Unit 4 Astronomy the science of the stars 课时作业

Learning about Language

Ⅰ.单句语法填空

　　1．When the bad news came, an atmosphere of sadness filled the room.

　　2．Now that you've finished the work, you ought to have a good rest.

　　3．What is known to us is that the West Lake is very beautiful.

　　4．There are five times as many students as we expected.

　　5．Should another world war break out,_what would become of human beings?

　　6．I don't know whether you like eating fish or not, so I phone you ahead of time.

　　7．The employees are trying to get the hang of the new technique to increase production.

　　8．Cheer up！You know failure is the mother of success.After all, this is our first attempt.

　　9．Obviously mad, the poor woman laughed and cried by turns.

　　10．He was prevented from driving for 3 months for careless driving.

　　Ⅱ.选词填空

　　cool down, now that, depend on, break out, block out, in time, watch out for, get the hang of

　　1．The war broke_out between the two countries.

　　2．Watch_out_for wild animals when you go up the hills.

　　3．You ought to write now_that you know the address.

　　4．After several years of practice, I think I will finally get_the_hang_of spoken English.

　　5．We put a curtain across the window to block_out the sunlight.

　　6．It took Charles a long time to cool_down after the heated argument.

　　7．You must bear in mind that your parents hope to depend_on you to become a good doctor.

　　8．Do you think we'll be in_time to catch the train to go to Paris?

　　Ⅲ.完形填空

　　Jim was mending his motorcycle in his yard, and his wife was cooking in the kitchen.Suddenly the motorcycle ran __1__ the glass door while Jim was still riding on it.So he was __2__ to the floor inside the house.

　　His wife, hearing the __3__， ran out and found Jim badly __4__ lying on the floor, the motorcycle lying next to him and the glass door __5__.The wife called an ambulance (救护车) quickly.

After the ambulance arrived and took Jim to the __6__， the wife pushed the motorcycle outside.Seeing the __7__ on the floor, the wife got some paper towels to clean it, and threw the towels in the __8__.