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Unit 4 Body Language
Part 1 Reading and Thinking
课前积累
假定你是李华，你校将举办英语演讲比赛。请以“Body Language”为题，写一篇演讲稿，内容包括：
1. 肢体语言的重要性；
2. 你常用的肢体语言及原因。
参考范文： Body Language
Good morning, everyone! I’m glad to have the chance to share my view on “Body Language”. Body language
is of great importance when it comes to communicating with others. On various occasions, it conveys more than the
words we speak. Accordingly, proper body language assists us in leaving a good impression on others.
As for me, I prefer to smile when communicating with someone. A smile can narrow the distance between us.
It goes without saying that it is much easier for us to make approaches to the people with a smile. Besides, a smile
makes our communication joyful.
Body language is significant in communication, but we should use it in a proper way.
That’s all. Thanks for your listening.
课后培优练级
练
培优第一阶——基础过关练
I. 单词拼写
1．We have the analytical technique, which is very accurate and r______ (可靠).
2．His casual clothes were not a___________ for such a formal occasion.
3．D________ what has been taught in time allows students to learn more efficiently.
4．When the couple went to China, the husband had to i________ for his wife, who couldn't speak Chinese.
5．How many people does the company e________（雇用）.
6．My mother hardly ever shouted at me in ________(怒气冲冲).
7．Poor health and lack of money may both be _________ (障碍) to educational progress.
8．He is trying to improperly influence a _________（证人）.（根据汉语提示单词拼写）
9．She was paralysed from the ________(腰部) down.
10. As an old teacher in this school, he has________(目睹) the great changes that have taken place in the school.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司11．Better________(互动) between teachers and students can promote the effectiveness of the class to an extent.
12．I wonder if you do me a ________ (帮忙).
13．His eyes are suddenly filled with________ (愤怒).
14．The good news is that a bill a ________ （赞成，批准）by the Senate Finance Committee would test many
reforms hat should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term.
15．How would you feel if a scientist designed a robot ______ (完全相同的)to you?
II.选词填空
witness, demonstrate, identical, employ, interpret, assess, reliable, differ in, by contrast, break down
1．You have to __________ how to operate the computer.
2．It was an extraordinary experience to __________ the first sunrise of the new year.
3．You should find better ways to __________ your time.
4．Your appearance is __________ to hers. You must be twins.
5．They __________ size but not in kind.
6．The guide __________ the foreigner’s remarks for us.
7．Statistical analysis is a means of arriving at a __________ forecast.
8．She had been waiting for Simon to __________ the barrier between them.
9．They __________ his house at a high price.
10．I am not good at expressing myself. __________, I am better at thinking indeed.
III. 单句语法填空
1．I can’t describe my ________(angry) in words.
2．She is the most ________(rely) one of my friends; you can just depend on her.
3．(2020年北京卷)It takes them hundreds of years_____________(break) down.
4．Everything he writes _________ (demonstrate) the depth of his sensibility.
5．She made a ________ (favour) impression on his parents.
6．Two hundred people ________ (employ) by this company in 2020.
7．Many a program of economic reforms ________ (approve) by the Parliament so far.
8．Your opinion may ______（different）from others’, but we value what you think of your plan.
9．The heights of the plants vary __________ 8 cm to 20 cm.
10．Jones' idea has been fully realized-the "HAPPY TO CHAT" benches help break ________ the invisible social
barrier that keeps people from saying hello.
【答案】down
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12．Can't we employ someone ________ an assistant to help with all this paperwork?
13．The sisters were identical ________appearance and character.
IV. 翻译句子
1．过去的几十年已经见证了中国经济的快速发展。 (witness ) （汉译英）
2．烛光和剪纸的交融构成了传统灯笼之美。（lie）（汉译英）
3．演讲时，听众越多，手势动作的幅度就应越大，这样听众才不易分散注意力。 (the more…the more…)
(汉译英)
4．只有使用了特殊设备，我们才能把这副油画赝品和原作区分开。（Only）（汉译英）
V. 课文语法填空
Words are important, but body language can also give us 1 (inform) about people's feelings. Body
language is one of 2 most powerful means of communication. It is used 3 (convey)
people's thoughts and opinions and to communicate with each other. When talking with others, you are not just
using words, 4 using facial expressions as well as gestures. Just like spoken language, body language
5 (vary) from culture to culture. The gesture for “OK” has different meanings in different cultures. The
gestures we use for “yes” and “no” and the way we greet 6 (different) around the world. Some gestures
seem to have the same meaning everywhere. Placing your hands together and resting them on the side of your head
while closing your eyes means “sleep”. Some body language has many different uses. Perhaps the best example is
smiling.
