Unit2Sportingevents--ReadingThehonorablegames同步练习2（人教版必修4）.doc

PAGE  PAGE 5 Unit 2 Sporting events—Reading The honorable games 同步练习2 I. 用所给短语的适当形式填空： （每题1.5分，共15分） save time no matter what take sides with make peace come to one’s attention under one’s own name one’s attempt to be recognized as compete in take part in 1. I should ____________ with them if I were you. 2. ____________ I say, he always thinks I am wrong. 3. Did he publish his novel _____________, or under a pseudonym (笔名)? 4. He failed in ____________ win first prize. 5. Make a list before you go shopping if you want to ___________. 6. He ____________ in the revolutionary movements in 1885. 7. Mother _________ David against Father in the argument. 8. Shall you _________ the swimming race? 9. John __________ one of best footballer in the school. 10. It ____________ that the boy stutters (说话口吃). II．完形填空：（每题2分，共40分） Yesterday evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a 　1　for scientific discoveries. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, 　2　something that caught my 　3　. “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the age of twenty-five and thirty.” Being a little over thirty myself, I wanted to 　4　with him. Nobody wants to think that he is past the age of making any 　5　. The next day I went to the public library, spending several hours, and 　6　to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right. 　　 First I looked at some of the 　7　discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that　8　that bodies of different weight 9　at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he 　10　his world-changing theory of relativity. Well, 　11　of that. Yet I wondered if those “best years” were true in other 　12 . 　　 Then how about 13 ? Surely it needed the wisdom of 14　to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people 　15　　their careers. Winston Ch