Unit 2 Lessons in life

Section Ⅰ Starting out & Understanding ideas

单词拼写 根据首字母或汉语提示，用本部分所学单词的正确形式填空。

1.As we all know， watching bullfighting is a w hobby in Europe.

2.Ultimately， he won everyone’s r due to his long-term efforts.

3.The team has been w by injury， but they are not going to give up.

4.In the past few years， he has been p about the future but now he feels hopeful about it.

5.Her （反常的） reaction to the circumstance is beyond our expectation.

6.A good speaker is capable of （预料） the audience’s needs.

7.He described the picture as his most cherished （财物）.

8.The poor woman was finally able to come to Florida and be （重聚） with her daughter.

选择填空 用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空。

point of view lose touch with get distracted by go through tend to

1. I never a final exam that was as difficult as that one.

2. Whenever you buy a present， you should think about it from the receiver’s .

3. She lives in a world of her own and has totally reality.

4. It get hotter here in the summer and colder in the winter.

5. Previously， I often emails， news， or something that suddenly came to my mind.

课文语法填空

Although Mitch is a promising sports journalist， he still feels there is something 1 （miss） from his life. However， this all changes when he is reunited with his favourite college professor， Morrie. The moment he learns that Morrie 2 （weaken） by a severe illness， Mitch starts visiting him at his house every Tuesdays. The 3 （week） conversations between them result in a series of lessons on the meaning of life and how best to live it.

The following are four readers’ reviews of the book Tuesdays with Morrie.

Arthur K： It was a pleasant surprise 4 （find） that this book is filled with joy and hope. I am inspired by Morrie’s bravery towards the end of his life， which has made me value my own life more.

Amy Wang： While living， we tend to get distracted by unimportant things， such as gathering material 5 （possession）. What we should do is to find out 6 is important in our lives and establish our own values. Reading this book 7 （make） me feel as if I’d been woken up from

8 long sleep and finally opened my eyes to the world！

Marty： Receiving widespread 9 （recognise）， this book did teach me a lesson or two.

Vivian： One of the lessons of the book is to keep in touch 10 the good people we meet as we go through life.

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阅读理解

In 1916， two girls of wealthy families， best friends from Auburn， N. Y.—Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood—traveled to a settlement in the Rocky Mountains to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. The girls had been to Smith College. They wore expensive clothes. So for them to move to Elkhead， Colo. to instruct the children whose shoes were held together with string was a surprise. Their stay in Elkhead is the subject of Nothing Daunted： The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden， who is a magazine editor and Dorothy Woodruff’s granddaughter.

Why did they go then？ Well， they wanted to do something useful. Soon， however， they realized what they had undertaken.

They moved in with a local family， the Harrisons， and， like them， had little privacy， rare baths， and a blanket of snow on their quilt when they woke up in the morning. Some mornings， Rosamond and Dorothy would arrive at the schoolhouse to find the children weeping from the cold. In spring， the snow was replaced by mud over ice.

In Wickenden’s book， she expanded on the history of the West and also on feminism， which of course influenced the girls’ decision to go to Elkhead. A hair-raising section concerns the building of the railroads， which entailed （牵涉） drilling through the Rockies， often in blinding snowstorms. The book ends with Rosamond and Dorothy’s return to Auburn.

Wickenden is a very good storyteller. The sweep of the land and the stoicism （坚忍） of the people move her to some beautiful writing. Here is a picture of Dorothy Woodruff， on her horse， looking down from a hill top： “When the sun slipped behind the mountains， it shed a rosy glow all around them. Then a full moon rose. The snow was marked only by small animals： foxes， coyotes mice， and varying hares， which turned white in the winter.”

1. Why did Dorothy and Rosamond go to the Rocky Mountains？

A. To teach in a school.                      B. To study American history.

C. To write a book.                          D. To do sightseeing.

2. What can we learn about the girls from Paragraph 3？

A. They enjoyed much respect.                B. They had a room with a bath.