第十一單元
（一）復習內容 SB2A Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4
（二）復習要點
1.詞匯
SB2A Unit 2
inform vt.
1)I informed her mother of her safe arrival.
2)We were informed that a big fire had broken out in the next town.
3)His letter informed us how and when he was expected to arrive in Beijing.
他來信通知我們他預定來北京的時間和搭乘什么交通工具。
4)Has he been informed of his father’s death yet?
5)Please keep me informed of fresh developments.
請隨時告知我最新的進展情況。
informed adj.有知識的；見聞廣的；了解情況的
relate vt.
1)It is difficult to relate these results to any known cause.
很難把這些結果與已知的原因聯(lián)系起來。
2)His fear of people is deeply related to his unhappy childhood.
他對人的畏懼和他不幸的童年有著密切的關系。
3)I want to ask you a question that relates to politics.
我想問你一個有關政治的問題。
4)This letter relates to the sale of the house.
著封信有關那房子的銷售。
tolerate vt. 忍受；容忍
1)I can’t tolerate your bad manners any more.
2)How can you tolerate that rude fellow?
3)I won’t tolerate you/your cheating in the exam.
4)The government tolerates smoking and drinking but not taking drugs.
政府允許吸煙喝酒但不允許吸毒。
be addicted to relate(……) to
for once burn down
go up draw attention to
on all sides change one’s mind
current affairs look up to
fall in love with even if
rather than suffer from
comment on be concerned about
adapt to retire from
SB2A Unit 3
impress vt.
1)The book impressed a lot of people.
那本書在很多人心中留下深刻印象。
2)I was deeply impressed by/at/with his speech.（他的演說給我留下深刻印象）
3)She impressed me as a woman of great kindness.（在我印象中，她是一位非常仁慈的女性。）
4)What impressed me is the beauty of the scenery there.（使我深受感動的是當地風景的美麗。）
5)My father impressed on me the importance of work.（父親要我銘記工作的重要性。）
6)They impressed on their children the virtue of always telling the truth.（他們要孩子們明白講實話的美德。）
design vt.
1)A famous architect designed the National Stadium.
2)The experiment is designed to test the new drug.（這項實驗目的是檢驗這種新藥。）
3)The fund is designed to help poor students.（這筆資金是為幫助貧窮的學生用的。）
4)This book was designed mainly for parents.（這本書主要是給父母看的。）
in a hurry be designed for
fill up with set aside
act as keep out
impress sb. with sth. impress sth. on sb.
to one’s taste
SB2A Unit 4
apart adv. 相隔；相距；除去；單獨地
1) Alice and her husband now live apart.（艾麗絲和她的丈夫現(xiàn)在分居。）
2) New York and Tokyo are thousands of miles apart.（紐約和東京相隔數千英里。）
3) The fires broke out a few hours apart.（前后兩場火災相隔幾個小時。）
4) They planted the trees three metres apart.（他們每隔三米種一棵樹。）
5) She lives apart from her family.（她和家人分開住。）
6)A few little things apart, the party was a great success.（除了幾件小事之外，那次聚會非常成功。）
7) Apart from a few faults, he is quite a good teacher.（除了幾個缺點外，他是個很好的老師。）
8) Apart from the cost, the dress doesn’t suit me.（姑且不論價格，這件衣服也不適合我穿。）
recommend vt. 推薦；介紹；勸告；建議
1) He strongly recommended her to our firm for the post.（他極力推薦她給本公司擔任這職位。）
2) I can recommend her as a good secretary.（我可以推薦她為一名優(yōu)秀的秘書。）
3) Can you recommend me a good lawyer?（你能推薦一位好律師給我嗎？）
4) I recommend you to see her at once.（我勸你馬上去看她。）
5) She recommended buying this dictionary.（她建議買這本字典。）
6) He recommended that they (should) be set free.（他建議釋放他們。）
contribute vt.
