unin15 Study skills 聽力完形

StepI:Listening:

Listening Cassette Unit 15. Listen to the text 2-3 times and finishing filling the blanks.It’s a good way of practising listening.

Listening Text

Study skills: Writing

In this talk a teacher gives advice to students about writing compositions.

The important point to remember is that everyone can learn to write well.

When you have to write a composition, the first thing to do is write down all your ideas as quickly as possible. If the ideas don’t come to you quickly try asking yourself some questions: When? Where? Who? What? Why? If you can talk over your ideas with a partner. You can do this in English or Chinese’, it doesn’t matter.

Next, see which of the ideas are connected, and put them in the best order. At this stage, cross out any ideas which don’t fit in. You will always have more than enough ideas for your composition.

Some students think that you have to write a long introduction at the beginning of your composition. In fact, this isn’t necessary. Time is short.

Now check the plan for your composition. Is it too long or too short? Do you need more information? If so, you may need to go to your school library. Do you need more examples to make your ideas clear? It is more interesting for your reader if you can introduce examples to show what you mean.

Now write your first composition. When you have finished, read it through again and check the spelling. Is your composition clear? Are any sentences too long? Are the ideas connected together?

Next. ask for another person’s opinion. Show your composition to your teacher or another student. Ask them to point out anything that could be improved.

Finally, correct your work and write out your composition a second time.

When it comes to the exam, you may not be able to go through all these stages. But at least you can follow this programme: First — ideas, then — plan, then — write.

StepII:完形填空

In 1982, Mark Thatcher, the son of Mrs Thatcher, was reported missing in the Sahara Desert while competing in the Grand Prix Motor race from Paris to Daker. This sad news, so unexpected, shook the   1  calm and unhurried politician off her balance. Though she did her best to   2  as if nothing had happened and made her public appearances as usual, people could not fail to notice that she was no longer the old self-assured(自信心) prime minister who always had everything under   3   . Instead she bad become a very sad mother who was unable to recover  from her  4   .

One day, when she was to   5  at a lunch party, a reporter caught her off her guard by bringing up the   6  of her missing son again. She was totally mentally   7  for the question and lost her   8   . Tears were rolling down her eyes   9  she sobbingly(哭泣著) told the reporter that there was still no news of Mark and that she was very  10  about him. She said that all the countries concerned had promised to do their best to help her find her son. With that she   11   down completely and sobbed silently for quite a while. Gradually she   12  down and  started to speak as planned. It was a very   13   scene which exposed a new side of Mrs. Thatcher’s   14  the public do not usually see, so people began to   15  about the Iron Woman's motherly love, a feeling  l6  is common to all human race.

Later Mark returned safe and   17  to his mother's side, good-humoured and all smiles as usual   18  nothing unusual had    19   happened. The Iron Woman, however, broke down again and was   20   sobbing for the second time.

1.A.seldom B.quite C.usually D.frequently    答案：C

2.A. talk B. pretend C . seem D. look 答案：B

3. A. help B. control C. oppression D. power

[解析]介詞短語under control意為“在控制之下”。答案：B

4.A. shaking B. dream C. fear D. shock

[解析]由開頭句和This sad news shook the politician…判斷出此空選shock 才能與句首呼應。   答案：D

5. A. speak B. appear C. pay D. cook

[解析] 下文“to speak as planned”暗示此題空缺處應填speak。

答案：A

6. A. object B. subject C. report D. announcement

[解析] 此處指記者纏住她提出了她兒子失蹤的話題，也可從下文得知。

答案：B

 7. A. unprepared B . answering C. eager D. got ready

[解析] 詞組be unprepared for (未作準備)中unprepared是過去分詞在句中作定語。

答案：A

 8.A. son B. self-control C. balance D. belief

[解析]前句中mentally指“精神上”毫無準備，所以“失去自控”。

答案：B

 9. A. because B. that C. as D. thus

[解析]連詞as意為“當……時候”，引導時間狀語從句。   答案：C

 10. A. eager B. curious C. afraid D. worried

[解析]詞組be worried about sb. 意為“擔心某人”。 答案：:D

 11.  A. broke B .fell C. quiet  D. went

[解析] 四個動詞短語中break down 指精神失去控制（突然大哭）。

答案：A

12. A. slowed B. turned C. calmed D. broke

[解析]前文已敘述she sobbed silently for quite a while, 此空應填calmed才與and started to speak as planned相符。

答案：C

13. A. interesting B. moving C. serious D. merry

[解析]由上文可判斷出，這種場面令人感動，從四個形容詞義來看，只有選moving, 而且又能引出下文。

答案：B

14. A. character B. importance C. thought D. position

[解析] 由上下文可判斷出此空應選character，character 在此意為“品格，特征”。

答案：A

 15 .A. set B. worry C. think D. talk

[解析]四個動詞都可以與about搭配，但其意義不同，此空選talk才與前后文章相符。

答案：D.

 16.A. it B. she C. this D. that

[解析]that 引導定語從句，又在從句中作主語。    答案：D

 17. A. healthy B. happy C. sound D. voice

[解析]safe and sound 屬固定短語，意為“安然無恙”   答案：C

 18. A. so that B. as if C. though D. yet   答案：B

19. A. ever B. just C. never D. yet

[解析]由句意“異常情況似乎沒發生”，可判斷出該空填上ever更加重語氣。 

答案：A

20. A. seen B. caught C. heard D. made   答案：A

探究活動

1. 我們從初一（甚至小學）開始學英語，每周至少10節英語課，花費了大量的時間，精力，為什么英語還停留在初始水平？怎樣才能科學，高效地學習英語？
2.We meet people every day. How can we appear friendly to others? In what way can we communicate with people well?