I. 根据下面各句句意以及所给单词的首字母,写出该单词的正确形式(每空一词)。 1. Don’t leave the lights on. It wastes e________.
2. It was quite an e________ when a woman first became prime minister. 3. The two men died when they were t________ in a burning building. 4. We sent Mary our c________ when she passed her examination. 5. We were caught in a thunderstorm, without anywhere to s________. 6. The pipes had b________ and the house was under two feet of water.
7. Finally, I’d like to e________ my sincere thanks to all those who have helped today. 8. He i________ his back in Tuesday’s game, and will be unable to play tomorrow. 9. The 1987 hurricane was the worst natural d________ to hit the country for decades.
10. I didn’t know anybody at the party, but the hostess came to my r________ by introducing me to a few people.
II. 用所给单词的正确形式填空。 1. frighten
① Don’t be ________. We’re not going to hurt you.
② It was supposed to be a horror film but it wasn’t very ________. 2. suffer
① Almost 50 per cent of cancer ________ are treated successfully. ② Death finally brought an end to her ________. 3. use
① Water had got into the radio, and now it was completely ________. ② It’s ________ to know the times of all the trains.
III. 根据括号内的提示翻译下面句子。 1. 他的举动好像发了疯似的。 (as if)
2. 我必须警告你我的耐心快耗尽了。 (at an end) 3. 很抱歉我忘记把药给你拿下来了,我马上上楼给你拿。 (right away) 4. 救护人员设法挖出了困在矿下的工人。 (dig out)
IV. 将下面每组句子合并成一个含有定语从句的复合句。 1. ① The book belongs to Tony. ② Its cover is blue.
2. ① The clothes have been washed. ② I’m wearing them.
3. ① Tom is one of the three students.
② They were praised in yesterday’s class meeting. 4. ① Mary is a kind girl.
② Everyone likes to make friends with her.
V. 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
In the eighteenth century, diamonds and gold from Portugal’s colony (殖民地) Brazil had made Lisbon one of the 1. ________ (big) ports on the Atlantic, a world trade center and a great number of its citizens rich. 10% of Portugal’s 3 million people lived there. Then on the morning of 1 November 1755 a great earthquake 2. ________ (shake) the city. Huge cracks appeared in the ground and Lisbon’s great cathedrals came down, 3. ________ (bury) thousands. A 20-foot tsunami flooded the city killing thousands more. Ships in the harbor 4. ________ (turn) over or swept away. Then fires started all over the city. The fires 5. ________ (total) destroyed the new opera house and most of Lisbon’s museums and libraries. Thousands of priceless books and hundreds of paintings 6. ________ (make) by Titian, Rubens and Correggio were all lost. The earthquake was so large 7. ________ it also killed thousands of people in Algeria and Morocco 400 miles away, but Lisbon had been hit the hardest. In 8. ________ end a third of its population had been killed and over 80%
of its buildings, along with its beautiful palaces and libraries, were all 9. ________ ruins. So 10. ________ (shock) was the event that from then on scientists began to take an interest in earthquakes, recording their times, locations and effects. The disaster marked the birth of modern seismology (地震学).
参考答案:
I. 1. electricity 2. event 3. trapped 4. congratulations 5. shelter 6. burst 7. express 8. injured 9. disaster 10. rescue II. 1. ① frightened ② frightening
2. ① sufferers ② suffering 3. ① useless ② useful III. 1. He behaves as if he were mad.
2. I must warn you that my patience is almost at an end.
3. I’m sorry I forgot to bring your medicine down; I’ll go upstairs and get it right away. 4. The rescuers managed to dig out the trapped miners. IV. 1. The book whose cover is blue belongs to Tony.
2. I’m wearing the clothes which / that have been washed. / The clothes I’m wearing have been washed.
3. Tom is one of the three students who / that were praised in yesterday’s class meeting. 4. Mary is a kind girl who(m) / that everyone likes to make friends with. V.
1. biggest 2. shook 3. burying 4. were turned 5. totally 6. made 7. that 8. the 9. in 10. shocking
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