Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note 课时作业
Learning about Language
Ⅰ.单句语法填空
1.The monthly export of the cars in our factory amounts to 5,000.
2.The chances are that the trapped miners will be rescued.
3.It is bad manners (manner) to speak loudly in public.
4.Nick can stay, but as for you, you can get out of my sight.
5.Please call my secretary to arrange a meeting this afternoon, or whenever it is convenient to you.
6.Large amounts of water have (have) been polluted in the past 20 years.
Ⅱ.同义句转换(每空一词)
1.I came across her quite by chance in Oxford Street.
→I came across her quite by_ accident/chance in Oxford Street.
2.I made my promise that I would help him no matter what happened.
→I promised to help him whatever happened.
3.He can not explain his failure in the English examination.
→He can not account_ for his failure in the English examination.
4.She didn't remember her appointment with the doctor until she had arrived home.
→It_ was_ not_ until she had arrived home that she remembered her appointment with the doctor.
5.It's wellknown that he is a successful businessman.
→As_ is_ wellknown,_he is a successful businessman.
→What_ is_ wellknown to us all is that he is a successful businessman.
Ⅲ.完形填空
The stars were arriving and many young people had gathered to welcome them.The police found it __1__ to keep order after the plane landed and the performers appeared.They smiled and waved __2__ at everybody.Dressed in the same costumes, with long hair and the instruments __3__ their shoulders, they looked very much __4__.
Despite the many policemen __5__, the group were not able to get to their car __6__.Word spread that they had written a new song which would be __7__ when they performed that evening.They were now __8__ with cries of "Play something!Play your new song!".
The police looked __9__ when the stars prepared to sing as the__10__ for getting away.The crowd settled down and listened to the first __11__ of the new song.Once it was over, everyone started jumping, applauding and shouting like crazy.Several young women fainted (昏厥) and