Book 1_U2_Reading 1

Unit 2 FriendshipI. VocabularyPart OneDirections: Match the words in column A with definitions in column B.1. postpone a. look closely or carefully2. destination b. take out things from a suitcase, etc.3. absolutely c. delay, put off4. peer d. material, matter5. stuff e. difficult; strong6. unpack f. have difficulty in breathing, swallowing or speaking7. choke g. definitely and completely8. tough h. the place to which one is going or directedPart TwoDirections: Choose the proper words and expressions and put the numbers in the blanks.1. awful2. reunion3. highlight4. might just as well5. keep in touch6. Every now and then7. let down8. heading for9. out of shape 10. on your mind 11. in his mind 12. come up13. not so much of a 14. not so much as1. The pilgrims were ________ the Canterbury Church to pay homage to the martyrs.2. If you leave your coat hanging on that nail it will get .3. I failed to with many of my old friends after I joined the army.4. It would be best to run away now, but she couldn’t Jamie: he needed help.5. The lighting of the Christmas tree was the of the evening.6. he went to the old woman whose husband was diseased, and took care of her lifeuntil her death.7. He left me abruptly, saying a word to thank me for the help I gave him all theseyears.8. Y esterday I had a(n) time at the office ―everything seemed to have gone wrong.9. What happened to you? It seems there’s something , or you wouldn’t be so restless.10. He is help as I thought he would be. We had to work all the way to the end withouthis assistance.Part ThreeDirections: Complete each of the following sentences with an appropriate form of the word given in the bracket.1.No doubt there was a slight in the classroom after the teacher came in. (uneasy)2.The witness’s account closely to the policema n’s observations. (correspondence)3.During these long summer visits he himself in the traditions and customs of theplace. (soak)4.That man is for this job. He has been assigned to other work. (available)5.The traveler to his guide book for details of his journey. (reference)6.The final cost was considerably higher than the builder’s original . (estimate)7.Malic ious gossip could his chances of success. (injury)8.The story was so that I was completely lost in it. (touch)9.There was no room in the hall: it was already full. (practical)10.His knowledge has left a deep impression on us. (extent)Part FourDirections: Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence from the four choices given under each sentence.1. If you do not know this word, in your dictionary.A. refer to itB. look it upC. consult itD. insult it2. Y ou ought to postpone here until next week, since the audience are so enthusiastic.A. leaveB. leftC. to leaveD. leaving3. The writer’s choice of words is simply a matter of style.A. personalB. privateC. personnelD. individual4. He took great to please his boss.A. painB. effortC. painsD. efforts5. These are the basic rules of grammar, which you should learn .A. by memoryB. by heartC. in mindD. for good6. I rely on you to remind me Jack for the books he bought me.A. of payingB. of being paidC. to payD. to be paid7. I didn’t mean anything, but those apples looked so good I couldn’t resist one.A. to eat…tryingB. to eat…to tryC. eating…to tryD. eating…trying8. Life is a candle to burn ever brighter.A. being meantB. meaningC. to meanD. meant9. Since you have come so far with your experiment, you carry it through to the end.A. mayB. mightC. may wellD. may as well10. The of his trip to Beijing was the visit to the Forbidden City.A. lightest partB. highest partC. highlightD. most highlight11. Although the family trusted her, she them down badly.A. putB. setC. letD. took12. They have given us a lot of help in up with what’s going on around us.A. puttingB. catchingC. takingD. keeping13. I doubt whether he can his efforts much longer as he looks very tired.A. hold upB. hold onC. keep onD. keep up14. At the head of the valley, the scouts turned left and headed the summit.A. toB. forC. onD. into15. When he writes, he always keeps a dictionary .A. on handsB. by handC. at handD. in hand16. Jack almost fell off the cliff, but managed to hang until help came.A. onB. aboutC. upD. back17. The letter was delivered hand early this morning.A. onB. inC. toD. by18. In his speech he to the great help the club received from supporters.A. referredB. mentionedC. commentedD. remarked19. Before he started work, I asked the builder to give me an of the cost of repairing theroof.A. assessmentB. estimateC. announcementD. evaluation20. I know that he is not much of a basketball player, but when it to math, he is the bestin the class.A. refersB. goesC. comesD. concernsII. StructurePart OneDirections: Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.1. Nothing could live air and water.A. butB. but forC. exceptD. except for2. I’d just as soon rudely to her.A. that you won’t speakB. your not speakingC. you not speakD. you didn’t speak3. To me, music is a way of life just an interest.A. more…thanB. as…asC. not….asD. less…than4. There is no reason they should limit how much vitamin you take they can limit how much water you can drink.A. much more thanB. no more thanC. no less thanD. any more than5. It was urged that no smoking in the library.A. had been allowedB. be allowedC. was allowedD. should have been allowed6. Peter has just arrived, but he talks as if he everything here.A. will knowB. has knownC. knewD. know7. In no circumstances can more work be got out of a machine than .A. is put into itB. to put it into itC. to be put into itD. that puts into it8. to him if he went out in that weather?A. What was he afraid that would it happenB. What he is afraid that would happenC. What he was afraid that would happenD. What was he afraid would happen9. No one wants to stay here, ?A. do theyB. does itC. don’t theyD. doesn’t he10. There is a candle on the table and a man is lying on the floor.A. lighted…drunkenB. lighted…drunkC. lit…drunkenD. lit…drunk11. forever are the days when Shanghai was the “paradise of the adventurers”.A. To goB. Having goneC. WentD. Gone12. I have considered seeing Jane tomorrow, but I ha ven’t considered my hand.A. having offeredB. to offerC. how to offerD. offered13. A man escaped from the prison last night. It was a long time the guards discoveredwhat had happened.A. beforeB. sinceC. untilD. when14. I hope that the little I’ve been able to do has been of some use.A. whichB. whatC. thisD. that15. discussed, the problem remains unsolved.A. Not havingB. Not having beenC. Having notD. Having not been16. The young teacher complain about the poor working conditions in the school. Hedonated some money to improve them.A. didn’t more than justB. did much than justC. did more than justD. did much more to17. It was only after some progress in the use and development of electric current thatmen began to realize the importance and possibilities of magnetism.A. was madeB. has been madeC. would have been madeD. had been made18. We often advise him not to drink more wine is good for his health.A. asB. thanC. thatD. but19. It seems