(课件网) Unit 2 Culture shock 第2课时 Reading （2） Module 1 Explorations and exchanges 01 基础过关 02 能力进阶 目 录 一、 根据句意及首字母提示完成单词 1. I a that I made fun of you yester-day， but I have apologized to you. 2. People want to get away from the drudgery（单调乏味的苦差事） of their e lives. 3. In many schools in China， students are usually asked to wear school u . 4. B is the national game of the USA. dmitted veryday niforms aseball 一 二 三 四 五 二、 用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空 1. My pen pal Jack has been in China for three years and now he gets used to （eat） Chinese food. 2. I fail （see） why you find it so amusing. 3. We have problems （finish） the difficult task in a few days. 4. They required us （help） them. 5. Americans have a big holiday on 4th July. It is （independent） Day. 6. The project was a real （educate） for everyone who took part in it. eating to see finishing to help Independence education 一 二 三 四 五 三、 根据所给中文意思，完成下列各句 1. 我承认打破了窗户。 I the window. 2. 最终我设法说服他留下。 At last I persuade him to stay. 3. 她早早地就到大厅去了，以便找到一个好座位。 She went to the hall early get a good seat. 4. 他正在考虑下星期买一辆新汽车。 He is buying a new car next week. admitted breaking managed to in order to thinking about 一 二 三 四 五 5. 昨天杰克没能按时交作文。 Yesterday Jack the composition on time. failed to hand in 一 二 三 四 五 四、 阅读理解 人与社会———历史、社会与文化 Idioms can be a problem for language learners. They often seem to make no sense at all. For example， imagine your English friend Sam tells you his Maths exam was “a piece of cake”. Do you imagine him at school， sitting in front of a sweet dessert with nothing but a pen to eat it with？ In fact， he’s saying that the exam was really easy. It’s important to learn useful English idioms， and knowing how they came into being helps us to remember them. Here are stories of three English idioms. 一 二 三 四 五 If you ask a friend to hang out， you might hear， “Sorry， I can’t tonight. I’m feeling a little under the weather.” It may sound like rain is coming， but really， it means that your friend feels sick. This expression came from sailors， who often got seasick when bad weather shook the ship from side to side. The sailors went down to the bottom part of the ship， away from the storm and where the ship’s rocking was gentler. 一 二 三 四 五 If you have a difficult roommate， you might say， “My roommate has loud parties every night， but last night was the last straw. They played music till 5 o’clock in the morning！ I’m moving out.” “The last straw” is a final problem that makes someone take action. This expression is a short form of the phrase “the straw that broke the camel’s back”. The idea is that even though a single piece of straw is very light， many pieces added together will ... ...
