Unit 4 Sharing 知识点题库

          In a class I taught adults． I gave the class an assignment—going to visit someone they loved within the next week and saying，“I love you”．It had to be someone they had  1 said those words to before or at least they hadn’t  2those words with for a long time． It didn’t sound like a very  3 assignment until I realized that most of the students were over 35 and were  4in the decades when they were taught not to express emotions  5 ． So this was a very threatening assignment for some．

         At the beginning of our  6class，I asked if someone wanted to share what  7when he/she told someone he/she loved him/her． I  8 expected one of the women to volunteer，as was usually the  9 ， but this time one of the men raised his hand and said，“Dennis，I was quite angry with you last week  10you gave us this assignment． I didn’t feel that I had anyone to say those  11to，and besides，why did you tell us to do something 12？But as I began driving home my conscience started   13 me． It was telling me that I knew exactly who I 14to say “I love you” to． Five years ago，my father and I had a serious disagreement． Since then，we  15 seeing each other unless we absolutely had to meet at Christmas or other family  16 ． But even then，we hardly spoke to each other． Last Tuesday I got home and  17 myself to tell my father I loved him． He was shocked and then burst out  18 ． He said he always loved 19 ． ”

         Hearing his talking，all of the class were 20 deeply．

          I love charity(慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them in every high street． The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices． You can get things you won't find in the shops any more． The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause, and not into the pockets of profit ­driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods．

          The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam． The famous charity's appeal to aid postwar Greece bad been so successful it had been flooded with donations(捐赠物)． They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal． Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK． My favorite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children's books, all 10 or 20 pence each．

          Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets paid． Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public． Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don't encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open．

          The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work． Charity shops raise more than ￡110 million a year, funding (资助) medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more． What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense． You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment．

注意：1． 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 2． 词数100左右。

阅读短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

    My parents were in a huge argument, and I was really upset about it. I didn't know who I should talk with about how I was feeling. So I asked Mom to allow me to stay the night at my best friend's house. Though I knew I wouldn't tell her about my parents' situation, I was looking forward to getting out of the house. I was in the middle of packing up my things when suddenly the power went out in the neighborhood. Mom came to tell me that I should stay with my grandpa until the power came back on.

    I was really disappointed because I felt that we did not have much to talk about. But I knew he would be frightened alone in the dark. I went to his room and told him that I'd stay with him until the power was restored. He was quite happy and said, “Great opportunity.”

    “What is it?” I asked.

    “To talk, you and I” he said. “To hold a private little meeting about what we're going to do with your mom and dad, and what we're going to do with ourselves now that we're in the situation we are in.”

    “But we can't do anything about it. Grandpa,” I said, surprised that here was someone with whom I could share my feelings and someone who was in the same “boat” as I was.

    And that's how the most unbelievable friendship between my grandfather and me started. Sitting in the dark, we talked about our feelings and fears of life — from how fast things change to how they sometimes don't change fast enough. That night, because the power went out, I found a new friend, with whom I could safely talk about all my fears and pains, whatever they may be. Suddenly, the lights all came back on. “Well,” he said, “I guess that means you'll want to go now. I really like our talk. I hope the power will go out every few nights!”

    As can be seen in the picture, a boy is rowing a boat trapped in a bottle floating on the surface of the sea. ……

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2）只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

    On the development of the Internet, people use computer to surf the Internet every day. The Internet made it easy for people to leave their own opinions on hot issues, and then some new words are creating. Zhai is a very popular word, which refers to the people who is staying at home all the time. They seldom go out to a real world. People can buy that they want on the Internet and the goods can be delivered to their homes, so more and more people like staying at home. Of course it's good for health. Get rid of the habit of staying at home can bring people a health life.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项 （A 、B 、C  和 D ）中，选出最佳选项。

    When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation. I suggested that they should stay at “bed and breakfast” houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.

     “We didn't stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were on holiday.” I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought “VACANCIES” meant “holidays”, because the Spanish word for “holidays” is said “vacaciones”. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said “VACANCIES”, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to houses where the sign said “NO VACANCIES”, because they thought this meant people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels.

    We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word “DIVERSION” means “fun”. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word “DIVERSION” on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, the road ended in a large hole.

    English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris when someone offered me some more coffee, I said “Thank you” in French, I meant that I would like some more, however to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that “Thank you” in French means “No, Thank you”.

    Even if trees cannot walk, they are still on the move.

    In parts of the Arctic, entire forests are moving northward. Across the Arctic, temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world. As that happens, the tree line that marks where forests stop and the treeless tundra(冻土地带) starts has been shifting northward. Trees growing along the tree line must protect themselves from the cold wind. To do this, plants tend to grow horizontal(水平的) branches low to the ground. The energy it takes for trees to grow this way means they don't have enough energy to make seeds.

    But as Earth's climate has been warming, trees no longer have to just grow horizontally. Many can instead grow up toward the sky. This takes less energy. And with all the leftover energy. these trees have started producing more seeds. This happens especially in places where the white spruce(白云杉) grows.

    White spruce, which is a North American tree, is quite able to produce a lot of seeds, which can move long distances in the wind. When wind-blown seeds end up on the tundra beyond the tree line, they eventually can sprout(发芽) new trees. This explains how a forest can move. Of course, the process would work only if the tundra were warm enough. But in recent years, the whole planet has been warming.

    New trees will provide shelters for some snow, keeping the sun's rays from making the white surface disappear. Instead, the trees absorb the sun's heat. This warms the surrounding air. The extra warmth encourages even more trees to produce seeds. That further boosts a forest's ability to expand. In addition, more trees will trap more snow, preventing much of it from being blown away. Snow can trap heat in the soil below, which encourages trees to grow. The recent rise of temperature has helped more trees grow. The recent rise of temperatures has helped more trees grow past the tree line. People worry about impacts on the animals that depend on frozen conditions for food and shelter.

    Why do we go to zoos? Millions of people around the world visit zoos each year, but the reason is hard to explain . But the animals they see in zoos are little like the toys, cartoons, and decorations that fill their homes. For such children, meeting with real animals can be confusing, even upsetting.

    The great interest that children have in animals today might lead one to suppose that this has always been the case. That was also when zoos became an important part of middle-class life.

    They lived together with our ancestors in a shared natural environment. In the Industrial Era, the human domination (支配)of animals could be seen in the popularity of real-looking animal toys. Children rode rocking-horses that had realistic features, and they slept with bears, tigers, and rabbits that looked and felt almost real. The Twentieth Century marked a further development--the change of animals into people.

    This was the age of Babar the Elephant, Hello Kitty, and the Lion King. Parents and children had previously wanted animals that looked like animals..

    In a zoo they hope to see the living breathing versions of their character friends. They find instead unfamiliar creatures who cannot speak, smile, or interact with them. For this reason, a visit to the zoo can be disappointing for children today. Meeting real animals reminds us forcefully of the boundary between imagination and reality.

    When we visit animals in a zoo, perhaps we will recall our true relationship not only to animals but to the entire world.

A. Animals are the best friends of the human beings.

B. Most of children are looking forward to visiting zoos.

C. Perhaps that disappointment is the best gift a zoo can offer.

D. But now they want animals that look and act like humans

E. Yet, it was not until the Industrial Era that animals became part of childhood.

F. In prehistoric times, there had been no zoos, as animals were a real part of the human world.

G. Many of those visitors are children, whose lives are already surrounded by animals' images.

It rained for three weeks on end，completely.(ruin)