Unit
20 Gandhi
【重点、难点点拨】
1 Everyday expressions are about determination, decision and
insistance.
2 take up arms, keep
one's promise, be
busy with, on
his
return to India, at
all times/at timeless,
much more than,
… laws designed to…,
be honoured as, have a gift for thinking…, have the right to do sth, insist on doing sth, provide sth for sb.
3 Grammar is to
go over the object complement.
【重点、难点例题解析】
1 —Did you have trouble with your car this morning?
—Yes, but I finally managed________.
A. to get it started B. to get starting it
C. it to get started D. getting started it
答案A。因为manage to get it started 中过去分词started做it的补语，表示人为的动作，意思是使车发动起来。
2 The workman ________a
hat is lying on the bench.
A. to wear B. wears C. worn D. wearing
答案D。现在分词作定语，在这里表示主语的特征，意思是戴着帽子的工人。A项不定式表示将来。C项过去分词表示被动。B项只能作谓语。
3 Charles Babbage is generally considered________the first computer.
A. to have invented B. inventing
C. to invent D. having
invented
答案A。不定式的完成式作主语补足语，动作发生在主动词之前，表示过去的过去。
4 —Do you know Mr Smith?
—Yes He's a strange man. We find ________difficult to work with
him.
A. us B. it C. him D. you
答案B。 it 为 find的形式宾语。而to work with
him为find 的真正宾语。当宾语为一短语或一个句子时，可用it作find 的形式宾语。后接形式宾语的动词还有
consider, make, feel, know,
regard, think of, believe。
【重点、难点练习题】
1 Remember the
followings
(1) leave him in
peace (2) put your request
in writing
(3) let you know
sth. (4) help you choose sth.
(5) hear sb. doing
sth. (6) find sb. a very suitable
person
(7) consider sth
very useful (8) make sb. Chairman
(9) keep sth. secret
2 Multiple choice
(1) The foreigner
tried his best, but he still couldn't make his point________.
A. understand B. understanding
C. to understand D. understood
(2) The scientists
were waiting to see the problem________.
A. settle B. settled C. to settle D.
settling
(3) The missing
boys were last seen ________near the river.
A. playing B. to
be playing
C. play D. to play
(4) When he was
decorating his house,
he got the bedroomfirst.
A. to paint B. painting C. painted D.
to be painted
(5) The murderer was brought in, with his hands________behind his back.
A. being tied B.
having tied C.
to be tied D. tied
(6) As he entered the room,
he found many books________scattered on the floor.
A. laying B. laid C. lainD.
lying
(7) He was so careless
that he left the work half________and went to the cinema.
A. do B. doing C.
done D. to
do
(8) —Why did you
go back upstairs?
—I thought I had left the window________.
A. opened B open
C. being opened D. to be opened
【全方位单元综合练习题】
Ⅰ Find out a new expression in the text by the meanings given
1 the most important person ________
2 Blacks were not allowed to sit
in a certain section of the train ________
3 did important things ________
4 have to change his plans ________
5 to prove that what he was doing
was not revolutionary
Ⅱ Describe the character of Gandhi using the information from
the text
1 His simple life:_______________________________________________
2 His interests: _______________________________________________
3 His belief: _______________________________________________
Ⅲ Text comprehension
1 This text is about________.
A. Gandhi's political life B. Gandhi's family life
C. Gandhi's life D. Gandhi's
professional life
2 What custom is mentioned in
the text?
A. Dining B. Marriage C. Family D. Education
3 Gandhi had travelled from ________to
India.
A. England, India and South Africa
B. India, England and South Africa
C. India, South Africa and England
D. South Africa, India and England
4 Gandhi did not want his people
to get equal rights through.
A. articles B. publicity C. marches D. violent fights
5 The two movements
in paragraph 5 are actually________movements.
A. economic B. cultural C. political D. educational
6 What drove Gandhi
to struggle against all the unfairness?
A. His material desire. B. His religious belief
C. His belief in truth D. Other people's expectations.
7 We can infer
from the text that Gandhi seldom________.
A. lied B. talked with others
C. made mistakes D. praised himself
8 The first sentence
in paragraph 2 means that ________.
A. he refused to be famous
B. he never made use of his position
C. he didn't work for his personal interests
D. he liked to be a common person
9 The word “father”in paragraph 6 means________.
A. all Indians became his sons
B. all Indians regarded him as
their father
C. all Indians respected him
D. all Indians felt that he was
above them
10 Einstein's words mean________.
A. Gandhi was only understood by
few people
B. Gandhi was so great and outstanding
that he can hardly be imagined
C. future generations will not
believe in his ideas
D. gandhi could only be understood
by the people of his times
Ⅳ Fill in the blanks
by the text
1 He was so shocked by this lack of ________and fairness.
2 Gandhi played
an important role ________working for equal right for
Indians.
3 South Africa
passed further laws ________to make life difficult for
nonwhites.
4 Gandhi won his
first nonviolent struggle against discrimination.
5 He returned to
India and was ________as a hero.
Ⅴ
Multiple choice
1 He was married at the age of 13, ________local custom.
A. followed B. to follow C. following D. was followed
2 He sailed to
England and after three years'study a lawyer.
A. was B. got C. turned
D. became
3 Gandhi was ________the train.
A. thrown out of B. thrown away
C. thrown down D. thrown off
4 He had a ________
for thinking up ways of making political points.
A. present B. mind C. gift D. head
5 Indians refused
to buy cloth ________in England.
A. made B. was made C. making D. to
make
6 He was a ________of
a different kind of political leader.
A. example B. model C. fact D.
person
7 He felt free
to talk about his failures________ his difficulties.
A. and B. or C. with D. but
8 He decided to
live ________a poor man and not to possess ________.