A smile can help us get 7 difficult situations and find friends. A smile can break 8
barriers. Experts suggest 9 (smile) at yourself in the mirror 10 (make) yourself feel
happier.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
培优第二阶——拓展培优练
阅读理解A
（2021·全国·高二课时练习）What is technology doing to language? Many assume the answer is simple:
ruining it. Kids can no longer write except in textspeak. Grammar is going to the dogs. The ability to compose
thoughts longer than a post is disappearing. Language experts tend to resist it, noting that there is little proof that
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司speech is really degenerating, nor is formal writing falling apart.A study by Cambridge Assessment found almost
no evidence for textspeak in students’ writing.
Fortunately, the story of language and the Internet has attracted more serious analysts, too.Now Gretchen
McCulloch, a journalist of the generation that grew up with the Internet, joins them with a new book, Because
Internet, which focuses on what can be learned about language from the Internet. Biologists grow bacteria in a Petri
dish partly because they are born and reproduce so quickly that studies over many generations can be done in a
reasonably short period. Studying language online is a bit like that: trends appear and disappear, platforms rise and
fall, and these let linguists observe changes that would otherwise take too much time.
For example, why do languages change? A thousand years ago, early English and Icelandic were closely
related. English has since developed hugely, and Icelandic far less. Linguists have studied the relative effects of
strong and weak ties(friends, family) in such patterns, concluding that small communities would host more stable
languages. The Internet combines strong and weak ties—and sure enough, drives more language change.
In the end, Ms McCulloch’s book is about the birth of a new medium rather than a new language. Mass
reading has now been joined by mass writing: frequent, errorfilled and quickfading.Little surprise that Internet
users have created tools to give their writing the gesture, playfulness and even meaninglessness of chat. Mistaking
it for the downfall of “real” writing is a category error. Anything that helps people enjoy each other’s company can
only be a good thing.
1．What does the underlined word “degenerating” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A．Strengthening. B．Worsening. C．Changing. D．Refreshing.
2．Why are bacteria in a Petri dish mentioned in Paragraph 2?
A．To explain bacteria have a short lifetime.
B．To stress the difficulty of researching language online.
C．To reveal the relation between language and the Internet.
D．To show online language can be studied in limited time.
3．What contributes to the fast development of English?
A．A large Englishspeaking population. B．The lasting effect of mass media.
C．A stable languageusing community. D．The wide application of the Internet.
4．What’s the author’s attitude to online language?
A．Ambiguous. B．Positive. C．Objective. D．Cautious.
阅读理解B
（2021·全国·高二课时练习）As with many etymologies(词源), the exact root of this word is difficult to say
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司with one hundred percent certainty. However, the leading theory is extremely believable and backed up by a fair bit
of documented evidence. Specially, it is thought that a dollar is called a “buck” thanks to deer.
One of the earliest references of this was in 1748, 44 years before the first US dollar was created, where there
is a reference to the exchange rate for a cast of alcoholic drink traded to Native Americans being “5 bucks”,
referring to deerskin.
In yet another documented reference from 1748, about Conrad Weiser, while traveling through present day
Ohio, noted in his journal that someone had been “robbed of the value of 300 Bucks”.
At this time , a buck skin was a common medium of exchange. There is also evident that a “buck” didn’t
simply mean one deerskin, but may have meant multiple skin, depending on quality. For instance, skin from deer
killed in the winter were considered superior to those killed in the summer, due to the fur being thicker. It is thought
that the highest quality skins generally had a one to one value at a single buck. The specific value for given sets of
skins was then set at trading. In addition, when the skin was from another animal, the number of skins required to
equal a buck varied based on the animal and the quality of the skins. For instance, there is one documented trade
where twelve high-quality rabbit skin equaled one buck.
This use of skins as a medium of exchange gradually die off over the next century as more and more
Europeans moved in and built towns and cities. Once the US dollar was officially introduced after the passing of
the Coinage Act of 1782, it quickly became the leading item used as a medium of exchange, but the term “buck”
stuck around and by the mid-nineteenth century was being used as an informal term for dollar.
5．It can be inferred from the text that _______.
A．the first dollar was made from a deerskin
B．a skin from any animal was valued at a buck
C．the quality of a deerskin varied with the change of seasons.
D．deerskins were the only medium for trading in the 1970s
6．When did the use of skins as a common medium of exchange die off?
A．As more and more Europeans settled in America.
B．When the Coinage Act of 1792 was passed.
C．When the bucks died out in the 1950s.
D．As the US dollar was officially introduced.
7．The author develops this text mainly by _______.
A．analyzing causes B．following the order of importance
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司C．making comparison D．following the order of time
8．The text is mainly about_______.
A．when the dollar first appeared B．why a dollar is called a buck
C．What a dollar was worth in the past D．how the word dollar came into being
七选五
（2021·全国·高二课时练习）Much meaning can be conveyed clearly with our eyes, so it is often said that
eyes can speak. __13__In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not for too long. And if he sensed that you are
staring at him, he may feel uncomfortable.
