.Achased BpursuedCpurchased Dexchanged解析：选 C 句意：“你在哪里遇见我们化学老师的？ ”“在我买月饼的那个超市里。”purchase“购买 ”，符合题意。 chase“追逐，追求” ；pursue“追求，继续从事” ；exchange“交换” 。5She _ herself (to be) still young and beautiful.Apictured BfanciedCfolded Dflattered解析：选 B 句意：她自以为自己还年轻漂亮。 fancy 指远离现实凭空虚构
4、地想象、幻想；picture 多指具体事物在脑海中形成生动图像； fold“折叠，合拢” ；flatter “奉承，阿谀”。6The hospital was originally _ to take 1,000 patients, but now has 2,500.Adesigned BpreparedCdecorated Dattempted解析：选 A 句意：这家医院最初设计接收 1 000 名病人，但是现在已经接收了 2 500名。be designed to do sth.“打算做某事” ；prepare“准备” ；decorate“装饰” ；attempt“企图，尝试” 。7In
5、 an attempt to save money, some housewives like to go from shop to shop to search for real _.Acomments BbargainsCtraditions Dchampions解析：选 B 句意：为了试图省钱，一些家庭主妇喜欢挨家商店搜寻真正的廉价商品。bargain“廉价品，便宜货” 。8This book aims to cover all the _ of the city life.Athings BaspectsCfactors Dtheories解析：选 B 句意：这本书旨在涵盖城市生活的各
6、个方面。thing “个人物品，小件物品” ；aspect“方面” ；factor“因素” ；theory “理论” 。根据句意可知应选 B 项。9Ive never seen you so rude!I _ something I shouldnt have, but I didnt mean that.Ahave said Bhad saidCdid say Dwas saying解析：选 C 句意：“我从没见过你如此粗鲁！ ”“我确实说了一些我不应该说的话，但那不是我的本意。 ”该句用“助动词 did动词原形”来强调谓语动词，故选 C 项。10(安徽高考)Its said that th
7、e power plant is now _ large as what it was.Atwice as Bas twiceCtwice much Dmuch twice解析：选 A 句意：据说这个发电厂现在是以前的两倍大。倍数表达法有多种，此处考查的是“倍数as形容词 /副词原级as其他”结构，故选 A。.完成句子1On_top_of_the _hill_stands (山顶上耸立着) a big pine tree.2This big stone is_three_times_as _heavy_as (是的三倍重 ) that one.3Workers were forced to w
8、ork up_to (可达到) 19 hours a day, 7 days a week in the factories.4I came_across (碰到) a word Id never seen before.5Do_come_and_see_us (务必要来看我们 ) when you visit Beijing some day.6He recommended that I (should)_purchase_an_English_dictionary (购买一本英文词典) to improve my vocabulary.7Soon I am_amazed_to_find (
9、 惊奇地发现) I have made great progress.8I fancy_becoming _an_English_teacher (设想成为一名英语老师) in the future.二、勤练语篇阅读，多练自能生巧ANo one knows for sure when advertising first started. It is possible that it grew out of the discovery that some people did certain kinds of work better than others did them. That led
10、to the concept of specialization, which means that people would specialize, or focus, on doing one specific job.Lets take a man well call Mr. Fielder, for example. He did everything connected with farming. He planted seeds, tended the fields, and harvested and sold his crops. At the same time, he di
11、d many other jobs on the farm. However, he didnt make the bricks for his house, cut his trees into boards, make the plows (犁), or any of the other hundreds of things a farm needs. Instead, he got them from people who specialized in doing each of those things.Suppose there was another man we shall ca
12、ll Mr. Plowright. Using what he knew about farming and working with iron, Mr. Plowright invented a plow that made farming easier. Mr. Plowright did not really like farming himself and wanted to specialize in making really good plows. Perhaps, he thought, other farmers will trade what they grow for o
13、ne of my plows.How did Mr. Plowright let people know what he was doing? Why, he advertised, of course. First he opened a shop and then he put up a sign outside the shop to attract customers. That sign may have been no more than a plow carved into a piece of wood and a simple arrow pointing to the sh
14、op door. It was probably all the information people needed to find Mr. Plowright and his really good plows.Many historians believe that the first outdoor signs were used about five thousand years ago. Even before most people could read, they understood such signs. Shopkeepers would carve into stone,
15、 clay, or wood symbols for the products they had for sale.A medium, in advertising talk, is the way you communicate your message. You might say that the first medium used in advertising was signs with symbols. The second medium was audio, or sound, although that term is not used exactly in the way w
16、e use it today. Originally, just the human voice and maybe some kind of simple instrument, such as a bell, were used to get peoples attention.A crier, in the historical sense, is not someone who weeps easily. It is someone, probably a man, with a voice loud enough to be heard over the other noises o
17、f a city. In ancient Egypt, shopkeepers might hire such a person to spread the news about their products. Often this earliest form of advertising involved a newly arrived ship loaded with goods. Perhaps the crier described the goods, explained where they came from, and praised their quality. His job
