牛津译林版英语九年级上册同步课时练习 Unit 4 Growing up. Period 8 名著阅读（含答案）

第8课时　[Unit 4 名著阅读]

I spent a lot of time making a large shelf for my cave. I found a big tree and chopped it down. This took three days. Then, I chopped off the branches. This took another two days. After that, I chopped the wood away from one side, and then from the other side. This took more than one month. Altogether it took forty­two days. In England, two men with a good saw(锯) could have made six of these shelves from that tree in half a day.

I also spent a lot of time looking after my corn and rice crops. I had to protect them from wild animals and birds, so I made a fence around them. I shot some of the birds and hung them up near the corn. After that, all the other birds stayed away. I used one of the old swords I had taken from the ship to cut down the corn when it was ready. I was very proud of my corn and rice and worked hard to increase my crops. A few years later, I would have enough corn to make bread. I had to find a way to grind the corn into flour, but the rocks on the island were not hard enough. I finally discovered that a very hard piece of wood would do. I used some cloth to separate the meal from the husks(外壳). Not having an oven, I made some square pots with lids and covered them with hot ashes(灰烬). This baked the dough(生面团), and I had bread! I made my cave bigger again to hold the corn and flour so that I could make bread whenever I needed to.

I sometimes wondered how I could get to the land which was visible from the other side of the island. I went to the ship's boat that was blown onto the beach in the shipwreck(海难). However, I could not get it to the water. It was too heavy. I tried many different ways of doing it, but none of them were successful.

—Adapted from Robinson Crusoe(《鲁滨逊漂流记》)

(　　)1.From Paragraph 1, we know that the writer ________．

A．made a foolish mistake in chopping down a big tree

B．felt hopeless and couldn't have made a shelf himself

C．spent a long time making a large shelf without a saw

D．made a small canoe(独木舟) with the wood he chopped down

(　　)2.The writer ________ to protect his corn and rice.

A．watched out for them day and night

B．divided the cave into several different parts

C．put some old swords from the ship around them

D．built a fence and hung some birds' bodies up near the corn

(　　)3.In which order did the writer make bread successfully?

a．The writer found a way to grind the corn into flour.

b．The writer baked the dough with square pots.

c．The writer separated the meal from the husks.

d．The writer made some square pots with lids.

A．a­c­d­b   B．a­d­c­b   C．b­d­c­a   D．c­b­a­d

(　　)4.The underlined world “visible” in the last paragraph means “________” in Chinese.

A．偏僻的   B．看得见的   C．模糊的   D．遥远的

【词汇积累】

chop v. 剁碎；砍　altogether adv. 完全地；总共；总而言之　increase v. 增加，增大，增多　grind v. 磨(粉)；用力挤压；碾碎　bake v. 烤，烘焙

【词汇活用】

从“词汇积累”中选择合适的单词，并用其适当形式填空。

1．—How did you learn to ________ cakes?

—I learned it on the Internet.

2．Look! Some farmers are ________ firewood for the coming winter.

3．Before making dumplings, you first need to ________ the meat.

4．—How much is that ________？ —500 yuan.

5．It's reported that the company has ________ the price of its cars.

答案

【主旨大意】 本文是一篇记叙文。本文节选自《鲁滨逊漂流记》。文章讲述了鲁滨逊花了42天为自己的洞穴做了一个大的架子；然后又花了一些时间照看玉米和稻谷；后来把谷物磨碎后做了面包。

1—4　CDAB

【词汇活用】

1．bake　2.chopping　3.grind　

4．altogether　5.increased