补全短文。
Mr Smith is 84 years old now. He has seen many changes in his hometown.
He knows that things are ______ now. But he never ______ the old days. He likes to talk about them. He often talks about his favorite ______, the robins(知更鸟). "When I was a boy, there were not these houses here. There were wide fields and tall trees. Every ______ the robins would come. Thousands of them would ______ up to the north from the south. They ______ the winter in the ______. Some would build their nests(巢) in the trees near our houses. Then people started to cut down trees in order to ______ more houses and grow crops. The robins stopped coming. They couldn't build their nests near our houses ______ there were no trees."
"Now there are too many houses and too many roads. ______ there are no places for the robins. They won't come any more," Mr Smith says sadly.
完形填空。
A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apple trees he grew. One day, his friend gave him a young apple tree and asked him to _______ it home and plant it. The farmer was pleased with the gift, _______ when he got home he did not know where to plant it. He was afraid that if he planted the tree near the road, _______ would steal the fruit. If he planted the tree in one of his fields, his neighbors would come at night and steal some of the apples. If he planted the tree near his house, his children would take the fruit. _______ he planted the tree in his wood where no one could see it. But _______ enough sunlight and good soil, the tree soon died. Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a _______ place. "If I had planted the tree near the road, strangers would have stolen the fruit. If I had _______ the tree in one of my fields, my neighbors would have come at night and stolen some of the apples. If I had planted it near my house, my own children would have taken the fruit," the farmer said _______. "Yes," said the friend. "But _______ someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now you not only have robbed(剥夺) everyone of the fruit, but also you have _______ a good apple tree!"
1.A．sell B．take C．grow D．get
2.A．or B．and C．but D．so
3.A．strangers B．friends C．children D．neighbors
4.A．Certainly B．Luckily C．Recently D．Finally
5.A．without B．in C．with D．for
6.A．rich B．poor C．good D．beautiful
7.A．planted B．taken C．brought D．protected
8.A．badly B．angrily C．quickly D．happily
9.A．at last B．at least C．at once D．at times
10.A．destroyed B．saved C．polluted D．repaired
阅读与表达(问答式)。
Pranav Kalyan may seem like any other fourth grader at Willow Elementary School. He likes watching the TV show "Pokemon" and playing soccer with his friends.
But the Agoura Hills student also spends up to nine hours studying computer programming.
That drive helped the 9yearold to become the youngest Microsoft Certified(被证明的) Technology Specialist(专家).
"I read the books and I write the code on the computers and if I don't understand what they say in the books I search it up on Google." Pranav said.
The previous(以前的) record holder was a 12-year-old from Dubai.
"He looks like any other little kid, acts like any other little kid, but I bet if you asked him any calculus(运算) problem he would give you the answer quickly." said Pranav's fourth grade teacher Sharlene Church.
"Do you plan many activities for your son?" I asked Pranav Kalyan's father.
"We don't want to push him, actually we are getting more advice from the school teachers and the headmaster and everything; we want to make sure he doesn't lose his childhood, we want him to enjoy." his father Kalyan Mohan said.
When asked why he went through all the work to get certified, Pranav proves once again that he's wise beyond his years, "It's easier to get a job when I'm older."
1.What does Pranav Kalyan like doing?
2.What is Pranav Kalyan famous for?
3.Who helps Pranav Kalyan to understand the code on the computers?
4.What childhood does Pranav Kalyan's father hope his son to have?
5.Why does Pranav Kalyan think he is easy to get a job when he's older?
阅读理解。
Robots are supposed to run on batteries, right? Well not all of them.
Scientists in England have built a kind of small robots that get their energy from dead flies, bad apples, or sugar.
One robot, called Slugbot, was even designed to hunt(猎取) garden slugs for dinner!
What's up with all that food?
Well, scientists at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory want to invent robots that can operate for a long time in dark, dirty, or dangerous places.
Many of those spots, like the seafloor or Antarctica, don't have electrical sockets(插座).
