高中英语Unit4PygmalionSection1WarmingUpandReading课后限时作业新人教版选修8

Unit 4 Pygmalion Section 1 Warming Up and Reading Ⅰ.单句语法填空 1.Generally speaking (speak)，children under eight years old are still unable to take care of themselves. 解析：考查非谓语动词。句意：一般来说，八岁以下的孩子还不能照顾自己。generally speaking插入语，一般来说，固定表达。

2.People often look at me in amazement(amaze) when I say I teach yoga to kids as young as three, because they consider yoga to be for adults only. 解析：考查名词。句意：当我说孩子三岁时就教他瑜伽时，人们经常吃惊地看着我，因为他们认为只有成年人才能练瑜伽。in amazement惊讶地，符合题意。

3.He passed a neighbour off as his father when being asked to bring his parents by the teacher. 解析：考查副词。句意：老师要见他的父母时，他让一个邻居冒充他的父亲。pass …off as 把……冒充是……。

4.Look, there are two old men sheltering themselves from the rain under the tree.Let's give them a hand. 解析：考查介词。句意：瞧，树下有两位老人在避雨。我们去帮助他们吧。shelter oneself from the rain 躲雨。

5.Don't hesitate about that.Do it at once! 解析：考查介词。句意：关于此事不要再犹豫了。马上去做吧！hesitate about 对……犹豫。

6.Davis, a prisoner in Georgia,was condemned(condemn) to death last week for the murder of a police officer. 解析：考查动词。句意：戴维斯，佐治亚州的一名囚犯， 因谋杀一名警官上周被判处死刑。be condemned to death被判处死刑。

7.I don't know much about him, for it was only one year ago that I made his acquaintance. 解析：考查动词短语。句意：我对他不是很了解，因为我只是一年前才认识他的。make one's acquaintance认识某人。

8.The little boy hasn't come back yet after leaving home, which makes his parents worried. 解析：考查定语从句。句意：男孩在离家后还未回来，使得他父母很担心。which引导非限制性定语从句，修饰前面整个句子。

9.What if he doesn't come tomorrow? 解析：考查句型。句意：如果他明天不来，我们怎么办呢？what if如果……将会怎么样；如果……又怎样，询问将来可能发生的事或面临的情况，特别是不太好的情况。

10.In fact, he handed in/over the paper covered(cover) in writing. 解析：考查副词以及非谓语动词。句意：他把写满字的纸递过来。hand over把……递过来；hand in上交；covered是过去分词作定语，相当于which was covered。

Ⅱ.单句改错 1.While walkingwalked a dog, he happened to meet an old friend. 解析：考查非谓语动词。句意：在遛狗时，他碰巧遇到了一位老朋友。While doing…现在分词作状语，强调walk与句子主语he之间是主谓关系。

2.Once taughtteaching by the teacher, the child will become a good one. 解析：考查非谓语动词。句意：一旦由老师来教育，这个小孩会变得很乖的。Once taught 相当于once he is taught,过去分词作状语，强调teach与句子主语the child之间是被动关系。

3.Every time he opens his mouth,he will betray himselfhim as an American. 解析：考查代词。句意：每次他一张嘴就会暴露是个美国人的身份。betray oneself暴露身份。

4.In termsterm of weather, the city of Sanya is a good place for tour. 解析：考查介词短语。句意：从天气来讲，三亚市是一个旅游胜地。in terms of就……来说；从……角度看。

5.What do you take me foras?A thief ? 解析：考查介词。句意：你把我当成什么人？小偷？take…for…把……误认为是……。

6.It's rude to make remarks onby the appearance of others. 解析：考查介词。句意：评论他人的相貌是不礼貌的。make a remark/remarks on 就……发表意见，对……作出评论。

7.While having breakfast, Lee went through all the classifiedgclassifyin ads in the newspaper, hoping to find a suitable job. 解析：考查非谓语动词。句意：在吃早饭的时候，李浏览报纸上的所有分类广告，想找到一份合适的工作。classified ads分类广告，过去分词作定语。 8.The millionaire passed away, leaving his children a ∧ large fortune. 解析：考查冠词。句意：那个百万富翁去世了，留给他的孩子们一大笔财富。fortune财富，可数名词。a large fortune一大笔财富。

9.We are at your service.Don't hesitate turntoturningto us if you have any further problems. 解析：考查非谓语动词。句意：我们(随时)为你服务。如果你还有什么问题，请不要犹豫找我们帮忙。hesitate to do犹豫做某事。

10.Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is an adaptationadaptableof a classic Greek story. 解析：考查名词。句意：乔治·萧伯纳写的《皮格马利翁》是经典的希腊故事改编的。不定冠词an修饰名词。

Ⅲ.阅读理解

California Condor's Shocking Recovery (2016·北京卷）California condors are North America's largest birds, with winglength of up to 3 meters.In the 1980s, electrical lines and lead poisoning(铅中毒) nearly drove them to dying out.Now, electric shock training and medical treatment are helping to rescue these big birds.

In the late 1980s, the last few condors were taken from the wild to be bred. Since 1992, there have been multiple reintroductions to the wild, and there are now more than 150 flying over California and nearby Arizona, Utah and Baja in Mexico. Electrical lines have been killing them off.“As they go in to rest for the night, they just don't see the power lines,” says Bruce Rideout of San Diego Zoo.Their wings can bridge the gap between lines, resulting in electrocution(电死) if they touch two lines at once. So scientists have come up with a shocking idea.Tall poles, placed in large training areas, teach the birds to stay clear of electrical lines by giving them a painful but undeadly electric shock.Before the training was introduced, 66% of set-free birds died of electrocution.This has now dropped to 18%. Lead poisoning has proved more difficult to deal with.When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead.This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney(肾) failure and death.So condors with high levels of lead are sent to Los Angeles Zoo, where they are treated with calcium EDTA, a chemical that removes lead from the blood over several days.This work is starting to pay off.The annual death rate for adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2000 to 5.4% in 2011. Rideout's team thinks that the California condors' average survival time in the wild is now just under eight years.“Although these measures are not effective forever, they are vital for now,” he says.“They are truly good birds that are worth every effort we put into recovering them.” 语篇导读 本文是说明文。美国加利福尼亚州的秃鹫因为各种原因濒临灭绝，但在科研人员的帮助下，秃鹫的种群逐渐恢复生机。 1.California condors attract researchers' interest because they______ . A.are active at night B.had to be bred in the wild C.are found only in California D.almost died out in the 1980s 解析：D 推理判断题。根据第一，二，三段内容可知秃鹫因为电线死亡很多；第四段引出So scientists have come up with a shocking idea.故选D。