Unit 3 Life in the future reading课时作业

Ⅰ.单句语法填空

1.If you want to ride well, the first thing to do is to overcome(overcome) your fear of horses.

解析：overcome战胜，克服。句意：如果你想骑马骑得好，要做的第一件事就是战胜对马的恐惧感。

2.Up to now we have planted(plant) more than five thousand trees.

解析：up to now与现在完成时连用。

3.After a two﹣hour talk, she was convinced of the truth of the report.

解析：句意：两个小时的长谈之后，她相信了那个报告的真实性。convince sb. of sth.使某人确信某事。

4.If you don't pay your gas bill, the gas will soon be cut off.

解析：cut off切断，断绝。

5.Buried(bury) in reading a novel, she ignored me when I passed by her.

解析：buried in doing sth.专心于做某事，为形容词作描述性状语。句意：她专心于看小说，我经过她身旁时她没有理睬我。

6.I don't think we're worse off than a lot of other people.

解析：考查固定短语。句意：我认为我们不比许多其他人更贫穷。badly off是固定短语，意思是"穷的，缺钱的，境况不佳的"。

7.The old man sat in the armchair, reading(read) a newspaper.

解析：考查现在分词作状语。句意：那位老人坐在扶手椅上，读着报纸。分析句子结构可知，此处表示伴随的动作，所以要用动词﹣ing形式作状语。

8.Although the advertisement sounds very convincing(convince), my aunt hasn't planned to buy the new product.

解析：考查形容词。句意：虽然这个广告听起来很有说服力，但是我的姑母还没有打算买这个新产品。表示"令人信服的"要用convincing。

9.The film was one of the rare failures(fail) in his career.

解析：考查词形转换。句意：这部电影是他职业生涯中罕见的失败之一。分析句子结构可知，此处要用名词形式，且"one of+名词"结构中要用名词的复数形式。

10.His ball has earned him recognition as a talented performer(perform).

解析：考查名词。句意：他的舞会使他赢得了天才表演者的赞誉。分析句子结构可知，此处要用名词形式，意思是"表演者"。

Ⅱ.单句改错

1.The film was so that the audience laughed all through it.

解析：考查词形转换。句意：这部电影很幽默，观众全场一直笑着。分析句子结构可知，空处在句中作表语，故用形容词humourous。

2.I was enough to lose my wallet.

解析：考查词形转换。句意：我真是倒霉，丢了我的钱包。根据句意，此处表示"不幸的，倒霉的"，故用unfortunate。