根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。
Australia is located in the southern p 1. of the earth. So when it is a hot summer there， we have a cold w 2. here. The weather in Australia is neither too hot nor too cold. In many places of this beautiful land, you can either t 3. a walk in the rain forests (热带雨林) or have a s 4. in its warm seas.
Canberra is the c 5. of Australia. But to visit the world-famous Opera House, you must go to Sydney. Sydney is the l 6. city of this country.
Australia is always a farming country. People usually call it “a country on sheep’s back”. There, you can find lots of s 7. and kangaroos(袋鼠). Alice Spring and Ayers Rock are two interesting p 8. in the center of the country to many foreign visitors. Ayers Rock is the biggest rock in the world. The rock rises 348 metres above the ground, and you may not believe that it changes its colour in the s 9. if you do not see it for yourself.
So, when you go t 10. around Australia, there will be lots of things to see and lots of places to visit.
根据句意，用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1.He spends more time _______ (chat) with his friends on the Internet.
2.--- Do you know the _______ (climb) names? --- I don’t know them.
3.The boy and his mother are ________ (terrible) ill these days.
4.One can get ______ (lose) easily in big cities like Shanghai.
5.I think _______ (nature) food is good for our health.
根据句意和汉语提示写出单词，完成句子。
1.Mr. Wang is an ________(极好的) teacher. He teaches his students very well.
2.This is just the _________ (开始) of a new and different life for you.
3.The Chinese _______ (政府) wants to improve the life of its people.
4.Can you see the words on the blackboard__________ (清晰地), Tom?
5.Finally, she stayed and __________ (接受) the job.
阅读与回答问题
An American named Crum invented potato chips in 1853, although that was not his intention (意图). He was a cook at a beautiful restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York. A regular dish on the menu was fried (油炸的) potatoes, which was an ides that had started in France. At that time, French fried potatoes were cut into thick slices (片).
One day, a dinner guest at the restaurant sent back his fried potatoes to the chef because he did not like them so thick. So Mr. Crum cut the potatoes a little thinner and fried them. The guest did not like those either. That made Mr. Crum angry, so he thought he would just show the man. He sliced the potatoes paper-thin and fried them, thinking that the man would say nothing about it. However, to his surprise, the man loved the thin potatoes very much. Other guests tried them and liked them. So, Mr. Crum's potato chips were added to the menu. They were called Saratoga Chips.
Finally, Mr. Crum opened his own restaurant to sell his famous chips. Now potato chips are packaged (包装) and sold in stores.
根据短文内容，回答问题
1.Who invented photo chips?
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2.What was his job?
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3.Why did the dinner guest send back the fried photos to the cook?
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4.Did the dinner guest love the thin potatoes?
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5.What did Mr. Crum do at last?
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任务型阅读 阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容完成相关任务。
What is DIY? Why do many people like it? Yang Chen works for a computer business in Beijing. He enjoys his work, but it is not easy for him to relax after work. One day when he saw many toy dogs in a toy shop, he had an idea. “Why not make them myself?” Then he began to make model planes, model ships and something else. He has great interest in it because it brings him lots of fun and makes life colourful. So what is DIY? Yes, it is making or creating (创造) things on your own, with your own hands.
It may take much time, but some people, now known as DIYers—do-it-yourselfers, enjoy doing it very much. They enjoy it because it is fun. And they also say it helps them save money, too. What’s more, they think it is a good way to protect the environment (环境). It is a kind of green life. In fact, DIY is not a modern thing in China. Many people remember when it was once a way of life in the past. During the 1960s and 1970s, when there were not enough living things for people to live on, they had to use their own hands to do many things. If you wanted something, you had to do it yourself, and if you needed something, you made it yourself.
Times have changed and DIY also has different meanings.
Yang Chen’s story | It is 1. for him to relax after work. He had the idea of DIY and soon was 2. in it. DIY brings him fun and makes life 3. |
What is DIY | It is making or creating things by 4. |
Why DIY is popular | It is fun. It helps people 5. money. And it is a kind of 6. life. |
DIY in the 7. | It was once a 8. of life. People had to choose DIY 9. there were not enough living things. They had to do many things 10. their hands. |
Can plants eat people? Probably not, but there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big, and they can eat small animals. One famous meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap.
The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of a book. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly touches one of the hairs, the leaves closes quickly. The fly cannot get out. In about half an hour, the leaves press the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly. Slowly, the plant eats the fly.
Why do plants do it? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air, and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn’t have all these important things, especially nitrogen(氮). So some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let’s hope that some of the bigger plants don’t get the same idea!
1.The Venus flytrap is a kind of ______.
A. plant B. animal C. food D. meat
2.The Venus flytrap grows in ______.
A. most parts of the world
B. some parts of Africa
C. dry parts of the United States
D. wet parts of England
3.From the passage, we learn that ______.
A. all plants can eat people
B. all plants can eat animals
C. some plants can eat people
D. some plants can eat animals
4.The underlined word “press” probably means ______ in Chinese.
A. 挤压 B. 关上 C. 打开 D. 松开
5.Why do some plants eat animal meat?
A. Because plants are dangerous to animals.
B. Because animals are dangerous to plants.
C. Because plants want to get what they need from animal meat.
D. Because plants want to protect themselves against animals.
