任务型阅读（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）
你的朋友要从Queensway去Westminster, 因从未坐过地铁而求助于你。请根据所给地铁线路图的信息，在短文的空白处填写相应的地铁或站名，完成一份最佳线路的说明。
As there is no direct train from Queensway to Westminster, you may go this way. First, try to find Line 1. and get on the train at Queensway. When it reaches 2. , get off because you have to move to another train there, a train which runs on Line 3. . By the way, there is only one stop on the way. That is to say, when you pass 4. , it’s time for you to get ready as the next stop is 5. and that is where you should get off.
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的连贯性，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（每空不多于3个单词）。
I still remember the first time I left home for one or two 1. (night). I was going to a summer camp for a month. When my parents told me about the camp, I was 2. (excite), because there were lots of activities there .
The whole family drove me to the camp. When we arrived, I saw a lot of kids, 3. I didn’t know anyone. I began to feel nervous. They gave me a little card 4. my name on it. Then a girl, who looked 5. (old) than me, came up to me and said, “Hi, Margie! I’m Sara. Our cabin is the Pines.”
Finally the time came when my parents said, “Well, Margie, goodbye. Have 6. great time. And don’t worry; we’ll write to 7. often. ”
I had an awful feeling. I wanted 8. (cry). But just then another girl of my age came up to me and 9. (say), “Hi, are you Margie? I’m Tammy. I’m in the Pines, too. Come on. Let’s go see the horses.”
So off we went and I had a 10. (wonder)month at camp.
根据短文内容和所全中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。
Colours are connected with your daily life.
You wake up in the UK on a cool Monday morning in 1. (三月) . The sky is dark and red because the sun is rising 2. (在……后面)the clouds. Maybe the weather won’t be very good today!
Before school you have to 3. (收集)newspapers from a shop and deliver them to the houses in your neighbourhood. You get paid some money to do this.
The newspapers are black and white. But on the back of today’s paper is a colour picture showing people whose faces are 4. (涂成)white with a red cross. They are cheering and waving white 5. (旗)with red crosses on, too. England’s football 6. (队)has won an important match.
After that, you go home to put on your school uniform, which is dark 7. (灰色的). It is different to other schools so people can tell which school you attend. After 8. (早餐), you set off to get the bus to school.
Now you are at school. Like 9. (每个人)else, you are ready for class. You’ve only been awake for two hours and it has 10. (已经) been a colourful day!
What colourful things will you do next?
用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。
keep loudly instead of natural sky |
1.It’s not good to talk____ in public places.
2.As the saying goes, an apple a day____ the doctor away.
3.Spring is the best time to go out and enjoy the ____ world.
4.Because of air pollution, it is not always easy to see the blue____ now.
5.Our English teacher often tells us to do more reading ____ doing exercises only.
Delia was a young pianist. Her husband, Joe, was a young artist.
Each of them was taking lessons: Joe with a famous art teacher, and Delia with a great pianist from Germany. Their teachers were the very best, so lessons were expensive, more than they could really afford, but…when you love your art, nothing is too much.
But soon the money began to run out, and they couldn’t afford the lessons any more.
Then one day Delia came back home and told Joe that she had met a man whose daughter, Sally, wanted to learn the piano, and he was going to pay her $ 50 an hour.
“Delia,” Joe said, “I’ll be much happier if you keep up your lessons,” Delia said it didn’t matter. “When I’ve had some money, I’ll continue.” But Joe also decided to stop his lessons, to draw pictures and sell them.
A few days later, Joe came home and proudly took $ 200 from his pocket. “I met a man from Vermont,” he said, “who bought one of my pictures. And he wants to buy more!”
_________________.They didn’t have to worry any more about money.
Then, one day, Joe came home and saw that Delia’s hand was wrapped in a bandage(绷带). He asked her what had happened. “Oh,” said Delia. “My student, Sally, asked me to make some coffee for her. I dropped the coffee and burned my hand. Sally went straight to the drugstore and got this bandage for me. ”
“Delia, what have you been doing the last two weeks?” Joe asked. She tried not to tell him, but the tears came. “Oh Joe, I couldn’t get any students, so I worked as a waitress in a restaurant. Today, I burned my hand with hot water. So I can’t work any more. But we’ll still have money from the man in Vermont, won’t we?”
Joe looked at her. “There’s no man in Vermont, ” he said. “I’ve been working in a drugstore, and today someone came in to buy bandages for a woman who’s burned her hand. So when I saw you, well, I guessed.”
They both laughed.
[A story by O. Henry—adapted(改编)]
1.The writer of the story is ____.
A. Joe B. Delia C. O. Henry D. Sally
2. Which of the following can be put in the “____” in Paragraph 7?
A. A bigger plan came to their mind
B. Since then Joe became very famous
C. So the two of them were very happy
D. Delia stopped her lessons and stayed home
3.Both of them laughed in the end because ____.
A. they would go on with their lessons soon
B. they had both told lies to make the other happy
C. they didn’t have to worry about money any more
D. they thought they had done something meaningless
4. The best title for the passage can be ____.
A. Blind love
B. A pleasant gift
C. A service of love
D. An unforgettable lesson
It happens every spring. Flowers come out everywhere on the same day. But how do plants “know” when to flower?
For years, it has been a difficult question for scientists. But a US research group may have finally answered it—the secret lies in a protein(蛋白质)called FKF1. This helps plants to know when the days become long and when they get short. Then they can tell the seasons are changing.
Researchers found the FKF1 protein when they were studying a plant called Arabidopsis(拟南芥). It is sensitive(敏感的)to sunlight, and can be made active by sunlight.
Plants produce this protein every day in the late afternoon all year. If there is no light at this time, for example in winter when the sun goes down early, the protein won’t be active. But when spring comes and the days get longer, the FKF1 protein can be made active by day light and the plants “know” it is time to flower. “If there is light in the late afternoon, plants will know that the days are getting longer and that it is the best time for flowers to come out,” explained Takato Imaizumi, leader of study. But when conditions are poor for growing, such as during autumn or winter when the weather is cold and days are short, plants won’t flower.
Although researchers have only studied how the FKF1 protein works in the Arabidopsis, they believe that it is the same with many other plants, including crops such as rice and wheat. This could be useful to the agricultural industry.
“If we can control when flowers come out, we might be able to increase crop production,” Imaizumi said.
1. The passage is mainly about ____.
A. how plants “know” when to flower
B. what people can do with plants
C. how seasons are changing
D. what kind of plant Arabidopsis is
2.Scientists found the FKF1 protein when they were____.
A. answering a question
B. controlling the clours of flowers
C. planting flowers in the garden
D. studying a plant called Arabidopsis
3.The best time for flowers to come out is when____.
A. it rains in spring
B. there is light in the late afternoon
C. it is getting dark
D. the sun goes down early
4.Scientists believe that____.
A. other plants also know when to flowers
B. flowers are more valuable than fruits and vegetables
C. people have known how to control when flowers come out
D. if the weather is cold and days are short, plants will flower
