任务型阅读(共10小题,每小题1分,计10分)
阅读下面一篇短文,根据短文内容完成表格信息,每空一词。
Our English teacher, Tom Jackson, has some good friends. They are Carl, Ann, Joe and Mary.
Carl is a train conductor (列车员). He is 49 years old now. He began to work at the age of 21. It is a good job for him because he likes people. Carl is very helpful and tries to make the passengers(旅客) comfortable(舒适的). He often stops to talk with the passengers. He likes his work because he can travel to many different places.
Ann works in a hospital in a small town. She has been a nurse for four years. She likes her work very much. This month she is helping mothers with their new babies.
Joe has driven a taxi for 22 years. Most of the time, Joe likes his work. Famous people have ridden in his car. He has taken many film and television stars to the airport. He is cheerful and smiles a lot, and his passengers like him. He makes a good living and supports a family of four.
Mary is a teacher in a high school. She began to teach after she left college five years ago. She teaches Music. There are 15 boys and 18 girls in her class. She likes her students and her students like her. She is very kind and helps them a lot. She is always proud of being a teacher.
Title: Our English teacher’s 1. .
Name | Working years | Job | Information |
Carl | 2. | A train conductor | He likes helping the passengers and tries to make them 3. . He often 4. with the passengers. |
Ann | 4 | A 5. | She is going to help mothers and their new 6. . |
Joe | 22 | A taxi | He is 7. and always wears a 8. on his face. |
Mary | 5 | A teacher | She teaches 9. in a high school. She likes her students. There are thirty-three 10. in her class. |
Thousands of years ago much of our earth was covered with blocks(块)of ice.These ice blocks were as tall as high buildings in modern cities.Most of the ice was in the northern part of the world. Then the ice blocks started to move south.Cold and rain came with the ice.Animals and people had to move. At last, the ice began to melt (融化).After half a million years, most of it had melted.More than half of the earth became covered with water.The climate became much warmer.Things began to grow.The earth began to look the way it looks today.
1.Thousands of years ago our earth was very ________.
A.warm B.hot C.cool D.cold
2.What did animals and people try to do when the ice blocks moved south?
A.They tried to stop them moving.
B.They tried to melt them.
C.They tried to move behind them.
D.They tried to stay ahead of them.
3.The melting ice may help to form___________.
A.mountains and valleys B.the sun,the moon and the earth
C.cities and countries D.seas,lakes and rivers
4.The underlined word "climate" means ________.
A.the freezing ice
B.the weather of the year
C.the moving of the ice blocks
D.a plant or an animal
5.Which of these things maybe happened because the Ice Age ended?
a.Forests grew
b.Food became harder to find
c.Fishing became easier
d.The temperature dropped.
A.a; b B.b; d C.c; d D.a; c
Indonesia (印尼) | An Air Asia flight from the Indonesia to Singapore lost contact(联系) with air traffic control on Sunday. Transport Ministry official said the aircraft, flight number QZ 8501, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 a.m local time. The Airbus 320-200 had 155 passengers and crew(乘务员) on it, another Indonesian Transport official said. |
Shanghai | HONG KONG---At least 36 people were killed and 47 injured(伤害) in a stampede during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Shanghai, the city’s government reported. The deaths happened in the eastern city’s famous Bund, the riverside area where tens of thousands had gathered. The stampede began after 11:35 p.m. in Chen Yi Square, the city said. The exact cause was unclear. President Xi Jingping ordered an immediate investigation, the official Xinhua news service reported. |
1. Which flight lost contact according the article?
A. MH370 B. ATR-72-600 C. QZ8501 D. MH17
2. How many people lost their lives in the two accidents?
A. 36 B. 42 C. 155 D. 191
3.The stampede took place _____________.
A. on Christmas Eve B. during New Year’s Eve
C. at 6:17 a.m local time D. on Sunday
4.Both the two articles are talking about_____________.
A. health B. education
C. environment D. safety
5.We are most likely to read these articles in_____________.
A. text books B. newspaper
C. comic books D. magazines
完形填空(共10小题;每小题l分,计10分)
Last Wednesday night , it snowed in our city . When people up the next morning, they found that everything was covered with . I decided to walk to school instead of my bike. After having an egg, two pieces of bread and a bottle of milk, I my warm clothes and gloves. I left home at 6:10 am. 40 minutes than the time I usually go to school.
On my way to school, I saw some people cleaning the snow. I want to join them, but I did not have . As you can imagine, it was not for me to walk in the knee-deep snow. After walking for about 20 minutes, I was wet but I felt a little excited. When I finally the school gate, some boys were fighting each other with snowballs. “Liu Tao, come and join us!” someone shouted to me. Oh, it was my classmate Wang Bin. “OK, Let’s make a snowman,” I suggested. “Good idea!” he sounded very excited at my suggestion. We played happily until the bell rang. What a winter morning!
1.A. big B. heavy C. heavily D. large
2.A. sleep B. got C. went D. took
3.A. water B. leaves C. snow D. money
4.A. holding B. taking C. riding D. bring
5.A. put on B. put off C. put out D. put away
6.A. late B. early C. later D. earlier
7.A. money B. books C. time D. friends
8.A. hard B. important C. difficult D. easy
9.A. got to B. went C. arrived in D. reach
10.A. important B. wonderful C. happily D. sad
---I plan to go to a movie. Would you like to go with me?
---_____. That’s my favourite.
A. Sounds good B. It doesn’t matter
C. You’re welcome D. Enjoy yourself
After a short rest, the workers kept on _____ till midnight.
A. work B. working
C. to work D. to working