Unit 1 A land of diversity

选修八Unit 1 A land of persity

“America is a big melting pot.” This is almost the only thing I can remember from the course “American Society and Culture” I took at college. Now, even though over a decade has went by, the definition our teacher gave is still clearly written in my mind: the melting pot here means that people with different cultural and ethnical backgrounds immigrate to the States, live together, get mixed and build up this wonderful culture that we call American culture today.

When I came to the American school, things disappointed me. Yes, we did have a perse student body almost 40% of which was made up of international students. However, they were not integrated 融合 with native Americans. Asians always hang out with Asians, blacks with blacks, Spanish with Spanish. They could be in the same study group or the same class or go to the same restaurant, but rarely could they become great friends. This

phenomenon was neither due to the barrier of language, nor due to different personalities. The bottom line has always been culture.

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选修八

Unit 1

考题对接真题链接 体会考点

1.[教材原句]Wish you were here.(U1P6) [真题呈现](2011· 北京，28)—Where are the children? The dinner's going to be completely ruined. —I wish they ________ always late. A.weren't B.hadn't been

C.wouldn't be D.wouldn't have been

[考题巧解] 解析：本题考查wish后跟that从句中虚拟语气在具体语 境中的应用。故选A项。

答案：A

2.[教材原句]It_didn't_occur_to_me_that...(U1P5) [真题呈现](2012· 江西卷，25) It suddenly occurred to him ________ he had left his keys in the office. A.whether C.which B.where D.that

[考题巧解] 解析：本题考查主语从句。本句中it为形式主语，后面 为主语从句，从句句意完整，也不缺少句子成分，故选D 项。It occurred to sb. that...“某人突然想起......”。句意： 他突然想起把钥匙落在办公室里了。

答案：D

3.[教材原句]In

1911

immigrates

from

Denmark

established a town of their own, which today still keeps_up their Danish culture. (U1P2) [真题呈现](2012· 湖北卷，23)Walking alone in the dark, the boy whistled to ________ his courage. A.hold up C.set up B.keep up D.take up

[考题巧解] 解析：本题考查动词短语。根据题意，这个男孩独自走 在黑暗中，吹着口哨以保持(继续)前进的勇气，所以最佳答 案为B。keep up“保持，使不低落”;hold up“举起，支 撑，使停顿”;s

et up“建立”;take up“拿起，占用，开 始做，从事”;A、C、D三项均不符合题意。

答案：B

基础回顾稳扎稳打 网络构建

Ⅰ.单词速记 A.联想记忆 1.means n. 手段；方法→by ________ means 决不(置 于句首，句子用部分倒装) 2.majority majority 占大多数 3.elect v t. 选择；决定做某事；选举某人→elect n. 大多数；大半→__________ the/a

________ sth. 选择、决定做某事

4.occur vi. 发生；出现→sth. occurs ________ sb. 某人 想起某事 5.slip v i. 滑动；滑行；滑跤；n. 滑动，滑倒→slip

______... 从 滑落；迅速脱去 6.________ vt. & n. 租用；雇佣→fire v. 解雇 7.__________ adv. 无处；到处都无→anywhere adv. 在任何地方

8.grasp vt. & n. 抓住；抓紧；掌握；领会→grasp ________... 试图抓 9.thankful adj. 感激的；感谢的→be thankful

________... 感激 10.________ n. 权威；权力；(pl.) 当局；官方