Unit 2

I used to be afraid of the dark

基础达标：

一．根据句意及首字母提示完成句子。

1. My teacher is very p______ .Whenever we have questions, she always tries her best to answer us all of them.

2. ----You like the new house, why not buy it?

-------It’s really expensive .I can’t a_____ it.

3. I don’t think it’s right for us .Students to w________ money clothes we don’t need.

4. Martin’s mother often tells him not to eat too much c_________, but he didn’t pay any attention.

5. The famous actress Shen Danxia’s _______ made all the people in Hong Kong very sad.

6．I enjoy c______ with friends on line.

7. In the modern world, it’s n________ for us to learn English well.

8. If you can’t make a d_____, please go home and discuss it with your parents.

9. The boy has tried to make his mother pay more a________ to him.

10. He solved the problem by h______ in the end.

二． 用方框内所给短语的适当形式填空。

1．What happened in the day time made Steve annoyed .He could hardly ________ ______ ________at night.

2． My father tried his best to _______ ______ smoking, but he failed.

3． Paul ________ ________ be very quiet, but now he is very outgoing.

4． Many students in our class __________ _______ _______ “Happy 24 Hours”.

5． _________ ________ _________, David got home safely before 7:00 p.m.

6． _______ my _______, my mother didn’t say anything about what I did yesterday.

7． Nearly all the girls ________ _______ __________ snakes.

8． When I know my grade of this exam, I ‘m very surprised .So I ________ ___________ _______ to study harder from now on.

9． Helen is __________ _________ in Beijing .She has gone to Shenzhen.

10． Mr. Green ___________ _________ _________ everything good his son does. He is satisfied with his son.

三． 按要求改写句子

1．You used to be have curly hair,_______ ________?(反意疑问句)

2．He used to be afraid of the spiders .(一般疑问句)

________ _________ _________________ be afraid of the spiders?

3. A woman got on the bus .There is a baby on her back. (合并为一句)

A woman got on the bus _________ ______ _______ _______ ____________ _______.

4. It took us two weeks to do that survey. (改为同义句)

We__________ two weeks ________ that survey.

6. The dog died three days ago .(同义句)

The dog _________ _________ _________ for three days.

四．汉译英

1．你过去弹钢琴吗？

_______ you ________ ________ play piano?

2.我开着卧室的灯睡觉。

I go to sleep_______ my bedroom light _________.

3．Kate不在打排球了.

Kate doesn’t play volleyball __________ __________.

4.越来越多的人都对超级女声感爱好了。

More and more people __________ _________ _________ Super Voice Girl.

5.他父亲不能负担起买那辆车。

His father can’t ________ _________ buy that car.

五．改错。

1．His mother looked after him as good as she could.( )—( )

2. Did you used to play volleyball? ( )—( )

3. Since his father died, he lived with his grandparents.( )--( )

4. Listening to the teacher is very important. You’d better pay more attention at what the teacher says in class. ( )--( )

5. I used to spend a lot time chat with others. ( )--( )

综合运用

一． 单项选择

（ ）1. A world without thieves is a great comedy. I think you will find it______.

A. interest B.interested C. interests D. interesting

( ) 2. My grandmother_____ us stories when we were young.

A. used to tell B. was used to tell C. is used to telling D. used to telling

( ) 3.—Don’t_____ your time. Do your homework quickly.

----But I have already finished it, Mum.

A. save B. waste C. have D. wait

( ) 4. ----You didn’t live with your parents, ______ you?

------ No, I used to live with my grandparents.

A.did you B. did use you

C. didn’t you D. usedn’t you

( )5. It’s_____ to master the grammar for an English learner.

A. necessary B. unnecessary

C. boring D. bored

( )6. The child has been used to_____ early since he____ to school.

A. get up; went

B. getting up; has gone

C. getting up; went

D. getting; gone

( )7. It’s not good for teenagers_____ to much time on the chat line.

A.spending B. to spend

C. spends D. spent

( ) 8. It’s_____ to answer this question. Please think hard, you can do it by yourself.

A. enough easy B. easy enough C. enough easily D. easily enough

( )9. The teachers in our school all take pride_____ doing most for the students.

A. of B. with

C. in D. on

( )10.Tim is a hard –working student, he doesn’t like playing with others. He stays at school and studies______.

A.all the time B.all the same

C. at a time D. at once

( )11.Declan Galbraith is ______ boy, his song “Tell Me Why” shocked(震动)the whole world.

