第14练 名词性从句(1)＋对社会有突出贡献的人 Ⅰ.单句语法填空 1．The reason why I’m determined to do well in my lessons is I don’t want to let my parents down. 2．Approaching the spot，the police were surprised at they saw. 3．From space，the earth looks blue.This is about seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by ocean. 4．The kids didn’t see he came from，but they saw exactly what happened next. 5． amazed me was he was able to recite the whole poem in such a short time. 6．The problem is will take charge of the business after his father retires. 7． developing countries really need to do is to stop poverty by fighting the cause of it. 8．He went away from his post without permission and this was why I was angry with him. 9．The best moment for the football star was he scored the winning goal. 10．—I wonder Mary has kept her figure after all these years. —By working out every day. Ⅱ.短文语法填空 The combination of music and study has long been 1. source of disagreement between adults and children.Parents and teachers alike maintain 2. silence is important when learning，whereas youngsters insist that their concentration on study 3. (help) by their favourite sounds. Now a study shows that the 4. (grown-up) have been right all along.Psychologists in Florida tested 5. fast students wrote essays with and without music in the background.They 6. (find) that the sounds slowed progress down by about sixty words per hour.“It is clearly demonstrated 7. coping with listening and writing at the same time is difficult，” said Dr.Sarah.She also came to the conclusion 8. it is a myth that instrumental music is less disturbing than songs.“All types of music had the same effect，” she said in her report.“One’s ability to pay attention and write fluently is likely 9. (disturb) by both songs and instrumental music，” she added. Dr.Sarah claimed the research demonstrated that the idea that music could improve performance was wrong.“Writing an essay is a complex task.You are recalling information and putting it in order.But 10. is particularly worrying is that more and more teenagers are studying in front of the television.” Ⅲ.阅读理解 A There once lived a woman who had been blind for decades.Then one day she found a doctor who treated the woman with a new device she had invented called the Laserphaco Probe.For the first time in over 30 years，the woman could regain her eyesight.The doctor responsible for this life-changing surgery was called Dr.Patricia E．Bath. Dr.Bath was an American ophthalmologist(眼科医生)，researcher，and an advocate for the prevention，treatment，and cure of blindness.She had an interest in science and medicine from a young age，which she said was first evoked by a chemistry kit her mother had bought for her when she was young. During a fellowship at Columbia University，Dr.Bath realized that African Americans were twice as likely to suffer from blindness than other patients she attended to.This observation led to her dev ... ...
