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1、Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Section 1 Warming Up and Reading.单句语法填空1.It is a great pleasure to be invited (invite) to speak here. 解析:考查动词不定式。It is a great pleasure to do sth.很高兴做某事,it是形式主语,不定式是真正的主语。2.“You cant judge a book by its cover,” as the old saying goes.解析:考查非限制性定语从句。句意:正如古训所说“人不可貌相,海水不可斗量
2、”。as引导的非限制性定语从句,指代整个主句的内容,意为“正如”。3.(2016北京卷改编)Excuse me,which movie are you wait-ing for?The new Star Wars.We have been waiting (wait) here for more than two hours.解析:考查动词时态。句意:打扰一下,请问你在等哪部电影?刚上映的星球大战。我们在这里已等了两个多小时。根据语境,说话时还在等。故用现在完成进行时。4.I had no alternative but to report (report) him to the police
3、.解析:考查非谓语动词。句意:除了向警察举报他,我别无选择。have no alternative but to do sth.别无选择只好做。5.It is reasonable to assume (assume) that the economy will continue to improve.解析:考查非谓语动词。句意:认为经济继续好转是有道理的。It is reasonable to do sth.做某事是有道理的。6.The expression on his face suggested that he was (be) very angry.解析:考查谓语的时态。句意:他脸上
4、的表情表明他很生气。suggest在本句中表示“暗示,表明”,后接宾语从句时,从句用陈述语气而不用虚拟语气。7.It seemed that they used the sharpened (sharpen) stone tools to cut up animals and removed the skins.解析:句意:他们似乎用磨尖的石器来切割野兽并剥皮。sharpened 过去分词作定语,表示被动完成的动作;cut up切碎。8.(2016江苏卷改编)Many young people,most of whom were well-educated,headed for remote
5、regions to chase their dreams.解析:考查定语从句。young people是先行词,most of whom其中大部分,表示整体中的一部分,引导定语从句。9.(2016天津卷改编)The teacher must have thought Johnson was worth it or she wouldnt have wasted time on him, I suppose.解析:考查情态动词。句意:我猜想,老师肯定认为约翰是值得培养的,不然她不会在他身上浪费时间的。must have done表示对过去已发生的事情进行肯定的推测, 表示 “一定”。10.He
6、 insisted on trying, regardless of the possible bad consequences.解析:考查介词短语。句意:他全然不顾可能产生的后果,执意要试一试。regardless of不管,不顾。.单句改错1.(2016浙江卷改编)I had as much fun sailing the seas as I now do with students.解析:考查非谓语动词,句意:我以前在航海中所获得的快乐与现在从跟学生在一起的工作中所获得的快乐一样多。have fun doing做某事很开心;asas句型,句中do替代have fun。2.I told y
7、our friend how to get to the hotel, but perhaps I have driven her there.解析:考查情态动词。句意:我告诉你朋友该怎么去旅馆, 但或许我应该开车送她去那。might have done(过去)可能做过;should have done本应该做(而事实上没做)。3.The primitive people picked fruit when it was ripened.解析:考查谓语动词的语态。ripen成熟,不及物动词,没有被动语态。4.You dont know that our school used to be a
8、part of a large pond.解析:考查冠词。句意:你不知道我们学校曾经是一个大池塘的一部分。part of的一部分。5.Many fans hate it when their favorite stars wear clothes entirely of animal skins.解析:考查非谓语动词。made entirely of animal skins过去分词短语作定语,表示make与clothes之间是被动关系。6.(2016北京卷改编)I live next door to a couple children often make a lot of noise.解析
9、:考查定语从句,句意:我住在一对夫妻的隔壁,他们的孩子总是弄出很大的响声。couple是先行词,在定语从句中充当定语,故用whose。7.(2016江苏卷改编)It is often the case anything is possible for those who hang on to hope.解析:考查主语从句。句型It is often the case that,是常有的情况。It是形式主语,that引导主语从句。8.It was here we found evidence of some of the earliest people.解析:考查强调句型。强调副词here,用句
10、型it isthat。9.Layers of ashes almost six meters thick suggest that the earliest people might the fire burning all winter.解析:考查情态动词。might do或许/可能做某事,对现在情况进行没有把握的推测;might have done可能做了某事,对过去的情况进行没有把握的推测。10.Does the needle mean that they repaired things?解析:考查非谓语动词。the sewing needle缝纫针,sewing是动名词作定语,表示用途
11、;sewn过去分词,表示被缝制的,强调被动完成的动作。.阅读理解 Fish have different personalities which change as they experience lifes highs and lows, according to British biologists.Researchers identified different“personalities” in their fish by observing the boldness or shyness of individuals, according to The Nature.Like peo
12、ple,some fish are very confident in the face of novelty(新奇事物) or conflict, while others are silent and fearful.The scientists selected particularly bold and shy rainbow trout, and tested whether they changed their outlook depending on what life threw at them.They arranged some fish to fight and othe
13、rs to watch to see how both the participants and observers responded to victories and defeats.Winning or losing a fight, or even watching fellow fish overcome the difficulties influenced the future behavior of the creatures studied in the lab.The researchers made fish compete with much larger or sma
14、ller opponents,to ensure that they would win or lose their fights.These bold fish that won their fights tended to be even bolder when later presented with a novel food item;losing their fights caused them to be much more cautious.Fish also learn by watching others.Bold fish watching a shy fish explo
15、ring a mystery object were much more nervous when later given a novelty item for themselves.“Predictably,shy fish that won a fight also gained more confidence,but surprisingly,shy fish that lost their fights also grew bolder when exploring strange new food,”Sneddon said,adding that this could be due to what she calls the “desperado effect”(亡命之徒效应).The new research suggests that animals can gradually adapt their personalities.The results echo the effects that life experience can have on human.语篇导读科学家通过对鱼类进行试验证明了它们有很强的适应能力。1.What does the underlined word“creatures” in Paragraph 3 pro