英语必修五 unit2单词习题

Book5 Unit2 The United Kingdom 基础知识考练

一．根据课文内容，用所学单词短语填空

A 组Puzzles in Geography

1.You can _______ this question why different words are used to describe these four countries: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland if you study British history.

2. Now when people ______ _______ England you find Wales included as well.

3.Happily the formation of Great Britain was accomplished without ______ when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well.

4.However, the southern part of Ireland was unwilling and_____ ______ to form its own government.

5.To their credit the four countries do work together in some areas (eg, the currency and international relations), but they will have very different __________

6. England is the largest of the four countries, and for _________ it is divided roughly into three zones.

7.You find most of the population settled in the south, but most of the ________ cities in the Midlands and the North of England.

8. It is a pity that the industrial cities built in the nineteenth century do not_______ visitors.

9.For historical ________ you have to go to older but smaller towns built by the Romans. There you will find out more about British history and culture.

10.The greatest historical treasure of all is London with its museums, art _______, theatres, parks and buildings.

11.London is the centre of national government and its _________.

12.There have been four sets of ______ of England--- the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons,

the Vikings and the Normans

13.The Vikings, ________ the vocabulary and place-names of the North of England, and the fourth, the Normans, left castles and introduced new words for food.

14.If you ____ _____the British countryside you will find evidence of all these invaders.

15.You must keep your eyes open if you are going to make your trip to the United Kingdom ________and worthwhile.

B组Sightseeing in London

16.Worried about the time available, Zhang Pingyu had _____ _____ _____ ____ the sites she wanted to see in London.

17.To her _____, she saw the solid stone, square Tower the first time she traveled to London

18.This tower had remained standing for one thousand years. it remained part of a _____ palace and prison combined.

19.The special soldiers who guarded the Queen's jewels ,on special occasions, still wore the

four-hundred-year-old______ of the time of Queen Elizabeth I.

20.St Paul's Cathedral looked ______ when first built!

21.Westminster Abbey contained _______ in memory of dead poets and writers, such as

Shakespeare.

22.What interested her most was the longitude line. It is an ______ line dividing the eastern and

western halves of the world and is very useful for navigation.

23.the Library of the British Museum had moved from its _______place into another building and

the old reading room was gone.

24.Zhang Pingyu was _______ by so many wonderful treasures from different cultures displayed

in the museum.

25.When she saw many visitors enjoying looking at the beautiful old Chinese pots and other

objects on show, she ____ very ______ ______ her country.

26. The next day Pingyu was _______ London ________ Windsor Castle. "Perhaps I will see the

Queen?" she wondered as she fell asleep.

二．单词（根据提示填写相应单词的正确形式）

1. The common interests ________ the two countries.（联合，结合)

2. The class ________ of 56 members. （组成)

3. Our class is ________ into two groups during the discussion. （分成）

4. A lazy man would __________ nothing. (达到，实现)

5. The purse found on the playground matches the ________ by Mary, so it must be hers.（描述）

6.When and where will it suit your __________for our next meeting?（方便）

7. There is no __________that Bob can win the first prize in the match.（可能）

8. Tom ________with his good friend, Jack yesterday,but later he regretted what he did and

apologized to him.（吵架）

9. The Art Gallery of Ontario has the world's largest ________of sculptures by Henry Moore.

（珍藏）

10. I had an _________ to go to New York and study there。（机会）

11. I hope that what I will say can_________ the situation.(阐明)

12. The Window to the World is a famous ________ to visitors from both home and abroad.

（吸引）

13. She ________an appointment for Friday afternoon at four-fifteen (安排)

14. ________ is a particular type of clothing worn by all the members of a group or organization

such as the police, the army, etc.（制服）

15. To our ________，he did succeed at last.（高兴）

16. We are________（感到激动）to hear a wonderful piece of news that the people lived in the

mainland can go to visit Taiwan in the near future.

17. The second Children's Palace of Guangzhou sits in________（极好的）location by the side of

Pearl River.

18.I'm looking for a ________ apartment.（带家具的）

19 It's a special tea from YunNan ___________ in china.（省）

20.Mike _______ his arms over his chest and turned his head away.（折叠）

三．短语(用所给短语的正确形式填空)