1) He contributed a lot of money to the charity.（他捐很多錢給慈善機構。）
2) She contributed a lot of good ideas to the discussion.（他在這次討論中提出很多好的意見。）
3) I contributed several poems to a literary magazine.（我投了幾首詩給一本文學雜志。）
4) The fine weather contributed to the success of the voyage.（良好的天氣助成了那次航行。）
5) A proper amount of exercise contributes to good health.（適度的運動有益健康。）
6) The construction of a highway will contribute to the growth of the suburbs.（建造高速公路將有助于郊區(qū)的發(fā)展。）
get through call up
stand out next to
come into being look up
contribute to light up
remind sb. of sth refer to
express oneself play with
send for belong to
2.句型結構
SB2A Unit 2
1) I like the story because it was the first time that I had written with real passion and because it made me realize that everyone’s life is different.
2) The editor’s job is to keep the newspaper balanced and interesting to the readers.
3) A reporter begins by contacting the people to be interviewed and then prepares questions.
4) Experienced editors and reporters make informed decisions about what events to report and how to report them.
5) Brave and strong, the activists talked to workers outside the factory and left a positive message about protecting the earth.
SB2A Unit 3
1) A nest is to a bird what a house is to a man.
2) Every great culture in the past had its own ideas of beauty expressed in art and architecture.
3) They wanted their buildings constructed in a way to look unnatural.
4) Frank Lloyd Wright found himself inspired by Japanese seashells.
5) What words and phrases do you think will be useful when you want to talk about art and architecture?
SB2A Unit 4
1) Once published, his work became famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of each line.
2) No matter how well translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost.
3) Frightened by the noise in the night, the girl no longer dared to sleep in her room.
3.語法：過去分詞
1) 過去分詞一般有被動的意思
I heard the door opened . We were exited.
有的過去分詞有完成的意思（多數是一些不及物動詞）:
the risen sun fallen leaves a returned student
the newly arrived visitors escaped prisoners
2) 過去分詞除了可以構成完成時態(tài)和被動語態(tài)以外，還可以做一下句子成分
(1)作表語：
He felt really disappointed. The letter was typed.
注：下句中過去分詞不是表語
Our house is painted every year.
你知道下面句中哪一“shut”是表語嗎？
The door was shut at six when I went by, but I don’t know when it was shut.
(2)作定語：
They are newly-invented machines. (前置定語)
Is there anything planned for tonight? (后置定語)
你會改正下面句子中的錯誤嗎？
Have you heard of the accident happened yesterday?
The boy come from Shanghai is my cousin.
You are invited to a party given in the school hall tomorrow evening.
We must keep a secret of the things discussed now.
以上各句可分別改成：happened前面加 that; come 改為 who came;
given 前面加 to be;discussed 前面加 being.
(3)作狀語：
Encouraged by there successes, they worked still harder. (原因)
Seen from the hill, the town looks more beautiful. (時間)
Compared with you, we still have a long way to go. (條件)
The teacher stood there, surrounded by many students. (伴隨狀態(tài))
下列句子錯在那里，你會改正它們嗎？
Helped by the teacher, my English is better and better.
Watered the vegetables, they then sat down to have a rest.
If caught, the police will punish the thief.
以上各句可分別改成：
Because I am helped by the teacher …
Having watered the vegetable …
If caught, the thief will be punished by the police.
分詞作狀語時，其邏輯主語一般都是句子主語。
(4)作狀語補足語：
You’d better have your shoes mended .
I found my room thoroughly cleaned.
請你改正下列錯句：
I found everything having been changed.
When you talk, you have to at least make yourself being understood.
正確的改法是：
將第一句中having been 去掉；將第二句中 being 去掉。
下面是近年來的高考題選，你能做出來嗎？
1) ________in thought, he almost ran into the car in front of him.
A. Losing B. Having lost C. Lost D. To lose
2) The Olympic Games, ________in 776 B.C., did not include women players until 1912.
A. first playing B. to be first played
C. first played D. to be first playing
3) European football is played in 80 countries, ________ it the most popular sport in the world.
A. making B. makes C. make D. to make
4) When I got back home I saw a message pinned to the door ________ “Sorry to miss you; will call later.”
A. read B. reads C. to read D. reading
5) I’ve worked with child before, so I know what ________ in my new job.
A. expected B. to expect
C. to be expecting D. expects
6) The mangers discussed the plan that they would like to see ________ the next year.
A. carry out B. carrying out
C. carried out D. to carry out
7) ________ the general state of his health, it may take him a while to recover from the operation.
