Unit 3 Section Ⅲ
Unit 3 Life in the future
Section Ⅲ Learning about Language & Using Language
Ⅰ.单项填空
1．—Is it possible that one day we will live on another planet?
—________Nothing is impossible.
A．I don’t believe it. B．It’s necessary.
C．It doesn’t matter. D．Probably!
解析： 从答语中的后半部分Nothing is impossible(一切 皆有可能)可推知，答话人认为这是很有可能实现的事情，故选D项。
答案： D
2．Many of the party’s traditional voters________it at the last election.
A．reserved B．deserted
C．preserved D．depressed
解析： 考查词义辨析。句意为：这个党的很多传统支持者在上一次选举中抛弃了它。“抛弃”应用desert表示。reserve预订；preserve保护；保持；depress使忧愁。
答案： B
3．The government should________the reform of the present education system so that children won’t drop out of school because of poverty.
A．keep up B．bring up
C．pick up D．speed up
解析： speed up the reform of the present education system加快目前的教育体系。
答案： D
4．—They seem to believe that we have been taken in.
—Do they really think we are stupid enough to________that?
