阅读理解
My name is Chen Lan. My home is in Gulangyu. Do you know Gulangyu? It is in Xiamen. It is near the sea. Gulangyu is a small place, but it is very nice and clean. There are no cars, no buses and no bikes. People only walk. So it is very quiet. People, go to visit Gulangyu by ship.
Our house is in the middle of Gulangyu. Behind our house there is a big tree. My grandfather tells me that the tree is very, very old. There are many birds in the tree. We call it a “bird tree” . Our house is near the sea. The sea is big and blue. There are a lot of fish in the sea. After school, I go there and catch fish with my friends. It is very interesting. I like fish and I like catching fish.
根据短文判断正误,在正确的句子前填上(T)，在错误的句子前填上(F)
1.Gulangyu is an island.
2. Chen Lan tells us a lot about her parents.
3. There are no vehicles(车辆)in Gulangyu.
4.Chen Lan always goes fishing by herself.
5. Chen Lan is from Xiamen.
完形填空
What time is it? There are many ways you can (1) the time. You may have a watch on your wrist(手腕) .You can look at a clock on the wall. You can listen to the radio or (2) a number on the telephone to get the time.
I has not always been (3) to know the time. A long time ago people looked at the (4) to tell the time. They could tell the time by looking at it in the sky: morning, noon or afternoon.
Around the year 1400, people began to use the hourglass(沙漏) . It was made (5) glass with sand in it. It was wide at both ends, (6) narrow ( 窄的) in the middle. The sand ran from one end to (7) in one hour. At the end of every hour people turned the glass over ant it began (8) .
Hundreds of years later a machine called (9) was invented. After that people made (10) clocks so that they could (11) them in their pockets. These pocket clocks were called watches. Then, during the first world war (战争) men started (12) their watches on their wrists. It was easier and faster to tell the time
1.make sure B. look at C. write down D. find out
2. A. call B. read C. count D. write
3. A. different B. difficult C. easy D. important
4. A. earth B. sun C. moon D. satellite
5. A. by B. into C. from D. of
6. A. so B. and C. but D. or
7. A. another B. other C. others D. the other
8. A. once B. more C. again D. too
9. A. watch B. clock C. radio D. telephone
10. A. good B. cheap C. beautiful D. small
11. A. take B. bring C. carry D. get
12. A. wearing B. inventing C. making D. buying
—When did you borrow the English story-book?
—I borrowed it last week. I _______it for a week.
A. have bought B. have kept
C. have borrowed D. had
There’s _______with your watch because it often keeps bad time.
A. nothing wrong B. something wrong
C. wrong nothing D. wrong something
—Have you ever been to the Great Wall?
— ____________.
A. Yes, never. B. No, ever.
C. No, never. D. Yes, I do.
Do you think maths is ____________foreign languages?
A. more difficult B. less difficult
C. as difficult as D. the most difficult
