Unit 3 Inventors and inventions(附详细解析)新人教版选修8

选修8 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions

Ⅰ. 单词拼写

1. I’m sorry, but I don’t know there is an (突然的) change of the plan.

2. As (预料), the sales manager gave in his notice at work today.

3. It’s our (期望) that you will do well.

4. We should try our best to put the enemy in a (被动的) position.

5. As we all know, newspapers influence the (潮流) of thought.

6. Your books and magazines are almost in a m ; go and put them in order.

7. The football club c arranges all the matches.

8. I have heard two v of the accident.

9. Illness is a v excuse for being absent from work.

10. She t me on the shoulder, but I didn’t feel it.

Ⅱ. 用方框内所给短语的适当形式填空

1. The poor girl has such a lot since her parents died.

2. Do be careful with those fireworks; the slightest spark could them .

3. The football match was because of the heavy rain.

4. These old photos my childhood memories.

5. I to knit(编织) a sweater but in the end it became a vest.

Ⅲ. 翻译句子

1. 这一家人搬走了，因为这里经常交通堵塞，孩子上学不方便。(convenient)

2. 打扫完房间之后，她开始准备晚饭。(set about)

3. 你最好给他打个电话以防他忘了确切的时间。(call up; in case)

4. 他太被动了。事实上，他应该得到这次机会。(passive; in truth)

5. 她最近一直忙于申请专利的事，没时间整理家，所以现在家里很乱。

(apply for; in a mess)

Ⅳ.单项填空

从A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. When I walked past the street and saw the children playing happily, their happy laughter memories of my childhood.

A. called in

B. called for

C. called on

D. called up

2. He was left out when they choosing a new manager, which came as a complete surprise to him.

A. set out

B. set about

C. set off

D. set up

3. We all write even when there is not much to say.

A. now and then

B. by and by

C. step by step

D. more or less

4. We should right wrong.

A. distinguish; by

B. distinguish; for

C. distinguish; from

D. distinguish; to

5. —She doesn’t play the piano, but she likes singing and dancing.

— .

A. So I am

B. So it is with my sister

C. So am I

D. Neither do I

6. The train came to an stop, making many passengers fall off their seats.

A. abruptly

B. suddenly

C. surprised

D. abrupt

7. —When could you have a meal with me?

—I’d like to go whenever it is to you.

A. fit

B. nice

C. convenient

D. suit

8. It’s your decision—you must the responsibility if things go wrong.

A. bear

B. take down

C. put up with

D. stand

9. Mrs Black isn’t in and I’ll have to ring . I would appreciate it if you ring after 6 o’clock.

A. off; back

B. up; off

C. out; up

D. back; off

10. Unfortunately the restaurant he recommended fell short of our .

A. expectations

B. advantages

C. opportunities

D. contributions

Ⅴ. 阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

Yi So-yeon, an engineer from Seoul, returned to Earth on Saturday after 11 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), along with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and US astronaut Peggy Whitson.

A technical problem turned a routine (常规) return to Earth into a sharper than usual descent (下降) that tested the group members-stamina and courage. They landed in the Kazakh steppes (大草原) about 420km(260 miles) wide of their target. “During the descent there was some kind of fire outside the Soyuz capsule because we were going through the atmosphere,” Yi said.

“At first I was afraid, but the two other guys looked okay, so I tried to look okay too.”

Yi smiled and joked her way through a 10-minute news briefing at Star City, the wooded Sovietera cosmonaut training centre on the edge of Moscow. However, Malenchenko and Whitson looked tired and thin after nearly six months in space. Their answers were short and Whitson needed support to balance when she walked. The 29-year-old Yi has become famous in South Korea since the take-off but she brushed this aside and said she has had little contact with friends or family since returning.

“In fact, they are the heroes right now,” Yi said, referring to Malenchenko and Whitson. “I’m just a beginner and a little ashamed to say that I am a hero.” She did, though, relate a more light-hearted incident on the ISS.

“I sang ‘Fly Me to the Moon’” Yi said about the 1950s pop song. “It’s my favorite song from university although at that time I didn[t know I would be an astronaut.”The capsule’s so-called “ballistic” re-entering made the group members face twice