Unit 23 Telephones

【重点、难点点拨】

1.交际用语为电话用语和祝愿用语。

2.本单元介绍了电话的发展史及各种现代化办公用的电话。

3.语法为名词从句。包括主语从句,表语从句,宾语从句和同位语从句。与通常意义上的主语,表语,宾语的区别是用一整句话来充当。以陈述句作主语用that引导,以特殊问句作主语用wh-引导,以一般问句作主语用whether引导。

It was said that he found in music the peace which was missing in a world full of wars and killings.

4. have…on, get together, all the best, have a word with, connect with, in other words, free of charge, stick to, in/ on the newspaper, fight for /with /against, go on with/ to do/ doing, appear / seem, work on / out, That fits the puzzle., All the best.

The rest of the students are coming soon. The rest of his life was spent in the USA.

【重点、难点例题解析】

1. -Look! The sky is covered with large, back clouds. It is possible to rain soon.

-Oh, yes. It looks as if it _________going to rain

A.is B. was C. has been D. had been 

as if引导的状语从句要用虚拟语气结构。但是如果句中的情况可能发生,或可能被设想为真实,则仍要用陈述语气结构。从对话内容来看,下雨的可能性积极大。因此A为正确答案。要注意用反习惯思维的逆向思维方式来解类似的题目。

2. He made a paper tiger _________his son.

A. please B. pleasing C. to please D. pleased 

C为正确答案。使役动词及感官动词后要接不带to的不定时作宾语补足语。但本句中的made是实义动词,而不是使役动词。句中的“取悦他的儿子”是不定式作目的状语,并不是作宾语补足语。

3. Can you believe that in _________a rich country there should be _________many poor people?

A. such…such B. so…so

C. such…so D. so…such 

such修饰名词,名词前可以带形容词。so修饰形容词或副词。但根据英语习惯,名词前如果有many, much, few, little等表示数量多少的词修饰时,前面用so而不是such。故答案应为C。

【重点、难点练习题】

1. The doctor did what he could _________the boy's life.

A. save B. to save

C. for saving D. have saved 

2. It was ten o'clock _________I went to bed.

A. which B. that C. when D. since 

3. Our teacher told us that salt water _________at a lower temperature than fresh water.

A. freezes B. frozen

C. was frozen D. is freezing 

4. He must be in the room _________?

A. mustn't he B. needn't he

C. couldn't he D. isn't he 

5. the letter I had been looking forward _________me a

t last. How happy I was!

A. to reaching B. to reach

C. reached D. to reached 

【全方位单元综合练习题】

Ⅰ. Translate the followings

1. dial the wrong number 

2. have a word with sb. 

 3. hold on _________ 

 4. Just a minute. _________ 

 5. get together _________ 

 6. All the best _________ 

  7. the sound waves of your voice _________

 8. over long distances _________ 

 9. telephone directory 

 10. 二十世纪_________ 

 11. 变得越来越弱_________ 

 12. 而不是用金属线_________ 

 13. 大约一毫米宽_________

 14.在另一头_________ 

Ⅱ. Give the responses

1. A: -Hello, can I speak to Pippa, please?

B: -_________.

A: -I'm sorry. I think I dialled the wrong number. 

2. A: -Hello. Is _________Bob?

B: -Yes, _________is. 

3. A: Hi, _________is Steve. Is Pippa there?

B: Yes, _________is. Would you like a _________with her? 

4. A: Pippa, will you like to go to the lecture with me?

B: _________I'll see if I'm free. 

5. A: We must get together some other time for a chat.

B:                                    . 

Ⅲ. Give the topic to each paragraph

1. para 1                            

2. para 2                            

3. para 3                             

4. para 4                             

5. para 5                             

Ⅳ. Multiple Choice

1. Mr Steve would _________with you in his office.

A. like word B. give the word

C. have words D. have his word 

2. I don't like the way _________you laugh at her.

A. in what B. in which C. that D. which 

3. If there are words you don't know, _________in the dictionary.

A. Look them up B. look up them

C. look them D. look for them 

4. Please tell me all _________your teacher told youthe week before.

A. when B. which C. / D. whose 

5. A cordless phone also has _________wires. It can be useful in the office _________the factory.

A. not, or B. no, and

D. not, and D. no, or 

6. There _________great advances in telephone equipment in the last quarter of the _________century.

A. have been, twentieth B. were twentieth

C. have, twenty D. were, twenty 

7. It's_________to hear such _________stories.

A. excited, surprising B. exciting, surprised

C. excited, surprising D. exciting, surprising 

8. _________frightened us _________two lights appeared suddenly in the darkness.

A. It was, that B. What, most was that

C. It, mostly that D. What, most was what 

9. _________he disagrees with us is not strange.

A. That B. How C. What D. Whether 

10. _________you listen to English, _________it becomes.

A. The more, the easy B. The more, the more easy

C. The more, the easier D. Much, easy 

Ⅴ. Error Correction

More and more people are using the kind 1. _________

of new-developed phone which is called mobile 2. _________

phone. It has not wires and can be carried 3.

in your pocket easy wherever you go. With 4. _________

the phone you may accept or make phone 5. _________

calls. People carry mobile phones are 6. _________

most businessmen. Now with the further 7. _________

development of modern technology, it 8. _________

serves like a secretary that is quite 9. _________

fit the job. 10. _________

Ⅵ. Spelling

1. How was one telephone c_________with another in the past? 

2. There the e_________signal is changed into sound. 

3. She stood b_________for ten minutes with the man for the vegetables. 

4. I called to ask you if you'd like to come to a lecture on W_________evening at the college. 

5. Is this a c_________time?

Ⅶ. Cloze

 Zheng Jie is a famous pianist. He set 1  to start a school which will be 2  to

workmen to Mr Smith's house to 3  his telephone. The men discovered that there was something 4  with the underground cable. They dug up 15 feet of the cable and saw many white ants. These ants had attacked the cable and damaged it 5 .

 On May 8-10, our workmen dug up another 30 feet of the cable and found that it was also  6 . On May 11-13 the men took out the 7 cable and 8 it with a new cable. To do this they had to connect more than 4000 wires and the work was 9 .

 On May 14, the cable was completely repaired and Mr Smith's telephone was working 10 . He did not have to pay for the work.

1. A. in B. off C. out D. from 

2. A. took B. sent C. brought D. helped 

3. A. repair B. look C. manage D. search 

4. A. wrong B. bad C. right D. important 

5. A. bad B. worse C. great D. badly 

6. A. damage B. damaged C. badly D. bad 

7. A. useful B. unuse C. unused D. useless 

8. A. took B. replaced C. placed D. put 

9. A. easy B. not good C. not easy D. good 

10. A. properly B. good C. order D. fast

Ⅷ. Complete the dialogue

Mrs Black: Hello1

Bob: Hello!  1 

Mrs Black: Sorry, John isn't in.

Bob: Is that Mrs Black speaking?

Mrs Black:  2 

Bob: This is Bob. Mrs Black. I called at three times this afternoon, but nobody was in.

Mrs Black:  3 John wasn't back home then.  4  Can I take a message for John?

Bob:  5 

A. Would you please tell something to John?

B. Yes, please.

C. Yes, who's that?

D. Oh, we were all out.

E. Yes, nobody is at the cinema.

F. Mr. Black and I were at the cinema.

G. May I speak to John?

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