18、 was, in other words, not too different from a TV or radio commercial in todays world.语篇解读：本文是说明文。广告是怎样形成的呢？文章通过两个例子进行了合理的推测，并介绍了广告最初的形式。1What probably led to the start of advertising?AThe discovery of iron.BThe specialization of labor.CThe appearance of new jobs.DThe development of farming techniqu
19、es.解析：选 B 细节理解题。根据第一段第二、三句 “It is possible that . some people did certain kinds of work better than others did them. That led to the concept of specialization .”和下文所举的两个例子可知，可能是劳动力专业化导致广告业的产生。2To advertise his plows, Mr. Plowright _.Apraised his plows in publicBplaced a sign outside the shopChung an
20、 arrow pointing to the shopDshowed his products to the customers解析：选 B 细节理解题。根据第四段第三句 “First he opened a shop and then he put up a sign outside the shop .”可知，普洛赖特先生放了一块指示牌在商店外面以吸引顾客，所以选 B 项。3The writer makes up the two stories of Mr. Fielder and Mr. Plowright in order to _.Aexplain the origin of adv
21、ertisingBpredict the future of advertisingCexpose problems in advertisingDprovide suggestions for advertising解析：选 A 推理判断题。结合本文主旨可知，作者通过两个故事，用简单的逻辑推理知识解释了广告业的起源。4In ancient Egypt, a crier was probably someone who _.Aowned a shipBhad the loudest voiceCran a shop selling goods to farmersDfunctioned lik
22、e todays TV or radio commercial解析：选 D 细节理解题。根据文章最后一句 “His job was, in other words, not too different from a TV or radio commercial in todays world.”可知，叫卖者所起的作用就相当于我们今天电视或收音机里的商品广告。5The last two paragraphs are mainly about _.Athe history of advertisingBthe benefits of advertisingCthe early forms of a
23、dvertisingDthe basic design of advertising解析：选 C 主旨大意题。最后两段描述了广告业的原始的形式，故 C 项符合。BWASHINGTON It starts out laying flat, like a sheet of paper. Then it springs up, almost lifelike, and folds into moveable parts much like Japanese paper origami (折纸) art. And then it crawls away.This new kind of robot c
24、ould someday be used in space exploration, to slide into collapsed building sites to aid search and rescue, or to speed up production on assembly lines, experts said Thursday.While this particular machines march to the world market is still years away, the report in the journal Science said the late
25、st advances open the way to a new frontier in personalized robotics.Not only is the material cheap it cost just $100 it could be easily reprogrammed from one task to another, said Sam Felton, a researcher at Harvard Universitys Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and School of Engin
26、eering and Applied Sciences.“In the same way that if you have a Word document and you want to change few words, you just reprint it at your home computer, you could take a robots digital plan, change a few things and reprint it， ” Felton told reporters.The thin robot is built of layers, including pa
27、per, a middle layer of copper into a network of electrical leads, and an outer layer of shapememory polymer (聚合物) that folds when heated. Once the batteries and motor are activated (激活), the robot folds itself much like a childs Transformer toy, and moves away like a crab.Other potential uses could
28、include selfassembling furniture, or even shelters that build themselves in disaster zones. “The exciting thing here is that you create this device that has computation (估算) put in the flat, printed version， ” explained Daniela Rus, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Mas
29、sachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “And when these devices lift up from the ground into the third dimension (维度), they do it in a thoughtful way.”语篇解读：本文是新闻报道。介绍了一款可以自动折叠的机器人，它可以广泛应用于太空探索和自然灾害的搜救等。6The author introduces the topic of the text by _.Agiving a description Bmaking a comparisonCgiv
30、ing an example Dmaking a summary解析：选 A 推理判断题。分析文章第一段可知，作者首先对这个可以折叠的机器人进行了描述，通过此种方法引出文章的话题。7The robot could be used to _.Amake paper origami artBmake toys for childrenCdo housework for humansDsearch for survivors in an earthquake解析：选 D 细节理解题。分析文章第二段可知，在废墟中搜救是这款机器人的功能之一。8Felton mentions a Word documen
31、t to show that _.Athe robot contains a word documentBthe robot can be used by common peopleCthe robot is easy to reprintDthe robot is in a digital form解析：选 C 细节理解题。分析文章第五段，这款机器人的研发者通过 word 文档很容易改动来类比这款机器人可以很容易复制。9Which of the following is TRUE about the robot?AIt has been put into wide use.BIt doesnt cost much to make it.CIt is shaped like a crab.DIt is made of rare materials.解析：选 B 推理判断题。从文章第四段可知，这款机器人所使用的材料很便宜，因此不需要花很多钱就可以制作这款机器人。
