Unit 2  Poems

【模仿2】收集東西好有趣，像收集郵票，在找出它們的歷史和意義的同時可以學到很多東西。_______________________________________________________________________________答案：it is interesting to collect things, and like collecting stamps, can give you lots of knowledge finding out the history and the meaning of them.三、單元自測 1完形填空 閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從21—30各題所給的a、b、c和d項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。詞數：180完成時間：14分鐘難度：    a group of alumni (校友) got together to visit their old university professor. their   21   soon turned into com- plaints about the   22   they face in work and in life. the professor then brought over a large pot of coffee and   23   cups -- porcelain (瓷器), plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some nice-looking – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.     when all the students had helped themselves to a cup of coffee, the professor said, “if you hadn't noticed, all the nice-looking expensive cups were   24   , leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. while it is   25   for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the   26   of your stress. what all of you   27   wanted was coffee, not the cup,   28   you consciously (有意識地) went for the best cups.”     life is the coffee. jobs, money and position are the cups. they are just tools to hold   29   , and do not change the quality of life. sometimes, by   30   only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. 21. a. argument                b. quarrel                 c. conversation            d. debate 22. a. failure                     b. stress            c. hardship               d. misfortune 23. a. lovely                      b. various                 c. strange                        d. classical 24. a. set back                  b. moved up               c. taken up                d. put aside 25. a. important                b. normal                 c. opposite           d. rare 26. a. excuse                    b. condition               c. result                   d. source 27. a. nearly                     b. really             c. usually                  d. certainly 28. a. and                       b. so               c. but                     d. thus 29. a. life                       b. courage                c. happiness                     d. complaint 30. a. operating         b. basing                  c. concentrating            d. depending 答案：