2016-2017学年高中英语Unit2EnglisharoundtheworldSectionⅣGrammar&Writing学业分层测评.docx

Unit 2 English around the world Section Ⅳ Grammar & Writing
Ⅰ.完成句子
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The teacher told the student to set down what he said.
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Please ask the neighbours not to make so much noise.
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Our school is holding an English party at seven in the concert hall this evening.
,并且努力工作来实现我们的目标。
The chairman suggested we should get along/on well with each other and work hard to achieve our goal.
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You are required to be able to speak English.
Ⅱ.阅读理解
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English is the most widely used language in the history of our .One in every seven human beings can speak than half of the world's books and three quarters of international mails are in all languages,English has the largest vocabulary—perhaps as many as two million words.
However,let's face it:English is a crazy is no egg in an eggplant,neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a are candy,while sweetbreads,which aren't sweets,are meat.
We take English for when we explore its paradoxes (矛盾),we find that quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square,public bathrooms have no baths in them.
And why is it that a writer writes,but fingers don't fing,grocers don't groce,and hammers don't ham?If the plural(复数) of tooth is teeth,shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?One goose,two gees