Unit 2  Working the land
Ⅰ. 单词拼写
1.       (饥饿)  is the best sauce.
2. Her shoulders were badly       (晒伤).
3. Another        (超级) skyscraper is being built.
4. Manufacturing       (产量) has increased by 8%. 
5. The business has      (扩展) a big one.
6. Farmers produce millions of tons of g      to feed the nation.
7. Would you mind writing a s    of the passage? About 200 words are OK.
8. At that time the British pound can e    ＄2.80.
9. She’s c    to do well in the examination.
10. Doctor gave me some advice on diet and n    .
Ⅱ. 用方框内所给单词或短语的适当形式填空
be satisfied with/graduate from/struggle/lead a ...life/ with the hope of/rid of
1. I       the result of the experiment.
2. They have      for years to drive the invaders out of their country.
3. We all wish that we could         the world  crime.
4. In  some less  developed  areas in  China, some  farmers  are  still           poor         .
5. After       college, he went to Shenzhen land      getting a chance to become rich soon.
Ⅲ. 同义句转换
1. Better stay with us. If you stay with us, you are much safer.
Better stay with us. If      , you are much safer.
2. That was the way he treated his parents.
That was                   his parents.
3. The weather in Kunming is much better than the weather in Harbin.
The weather in Kunming is much better than       in Harbin.
4. As she didn’t know the way to the hospital, she turned to the police for help.
Not         the way to the hospital, she turned to the police for help.
5. They went to the supermarket on foot instead of by taxi.
They went to the supermarket on foot               by taxi.
Ⅳ. 单项填空
从A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. We have learned 3,000 words      .
A. during past decade  B. in the past decade
C. a decade ago        D. after a decade
2. Our monitor made it      to read English every morning.
A. a habit      B. habit    C. rule  D. a duty
3. Two years ago, I       a high school.
A. graduate for    B. graduated from
C. left from      D. left for
4.      the good weather, we can climb the mountain easily.
A. Because        B. As      C. Thanks to    D. Because for
5. The bedroom is twice       the kitchen.
A. as bigger as    B. bigger than  C. big than  D. bigger to
6. Seldom       what I says.
A. does my mother care for  B. my mother cared about
C. my mother care for        D. does my mother care about
7. I       to him. He is too serious.
A. didn’t use to talk      B. am not used to talking
C. am not used to talk      D. didn’t use to talking
8. When you are confused about some words in reading, you can       the dictionary.
A. refer to  B. look up  C. check    D. have a look at
9. Our country         vegetable.
A. is rich in  B. are rich in
C. was rich on  D. rich for
10. We       he be present at the meeting.
A. insist on  B. insisted    C. stuck  D. insisted on
Ⅴ. 阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
Even plant can run a fever, especially when they’re under attack by insects or disease. But unlike human, plants can have their temperature taken from 3,000 feet away—straight up. A decade ago, adopting the infrared（红外线）scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmers precisely target pesticide（杀虫剂）spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field, which invariably includes plants that don’t have pest problems.
Even better, Paley’s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000 feet at night, an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were transformed into a colour-coded map showing where plants were running “fevers”. Farmers could then spot-spray, using 50 to 70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would.
The bad news is that Paley’s company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works. “This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States, ” says George Oerther of Texas A & M. Ray Jackson, who recently retired from the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But only if Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago.

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