Unit
16 Social and personal
【重点、难点点拨】
1 Go over the passive voice, and apologies and regrets.
2 walk along with sb, so well… that…, but
to…， offer guide services to,
show sb around, have a gift for, work out, a part
time job, in the same direction， realize, whatever, catch
sb doing
3 It is a good idea to start a
parttime job so long as it does not affect your studies.
They value someone who leads an active life and is anxious
to learn.
【重点、难点例题解析】
1 Great changes________in the city, and a lot of factories________.
A. has been taken place; has been
set up
B have taken place; have set up
C have taken place; have set up
D have taken place; were set up
答案B。take place 发生。没有被动语态。主动形式表示了被动的意义。还有动词break
out, belong
to, I have sth. to do 等也适用此原则。
2 —Have you moved into the new
house?
—Not yet The rooms________.
A. are being painted B. are painting
C. are painted D. are being painting
答案A。主语为物，是动词paint的对象，因此选用被动语态结构。根据问句可以判断出房子正在被喷刷之中，因此还没有搬进新房子里居住。
3 —When did the lecture begin?
—When all the students________,
the professor began his lecture.
A. seated B. were
sitting C. were
seated D. seat
答案C。seat一词在运用时要注意它是个含有主动意义的被动结构，还有动词dress也是这样用。
【重点、难点练习题】
1 The book ________well.
A. sell B.
is sold C. sells D.
sold
2 The whisky________well for its
price.
A. drinks B. is drunk C.
was drunk D. drink
3 The sign________as follows.
A. read B. reads C. reading D. is read
4 This dress________very well.
A. wears B. wear C. is worn D. wearing
5 This knife of mine ________well.
A. cutting B. cut C. cuts D. is cut
6 My car ________easily.
A. is driven B. drove C. drives D. driving
7 This dress________better.
A. washing B. washed C. is washed D. washes
8 In warm weather fruit and meat________long.
A. don't keep B. cannot be kept
C. are not kept D. are not keeping
9 He received telegram________
“Mother sick”.
A. written B. said C. reading D.
writing
10 When I got back home I saw
a message pinned to the door“Sorry to miss you;
we will call later.
”
A. read B. reads C. to read D. reading
【全方位单元综合练习题】
Ⅰ Give each section a title
paragraph 1________________________________________________________
paragraph 2________________________________________________________
paragraph 3________________________________________________________
paragraph 4________________________________________________________
paragraph 5________________________________________________________
paragraph 6________________________________________________________
paragraph 7________________________________________________________
paragraph 8________________________________________________________
paragraph 9________________________________________________________
Ⅱ Text comprehension
1 The two friends are writing
to________.
A. tell each other stories
B. give each other information
C. persuade each other to change mind
D. ask for and give advice
2 From John's letter we can tell that ________.
A. he relies on friends
B. he is not brave or independent enough
C. he doesn't know how to solve the problem
D. all of the above
3 Which of the following words has the same meaning as “position”
in John's letter?
A. condition B. attitude C. job D.
opinion
4 From Karty's second letter we know he is________.
A. brave and willing to fight for truth
B. selfish
C. understanding, clever and careful
D. brave but careless
5 The job that is not a parttime job is called________.
A. a fulltime job B. a halftime job
C. a fullday job
D. a
halfday job
6 The writer________.
A. describes what kind of person Fred Pearson is
B. tells a story about Fred Pearson
C. tells that doing a parttime
job is helpful
D. gives advice on how to get
a parttime job
7 Oxford University is in ________.
A. France B. USA C. Britain D.
Ireland
8 How many good reasons are mentioned in the text for taking
a parttime job?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
9 Parttime jobs can be described as________.
A. helpful B. useful C. valuable D. all of the above
10 The writer suggests that students should take some part time
jobs______.
A. to get ready for the world outside
B. to make some money
C. to get some work experience
D. to enjoy themselves
Ⅲ
Multiple choice
1 Fred walked ________the tourist.
A. along B. with C. along with D.
down
2 They got on ________that fred decided not to go to the lecture,
________show the tourist around the university
instead.
