Lesson 3课后练习
单项选择
1. The children went swimming ______ minutes ago.
A. few B. a few C. a little D. little
2. The little boy is too naughty. You should be strict with him and not ______ him.
A. spoil B. destroy C. destroyed D. spoiled
3. He smiled at her in ______ way.
A. friendly B. friend C. a friendly D. a friend
4. I’m ______ teacher at the Beijing University.
A. an Italy B. Italy C. a Italian D. an Italian
5. Can you ______ me your bike? Mine is broken.
A. lend B. borrow C. buy D. send
6. My dad is fifty years old, ______ he looks so young.
A. so B. but C. as D. if
7. The first term at university passed by so ______.
A. quiet B. quick C. quickly D. quietly
8. He didn’t miss a ______ day of school.
A. signal B. sign C. single D. sing
Lesson 3 Please send me a card 请给我寄一张明信片
A: listening: listen ,fill in the blanks and answer the questions:
Postcards ______ spoil my holidays. Last summer, I went to _____. I visited museums and ____ in public
gardens. A _______ waiter taught me a few words of ______. 'Then he ____ me a book. I read a few
______, but I did not understand a word. Every day I thought about ______. My holidays _____ quickly, but
I did not send ____ cards to my friends. On the ____ day I made a ____ decision. I got up ____ and bought
thirty-seven cards. I spent the _____ day in my room, but I did not write a ______ card !
Q:1: Where did the writer go last summer ? ________________________________
Q2: What did the writer do there? ________________________________
Q3: The writer understood Italian, didn’t he? ________________________________
Lesson 2 Thirteen equals one
Our vicar is always ______ ______for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the
church clock repaired. The big clock which_____ _____ strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has
been silent_____ ______.
' One night, however, our vicar woke up with a start: the clock was striking the hours! Looking at his watch, he saw that it
was one o'clock, but the bell struck______ _______ before it stopped. _______ with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock
tower to see________________________ .In the torchlight, he caught sight of a______ whom he immediately_______ ______ Bill
Wilkins, our local grocer. 'Whatever are you doing up here Bill ?' asked the vicar in surprise.
' I'm trying to _______ the bell,' answered Bill.' I've been coming up here night after night for weeks now. You see, I was
Lesson 38 Everything except the weather
唯独没有考虑到天气
Why did Harrison sell his house so quickly?
My old friend, Harrison, had lived in the Mediterranean for many years before he returned to England. He had often
dreamed of retiring in England and had planned to settle down in the country. He had no sooner returned than he bought a
house and went to live there. Almost immediately he began to complain about the weather, for even though it was still
summer, it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold. After so many years of sunshine, Harrison got a shock. He acted
as if he had never lived in England before. In the end, it was more than he could bear. He had hardly had time to settle down
when he sold the house and left the country. The dream he had had for so many years ended there. Harrison had thought of