that the rain won’t stop in a few hours. We watch a DVD movie at homebefore we go out.A. might wellB. might justC. might just as wellD. might as well as20. I’m amazed that she married him so soon. She him very well.A. mustn’t have knownB. can’t have got to knowC. didn’t have to knowD. needn’t have knownPart TwoDirections: Identify the ONE that is not correct and write down the correct answer.1. The price of gold on the world market has been rising high each year.A B C D ( )2. I took offence because he was the first person to talk to me in the way how a boss orders hisA B C Demployee about. ( )3. He has reached a point which change is needed.A B C D ( )4. Great as is the energy of the sun, we have not found an effective way to make use of it inA B C Dindustry. ( )5. Faced with the possibility of a water shortage during the summer months, the city has asked itsA B Ccitizens to limit its use of water.D ( )6. I don’t see why I should look forward to sitting in an armchair and do nothing just because I amA B C Dover sixty. ( )7. They prefer to discipline themselves rather than are disciplined by others.A B C D ( )8. They had so fierce dogs that no one dare go near their house.A B C D ( )9. Why didn’t you tell me you were going in my direction? I would be able to give you a lift.A B C D( )10. I couldn’t see the point to let him have his own way.A B C D ( )III. ClozePart OneDirections: Fill in the gaps with any words you think fit.There are two types of people in the world. Although they have equal degrees of health and wealth and the other comforts of life, one becomes happy, the 1 becomes miserable. This arises 2 the different ways in which they consider things, persons and events, and the resulting effects 3 their minds. The people who are 4 be happy fix their attention on the conveniences of things, the pleasant parts of conversation, the well 5 dishes, the goodness of the wines, the fine weather. They enjoy all the cheerful things. Those who are to be unhappy think and 6 only of the contrary things. 7 they are constantly discontented. By their remarks, they sour the pleasures of society, offend many people, and make themselves 8 everywhere. If this turn of mind is founded in nature, such unhappy persons would be the 9 to be pitied. The tendency to criticize and be disgusted is perhaps taken up originally by imitation. It grows into a habit, unknown to its possessors. The habit may be strong, but it may be cured when those who have it are convinced 10 its bad effects on their interests and tastes.Part TwoDirections: Choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.1 a human being you have the choice of different basic attitudes2 life. Y ou may approach life with the philosophy of the vegetable,3 which case your life will consist4 being born, eating, drinking, sleeping, mating, growing old, and5 .The second basic attitude is to look at life as if it 6 a business. 7 great many so-called successful men and women believe that life is a business, and they arrange their conduct and behavior 8 . If you believe that life is a business your first 9 of life, naturally, is “what do I get out of it?” and your fir st reaction 10 any new experience is “how much is this worth to me?”. In a word 11 this attitude, happiness becomes a matter of successful competition.The great 12 of human beings today 13 at life as if it were a business. Their basi cphilosophy is one of competition and efficiency.The third attitude toward life is the 14 of the artist. Here the basic philosophy is “what can I put into it?”, and the basic relation of individual to his fellowmen is 15 of cooperation and common sense. This 16 of view has been proved by history; for history remembers best those who have 17 most richly to the interests of their fellowmen. The more we investigate and the more we learn about living 18 we become convinced that the 19 attitude is the only one which is consistent 20 human happiness.1. A. As B. Like C. To D. For2. A. of B. for C. towards D. about3. A. at B. under C. in D. on4. A. of B. in C. that D. which5. A. die B. died C. dying D. dies6. A. was B. is C. will be D. were7. A. V ery B. Too C. / D. A8. A. accordingly B. respectively C. excessively D. evidently9. A. question B. reaction C. attitude D. way10. A. to B. of C. about D. towards11. A. relied on B. depended on C. based on D. considering12. A. many B. major C. majority D. crowd13. A. look B. take C. see D. think14. A. point B. means C. approach D. view15. A. a B. one C. kind D. sort16. A. attitude B. philosophy C. way of life D. point17. A. done B. devoted C. succeeded D. developed18. A. and B. the more C. so that D. because19. A. vegetable B. second C. artistic D. best20. A. with B. to C. as to D. ofIV. Reading ComprehensionDirections: Choose the ONE best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.Passage oneSince we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One strength of the human conditions is our tendency to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances. Social support consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with life changes and daily hassles. People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, reveal that the presence of social support helps people fend off illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health likely.Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives, and co-workers may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, wetypically find social companionship supportive. Engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting us from our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us instrumental support ―financial aid, material resources and needed services —that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.1. Interpersonal relationships are important because .A.they can cure a range of illnesses such as heart disease, etc.B.they help people to cope with life in the information eraC.they awaken people’s desire to exchange resourcesD.they are indispensable to people’s social well-being2. Research shows that people’s physical and mental health .A.depends on their ability to deal with daily worries and troublesB.relies on the social welfare systems which support themC.has much to do with the amount of support they get from othersD.is closely related to their strength for coping with major changes in their lives3. Which of the fol lowing is closest in meaning to the word “cushions” (Para. 2)?ys the foundation forB.lessens the effect ofC.adds up toD.does away with4. Helping a sick neighbor with some repair work is an example of .rmational supportB.social companionshipC.instrumental supportD.the strengthening of self-respect5. Social companionship is benefic ial in that .A.it helps strengthen our ties with relativesB.it makes our leisure-time activities more enjoyableC.it enables us to eliminate our faults and mistakesD.it draws our attention away from our worries and troublePassage T woBy the mid-nineteenth century, the term “icebox” had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ic e trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861 -1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New Y ork, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor (前身) of the modern refrigerator, had been invented.Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was underdeveloped. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling.Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.But as early as 1803, a Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff of his competitors to pay a higher price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.6. What does the passage mainly discuss?A.The influence of ice on the dietB.The development of refrigerationC.The transportation of goods to marketD.Sources of ice in the nineteenth century7. The phrase “forwar d-looking” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to _________.A.progressiveB.popularC.thriftyD.well-established8. According to the passage, which of the following was an obstacle to the development of the icebox?petition among the owners of refrigerated freight carsB.The lack of a network for the distribution of iceC.The use of inefficient insulationD.Inadequate understanding of physics9. According to the information in the second paragraph, an ideal icebox would .pletely prevent ice from meltingB.stop air from circulatingC.allow ice to melt slowlye blankets to conserve ice10. The author describes Thomas Moore as having been “on the right track”, to indicate that_________.A.the road to the market passed close to Moore’s farmB.Moore was an honest merchantC.Moore was a prosperous farmerD.Moore’s design was fairly successfulPassage ThreeWhether the eyes are “the windows of the soul” is debatable; that they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact. During the first tw o months of a baby’s life, the stimulus that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need not be real: a mask with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, nor will the sight of only one eye when the face is presented in profile. This attraction to eyes asopposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures. In one study, when American four-year-olds were asked to draw people, 75 percent of them drew people with mouths, but 99 percent of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, however, where babies are carried on their mother’s back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes as they do in other cultures. As a result, Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode (编码) or decode meaning. In fact, Argyle reveals that the “proper place to focus one’s gaze during a conversation in Japan is on the neck of one’s conversation partner. ”The role of eye contact in a conversational exchange between two Americans is well defined: speakers make contact with the eyes of their listener for about one second, then glance away and they talk; in a few moments they re-establish eye contact with the listener or reassure themselves that their audience is still attentive, then shift their gaze away once more. Listeners, meanwhile, keep their eyes on the face of the speaker, allowing themselves to glance away only briefly. It is important that they are looking at the speaker at the precise moment when the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will terminate the conversation. Just how critical this eye maneuvering is to the maintenance of conversational flow becomes evident when two speakers are wearing dark glasses; there may be a sort of traffic jam of words caused by interruption, false starts, and unpredictable pauses.11. The author is convinced that the eyes are _________.A.something the value of which is largely a matter of long debateB.something through which one can s ee a person’s inner worldC.of considerable significance in making conversations interestingD.of extreme importance in expressing feelings and exchanging ideas12. Babies will not be stimulated to smile by a person _________.A.whose face is seen from the sideB.whose face is covered with a maskC.whose front view is fully perceivedD.whose face is free of any covering13. According to the passage, the Japanese fix their gaze on their conversation partners’ neckbecause _________.A.they don’t like to keep their eyes on the face of the speakerB.they need not communicate through eye contactC.they didn’t have much opportunity to communicate through eye contact in babyhoodD.they don’t think it polite lo have eye contact14. According to the passage, a conversation between two Americans may break down due to________.A.improperly-timed ceasing of eye contactB.eye contact of more than one secondC.one temporarily glancing away from the otherD.constant adjustment of eye contact15. To keep a conversation flowing smoothly, it is better for the participantsA.not to make any interruptionsB.not to glance away from each otherC.not to wear dark spectaclesD.not to make unpredictable pausesPassage FourIs language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century, it may be so. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.Today no such severe lack exists as described by Frederick. However, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for learning skills passes and they might never be taught so easily again.A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about man’s brain compared with that of the monkey is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern “toy-bear”. And even more incredible is the young brain’s ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.But speech has to be induced (诱导) and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling (咿呀学语), grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction bec ause the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language.16. The purpose of Frederick II’s experiment was _________.A.to prove that children are born with the ability to speakB.to discover what language a child would speak without hearing any human speakC.to find out what role careful nursing would play in teaching a child to speakD.to prove that a child could be damaged without learning a language17. The reason some children are backward in speaking is most probably that _____.A.they are incapable of learning language rapidlyB.they are exposed to too much language at onceC.their mothers respond inadequately to their attempts to speakD.their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them18. What is exceptionally remarkable about a child is that ______.A.he is born with the capacity to speakB.he has a brain more complex than an animal’sC.he can produce his own sentencesD.he owes his speech ability to good nursing19. Which of the following can NOT be inferred from the passage?A.The faculty of speech is inborn in man.B.Encouragement is anything but essential to a child in language learning.C.The child’s brain is highly selective.D.Most children learn their language in definite stages.20. If a child starts to speak later than others, he will in future.A.have a high IQB.be less intelligentC.be insensitive to verbal signalsD.not necessarily be backwardV. T ranslationPart One昨天我们在上海举办了一次老同学聚会。

