语法填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
Betty started to learn English at the ____1.___ of six. She went to an after-school English class every week. But Betty thought it was ____2.____(bored) to go to her English classes. She didn’t think _____3.__was important to learn English and she did not need to speak English in her everyday life.
After she __4.__(join) a school baseball team , she started to know more about the baseball players who joined teams in the USA. Now, she wants to know more about what happens to them. So she reads English newspaper _____5.___ the Internet. When she meets new words, she looks _____6.___up in her dictionary and writes difficult sentences in her notebooks. When she goes to school, she asks her English teacher for___7.___ . Little by little, she finds that English is really important, and she is more and more_8.__(interesting) in it.
Her parents promise to take her to New York to watch a baseball game if she gets good mark in the English exam next month. ____9.____ exciting it is! Betty is so happy that she works____10.___ (hard) on English than before.
根据短文内容和所给中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。
All of us want to be heard, but are we listening when other people are speaking? Doing it well takes lots of 1. (练习). Here are some 2. (有用的) tips.
First, give them your full attention. Put down your pen. Turn off your cell phone. Show them you are 3. (感兴趣的) in listening to them.
Second, use body language. Meet their eyes. Nod, smile and say “Mm hum” “Yeah” “I see” or “Really” to show that you are listening.
4. (第三), let them talk. Say things like “That’s really interesting.” or “I’d like to hear more.” Don’t finish their sentences for them. Don’t change the subject to talk about yourself,5. (也). A good listener listens about 80% of the time 6. (在…期间) the conversation and 7. (花费) only 20% of the time talking. 8. (记住)that we have two ears and one mouth for a 9. (原因) ---listen more, speak less.
Fourth, be slow to share your ideas. It’s possible that the speakers just want to feel heard and understood. So share your own ideas only when they are needed.
Last but not least, put yourself in their shoes. You may not have a lot in common with them. But you can 10. (尝试) to see their problems through their eyes. In doing so, you are better able to understand them and their problems.
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次，每空限填一词。
1.People should stop ______ fur coats to protect the animals.
2.Most of the students found it easy ______ ready for the coming test.
3.The boy was so ______that he cried out.
4.With our help the pandas in China will have ______ bamboo to eat.
5.We must do all we can ______ the animals in danger.
A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling (四脚朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, what the mother has done is repeated again and again. The struggle (挣扎) to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off again. Why? She wants it to remember how it can get up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying great people, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something unusual about these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out (着手) to do.”
1.The expression “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 most probably means ______.
A. a happy thing B. a difficult thing
C. a big dream D. a beautiful place
2. A View from the Zoo is a book written by .
A. Gary Richmond B. Charles Darwin
C. Irving Stone D. Vincent van Gogh
3. The mother giraffe puts herself over her child and throws her long leg and kicks her baby because she .
A. is an unkind mother
B. likes watching her bay sprawling
C. doesn’t want her baby to live with her
D. wants to train her baby to get up in this way
4. The writer mainly wants to tell the readers that .
A. the giraffe is an unusual animal
B. we should learn to be a careful writer
C. learning to get up leads to success
D. A View from the Zoo is a good book to read
One year ago, I worked at a Chinese traditional medicine store. Business was not bad. Every day we mixed (混合）medicinal herbs(中药) for patients, so the store was always full of a strong herbal smell. After I had worked there for a time, a boy of 13 or 14 started coming and sitting on the stairs outside the store for a while every day. It seemed strange to me.
“Do you like the herbal smell?” I asked him one day.
“I grew up with this kind of smell,” he said. He told me that his mother took herbal medicine for years, so he could mix herbs for his mother when he was very young. He mixed the herbs with deep love, hoping his mother would get better as soon as possible.
“Is your mother well now? I asked.
He shook his head. “My mother passed away（去世）three years ago.” Looking up into the sky, he went on: “When I first passed by here and smelled the herbs, I thought of my mother. It is comforting to remember those days when she was alive. So I come here every day to sit for a moment. When I sit around this smell, I feel as if my mother is still alive and is waiting for her medicine in her room.
1.The writer felt ________ when seeing a boy sitting on the stairs at the beginning of the story.
A. strange B. angry
C. excited D. bored
2.The boy grew up with the smell of the herbs because ______________________.
A. he liked go play with herbs.
B. he studied at a herbal medicine store
C. his family had a herbal medicine store
D. he often mixed herbs for his mother
3.The boy’s mother passed away when he was_________ years old.
A. 6 or 7 B. about 10
C. 13 or 14 D. about 16
4.We can tell from the story the boy ______________.
A. used to take herbal medicine
B. missed his mother very much
C. wanted to make friends with the writer
D. hoped to make friends with the writer
Will the sky ever fall? The answer is no. But if it happens there’s no need to be afraid!
The American film Chicken Little opened about two years ago. Its story tells us:don’t worry too much in your life.
One day Chicken Little is in the woods when an acorn(橡子)falls on his head!This makes him afraid. He thinks a piece of sky is falling!He can’t wait to tell everyone about it. They run for their lives!When everyone learns the truth(真相),no one likes Chicken Little. They laugh at him. He gets a bad name in the town,Oakey Oaks. It’s time for him to change others’ minds.
Chicken Little begins to play baseball. He is not bigger than a ball,but he plays very well!He helps his team win. Now they think he’s great.
Just then,a spaceship really does fall from the sky!The aliens(外星人)abroad have bad plans. Once again he must tell people about it!Will he get help from his friends in the town?Can he show himself a different person?You have to watch the film to find it out!
1.The film Chicken Little tells us______.
A.never worry about yourself
B.never worry too much in your life
C.never be afraid of the aliens
D.never believe anything
2.Why do people give Chicken Little a bad name?
A.Because he forces (强迫） people to believe his words.
B.Because people think he tells a lie.
C.Because he wants the sky to fall.
D.Because he brings the aliens to the earth.
3.What does the underlined word“it”in the passage mean?
A.The sky will fall.
B.He plays baseball well.
C.The aliens will have bad plans.
D.He will reach the outer space.
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A.Is the Sky Really Falling?
B.Can You Answer the Question?
C.Are You Afraid of the Sky Falling?
D.Have You Seen the Film?
