根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。
Nowadays children and parents don’t understand each other. Are you the o 1. child in your family? If so, you are the most important person in your p 2. hearts. They are the c 3. people to you in the world. However, many teenagers like you have d__4. in communicating with their parents. They always complain that their parents say too much i 5. of listening to what they’re thinking. When they do something wrong, getting away from their parents seems to be the only c 6. . In fact, w 7. your parents do, they just want to show love for you. They love you more than they love t _8. . Whenever you need h 9. , they are always there, standing by you. Try to put yourselves into their shoes, and then you’ll understand them e 10. .
根据句意，用所给动词的适当形式填空。
1.Ask him to do what he can ___________( help) us, will you?
2.Lost in Thailand is a Chinese comedy______________(direct) by Xu Zheng.
3.The sun we are used to_______________(include) seven different colours
4.Each winner ______ (present) with a gold medal at tomorrow’s game.
5.--I called you yesterday evening, but there was no answer.
--Oh, I’m sorry I __________ (shop)in the shopping mall.
根据句意，用所给的单词适当形式填空。
1.Qian Xuesen’s death was a great _______ (lose) to the whole world.
2.My grandpa also has a QQ though he is in her____________ (sixty).
3.What great ____________ (suggest) you offered me! Thank you.
4.After a short (silent) ,he went on speaking.
5.The young film star’s (die) is a great loss to the film industry.
根据句意和汉语提示写出单词，完成句子，每空一词。
1.“Don't go _____ (超过) the fifth street, or you’ve gone too far,” the guide said to the visitors.
2.The air in Tibet is_______________(认为) to be the cleanest in China.
3.How many ____________ (德国人) are there in Yangzhou?
4.My cousin has bought an ___________(最新的)computer.
5.As a citizen, we mustn’t do anything ( 违反) the law.
阅读下面短文，根据要求完成表格，每空一词。（共10空，每空1分，计10分）
Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is “happier”, then you are right, based on a study published five years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen.
The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies.
The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.
So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Title: Relationship Between Age and 1.
The elements of the survey | Time: 2008 Place: in the United States Researcher: Arthur Stone and his 2. Targets: 340,000 adults |
The 3. of the survey | Generally people become happier and feel 4. worried after age 50. By the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were at 18. Adults between the ages of 22 and 25 have the 5. stress. The kids and those in their early 6. feel the happiest. Men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women feel sadder, more 7. and worried than men do. |
Conclusion | Happiness 8. with age. That’s because people become more thankful for what they have and control their emotions 9. as they get older. It also 10. them less time to think about bad experiences. |
Mark Twain is someone Americans are taught to love. Older relatives, English teachers and the media always praise (表扬) him. But when you actually take the time to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you find that his work is more wonderful than you could ever imagine.
The novel describes a young boy named Tom Sawyer growing up in a small town along the Mississippi River. He explores the countryside on a riverboat with his friends, falls in love with girls, starts secret clubs and searches for treasure. Twain’s idea of childhood is magical – a time of imagination, wonder and, of course, adventure.
More importantly, through the eyes of Tom Sawyer, Twain cleverly makes fun of US culture. For example, Tom hates going to church, and Twain uses scenes of Tom there to mock religion and its old traditions.
Twain’s writing is full of these kinds of critical (批判的) points about culture and politics. That’s why he is so loved in the US – he wasn’t afraid to state his opinions, and he did so clearly.
He also believed strongly in women’s right to vote in elections and gave a famous speech on the subject, called “Votes for Women”, in 1901.
“Tom was a great hero once more – the pet of the old, the envy of the young,” Twain writes in Tom Sawyer. But he could just as well be describing himself.
1. According to the writer, after reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you are likely to think _______.
A. it’s not worth all the praise
B. it’s as wonderful as you imagined
C. it’s better to read it with teachers
D. it’s even better than you imagined
2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. A brief description of the novel.
B. Where Twain’s idea of childhood comes from.
C. How naughty and adventurous Tom Sawyer is.
D. What makes Tom Sawyer’s adventures so wonderful.
3. What does the underlined word “mock” mean?
A. make changes to B. make fun of
C. give reasons for D. give examples of
4.. Why is Twain so loved in the US according to the article?
A. He supported women’s right to vote.
B. He wrote bad things about US wars abroad.
C. He criticized American culture and society clearly and cleverly.
D. He showed readers a magical childhood that everyone would love.
