Most people have jobs. They go to work nearly every day. Some people are lucky. Either they have very interesting jobs or they make a lot of money. Most people are not so lucky. Either their jobs are not very interesting or they don’t make much money.
The most interesting jobs are often the most difficult. People take a long time to learn how to do them. Doctors study for at least six years after finishing school.
Some young people have interesting and high-pay jobs. Many young players do their work successfully. Football and tennis stars are usually under 35 Years old. Older people usually cannot play these sports very well. They cannot move fast enough. Golf, however is a good sport for older people. Many golf players are quite old, but they can play it successfully.
Most people work until they are 60 or 65 years old. Then they retire (退休) and have a lot of free time. Some people never retire though. These people usually have very interesting jobs. Writers, artists, scientists and actors (演员) usually work until they die. Their work is their life.
根据短文内容，完成下列句子，每空一词。
1.Some _______ people have interesting or high-pay jobs, but most people don’t have such good luck.
2.Some jobs take a long time to learn because they are _______.
3.Young players can move very fast, so many of them play these games like football and tennis very _______.
4.Golf is a good sport for _______ people.
5. Most people keep _______ until the age of 60 or 65. but writers, artists, scientists and actors can work all their lives.
根据短文内容及首字母提示写出所缺单词，并将完整单词写在下面对应题号后的横线上。
April Fool’s Day is on April 1st. People can play j 1. on others on this special d 2. . If you succeed, you usually laugh and say, “April Fool” The person who has been fooled by you l 3. , too, and he will never be angry with you.
Mother’s Day is on the second Sunday of May. It’s a day to t 4. mothers. On that day mothers usually receive flowers and cards from their children. Fathers and children do the housework so that mothers can have a
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Easter Day falls on the first Sunday after the full moon which on or after March 21st. It is called Easter Sunday. It is said that on that day Jesus Christ comes back to l 6. . Many people go to church and children often get p 7. such as toy rabbits.
Thanks-giving Day is on the fourth Thursday in November. It’s a day when people give thanks for the good things in life. Usually families all get t 8. and have a big dinner.
Christmas Day comes on D 9. 25th. It’s the most important festival in a year. The beautiful things can be s 10. everywhere. People exchange gifts, send Christmas cards and visit friends.
A) 根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空，每空填一词。
1.What he feels like_______(make) me worried.
2.Audrey’s ________( achieve ) were beyond the film industry.
3.He spent as much time_______(play) as he did watching TV.
4.In order to make the opening of the Olympic Games well ___ _(organize) ,
the Chinese government invited a famous director ----Zhang Yimou.
5.He has _______(forgive) you for what you have done wrong to him.
B) 根据汉语提示，写出各单词的正确形式，每空填一词。
6.One of the most famous _______ (发明家)names in the world was Edison.
7.He used not to like Peking Opera, but now he is very _______ of (喜欢) it.
8._______(英雄) appeared one after another after the big earthquake.
9.Jack was charged with the _______(抢劫) last month.
10.She sent her best friend an _______(邀请函) to her birthday party.
First Frenchman: I once heard someone shout, “Look out,” I put my head out of a window and a basin (盆) of water fell on me. It seems that “Look out” may mean “don’t look out.”
Second Frenchman: Once I was on a ship and heard the captain (船长) shout, “All hands on deck,” I put my hands on the deck and someone walked on them.
Third Frenchman: I once visited an English friend early in the morning and the maid who came to the door and said, “He’s not up yet. Come back in half an hour,” When I went again for him, she said, “He’s not down yet.”
“If he’s not up and he’s not down, where is he?” I asked.
She said, “He’s still in bed. When I say ‘He’s not up ’ I mean ‘he has not yet got up’. When I say‘He’s not down ’I mean ‘he has not yet come downstairs.”
1.“Look out”here means “ _______”.
A. put your head out of the window and look
B. Take care
C. I’m going to pour the water
D. Help me
2.“All hands on deck”means “ _______ ”.
A. All the sailors gather ( 集合 )on deck
B. Give your hands to me
C. Put your right hand and left hand on deck
D. Shake your hands with me
3.When the third Frenchman went back, the English friend _______ .
