Unit4Meetingthemuse分层跟踪检测(二)Usinglanguage A 级 必备知识基础练.单句语法填空1.This bit of success,however,was the point at _ my problem began.2.On the way home,the girl looked _ her shoulder and found a figure following her.3.Hearing my words,David turned to me tremblingly with tears_(spill)out of his eyes.4.He was determined_(save)his dads life no matter how much he would spend.5._(fascinate)by the structural beauty of the Forbidden City as a painter,she is equally interested to learn more about Chinese philosophy.which over spilling to save Fascinated .选词填空 serve as;be worth;look over;respond to;apart from;connect with;be tired from;be determined to1.The jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older,and the music has failed to _ younger generations.2.We must _ well-founded criticism with willingness to change.3._ her own efforts,teamwork is also an essential part of her success.4.The good news is that its simple to learn and can _ the effort.connect with respond to Apart from be worth serve as;be worth;look over;respond to;apart from;connect with;be tired from;be determined to5.We_collect as many school supplies as possible and we succeeded.6.I thought the doctors would _ hours of surgery.7.The woman _ at the man and he was still staring at her.8.We bought a sofa big enough _ a bed when necessary.were determined to be tired from looked over to serve as .单句写作1.有导游带我们参观景点,我们玩得很开心。(with的复合结构)_ _ _ _ _ _ the scenic spots,we had a good time.2.这个博物馆很值得参观。The museum _ _ _ _.(worth)The museum _ _ _ _ _ _.(worthy)_ _ _ _ _ the museum.(worthwhile)With a guide showing us around is well worth visiting is well worthy of being visited Its very worthwhile to visit 3.直到他们队输掉比赛,他才意识到合作的重要性。He _ _ the importance of cooperation _ his team lost the contest.(陈述句)_ _ his team lost the contest _ _ _ the importance of cooperation.(倒装句)_ _ _ _ his team lost the contest _ _ _ the importance of cooperation.(强调句)didnt realize until Not until did he realize It was not until that he realized .用所给词的正确形式填空Toms hobby was 1._(smoke).He likes reading newspapers because it was 2._(interest).He felt 3._(astonish)when he read a newspaper about lung cancer.What he wanted to do was 4._(give)up smoking at once.But sometimes he remained 5._(puzzle)if he should continue or give up.So he got 6._(change)and went to a hospital to find a doctor for help,who showed him some 7._(frighten)pictures of lungs whose owners smoked heavily.So he was 8._(determine)to stop smoking and followed the doctors advice.Now his part-time job is 9._(educate)people about health and he finds the work is very 10._(reward).smoking interesting astonished(to)give puzzled changed frightening determined to educate rewarding B 级 能力素养提升练.阅读理解When The Alchemist was first published twenty-five years ago in my native Brazil,no one noticed.A bookseller in the northeast corner of the country told me that only one person purchased a copy the first week of its publication.It took another six months for the bookseller to unload a second copy.And who knows how long it took to sell the third.At the end of the year,my original publisher decided to cancel our contract.I was forty-one and upset.But I never lost faith in the book.Why?Because it was me in there,all of me,heart and soul.I was living my own fantasy.A man sets out on a journey,dreaming of a beautiful or magical place,in search of some unknown treasure.At the end of his journey,the man realizes the treasure was with him the entire time.I was following my personal legend(传奇)and my treasure was my talent to write.And I wanted to share this treasure with the world.I started knocking on the doors of other publishers.One opened,and the publisher on the other side agreed to give The Alchemist a second chance.Slowly,through word of mouth,it finally started to sellthree thousand,then six thousand,ten thousand book by book,gradually throughout the year.Eight months later,an American visiting Brazil wanted to translate the book and help me find a publisher in the United States.But it still took some time to sell,slowly finding its audience in the United States by word of mouth,just as it did in Brazil.And then one day,Bill Clinton was photographed leaving the White House with a copy.Then people from different walks of life were suddenly talking about it.The Alchemist became a phenomenon.The book hit The New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for more than three hundred weeks.It has since been translated into more than eighty different languages,and is widely considered one of the ten best books of the twentieth century.【语篇导读】本文是一篇记叙文,主要讲的是作者的书The Alchemist从无人问津到变得流行的故事。1.How many books did the writer sell in the first year?A.One.B.Two.C.Three.D.Unknown.推理判断题。根据第一段的“A bookseller in the northeast corner of the country told me that only one person purchased a copy the first week of its publication.It took another six months for the bookseller to unload a second copy.And who knows how long it took to sell the third.”可知,这位作家第一年卖出的书是未知的,故选D项。2.Why did