Unit 9 Saving the earth

【重点、难点点拨】

1. 交际用语: 同意某人意见时,这样表达:

(1) It's a good idea (to hold such conferences).

(2) I agree with you.

(3) Yes, it certainly is.

(4) That's quite true.

2. 高考大纲要求的词汇 :

 damage, lecture, pollute, fit, room, standing room, turn…into, desert, area, cattle, cause, limit gradually, power, mile, Russia, sight, lose one's sight, shore, present, dirty, pour, square, living, human, probably, entire, text, notebook, monitor, test, go off, point to, joy。

3. 词组:

 (1) cause damage to the world, (2) listen to / attend a lecture, (3) befit for,(4) hear about, (5) think of a way, (6) pay special attention to, (7)turn the land into desert, (8) have a large population, (9) fail to pass the exam,(10) in place, (11) blow away, (12) a power station, (13) travel hundreds of miles, (14)time and time again, (15) it is thought/said /believed/reported that…, (16) hundreds of thousands of people, (17) the injured(people), (18) a rock off the northwest coast, (19) lose one's sight, (20) die out, (21) an average of, (22) play a part in, (23) an animal in danger, (24) no more than (only), (25) go onanorganized trip to a forest, (26) a well-kept secret, (27) do tests, (28) gooff, (29)be /get lost, (30) point to, (31) to one's great joy, (32) keep the soil in good condition。

4. 语法要点: 过去分词作表语和定语

(1) 过去分词表示被动意义或动作完成。如:

 respected scientists 受尊敬的科学家 boiled water 开水 fallen leaves 落叶 gone days 消逝的日子

(2) 过去分词作定语时,单个过去分词放在所修饰名词的前面, 过去分词短语放在所修饰名词的后面。如:

written exercises

settled problems  

exercises written in pen

problems settled two weeks ago

(3) 过去分词作表语,表示主语所处状态。

She was too excited. 她太激动了。

The book is well written. 这书写得很好。

【重点、难点例题解析】

1. The poor boy didn't realize that he _________fun of .

A. was being made  B. being made

C. is being made  D. made

答案: A。 注: is /was + being + done 进行时的被动语态。 根据题意( 可怜的男孩还没意识到自己正在被别人取笑),C 时态不对。

2. -The climate here doesn't agree _________some of us.

-I agree _________you on this point.

A. with; with  B. to; with

C. to ; about  D. on ; with 

答案: A。 注: agree+with +sb. 同意某人的意见; agree + to +建议,计划,安排;agree + on + sth 在某一点上取得一致意见。

3. I don't know whether _________the job.

A. is she fit for   B. she is fit for

C. is she fit on   D. she is fit on 

答案: B。 注: be fit for 意为: 适合。

4. The building _________over there now is a hospital.

A. built      B. being built

C. to be built   D. building

答案: B。 注:根据句意应用现在进行时的被动形式做定语。

5. Will there be any useful information _________in the computer?

A. leave B. left C. leaving D.have

答案: B。 注: there + be + 主语 + left 意为 留下有……。

【重点、难点练习题】

1. The teacher was angry because many of the students to finish their homework.

A. tried   B. managed   C. failed   D. had 

2. Stop _________this kind of deer. They are _________.

A. hunting; dying away   B. to hunt; dying out

C. hunting; dying out   D. hunting; dying down 

3. She _________in an accident. So she can't see the beautiful _________.

A. lost her sight; sight B. will lose her sight; sight

C. loses her sight; sight D. had lost her sight ;sight 

4. There are only _________in the lake.

A. a few big fish left   B. a few big fish leaving

C. few big fish left   D. a few big fish to leave 

5. The ground _________with _________leaves after a strong wind last night.

A. covered ; falling   B. is covered; fallen

C. was covered; fallen   D. was covered; falling

【全方位单元综合练习题】

Ⅰ. Multiple Choice

1. The _________of the fire is carelessness.

A. reason B. cause C. pollution D. danger 

2. If we go on polluting the world, it won't _________to live in.

A. fit us B. fit for us

C. be fit for us   D. be fit us 

3. Twenty _________been bought in by the farmers.

A. cattle has   B. cattle have

C. head of cattle have   D. heads of cattles have 

4. In an accident in India many of _________lost their sight.

A. the injure   B. the injuring

C. the injured   D. injures 

5. The most important reason for animals _________out is the part that humans have _________.

A. dying, played   B. die, made

C. died, done   D. to die, played 

6. _________, he passed the final examination.

