Module5 Reading and Vocabulary
一、基础知识积累
重点新词必备
retire
1．v. ~ (from sth.)/ ~(as sth.)（使）退休；（令）退职
My father retired at the age of 60. 我父亲六十岁时退休了。
He has no plans to retire as editor of the magazine. 他还不打算从杂志编辑的位子上退休。
She was retired on medical grounds. 她由于健康原因被安排退休了。
2．vi. ~ （from sth.）（因伤）退出（比赛等）；离开（尤指去僻静处）；撤离，撤退（进行休整）；
睡觉，就寝
The boxer retired from the contest with eye injuries. 该拳击手因眼部受伤而退出比赛。
The batsman retired hurt. 击球员因伤退场.
After lunch he retired to his study. 他午饭後就到书房去了。
Our forces retired to prepared positions. 我们的部队撤退到既设阵地上。
I decided to retire early with a book. 我决定带本书早点就寝。
retired adj. 已退休的，已退职的 a retired doctor/doctor
retirement n. 退休,退职
perform
vt./vi. 1．执行; 做; 履行
to ~ an experiment/ a miracle/ a ceremony 做实验；创奇迹；举行仪式
The surgeon has performed the operation. 外科医生做了手术。
That notary is authorized to perform the certain legal functions. 公证人被授权执行某些法律职能。
Their football team performed very well in the match yesterday. 他们的足球队在昨天的比赛中表现
突出。
2．表演；演出
The magician performed some astonishing tricks. 魔术师表演了一些令人惊叹的戏法。
They are performing his play tonight. 他们今晚演出他的剧。
I’m looking forward to seeing you perform. 我期待着看你演出。
vi. ~ (well/badly/poorly) 工作；运转（好、不好）
The new drug has performed well in tests. 那种新药试验效果不错.
How is the new car performing? 新汽车性能如何?
performance n.(C,U)
performer n.(C)
advantage （反）disadvantage
n.(C,U) 1、~ (over sb.) 优势; 有利条件；优点
a big /great/definite advantage 大的/很大的/确定的优势
There is little advantage in buying a dictionary if you can't read. 如果不识字, 买字典就没有什么用
了.
has an advantage over 胜过，优于
Rich has an advantage over you since he can speak German. 理奇比你占优势, 因为他会讲德语。
take advantage of sth./sb. 利用，利用…机会；欺骗，占…的便宜
He took advantage of her good nature. 他利用了她脾气好这个特点。
They took full advantage of the hotel's facilities. 他们充分利用旅馆的设备.
to the advantage of sb.= to sb’s advantage 对某人有利
It is to our advantage to recognize his characteristic.
The agreement is/works to our advantage.
give sb. an advantage over … 使某人在某方面有优势
Her rich experience gave her an advantage over other applicants for the job.
Tom received a good education, which gave him an advantage over other boys.
guarantee
vt. 保证；担保；保障；提供保修单
~ +n. / ~ sb. sth. / ~ to do / ~ that
to gurantee a bank loan 为银行贷款担保
We cannot guarantee the punctual arrival of trains in fogy weather. 雾天我们不能保证火车准时到
达。
The ticket will guarentee you free entry.这张票可保证你免费入场。
to guarantee to pay sb’s debts 为某人的债务作保
We guarantee to deliver your goods within a week.我们保证一周内交货。
I guarantee that you'll enjoy yourself. 我包你玩得痛快。
I can guarantee it's true I saw it myself. 我能保证那是真的--我亲眼看见的.
guarantee …from loss 保证某人不受损失
The boss guaranteed the workers from loss.
