【个人手工制作】新牛津英语模块三第二单元课外趣味阅读及练习题

新牛津英语模块三第二单元课外趣味阅读及练习题课外趣味阅读幽默故事A Fine MatchOne day a lady saw a mouse running across her kitchen floor. She w as very afraid of mouse, so she ran out of the house, got into a bus a nd went to the shops. There she bought a mousetrap. The shopkeepe r said to her, "Put some cheese in it and you will soon catch that mo use."The lady went home with her mousetrap, but when she looked in her cupboard, she could not find any cheese in it. She did not want to go back to the shop, because it was very late, so she cut a picture of s ome cheese out of a magazine and put that in the trap. Surprisingly, the picture of the cheese was quite successful! When th e lady came down to the kitchen the next morning she found a pictur e of a mouse in the trap beside the picture of the cheese!势均力敌有一天某位女士看到一只老鼠在自家的厨房地板上窜过。

她很害怕老鼠，所以她冲出屋子，搭上了公共汽车直奔商店。

在那儿，她买了一只老鼠夹。

店主告诉她：“放点奶酪在里面，很快你就会逮住那只老鼠的。

”这位女士带着鼠夹回到家里，但她没有在碗橱里找到奶酪。

她不想再回到商店里去，因为已经很晚了。

于是，她就从一份杂志中剪下一幅奶酪的图片放进了夹子。

令人称奇的是，这画有奶酪的图片竟然奏效了!第二天早上，这位女士下楼到厨房时，发现鼠夹里奶酪图片旁有一张画有老鼠的图片!The Same ServiceA man who had been married for ten years was consulting a marriag e counselor."When I was first married, I was very happy. I'd come home from a h ard day down at the shop, and my little dog would race around barkin g, and my wife would bring me my slippers.Now everything's changed. When I come home, my dog brings me m y slippers, and my wife barks at me.""I don't know what you're complaining about," said the counselor, "Yo u're still getting the same service."同样的服务有位结婚十年的男人，正向婚姻顾问请教。

“新婚时我非常幸福。

在市区的商店里累了一天，回到家里，小狗围着我又跑又叫，妻子忙给我拿来拖鞋。

现在一切都变了。

小狗给我叼来拖鞋，妻子对我又喊又叫。

”“我不知道你有什么可抱怨的，”顾问说，“你得到的服务还是同样的嘛。

”英语短文欣赏浑沌开窍Making Features for Hun DunThe emperor of the South Sea was named “Tiao’, the emperor of the North Sea was named “Hu”, and the central emperor “Hun Dun”南海的皇帝，名字叫“鯈”；北海的皇帝，名字叫“忽”；中央的皇帝，名字叫“浑沌”Tiao and Hu often had contacts with each other and were very intimate. They often met in the central area under Hun Dun’s rule and received his warm hospitality.鯈和忽经常来往，十分亲密。

他们俩还常常在浑沌管辖的中央地区会面，受到浑沌的热情款待。

One day, Tiao and Hu met again and talked about Hun Dun. They were very grateful to him and wished to repay him well.一天，鯈和忽又碰在一道谈起浑沌，都非常感激他，想好好地报答他一番。

After discussing for a long time they realized that everyone has seven orifices; the mouth, nostrils, ears, eyes, so that they can eat, smell, listen, and see the beautiful scenery of nature. Only Hun Dun did not have them and could not enjoy these pleasures.他们商量了半天以后发现，每个人都有嘴巴、鼻孔、耳朵、眼睛等七窍，可以吃东西，闻味道，听声音，有大自然美景，只有浑沌没有七窍，无法享受。

Finally, they thought of a clever way: they decided to bore seven holes on Hun Dun’s head. In this way he would be the same as others.终于，他们想出了一个聪明的办法：决定给浑沌的头凿出七窍，这样浑沌就可以和大家一样享受了。

Then, regardless of whether Hun Dun would agree or not, Tiao and Hu began working on him. One took a big chisel and the other swung an iron hammer to bore one hole a day on Hun Dun’s head. However, on the seventh day, Hun Dun bled from from the seven orifices to death. 接着，鯈和忽不管浑沌本人同意和不同意，一齐动手，一个拿把大凿子，一个抡起大铁锤，叮叮当当，在他头上每天凿一个孔。

可是，凿到第七天，浑沌却被凿得七孔流血而死了。

同义词趣味巧辨析teach, instruct, educate, coach, train, tutor这些动词均含“教，教育，培养”之意。

teach : 最普通用词，含义广泛。

指直接教某人知识或技能等，侧重传播知识和帮助应用知识。

instruct与teach含义很接近，但语体较正式。

指系统、详细、精心地传播知识，侧重教授与指示。

educate : 较正式用词，指教育，内容比teach广泛，侧重动机或结果，或对潜在能力的开发。

coach : 指对个人或小组等进行辅导、训练或补课。

train : 指训练与培养。

tutor : 指进行个别教学或课外辅导。

tear, rip, split这些动词均有“撕裂、扯破”之意。

tear : 最普通用词，指有意或无意地把布或纸等没接缝的材料撕开。

可作引申用。

rip : 侧重指用力把布料等物撕开，也可指用粗暴手段把某物撕裂。

split : 非正式用词，指有力的切断、劈开或撕裂的动作。

中考重难知识点回顾介词用法三into 进入……里面walk into除分divide into变动turn into waternear 接近某时near five years 在……附近near the parkof 用某种原料制成be made of属于……性质a map of U. S .Aon 某日、某日的上下午on Sunday afternoon 在……上面on the desk 靠吃……为生live on rice 关于a book on Physics over 渡过一整段时间work over night 在上方over the desk超过，高于over five pairspast 超过某一时刻ten past five经过某地walk past the parksince 从某时以来since 1980原因Since you were illthrough 经过某一时期through his life 通过、穿过某地through the foresttilluntil 直到某时为止till five o'clockto 差多少时间five to ten问，到，去往to Shanghai面对面face to face给予give a book to meunder 在……下面under the desk少于under ten在……管制之下under the rulewith 用某种工具with a pen 带着，具有with mewithout 没有without air练习题（一）One night about nine o'clock. Dr. Eyck，a surgeon(外科医生)，had a phone call from Dr. Haydon at the hospital in Clans Falls. The surgeon was asked to go there at once to operate on a very sick boy who shot himself while playing with a gun.The doctor was soon on his way to Clans Falls. It was 60 miles away. And it was snowing heavily in the sky. The surgeon thought he could get there before 12 o'clock. A few minutes later，the doctor was stopped by a man in an old black coat. Gun in hand，the man ordered the doctor to get out. Then the man drove the car down the road，leaving the doctor in the falling snow.It was after two o'clock in the morning when the doctor arrived at the hospital in Clans Falls. Dr. Haydon told him that the boy had died an hour before. The two doctors walked by the door of the hospital waiting room. There sat the man in the old black coat with his head in his hands.“Mr. Cunningham,” said Dr. Haydon to the man，“this is Dr. Eyck. He is the surgeon who came all the way from Albany to save your boy.”根据短文内容，将选择正确答案。