A. Given B. To give C. Giving D. Having given
8) ________at the door before entering please.
A. Knocked B. To knock C. Knocking D. Knock
9) A computer does only what thinking people________
A. have it do B. have it done
C. have done it D. having it done
10) ________in 1636, Harvard is one of the most famous universities in the United states.
A. Being founded B. It was founded
C. Founded D. Founding
11) ________blood if you can and many lives will be saved.
A. Giving B. Give C. Given D. To give
12) The bell________ the end of the period rang, ________ our heated discussion.
A. indicating; interrupting B. indicated; interrupting
C. indicating; interrupted D. indicated; interrupted
13) ________ such heavy pollution already, it may now be too late to clean up the river.
A. Having suffered B. Suffering
C. To suffer D. Suffered
14) Sarah, hurry up. I’m afraid you wouldn’t have time to before the party.
A. get changed B. get change
C. get changing D. get to change
15) When first to the market, these products enjoyed great success.
A. introducing B. introduced C. introduce D. being introduced
16) Helen had to shout above the sound of the music.
A. making herself hear
B. to make herself hear
C. making herself heard
D. to make herself heard
17) Reading is an experience quite different from watching TV; there are pictures in your mind instead of before your eyes.
A. to form B. form
C. forming D. having formed
18) It shames me to say it, but I told a lie when at the meeting
by my boss.
A. questioning B. having questioned
C. questioned D. to be questioned
19) Alice returned from the manager’s office, me that the boss wanted to see me at once.
A. having told B. tells C. to tell D. telling
20) The old man, abroad for twenty years, is on the way back to his motherland.
A. to work B. working C. to have worked D. having worked
21) Don’t leave the water while you brush your teeth.
A. run B. running C. being run D. to run
22) Linda worked for the Minnesota Manufacturing and Mining Company, as 3M.
A. knowing B. known C. being known D. to be known
23) You were silly not your car.
A. to lock B. to have locked C. locking D. having locked
24) The news reporters hurried to the airport , only the film star had left.
A. to tell B. to be told C. telling D. told
25) Having been in bed for nearly a month, he had a hard time the exam.
A. pass B. to pass C. passed D. passing
26) in the queue for half an hour, Tom suddenly realized that he had left his wallet at home.
A. To wait B. Have waited C. Having waited D. To have waited
27) with the size of the whole earth, the biggest ocean does not seem big at all.
A. Compare B. When comparing C. Comparing D. When compared
28) Straight on and you’ll see a church. You won’t miss it.
A. Go B. Doing C. If you go D. When going
29) I don’t know whether you happen , but I’m going to study in the U.S.A. this September.
A. to be heard B. to be hearing C. to hear D. to have heard
30) by the beauty of nature, the girl from London decided to spend another two days on the farm.
A. Attracting B. Attracted C. To be attracted D. Having attracted
31) Laws that punish parents for their little children’s actions against the laws get parents .
A. worried B. to worry C. worrying D. worry
32) If you are planning to spend your money having fun this week, better _____it -- you’ve got some big bills coming.
A. forget B. forgot C. forgetting D. to forget
(答案: 1. C 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. B 6. C 7. A 8. D 9 A 10. C
11. B 12. A 13. A 14. A 15. B 16. C 17. C 18. C 19. D 20. D
21. B 22. B 23. B 24. B 25. D 26. C 27. C 28. A 29. D 30. B
31. A 32. A)
（三） 補充練習
用所給的動詞或動詞詞組大道適當形式填空。
A. create prefer glance fire impress fit design stand print bold
1. Some employees are _______ because of being late for work.
2. The _______ articles in the newspaper can be read in 4 hours.
3. The teenagers should be ________ enough to meet the challenges of life.
4. Some of the old people couldn’t _____ being kept in the burning sun outside.
5. __________ for the military purpose, the base is now completely out of use.
6. The waitress treated the old woman in a rude way, ___________ a bad impression on the other customers.
7. After ________ at the notice on the wall, Mr Smith knew why the crowd were so excited.
8. ---What _______ you ________ tea to?
---Coffee, of course.
