外研版高中英语选修7：Module4MusicBorninAmerica2课后演练提能题

Module 4 Music Born in America Section Ⅱ Grammar

03 课后演练提能

[夯实·基础知识]

Ⅰ.在下列各句的空格中填入适当的连词

1. She likes everything to be in place ______ she starts to work.

答案：before

2. The boy ran away______ his father appeared.

答案：as soon as

3. They decided to go back home ______ their money ran out.

答案：before

4. The students were playing football ______ it began to rain.

答案：when

5. He was told that it would be at least three more months______ he could recover and return to work.

答案：before

6. They were about to leave ______ it began to rain.

答案：when

7. The boy waited and waited ______ his mother came back.

答案：until

8. I like playing tennis ________ my younger sister prefers watching ball

games.

答案：while

9. ______ I understand your viewpoint, I don't agree with you.

答案：While

10. —What was the concert like?

—Wonderful. It's years________ I enjoyed myself so much.

答案： since

Ⅱ. 完成句子

1. I thought her nice and honest ______________.

第一次见到她时，我认为她很好很诚实。

答案：the first time I met her

2. Telephone me ____________________.

你一有结果，马上给我打电话。

答案：the moment you get the results

3. We get wiser __________________.

随着年龄的增长，我们也变得聪明些了。

答案：as we get older

4. It's __________________________.

这是她第一次见到大象。

答案：the first time that she has seen an elephant

5. They made the boy ________________.

他们强迫这个男孩早睡。

答案：go to bed early

6. ______________ I catch a cold, my nose runs.

每次我感冒都流鼻涕。

答案：Every time

7. He left his home _____________ the World WarⅡbroke out.他在二战爆发的那年离开了家。

答案：the year

8. He was writing a letter ______________ I saw him.

我第一次见到他时，他在写一封信。

答案：the first time

9. My room is on the fifth floor, and hers ____________.

我的房间在五楼，而她的在八楼。

答案：(is) on the eight (floor)

10. ____________， you'd better not refer to the dictionary.

除非有必要，你最好不要查字典。

答案：Unless (it is) necessary

Ⅲ. 单句改错

1. She decided to buy the diamond necklace for the moment she saw it. _____________________________________________________

答案：去掉for

2. He was wild with joy immediate he knew the result.

_____________________________________________________

答案：immediate→immed iately

3. Copy it down every of time you come to a beautiful sentence.

_____________________________________________________

答案：去掉of

4. For the time we got to the park it was nearly dark.

_____________________________________________________

答案：For→By

5. He speaks English more fluently than you are.

_____________________________________________________

答案：are→do

[提升·实战能力]

Ⅳ. 阅读理解

A

Samuel Osmond is a 19-year-old law student from Cornwall, England. He never

studied the piano. However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just a few minutes after he hears them. He learns a

piece of music by listening to it in parts. Then he thinks about the notes in his

head. Two years ago, he played his first piece Moonlight Sonata (奏鸣曲) by Beethoven. He surprised everyone around him.

Amazed that he remembered this long and difficult piece of music and played

it perfectly, his teachers say Samuel is unbelievable W1. They say his ability is

very rare, but Samuel doesn't even realize that what he can do is special. Samuel wanted to become a lawyer W2 as it was the wish of his parents, but music teachers told him he should study music instead. Now, he studies law and music.

Samuel can't understand why everyone is so surprised. “I grew up with music. My mother played the piano and my father played the guitar. About two years ago,

I suddenly decided to start playing the piano, without being able to read music

and without having any lessons. It comes easily to me—I hear the notes and can bear them in mind P1—each and every note，” says Samuel.

Recently, Samuel performed a piece during a special event at his college. The piece had more than a thousand notes. The audience was impressed by P2 his amazing performance. He is now learning a piece that is so difficult that many professional W3pianists can't play it. Samuel says confidently, “It's all about

super memory—I guess I have tha t gift.”

However, Samuel's ability to remember things doesn't stop with music. His

family says that even when he was a young boy, Samuel heard someone read a story,

and then he could retell the story word for word.

Samuel is still only a teenager. He doesn't know what he wants to do in the