be guaranteed to do sth 肯定会；必定会
It's guaranteed to rain when you want to go out. 你想出门, 天准下雨。
n. 1．保证；保用证书，保修单；保证金；担保人
to give a guarantee of good behaviour 保证行为端正
He gave me a guarantee that it would never happen again.他向我保证这种事情绝不会再发生。
We had to offer our house as a guarantee when getting the loan.我们在贷款时不得不拿房子做抵押。
2．保修期
be under guarantee 在保修期内
The television comes with a year’s guarantee. 这台电视有一年的保修期。
guarantor n. 保证人；担保人
purchase
vt. ~ sth(from sb) 购买；采购
He managed to secure a loan to purchase a house. 他设法弄到一笔贷款买了一栋房子。
Please ensure that you purchase your ticket in advance.请您务必提前购票。
The equipment can be purchased from your local supplier.这种设备可向您当地的供应商购买。
n. 购买，采购；购买的物品，购买项目
make a purchase 采购
major purchases, such as a new car 新汽车之类的巨额购买项目
She made several purchases in the dress shop. 她在服装店里买了几样东西。
The purchase price is less if you pay by cash. 付现金的话，价钱便宜些。
purchaser n. 购买人；采购人；买主
重点词组突破
1. at the age of 在……年纪
2. six out of seven / six in seven / six …in seven 七个当中有六个
3. make a list of 列清单；造表 4. sense of failure 失败感
5. after one’s retirement 在某人退休之后 6. be made up of 由……组成
7. at the right time 在合适的时候 8. the number of ……的数目
9. on the increase 正在增加 10. have an advantage over 胜过，优于
11. up to 高达 12. make money 赚钱
13. achieve one’s ambitions 实现抱负 14. do gymnastics 做体操
重点句型掌握
1. But even though he had won everything it was possible to win in his sport, Li Ning retired with the
feeling that he had failed.
even though / if 即使；纵然（用于引导让步状语从句）。
Even though I didn’t know anybody at the party, I had a good time. 即使我不认识聚会上的任何人，
我玩得也很开心。
Even if it rains, I will go. 即使下雨，我也会去。
2. But it was this sense of failure that made him determined to succeed in his new life.
“It is / was +被强调部分+that / who……” 是强调句型。强调句可用来强调主语、宾语、状语，但
不强调谓语动词，若强调部分为时间或地点状语，也不能用 when, where 等来替换 that。
I came across Mary in the street yesterday. 昨天我在街上碰到了玛丽。
强调主语：It was I who / that came across Mary in the street yesterday. 是我昨天在街上碰到了玛丽。
强调宾语：It was Mary that / who I came across in the street yesterday. 我昨天在街上碰到的是玛丽。
强调时间状语：It was yesterday that I came across Mary in the street. 我是在昨天在街上碰到玛丽
的。
强调地点状语：It was in the street that I came across Mary yesterday. 昨天我是在街上碰到玛丽的。
二、知识巩固性训练
I 单项选择
1. The signs of drug addiction are familiar ____ most doctors. But the young doctor is not familiar _____
it.
A. to; to B. with; with C. with; to D. to; with
2. The branches of olive are the _____of peace.
A. symbol B. sign C. signal D. mark
3. There is no chance _____ it will rain today.
A. whether B. if C. which D. that
4. They _____ a fierce attack on their enemies.
A. performed B. launched C. declared D. fired
5. The rain _____ a good crop this year.
A. guarantees B. signs C. tells D. promised
6. Following the animal’s _______, the hunter caught it in the end.
A. picture B. foot C. sign D. tracks
7. China has _____ great success in the space program these years.
A. attacked B. attracted C. achieved D. attached
8. Hearing the news that her daughter had not passed the exam, she stood there silently,_______.
A. disappoint B. disappointed C. disappointing D. disappointment
9. -- ____ that he managed to get the information?
--Oh, a friend of his helped him.
A. Where was it B. What was it C. How was it D. Why was it
10. When I am lonely, he always calls me ______.
A. at the same time B. at the right time C. at one time D. at a time
II 用适当的介词填空
1. Our stories spread _____ the world.
2. Two ______ _______ five students are girls.
3. These new facts, together ______ the other evidence, prove the prisoner’s innocence.
4. Please make a list _______ the things you want to buy.
5. I choose him _______ my best friend.
6. Since the product came ______ the market, it has sold well.
7. The membership of the club is ______ the increase.
8. He has an advantage ______me, for he knows something about the topic.
9. Our team competed ______ their team ______ the championship.
10. Do you know the girl ______ sportswear?
III 句型转换
1. It is likely that athletes will achieve their ambition by training hard.
______ _______ _______ athletes will achieve their ambition by training hard.
2. Five persons make up the team.
The team ______ _______ _______ _______ five persons.
3. All the students went to the theatre, including John.
All the students went to the theatre, John_______.
4. Mr. Smith together with his son performed well in the game yesterday.
Mr. Smith ______ ______ ______ his son performed well in the game yesterday.
