Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note Language Points课时作业

Ⅰ.单句语法填空

　　1．Theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.

　　2．His views are contrary to mine.

　　3．In our class, the number of students who like popular music accounts for 90%.

　　4．This is the spot where the two trucks collided.

　　5．She asked for permission (permit) to leave work early.

　　6．It was not until the window was shut that I went downstairs.

　　7．When she came to life, she found herself lying (lie) in hospital.

　　8．I had just finished my test paper when the bell rang.

　　Ⅱ.完成句子

　　 1．The sick old man does nothing but stares_at (盯着看) the ceiling all day long.

　　2．How_do_you_account_for (你怎样解释) your long absence from classes without asking for leave?

　　3．He managed to persuade his parents to_permit/allow_him_to_seek_a_job (允许他找一份工作)．

　　4．Jim didn't come to school yesterday, and as_a_matter_of_fact (事实上), he didn't come all last week.

　　5．Bill was born in Canada but was_brought_up (被抚养长大) in America.

　　6．I don't know whether they did it by_chance (偶然) or by design.

　　Ⅲ.阅读理解

　　A

　　First published in 2001, the book Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature.It is the story of a young boy named Pi who spends 227 days at sea with a small group of animals after disaster strikes their ship and is an account of his journey of survival and hardship.

　　Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, on whom Life of Pi is based, is a young boy living in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns a zoo.The story starts when Patel's family decide to move to Canada, along with their zoo animals for their new home.

　　However, because of the bad weather, the ship sinks.Pi, an orangutan (猩猩), an injured zebra, a hyena (鬣狗) and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker are the only survivors who take shelter in a small lifeboat.Both the injured zebra and the orangutan are soon killed and eaten by the hyena.The tiger in turn kills and eats the hyena, leaving just the two of them alone on the boat now.

In an effort to avoid being eaten by Richard Parker, Pi acts himself as the head of the group