UNIT 3 SPORTS AND FITNESS
课时跟踪检测（四）Reading for Writing
[语言基础训练]
Ⅰ.单词拼写
1．Most students take quite positive (积极的) attitudes towards their difficulties.
2．The rate of heart disease and cancer increases as people’s diet (饮食) changes.
3．Push-up (俯卧撑) is to press your body up from the floor with your arms, and then lower it slowly.
4．He began to jog (慢跑) along the road.
5．He is so careless that there are many spelling errors (错误) in his homework.
6．The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to stress (强调) the importance of learning English.
Ⅱ.单句语法填空
1．She weighed more than 90 kilograms, so she decided to go on a diet every day.
2．Compared (compare) with them, we’re more confident of success.
3．It is truly the little things that make a difference in life!
4．Now and then he would stop, but we’d continue to talk as I drove down the dark road.
5．You look much slimmer (slim) these days than before.
Ⅲ.选词填空
rather than, make a difference, now and then, compare ... with/to ..., cut ... out
1．Two suits can be cut_out of this piece of material.
2．Boys, however, use computers for homework and schoolwork only now_and_then.
3．The fresh air has made_a_difference to her health.
4．We carefully compared the first report with/to the second one.
5．Rather_than take the plane all the way, they decided to take the train to Canada.
Ⅳ.课文缩写训练(将课文缩写成80词左右)
Though_I_knew_that_it_was_impossible_for_me_to_look_like_the_slim_girls_on_TV,_ I_tried_my_best_to_lose_weight_and_tried_every_new_diet._One_day,_I_read_an_article_ which_made_a_great_difference_to_my_life._I_began_to_consider_my_fitness_rather_than _weight._I_started_to_work_out_and_added_healthy_foods_to_my_meals_instead_of_cutti ng_out_the_foods_I_enjoyed._I_didn’t_compare_myself_with_the_actresses_or_models_any _more_and_was_positive_about_myself_and_my_body._As_a_result,_I_became_both_happi er_and_healthier.
[主题读写训练]
Ⅰ.阅读理解
The word “sport” first meant something that people did in their free https://www.doczj.com/doc/547200126.html,ter it often meant hunting wild animals and birds.About a hundred years ago the word was first used for organized games. This is the usual meaning of the word today. People spend a lot of their spare time playing football, basketball, tennis and many other sports.Such people play because they want to. A few people are paid for the sport they play. These people are called professional (职业化的) sportsmen. They may be sportsmen for only a few years, but during that time the best ones can earn a lot of money.
For example, a professional footballer in England earns more than ￡30,000 a year. The stars can earn a lot more. International golf (高尔夫球) and tennis champions (冠军) can make more than ￡500,000 in a year. Of course, only a few sportsmen can earn as much money as that.It is only possible in sports for individuals (个人), like golf, tennis and motor racing (赛车). Perhaps the most surprising thing about sportsmen and money is this: the stars can earn more money from advertising (做广告)than from sports.As an advertisement for sports equipment doesn’t simply say “Buy our things.” It says “Buy the same shirt and shoes as ...” Famous sportsmen can even advertise things like watches a nd food.They allow the companies to use their names or a photograph of them and they are paid for this. Sports are no longer just something for people’s spare time.
语篇解读：本文介绍了体育运动的发展演变。
1．The word “sport” first meant ________.
A．something for people’s spar e time
B．organized games
C．hunting wild animals and birds
D．money
解析：选A细节理解题。由短文第一段可知，“运动”一词最初的含义是“人们在业余时间里所做的事情”。
2．It is only possible for champions of ________ to earn more than ￡500,000 in a year.
A．football B．volleyball
C．basketball D．tennis
解析：选D细节理解题。由第二段第三句知，国际高尔夫球和网球冠军一年可以挣50多万英镑。
3．Sports stars can earn money from________.
A．sports
B．advertising
C．sports and buying things
D．sports and advertising
解析：选D细节理解题。由第二段可知，运动员一方面通过比赛挣钱，另一方面还可以通过拍广告挣钱。
4．Sport is more for ________ than for anything else.
A．health B．money
C．people’s spare time D．people’s whole time
解析：选B推理判断题。由短文最后一句可知，体育再也不只是人们业余时间才做的事情。结合上文提到的运动员挣钱可知，答案为B项。
Ⅱ.应用文写作
假如你是李华，你的加拿大笔友Harry 上周写信询问你的体育爱好。请根据以下要点给他写一封回信，内容包括：
1．你喜欢的运动项目及原因，如有益于身心健康(physical and mental health)、增强自信等；
2．何时喜欢上这项运动，现在参加该运动的情况如何；
3．询问对方的体育爱好。
注意：1.词数80左右(信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数)；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Harry，
I am glad to receive your letter. Now I’m writing to tell you about my favourite sports.
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely，
Li Hua 参考范文：
Dear Harry，
I am glad to receive your letter. Now I’m writing to tell you about my favouri te sports.
I like table tennis best, which I think is beneficial to both physical and mental health, as it not only helps to build up my strength and confidence but also brings pleasure to my life. What’s more, it makes me more energetic and effective in m y study. I began to show great
interest in it at 7.To improve my skills, I practice playing table tennis with my teammates and friends every weekend after finishing our homework.
By the way, I’m curious about your hobby. Would you please tell me about it? Looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely，
Li Hua
Ⅲ.读后续写
阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。词数50左右。
One day, my brother and I were alone in our apartment, which was on the first floor of the building. The reason was that my parents had both gone for a ball party and had left me in charge of everything. I was doing my homework while my younger brother was watching TV. All of a sudden, the doorbell rang. Ding-dong! Ding-dong! My younger brother had rushed to the door before I decided to answer the door. We both thought that our parents had come home. As a result, he unlocked the door and opened it.
Outside of the house stood a man who wore a black raincoat and black rubber boots. He looked no different from other people and he said that he was a salesman and asked politely if our mother or father was at home so he could talk with them.
Without any thinking, my brother said, “No.” He asked if we would like to buy some comic books, which he was selling. I quickly explained to him that we were not supposed to buy anything without our parents’ permission. However, it seemed that he was not willing to follow my advice and he had an intention to enter our house.
Then, I realized something terrible would happen. As I was about to close the door, he forced his way into our house. He took out a knife and forced me to tie up my brother’s hands with some rope which he took out from his pocket. I tied up his hands but I tied it in a special way so my brother could untie himself as we often did. The man then tied my hands up and locked both of us in the kitchen.
Soon, he went upstairs to search the bedroom for something valuable. I managed to teach my brother to untie the rope on his hands. He then untied me. I rushed to the telephone to call the police, but line was dead.
The doors w ere all locked from the outside and w hat’s w orse, I did not ha v e the keys.
参考范文：
The doors w ere all locked from the outside and w hat’s w orse, I did not ha v e the keys. But luckily, the man forgot to lock the kitchen window. Both my brother and I managed to get out of the house through the window and we ran to the nearby police station and asked them for help. The police arrived at our house as soon as possible. And as a result, the man was caught.