The same is true in our daily life. If you are stared at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and
down to see if there is anything wrong with you. ___14___. Eyes do speak, right？
Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and aggressive.____15____. If a man stares at a woman for
more than 10 seconds and refuses to look away from her, his intentions are obvious. He wishes to attract her
attention, and let her know that he is admiring her.
However, when two persons are engaged in a conversation, the speaker will only look into the listener’s eyes
from time to time to make sure that the listener does pay attention to what the former is speaking.___16___ If a
speaker looks at you continuously when speaking as if he is trying to control you, you will feel awkward. A poor
liar usually exposes himself by looking too long at the victim.
__17__ On the contrary, it will give him away.
Actually, eye contact should be made based on specific relationship and situation.
A．If nothing goes wrong, you will feel annoyed at being stared at that way.
B．That’s what normal eye contact is all about.
C．Actually, continuous eye contact is limited to lovers only.
D．Do you have such a kind of experience?
E．But things are different when it comes to staring at the opposite sex.
F．He wrongly believes that looking straight in the eye is a sign of honest communication.
G．After all, nobody likes to be stared at for quite a long time.
培优第三阶——高考沙场点兵
阅读理解
（2017·湖北·枝江市第二高级中学一模）The death of languages is not a new phenomenon. Languages
usually have a relatively short life span as well as a very high death rate. Only a few, including Egyptian, Chinese,
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司Greek, Latin, have lasted more than 2,000 years.
What is new, however, is the speed at which they are dying out. Europe's colonial conquests caused a sharp
decline in linguistic diversity, eliminating at least 15 percent of all languages spoken at the time. Over the last 300
years, Europe has lost a dozen, and Australia has only 20 left of the 250 spoken at the end of the 18th century.
The rise of nation-states has also been decisive in selecting and consolidating national languages and
sidelining others. By making great efforts to establish an official language in education, the media and the civil
service, national governments have deliberately tried to eliminate minority languages.
This process of linguistic standardization has been boosted by industrialization and scientific progress, which
have imposed new methods of communication that are swift, straightforward and practical. Language diversity
came to be seen as an obstacle to trade and the spread of knowledge. Monolingualism became an ideal.
More recently, the internationalization of financial markets, the spread of information by electronic media and
other aspects of globalization have intensified the threat to “small” languages. A language not on the Internet is a
language that “no longer exists'' in the modern world. It is out of the game.
The serious effects of the death of languages are evident. First of all, it is possible that if we all ended up
speaking the same language, our brains would lose some of their natural capacity for linguistic inventiveness. We
would never be able to figure out the origins of human language or resolve the mystery of "the first language". As
each language dies, a chapter of human history closes.
Multilingualism is the most accurate reflection of multiculturalism. The destruction of the first will inevitably
lead to the loss of the second. Imposing a language without any links to a people's culture and way of life stifles
the expression of their collective genius. A language is not only used for the main instrument of human
communication. It also expresses the world vision of those who speak it, their ways of using knowledge. To
safeguard languages is an urgent matter.
9．Which of the following does not contribute to the death of languages?
A．Colonial conquests of Europe
B．The boom of human population
C．Advances in science and industrialization
D．The rise of nation-states
10．The underlined word “stifles” in the last paragraph probably means " ".
A．boosts B．fuels
C．imposes D．kills
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司11．The serious effects of the death of languages include all except that .
A．People would fail to understand how languages originated
B．Language diversity would become an obstacle to globalization
C．Monolingualism would lead to the loss of multiculturalism
D．Human brains would become less creative linguistically
12．What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?
A．To explain the reasons why languages are dying out.
B．To warn people of the negative aspects of globalization.
C．To call people's attention to the urgency of language preservation.
D．To argue how important it is for people to speak more languages.
语法填空
（2022·全国·高三课时练习）阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
We use flowers as messengers, to say something we might have trouble saying ____18____(direct) ourselves.
Over time flowers have come to symbolize the most powerful human experiences: beauty, love, hope, and rebirth.
Sweet flowers alone can say ____19____ one fears expressing. We’ve listed some of the most famous flowers
____20____ have a special significance.
In Mao Zedong’s poem Ode to the Plum Blossom( 《 咏 梅 》 ), the plum blossom was used
____21____(praise) great soldiers who sacrificed their lives for a better life for Chinese people.
____22____ great Chinese poet Li Bai from the Tang dynasty once compared Yang Yuhuan’s beautiful face to
blooming peonies(牡丹). Flowering in May, peonies’ large petals and strong colors are linked to prosperity(繁荣)
and ____23____(rich) in traditional Chinese culture.
The orchid(兰花) is well known for its delicate smell. Beautiful articles and poems ____24____(call)
“lanzhang” by Chinese people in ancient times.
Roses, of course, have the ____25____(colorful) meaning among all the flowers. Red roses, to this day, mean
“I love you. ” A red rose, rather than yellow roses, ____26____(act) as the traditional romantic gift given to your
love on Valentine’s Day. ____27____(send) yellow roses can be risky, as they represent either friendship or envy.
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