A. very well… but to B. so well… but to
C. so good… but to D. so
well … while to
3 Fred ________that he had discovered
an interesting and enjoyable way of making money.
A. recognized B. knew C. understood
D. realized
4 you can buy ________you need
if you have enough money.
A. whatever B. anything C.
all D. what
5 They ________someone who leads
an active life and is anxious to learn.
A. employ B. value C. use
D. raise
6 You will have a chance of finding
a ________job if you have done some parttime jobs.
A. fit B. proper C. good D. suitable
Ⅳ
Fill the blanks with the proper forms
Dear Marty,
I
1 (get) a problem and as I
2 (not know) what to do I
___3 (think)
I 4 (write)to you and ask for your advice.
I 5 (work) at a meat factory for about two months
now, It's
a parttime job, so I only work evenings.
I 6 (recently notice) that one of my
workmates 7 (steal).
From time to time I 8 (notice) that
he
9
(put) a piece of meat down his trousers just before he
10
(leave) the factory.
Now the manager 11
(find) that things
12 (miss). He 13 (say) that all this 14 (happen) after I 15 (start) work.
What should I do? Maybe I 16 (tell)
that workmate I 17 (know) what he 18 (do). Or possible I 19 (go) to the manager and 20
(tell)him who 21
(steal)meat.
I think I'm in a difficult position.
Please tell me how I can solve this problem.
I'd like to hear your advice.
Best
wishes
John
Ⅴ
Error correction
In America, when they built the railways,
they also set up
telegraph network to link
1. ________
town together They put up telegraph poles 2. ________
by the railway track
so that they could 3. ________
send messages across
the
4. ________
telegraph wires
from one town to next. 5.
________
There are not telephone
lines, as
6. ________
they did not invent
telephones until late. 7.
________
Instead they used
Morse code, that was 8.
________
a language of short
and long signals.
Ⅵ
Reading comprehension
It was nearly midnight
on April 16, 1955.
Dr Dean took a look at his patient, Albert Einstein, who was sleeping peacefully, and then left the hospital.
After a while, the nurse, whose name was Roszel,
noticed difficulty in breathing for her patient. She went to help him. Albert Einstein murmured something in
German which Roszel did not understand at all.
He took two deep breaths and then died.
His death was announced
at noon the next day.
No reporters were allowed to enter the room and
no details were given. It had been Einstein's will that
he didn't want to start a personality cult. He had particularly asked that his house should not open to
the admirers to pay tribute.
His body was cremated that afternoon and ashes
were put into the Delaware River.
According to his will, his brain was saved for study. That was Einstein's last contribution
to mankind.
1 The nurse couldn't understand what Einstein murmured because________.
A. Einstein's voice was too low
B. Einstein was a German
C. She was an American D.
she didn't know German
2 The underlined
word cremated may be explained as________.
A. burned up B.
buried
C. worshipped D. put into a coffin
3 When Einstein
's death was announced, ________
A. no information was given to
any newspaper reporters
B. none of the people was allowed to enter the room
C. many policemen were sent to
protect his body
D. there must have been a lot of newsmen who had hurried there
4 Einstein made
the will________
A. how to deal with his property
B. just at the moment before his death
C. from which we can see his noble
quality and character
D. in German which was his native
language
5 Einstein's last
contribution was that ________
A. he offered all his savings to his country and people
B. he had his brain saved for medical research
C. his whole body was saved for
medical study
D. he called upon people to rise against “personality cult”
Ⅶ Fill in the blanks with the proper tenses
What ________(happen) to you? I
________(go) to the station on
Saturday morning as we ________(plan)but you ________(not
book) seats, I
(get) on the train and________(go) to Guangzhou alone.
Janice (meet) me at the station and we ________(have)
a great weekend.
The party on Saturday night (be) fun too.
Now it________(be)
Sunday evening. I________(try) to ring you but there________(be)
no answer. I
hope you________(be) all right.
Love,
Kate
Ⅷ Write a reply
letter (at most 100 words)
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