A. ten year old B.ten years old C. ten-year-old D. ten-year-old

( )12.That’s____ what I want to say.

A. exactly B. exact

C. right D. rightly

( )13. Tina still went in working hard______she has got the first prize in her class.

A. even though B. even if

C. what if D. even as

( )14. To look after her son very well ,the mother ________ to give up her work and moved near the school .

A. make a decision B. decide

C. made a decision D. made up

( )15. The little boy isn’t _______ of spiders or snakes at all.

A. terrify B. terror

C. terrifying D .terrified

三．补全对话（其中有两个选项是多余的）

Donna: Wow! Tina, you have changed a lot!

Tina: Why do you think so?

Donna: __1____ .But you are very thin.

Tina: So have you. You used to have long hair, but now you have short hair.

Donna: How’s you school life?

Tina: ___2___, school, home, school, home……every day!

Donna: By the way,you used to play ping-pong after school,___3__

Tina: No, I hardly do that now.

Donna: Why?

Tina: Because I don’t have time any more. I have to do a lot of homework after school every day.

Donna: Oh, poor Tina!

Tina: __4____

Donna: We are in same boat! I love music and my mother used to take me to the concerts. But now I can only do that in my dreams.

Tina: How I miss the old days!

Donna: ___5____

A. How about you, Donna?

B. Do you often play ping-pong now?

C. You used to have short hair.

D. It’ s boring.

E. You used to be very fat.

F. So do I.

G. It’s very interesting.

四．完型填空

There is good news for the children in the countryside. We may still remember the girl 1 big eyes .Her big eyes are 2 us her dream: I wish to 3 ! In China, there are still 4 girls and boys like her. They want to go to school, but their 5 are too poor. If the family has two or three children, it is harder to 6 the money for all the children. So the parents often ask 7 to stay at home, and boys to go to school.

Now they needn’t 8 the money. From 2006 on, children can go to school for free in some poor places. They don’t have to pay for books and other thing. Some of them can even get money from the government (政府) to make their life 9 . Soon, all the children in the countryside can go to school for free .All families are very happy with the news . It is 10 great.

( ) 1.A. with B. on

C. to D .in

( ) 2. A. saying B. telling

C. speaking D. talking

( ) 3.A. go to work B. go to bed

C. go to school D. go home

( ) 4. A. a lot B. lot of

C. a lot of D .much

( ) 5.A. schools B. cities

C. houses D. families

( ) 6.A. pay B. take

C. buy D. lend

( ) 7.A. teachers B. girls

C. boys D. all the children

( ) 8. A. look up B. turn on

C. worry about D. make sure

( ) 9. A. better B. shorter

C. longer D. worse

( ) 10.A. not B. never

C. hardly D. really

五．阅读理解

根据下面一篇短文的内容判定下列句正误，正确的用“A ”表示，错误的用“B”表示。

Sally was fourteen. She studied in a middle school. She liked dancing and singing and spent a lot of time on them. But she hated maths and even decided to give it up. Her father was anxious(焦虑的) about it.

It was sunny. Sally’s father gave a call to his sister who taught maths in another school. He hoped she would come and tell his daughter how to learn maths. The woman came and said, “You are a clever girl ,Sally. I am sure you will soon learn math well if you do your best.”

“I’m afraid I can’t , Aunt.” said Sally. “Girls can’t be good at maths .”

“I don’t think so.” said the woman. “I was good at it when I was a girl. You must do more exercises and try different ways to practice doing maths problems until you work them out or at least understand them better. Here is maths problem. Please think it over and see if you work it out.”

“Ok, ” said the girl. “Let me try.”

About an hour later Sally took the exercises book to her aunt and said. “I’ve tried several times and worked out the problem at last! ”

“Well done!” her aunt looked at her answer and said happily, “Now you see, maths is not as difficult as you though.”

( )1.Sally tried her best to learn maths but could not learn it well.

( )2. Sally spent much more time in singing and dancing in learning maths.

( )3. Her aunt didn’t think that girls could be good at maths.

( )4. The father asked his sister to teach his daughter how to learn maths.

( )5. Sally worked out the problem at last.

六．书面表达

假如Lily 是你的朋友，你与她一起长大，她的变化让你吃惊。请根据以下内容介绍Lily的变化。

In the past: Straight hair, quiet and sky, not like English, like singing.

Now tall ,short and curly hair, outgoing, like English very much, like sports.

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