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精品文档选修八 Unit 1 A land of diversityWelcome to our village. Id like to tell you _ we fought against the flood last year. Last summer there was too _ rain and a serious flood hit our village, flooding the fields and roads, _ away many of our houses _ even bringing danger to the people s safety._ the help of the PLA, we would not have been able to overcome the difficulties, win the battle _ the terrible flood, and get _ fairly good harvest last autumn. What moved us most is _ the village head, Zhang Deming, let the flood flow into his fish-pond, preventing _ from going into the village.We all thought _(high) of his devoted spirit in the interests of the whole village. We should learn from him.Unit 2 CloningCloning is a way of _(make) an exact copy of another animal and plant. _ has two major uses. One is _ gardeners use it to produce commercial quantities of plants. The _ is that it is valuable for research on new species and for medical research on animals. _, the process of cloning is difficult to undertake.Many attempts to clone mammals failed. The first successful clone, Dolly the sheep, made the whole _(science) world follow its process, though it had _ problems than the normal sheep. On the other hand, Dolly s appearance _(raise) a storm of abjections and had a great 精品文档精品文档impact _ the media and public imagination. Different people have different opinions of it. However, scientists still wonder whether cloning will help _ harm us and where it is leading us.Unit 3 Inventors and inventions_ the writer called up her mother in the country on the phone, she learned that snakes came near their house and that the snakes seemed _(make) their home near their house. The writer felt proud and considered _ a chance for her to distinguish _by inventing something _ would catch snakes but not harm them. She set about _(research) the habits of snakes. She decided to cool them so that they could be _(easy) caught. However, her first two plans were not successful. As a result, she had to attempt a _ time, which helped her fulfill her aim successfully. She was _ delighted that she was determined to send her _(invent) to the patent office to get recognition for her successful idea.Unit 4 PygmalionEliza Doolittle was _ unrefined, dirty flower girl with poor phonetics _Professor Higgins was an expert in phonetics. One day they happened to meet each other while _(hide) from the rain. When Eliza was talking with a gentleman, Higgins always watched her and took notes, _ made her get worried, for she thought he was a 精品文档精品文档policeman _ disguise. In fact he just showed interest in her poor phonetics and made a bet with Colonel Pickering _ he was going to meet. Higgins said once _(educate) to speak properly, Eliza could pass _ off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador s garden party. After that Higgins threw a _(hand) of money into her basket and left with Pickering, leaving Eliza _(excite) and in amazement. Eliza decided to find him the next day.Unit 5 Meeting your ancestorsA group of students from England has come to the Zhoukoudian Cave for a visit. _ archaeologist is showing them around. The archaeologists _(excavate) here for many years. After finding human and animal bones _ those caves higher up the hill as well as tools and ornaments, they think _ reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold. They discovered fireplaces in the center of the caves _ they constructed fires. Some evidence suggests that our ancestors did _ clothes _(make) from animal skins. The archaeologist also shows the students a primitive necklace _(preserve) quite well. Indeed, as the botanical analysis has been _ (special) showing us, all the fields around here used to be part of part of a large shallow lake. Perhaps there was trade between early people _ they traveled to the seaside on their journeys.精品文档精品文档参考答案：Unit 1third, surprising, which, settlers, what, by, was discovered, has become, It, soUnit 2making, It, that, other, However, scientific, more, raised, on ,orUnit 3When, to have made, it, herself, that, researching, easily, third, so, inventionUnit 4an, while, hiding, which, in, who/whom, educated, herself, handful, excitedUnit 5an, have been excavating, in, it, where, wear, made, preserved, specially, or精品文档
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