Unit 2 English around the world课时作业Language points

Ⅰ.单句语法填空

　　1．Traveling during the May holiday can be more stressful (stress) than work!

　　2．Helping a blind man is an act of kindness (kind)．

　　3．Men and Women must be treated equally(equal) in education and employment.

　　4．The country has been at war with its neighboring country for five years.

　　5．My teaching style is similar to that of most other teachers.

　　6．If children are badly brought up，they behave badly.

　　7．We were put in a position where we had to answer violence with violence.

　　8．I haven't received the new bag ordered (order) from the net shop last week.

　　9. She wanted to work for a bigger and more influential (influence) newspaper.

　　10．I don't know the reason why you were absent from the meeting，but I'm sure it's for some reason，I don't want to know it.

　　Ⅱ.完成句子

　　1．比赛被推迟的原因是正在下大雨。

　　The reason why the match was put off was that it was raining hard.

　　2．这是一个在美国仍处在奴隶制度的时代。

　　It was a time when there were still slaves in the USA.

　　3．老人命令那位粗鲁的年轻人出去。

　　The old man ordered the rude young man to go out．

　　＝The old man ordered that the rude young man (should) go out．

　　4．这位官员强调了良好的卫生条件对公众健康的重要性。

　　The official stressed the importance of good sanitation for public health.

　　5．我们不仅仅是外表相像，而且我们的笑容和走路方式都非常相像。

　　We are similar not only in appearance but also in the way that we smile and walk．

　　III.阅读理解

Copernicus was born in Torun，Poland，on February 19，1473.Little is known about his early life except that his father died when he was 10.An uncle adopted him，his two