Comprehension理解
Give short answers to these questions in your own words as far as possible. Use one complete sentence for each answer.xiao84.com
1 What is our attitude to insects?
2 Why does man try to exterminate insects?
3 What do we enjoy most when reading about insects?
Vocabulary词汇
Explain the meanings of the following words as they are used in the passage: contaminate (1. 3); devour (1. 4); provocation (1. 4); dispelling (1. 8); industrious (1. 8); revulsion (1. 9); pouncing (1. 15).
Summary writing摘要写作
Describe in not more than 80 words what the writer saw and did when he tried to prevent the ants from climbing up his peach tree. Use your own words as far as possible. Do not include anything that is not in the last paragraph.
Composition作文
Write a Composition in about 300 words on one of the following:
a Write an account of any insect you have read about or observed.
b Describe man's efforts to control pests.
Letter writing书信写作
A friend took some amusing photographs of you when you were on holiday together some time ago. Write him a letter of about 100 words asking him what he has been doing since then and requesting that he sendyou copies of the photographs he took.
Key structures and Special difficulties关键句型和难点
Rewrite the following sentence without changing the meaning. Then refer to 11. 24-25.
The tape was sticky and they did not dare to cross it.
The tape was so …
Multiple choice questions多项选择题
Choose the correct answers to the following questions.
Comprehension 理解
1 We may learn more about the behaviour of insects ______ .
a．and become so fascinated by them that we are no longer moved by them
b．but we are no less likely to lose our irrational fear of them
c．provided they remain unaware of our presence while we observe them
d．as long as they only harm each other and not us
2 The ant is an insect which ______ .
a．will eat its way through anything from picnic lunches to aphids
b．lives in a highly organized society which we find disgusting
c．once it has killed its prey, will bear it home in a triumphal column
d．shows great ingenuity at finding its way round any obstacle in its path
3 Had the peach tree been planted on the opposite side of the house ______ .
a．it might not have survived the severe winters
b．the writer would not have spent days looking at it
c．the ants would have had further to go before reaching it
d．the ants would not have found another route of access to the leaves
4 The reason for the ants' swarming up and down the tree was that ______ .
a．they collected a kind of honey from the leaves
b．they fed on a kind of honey contained in the sap of the tree
c．they were milking a kind of honey from the aphids on the leaves
d．they needed to go back to their nest in the branches of the tree
Structure 结构
5 By reading about them, we may increase our understanding but ______ dispel our fears. (11. 7-8)
a．we will not
b．it does not
c．this will not
d．not
6 Most of our fears are unreasonable, but we find ______ _(1. 12)
a．it impossible to erase them
b．that they cannot erase
c．them to erase impossible
d．erasing them impossible
7 ---- an experiment which, ______ failure to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated. (11. 22-23)
a．even though it was
b．in spite of the
c．despite its
d．was a
8 ______ long to find an answer to…(11. 30-31)
a．The ants had not been
b．The ants had not been
c．The ants had not spent
d．It had not taken the ants
Vocabulary 词汇
9 Even when we know that the ant is an industrious creature which leads a highly organized life, we cannot ______ being filled with… (11. 8-10)
a．refuse
b．help
c．prevent
d．lose
10 ---- we have read about the ______ sense of direction which bee possess … (1. 11)
a．unknown
b．mysterious
c．infinite
d．disabled
11 The tree occasionally produces ______ _fruit. (11. 19-20)
a．deliciously fresh
b．sweet and juicy
c．tender
d．exotic
12 I had been completely defeated by the ______ _(11. 29-30)
a．speedy swarms
b．hungry hordes
c．inventive creatures
d．ingenuous insects
