Comprehension理解
Give short answers to each of the following questions in your own words as far as possible, using onlymaterial contained in the passage. Use one complete sentence for each answer.www.xiao84.com
1 Why did the author's father emigrate?
2 Why had the author come back to the land of his birth?
3 What made the author think that he would not need a map for the last part of his journey?
Vocabulary词汇
Choose five of the following words and phrases and give for each another word or phrase of similar meaning to that in which the word or phrase is used in the passage:objective (1. 2); seemed alien (1. 2); lacked for nothing (1. 9); embedded (1. 11); mortally (1. 12); comprehensive (1. 14); positive (1. 17); familiar territory (11. 17-18).
Summary writing摘要写作
Give an account in not more than 80 words of the author's search for the village, as narrated in the lastparagraph. Use your own words as far as possible. Do not include anything that is not in the paragraph.
Composition作文
Write a Composition on one of the following subjects; the length should be between 250 and 350 words.
a The house you wish to own.
b A day spent by the sea or by a lake or river.
Letter writing书信写作
Write a letter between 80 and 100 words in length on one of the following subjects. You should make the beginning and ending like those of an ordinary letter. Write the postal address in full at the head of yourletter, but do not count this address in the total number of words.
a You are ill and cannot go to work for a few days. Write explaining your absence and making arrangements for your work while you are absent.
b You have received a gift from an old friend abroad. Write a letter of thanks, say how you will make use of the gift and briefly give news of yourself.
Key structures and Special difficulties 关键句型和难点
Rewrite the following sentence without changing the meaning. Then refer to 11. 21-22.
It wasn't possible for me to see any valley, any farms, any
cottages and any church spire ---- only a lake.
I could see …
Multiple choice questions多项选择题
Choose the correct answers to the following questions.
Comprehension 理解
1 When the author thought he was near his objective, he stopped because ______ .
a．it was too hot for him to concentrate on where he was going
b．he wanted to find his way back to the nearest town
c．he realized that he must have taken a wrong turning
d．he did not recognize any familiar landmarks
2 Why did the author's father want his son to go back on his own?
a．He feared that his wound would reopen if he were to return himself.
b．He wanted to hear what had happened to his village before dying.
c．He was too ill to accompany his son on the cross-country journey.
d．He had always intended that his son should see the land of their birth.
3 What made the author feel he had stumbled into a nightmare country?
a．According to his father, he should already have reached the village.
b．Nothing he saw corresponded to what he had expected to see.
c．He did not know how he could get to the other side of the lake.
d．He was curious to know more about the lake but there was no one to ask
Structure 结构
4 I was only five when I ______ , and that was eighteen years ago. (11. 3-4)
a．had been taken abroad by my father
b．took abroad with my father
c．had taken with my father abroad
d．was taken by my father abroad
5 ---- and I was brought up ______ . (1. 9)
a．without a care of women
b．without care by a woman
c．without a woman to care for me
d．careless of a woman
6 ---- leaving the town. It was here that my father had told me I ______ farms and cottages…(11. 19-20)
a．could see
b．would see
c．would be seeing
d．should have seen
7 I waited for his approach ______ I asked him… (1. 27)
a．until
b．when
c．before
d．so that
8 I asked him ______ to our old village. (1. 27)
a．what way it was
b．if he knows the way
c．which way to go
d．how to get
Vocabulary 词汇
9 Everything around him ______ , continually reopening … (11. 6-7)
a．reminded him of her
b．presented her to him
c．recalled him to her
d．remembered her for him
10 But my father had described ______ what we should see…(11. 16-18)
a．incessantly
b．overmuch
c．repeatedly
d．extensively
11 ---- the lake was not ______ on the map. (1. 24)
a．signed
b．written
c．shown
d．spotted
12 The lake was not a natural one. It was one. (11. 29-30)
a．an unnatural
b．a man-made
c．an unreal
d．a manufactured
