Unit 2 English around the world
一、请根据各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。
第一组：direction, command, lightning, block, request, accent, retell, recognize, standard, northwestern
1 ___________ is a kind of natural phenomenon.
2 Please read the __________ on the bottle before taking the medicine.
3 May and I are classmates, but we live in different _________.
4 Mao Zedong spoke with a strong Hunan __________.
5 When we met many years later I could hardly __________ Lily at the airport.
6 Gansu is a __________ province of China.
7 If you want to learn Chinese, you may learn from her. She speaks very ________ Chinese.
8 Will you please __________ the story to the whole class?
9 Visitors are ___________ not to touch the exhibits.
10 He lived in America for five years and has a good __________ of English.
第二组：rule, rapidly, apartment, government, subway, identity, international, vocabulary, include, present, native, actually
11 The population of that country is increasing ___________.
12 Our __________ must do something to stop the rising house prices.
13 The police are trying to discover the __________ of the killer.
14 Usually you will read faster if you have a bigger English _________.
15 All those _________ at the meeting are high officials.
16 _________, English is not so hard to learn if you put your heart into it.
17 _________ speakers of English are in good demand in our school.
18 Only ten boys passed the exam, _________ Peter and you.
19 My father likes me to major in __________ trade when I go to university.
20 Underground and _________ mean the same in English.
21 Englishmen say flat, while Americans say ____________.
22 India was once __________by Britain and won its independence in 1947.
二、把下列短语填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填短语的形式变化）：
| play a …role (in) because of come up such as even if play a …part (in) |
1 Dujiangyan(都江堰) is still ___________in irrigation(灌溉) today.
2 That question ___________ at yesterday’s meeting.
3 Karl Marx could speak a few foreign languages, _________Russian and English.
4 You must ask for leave first __________ you have something very important.
5 The media _________ major ________ in influencing people’s opinions.
6 _________ years of hard work she looked like a woman in her fifties.