So inventor Chris Melhuish came up with a better idea: Build robots that get their energy just like animals do by hunting and eating food from their environment.
One robot, called Ecobot Ⅱ, could run for 12 days on a diet of eight flies! Of course, it'd still get a lot more power from one AA battery, though.
Melhuish says his team is now working on a new and improved robot, called Ecobot III, which will have a better digestion system.
It seems that after an eight fly dinner, Ecobot II couldn't deal with the leftover(剩下的) "waste".
Maybe restrooms in the future will have signs for boys, girls, and robots.
1.An ordinary robot usually .
A．gets its energy from sugar
B．depends on batteries to work
C．can get food for itself
D．can work a few minutes without energy
2.From the passage, we can infer that a slug .
A．is a kind of insect B．is a kind of fish
C．can't see Slugbot D．can eat Slugbot
3.What kind of robots do inventor Chris Melhuish want?
A．Robots that can provide people with food.
B．Robots that can work in dangerous places.
C．Robots that can get energy for themselves.
D．Robots that can be very small.
4.Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage?
A．Robots need to work in places that have no sockets for power.
B．Melhuish is not very satisfied with Ecobot Ⅱ.
C．Maybe there will be three kinds of restrooms in the future.
D．Ecobot Ⅱ can turn its flies into energy completely.
5.What does the passage mainly tell us?
A．Robots are hard things to invent.
B．Scientists are working to improve robots.
C．Robots in the future need to eat food like human.
D．Scientists at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory are good at robots.
阅读下面短文,从方框中选择恰当的单词,并用其适当形式填空。
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My name is Jim White. I live in America. I had a very 1. experience on Sunday. I saw a UFO in the daytime. 2. this spring, I went outside with my friend Bill 3. lived close to me. We were walking to a hill 4. I saw a large bright light dancing in the sky. I called Jim and asked him to look up. He kept 5. , "What is that?" "A UFO!" I shouted excitedly. I 6. it was round and red in the center.
After we looked at 7. for a moment, we found it seemed that it had wings, but it was still round. Bill would not believe me when I told him it 8. be a UFO. We shouted 9. it and we wished that it would land. We wanted to know 10. there was an alien in it. But soon it disappeared. I guessed we scared it off.
Do you believe me? It's a true story.
完形填空。
Online shopping is very popular among most Internet users. Almost 85% of the Internet users in the US like to ______ online. South Korea, where 99% of the Internet users like shopping online, is one of the ______ where shopping online is popular.
Internet shopping is easy, fast ______ convenient. People can do their shopping on a______ at home. When a person visits an online shop, chooses something he ______ and then pays with his credit card (信用卡) he has ______ the process of online shopping. Several days later, his ______ will be sent to his home or his office.
There are some ______ advantages of shopping online. Online shopping is very popular during the Christmas shopping season because people can ______ things online at any time of the day, and they don't need to ______ in a long line. That is to say, online shopping can save______.
Online shopping allows a person to shop with enough time, ______ being rushed. You have the chance to save the thing ______ you want and come back to it later to ______ whether or not to buy it. But for ladies, you must be careful when you buy something online. On the one hand, sometimes the color doesn't look the same ______ that on your screen. On the other hand, you can't decide whether the dress fits you or not without trying it on.
1.A．surf B．chat C．shop D．play
2.A．villages B．towns C．provinces D．countries
3.A．and B．so C．but D．if
4.A．book B．computer C．telephone D．TV
5.A．makes B．sells C．needs D．uses
6.A．begun B．made C．completed D．found
7.A．things B．clothes C．food D．shoes
8.A．another B．the other C．others D．other
9.A．buy B．sell C．watch D．enjoy
10.A．walk B．wait C．come D．go
11.A．money B．space C．time D．room
12.A．with B．without C．in D．at
13.A．what B．which C．who D．where
14.A．think B．want C．decide D．look
15.A．as B．with C．at D．in