A. To everyone surprising   B. To everyone's surprise

C. To every's surprise   D. To everyone surprised 

7. What was the film like?

_________.

A. Written by Jackie   B. It's an American film

C. Very interesting   D. Last night 

8. --_________?

--Well, we listened to lectures about pollution.

A. How were you feeling

B. What did you do at the meeting

C. How were the lectures

D. What were lectures like 

9. Many people will die there _________illnesses caused by the accident.

A. because   B. though

C. as a result of   D. as if 

10. Do you have _________for me to move in the hall?

A. a room   B. room

C. rooms   D. the room 

Ⅱ. Cloze

 Another problem is 1  good soil is gradually 2 . When trees are cut down,there is nothing 3  the soil in place on the hillside. So when it 4 , the soil is 5  the hills and 6 the rivers. Strong winds can also blow away the valuable soil that 7  on the top of the fields.

 8 comes from factories, power stations and cars. Chemicals in the smoke 9  power stations cause a lot of damage. They can travel hundreds of miles in the winds before 10  to the ground in the rain. But this chemical rain gradually destroys trees in the forests and kills the fish in the lakes.

1. A. which   B. /

  C. that   D. for which  

2. A. losing B. missing C. lost D. missed 

3. A. holds B. held C. holding D. to hold 

4. A. is raining B. rains C. will rain D. rained 

5. A. carried down B. washedC. carrying D. washing down 

6. A. in B. into C. inside D. onto 

7. A. is laid B. lays C. is lain D. lies 

8. A. An air pollution

  B. One of air pollutions

 C. Air pollution 

  D. Air pollutions 

9. A. from B. near C. outside D. inside 

10. A. being falling   B. falling

  C. being fallen   D. fallen 

Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension

 There used to be only one small church and several shops in a faraway town in Sweden. Nobody could have ever imagined that one day it would become a popular travellers' spot.A business woman in Sweden first lay her eyes on this place. She had a number of round ice huts(小屋) built there, and advertised them on TV, radio and newspapers. Attracted by the ads, many curious travllers came in high spirits. Some of them even prefer to spend one or two nights in the ice huts.

The indoor temperature of an ice hut is minus five Centigrade, yettravellers feel quite warm in eiderdown(羽绒) sleeping bags. It is really an experience of “Warmth in coldness, and coldness in warmth!”

 Besides, the ice hotel is always very clean. They melt when spring comesand will be rebuilt in winter.

1. The faraway town in Sweden used to be_________.

A. very popular    B. cold

C. quiet       D. warm 

2. The faraway town was first paid attention to by_________.

A. people in the town    B. a business woman

C. travellers   D. the ads 

3. The small town became well-known for_________.

A. its temperature   B. its church and shops

C. the ads   D. the ice hotel 

4. Many travellers came here mainly_________.

A. to sleep in the ice hotel

 B. to see the ice hotel

C. to build ice huts

 D. to clean ice huts 

5. If you spend a night in an eiderdown sleeping bag in an ice hut, you will feel_________.

A. cold    B. not cold

C. it crowded   D. it melting 

Ⅳ. Spelling

1. A s_________is the land along the edge of a large stretch of water. 

2. Success had t_________him from a kind gentle person into a nasty unfair employer. 

3. P_________to the candy in the shop, the child askedhis mother, “Can you buy me some, Mom?” 

4. Lily p_________herself another cup of tea. 

5. The island is only 29 m_________long. 

Ⅴ. Error Correction

Last Monday our class went to forest. 1. _________

The purpose of the trip to record all the 2. _________

wildlife and plants we could. Whenever we 3. _________

found an unknown plant, we have to 4. _________

describe in our notebooks. 5. _________

Sun Yao, our monitor, and me remembered 6. _________

a programme that a well-known

film's director had made about the forest. 7. _________

She had shown pictures of a plant which 8. _________

had recently discovered. 9. _________

In the afternoon, we went off sepa- 10. _________

rately to look for new plants. For my great 11. _________

joy, the plant was found by Sun Yao did 12. _________

look like we were looking for. 13. _________

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