Unit 2　课下能力提升(七)　

　　Ⅰ.单句语法填空

　　1．-I hear you've got a set of valuable Australian coins.________ I have a look?

　　2．It is important to know about the cultural differences that ________ cause problems.

　　3．-Is John coming by train?

　　-He should, but he ________ not. He likes driving his car.

　　4．"Attention, please. Whoever can answer one of my questions ________ receive a prize，" the teacher said in class.

　　5．You might just as well tell the manufacturer that male customers ________ not like the design of the furniture.

　　6．-Boy, which website are you surfing on the Internet now?

　　-Oh, Mum ... ________ I tell you everything I do?

　　7．-Why are you figuring out these figures by hand?

　　-Oh, my computer has crashed. It ________ work.

　　8．It's really strange that they ________ have left without saying goodbye to us.

　　Ⅱ.完成句子

　　1．尽管我的腿受伤了，我还是能够游回河岸的。

　　Even though I'd hurt my leg, I ____________________ to the river bank.

　　2．--为什么他没去机场接你？

　　--哦，他不用去，机场有大巴把我们送到市中心。

　　-Why didn't he go to the airport to pick you up?

　　-Oh, he ________________， for the airport had a bus to send us back to the centre of the city.

　　3．某些植物在我们国家无法生长，这是肯定的。

　　________________________ can't grow in our country.

　　4．我们不应该只注意网络的优点，而忽视其缺点。

　　We shouldn't only ________________ of the Internet, but ignore its disadvantages.

　　5．他竖起衣领来保护自己不着凉。

　　He turned up his collar ________________.

　　Ⅲ.阅读理解

　　A

　　For a while, my neighborhood was taken over by an army of joggers (慢跑者). They were there all the time: early mornings, noons, and evenings. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas shoes, middle­aged men with red faces. "Come on！" My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. "You'll feel great."

　　 Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighborhood jogging army, I'm not alone in my opinion.

　　First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet take a real pounding running down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn't kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me.

Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty­five minutes isn't my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say，"I love being out there with just my thoughts." Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt.