高二英語下學期期末復習（選修八Unit 4）

1.according to the passage, which statement is true?
 a. career education is carried out in primary schools only.
 b. career education is carried out in middle schools only.
 c. career education is carried out in colleges only.
 d. career education is carried out in the whole process of people’s education – from kindergarten to university.
2.it may be inferred from the passage that _________.
 a. not only teachers but also parents are responsible for youngsters’ career education
 b. in high schools, students know more specific information about occupations
 c. career education may be in classroom, small group, or individual sessions
 d. teachers use a variety of methods to provide career education, including films
3.a child may get career education in all the following places except _________.
 a. schools     b. homes      c. communities  d. public places
4.the underlined word “combine” in the last paragraph means “to ________”.
 a. connect      b. force      c. provide       d. attempt    
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   some myths are stories used since ancient times, to explain the causes of natural phenomena. the greek myth that explains why there are changes of ___1_____about demeter, the goddess of the harvest. she had a daughter, persephone, whom she loved very much. hades, god of the underworld , fell in love with persephone, and he asked zeus, the ___2_____ of the gods, to give persephone to him as his _____3____. zeus did not want either to disappoint hades or to upset demeter, so he said he would not agree to the marriage, but neither would he ___4______ it. hades, therefore, decided to take the girl without ____5____. when persephone was picking flowers in the garden, he seized her and took her to the underworld. when demeter ____ 6 ___ what happened to persephone, she became so ___7____ that she caused all plants to _____8___. people were in_____9____ of starving.butdemeter was determined not to let crops grow____10______ her daughter, persephone, was returned to her. ____11______, still not wanting to disappoint hades, decided upon a condition for persephone’s ____12___.  she could go back to her mother if she had not ___13_____ anything while she was in the underworld demeter ___14_____it, underworld. when zeus_____15____ this , he decided that persephone could spend part of the year with her ____16_____. but he added that since she had eaten the seeds, she had to spend part of the year in the underworld. and so it __17____ that when persephone is in the underworld, demeter is sad and ___18_____ not let the crops grow. that is ___19_____ we have winter when plants do not grow. when persephone returns, demeter is ____20_______. it becomes spring, and plants begin to grow again.