阅读短文，回答问题 （共5小题，每题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，按要求完成相关任务。
World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It was set up by the UNESCO(联合国教科文组织) in 1995 to encourage people, especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of reading. It is also the day to honor great writer, for example, William Shakespeare, born or dead on that day.
Many countries celebrate World Book Day. Take UK as an example. On that day, millions of school children can buy books of special price, a much lower price than usual, in any bookstore. It has been done every year since 1998. World Book Day is also celebrated in China. Premier Wen Jiabao does lots of reading every day. Wen has called on people to do more reading. He suggested that young people should spend more time reading. “Book cannot change the world, but people can change the world by changing themselves through reading,” he said.
Why do people like reading? One big advantage is that reading helps us become more knowledgeable and more intelligent. Also, reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and technology. Besides, reading gives us information about other cultures and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things that are unfamiliar to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. What’s more, reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language like English.
“Reading makes a full man”. Books, magazines, newspapers and other kinds of materials can help us to know more about the outside world and perfect us. So it is necessary for us to spend time on reading every day.
1.When is World Book Day?
2.In UK, what can school children do on World Book Day?
3.What did Premier Wen Jiabao suggest young people do?
4.How many advantages of reading are mentioned in the passage?
5.What does the passage mainly talk about?
阅读填词 (共10小题，每题1分，满分10分)
阅读短文，根据所读内容在短文后图表中的空格里填入一个恰当的单词
Never go into a supermarket hungry! This is a good piece of advice. If you go shopping for food before lunchtime, you’ll probably buy more than you plan to. Unluckily, however, just this advice isn’t enough for consumers (消费者) these days. Modern shoppers need an education in how and how not to buy things at the store. First, you check the weekly newspaper advertisements. Find out the items that are on sale and decide if you really need these things. In other words, don’t buy anything just because it’s cheaper than usual! “New and improved!” or “All Natural” on the front of a package (包装) influence you. Instead, read the list of ingredients (原料) on the back. Third, compare prices: that is, you should examine the prices of both different brands(商标、牌子) and different size of the same brand.
Another suggestions for consumers is to buy ordinary items(商品) instead of famous brands. Ordinary items in supermarkets come in ordinary packages. These products are cheaper because producers don’t spend much money on packing or advertising.
The quality, however, is usually as good as the quality of well-known name brands. In the same way, in buying clothes, you can often find high quality and low prices in brands that are not famous. Shopping in discount clothing stores can help you save a lot of money. Although these stores aren’t very attractive, and they usually do not have individual dressing room, not only are the prices low, but you can often find the same famous brands that you find in high-priced department stores(百货商店).
Wise consumers read magazine ads and watch TV commercial (广告), but they do this with one advantage: knowledge of the psychology (心理) behind the ads. In other words, well-informed(消息灵通的) consumers watch for information and check for misinformation. They ask themselves questions. Is the advertiser hiding something in small print at the bottom of the page? Is there any real information in the commercial, or is the advertiser simply showing an attractive image? With the answer to these questions, consumers can make a wise choice.
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Main topic: suggestions for 1. |
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Never go into a supermarket when you 2. hungry! |
Need an education in how and how not to buy things at the store. |
Buy ordinary items instead of famous 3. |
Read ads with 4. of the psychology behind the ads. |
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5. for the suggestions |
It is 6. to buy more than you plan to |
Consumers can make a wise7. |
The prices of 8. items are lower because producers spend 9. money on packaging. |
Advertisers sometimes don’t tell the 10. |
用短文中所给动词的适当形式填空，共6分
Sarah and Katie both work in a supermarket. They are best friends and they enjoy 1. (work) together. Sarah and Katie are young and always happy. They like telling jokes and watching comedy programmes on TV.
However, they don’t like their boss, Mr. Chen. He is very strict and always shouts at them. Once, he shouted so loud at Sarah that made her 2. (cry). Sarah and Katie stop telling jokes when Mr. Chen is nearby.
Mr. Chen’s favourite activity is playing tennis. He 3. (play) tennis three times a week and takes part in tennis matches, but he never won any tennis championships.
One day, Mr. Chen 4. (arrive) at work as usual and smiled at Sarah and Katie as he gave them a big bunch of flowers each. The girls 5. (shock). Mr. Chen was not his usual self.
At the end of the day, they discovered the reason for Mr. Chen’s good mood. Mr. Chen won his first local championship in the tennis competition! Katie and Sarah thought life 6. (be) much better working at the supermarket from now on.
用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空，共5分
1.What a (please) it is for me to play the piano with you!
2.Mother asked the Greens to help (they) to some pears.
3.Tim sings even (badly) than before.
4.He felt (true) sorry for what he said.
5. (clean) work is to make our city clean.
选用方框里的单词或词组填空,其中有一个单词或词组是多余的，共5 分
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terribly, was told, doctor’s, heavily, ourselves, death, |
1.His father’s made him very sad.
2.How it was raining when he got home yesterday!
3.He to answer the questions in public just now.
4.I felt better, so I didn’t go to the .
5.They kicked a goal, but we soon got one .
Spring is an inviting season for outdoor activities. But be careful—the warm weather is also a hotbed for viruses(病毒) and disease.
This March, the influenza(流行性感冒) A(H7N9) virus hit Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It was reported that by April 11 at least 35 people had been infected (被感染的) with the H7N9 virus, and nine of them had died.
The influenza A (H7N9) virus is one type of influenza A H7 viruses. Influenza A H7 viruses normally spread among birds.
This is the first time human infections with H7N9 viruses have been reported in China. Earlier reports were about H5N1 and H1N1.
All the three viruses are influenza A viruses but they are not the same. H7N9 and H5N1 are animal influenza viruses that could infect people. However, H1N1 viruses can be divided into two groups. One group can normally infect people and the other normally infects animals. Also, H1N1 can spread from human to human, but H7N9 probably can’t, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Most people infected with H7N9 looked like they had the common flu. Some people had bad pneumonia(肺炎). They suffered from a fever, a cough and shortness of breath.
But don’t be afraid – it is not easy to be infected with the virus. One of the possible reasons is close contact with sick poultry (家禽) waste. People may also be infected through breath, according to National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Here are some tips from the WHO that can protect you from being infected.
Wash your hands with soap and running water before you eat, after you use the toilet, and after touching animals or animal waste.
When coughing or sneezing cover your mouth and nose with a mask(口罩)，tissue(纸巾) or a sleeve.
Get a good rest and do exercises, which will help make your body strong enough to stand up to the virus.
1.What’s the name of the influenza virus that hit Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang this March?
A．It is the H7N9 virus. B．It is the H5N1 virus.
C．It is the H1N1 virus. D．It is A H7 virus.
2.How many people had died by April 11according to the report?
A．About 35. B．About 9.
C．About 44. D．Nobody had died.
3.What’s the Chinese meaning for “stand up to” in the last paragraph?
A．起立 B．站着 C．抵抗 D．向上
4.Which is NOT true about protecting us from being infected by animal influenza viruses?
A．Wash our hands with soap and running water before we eat, after we use the toilet, and after touching animals or animal waste.
B．When we cough or sneeze we should cover our mouths and noses with a mask，tissue or a sleeve.
C．We should get a good rest and do exercises to make our bodies strong enough.
D．We should try to eat much and sleep much as possible as we can.
