Unit 2 News media
I、选用下列动词的适当形式填空。(20%)
(understand, fall, destroy, build, change, find, fasten, surprise, give, addict)
1. The children were having a walk in the woods to pick up some _______ red leaves to make some bookmarks.
2. Wait for me, I well get ________.
3. He found that his English was so limited that he could hardly make himself _______ with his broken English.
4. The children _______ to playing PC games are sometimes found not to go back home even at night.
5. He spent only 10 minutes ________ my home.
6. The temple ________ two hundreds years ago is still in good state.
1. The whole building was completely ______ in the big fire.
2. The _______ students were standing over there talking about the matter.
3. __________ to the tree, the ship won’t float away.
4. Please answer the following questions in the ________ order.
II、词语搭配（在句中的空白处填上适当的介词或副词，每空一词）(20%)
1. It was reported that a house burnt ________. Luckily nobody was hurt.
2. he asked his mother to let him stay outside for the whole night just ____ once.
3. We sometimes consider a website ______ a newspaper.
4. Anderson was successful in making his fairy tales interesting not only _______ the children but also ______ the adults.
5. If you had listened to the teacher carefully in class yesterday, you would solve the problem _______ efforts now.
6. The young shall be taught to look up _______ the old.
7. When it fell dark, we began to attack the enemy ________ all sides.
8. We are free to give opinions ______ current affairs.
9. I really don’t want to go to the supper markets that are full ______ shoppers.
10. What is a village similar _______ a website?
III、词形转换（用括号中单词的正确形式填空）(20%)
1. All the attendances are required to fill in the forms ________ (true).
2. He was not allowed to _______ (interviewee) the wounded soldiers as they were still weak.
3. We are members of a ______ (social) and we should take our responsibilities.
4. Now many children are too much _______(addict) to playing PC games.
5. As our material life is becoming richer and richer, so will our _____ (spirit) life.
6. We had thought the long journey to be ________ (bore), but the guide proved to be an interesting one and we enjoyed ourselves very much.
7. If you want to make progress, you will often make ______ (compare) with your past and with your classmates.
8. They spy made every effort to steal some __________ (inform) from the country.
9. He ______ (ignore) the importance of giving pauses while reading.
10. Many more nurses have been sent to the place where the earthquake took place the day before to look after the _____ (injure).
IV、完成句子(20%)
1. Newspapers can’t attract all the reader’s attention although the editors _____(有经验的).
2. _____________(我们惊讶地发现)that some of the goods in the supermarkets are not in high quality.
3. The teacher said that ___________(他对我们所取得的成绩很满意).
4. He solve the problem __________(用所建议的方式).
5. We won’t give up the game ____________(即使只有百分之一取胜的希望).
V. 句型转换(20%)
1. Is what you hear, see, or read true? Can you tell me?（合并成一个句子）
2. The two young men agree to play games rather than go to the cinema.（改写成两个句子）
3. The meeting that will be held tomorrow is very important.（改为不定式作定语）
4. The young woman tried to adapt to her new life after having studied abroad.（改为状语从句）
5. Measures should be taken to save the people who were addicted to drugs.（改为分词定语）
Key to the exercises:
I. 1. fallen 2.changed 3.understood 4.addicted 5.finding 6.built
7. destroyed 8. surprised 9.Fastened 10.given
II. 1. down 2.for 3. as 4.to, to 5. without 6.to 7. on/from
1. on/about 9.of 10.to
III. 1.thuthfully 2. interview 3.society 4.addicted 5.spiritual
6.boring 7. comparisons 8.information 9.ignored 10.injured
IV. 1. are experienced/ are skilled
2.We are surprised to find
3.he was satisfied with the progress we made
4.in a suggested way
5. even if/even though there is only one percent of the hope of winning it.
V 1. Can you tell me whether what you hear, see, or read is true?
2.The two young men agree to play games ,but they don’t agree to go to the cinema.
3.The meeting to be held tomorrow is very important.
4.The young woman tried to adapt to her new life after she had studied abroad.
5.Measures should be taken to save the people addicted to drugs.