Unit 5 The power of nature grammar课时作业

第一节 单句语法填空

　　1．I have no patience(patient)with people who like to smoke in restaurants.

　　2．It is said that Miss White had some difficulty in studying the advanced(advance)maths.

　　3．These calculations are based on the assumption(assume) that prices will continue to rise.

　　4．Accustomed(accustom) to climbing the steep mountain，he had no difficulty reaching the top.

　　5．There are so many historic(history) sites in Beijing that a large number of tourists come to Beijing to visit them every year.

　　6．The cars slowed down as they passed customs.

　　7．The second country to send (send) a man into space was America.

　　8．The little boy stood outside the supermarket，eyes fixed (fix) on the toys.

　　9．Most smokers are perfectly aware of the danger of smoking.

　　10．The audience burst into cheers when the film star appeared.

第二节.阅读理解

　　Not long ago，few little girls imagined they could grow up to become astronauts.For years in the United States，only men had that opportunity.In 1983，that changed.Sally Ride made history by becoming the first American woman to travel to space.

　　On Monday，Ride died at the age of 61."Ride was a national hero and a powerful role model，" President Barack Obama said in a statement."She inspired generations of young girls to reach for the stars."

　　Ride became interested in space when she was a kid."If you asked me when I was 12 whether I wanted to be an astronaut，I'm sure I would have said yes"， she said in a 2010 interview."But I didn't even think about that as a possible career."

After studying physics in college and graduate school，Ride got her chance.She was accepted into NASA's astronaut training programme in 1978，and then chosen to be the first American female in space.In 1983，she blasted into space aboard the Challenger