5. She has lived in Shanghai since she came here in 1980.
She came to Shanghai in 1980 and she has lived there______ ______.
IV 课文缩写填空
A Life in Sport
Li Ning was the 1 of gymnasts. He won 2 gold medals in all and was chosen as one of the
greatest sportsmen of the 3 century by sports journalists.
After he 4 , he began a new career 5 a businessman, launching a new brand of sportswear
and chose his own 6 as the brand mark.
Li Ning’s sports clothes came onto the 7 at just the right time and gained 8 quickly. In just
a few years Li Ning won more than fifty percent of the 9 market and his company has also grown
internationally. But Li Ning’s 10 was not to make money when he retired. In 1991, he opened a school
for gymnasts to help young people to achieve their sporting 11 . If you are a great sportsman, anything
is 12 , as Li Ning’s advertising slogan says.
V 阅读理解
A
My elder brother Steve, in the absence of my father who died when I was six, gave me important lessons
in values that helped me grow into an adult.
For instance, Steve taught me to face the results of my behavior. Once when I returned in tears from a
Saturday baseball game, it was Steve who took the time to ask me what happened. When I explained that my
baseball had soared through Mrs. Holt’s basement window, breaking the glass with a crash, Steve encouraged
me to confess（承认）to her. After all, I should have been playing in the park down Fifth Street and not in the
path between buildings. Although my knees knocked as I explained to Mrs. Holt, I offered to pay for the
window from my pocket money if she would return my ball. I also learned from Steve that personal property
is a sacred（神圣的） thing. After I found a shiny silver pen in my fifth-grade classroom, I wanted to keep it,
but Steve explained that it might be important to someone else in spite of the fact that it had little value. He
reminded me of how much I’d hate to lose to someone else the small dog that my father carved from a piece
of cheap wood. I returned the pen to my teacher, Mrs. Davids, and still remembered the smell of her perfume
as she patted me on my shoulder.
Yet of all the instructions Steve gave me, his respect for life is the most vivid in my mind. When I was
twelve, I killed an old brown sparrow in the yard with a BB gun. Excited with my accuracy, I screamed to
Steve to come from the house to take a look. I shall never forget the way he stood for a long moment and
stared at the bird on the ground. Then in a dead, quiet voice, he asked, “Did it hurt you first, Mark?” I didn’t
know what to answer. He continued with his eyes firm, “The only time you should even think of hurting a
living thing is if it hurts you first. And then you think a long, long time.” I really felt terrible then, but that
moment stands out as the most important lesson my brother taught me.
1. What is the main subject of the passage?
A. The relationship between Mark and Steve.
B. The important lesson Mark learned in school
C. Steve’s important role in mark’s growing process.
D. Mark and Steve’s respect for living things.
2. It can be inferred from the passage that when Mark confessed to Mrs. Holt, __________.
A. he felt surprised B. he was light-hearted
C. he felt frightened D. he knelt before her
3. In the story about the pen, which of the following lessons did Steve teach his brother?
A. Respect for personal property. B. Respect for life
C. Sympathy for people with problems. D. The value of honesty.
4. According to the writer, which was the most important lesson Steve taught his young brother?
A. Respect for living things. B. Responsibility for one’s actions.
C. The value of the honesty. D. Care for the property of others.
5. Which of the follow is true according to the passage?
A. Mark was still a boy when he wrote this passage.
B. Mark lost the small dog his father carved somewhere.
C. When a living thing hurts you, you should kill it.
D. Even if a living thing hurts you, you should not kill it without hesitation.
B
At five years old he was collecting old newspapers to make money. And when he was 15 he signed his
schoolmates up to start a babysitting(小型的) circle.
Now 20, third-year Cambridge University student Peter Blackburn is the managing director of a
company with a $30,000 plan. And he thinks it will make more than $15,000 by next summer.
He set up Peter Blackburn Lid last year to bring out new, color-term planners that now students all over the
UK are using.
“I felt that most of the planners going around were pretty unimaginative,” he says, “I believed that I
could do a better job and decided to have a go.”
Blackburn admits that he is putting far more effort into business than his computer course at
university. While fellow students are out with their friends, he keeps in touch with his business office in
Lancashire by movable phone. Before he set up the company he spent one holiday preparing a plan that
would persuade the bank to lend him money.