9. The president made a speech at the conference, which ____ strongly ______ on the audience’s memory.
10. The young lady found her son growing so fast that she had to let the trousers out ________ him.
B．bring sth. under control suffer from light up look up to be concerned about
comment on be crowded with come into being all the same be addicted to
comment on come into being be crowded with be addicted to all the same
1. His face _________lit up with happiness when I saw him.
2. The water lever of the upper Changjing River is _______________ by the Three Gorges Dam.
3. Who is the person you often ____________?
4. The No.114 bus ______ always ________________ the passengers.
5. It’s urgent that millions of people ____________ AIDS every year.
6. It was raining hard, but we got there in time _____________.
7. The Great Wall ______________ during the Spring and Autumn Period.
8. His grades are going down since he ________________ computer games.
9. After the speech contest, we invited Mr. Tod to ____________ the candidates performance.
10. What the scientists ___________________ is how can they raise people’s awareness of environment protect.
（四）練習與測試
Ⅰ單項填空
1. On the wall _________ two large pictures.
A.hangs B.hang C.hanged D.hanging
2. After sailing for months they arrived in ________ is said to be America now.
A.which B.what C.that D.the place
3. She told me that her camera was _________-.
A.missed B.robbed C.lost D.lain
4. I thought her nice and honest ______________ I met her.
A.first time B.for the first time
C.the first time D.by the first time
5. ---Do you know our town at all?
---No, this is the first time I ________________ here.
A.was B.have been
C.came D.am coming
6. The younger brother, rather than his two brothers, _______ answer for the wrong doings.
A.are B.is C.are to D.is to
7. He got himself into a dangerous situation ________ he is likely to lose control over the plane.
A.where B.which C.while D.why
8. Can you relate what happened in your childhood _________ your present state of mind?
A.to B.with C.on D.in
9. Reading is to the mind __________ food is to the body.
A.that B.what C.which D.while
10. Having decided to rent a flat, we __________ contacting all the accommodation agencies in the city.
A.set about B.set out C.set aside D.set up
11. The good chance the child had looked forward to _______ at last.
A.coming B.comes C.come D.came
12. The sun was shining brightly, ______ everything there ______ more beautiful.
A.making;look B.to make;look
C.making;looking D.made;looked
13. The undersea cable was broken; I couldn’t ________ to Paris.
A.get through B.go over C.get together D.break through
14. A peculiarly pointed chin is his most memorable facial _________.
A.mark B.feature C.expression D.appearance
15. To our delight she quickly adapted herself ______ the situation.
A.with B.of C.to D.into
16. Does the school tolerate ____________ late very often?
A.their pupils to come B.their pupils’ coming
C.their pupils come D.their pupils can come
17. The house has been standing ______ without use for months.
A.empty B.still C.quietly D.lonely
18. When he came to, he found himself ________ on a chair, with his hands _______ back.
A.to sit;tied B.sitting;tying
C.sat;tied D.sitting tied
19. They want to complete the project in half a month.It is _______ impossible, I am afraid.
A.next to B.close to C.up to D.as to
20. My father recommended that I _______ my officer.
A.didn’t disobey B.not to disobey
C.not disobey D.mustn’t disobey
II. 完形填空
To control weather over large areas of the world would seem, at this time, to be impossible. However, man has been highly __1__ in his attempts to modify (改善) the weather on a very __2__ scale (范圍). He has __3__ microclimates inside and outside homes and offices.
Micro means small, and microclimate refers to the climate conditions over a small __4__. There are many things that might cause the climate in a small area to be different from the __5__ climate of the region in which it is located.
__6__, within cities there might be smaller areas where the climate is different. The microclimate in the yard of one home may be __7__ different from __8__in the yard across the street. It is the __9__ of trees and their position in a yard that __10__ the microclimate. One could probably name many other things that __11__ change the microclimate of a yard.
Heaters and air-conditioners now in houses and automobiles are good examples of the methods man uses to control microclimates. A completely air-conditioned house is __12__ the microclimate can be controlled to __13__ man’s comfort.
High-altitude flying and recent developments in space flight present situations which __14__ complete control of microclimates. Before passenger planes can fly in the air of the stratosphere (同溫層) the cabins have to be pressurized(使保持恒定的氣壓). This must be done __15__ passengers can obtain the oxygen they need. To pressurize airplane cabins in the stratosphere, __16__ from the outside can be pumped into the cabin.
