模块2 Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained 知识点题库

Officials from China and France formally promised on Thursday to build a new type of economic partnership, while ________ business cooperation.

—Would you mind if the window was closed?

—________. I also feel a little cold.

— How much did he charge you ___ the service?

 — Luckily, it's free ___ charge.

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    Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically.

    Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption（摄入） of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale（秤）instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels(标签).

    On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without knowing that we don't have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance（抵制and struggle.

    The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.

    Now that we know the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.

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    If you see a group of people dancing and singing on the street or in the railway station,  you don't need to feel surprised．They are a flash mob （快闪族）, which is a group of people who come together suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time,  and then quickly break up．They are usually organized with the help of the Internet or other digital communication network．At a predetermined time, they gather and perform some  distractions（消遣） such as waving their hands and exchanging books, Then, they quickly break up before the police can arrive．Using mobile phones, the flash mob can change its location if the first one has been replaced for any reason．

    Bill Lasik, senior editor of Harper's Magazine, organized the first flash mob in Manhattan in May 2003 and the first successful flash mob came together on June 3, 2003 - after the first try was foiled at Macy's department store．Lasik claimed that the activity was designed to make fun of hipsters （起时髦的人）, and call attention to the cultural atmosphere．

    Flash mob gatherings can sometimes shock people．Such an activity might seem amusing and untrue, but it also might frighten people who are not aware of what is taking place．Undoubtedly, flash mobs can serve as good political tools in any direction．They also have great economic potential, such as using flash mobs to advertise a product．

    The flash mob is now becoming more and more popular．People use it to do many things．For example, in 2009, Michael Jackson's fans took part in a flash mob to remember him．Hundreds of his fans gathered singing and dancing Michael's famous song "Beat It" together．Flash mobs give people from all walks of life an opportunity to come together to create a memory．

假定你是李华,正在一所英国学校学习暑期课程,遇到一些困难,希望得到学校辅导中心（Learning Center）的帮助。根据学校规定,你须书面预约,

请按下列要点写一封信： 1.本人简介； 2.求助内容； 3.约定时间；4.你的联系方式（Email:lihua@126.com;Phone:12345678）

注意：1）.词数100左右；

2）.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯；

3）.开头以及结束语已写好、不计分.

Dear Sir/Madam ,

……

    Look forward to your reply.

短文改错。

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）,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：在错的词下划一横线,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。

    Last Friday, Just before the 66^th National Day holiday, I conducted interview with James Watson, a famous American scientist, talk about how to become a successful scientist. On his opinion, to be a scientist, we needed to be very fond of science. What's most, we have to keep practicing as well as learn from other successful scientist. If we want to be a successful one, besides hard-working, we are supposing to set up for a clear goal as well. James Watson also suggest that every child who is curiously about science should make your effort to realize the dream of becoming a scientist.

短文改错。
假如英语客商老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处；每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加,删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符合(^),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：在错的词下划—横线,并在该下面写出修改改后的词。
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。
    My friend Nick told me story about his experience back in the US, that is very interesting. One day he was having a yard sale and the old man living next door come by to help. As the old man looked over the things on the yard that was to be sold, he stopped at a box of golden balls for Christmas trees. On the box was a card say: “25 cents each.” “You will never sell these for that much,” he told Nick. Convincing, Nick has brought the price up to 10 cents a piece. Without a moment's delay, my neighbor picked up the box but announced: “I will take them.”

Looking at her p expression, I see that she hasn't understood the problem.

In different countries, people have different senses of h

He often drives his car along the road at an（令人惊讶的）speed, which was dangerous for him to do so.

这件事情引起了公众的极大兴趣，原因是有各种关于男孩失踪前后天空出现奇怪亮光和外星人造访地球的报道。

This incident reports of strange lights in the sky and of alien visits around the time the boy.

On （平均），he lost two pounds of weight every month.

—Have the police found anyone who saw the accident and could tell how it really happened?

—No, they haven't found any yet.

With his key ________，he couldn't enter his home，so he had to wait for his wife to come home.

Our manager didn't ________for the meeting because he was ill.

Have you heard the traffic ________that happened in Yatai Street last week?

The child from his home last month and the police are looking into his .(disappear)

选词填空

due to，look into，step up，make up，occur to，show up，take charge of，point out

Mariages on money are easy to break up because they have no strong (base).