第7课时 Assessment
一、词汇
A. 根据汉语注释或首字母提示写出单词。
1. Did you also feel a （轻微的）shaking last night?
2. I （使平静）down a lot after I listened to my favourite piece of light music.
3. Several （事故）happened on this dangerous road last month.
4. Mona doesn't like making speeches. She feels （胆怯的）when speaking in front of the whole class.
5. The strong （台风）destroyed thousands of homes.
6. My little sister loves to make （猜测）about the ending of fairy tales.
7. The （炸弹）explosion caused great damage to the building.
8. The forest fire （烧毁）millions of square metres of land.
9. Most of the houses in Jiangsu Province are built with （砖）.
10. （闪电）and thunder often come together during a storm.
11. Usually birds have a very good sense of d when they fly.
12. In the reading room, we should keep s instead of talking loudly.
13. Remember to renew your p before it expires(到期).
14. Many journalists enter the country to r on political news.
15. The police w drivers to slow down, for the heavy rain made the road slippery(湿滑的).

1. slight 2. calmed 3. accidents 4. nervous 5. typhoon 6. guesses 7. bomb 8. burned 9. bricks 10. Lightning 11. direction 12. silent 13. passport 14. report 15. warned

【分析】这是一道英语词汇填空题，需根据汉语注释或首字母提示，结合句子语境、语法规则（如名词单复数、动词时态、固定搭配等）填写正确单词。解题时先明确每道题的提示类型，再结合句子结构和时态等确定单词的正确形式。
【解析】1. 需用形容词修饰名词shaking，汉语“轻微的”对应slight；2. 由listened可知时态为一般过去时，汉语“使平静”对应calmed；3. several后接可数名词复数，汉语“事故”对应accidents；4. feel后接形容词，汉语“胆怯的”对应nervous；5. 汉语“台风”对应typhoon；6. make guesses是固定短语，汉语“猜测”用复数guesses；7. 名词作定语，汉语“炸弹”对应bomb；8. 结合语境用一般过去时，汉语“烧毁”对应burned；9. 表示“砖”的复数形式，对应bricks；10. 汉语“闪电”对应Lightning；11. 固定搭配sense of direction，首字母d对应direction；12. 固定搭配keep silent，首字母s对应silent；13. 护照到期前需更新，首字母p对应passport；14. 记者报道新闻，首字母r对应report；15. 警察警告司机减速，时态为过去式，首字母w对应warned。
【答案】1. slight 2. calmed 3. accidents 4. nervous 5. typhoon 6. guesses 7. bomb 8. burned 9. bricks 10. Lightning 11. direction 12. silent 13. passport 14. report 15. warned
【知识点】英语词汇运用、名词单复数、动词时态
【点评】本题考查基础英语词汇的拼写及在句子中的正确形式，需结合语境和语法规则作答，是英语学习的基础题型，适合巩固词汇基础。
【难度系数】0.6

B. 用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。
1. A lot more people die in traffic accidents than in (nature) disasters every year.
2. Our monitor makes a loud voice so that everyone in class can hear him (clear).
3. We should turn off the lights (save) energy.
4. No one wants to experience an (emergent).
5. Matches may be (danger) for such a young child. Keep them away from kids.
6. How can I fall (sleep) in such a noisy room?
7. Don't keep shouting if you find yourself (trap) during an earthquake.
8. It took them five days (move) away all the bricks and stones there.
9. The workers (cover) their mouths with masks to protect themselves from dust last month.
10. (million) of people were affected by the natural disaster.

1. natural 2. clearly 3. to save 4. emergency 5. dangerous 6. asleep 7. trapped 8. to move 9. covered 10. Millions

【分析】
本题为英语用所给词适当形式填空的基础题型，解题思路是：先分析每个句子的结构，判断空格处所需的词性、时态、非谓语形式或固定搭配，再结合所给词进行变形。具体需关注：修饰名词用形容词、修饰动词用副词；表目的用动词不定式；固定短语/句型需牢记；时态结合时间状语判断；还有名词复数、过去分词作宾补等用法。
【解析】
1. 空格修饰名词disasters，需用nature的形容词形式natural；
2. 空格修饰动词hear，需用clear的副词形式clearly；
3. 此处表目的，用动词不定式to save；
4. an后接可数名词单数，emergent的名词形式为emergency；
5. be动词后需接形容词作表语，danger的形容词形式为dangerous；
6. 固定搭配fall asleep（入睡），故填asleep；
7. find sb + 过去分词作宾补表状态，trap的过去分词为trapped；
8. 固定句型It takes sb + 时间 + to do sth，故填to move；
9. 时间状语last month提示用一般过去时，cover的过去式为covered；
10. 固定短语millions of（数百万的），首字母大写。
【答案】
1. natural 2. clearly 3. to save 4. emergency 5. dangerous 6. asleep 7. trapped 8. to move 9. covered 10. Millions
【知识点】
词性转换、固定搭配、动词时态
【点评】
本题为初中英语基础词汇运用题，侧重考查词性变形、固定短语、句型结构及动词时态等核心基础知识点，题型常规，要求学生熟练掌握词汇的不同形式及常用搭配。
【难度系数】
0.7

C. 选词补全短文。
call collect period die of destroy
Today the earth is getting warmer and warmer. But hundreds of years ago, people had a different problem—a 400-year cold 1! From the 1400s to the 1800s, winters in the northern half of the earth were colder and longer than they are now. Scientists 2 this time the "Little Ice Age(小冰期)".
The colder weather brought many serious problems. Plants 3 cold and illness spread among people. People had to spend a lot more time 4 wood for fires to keep their houses warm. And sometimes, a huge piece of ice would slide down(滑落) a mountain and 5 some villages.
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1. period 2. call 3. died of 4. collecting 5. destroy

【分析】
首先通读短文，理解整体语境，结合所给词汇的词义、词性及语法规则逐一分析每个空：
1. 第1空：前面有“a 400-year cold”，后续说明时间范围是1400到1800年，需填入表示“时期”的名词，对应词汇为period。
2. 第2空：句子表达“科学家把这个时间称作小冰期”，符合固定搭配“call sth sth（把某物称作某物）”，主语为复数，时态为一般现在时，对应词汇为call。
3. 第3空：句子描述植物因寒冷死亡，固定短语“die of（死于……）”符合语境，需用过去式体现过去的状态，对应词汇为die of的过去式died of。
4. 第4空：固定结构“spend time doing sth（花费时间做某事）”要求填入动名词，collect的动名词形式为collecting，对应词汇为collecting。
5. 第5空：would后需接动词原形，句子表达冰山摧毁村庄，对应词汇为destroy。
【解析】
1. 第1空：根据语境，“a 400-year cold”后需接名词表示一段时期，故填period。
2. 第2空：“call sth sth”为固定搭配，主语scientists是复数，时态为一般现在时，故填call。
3. 第3空：“die of”是固定短语，描述过去的情况需用过去式，故填died of。
4. 第4空：“spend time doing sth”是固定结构，collect的动名词形式为collecting，故填collecting。
5. 第5空：would后接动词原形，destroy符合“摧毁村庄”的语境，故填destroy。
【答案】
1. period 2. call 3. died of 4. collecting 5. destroy
【知识点】
名词词义辨析、固定搭配、动词形式变化
【点评】
本题为选词补全短文题，考查基础词汇的词义辨析、固定搭配及动词形式的运用，难度适中，需结合语境和语法规则逐一判断。
【难度系数】
0.7