Unit 1 : Our world A ： Reading and interaction Ⅰ. Multiple Choices Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentences. 1. Dawn _____as they climbed into the boat and pushed it off from the bank. A. would just break B. was just breaking C. has just broken D. had just been breaking 2. Large quantities of money_____in the stock market. but it returns little. A. has been invested B. have been invested C. has invested D. have invested 3. By the time you are 18, you_____ a turning point of life style in an entirely natural manner. A. had reached B. have reached C. will have reached D. will reached 4. When Alice came to, she did not know how long she_____there. A. had been lying B. has been lying C. was lying D. has lain 5. The teachers_____seemed_____a meeting when I passed the meeting room. A. present; to be having B. presenting; to be having C. present: to have D. presented; to have had Ⅰ. Translation 1. 不同情被绳之以法的坏蛋 2. 高度评价这场数字革命 3. 用动画表达某人的情感 4. 忍不住饶恕这个调皮的孩子 5. 文字以外的交流方式 6. 翻开新的一页 7. 以鲜明的对比来呈现孩子们的心情 8. 不遗余力地搜寻学习外语的新方法 Ⅱ. Blank filling Directions: Fill in the blanks with the proper form of the given words. Mourning the death of Handwriting There is now an alarming trend, as cautioned by some experts, (1)_____some traditional art forms are becoming extinct, which arouses a cultural panic among people. One of them, (2)_____(neglect) by most of us frequently, is the handwriting. The reasons (3)_____(lead) to the tragedy can be manifold. To begin with, these is no denying that the rapid development of technology plays a role. With the emergence of computer and other smart devices, people become addicted to the keyboards of all kinds, (4)_____ _____they can significantly become more productive when writing documents. However, such a decline in handwriting may lie not so much in computers as in standardized testing, which is regarded as a (5)_____(possible) reason for it. The fact that the Federal Government has launched an Act requiring schools to set up standardized test for students, which seems (6)_____(destroy) the environment where students can study freely and solidly. That means in schools today, they're focusing on the tests (7)_____the fact that the necessary skills are more needed," says Tina Thor, a University of California professor and the author of a cross history of American handwriting. Now there is an almost absurd phenomenon that if something isn't on a test, it's viewed as a luxury. "It's getting harder and harder to balance what's on the test with the rest of (8)_____children need to know." she says, "Reading is on there, but handwriting isn't, so the policy (9)._____(apply) now is totally unreasonable and even detrimental to the society." In other words, schools don't care how a child holds her pencil as long as she can read. As a result, (10)_ ... ...
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