2020-2021學年高二英語人教版必修5課時作業(yè)5 Unit 2　The United Kingdom Warming Up Reading Word版含解析

1、課時作業(yè)5warming up & reading.單詞拼寫1the committee consists of ten members.2if you divide 30 by 5, the answer is 6.3roughly (粗略地) speaking, i would say that about 100 people attended the exhibit.4many stores have a delivery service for the convenience (便利) of customers.5what attracts (吸引) me most of t

2、he job is the opportunity to travel.6i don't like the architecture (建筑藝術) of the eighteenth century.7generally, we are unwilling to be blamed.8when will the government clarify (澄清) its position on equal pay for women?9before starting the new service, the company carried out a nationwide (全國范圍的)

3、opinion poll.10we accomplished (完成) this difficult task ahead of time.選詞填空consist of， be used to， as well， break away from， leave out， refer to， divide into， look around， instead of， for convenience1the whole class can be divided_into six groups.2he never referred_to his sisters in his letters.3how

4、about reading more books instead_of watching tv?4it is up to you to decide what to leave_out and what to leave in.5you should try your best to break_away_from your bad habits.6you'd better keep the name list on the table for_convenience.7their diet mainly consists_of vegetables.8i came here many

5、 years ago. now i have been_used_to the life here.9andy's face paled with disappointment, perhaps with anger as_well.10i'm going to look_around and see what i can find.單句語法填空1he has clarified (clarify) the difficult problem by giving a full explanation.2his private collection (collect) is ve

6、ry precious.3at the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion (union), on and on, until my own lost dog and i were, in my mind, running together.4the beautiful scenery made his stay there enjoyable (enjoy)5each individual ant hardly weighs anything, but put together they weigh r

7、oughly (rough) the same as all of mankind.6there was a conflict between the accounts of the witnesses.7it is convenient (convenience) for you to get here by boat.8if you are unwilling (willing), don't hesitate to say no.9no matter how attractive (attract) they look in the store, once i get them

8、home they're unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless.10look at the title and pictures in the reading passage and predict what it is about.11there you will find out more about british history and culture.12it has the oldest port built by the romans in the first century ad.課文語法填空great britain consist

9、s 1.of four countries：england, wales, scotland and northern ireland. in the 13th century, wales 2.was_linked (link) to england. in 1603, they were joined to scotland. they were united 3.in peace instead of by war. however, just as they were going to get ireland 4.connected (connect) to form united k

10、ingdom, the southern part of ireland broke away, 5.so only northern ireland joined with england.england is 6.the_largest (large) of the four countries and for 7.convenience (convenient) it was divided roughly into three zones：the south of england, the midlands and the north. most of the population 8

11、.are_settled (settle) in the south, but most of the industrial cities are located in the midlands and the north. london is the capital city with the great 9.historical (history) treasures. it has the oldest port 10.built (build) by the romans in the 1st century ad, the oldest building begun by the a

12、nglosaxons in the 1060s and the oldest castle constructed by later norman rulers in 1066.閱讀理解awould you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook by yourself? have you been doing internet shopping rather than going to the stores? what can't you be bothered to do? a study into how lazy br

13、itish people are has found more than half of the adults are so lazy that they'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.just over 2,000 people were quizzed by independent researchers in the britain's largest health centre. the results were very surprising. about one in six peo

14、ple who were asked said if their control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up. more than one third of those asked said they would not run to catch a bus. worryingly, of 654 respondents (調查對象) with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.

15、we know that it's no wonder that one in six children in the uk is very fat before they start school. dr sarah dauncey, medical director of the centre, said, “people need to get fitter, not just for their own health, but for their families, friends and pets, too.” “if we don't start to take c

16、ontrol of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most basic tasks.”and scotland's largest city, glasgow, was shamed as the laziest city in the uk, with 75% asked thinking they do not get enough exercise, followed by birmingham and southampton, both with 67%.so

17、 there are some problems for the national health service, where fatnessrelated illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on an increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.本文是一篇說明文，主要介紹了針對英國人的懶惰進行的一項調查。1of 654 respondents with children, 64% said _.athey wer

18、e often too busy to play with their childrenbthey were often so tired that they couldn't play with their childrencthey were often so sad that they didn't want to play with their childrendthey were often ill and they couldn't play with their children答案：b解析：細節(jié)理解題。根據第二段最后一句worryingly, of 65

19、4 respondents (調查對象) with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.可知，在654名有孩子的調查對象中，64%的人說他們經常因為太疲憊而沒有和孩子們一起玩。故選b項。2which of the following is true according to the passage?aall the adults in the uk are very lazy.bhalf of the children are very fat before they go to school.cpets

20、 will be in trouble if their owners don't keep healthy.dall people in glasgow feel ashamed because they don't get enough exercise.答案：c解析：推理判斷題。根據第三段中的“people need to get fitter, not just for their own health, but for their families, friends and pets, too.”可推知如果主人不健康，他們的寵物就會有麻煩。故選c項。3what doe

21、s the passage mainly talk about?athe health service in the uk.ba study of british people's lifestyles.ca study of british people's laziness.dthe fatness problem in the uk.答案：c解析：主旨大意題。根據第一段中的a study into how lazy british people are has found more than half of the adults are so lazy that they

22、'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.可知，本文是對英國人的懶惰進行的一次調查。故選c項。blearning any language is hard, but learning english can be especially challenging. why? because native speakers use the language in ways that textbooks could never describe. in particular, words that british peo

23、ple use cause many language students to scratch (抓) their heads.here's an example: you overhear (碰巧聽到) a briton calling someone a “wazzock”. but what exactly is a wazzock? this word, in fact, means a foolish person, although there's nothing about it that would help you guess that. there are

24、many strange terms like this in british english. the oxford english dictionary would be much smaller without these peculiar (古怪的) usages filling its pages.how can these odd words be explained? part of the answer is the british sense of humor. britons don't like to take things too seriously, and

25、this is evident through many british words and phrases. for example, to “spend a penny” means to use the bathroom. it refers to the days when people had to pay a penny to use a public toilet.in an interview for the bbc's website, british linguist (語言學家) david crystal suggested there may be histo

26、rical reasons for the sheer (龐大的) number of odd words and phrases in british english. he thinks that they began in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. this was a great age for the theater, when shakespeare and other writers worked hard to keep up with the demand for new plays. the theater's

27、popularity also created an incentive (刺激) to invent new words.with this in mind, perhaps shakespeare and his peers are to blame for unusual british words such as “codswallop” and “balderdash” which both, ironically (諷刺地), mean “nonsense”while these strange words may be confusing to non­native s

28、peakers, they certainly make studying english a lot more interesting.4according to the text, why may non­native speakers find it hard to learn english?aa great many strange words make no sense to them.bdictionaries don't explain odd usages of many words.cthe english textbooks they study are

29、 usually out of date.dthe english vocabulary is too large for them to learn.答案：a解析：由第一段words that british people use cause many language students to scratch (抓) their heads 可知單詞使英語學習者抓狂。第二段舉例說明很多古怪的單詞讓人摸不著頭腦。故答案為a。5with the example of “spend a penny”， the author intends to _.aexplain the meaning and background of the phrasebexplain how some strange phrases were createdcshow what typical british sense of humor isdshow british people's attitude toward strange words答案：b解析：根據問題，定位到第三段。首句how can these odd words be explained？是本段的中心句，作者認為這些怪詞與英式幽默有關，通過舉例“spen