Period Two Language Points
Ⅰ.语境填词
1．She and her sister worked together on a biography of their father.
2．The murderer was put to death.
3．She nearly died of fright at the sight of the escaped tiger.
4．I’m curious to know what he said.
5．I can now see what the detective(侦探) meant：he was trying to find where I was on the night of the crime.
6．There was a panic(恐慌) in the shop when a fire started.
7．It began to rain suddenly，and the children all ran to seek shelter(遮蔽物) from the rain.
8．Are you alone or with a companion(同伴)?
Ⅱ.选词填空
have (no) connection with；run away；ahead of；pour down；be curious about；have enough of；die of；go under
1．The company has_connections_with a number of Japanese firms.
2．The enemy broke，and then began to run_away in all directions.
3．She saw something ahead_of her.
4．I was about to leave when the rain poured_down.
5．The firm will go_under unless business improves.
6．She is_curious_about the origin of mankind.
7．I’ve had_enough_of your complaining.
8．On one hand，tons of milk went bad.On the other hand，tens of thousands of people died_of hunger.
Ⅲ.同义词辨析
1．用disturb，bother，trouble的适当形式填空
(1)Don’t disturb him；he is sleeping.
(2)His phoning me all the time bothers me a lot.
(3)It’s his attitude that troubled me，not his work.
(4)Don’t disturb the papers on my desk.
解析 disturb用于主动语态指无意地“干扰”；用于被动语态则指程度较深的“烦恼”，甚至表示心理、精神方面“失常”。
bother在主动语态里指有意地“烦扰”；被动则指暂时的无关紧要的“打扰”。
trouble比bother更进一层，指“麻烦；使人苦恼”；还可指所有概念的“烦恼”。
2．用hit，beat，strike的适当形式填空
(1)A storm hit/struck the village and caused 9 deaths.
(2)It hit/struck me that I had an important meeting to attend.
(3)The wave beats the shore，washing the sands and the rocks.
(4)The church clock struck 9 when we arrived home.
解析 hit表示具体的打击，常指速度极快地击打、冲击、击中、命中某人/某物一次/一下；用于体育运动中时，可表示用球拍击球，与strike同义；表示抽象意义时，表示(精神方面)遭受某种打击或重创，用法，意义相当于strike；hit还可表示“使某人突然想起某事；(疾病、灾难等)侵袭”，用法相当于strike。
beat表示具体的打击，表示有规律的击打、拍打，如心跳，海浪拍击海岸，鸟拍打翅膀；还可表示抽象含义，意为“打败，战胜(＝defeat)；胜过，超过”。
strike表示具体的含义，指给予重击，击中、碰撞等，意义上接近hit，但指程度较重的打击；还表示(光线)照到，(声音)传入；擦火柴，打火；(钟等)敲响报时；表示抽象意义时，指突然遭受伤害、侵袭、折磨、损失等；使突然
想起，意识到等，相当于hit的用法。
Ⅳ.单项填空
1．As we all know，good health________diet.
A．is connected to B．connects with C．connects to D．is connected with
答案 D
解析 句意：众所周知，健康与饮食有关。be connected with与……有关；be connected to被连接到一起。
2．________，all the students have covered the 5 kilometers and no one quit on the half way.
A．To our sorrow B．To their sorrow
C．To their credit D．To their disappointment
答案 C
解析 句意：令他们感到光荣的是，所有的学生都跑完了5000米，没有一个人半路退出。to sb.’s credit意为“使某人感到光荣的是……”，符合句意。
3．The man________there________that he had________the money on the table.
A．lying；lay；laid B．laying；lied；lain
C．lying；lied；laid D．laying；laid；lain
答案 C
解析 第一空表示“躺在那儿”，作定语，应用lie(躺)的现在分词形式lying。第二空是句子的谓语动词，表示“撒谎”，用lie(说谎)的过去式lied。第三空作从句谓语动词，构成过去完成时态，应用lay(放置)的过去分词形式laid。句意：躺在那儿的那个人撒谎说他把钱放在桌子上了。
4．People have always been curious________how living things on the earth exactly began.
A．in B．at C．of D．about
答案 D
解析 句意：人们总是对地球上的生物如何起源感到好奇。be curious about对……感到好奇。
5．Though they met for the first time，they talked______they were good friends.
A．even if B．as if C．even though D．if only
答案 B
解析 even if/though即使；as if好像；if only但愿。句意：尽管他们是第一次见面，但是他们谈起话来像好朋友似的。所以B项为正确答案。
6．In the winter，when H1N1 Flu spread all over the country，some people________a panic.