In space, __17__, there is no air. Astronauts have to take their air with them. Ways have been developed in which this air can be safely used over and over. In space, astronauts also have to be protected from harmful radiations which do not reach __18__ because the atmosphere screens them out. The No.1 problem that has to be solved __19__ man can exist in space is that of providing a __20__ in which he can survive.
1. A. successful B. excited C. interested D. confident
2. A. specific B. large C. limited D. small
3. A. produced B. improved C. ruled D. proved
4. A. city B. area C. room D. space
5. A. general B. common C. regular D. total
6. A. In addition B. To begin with
C. For example D. As a matter of fact
7. A. complete B. no C. quite D. possibly
8. A. the trees B. which C. one D. the one
9. A. amount B. number C. sum D. quantity
10. A. create B. control C. protect D. affect
11. A. will B. should C. would D. must
12. A. what B. in which C. one where D. that
13. A. fit for B. suit C. please D. meet with
14. A. require B. request C. take D. ask
15. A. so as B. that C. so that D. since
16. A. air B. pressure C. oxygen D. atmosphere
17. A. as a result B. therefore C. though D. however
18. A. space B. the earth C. the astronauts D. the ground
19. A. after B. before C. since D. while
20. A. microclimate B. scene C. situation D. atmosphere
III閱讀理解
A
Tim Welford, aged 33, and Dom Mee, both from England, were keen on rowing boats. They made a plan to row across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to San Francisco. The name of their rowboat was “Crackers”. It was about 7 meters long.
They set out from Japan on May 17, 2001. They had rowed nearly 5,500 miles when their boat was hit by a fishing ship on September 17, 2001. Luckily they both escaped unharmed, but their boat was badly damaged and they had to abandon their journey.
In a radio interview, Dom expressed his disappointment and explained how the accident took place.
“ A fishing ship came towards us with nobody on the bridge（船橋） and ran us down. It all happened so quickly. I managed to dive into the water. Tim felt it would be safer to stay on board the boat. He was trapped inside as the boat was driven under the water. Finally some people appeared on the ship and saw me in the water. I shouted at them to stop the ship and to get Tim out. When the ship stopped, I eventually saw Tim, and I was very, very relieved that we were still alive. We were very disappointed that we couldn’t reach San Francisco. But we are alive. That above everything is the most important.”
1. How long had Tim and Dom been at sea when their boat was hit by a fishing boat?
A. One month B. Two months C. Three months D. Four months
2. According to Dom, the main reason for the accident was that ________.
A. Tim and Dom were too careless
B. nobody on the fishing ship saw them
C. the speed of the fishing ship was too fast
D. their rowboat was not strong enough
3. Dom said that the most important thing in this accident was _______.
A. both of them survived
B. they enjoyed this journey
C. their rowboat was not damaged
D. they failed to reach San Francisco
B
Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty three, struggled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape route – through the boot (行李箱).
Mr. Johnson’s car had finished up in a ditch (溝渠) at Romney Marsin, Kent, after skidding on ice and hitting a bank.“ Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr. Johnson said. “I couldn’t force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in.”
Mr. Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sittingborrne, Kent, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn and hammering on the roof and boot. Then he began his struggle to escape.
Later he said, “It was really a halfpenny which saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew(擰開) the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.”
It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat – and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench（扳手） and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in .I forced the lid down into the mud and climb out of the car as it filled up.”
His hands and arms cut and bruised(擦傷).Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was looked after by the farmer’s wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Huddled in a blanket, he said, “That thirty minutes seemed like hours. “Only the tips of the car wheels were visible, police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.”
4. What is the best title for this newspaper article?
A. The Story of Mr. Johnson, a Sweet Salesman
B. Car Boot Can Serve As The Best Escape Route
C. Driver Escaped Through Car Boot
D. A Terrible Car Accident
5. Which of the following objects is crucial (關鍵) to Mr. Johnson?
A. The hammer. B. The coin. C. The screw. D. The horn.
6. Which statement is true according to the passage?
A. Mr. Johnson’s car stood on its boot as it fell down.
B. Mr. Johnson could not escape from the door because it was full of sweet jam.
C. Mr. Johnson’s car accident was partly due to the slippery road.
D. Mr. Johnson struggled in the pouring mud as he unscrewed the backseat.
7. “Finally it gave”(paragraph 5) means that ______________.
