Self Check

　　Ⅰ.词汇运用。

　　A)根据句意及汉语提示填写单词。

　　1．The poems(诗) written by Li Bai are very good.

　　2．The little boy ran over and hugged(拥抱) his mom.

　　3．I don't know where we can put the big bookcase in this tiny(极小的) room.

　　4．She began to cry(哭) in the face of difficulty.

　　5．People should not be allowed(允许) to smoke in public.

　　B)用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。

　　enter，safe，educate，earring，decide

　　6．Eric，it is time to make your own decision．

　　7．My aunt bought a pair of silver earrings last month.

　　8．All of the students hope to__enter a good university.

　　9．My mother always educates me not to fight with others.

　　10．For safety，always climb with a partner.

　　Ⅱ.根据汉语意思完成句子，每空一词。

　　11．我已经做了选择，因此不要再提它了。

　　I have made a choice，so don't mention it any more.

　　12．这对夫妇总是在工作上互相支持。

　　 The couple always support each other in their work.

　　13．他们最终设法解决了这个难题。

　　They managed to solve the hard problem in the end.

　　14．我后悔把那个消息告诉了他，使他那么难过。

　　I regret telling him the news，which made him so sad.

　　15．很危险！让所有人远离山顶。

　　It's very dangerous.Keep all the people away from the top of the mountain.

　　Ⅲ.完形填空。

　　I don't have too many memories of my father because he was so sick in the last years of his life.But there are __16__ that I am often reminded of and which may have had some bearing on my love of __17__．

　　When I was small I was kind of __18__ of lightning and thunder(闪电和雷)．My father explained it to me.Even a small child could understand his explanation.Then I got a better understanding and learnt something from him.

　　What he said was that there was electricity in the clouds __19__ it travelled to the ground like a spark(火花)．When it travelled __20__ the air it made the air so hot that it __21__．Then there was nothing where the air had been and the air all around rushed in to __22__ the space.He clapped(拍打) his hands together very loud，__23__ to be the air rushing in，and said that makes the thunder.Whenever I hear thunder now，I can still hear that __24__clearly.

　　He also explained why if it was cloudy in the winter the night was warmer than a __25__ one.When there were clouds，they were like blankets and we were not exposed(暴露) to the universe.He said that if there were no clouds，we had no blankets and were exposed to the universe.Our warmth was going to__26__ the whole universe.Even today，I __27__ feel on the edge of space on a very clear night.

I am sure I have ever taken many other science lessons but can no longer remember most of them now.What I did __28__，in fact，was all these explanations from my father and that the more I understood them，the more comfortable the world was to live in.I was not taught that there were __29__ but that there was understanding if