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1、 课时跟踪检测(二)Warming Up & Reading Language Points.单词拼写或用所给单词的正确形式填空1Why is that driver flashing_ (使闪光) his lights on me?2He said he had arrived on the_previous (在前的) night.3She has always been surrounded (围绕) with fashionable friends.4They carried on with their experiment in spite of the lack (缺乏) of f
2、acilities.5The doctor told him to take two tablets_ (药片) of aspirin before every meal.6His views vary constantly_(constant) just like the variable weather.7All of us are under the impression (impress) that he is still one of the best athletes in the world.8They were both uncertain (certain) about wh
3、at to do and went to their uncle for help.9He fastened (fasten) his coat and hurried out to the cinema.10I have made a few adjustments (adjust) to my study plan.选词填空previous to， take up， slide into， for lack of， sweep up， lose sight of， switch on， be optimistic about1The old lady sweeps_up the falle
4、n leaves in the garden every day.2The project had to be abandoned for_lack_of funds.3He is always optimistic_about the future of the company.4Dont try to drive in a snowstorm as you may lose_sight_of the road.5He took_up the challenge without any hesitation.6Previous_to leaving for France, he studie
5、d a lot about the country.7I have slid_into the habit of reading while eating.8When I switched_on the light, I found the room robbed.完成句子1In some experts opinion, living conditions on the Mars are_very_hard_to_tolerate.专家的观点是火星上面的生存状况很难忍受。2His fluent English and rich knowledge have_made_a_deep_impre
6、ssion_on others.他流利的英语和丰富的知识已给别人留下了深刻印象。3Press_the_red_button and the door will open.按这个红色的按钮，门就开了。4Its so lovely a cup with a picture of a cartoon dog on it that both my sister and I like it at_the_first_sight.它是一个非常可爱的杯子，上面有一张卡通狗的图片，姐姐和我第一眼就喜欢上了它。5What_she_lacks is not courage but determination.她缺
7、乏的不是勇气而是毅力。.阅读理解AIn 1900, an American engineer called John Elfreth Watkins made a number of predictions about what the world would be like in 2000.So what did Watkins get right and wrong 100 years later?Digital Color photography“Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance.If there is a battle
8、in China a hundred years hence, snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later. Photographs will reproduce all of natures colors.”Watkins did not, of course, use the word “digital” or describe precisely how digital cameras and computers would work, but he acc
9、urately predicted how people would come to use new photographic technology.When Watkins was making his predictions, it took a week for a picture of something happening in China to make its way into Western papers.Mobile phones“Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world.A husband i
10、n the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn.”International phone calls were unheardof in Watkins day.It was another 15 years before the first call was
11、made, by Alexander Bell, even from one coast of the US to the other.The idea of wireless telephone was truly revolutionary.Preprepared meals“Readycooked meal will be bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of today.”The popularity of ready meals in supermarkets and takeaway shops suggests
12、 that Watkins was right although he supposed that the meals would be delivered on plates which would be returned to the cooking establishments to be washed.Hothouse vegetables“Winter will be turned into summer and night into day by the farmer with electric wires under the soil and large gardens unde
13、r glass.”Large gardens under glass were already a reality, but he was correct to predict the use of electricity.Although colored lights and electric currents did not take off, they were probably experimented with.语篇解读：1900年，美国工程师John Elfreth Watkins对人类100年后将会出现的事物做出了预测，他的许多预测如今已经实现。1The writer wrote
14、 the above paragraphs mainly to _.Atell us what the world was like 100 years agoBexplain how Watkins made so many predictionsCintroduce what Watkins predicted rightDencourage us to make more predictions解析：选C写作意图题。一百年前，美国工程师Watkins做出了许多预言，本文主要介绍了得到应验的部分预言。2According to the second prediction, we can s
15、urely say 100 years ago _.Apeople had easy access to international telephone callsBpeople could conveniently make a call from New York to BrooklynCinternational phone calls were only available in large cities like ChicagoDthe first call from the east coast of the US to the west coast had been made解析：选B细节理解题。根据第二项预测部分“We will be able to telephone to China as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn.”可知，当时人们已经可以方便地从纽约打电话到布鲁克林区。3What can we infer from the passage?AReadycooked meals were popular 100 years ago.BWatkins predicted plates would be washed before they were returned.CWatkins