A. luckily the door was torn away in the end
B. at last the wrench went broken
C. the lock came open after all the efforts
D. the chance was lost at the last minute
8. It may be inferred from the passage that______________.
A. the ditch was along a quiet country road
B. the accident happened on a clear warm day
C. the police helped Mr. Johnson get out of the ditch
D. Mr. Johnson had a tender wife and was well attended
C
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C. a city library
D. a street book store
10.One of the many features of World Books is _____.
A. discounts are often 80 percent
B. there are more benefits the longer you belong to the club
C. you have chances to win large prizes
D. you get a free magazine
11. World Books seems attractive mostly to _____.
A. average families
B. science fiction lovers
C. people with academic(學科的) interests
D. such people as pop singers or baseball fans
12. First year members of World Books _____.
A. have to buy a book each month
B. must buy more than six books after the first six months
C. are entitled to a number of free books
D. have to buy a minimum（最底的）number of books
13. How can members receive their special offer?
A. By calling or emailing us.
B. By writing an application letter to World Books.
C. By filling your coupon.
D. By sending a personal check.
D
Stare at the clock. Make silly drawings. Stare at the clock again. Complain about the weather. The clock? It’s still there. Ticking even more slowly.
No, none of this was scheduled for the meeting.
You’d love to get your work done, but instead you spend half your day in a conference room.
Professionals spend an average of 23 hours a week in meetings, according to the Wharton Centre for Applied Research in the US. And, workers consider only 58 per cent of that time worthwhile.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Here are a few guidelines for you to use meetings to advance your career, not eat up your productivity:
1) Know what you want. “ Know exactly why the meeting is being held and decide, realistically, what you intend to achieve,” says Gayle Brickman, a US communication consultant. “ If you cannot write these two things down, the meeting should not take place.”
2) Figure out if a face-to- face meeting is necessary. Would a group email be enough? A couple of phone calls? These ways would probably be more efficient with colleagues you know well.
3) Pick the right times. If possible, avoid scheduling meetings during your peak productive hours. If everyone runs to the break room for coffee at 10: 30 am, that would be an excellent time to have informal staff meetings.
4) Be prepared. Read the agenda. Study the marketing plan. Study the numbers on the project you’re proposing. If there are documents to be discussed, hand them out to participants the day before.
5) Keep track of the time for them. Set aside a certain amount of time each week for meetings, and stick to it. The truth is, most people want to leave, too. They are just suffering from what some experts call the “ politeness disease.”
If you still find yourself stuck in meeting after meeting, don’t feel bad; your organization obviously thinks your physical presence is valuable. Keep in mind that there’s more people get from meetings than making technical decisions.
14. The author’s purpose of writing the passage is ___________.
A. to explain why there are so many valueless meetings
B. to tell the readers that if they want to be efficient in their work, they must cancel dull conferences
C. to introduce some ways which can probably survive people from so many meetings
D. to warn people of the danger of staying too long in the conference room
15. In the last paragraph, the author seems to ________.
A. show greater importance of making technical decisions
B. ease those people who can not free themselves from various conferences
C. praise those people who have to present at various conferences
D. emphasize the importance of attending meetings
16. According to the passage, it is worthwhile ________.
A. holding a meeting when the staff are working efficiently
B. scheduling a meeting on weekends
C. holding informal meetings during break time
D. having a face-to-face conference if possible
17. What does the underlined word “agenda” mean in the passage?
A. Producing plan
B. The contents of the documents
C. The people who will attend the meeting
D. The list of matters to be discussed
E
Laura spent most of her life knowing that she was going to die young.
When she was born, the life expectancy(平均壽命) for people with cystic fibrosis was around 18 years. It's almost twice that now. Laura liked to say that she went through her mid-life crisis when she was a teenager.
When I first met Laura and asked if she would carry around a tape recorder
to document her life, she was reluctant. But she gave it a try. Sometimes she wouldn't record anything for a few months. Then there were days when she hardly turned the tape recorder off. Over two years, Laura recorded more than 40 hours of tape.