七年级上册英语U1U2知识点最近，七年级的英语学习将进入第一单元和第二单元。

在此，我们将介绍些知识点，包括必备的词汇、语法和表达方式，因此你可以更好地准备你的学习！一、U1词汇1. Greetings & Goodbyes- Hello！你好- Hi! 你好- Good morning! 早上好！- Good afternoon! 下午好！- Good evening! 晚上好！- Goodbye! 再见！- Bye! 再见！- See you later! 回见！- See you tomorrow! 明天见！- Nice to meet you! 很高兴见到你！2. Classroom Language- What’s this in English? 这个用英语怎么说？- How do you spell it? 你怎么拼写它？- Can I borrow a pencil/pen? 我能借个铅笔/钢笔吗？- May I go to the restroom, please? 我可以去洗手间吗？- Excuse me! 对不起，打扰一下！- I’m sor ry. 抱歉。

- Thank you! 谢谢！- You’re welcome! 不用谢！二、U1语法1. Be动词（am, is, are）- am用于第一人称单数，如: I am 英语老师。

- is用于第三人称单数，如: She is 13 years old.- are用于第二人称单数和复数/第一人称复数/第三人称复数，如: You are very smart.2. There be句型There be句型用来描述某些地方或场景中存在的物品或人员。

如: There is a computer in the classroom.（教室里有一台电脑。

）三、U2词汇1. Family Members- father/dad: 爸爸- mother/mom: 妈妈- brother: 哥哥/弟弟- sister: 姐姐/妹妹- grandparents: 祖父母/外祖父母- uncle: 叔父/舅舅2. Plural Nouns- 单数变复数的规则通常是在单词末尾加-s，如: book-books.3. Adjectives形容词通常用于描述名词或代词，如：a big house, a beautiful girl.四、U2语法1. 人称代词- I/me: 我；- you: 你/你们；- he/him: 他；- she/her: 她；- it: 它；- we/us: 我们；- they/them: 他们。