Module 4 Sandstorms in Asia Ⅰ.语法填空 He was a professor.At the age of 90, he still worked eight hours every day regardless1. the weather. His secretary said: “He was extremely old, but he forced himself to walk from his living place to the office through two blocks.2. would take him an hour to do so, but he insisted because it made him get a sense of 3. (succeed).” One day, a university student stepped out of his office with a pile of books.He 4. (complain) : “He always answers my questions with just a yes or no.However, he always gives me dozens of books and suggests me5. (find) the answer on my own.” By chance, the professor knew6. the student complained about.He explained to him with a smile: “This is the method I have learnt—the 7. (hard) you work independently, the better solutions you will find.If you can make full use of the books, you will 8. (probable) become a good lawyer in the future.” This 90-year-old man was Pound,9. was the president of Law College of Harvard.He believed,“all slopes are easy 10. (go)”, of which he often reminded his students. 答案及剖析: 1.of 考查介词。regardless of为固定短语,意为“不顾”。 2.It 考查代词。动词take表示“花费(时间)”,用it作形式主语,不定式短语作真正主语。 3.success 考查名词。介词of后跟succeed的名词形式。 4.complained 考查动词时态。根据前一个句子的时间状语One day可知,该句子谓语动词用一般过去时态。 5.finding 考查非谓语动词。动词suggest表“建议”,跟v.-ing形式作宾语。 6.what 考查连接词。what the student complained about为宾语从句,连接代词what在从句中作介词about的宾语。 7.harder 考查副词。the more...the more句型表示“越……越……”。 8.probably 考查副词。此处缺少修饰谓语动词的状语,故用副词probably。 9.who 考查关系代词。Pound(人名)后接非限制性定语从句,从句中缺少主语,故用关系代词who。 10.to go 考查非谓语动词。形容词easy后跟动词不定式作状语。 Ⅱ.阅读理解 A Anna Akter,a nine-year-old student at a floating school in Bangladesh’s remote Natore district,says she might have missed out on her education during annual floods without her boat-based classroom.The same goes for Khushi Khatun,who also studies at the boat school where she gets free tuition and materials.“Had there been no such schools,she would have had to walk two kilometers along a muddy path or take a boat journey,which may have discouraged her from studying,”said her father Nazir Uddin,a farmer in Pangasia village. Hundreds of students in the northern Bangladesh district are taught in floating schools.“Instead of the students going to school,the school reaches them,”said Mohammed Rezwan,the founder of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha,the non-profit organization that introduced the country’s first floating school system.The boats first serve as school buses,collecting children from different riverside stops.Once they have stopped,class begins.Rezwan’s organization now has 22 wooden boats,each able to hold 30 students. Each year,much of the Bangladesh co ... ...
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