人教2003课标版《Learning about Language》最新PPT课件优质课下载

人教2003课标版《Learning about Language》最新PPT课件优质课下载

regardless of aware excavation

assume ample primitive due

Davidson Black was a Canadian doctor who organized the __________ that led to the discovery of the bones in the Zhoukoudian caves near Beijing. He was a specialist in the study of bones and it was his ambition to find and _______ bones of early humans. His university was _____ of the significance of his work.

excavation

identify

aware

At first they gave him _______ time to do this research, but later they realized he was prepared to pursue it ___________ his students’ needs and his teaching career, so they forbade him to travel there any more. It was his assistant, Pei Wenzhong, who made the discovery of these _________ bones and ___________ stone tools.

ample

regardless of

primitive

sharpened

Somehow he cycled thirty miles to Dr Black because there was no __________ means of transport. Dr Black ________ this discovery would change the way academics thought about early people in China. He knew that his success was almost entirely ____ to his assistant’s systematic hard work.

alternative

assumed

due

Complete these sentences using the correct form of the phrases below.

on behalf of in spite of ahead of regardless of because of instead of

Nobody has the right to spit in the street _____________ their social position or age.

regardless of

2. __________ the song’s popularity, the band deleted it from their new album as they failed to find one who could sing it well enough.

3. Sophie got a bad scratch from her cat ___________ her carelessness while playing with it.

In spite of

because of

4. Sam made a tentative guess that six months of his flying course lay _________ him.

5. The vice president gave a welcome speech ___________ the Academy of Arts at the exhibition.