Unit 3 Inventors and inventions Using language课时作业

Ⅰ.完形填空

　　I recently saw a program on television about Alcatraz Prison. It was built on an island and housed some of the most hardened __1__ of all time. The person doing the show __2__ how many men had tried to escape, but only one was known to have succeeded.

　　I soon started to think about how this show was so much like a(n) __3__ which was about the other prison that is __4__ confined (限制). But that prison has doors that are __5__ locked and escape is not only encouraged, but also actually __6__.

　　As the show continued, I could clearly see the similarities __7__ these two prisons. First, Alcatraz Prison was man­made and constructed on an island to keep criminals away from the rest of the __8__. Then the other prison is self­made and __9__ to keep us away from the rest of the world where we might be able to enjoy the best part of life. That second prison is called the habit of thought.

　　The article __10__ the habit of thought in the following way：

　　"The habit of thought is thinking of ourselves and our __11__ as a jail or paradise. We need only to __12__ and we will see people who are rich emotionally and materially because they feel __13__. We also see people who are in emotional and material debt because they feel poor. Some seek __14__， while others wait for it to knock. The __15__ fact is that we find far more people who are confined by their __16__."

　　What the article was describing is so true. Many of us are __17__ inside a prison by negative thinking. And yet all we have to do to set ourselves free is to renew our mind. By doing this, you __18__ your habit of thought and you renew your life at the same time.

　　If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. Don't __19__ yourself to remain trapped inside a prison with no locks. __20__ today.

　　语篇解读：思维定势犹如一座牢狱，束缚了我们的思维，我们要打破它而不能被它困住。

　　1．A.enemies　　　　　　 　B．criminals

　　C．patients D．soldiers

　　解析：选B　联系上文的 Alcatraz Prison 以及下文中的criminals可知，亚卡拉监狱建在岛屿上，里面关押着一些惯犯。hardened criminal"惯犯"。

　　2．A.understood B．asked

　　C．explained D．doubted

解析：选C　根据空后的"how many men had tried to escape, but only one was known to have succeeded"可知，做这个节目的人解释了有多少人尝试着从亚卡拉监狱逃脱。