Unit 2 A life’s work
Section B Using language (重点练)
李晨身价
一、语法填空
Michelangelo
Michelangelo was an Italian artist about 500 years ago. Today he is still remembered as a great sculptor, painter, and architect.
Michelangelo was born________a poor family. He was trained at an early age like any other craftsman in Italy. At thirteen, he started to work and learn in a workshop________belonged to one of the leading masters at that time. In the workshop Michelangelo was able to learn all the skills of sculpture. However, he wasn't satisfied, and went on________(study)the works of the great masters of the past. Michelangelo worked hard and he mastered one problem after another. By the time he________(be)30, he had been generally regarded as one of the outstanding sculptors of the age.
In 1508,________Michelangelo was 33 years old, he was given a task --- to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. At first, he tried to turn down this job,________(say) that he was not really a painter, but a sculptor. Finally, he agreed to do it. He then shut himlf up in the chapel, let no one come near him, and got ready to work alone.
It took him four years to complete the paintings on the ceiling. Any ordinary person would find________hard to imagine what Michelangelo had gone through in tho four years of hard and lonely work. Michelangelo, while working, had to lie on his back and paint,________, as a result, made him so accustomed to looking upward that when he received a letter during that period, he________hold it over his head to read it. Finally, the paintings were completed. The great and huge paintings on the ceiling and walls of the chapel have become________great fascination to people in Italy and all over the world ever since.
Michelangelo left us with a great number of sculptures and paintings. Today his works are still examples for art students to study and follow. Home and overas visitors can't help but admire the masterpieces.
二、完形填空
Mr. Bard is the manager at his family's shoe company.He really 1 competence in his workers.He always tells the 2 and hard-working employees that he is关于冬天的四字成语 3 of them.But Mr.Bard does not only show his appreciation through words.The most competent workers are also paid 4 .
Mr.Bard thinks when an 5 works harder and produces higher quality shoes,the company earns more money. 6 ,the employee should also earn more.But many of the less competent workers 7 .
“We are equal,”they protest（抗议）. “We do the same job,so we should get the 8 pay!”
He is a kind man,but he is also 9 .If he keeps hiring the less competent workers,the whole company will 10 , and perhaps all employees will lo their jobs.It will also be bad for his family and for the company is 11 .
To 12 the situation,Mr.Bard creates evening workshops（工作坊）to help 13 the employees who are not working at company 14 .They watch the most competent workers,who receive a special bonus for 15 their co-workers,and make lots of notes.They inspect the production line,ask lots of questions,and 16 until they are skilled and 17 .
Production at the company 18 and the customers are happier with the high 19 shoes!As sales increa, Mr.Bard is able to pay his workers better.And 20 the company's smart pay system,the most competent workers can be highly rewarded.
1. A. appreciates | B. describes | C. absorbs | D. agrees |
2. A. excited | B. skilled | C. born | D. considerate |
3. A. worried | B. confud | C. proud | D. painful |
4. A. wor | B. less | C. degree | D. more |
5. A. employer | 工作收获怎么写 B. employee | C. degree | D. guarantee |
6. A. However | B. On the contrary | C. In other words | D. Therefore |
7. A. disagreed | B. disliked | C. disappeared | D. discouraged |
8. A. high | B. same | C. low | D. distant |
9. A. silly | B. likely | C. wi | D. simple |
10. A. lect | B. shake | C. suffer | D. scold |
11. A. drivers | B. teachers | C. cooks | D. customers |
s弯技巧12. A. improve | B. put up | C. postpone | D. come up |
13. A. forget | B. ll先予执行申请书 | 佝偻病 C. train | D. harm |
14. A. standards | 再接再励是什么意思B. limits | C. borders | D. patience |
15. A. picking | B. teaching | C. tolerating | D. weighing |
16. A. warn | B. sneeze | C. sob | D. practice |
17. A. productive | B. affected | C. strict | D. straight |
18. A. goes down | B. goes away | C. goes against | D. goes up |
19. A. quantity | B. ability | C. quality | D. equality |
20. A. regardless of | B. thanks to | C. instead of | D. in spite of |
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三、阅读理解
A
In 1905, as part of his special theory of relativity, Albert Einstein published the point that a large amount of energy could be relead from a small amount of matter. This was expresd by equation E=mc2 (energy equals mass times the speed of light squared). But bombs were not what Einstein had in mind when he published this equation.
In 1929, he publicly declared that if a war broke out he would "refu to do war rvice, direct or indirect…" His position would change in 1933, as the result of Adolf Hitler's coming into power in Germany.
Einstein's greatest role in the invention of the atom bomb was signing a letter to President Franklin Roovelt urging that the bomb be built becau some physicists feared that Germany might be working on an atom bomb. Among tho concerned were physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner. But Szilard and Wigner had no influence on th
o in power. So in July 1939 they explained the problem to someone who did: Albert Einstein. After talking with Einstein, in August 1939 Szilard wrote a letter to President Roovelt with Einstein's signature on it, which was delivered to Roovelt in October 1939.
