2019学年度人教版选修八Unit 4PygmalionPeriod5 Using Language基础知识学案

Ⅰ. 单句语法填空

1. We have never seen a shabbier (shabby) hut. How can they live in it?

2. Some of the bathtubs (bathtub) broke into pieces in the course of transportation.

3. You know, he is one of the most famous basketball referees (referee) in the world.

4. It is much more horrible (horrible) to stay alone than to be accompanied by your friend.

5. No agreement will be reached unless both sides agree to compromise (compromise) with each other.

6. After sobbing (sob) for a while, the little boy stopped to look around.

7. Memories of the past faded (fade) away from her mind after she had an accident.

8. If overlooked (overlook), the problem may result in heavy losses.

【补偿训练】

Helen passed by straight, overlooking (overlook) what was happening in front of him.

Ⅱ. 完成句子

1. Would you please to show how to operate it once more? (more)

请你再展示一下如何操作好吗?

2. The picture faded out and the viewers came back to the reality from imagination. (fade)

画面渐渐消失了, 观众从想象中回到了现实。

3. They had no time to rest because the flood-stricken area was in need of medical aids. (need)

他们没有时间休息, 因为洪水灾区急需医疗援助。

4. Several minutes later a young fellow showed a blind man in for the interview. (show)

几分钟之后, 一位年轻人领进一个盲人来面试。

5. The boss didn't prepare to compromise with the workers on their pay demand. (compromise)

老板没有准备就待遇问题向工人们妥协。

Ⅲ. 阅读理解

For the last five years, I have been fortunate enough to work on a large vocabulary research project for Cambridge English, the English Vocabulary Profile. You can view the results for free online at www. Englishprofile. org. Working with Carol Cassidy, we developed a database, containing the words and phrases that learners of English around the world typically know and use. We analyzed a 50-million-word collection of learners' writing from Cambridge English exams, and we also looked at the vocabulary taught in best-selling British and American English course books.

We have found that there are some words that are still characteristically British or American. British people have biscuits with their cup of tea or coffee, but Americans have cookies. We have cookies too in Britain, but they are a certain type of biscuit, such as chocolate chip cookies, where original recipe (食谱) is American. A British