阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
There are three children in Bryant’s family. Kobe Bryant is the 1. (young) child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him 2. a kind of steak: the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. At 3. age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters moved to Italy, 4. his father began playing professional basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in 5. (Italy). At an early age, he learned to play soccer and his favorite team was AC Milan. Bryant once said that if he 6.(stay)in Italy, he would have 7.(stick)with soccer and would have tried to become a professional soccer player. In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. In the Philadelphia suburb of lower Merion high school, a spectacular high school career brought national 8.(recognize). Although his SAT score of 1080 guaranteed him various basketball scholarships from top universities, the 17-year-old made a controversial 9. (decide)to enter the NBA 10. (direct).
When my husband died of cancer I became angry. And I felt a hard brick wall built around my angry heart.
One morning, driving down a busy road in my town, I____a carpenter was building a __around an old house I’d always admired. Each time I drove by, I ___the progress. I saw an aproned woman sweeping the yard, ___the flowers, cutting the grass, and even ___ the litter thrown from the cars passing by.
Eventually, one day, a ___fence stood there, ___greeting me! I ____the engine, waved the woman and said "I came to see your beautiful fence."She stopped her work and____her hands on her apron, smiling. Then the sun witnessed us drinking tea on the porch （门廊）with the white fence surrounding us.
The fence isn’t____ me. I live alone. But since so many people come by here, look at the fence and wave, I thought they’d ___seeing something pretty. A few, like you, even stop and sit here to talk. she ___
But if the road is widened there’ll be much __?
Change is part of life. When something bad happens, you have two __—to get bitter or better.
When I left, she __: ― Come back anytime. Leave the gate ____—It looks more friendly.
I carefully left the gate ajar(半开的) and ____, feeling something deep inside me. I could even picture the ___in my heart falling down, and being ____by this marvelous fence. I planned to ____my door open for whatever or whoever might come my way.
1.A.cared B.noticed C.insisted D.suggested
2.A.bridge B.town C.fence D.road
3.A.watched B.made C.stopped D.analyzed
4.A.picking B.planting C.pulling D.tending
5.A.picking up B.throwing away C.kicking off D.bringing back
6.A.blood-red B.pitch-dark C.sky-blue D.snow-white
7.A.as if B.though C.if D.even though
8.A.started B.turned off C.tore apart D.repaired
9.A.raised B.wiped C.shook D.clenched
10.A.on B.by C.for D.beside
11.A.avoid B.advise C.enjoy D.permit
12.A.argued B.refused C.repeated D.explained
13.A.challenge B.change C.development D.progress
14.A.choices B.aprons C.hearts D.hands
15.A.called for B.called on C.called up D.called out
16.A.closed B.special C.open D.clean
17.A.drove off B.drove back C.drove by D.drove over
18.A.flowers B.wall C.porch D.house
19.A.taken B.built C.bought D.replaced
20.A.destroy B.build C.leave D.burn
Particulate Matter
There are things floating around in the air. Most of them, you can not even see. They are a kind of air pollution called particles or particulate matter. In fact, particulate matter may be the air pollutant that most commonly affects people’s health.
Have a Look.
Particles can come in almost any shape or size, and can be solid particles or liquid droplets.1. These two groups differ in many ways. One of the differences is size, we call the bigger particles PM 10 and we call the smaller particles PM 2.5.
BIG.
The big particles are between 2.5 and 10 micrometers (from about 25 to 100 times thinner than a human hair). These particles are called PM 10 (we say ―PM ten, which stands for Particulate Matter up to 10 micrometers in size).2.
SMALL.
The small particles are smaller than 2.5 micrometers (100 times thinner than a human hair).3.We say ―PM two point five, as in Particulate Matter up to 2.5 micrometers in size.The smaller particles are lighter and they stay in the air longer and travel farther. PM 10 particles can stay in the air for minutes or hours while PM 2.5 particles can stay in the air for days or weeks.And travel? 4. PM 2.5 particles go even farther; many hundreds of miles.
Particulate Matter and Your Health.
When you breathe, you take in the air along with any particles in the air, like heavy metal sand cancer causing organic compounds. Both PM 10 and PM 2.5 particles can cause health problems, specifically respiratory (呼吸的) health.5. Exposure to particulate matter leads to increased use of medication and more visits to the doctor or emergency room.
A.These particles are called PM 2.5.
B.We divide particles into two major groups.
C.These particles cause less severe health effects.
D.PM 10 particles can travel as much as 30 miles.
E.Air pollution is a growing problem in the whole world.
F.PM 2.5 can have worse health effects than the bigger PM 10.
G.Air pollutants have great effects on our environment and our health.
The beginning of baseball in China traces back further than most would think, in 1863. From that time, Chinese universities soon began to stage baseball activities. The first game, as documents recorded, was held in Shanghai in 1905. National interest in this traditionally American sport picked up quickly, and in 1915, China placed second in the Greater Asia baseball tournament held in Shanghai. Several decades later, baseball was as popular as it would ever be. In 1959,teams from 30 regions came together in a national competition.
Founded in 2002, the China Baseball League (CBL) is China’s professional league for the sport, with seven teams around the country. The opportunity to capture a huge new market with China’s growing interest saw the US Major League Baseball (MLB) open its first China office in Beijing in 2007, which has since then developed the Chinese market and educated young athletes.An example is the youth baseball program Play Ball in major Chinese cities. In the same year, the CBL partnered with Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), agreeing to allow Japanese clubs to send coaches and players to China and Chinese players to train at Japanese facilities. This program helps Chinese schools integrate baseball into their physical education curriculum, build professional development centers. More and more Chinese youths are getting involved with the sport, taking baseball class on the weekends or after school. Many programs for children have been established and often hold classes at many baseball fields.
