外研版高中英语选修八 Module 1 单元基础练习题及答案

Module 1

Ⅰ.单词拼写

1．This area had a heavy ______________(降雨量)last month.

2．This place is very ______________(荒凉的)．

3．You should ______________(适应)yourself to the new environment.

4．They are ______________(促销)a new product.

5．The two-year-old child has to learn to keep his b________before he can walk far. 6．Before the rain，the sky was a m________of clouds.

7．Many countries have signed the________(公约)to protect it from commercial use.

8．They will begin their________(勘查)to Antarctica next month.

9．Should we encourage international r________in sports?

10．Our________(商业的)laws are very old-fashioned.

Ⅱ.句型转换

1．The weather was even colder as the wind was blowing.

The weather was even colder________the wind________.

2．The bus was held up by the snowstorm and it caused the delay.

The bus was held up by the snowstorm，________________the delay.

The bus was held up by the snowstorm，________the delay.

3．He could dive as deep as 50 metres in the sea.

He could dive to________________________50 metres in the sea.

4．Much to my delight，I could do the work more easily.

Much to my delight，I found the work________________________.

5．He didn't finish his homework until midnight.

________________ midnight ______________________his homework.

It was ________________ midnight ________ he finished his homework.

Ⅲ.语法填空阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

（1）

One day, about ten years ago, while working at the cash register in the gift shop at my University Museum of Natural History, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As I looked__1__(close) at this girl, I found that she was fixed on her chair. I then

realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, a neck and upper body，__2__(dress) in a little white skirt. As the couple wheeled her up to me, I turned my head toward the girl. When I took the money__3__her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the most optimistic, largest smile I had ever seen. All of __4__sudden, her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl，__5__smile just melted me__6__almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of__7__life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and__8__(bring) me into her world; a world of smiles, love and__9__(warm). I'm a successful business man now and whenever I think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught__10__.

1．______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______6．______ 7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______

（2）

Alan：Do you have anything__1__on this evening?

Joe：No, I've got a lot of time__2__(kill)．

Alan：Well, then. Won't you come over to dinner and have a game of Mahjong afterwards? Joe: With pleasure.

Alan：You were not so eager about Mahjong before.

Joe：That's __3__ I didn't know the fun of__4__(play) it then. Why is Mahjong such a popular game, do you know?

Alan：I've got no idea. I only know that foreigners are beginning to take__5__ interest in it, besides their old card games.

Joe：That's right. Some of them are already__6__(expert)．

Alan：Indeed they are. But the trouble about Mahjong is once you're__7__(interest) in it, you can't shed it off.

Joe：Yes. Once I went crazy over other hobbies such as stamp collecting and reading, but I find them very__8__ (bore) now.

Alan：I'm sure your former hobbies are more beneficial.

Joe：I can't deny that, and I can't help it，__9__.

Alan：The bell's ringing. That__10__ be our partners.

1．______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______6．______ 7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______

Ⅳ.完形填空

Antarctica is the continent which is the most southern area of land on the Earth and is mostly__1__with ice.This is one of the driest and__2__places in the world.But people from all over the world come to__3__there.Near the South Pole，three thousand people live together in a