She recorded dozens of visits to the hospital, conversations with her parents, private thoughts alone late at night, or -- like this entry -- hanging out with friends in her college dorm.
"So I'm back here at Brown. Classes started on Wednesday. I think that people who know me, who really know me, don't see me as someone who is sick. They see me as Laura, you know, who is a sophomore(大學二年級學生) at Brown. It's hard for them to imagine, you know, 'Oh, she might not be here in a few years.' They know I have CF. They know that it means that you get very sick and you die, but they see me and it's hard for them to make it real-because they don't want to, because no one wants to, because they want me to live forever, because I'm their friend."
Halfway through the recording of her diary, Laura's lungs began to deteriorate and she decided to get a double lung transplant. The transplant was successful. That was a year and half ago.
But last month it became clear to the doctors, to her family and to Laura that the new lungs were failing and there was no more fixing to be done. She left the hospital to spend the time she had left at her new home, the apartment she was renting with her boyfriend, Brian. For someone who had spent so much of her life either in the hospital or under her parents care, Brian-and the apartment-had, for the last year, represented an independent life, the kind 22-year-olds are supposed to have.
Laura was always blunt and honest, funny, poetic and strong-willed.
18. If we can say in the past twenty years doctors have made great progress in treating of cystic fibrosis probably mainly because of the fact that .
A. lungs transplanting is so successful that there is no failure now.
B. people who have cystic fibrosis can now live almost double the length about twenty years ago.
C. Laura has a boy friend now.
D. Laura can go back to study now.
19. The underlined word “document” probably means “ ”.
A. write a book B. make a record
C. do some research D. save one’s life
20. We can infer from the passage that .
A. Laura always lives together with her parents.
B. Laura is about 36 years old.
C. Laura will probably finish her study in the college.
D. Laura was intending to live a life of her own.
IV. 短文改錯
I once worked as night guard in a factory. 1. _______
On a rain night, all the lights of the factory 2. _______
went out all at once. I rushed out but could 3._______
see nothing. Fortunately the warned system was 4. _______
directly connecting with the police station and 5. _______
for three or four minutes four police cars arrived 6. _______
at the front of gate. The police looked all 7. _______
around the factory, but found nothing usual. A 8. _______
police told me that the rain must have affected 9. _______
the electricity system or caused a short circuit. 10. ______
V. 書面表達
第十一單元
（三）補充練習
(A) 1.fired 2.printed 3.bold 4.stand 5.Designed 6.creating 7.glancing 8.do;prefer 9.was;impressed 10.to fit
(B) 1.lit up 2.brought under control 3.look up to 4.are;crowded with
5.suffer from 6.all the same 7.came into being 8.was addicted to
9.to moment on 10.are concerned about
(四) 練習與測試
Ⅰ.
1.B 2.B 3.C 4.C 5.B 6.D 7.A 8.A 9.B 10.A
11.D 12.A 13.A 14.B 15.C 16.B 17.A 18.D 19.A 20.C
II.
1.A 2.D 3.B 4.B 5.A 6.C 7.C 8.D 9.B 10.D
11.C 12.C 13.B 14.A 15.C. 16.A 17.D 18.B 19.B 20.A
III.
1.D 2.B 3.A 4.C 5.B 6.C 7.C 8.A 9.B 10.D
11.A 12.D 13.C 14.C 15.B 16.C 17.D 18.B 19.B 20.D
IV.
I once worked as night guard in a factory. 1. a
On a rain night, all the lights of the factory 2. rainy
went out all at once. I rushed out but could 3. √
see nothing. Fortunately the warned system was 4.warning
directly connecting with the police station and 5.connected
for three or four minutes four police cars arrived 6. in
at the front of gate. The police looked all 7. 刪去of
police told me that the rain must have affected 9. policeman
the electricity system or caused a short circuit. 10. and
V. One possible version:
The chart shows us how computers increased from 1996 to 2002 in a city. In 1995 there was only one person owning a computer in 100 people. Four years later the number jumped to 20.There were 35 people having computers just after a year passed. And in 2002 the number was surprisingly came up to 55.
This chart tells us not only the increase of computers in the city but more importantly it reflects how fast our country has been developing and how fast our people’s life has been changing.