A．came into B．were at C．got into D．were into
答案 C
解析 句意：冬天流感病毒肆虐，人们惊慌失措。be in/get into/cause/produce a panic陷入/引起/制造恐慌，固定搭配。
7．The sports meeting had to be put off________the thick fog.
A．due for B．on account of C．because D．owing
答案 B
解析 on account of由于；due to而不是due for，表示“由于”；because后跟从句；D项应为owing to“由于”。
8．Alice trusts you，only you can________her to give up the foolish idea.
A．suggest B．attract C．threaten D．persuade
答案 D
解析 句意：艾丽丝信赖你，只有你才能说服她放弃那个愚蠢的念头。suggest建议；attract吸引；threaten威胁；persuade说服。只有D项符合题意。
9．Hurry up！We are________of time.
A．running after B．running out C．running away D．running into
答案 B
解析 句意：快点！我们剩下的时间不多了。run after追赶；run out用完，耗尽；run away逃跑；run into偶然遇到。根据句意，应选B项。
10．Seeing the snake，a________look appeared on her face.
A．terrifying B．terrified C．terrify D．terror
答案 B
解析 句意：一看到蛇，她的脸上就浮现出恐惧的表情。根据句子结构，空格处应作定语，排除C和D项；terrifying使别人恐惧的；terrified自己感到恐惧的。
Ⅴ.阅读理解
It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately，such moments are usually not obvious(明显的)to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no_one_will_be_any_the_wiser. When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.
Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn’t really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech—“I Have a Dream”， you may notice that he stumbled (结巴) over his words twice during the speech. Most likely, however, you don’t remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speechmaking.
People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speechmaking as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication (交流). They feel the listeners are like judges in an iceskating competition. But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performance. They are looking for a wellthoughtout speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.
As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being perfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.
Main idea 每个人在演说的时候都会出现这样那样的问题，怎么办？问题很简单，继续你的演讲。即便是马丁·路德·金博士最著名的演讲“我有一个梦想”也有不尽人意的地方。所以凡事不可过于追求完美，犯错乃人之本性，不完美更能够彰显人格的魅力。
1. The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ________.
A. be smarter than you
B. notice your mistakes
C. do better than you
D. know what you are talking about
答案 B
解析 由前后句可知演讲过程中出现的错误对听众来说并不明显，他们也并不知道演讲者想要说什么，所以“没有什么智者”，即“没有人会注意到你的错误”。
2. You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ________.
A. your attention is on the content
B. you don’t fully understand the speech
C. you don’t know what the speaker plans to say
D. you find the way of speechmaking more important
答案 A
解析 由第二段的最后一句可知。
3. It can be inferred from the passage that________.
A. giving a speech is like giving a performance
B. one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad
C. the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made
D. the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be
答案 B
解析 由第三段的最后一句可知。
4. What would be the best title for the passage?
A．How to Be a Perfect Speaker
B．How to Make a Perfect Speech
C．Don’t Expect a Perfect Speech
D．Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech
答案 C
解析 文章的第一句话和最后一段话已表明文章的主旨，不要期望完美的演讲。
Ⅲ.阅读填空
Real policemen hardly recognize any resemblance between their lives and what they see on TV.
__1__He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court.He has to know nearly as much law as a professional lawyer，and what is more，he has to apply it on his feet，in the dark and rain，running down a street after someone he wants to talk to.
__2__He will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad，unimportant people who are guilty of stupid crimes.
Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal：as soon as he’s arrested，the story is over.__3__Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks，little effort is spent on searching.
A third big difference between the drama detective and the real one is the unpleasant pressures：first，as members of a police force，they always have to behave absolutely in accordance with the law.__4__They can hardly ever do both.Most of the time some of them have to break the rules in small ways.
If the detective has to deceive(欺骗) the world，the world often deceives him.__5__And this separation the detective feels between himself and the rest of the world is deepened by the simplemindedness—as he sees it—of citizens，social workers，doctors，lawmakers，and judges，who，instead of eliminating crime，punish the criminals less severely in the hope that this will make them reform.
A．He can’t get any evidence from the witnesses.
B．In real life，finding criminal is seldom much of a problem.
C．Little of his time is spent in chatting.
D．Sometimes he can chat with others to relax himself.
E．Second，as expensive public servants，they have to get results.
F．The first difference is that a policeman’s real life revolves round criminal law.
G．Hardly anyone he meets tells him the truth.
答案 1.F 2.C 3.B 4.E 5.G
1．panic的过去式、过去分词、现在分词分别为panicked，panicked，panicking。
2．lie躺；lie说谎；lay放置；下蛋；这三个词的过去式、过去分词、现在分词容易混淆。
躺lie，lay，lain，lying
撒谎lie，lied，lied，lying
放置；下蛋lay，laid，laid，laying
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