Module 1　课下能力提升(二)

　　Ⅰ.根据提示写出单词的正确形式

　　1．Susan works hard and I think she ________ (值得) to be well paid.

　　2．Though he has made great progress, yet he thinks he isn't ________ (了不起的)．

　　3．I can't receive your phone call at 8 o'clock tomorrow, because I will be ________ (参加) the meeting.

　　4．He was a good student and scored above ________ (平均) in most subjects.

　　5．The problem is not as ________ (复杂的) as you imagine.

　　6．He was not a ________ (talent) speaker, but he had a gift for mechanics.

　　7．They have been trained to ________ (defence) themselves against knife attacks.

　　8．Beijing attracts people from ________ (vary) parts of China.

　　9．As is well known, the failure or success of English learning is largely decided by students' ________ (motivate)．

　　10．There is no ________ (immediately) solution to the problem.

　　Ⅱ.选词填空

　　1．____________， there were some famous educators, such as Confucius in China.

　　2．It was said that the event was the breakthrough ____________ cloning.

　　3．The class improves its score ____________ 5.

　　4．____________， men smoke more cigarettes than women.

　　5．That sum of money is to cover costs ____________ travel and accommodation.

　　6．Children must be educated to serve their country when they ____________.

　　7．We can ________ ourselves ________ disease by keeping clean.

　　8．Could you help me to ____________ my pet when I was away?

　　Ⅲ.完成句子

　　1．他是牛津大学的一名学生，正在攻读计算机科学学位。

　　He is a student at Oxford University, ________________ in the computer science.

　　2．为了让听众的兴趣保持一小时以上，你必须是一名相当出色的演说家。

　　You have to be a fairly good speaker to ________________ for over an hour.

　　3．毫无疑问，在天黑前他们能够赶到那儿。

　　________________ they could get there before dark.

　　4．心脏衰竭是他死亡的直接原因。

　　Heart failure was ________________ of his death.

　　5．帮助老人的那位女孩应该被奖励。

　　The girl who helped old men ________________.

　　Ⅳ.阅读理解

　　A

　　Basketball, the world's greatest sport ever, but of course, it hasn't been around since the world began. No, somebody had to have invented it. And that somebody would be James Naismith.

Born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada, this Canadian Gym teacher and physician would soon be the founder of basketball. It all started in December of 1891. Naismith was teaching in Springfield, Massachusetts and was asked by Luther H．Gulick, the Headmaster of the school for Christian Works to make a new sport. The main idea of the sport was mainly to be played inside when it was too cold to go outside. The new sport also had to keep athletes in their top conditions between the baseball and football season. Naismith began to work. The first game­ball was a soccer ball.