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1、Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note Warming Up & Reading-Language Points.单句语法填空1Theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.2His views are contrary to mine.3In our class, the number of students who like popular music accounts for 90%.4This is the spot where the two trucks collided.5She as
2、ked for permission (permit) to leave work early.6It was not until the window was shut that I went downstairs.7When she came to life, she found herself lying (lie) in hospital.8I had just finished my test paper when the bell rang.完成句子 1The sick old man does nothing but stares_at (盯着看) the ceiling all
3、 day long.2How_do_you_account_for (你怎样解释) your long absence from classes without asking for leave?3He managed to persuade his parents to_permit/allow_him_to_seek_a_job (允许他找一份工作)4Jim didnt come to school yesterday, and as_a_matter_of_fact (事实上), he didnt come all last week.5Bill was born in Canada b
4、ut was_brought_up (被抚养长大) in America.6I dont know whether they did it by_chance (偶然) or by design.阅读理解AFirst published in 2001, the book Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature.It is the story of a young boy named Pi who s
5、pends 227 days at sea with a small group of animals after disaster strikes their ship and is an account of his journey of survival and hardship.Piscine “Pi” Molitor Patel, on whom Life of Pi is based, is a young boy living in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns a zoo.The story starts when Pate
6、ls family decide to move to Canada, along with their zoo animals for their new home.However, because of the bad weather, the ship sinks.Pi, an orangutan (猩猩), an injured zebra, a hyena (鬣狗) and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker are the only survivors who take shelter in a small lifeboat.Both the i
7、njured zebra and the orangutan are soon killed and eaten by the hyena.The tiger in turn kills and eats the hyena, leaving just the two of them alone on the boat now.In an effort to avoid being eaten by Richard Parker, Pi acts himself as the head of the group and remains safe from harm.Since he does
8、not want the tiger to die for fear of going mad by being alone on the boat, he fishes and feeds the two of them in order to stay alive.The life of Pi then enters its third stage when their lifeboat washes up on the shores of Mexico and the tiger escapes into a nearby forest leaving Pi alone.After th
9、e Mexicans refuse to believe Pis story, he changes his tale by replacing the animals with his mother, a cook and a sailor and asks the Mexicans which one they prefer.They prefer hearing the first story though they do not believe a word of it.In my view, Life of Pi is a must read book for all those w
10、ho love reading.1We can learn that the book Life of Pi _.Awas written in 2001Bwas awarded two prizesCtells a story about friendshipDis based on the authors personal experience解析：选B细节理解题。根据第一段的“.won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature.”可知，这本书被授予两项大奖。故选B项。2In the book Life
11、of Pi the hyena is killed by _.APiBthe zebraCthe orangutan DRichard Parker解析：选D细节理解题。从第三段的“The tiger in turn kills and eats the hyena”可知，老虎把鬣狗吃掉了，同时根据“a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker”可知这只老虎名叫Richard Parker。故选D项。3How does Pi escape being eaten by the tiger?ABy catching fishes for the tiger.BBy lo
12、cking the tiger in a cage.CBy being the leader of the two of them.DBy fighting with the tiger.解析：选C推理判断题。从第四段的“Pi acts himself as the head of the group and remains safe from harm”可知，为了避免被老虎吃掉，Pi处处表现为他们两个的首领。故选C项。4What is the authors attitude towards the book Life of Pi?ADisappointed. BSupportive.CUn
13、concerned. DDoubtful.解析：选B观点态度题。根据最后一段作者极力推荐这本书，可推知他对该书是持赞赏态度的。BAlan King, an American comedian, was born in New York City on December 26, 1927.He was the youngest of eight children.His family environment fostered (培养) his interest in storytelling, but it was the streets of New York that led him to
14、humor.Boys in New York learned to protect themselves early on the streets and if it was not with their fists, it was with humor, and King had an answer to everything.Seeing a future in making people laugh, King left school and began remembering jokes he had heard in basement clubs.He discovered a pe
15、rfect way to make people laugh: shining a light on the humor in everyday life.The audience loved it and King was on his way.He moved up in the show business ranks, performing club gigs (特约演出) and getting his first chance as a replacement when a comic was sick.But it was his appearance as a first act
16、 “closer” in 1956 that made King a star.Since then, King became a regular on The Ed Sullivan Show, and was the guest host of The Tonight Show on several occasions.Kings act was streetwise, smart, understandable, and funny.Not only the middle class, but everyone could relate to his humorous stories.His interests wer
