短文填空(本题共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
请认真阅读下面短文，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，写出一个合适的英语单词完整、正确的形式，使短文通顺。
Mr. Brown had an umbrella shop in a small town. People sometimes b1.him broken umbrellas, and then he took them to a big shop in London. They were r 2.there.
One day Mr. Brown went to London by train. He f3.to take an umbrella with him that day. Sitting in front of him was a man with an umbrella standing b4. the seat. When the train arrived in London, Mr. Brown p5.up the umbrella as he often did during his journey by train. Just as he was getting off, he w6. stopped by the man. He said angrily, “That’s 7.!” Mr. Brown’s face turned red and he gave it back to the man at once.
When Mr. Brown got to the big shop, the shopkeeper had got his six umbrellas ready. After a good look at e8. of them, he said, “You’ve mended them very well.”
In the afternoon he got into the train again. The s 9. man was in the same seat. He looked at Mr. Brown and his six u 10., “You’ve had a lucky day,” he said.
句型转换(本题共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)
请根据要求改写下列句子，每空一词。
1. I don’t know what to do with it.( 同义句转换)
I don’t know to with it.
2. The little girl caught a beautiful butterfly just now. (改为被动语态)
A beautiful butterfly by the little girl just now.
3. I prefer doing everything for myself to asking my mother for help.
(保持句义基本不变)
I would _________ do everything for myself _________ ask my mother for help.
4. It is creative of Peter to be a writer. (保持句意基本不变)
Peter is creative be a writer.
5. Martin was excited at the news. He couldn’t fall asleep. (合并句子)
Martin was _________ excited at the news _________fall asleep.
请根据句意从方框中选择合适的动词，并用其适当时态填空，使句子通顺。
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promise hold discover reply visit |
1.She just_ _ that people in the west have 12 star signs.
2. My father ______ to celebrate my birthday with me several times but never did it.
3.If I have time, I my grandparents in the countryside this weekend.
4. My penfriend to my e-mail every week.
5.一Can you hear some students singing in the hall?
一Yes. Our school _________ a red-song competition there.
请根据句意从方框中选择合适的单词，并用其适当形式填空，使句子通顺。
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stomach true she stress Asia |
1. China is one of the countries in the world.
2. When feeling , you can wear white.
3. Do you know that a bull has four ?
4. To tell you the __________, I lost the present May give me yesterday.
5. She just wants to make ___________ look pretty.
请根据括号中的中文提示、英文释义或句意，写出句中所缺单词，使句子通顺。
1.Do you have any difficulty (解决) the problem?
2.Thank you for giving us some __________(建议) which are so valuable to us.
3.I doubt ____________(if) he will attend the meeting tomorrow.
4. Plenty of pop stars (take part in) the presentation last week.
5.Mr. John received an expensive birthday gift from his friends, but he decides not to it.
As prices and building costs keep rising , the “do-it-yourself”(DIY) trend(趋势)in the USA continues to grow .
“We needed furniture for our living rooms ,” says John Ross , “and we just didn’t have enough money to buy it . So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs .” John got married six months ago , and like many young people these days , they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high .The Rosses took a 2-week course for $280 at a night school .Now they make all their furniture and repairs around the house .
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife has died .He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe making factory .Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420 . “I was deeply upset about it .Now I’ve finished a car repair course .I should be able to fix the car by myself .”
John and Jim are not unusual people .Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourself”, you can go to DIY classes .And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell them how they can do things themselves.
1.We can learn from the passage that many newly married people ______ .
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A．take DIY courses run by the government |
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B．have to learn to make their own furniture |
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C．find it hard to pay for what they need |
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D．seldom go to a supermarket to buy things |
2.John and his wife went to evening classes to learn how to _______ .
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A．run a DIY shop |
B．save time and money |
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C．make or repair things |
D．improve their life |
3. When the writer says that Jim has a full-time job at home ,he means Jim___ .
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A．makes shoes in his home |
B．does extra work at night |
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C．repairs his own car at home |
D．keeps house and looks after his children |
4. Jim Hatfield decided to become a do-it-yourself when he found _____ .
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A．his car repairs cost too much |
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B．the car repair class was not helpful |
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C．he could not possibly do two jobs |
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D．he had to raise the children all by himself |