A. was washing his face
B. was having his breakfast
C. was still in an upstairs room
D. was reading a newspaper
In the summer of 1978 an English man named Steven was driving his tractor through a field of wheat when he discovered something strange. Some of his wheat was lying on the ground. The flattened wheat formed(形成)a circle about six meters across . Around this circle were four smaller circles of flattened wheat.
Three years later a farmer who lived nearby discovered almost the same circles in one of his fields. These circles were larger—nearly 15 meters across . That same year , another English farmer discovered three circles of flattened wheat on his land—one large circle between two small circles. During the following years, farmers in England found circles in their fields more and more often.
The circles are called “crop circles” because they usually appear in fields of wheat or corn. The wheat in the circles lies on the ground but is never broken; it keeps on growing, and the farmers can later harvest it. Farmers always discover the crop circles in the morning, so the circles probably form at night. They appear only in the months from May to September. What causes the crop circles?
At first, people thought that some kids were making them as a joke, or that farmers were making them to attract tourists.(In fact, in 1991, two men said they made the circles themselves, but many scientists don’t believe them.) People tried to copy them: They tried to make circles exactly like the ones the farmers had found. They couldn’t do it. They couldn’t enter a field of wheat without leaving tracks, and they couldn’t flatten the wheat without breaking it.
Several times people reported seeing stranger objects near the fields where crop circles later appeared. Many people believe that these crop circles are the messages sent by living things from outer space(外层空间)or the marks left by their spaceships.
Scientists who have studied the crop circles try to find out what causes them. In the summer of 1990 some scientists spent three weeks in the part of England where many circles have appeared. They had all the latest high-tech equipment(最新高科技设备). The equipment—worth 1.8 million dollars—got nothing. But one night, as the scientists were watching a field, crop circles formed in the field behind them, which were quite different from the others. The scientists had neither seen nor heard anything.
When Steven discovered the crop circles on his land in 1978, he said, “It was just like something that had landed in the field from the air and gone back up again. I don’t know what to make of these things.”
Crop circles have appeared in England, Japan, the United States and Russia. Experts from all over the world have studied them, and they say what Steven said: They don’t know what to make of these things.
1.Which picture is probably the one formed in the field behind the scientists?
2.“Flattened wheat” means ___________.
A. broken wheat B. lying wheat
C. harvested wheat D. growing wheat
3.The passage is mainly about something ___________ .
A. that is done by living things from outer space
B. that cannot be solved but found all around the world
C. that cannot be made clear or understood
D. that is discovered and copied by the farmers
Four men who would become fathers were in a hospital waiting room while their wives were in labor (分娩). The nurse arrived and proudly said to the first man, “Congratulations, sir. You’re the father of twins!”
“What a coincidence (巧合)! I work for the Minnesota Twins Baseball teams!”
Later the nurse returned and congratulated the second father on the birth of his triplets (三胞胎).
“Wow! That’s unbelievable! I work for the 3M Company.”
An hour later, the nurse returned to congratulate the third man on the birth of his quadruplets (四胞胎). Surprised, he only could answer, “I don’t believe it! I work for the Four Seasons Hotel!”
After this, everyone turned to the fourth man who had just fainted (晕). The nurse ran fast to his side. As he slowly came to himself, they could hear him speak in a very low voice over and over, “I should never have taken that job at 7-Eleven. I should never have taken that job at 7-Eleven. I should never have taken that job at 7-Eleven.”
1.Why were the fathers there?
A. They were waiting for their wives.
B. They were seeing doctors.
C. They were waiting for their babies to be born.
D. They were working at men nurses there.
2.Which of the following is true about the third man?
A. He thought the nurse made a mistake.
B. He was very surprised at the nurse’s words.
C. He didn’t want to have these babies.
D. He should never have worked at 7-Eleven.
3.Why did the fourth man faint when he heard what the nurse told the third man?
A. Hew was afraid of having so many babies.
B. He was seriously ill.
C. He was too excited.
D. He was very glad to have 7 babies.
4.At least how many babies would be born according to the story?
A. 9. B. 10. C. 11. D. 16.
