Unit 2 Exploring English
Period 2 Using language 练习
1. I am looking forward to_______（meet）you soon. Five years have passed since we saw each other last time.
2. He thinks highly of the team he support, while we may add negative comments about an _________（oppose）team.
等额选举3. Remind him not ____（let）the information out to others.
4. The man was ____（confuse）and looked into the issue, and finally found out the he told a lie.复配
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5. I know he looks very young, but he is _____（actual）45.
6. This kind of T-shirt has been sold out. Would you like to exchange it ___something else of the same price?
7. This is the first time that he has commented _____my clothes seriously.
8. My watch ____（behave）well since it was repaired.
9. What should be done to punish people who do harm ___ the animals?
10. I ____（entire）agree with you.
【答案】
1. meeting 2. opposing 3.to let 4. confused 5. actually
6. for 7. on 8. has behaved 9. to 10. entirely
To show that English is interesting and __1__正丁醇（create）, the writer uses many examples
and expressions that can show the crazy__2__（mad）of English.
For instance, as a matter of fact, there is no ham in hamburger and there is no egg in eggplant. Also, there is neither pine__3__apple in pineapple. While we can sculpt a sculpture and paint a painting, we can only take __4__photo. __5__（struggle）among all these usages, one may feel puzzled about why “carsick”means“sick in a car”while “homesick”means“sick far away from home”. Besides, it’s not easy __6__（understand）why while “hard” is the opposite of “soft”, “hardly” and “softly” are not an __7__（pair）.More examples are offered to show how mad English can be. When stars are out, they visible, but when lights are out, they are invisible. In addition, when one winds up his watch, it starts; while a passage__8__（wind）up, it ends.
【答案】
1. creative 2. madness 3. nor 4. a 5. Struggling
6. to understand 7. opposing 8. is wound 9. why 10. reflects
Part 3 阅读理解 A（2019江苏盐城模拟）李琦家庭背景
As businesses and governments have struggled to understand the so-called millennials—born between roughly 1980 and 2000—one frequent conclusion has been that they have a unique love of cities. A deep-seated preference for night life and subways, the thinking goes, has driven the revitalization of urban cores across the U.S. over the last decade-plus.
But there’s mounting evidence that millennials’ love of cities was a passing fling(放纵). Millennials don’t love cities any more than previous generations.
The latest argument comes from Dowell Myers, an urban planning professor at USC.As they age, says Myers, millennials’ presence in cities, will “be evaporating(蒸发) through our fingers, if we don’t make some plans now.” That’s because millennials’ preference for cities will fade as they start families and become more established in their careers.
It’s about more than aging, though. Demographer William Frey has been arguing for year
s that millennials have become ‘stuck’ in cities by the 2008 downturn and the following slow recovery, with poor job prospects and declining wages making it harder for them to afford to buy homes in suburbia.
Myers, too, says observers have confused young people’s presence in cities with a preference for cities. Survey data shows that more millennials would like to be living in the suburbs than actually are. But the normal career and family cycles moving young people from cities into suburban houses have become, in Myers’ words, “a plugged-up drain.”
But unemployment has finally returned to healthy lows (though participation rates and wages are still largely stagnant), which Myers says should finally increase mobility for millennials.
Other trends among millennials, supposedly matters of lifestyle preference, have already turned out to have been driven mostly by economics. What was once deemed their broad preference for public transit may have always been a now-reversing inability to afford car
s. Even decades-long trends towards marrying later have been accentuated as today’ s young people struggle for financial stability.
Investors are already taking the idea that millennials will return to old behavior patterns seriously, putting more money into auto manufacturers and developers. But urban lifestyles, up to and including trendy bars, aren’t just hip—they’re a part of what powers a city’s economic engines, bringing people together to explore new ideas, create companies, and build careers.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, we saw that suburbanization(城市郊区化) also means an economic and social hollowing out for cities. Now that the economic shackles are coming off today’s young city residents, cities that want to stay vibrant(充满生机的) have to figure out how to convince them—and their growing families—to stick around.河南中医学院教务处
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