“Most students work hard for a good degree because they believe that will help them get a job to
support themselves,” he says, “I work hard at my company because that is what will support me next year,
after I leave college.”
Friends believe that Blackburn will make 1 million within 5 years.
He is not quite so sure, however, “There’s a lot to be done yet,” he says.
6. Choose the right order of the facts given in the passage.
a. He spent his holiday preparing a plan.
b. He collected newspapers
c. He set up his own company
d. He asked the bank for money
e. He set up a babysitting circle
A. e, b, c, a, d B. b, e, a, d, c
C. b, e, d, a, c D. b, e, c, a, d
7. When he was quite young, Blackburn _____.
A. already made a lot of money
B. already had a business brain
C. was already the managing director of a company
D. already set up his own business
8. In spite of (虽然)being a college student, Blackburn _____.
A. spends more time on his business than on his study
B. keeps in touch with his business office by movable phone
C. seldom goes out with his friends
D. often spends the whole holiday preparing business plan
9. Which of the following best explains why Blackburn works hard at his company?
A. He wants to do more business practice before he leaves college.
B. He wants to make more money before he leaves college.
C. He wants to get a good job like most students after he leaves college.
D. He depends on the company for his living in the future.
C
This hotel in the trees is famous in the world. Peop1e who know very little about Kenya, know of
Treetops. When King George VI died, Princess Elizabeth was staying on the Treetops, and when she came
down from there, “She succeeded him as the queen of the country”. This hotel in the middle of the forest
shows the pleasure of Africa. When you visit it, you will be sent into the heart of the forest by hotel buses,
and then a guide, with a gun to protect you against big game, will go with you to the Treetops. Before and
after dinner, for the whole night if you wish, you can sit on the corridor(走廊), watching animals come to the
water pool. The earliest hotel Treetops was built round a large tree on the opposite side of the water, but that
was destroyed by fire and the new hotel Treetops, which is built round several trees, is much bigger.
The dining room at Treetops is small, and the waiters cannot walk round to serve guests, a clever
“railway service” has been invented. Guests take their food as it passes slowly in front of them, along a line
in the center of the table.
There are many animals around the Treetops. When you visit them, you can see:
---Animals and their babies are waiting to greet the guests.
---Animals, enjoying the Treetops pool in the daylight.
---A long bodied, long ring tailed very active cat-like animal is a special one coming out at night. He
hunts and eats anything he can overpower and is very destructive. He lives in the trees at Treetops .He
comes for his food every evening. Do not get too near to him, as his teeth and claws（爪）can do you
harm. These animals can be trained and become lovely pets.
---Some other animals who have a thick coating of fur to keep them warm in the cold forest nights.
---Many buffaloes（水牛）coming to the Treetops for water and salt during the day or night.
10．“She succeeded him as the queen of the country” In this sentence, “succeeded” means_______.
A．did what she was trying to do B．gained her purpose
C．got a position on the death of the King D．completed an easy task
11．According to the passage, “railway service” actually refers to __________.
A．the service provided at the railway station
B．the supply of food on the train
C．the service provided along the railway
D．the supply of food along a moving line
12．Which of the following statements about “the cat-like animal”, described in the passage, is NOT true?
A．It comes for food only at night.
B．It lives in the trees at Treetops.
C． Its teeth and claws can do people harm.
D．It can catch any other animal in the forest.
13．According to the passage. Treetops is famous in the world because ________.
A．it shows the pleasure of America
B．Princess Elizabeth got to the crown when coming down from there
C．it is built round several trees
D．there are many animals that can be trained and become lovely pets
14．We can learn from the passage, that the guests＿＿＿＿．
A．should not play games on the Treetops
B．could not sit on the corridor at night
C．could enjoy their dinner in the dining room
D．should keep off the cat-like animals
Reading and vocabulary 参考答案
I. 单项填空
DADBA DCBCB
II. 用适当的介词填空
1. across 2. out of 3. with 4. of 5. as
6. onto 7. on 8. over 9. with/ against; for 10. in
III. 句型转换
1. The chances are 2. is made up of 3. included 4. as well as 5. ever since
IV. 课文缩写填空
1.prince 2.106 3. 20th 4. retired 5. as 6.
name
7. market 8. success 9. national 10. goal 11. ambition 12.
possible
V. 阅读理解
CCAAD BBAD CDDBD
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