Through these different partnerships and co-operations, China has created opportunities for the citizens to experience another culture. China might just be the future of baseball. Through heavy investments since 2017, the CBL hopes to one day cultivate a Yao Ming of baseball, which would bring huge exposure to the sport.
1.What’s the main idea of paragraph 1?
A.The beginning of baseball in China.
B.The development of baseball in China.
C.The national competition of baseball in China.
D.The interest in this traditionally American sport.
2.How does the writer develop this text?
A.By the time order.
B.By the cities adding.
C.By China’s interest growing.
D.By partner countries increasing.
3.Which of the following can replace the underlined word "capture" in paragraph 2?
A.lose. B.found.
C.seize. D.control.
4.What can we predict from paragraph3?
A.Baseball remains a mystery to most of Chinese people.
B.The interest in developing baseball is limited in China.
C.Chinese schools will have baseball education curriculum.
D.More baseball talents and fans will spring up in China.
Classified advertising is that advertising which is grouped in certain sections of the paper and is thus distinguished from display advertising. Such groupings as ―Help Wanted, RealEstate(不动产), Lost and Found are made, the rate charged being less than for display advertising. Classified advertisements are a convenience to the reader and a saving to the advertiser.
The reader who is interested in a particular kind of advertisement finds all advertisements of that type grouped for him. The advertisers may, therefore, use a very small advertisement if it was placed among larger advertisements in the paper. It is evident that the reader approaches the classified advertisement in a different frame of mind from that in which he approaches the other advertisements in the paper. He turns to a page of classified advertisements to search for the particular advertisement that will meet his needs.
As his attention is voluntary, the advertiser does not need to rely too much extent ondisplay type to get the reader’s attention. Formerly all classified advertisements were of the same size and did not have display type. With the increase in the number of such advertisements, however, each advertiser within a certain group is competing with others in the same group for the reader’s attention. In many cases, the result has been an increase in the size of the space used and the addition of headlines and pictures. In that way, the classified advertisement has in reality advertisement. This is particularly true of real estate advertising?
1.The following facts are advantages of classified advertising EXCEPT ____.
A.It helps to reduce the advertising cost.
B.It attracts the target readers’ attention easily.
C.It provides more information for the readers.
D.It doesn’t have to rely too much on display type.
2.Which is the example given of types of classified advertisement?
A.Houses for sale. B.People who are asking for help.
C.Job hunting. D.People who are lost.
3.What do readers usually do when they look through classified advertisements?
A.They are in a new frame of mind to buy anything.
B.They look for something they need.
C.They feel lost in so many classified advertisements.
D.They maintain the same emotions as reading display advertisements.
4.According to the text, in which way have the classified advertisements changed nowadays?
A.They are charged for no money.
B.They are divided into more groups.
C.They are less formal than ever.
D.They depend more on display type.
I grew up in Hastings, a small coastal town in East Sussex, famous for 1066 years of history and seaside charm. I have a memory as a boy, saving my pocket money by placing it in a special drawer, the golden pound coins collecting into a neat pile. When I was 14 in 2007, I saved up money for a gap year, by working at a bingo hall, and I put the money into a savings account. I remember getting £70 ($91) interest rates one year, which made me feel very rich indeed.
Skip forward to 2018 and I was living and working in Beijing, China, as a journalist. All around me Beijing residents were paying for everything using just their smart phones. They would walk up to a counter of a restaurant, shop, or convenience store, and offer up a QR code(二维码)for the cashier to scan. Once scanned, the online system would immediately deduct(扣除) the exact amount owed from the payer’s e-wallet. No reaching for cash and waiting for change. The transaction would take seconds.
But I was a stubborn holdout. My friends, both Western and Chinese, would make fun of me for being so traditional – for sticking to ―dirty cash. But there were a couple of reasons why I kept using physical money and avoided getting into e-payments and e-wallets. Firstly, it felt safer. I wasn’t really aware of how electronic money would work on my smart phone and I feared it would somehow get easily taken away. Secondly, I feared that by moving to e-payments, I would end up spending more. I would lose all sense of how much, day by day, I would be spending.
Were these fears justified? As more and more people across the world escape cash, these are essential issues for me to consider.
1.Which of the following made the writer feel very rich?
A.Saving £70 ($91) by placing it in a special drawer.
B.Collecting £70 ($91) coins into a neat pile.
C.Putting £70 ($91) into a savings account in bank.
D.Getting £70 ($91) interest rates from a bank.
2.Which’s not the advantage of e-payments?
A.No reaching for cash. B.No waiting for change.
C.Taking only few seconds. D.Spending more money.
3.Why didn’t the writer like to accept the e- payments at first?
A.Because he was too traditional to save money.
B.Because he liked the sense of paying in cash.
C.Because he thought e-payments would deduct more.
D.Because he knew how e-payments work on smartphones.
4.What can we infer about the writer from the last paragraph？
A.He accepted the idea that money is abstract.
B.He eventually turned to using e-payments.
C.He thought the pain of e-payment is delayed.
D.He insisted that having physical cash is safer.
