Module 5 Section Ⅳ Grammar & Writing
课时作业
Ⅰ.单句语法填空
1．The scientists made the conclusion (conclude) that water once existed on Mars according to those pictures.
2．I will never forget their reaction (react) when they got the unexpected gifts. 3．Some teaching equipment (equip), together with 300 books, has been sent to that school.
4．Although astonished (astonish) at what he heard, Peter didn't say anything. 5．The mixture (mix) tasted terrible and the boy couldn't help making a face. 6．Our motherland launched another satellite last week, and all of us were proud of it. 7．He was as busy as a bee trying to put the house in order.
8．To find (find) out more information about the key university, you can visit its website.
9．There have been many improvements in the area of language teachings since the 1990s.
10．Walls and drains have been built to keep sand and water out of the greenhouse.
Ⅱ.阅读理解
A
A Vietnamese man hopes to raise the quality of education in his country by building “parent libraries” in rural schools.Nguyen Quang Thach provides libraries to the schools so books are more available in farming communities.He works with publishers in Hanoi to get the books at reduced rates for teachers and their students.
Mr.Thach says most schools have enough textbooks.But he says many poor families have few books at home and do not visit school libraries.He learned this by talking with farmers, workers and students.
More than 90 percent of Vietnam's population can read and write.But academic performance in the schools remains low compared to other Southeast Asian nations.Corruption is a big part of the problem.Vietnamese media often have stories
about teachers giving high grades in exchange for money.
Some experts criticize teaching methods that depend heavily on dictation.They say asking students to repeat everything a teacher says to the class harms their ability to think for themselves.
Nguyen Quang Thach says he wants people to invest money in books for a better future.To date, almost 1,000 parent libraries have been built in Thai Binh Province, Hundreds of books are in each one.Several other provinces have copied this model.
For each school, Mr.Thach helps build libraries for up to four classes.Other people then follow his example.Parents of school children pay three dollars each for the first year and one dollar in other years.
The head of the An Duc Secondary School, Pham Duc Duong, told reporter Marianne Brown that Mr.Thach's work has improved the quality of education.
“He says students have been doing better in competitions, especially in social science.”
Duong Le Nga heads the school youth group.She says that after the libraries were built, students started asking teachers more questions.The students also set up debating teams.She thinks Mr.Thach's example helps students think more creatively—“outside the box.”
The deputy head of the school, Uong Minh Thanh, says many students there will work in factories.But after seeing the influence of the new libraries, he hopes the children will set high goals for themselves.
【解题导语】 本文是一篇记叙文，越南的教育系统存在很多漏洞，导致学生成绩很低，一个越南男子希望通过建立父母图书馆来提高农村学校的教学质量，在图书馆建成以后，学生们比以前能创造性地思考了。
1．We can learn from the passage that Vietnamese teachers ________. A．lack creative teaching methods
B．don't have a high salary to support family C．make money by forcing students to attend classes D．don't have enough books to read
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据第四段中的“Some experts criticize teaching methods that depend heavily on dictation.”可知，一些专家批评越南老师依赖听写
的教学方法，由此可知越南老师的教学方法缺乏创造性，故A项正确。
2．How is the library project carried out?
A．Every school will be provided with four libraries. B．Mr.Thach and parents co-fund for the libraries. C．Parents pay three dollars every year. D．Parents should pay four dollars in all.
解析：选B 细节理解题。根据第六段“For each school, Mr.Thach helps build libraries for up to four classes.Other people then follow his example.Parents of school children pay three dollars each for the first year and one dollar in other years.”可知，Thach帮学校建立图书馆后，其他人也以他为榜样，家长也交钱，他们共同资助图书馆，故B项正确。
3．In Duong Le Nga's opinion, students ________. A．have been doing better in compositions B．need to have a box when thinking C．are more creative in thinking than before D．should set high goals for themselves
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中的“She thinks Mr.Thach's example helps students think more creatively—outside the box.”可知，Duong Le Nga认为这些图书馆让学生们比以前能创造性地思考了，故C项正确。
4．What's the main idea of the passage?
A．People think highly of Nguyen Quang Thach's“ parent libraries”project. B．Vietnamese teachers' corruption is ruining the future of children. C．Schools in Vietnam are in great need of libraries.
D．A Vietnamese helps the quality of education by a book revolution.
解析：选D 主旨大意题。根据文章内容，特别是第一段中的“A Vietnamese man hopes to raise the quality of education in his country by building ‘parent libraries’ in rural schools.”可知，本文主要讲述了一个越南人希望通过建立父母
图书馆来提高农村学校的教学质量，故D项正确。
B
I started out in life with few advantages.I did not graduate from high school.I worked at menial(不体面的)jobs.I had limited education, limited skills and a limited future.
And then I began asking，“Why are some people more successful than others？” This question changed my life.
Over the years, I have read thousands of books and articles on the subjects of success and achievement (成就)．It seems that the reasons for these accomplishments have been discussed and written about for more than two thousand years, in every possible way.One quality that most philosophers, teachers and experts agree on is the importance of self-discipline (自律)．As Al Tomsik summarized it years ago，“Success is tons of discipline.”
Some years ago, I attended a conference in Washington.It was the lunch break and I was eating at a nearby food fair.The area was crowded and I sat down at the last open table by myself, even though it was a table for four.A few minutes later, an older gentleman and a younger woman who was his assistant came along carrying trays of food, obviously looking for a place to sit.With plenty of room at my table, I immediately arose and invited the older gentleman to join me.He was hesitant, but I insisted.Finally, thanking me as he sat down, we began to chat over lunch.
It turned out that his name was Kop Kopmeyer.As it happened, I immediately knew who he was.He was a legend in the field of success and achievement.Kop Kopmeyer had written four large books, each of which contained 250 success principles that he had obtained from more than fifty years of research and study.I had read all four books from cover to cover, more than once.
After we had chatted for a while, I asked him the question that many people in this situation would ask，“Of all the one thousand success principles that you have discovered, which do you think is the most important？”
He smiled at me with a twinkle in his eye, as if he had been asked this question many times, and replied, without hesitating，“The most important success principle of all was stated by Thomas Huxley many years ago.He said，‘Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.’”
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