Unit 3 课下能力提升(十一)
Ⅰ.单句语法填空
1.What kind of advice ________ (give) to you?
2.-What happened to the saleswoman?
-We don't know. She ________ (see) around here these days.
3.As a result of the serious flood twothirds of the buildings in the area need ________ (repair).
4.The construction of the gym must ________ (complete) by the end of January according to the contract.
5.Yesterday Peter ________ (give) a ticket for speeding.
6.Food supplies in the floodstricken area ________ (run) out.We must act immediately before there's none left.
7.-Do you have any problems if you ________ (offer) this job?
-Well, I'm thinking about the salary.
8.-Why don't we choose that road to save time?
-The bridge to it is ________ (repair).
9.Great changes ________ (take) place in the city in the past 20 years, and a lot of factories ________ (set) up.
10.Unless some extra money ________ (find), the theatre will close.
Ⅱ.完成句子
1.我们同意不再谈这件事了。
We agreed never ________________ again.
2.从技校毕业之后,他受雇当了一名技师。
After graduating from a technical school, he ________________ a mechanic.
3.他是班上唯一被选上去参加模拟联合国大会的同学。
He's the only student in the class ________________ to take part in the Model United Nations conference.
4.而且我认为一则广告还有它独立的功能。
And I think an advertisement ____________________.
Ⅲ.阅读理解
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Ever get that feeling you're being watched? Well, if you're a dogowner, you may have a point.Dogs are able to watch people's interactions with one another to determine who holds yummier treats, according to a new study.This study joins others that show dogs are good observers of human behavior and feelings.It offers evidence dogs use information not only from people's direct interactions with them, but also their interactions with one another.
In the study, dogs watched a man ask two women for some of their corns. Both women gave the man corns when he asked, but in response to one woman, the man showed his enthusiasm and said the corns were so delicious.In response to the other woman, he gave the corns back and called them gross (in Spanish; the study was conducted in Argentina).After these interactions, the man left and an assistant holding the dog let the dog go.While many dogs didn't approach either woman, the dogs that did have a preference tended to prefer the woman with the yummier food.
Other studies of dogs' peoplewatching ability have found dogs are able to tell the difference between happy and sad faces in their owners.They prefer people who give others food when asked over people who don't give others food.And in one study, dogs turned toward crying people more often than toward talking people.
So how much do dogs really understand about the humans around them? That's not totally settled yet.In a strange twist to the Argentine study above, when the researchers tried an experiment in which they put two plates of corns on a table and had a man react to each plate,