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1、Unit 9WheelsWarm-up & Lesson 1On Your Bike一、根据句意及首字母提示补全句子,使句子完整正确1The new credit cards will be of great b to our customers.答案benefit2Will it be c for you to start work tomorrow?答案convenient3Progress so far has been very good.We are,t,confident that the work will be completed on time.答案therefore4Thi
2、ngs might get better,but it doesnt look very h right now.答案hopeful5W she goes,there are crowds of people waiting to see her.答案Wherever6It is now a lot harder for these companiesi,impossible for someto raise money than it was a year ago.答案indeed7There will be serious c if the cost of life continues t
3、o rise.答案consequences8The countryside near there is f like a pancake.答案flat9Dont a with me,John.Just do what I tell you.答案argue10Mr.Smith asked his secretary to i a new paragraph in the annual report she was typing.答案insert二、用所给单词的适当形式填空1(actual),on second thoughts,I dont think I want to go out toni
4、ght.答案Actually2The Internet was designed for (convenient)and reliability,not security.答案convenience3Do you agree with the (argue)that violence on TV makes people behave violently?答案argument4I couldnt find a (park)space near the shops.答案parking5(cycle)are demanding more and safer cycle paths in the c
5、ity.答案Cyclists6The environmental (pollute)is one of the most serious problems that mankind faces today.答案pollution7Practise (speak)slowly and clearly at the beginning.答案speaking8My brother smiled (hopeful),leaning on the door.答案hopefully三、用所给动词的正确时态完成下列句子1You should go to bed.You (watch)TV for 5 hou
6、rs.答案have been watching2I (write)letters since 6 oclock.答案have been writing3I (look)for him everywhere.Where can he be?答案have been looking4They (help)us since five oclock this morning.答案have been helping5I (read)the book the whole day,yet I havent finished it.答案have been reading6I (work)in this scho
7、ol since I graduated from college.Now I am still working here.答案have been working四、用括号中所给单词或短语翻译下列句子1我相信你会从这次活动中受益匪浅。(benefit from)答案I believe youll benefit greatly from the activity.2你方便四点钟来接我吗?(convenient)答案Would it be convenient for you to pick me up at 4?3无论到哪里,都要记住你是个中国人。(wherever)答案Remember yo
8、u are a Chinese wherever you go.4彼得对自己的工作厌烦了,决定辞职。(fed up)答案Peter was fed up with his job and decided to quit.5他们在争论怎么花那笔钱。(argue)答案They were/are arguing about how to spend the money.五、阅读理解(导学号58030021)Andrew Ritchie,inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle,once said that the perfect portable bike w
9、ould be “like a magic carpet.You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”.Then he paused:“But youll always be limited by the size of the wheels.And so far no one has invented a folding wheel.”It was a rareindeed uniqueoccasion when I was able to put Ritchie right.A 19th-century inven
10、tor,William Henry James Grout,did in fact design a folding wheel.His bike,predictably named the Grout Portable,had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces.All the bits fitted into Grouts Wonderful Bag,a leather case.Grouts aim:to solve the problems of
11、carrying a bike on a train.Now doesnt that sound familiar?Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel:his bike was a huge beast.And importantly,the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage:in Grouts day,tyres were solid,which made the business of splitting a whe
12、el into four separate parts relatively simple.You couldnt do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated(充气的) tyre.So,in a 21st-century context,is the idea of the folding wheel dead?It is not.A British design engineer,Duncan Fitzsimons,has developed a wheel that can be squashed into somet
13、hing like a slender ellipse(椭圆).Throughout,the tyre remains inflated.Will the young Fitzsimonss folding wheel make it into production?I havent the foggiest idea.But his inventiveness shows two things.First,people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit,except
14、for gradual advances.Its as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago:theres plenty still to go for.Second,it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions.You can buy a folding bike for less than 1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried
15、on a planeminus wheels,of courseas hand baggage.Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible.Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchies imagination?No.But its progress.1We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike .A.was portableB.had a folding wheelC.could be put in a pocketD.looked like a magic carpet答案A解析推理判断题。
