Module 6　课下能力提升(二十二)

　　Ⅰ.根据提示写出单词的正确形式

　　1．Dead leaves floated on the ________ (表面) of the water.

　　2．I'm extremely ________ (怀疑的) about what I read in the press.

　　3．Blue whales are the largest ________ (动物) ever to have lived.

　　4．All our results are published in scientific ________ (杂志)．

　　5．The point of this pencil isn't ________ (锋利的) enough.

　　6．People do not now believe in the ________ (exist) of ghosts.

　　7．The police are investigating (调查) the ________ (mystery) deaths of children at the hospital.

　　8．Over 200 people have been killed by ________ (volcano) eruptions.

　　9．-What a ________ scene on the stage!

　　-Yeah, we girls were really ________. (frighten)

　　10．He was wearing shorts which showed his long, and ________ (hair) legs.

　　Ⅱ.选词填空

　　instead of， be frightened at， exist in， claim ... back， be covered with， be sceptical about， calm down， close to

　　1.The roof fell down as I was walking out. I came ____________ being killed.

　　2．____________！There's nothing to worry about.

　　3．You can ________ your money ________ if the goods are damaged.

　　4．That word doesn't ____________ English.

　　5．He ____________ the coming examination.

　　6．____________ being annoyed, he seemed quite pleased.

　　7．The Changbai Mountain ____________ snow all the year round.

　　8．Really, I ____________ their honesty.

　　Ⅲ.完成句子

　　1．人们对这一工程的实际价值仍持一种怀疑的态度。

　　________________ among the people as to the practical value of the project.

　　2．沙漠约占该国国土面积的一半。

　　The desert ________________.

　　3．我们很可能打败他们，因为我们有很多非常出色的运动员。

　　We will ________________ because we have many excellent players.

　　4．最近教师的提升和待遇再次成为新闻话题。

　　These days, promotions and benefits for teachers ________________.

　　5．他恐吓我不要说出真相。

　　He ________________ the truth.

　　Ⅳ.阅读理解

　　A

　　A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Butler, spent sixty­six days in a life­raft (救生筏) in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.

　　Twenty­one days after they left Panama in their boat, Simony, they met some whales (鲸鱼)．"They started to hit the side of the boat，"said Bill, "and then suddenly we heard water." Two minutes later, the boat was sinking. They jumped into the life­raft and watched the boat go under the water.

For twenty days they had tins of food, biscuits，and bottles of water. They also had a fishing­line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water - two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw (生的)．Then the line broke."So we had