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Special difficulties难点
People would rather pay large sums of money than…(11.7-8)
Instead of saying:
We can say:
I prefer to wait hete.
I would rather wait here.
Or: I would sooner wait here.
I prefer not to wait here.
I would rather not wait here.
Or: I would sooner not wait here.
It would be better if he waited here.
I'd rather he waited here.
It would be better if he didn't wait here.
I'd rather he didn't wait here.
Exercise练习
Give the correct form of the verbs in parentheses:
1 I'd rather ______ (go) to the cinema.
2 I'd rather he ______ (leave) earlier.
3 I'd rather you not ______ (speak) to him.
4 I'd rather not ______ (speak) about it.
5 I'd rather my father ______ (settle) the account.
6 She'd rather you not ______ (tell) anyone about it.
Multiple choice questions多项选择题
Choose the correct answers to the following questions.
Comprehension 理解
1 What‘protection’ did Chicago gangsters give to those who paid them?
a.They saved those people's businesses from destruction.
b.They left those people's business premises unharmed.
c.They protected those people against criminals like Sir John Hawkwood.
d.They did not take those people's lives.
2 Sir John Hawkwood's Italian name, ‘Giovanni Acuto’, was one which ______ .
a.he gave himself in order to become better known to the Italians
b.he earned through his sharp practice of selling his‘protection’
c.he needed in order to hire his soldiers to Italian princes
d.was given him in recognition of his services to the Italian states
3 The Italians regarded Hawkwood as a sort of hero ______ .
a.in that they could not help admiring his boldness and bravery
b.as he helped the citizens in peacetime when business was bad for them
c.despite the protection money he offered to those whose farms he burnt
d.for he lived so long and was given a state funeral by the Florentines
Structure结构
4 Obtaining‘protection money’is a crime which ______ practised for a long time. (1.5)
a.has been
b.is
c.was
d.is being
5 People prefer paying large sums of money ______ their life work destroyed by gangsters. (11.7-8)
a.than have
b.to have
c.to having
d.than they have
6 Princes used to hire ______ Hawkwood. (11.11-12)
a.his soldiers from
b.soldiers from
c.soldiers of
d.some soldiers of
7 They would refuse to go away ______ protection money was paid to them. (11.13-14)
a.unless
b.provided that
c.except that
d.without
8 ______ at the age of eighty, the Florentines gave him…(11.15-16)
a.On dying
b.Having died
c.On his death
d.Dead
Vocabulary词汇
9 Six hundred years have ______ since Sir John Hawkwood arrived in…(11.9-10)
a.past
b.passed
c.been
d.departed
10 ----princes who were ______ to pay the high price he demanded. (11.11-12)
a.agreeable
b.accepting
c.desirable
d.prepared
11 Hawkwood made large sums of money ______ . (1.14)
a.by the way
b.with such manners
c.on this road
d.like this
12 ‘the most ______ soldier and most notable leader’…(11.16-17)
a.valuable
b.worthy
c.brave
d.hardy
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发表于 2016-7-11 23:06:06
