Unit 4 Reading
一、动词填空：
1. The scientist told us light (travel) faster than sound.
2. You’d better (not wake) me up when I am sleeping.
3. The businessman’s son (kidnap) by him yesterday evening.
4. When I was doing my homework, I heard someone _________ (knock) at the door.
5. Great changes ______________ (take) place in our country since twenty years ago.
6. The students _______ (divide) into several teams during their stay in Hongmei Park yesterday.
7. By 2100, we will spend only a few hours __________ (travel) to Mars in space shuttles.
二、翻译：
1.她把自己的答案与书中的答案作了比较。
2.去火星的旅程将可能会非常不舒服。
3.我们的城市变得越来越拥挤了。
4.中国是世界上人口最多的国家。
5.截止明天中午十二点，我们必须完成这项工作。
三．完形填空。
This week in Lifestyle we have two very different views on city life compared to life in a
small town. Mike Larson lives in a ____1____ town and he thinks the way of life there is much
better than that in a big city. In Mike’s opinion, a small town is ___2___, and it has a clean
and safe environment, especially for children. People __3__ very friendly and there aren’t so
many problems with dangerous people as there are in the city. And of course, the houses in a small
town are __4_ expensive than those in a big city.
But Mike says there are some bad things 5__ living in a small town. There aren’t enough things
for young people ___6__ and there aren’t many shops. Public environment isn’t very good, ___7___.
The school in his town isn’t big enough to give his children everything they __8__, and there
isn’t a hospital. But Mike says, ―I enjoy __9__ in a small town and I’m too old to move anyway.
Cathy Ramos, on the other hand, says the city is the place for her. The city has the best__10__
like very good schools and hospitals. It also has great shopping centers and large stores where
you can buy __11__ you want. There’s also __12__ transport: buses and taxis, and the airport
is near the city.
Cathy says __13_ there are problems in a big city. It’s so busy and there are too many __14__
on the road and it’s definitely more expensive than a small town. There's more danger, and it
isn’t as __15__ as the country.
( )1. A. small B. huge C. big D. large
( )2. A. peace B. peacefully C. peaceful D. noise
( )3. A. aren't B. is C. isn't D. are
( )4. A. more B. less C. least D. little
( )5. A .to B. about C. from D. for
( )6. A .to do B. doing C. done D. did( )7 A. too B. either C. as well D. also
( )8. A. pass B. receive C. get D. need
( )9. A. to live B. live C. living D. lived
( )10. A. parks B. zoos C. services D. libraries
( )11 A. something B. nothing C. none D. anything
( )12. A. plenty of B. lot of C. a lot D. plenty
( )13. A. certain B. suddenly C. quickly D. certainly
( )14 A. ships B. planes C. cars D. subwa y
( )15. A . clean B. cleaner C. dirtier D. dirty
四 .短文填空
Is there life on Mars? We still do not know. According to scientific data, we are s 1 that
people cannot live on Mars. Earth people need much oxygen to breathe, but there is almost no oxygen
on Mars.
Living on Mars would be l 2 living on a very high mountain. There would be little air.
It might be 50 a 3 zero at noon and 100 below zero at night.
Many people u 4 to think there could be plants on Mars. We now know that Mars has very
little carbon. Carbon is a kind of material found in all p 5 and animals on Earth.
Through a telescope, Mars l 6 red. In some places, it seems grey. At times, the grey colour
t 7 grey-green, then brown, and then grey again. People once thought this suggested that plant
life changed c 8 with seasons.
Today we know that the red colour c 9 from a fine dust of iron on the planet. Scientists
are still working to e 10 the changing colours. Will man go to Mars one day? If they do, they
will have to take along their own oxygen, food, clothes, and something to sleep in.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
参考答案：
一．单词
1. travels 2. not wake 3. was kidnapped 4. knocking 5. have taken place 6. were divided
7. traveling\traveling
二．翻译
1.She compared her answers with the ones in the book
2.The journey to mars might be quite uncomfortable.
3. our city is becoming more and more crowded
4. china has the largest population in the world .
5. we must finish the work by 12 tomorrow.
三.完形填空
ACDBB,ABDCC,DADCA
四、短文填空
1. sure 2. like 3. above 4. used 5. plants
6. looks 7. turns 8. colour 9. comes 10. explain
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