Unit 3 Life in the future grammar课时作业

Ⅰ. 单句填空

1. -I hear Mary is ill in hospital now.

-Exactly. That􀆳s 　　　 she hasn􀆳t showed up till now.

2. He holds the view　　　the literature of a period reflects its values and taste.

3. Once he was kind, but later he turned　　　a boring person who never tried understanding how others felt.

4. -I called you several times last night, but you didn􀆳t answer the phone.

-Sorry, I　　　(watch)TV.

5. What puzzles me is 　　　you could tell he was a thief when you first saw him.

6. 　　　(know)to her, her husband had already booked the tickets for their holiday in advance.

7. Even　　　 he is disabled, he has got a master􀆳s degree.

8. Walking around, I found the whole park was full of young people　　　(dress)up for the tourist festival.

9. The farmers stopped working in the fields when darkness 　　　(fall).

10. The system was designed to give students quick and easy access 　　　 the information on the Internet.

11. If computers are not very useful, then it will be easy to answer the question of 　　　 students should buy them.

12. This kind of medicine, 　　　(invent)by American chemist Professor Carl in 1951, saved millions of people􀆳s lives.

13. There was a　　　(confuse)look on his face when he met with the　　　(confuse)problem.

14. Choosing the right dictionary depends on 　　　 you want to use it for.

15. We were on the point of leaving　　　it began to rain.

Ⅱ. 阅读理解

　　A

(2015四川, C)

　　Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers. But, according to a new study, we should be placing a higher value on motherhood all year.

　　Mothers have long known that their home workload was just as heavy as paid work. Now, the new study has shown that if they were paid for their parental labours, they would earn as much as ￡172, 000 a year.

The study looked at the range of jobs mothers do, as well as the hours they are working, to determine the figure. This would make their yearly income ￡30, 000 more than the Prime Minister earns.