Unit 4 Stage and screen Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas 课时作业(一) [基础训练] Ⅰ 单词拼写 1．His wife is a famous _____ (歌剧) singer. 答案：opera 2．This was one _____ (方面) of her character he hadn't seen before. 答案：aspect 3．_____ (女性的) education in the country is developing rapidly. 答案：Female 4．He _____ (拍) his hands for silence. 答案：clapped 5．She has published more than 20 books including novels, prose and _____ (诗歌)． 答案：poetry Ⅱ 单句语法填空 1．It's _____ (tradition) in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day. 答案：traditional 2．Increased population has _____ (transform) the landscape. 答案：transformed 3．He was filled with _____ (angry) at the way he had been treated. 答案：anger 4．I believe she will transform me _____ a talker. 答案：into 5．I wonder if Peking Opera is easier than a Shakespeare play _____ (understand)． 答案：to understand 6．We are always finding new beauties in Shakespeare's _____ (poet). 答案：poetry 7．As one of the oldest folk art in China, paper-cut can date back _____ the 6th century. 答案：to 8．_____ (perform) well, the girls kept practicing day and night. 答案：To perform 9．Jinghu is an instrument _____ two strings. 答案：with 10．To be or _____ to be, that's a question. 答案：not Ⅲ 用括号内所给词汇，写出一个语段 (opera; on the edge of one's seat; female; get across; energetic) 答案：Having seen the opera, the energetic female was on the edge of her feet. She got across the meaning of the opera. [思维训练] Ⅰ 完形填空 Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to __1__. Now she was Portia, a strong-willed __2__ in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The theater was filled with people. She was speaking with a power she had never before experienced, the words flowing __3__ from her. __4__， Roberta had never acted in her life before the audition (选拔试演). She __5__ being in front of other people. She was very __6__ at school. She had never thought she was good enough at anything to __7__ much attention. She stayed mostly to herself, making __8__ friends. She had excellent grades, __9__ she always thought that something was missing. Two weeks before the audition, Robertsa's mother had heard about it and __10__ her to join in. “I can't think of anyone else better suited to __11__ the part. Remember all the plays you used to act out for us？” Her mother wouldn't let the __12__ drop. “You're just a little scared. Everyone gets scared. You know you __13__ do it. The trick is to look past the __14__ to find the love of what you're doing.” So Roberta had made an appointment with the head of the Drama Club. She had read the play and found herself excited by the __15__ of speaking such rich words. In secret she practiced Portia's part, __16__ the lines by repeating them over and over. It wasn't hard; she __17__ every minute of it. Every time she spoke the words, she had a new __18__ of the lines, as if Shakespeare had written Porti ... ...
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