Module 4 Sandstorms in Asia學(xué)案
18. kate’s mobile phone was left in a taxi accidentally, never _____ again.
a . to find b. finding c. to be found d. being found
19. i ________ you the exciting news, but you not at home.
a. meant telling b. meant to tell
c. meant tell d. meant to telling
20. all she wanted to do when she got the first prize in the contest was _____ thanks to her teachers and parents.
a. say b. saying c. about to say d. said
ⅲ.完型填空
a thousand years ago hong kong was covered by a thick forest like the forests we now find in malaysia and thailand. a s more and more ___1___ came to live in hong kong, these trees was cut down and burnt. now there is no forest left, ___2___ there are still some areas covered with trees. we call these ___3__.
elephants, tigers, monkeys and many other animals used to live in the __4__ forests of hong kong, and there were even crocodiles in the ___5__ and along the coast. when people came to live in hong kong, the animals began __6___ out. early farmers drained the valleys to grow rice and to keep pigs and chicken.
they ___7___ the trees and burnt them. they needed fires to keep themselves ___8___ in the winter, to cook their food, and to keep away from dangerous animals. elephants quickly disappeared because there was not enough ___9___ for them. so did most of the wolves, leopards and tigers. monkeys, squirrels and many other animals soon died out in the same __10____.
you might think that there are ___11___ any animals in hong kong, except in the __12_____. you might think there can’t be any wild animals in such a __13___ place, with so many cars and buildings. but there is __14_____ a good deal of countryside in the hong kong and new territories, and there are still about thirty-six different kinds of animals living there.
one of the most interesting of hong kong‘s ____15___ is the barking deer. there are beautiful little creatures with rich, brown coat and a white patch under the tail. they look like deer but they are much ___16___. they are less than two feet high. the male barking deer has two small horns but the female has none. they make a __17____ rather like a dog barking.