Unit 9 When was he born?

Self Check

Fill in the blanks with the words given.

Change the form of the word if necessary.

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1. How old were you when you ______

learning English?

2. What can I do to _______ famous?

started

become

3. He _______ playing football

because of his sore back.

4. The Chinese football team ______

Asia last year.

5. John ____ the first prize in the

speech competition.

stopped

toured

won

2 Read the information about Deng Yaping. Then write a passage about her.

Name: Deng YapingDate of birth: 02/06/19731978: stars to play table tennis1983: joins the Henan table tennis team1997: goes to Tsinghua University, majors in English and management1993-1998: become the number one women’s singles player in the ITIF.

Deng Yaping was born on the 2nd of J

une, 1973. She started playing table ten

nis in 1978 when she was only five year

s old. She practiced playing ping-pong

very hard and serious. When she was te

n years old, she joined the Henan table

tennis team. Five years later she

joined the national table tennis team.

From 1993 to 1998 she kept being the

number 1 women’s singles player in I

TTF (The International Table Tennis

Federation ). In 1997, she left the team,

and went to Tsinghua University to st

udy English and management.

年龄表达方法(1) 用基数词表达年龄，可以加上“… y

ears old” three years old ． (2) 用 when 引导的从句 when I was thr

ee (years old)

(3) at the age of ＋基数词 at the age of three

(4) 基数词＋ -year-old , three-year-old,

注意这种表达常作定语

1. Li Yundi, the famous Chinese pianist,

was born ____ October 7th, 1982.

A. on B. in C. at

2. She is ______ girl.

A. an eight years old

B. an eight—years—old

C. an eight—year—old

A

C

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3. Both of them _____ the sports

meeting and did very well.

A. take part in B. join

C. took part in D. joined

4. We didn't go out to play _____ the

bad weather.

A. because B. because of C. met

C

B

5. He is learning to play the piano. He w

ants to be a p_______ in the future.

6. She is good at singing English s_____.

7. Li Yundi began to learn the accordion

at the a___ of four.

8. 你什么时候参加英语俱乐部？ When

will you___________ the English club?

ianist

ong

ge

take part in

9. I took part in the school football team last year. ( 对划线部分提问 ) ________ you ____ part in the school football team.

10. 邓亚萍 1997 年进入清华大学修英语管理专业。

Deng Yaping _______ Tsinghua University and __________ English and management in 1997.

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went tomajored in

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