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　　Unit3
　　一. .单词拼写
　　1．Father is thankful to me for ________(说服) him to give up smoking.
　　答案　persuading
　　2．We are flying at an ________(海拔) of 20,000 feet.
　　答案　altitude
　　3．You should choose the ________(合适的) tool for t he job.
　　答案　proper
　　4．Some people have a wrong ________(态度) towards the disabled.
　　答案　attitude
　　5．Does environment ________(决定) one's character?
　　答案　determine
　　6．She won't do what I ask—she is very ________(倔强)．
　　答案　stubborn
　　7．The road ________(弯曲) to the left and goes straight.
　　答案　bends
　　8．It was a long train ________(旅程) to get there.[]
　　答案　journey
　　9．They keep in touch with each other since they ________(毕业) from college.
　　答案　graduated
　　10．He________(组 织)the party successfully.
　　答案　organized
　　二. .介、副词填空
　　1．He hadn't made ________ his mind yet what he should do next.
　　答案　up
　　2．The man finally gave ________ to the soldiers' demands.
　　答案　in
　　3．She left school three years ago and has worked as a nurse _ _______ since.
　　答案　ever
　　4．He was fond ________ singing when he was a child.
　　答案　of
　　5．________ usual, there weren't many people at the meeting.
　　答案　As
　　6．In common with many old people, he prefers classical music ________ pop.
　　答案　to
　　7．I don't think he cares ________ what happens to his son.
　　答案　about
　　8．Since graduating ________ college, he has been teaching in the middle school for twenty years.
　　答案　from
　　三、阅读
　　D
　　Ireland has had a very difficult history. The problems started in the 16th century when English rulers fried to conquer(征服) Ireland. For hundreds of years, the Irish people fought against the English. Finally , in 1921. The British government was forced to give independence to the south of Ireland. The result is that today there are two “Irelands”. Northern Ireland. In the north, is part of the United Kingdom. The republic of Ireland , In the south , Is an independent country.
　　In the 1840s the main crop, potatoes was affected by disease and about 750,000 people died of bunger. This, and a shortage (短缺) of work , forced many people to leave Ireland and live in the USA, the Ustralia and Canada. As a result of these problems, the population fell from 8.2 million in 1841 to 6.6 million in 1851.
　　For many years, the majority of Irish people earned their living as farmers. Today, many people still work on the land but more and more people are moving to the cities to work in factories and offices. Life in the cities is very different from life in the countryside, where things move at a quieter and slower pace.
　　The Irish are famous for being warm-hearted and friendly, Oscar Wilde, a famous Irish writer, once said that the Irish were “the greatest talkers since the Greeks”, Since independence, Ireland has revived(复兴) its own culture of music, language, literature and singing. Different are as have different styles of old Irish song which are sung without instruments. Other kinds of Irish music use many different instruments such as the violin, whistles, etc.
　　68.what does the author tell us in paragraph 1?
　　A. how the Irish fought against the English.   B. how Ireland gained independence.
　　C. how English rulers tried to conquer Ireland.   D. how two ”Irelands” came into being.
　　69.we learn from the text that in Ireland_____。
　　A. food shortages in the 1840s led to a decline in population
　　B. people are moving to the cities for lack of work in the countryside
　　C. it is harder to make a living as a farmer than as a factory worker
　　D. different kinds of old Irish songs are all sung with instruments
　　70. the last paragraph is mainly about____。