A. like… wealth B. as… money
C. like… money D. as… wealth
9 All his life
he ________the truths of spirits and gods.
A. reached for B. reached out to
C. reached out for D. reached
10 People should
be ready to go to prison for their beliefs, ________they
should never take ________ arms to fight.
A. and… away B. but … up
C. while… on D. so…
up
Ⅵ
Error correction
One day mozart saw
an old blind street performer
1.________
playing the violin
in a street corner.
He recognized 2. ________
what the old man
was playing one of his compositions.
3. ________
Front of him was
still empty－nobody put no money into it. 4. ________
Mozart asked the
old man “Do you often play compositions
by Mozart?'“Yes,
sir”the old man replied to. “Now,
5. ________
everybody knows
Mozart, and likes his music. ” “Do you
make a live by playing
the violin?”The old man said 6. ________
he did Mozart took
over the violin to the old man and
7. ________
began to play He played such well that all passersby 8. ________
stopped to listen
to the wonderful music and soon the old
man's hat was full
of money. The old man fell 9.
________
surprised that the
man could play so well. I'm a
poor musician like
you “Mozart then told him,
and 10. ________
gave the money back
to him and went away.
Ⅶ
Complete the passage
Mohandas Gandhi
was________in 1869.
At the ________of 19， he sailed to England to study
law. Then
he became a lawyer, and ________in south Africa for 21
years. As he saw Indians badly treated there,
he decided to help them ________against racial
discrimination.
Ⅷ
Translate the followings into English
1 我决定为所有的学生提供免费教育(provide)。
2 学生能够选择他们喜欢的科目(be
able to)。
3 请求政府提供完善的设备(provide)。
4 我认为全体学生学习使用计算机是非常重要的(extremely)。
Ⅸ Reading comprehension
A Timeless
Letter of Comfort
In Octobor 1800 John Tod was born
in Rutland, Vermont. Soon afterward his parents moved
to Killingworth, Connecticut. When John was six, both
his parents died. A kindhearted aunt in North Killingworth
agreed to take John and give him a home. He was brought
up by her and lived in her home until he left to study
for the ministry. His aunt took seriously ill and feared
she was about to die. In great distress she wrote John
Todd a letter in which she asked him to tell her what
death would be like.
Here is the letter he sent in reply:
It is now thirtyfive years since
I, as a little boy of six, was left quite alone in the
world. You sent me word you would give me a home and be
a kind mother to me. I have never forgotten the day when
I made the long journey of ten miles to your house in
North Killingworth. I can still recall my disappointment
when, instead of coming for me yourself, you sent your
servant James to fetch me.
I well remember my tears and anxiety
as, perched high on your horse and clinging tight to James,
I rode off to my new home. Night fell before we finished
the journey, and as it grew dark I became lonely and afraid.
“Do you think she'll go to bed before we get there?” I
asked James anxiously. “Oh, no,” he said reassuringly.
“She'll stay up for you. When we get out of these woods
you'll see her candle shining in the window.”
Presently we did ride out into the
clearing, and there, sure enough, was your candle. I remember
you were waiting at the door, that you put your arms close
about me and that you lifted me—a tired and bewildered
little boydown from the horse. You had a fire burning
on the hearth, a hot supper waiting on the stove. After
supper you took me to my new room, heard me say my prayers,
and then sat beside me until I fell asleep.
You probably realize why I am recalling
all these to your memory. Some day soon God will send
for you, to take you to a new home. Don't fear the summons,
the strange journey, or the dark messenger of death who
will fetch you. God can be trusted to do as much for you
as you were kind enough to do for me so many years ago.
At the end of the road you will find love and a welcome
waiting, and you will be safe in God's care. I shall watch
you pray for you till you are out of sight, and then wait
for the day when I shall make the same journey myself
and find you waiting at the end of the road to greet me.
１． Why did John Todd's
aunt ask him to go to North Killingworth?
Ａ． His parents had died and he was
alone.
Ｂ． His parents didn't want him anymore.
Ｃ． She meant him to study for the
ministry.
Ｄ． She was afraid that he would
run away from home.
２． Why was John Todd
disappointed when he arrived in North Killingworth?
Ａ． There was no one there to meet
him.
Ｂ． He didn't like the town.
Ｃ． His aunt's servant had come to
meet him, rather than his aunt herself.
Ｄ． He didn't like his aunt.
３． Which of the following
did ＮＯＴ await John Todd at his new home?
Ａ． A fire on the hearth.
Ｂ． A hot supper.
Ｃ． A hot bath.
Ｄ． A new room.
４． Why do you think John Todd's
aunt wrote to him thirtyfive years later?Ａ． She missed
having him at home with her.
Ｂ． He was a doctor and could possibly
cure her illness.
Ｃ． She wanted him at her side when
she died.
Ｄ． He was a minister and was used
to comforting dying people.
５． Which of the following
does John Todd discuss in his letter to his aunt?
Ａ． The summons from God.
Ｂ． The strange Journey.
Ｃ． The dark messenger of death.
Ｄ． All of the above.
６． John Todd's letter
says God can be trusted .
Ａ． to provide a painless death
Ｂ． to provide love and a welcome
at the end of the road
Ｃ． to prevent death
Ｄ． to cure her illness
７． John Todd wrote
the letter in order to .
Ａ． comfort his aunt
Ｂ． scare his aunt
Ｃ． feel better about his own death
Ｄ． recall his childhood
８． What does John
Todd compare death to?
Ａ． A nightmare.
Ｂ． A journey home to God.
Ｃ． A frightening story.
Ｄ． A warning from God.
Ⅹ
Write a passage
If I were monitor of
our class, I would…