必修4 Unit 4 语法练习

第一部分必修四Unit 4

Ⅰ.语法单句填空

1．(2011·江苏改编)We'd better discuss everything ________detail before we work out the plan.

答案：in句意：我们最好在制订计划之前详细地讨论一切事情。in detail详细地。

2．________(approach) the city centre, we saw a stone statue of about 10 metres in height.

答案：Approaching句意：靠近城市中心时，我们看见一座大约10米高的石雕。逻辑主语we与approach之间是主动关系，且approach与saw几乎同时发生。

3．Stephen was chosen ________(represent) the company at the conference.

答案：to represent句意：Stephen被选出代表公司参加会议。

4．Studies show that people who like sitting in the office for hours without a break are more ________ to suffer from back problems.

答案：likely句意：研究表明，喜欢长时间坐在办公室里不休息的人更可能得背部疾病。likely，possible和probable都意为“可能的”，但只有likely可用于sb.be likely to do sth.句型。

5．The old couple, ________ lived in the small village for years，can tell the names of all the villagers.

答案：having考查非谓语动词。分析句子成分可知，主语The old couple和live之间是逻辑上的主谓关系，且句中有表示一段时间的时间状语for years，因此用live的现在分词的完成式。

6．I know it's normal for such a thing to happen, but we ________(avoid) it if we'd been more careful.

答案：could/might/would/should have avoided考查虚拟语气。句意：我知道发生这样的事情是正常的，但如果我们更小心一点儿的话，这样的事是可以避免的。根据句中的“if we'd been more careful”可知，此处表示与过去事实相反的假设，故用could/might/would/should have done结构。

7．At the conference, political leaders from many countries promised to work together to defend the world ________ terrorism and other threats.

答案：against句意：会议上，来自多个国家的政治领导人承诺携手保护全球免受恐怖活动和其他威胁的伤害。defend...against/with...“保护……免受……的伤害”。

8．—He should have been warned of the danger.

—So he ________(be), but he wouldn't listen to me.

答案：was考查固定句型。根据答句可知，后者赞同前者的话。此处强调的是发生在过去的客观事实，因此应用so he was。

9．(2014·全国大纲改编)Today there are more airplanes ________(carry) more people than ever before in the skies.

答案：carrying本题考查非谓语动词。句意：现在天空中比以前有更多的飞机搭载乘客。分析结构可知，此处是there be结构，主语more airplanes后接了非谓语动词；并且，airplanes与carry之间为主谓关系，故要用现在分词作定语。

10．—Tom's still angry with me.

—You are ________(blame). How dare you call him a liar! He's the last person ________(lie)．

答案：to blame；to lie sb. be to blame“某人应对(过错、罪行)负责”，名词前有序数词，the last等词修饰时，该名词后接不定式。

Ⅱ.阅读理解

(2014·贵州省六校联盟第二次联考)

Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox (喋喋不休的人). He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the_buzzing_of_a_fly,_but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure (蜡塑人像)．The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子). But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.

Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conversationalists.

文章大意：沉默是金，文章作者主要解释了人为什么会不停的交谈。

1．According to the author, people make conversation to ______.

A．exchange ideas

B．prove their value