外研版高中英語必修3 Module5學案
never went to school and they taught themselves.lincoln once did jobs of a worker,shopkeeper and post officer in his early years.
a large number of u.s.presidents had experiences in the army.the two best known were ulysses grant and dwight d.eisenhower.grant was a general(將軍) in the american civil war and eisenhower was a hero in the second world war.it happened that they graduated from the same school—west point military academy(西點軍校).one may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school.eisenhower,for example,was once fined(罰款) because he broke the rules of the school.
the jobs of u.s.presidents are tiring.he must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and abroad.every day,a lot of work waits for him to do,and he has to make many important decisions.when franklin roosevelt was a child,he was once brought to visit president taft.the old president said to him,“when you grow up,you should not be president.it’s a tiring job.”
1. in the nineteenth century,many u.s.presidents__________.
a. did not have much knowledge in their work
b. had been workers,shop-keepers and post officers in their early years
c. couldn’t receive good education before they grew up
d. didn’t want to go to school during their childhood
2. which of the following do you think is right according to the last paragraph?
a. in the u.s. no one wanted to be president because it was tiring.
b. none of the presidents except taft could do the tiring job.
c. it is an important and tiring job to be a president in the u.s.
d. president taft didn’t want roosevelt to be a president because he was too young.
3. which do you think is the main idea of the second paragraph?
a. many of the u.s. presidents had served in the army before they took office.
b. only those who didn’t work hard at school but were good at fighting could be presidents.
c. grant and eisenhower because well-known because they both graduated from west point military academy.
d. eisenhower was president at the beginning of the second world war.
vi. 短文改錯
i went out to see a film with my brother after
supper.on our way to the cinema,we meet an american1. ________
girl named alice,she had got lost and looked very 2. ________
anxious.we went up to see that was the matter,we 3. ________
then took him to the hotel.while going there 4. ________
told her the great changes that had been taken place 5. ________
in our country in the past few years and alice told 6. ________