2.1 课时作业
Ⅰ.用所给词的适当形式填空
1．With the telescope, they can observe distant stars that are ________ (visible) to the naked eyes.
2．At the shot, the birds immediately flew away in all ________ (direct)．
3．He lay ________ (wake) for the whole night, worrying about his lost child.
4．________ (rough) speaking, it was about 30 kilometres' ride.
5．He began to have headaches and to show signs of ________ (exhaust)．
6．The novel is very ________ (philosophy), and both adults and children have difficulty in understanding it.
7．Liu Ruoying played the ________ (hero), a woman thief in the film named No Thieves in the World.
8．The little boy ________ (behaviour) with great courage in the face of the gunman.
答案：1.invisible 2.directions 3.awake 4.Roughly
5．exhaustion 6.philosophical 7.heroine 8.behaved
Ⅱ.阅读理解
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SUPERMAN
Superman, the man of steel, was probably the first interesting comic book hero. In the “pre－super” days, the silly heroes in comic strips and later comic books always came second to the arch－villains. It was the man of steel who was able to turn tables on the arch－villains and achieve true hero status.
However, Superman was not merely the first of a long line of comic heroes. He was also quite different from
