阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
How to Be Popular
Most people would like to be popular with others, 1. not everyone can achieve this goal. What is the secret to 2. (popular)? In fact, it is very simple. The first step is to improve our appearance. We should always make 3. that we stay in good shape and dress well. When we are healthy and well-groomed, we will not only look better but also feel 4. (good). In addition, we should smile and appear friendly. After all, our facial expression is an important part of our appearance. 5. we can do this, people will be attracted to our good looks and impressed by our confidence.
Another important step is developing more consideration(考虑) for others. We should always place 6. (other) interests before our own. It's also important to be good 7. (listen). In this way people will feel comfortable enough to confide in us. However, no matter 8. we do, we must not gossip. Above all, we must remember to be 9. （we）, not dishonest(不诚实). Only by being sincere and respectful（尊重人的） can we earn their respect. If we can do all of the above, I am sure popularity will be 10. (achieve).
完型填空,通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
years and years people have been saying that railways are dead. “We can do railways,” people say， cars and planes have made railways unnecessary. We all keep hearing that trains are slow, money and are dying. But this is far from the . In these days of expensive , railways have become highly competitive（竞争的）with cars and planes. If you want to carry people or things from place to place, they’re than planes. And they have much in with planes. A plane goes in a straight line and does a railway. What is more, a railway takes you from the heart of a city center. It doesn’t stop as a car does on crowded roads. And no plane or car can ever carry as many goods(货物) as one train .
Far from being dead, railways are much . Modern railway lines give you a comfortable journey. Where else can you eat well, sleep comfortably, feel safe and enjoy the scene while you are traveling ? And we are only the beginning, for we have just the age of super-fast trains, which can travel almost 200 an hour or more. Soon we will be wondering we spent so much on highways and planes we can’t fly in because we don’t have enough money to buy the oil.
1.A. For B. Since C. In D.Of
2.A.instead of B. out of C. with D. without
3.A.as if B. even if C. even though D.such as
4.A.win B. make C. lose D.shut
5.A. background B. truth C. secret D.business
6.A.electricity B. water C. oil D.time
7.A. cheaper B. more expensive C. faster D.slower
8.A.same B. similar C. total D.common
9.A. so B. as C. this D.also
10.A. carry B. do C. does D.did
11.A.spare B. painful C. sad D.alive
12.A.from time to time B.at the same time C. Once upon a timeD.all the time
13.A.entered B. gone C. left D.got
14.A.meters B. kilograms C. miles D.pounds
15.A. that B. whether C. how D.why
阅读下面的语言材料，从A——F中选出符合1-5题的标题，其中有一个选项是多余的。
If you want to learn English well. You have to practice speaking English! Use these sentences to help you start interesting conversations in English.
1.We should try to do things independently, rather than wait for help. Do you think our schools stop us from thinking independently? How can we become more independent? Can we help our classmates to be more independent? How?
2.I find this to be true with my students. If they only recite without understanding, they cannot use English well. Have you ever tried to recite many English words? What is the result? Do you know anyone that only follows but never thinks? What is that person like? Do you know anyone who is a clear thinker? What is that person like?
3.How can laughter help us in our daily life? Do you think humor is helpful if we are really sick? Do you know anyone who laughs all the time? What is that person like? Do you know someone who never laughs? Do you enjoy being around that person?
4.Do you have many friends or just a few very close friends? How did you meet your best friend? What advice would you give a newcomer to your school to help him or her meet new friends? What would you do to help your best friend?
5.How should we eat to stay healthy? What do you think is the healthiest food we can eat every day? Do you eat very healthy food? Or do you prefer delicious but not so healthy food? What food should we avoid eating? Besides eating well, what should we do for our health?
A.A friends in need is a friend indeed. B. Learning without thinking is a dangerous thing. C. He who laughs last laugh best. D. God helps those who help themselves. E. Laughter is the best medicine. F. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. |
There are over 800 boarding schools in the UK with students from home and foreign countries. Boarding schools started hundreds of years ago in the country. But the earliest boarding schools were set up for white, rich boys only. Now both boys and girls can go to boarding schools from the age of 7 to 18.
What to do?
In the UK, boarding schools have three terms in a school year, with about 13 weeks in each term. Students study and live together. They can't go outside if they are not allowed to. In some schools, each student has his or her subject plan. Besides the usual classrooms and laboratories, the boarding schools have lots of other facilities for their students, including music rooms, boats, swimming pools, cinemas and theatres. Most boarding schools have a “light-out” time. So when it's time to go to bed, all the lights in the bedrooms are turned off. There are house-masters to take care of students all the time, especially after school hours.
What to wear?
Nearly all students at boarding schools wear a school uniform. Boys usually wear a shirt and a tie, and girls wear a white blouse, sometimes also a tie and a skirt. As students get older, the rules become less strict.
____________?
In the UK, boarding schools provide students with delicious food. They can choose to have a full English breakfast or simply bread. They can also choose between a meal with no meat and another meal at lunch and dinner. And there is always self-service for salad (沙拉), other side dishes and a dessert. Students can also make themselves something to eat at any time in a kitchen, or drink tea or have a snack between meals.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to (根据) the passage?
A. Only white children were allowed to attend the earliest boarding schools.
B. Students in a boarding school are looked after only after school hours.
C. As students get older, the rules about wearing school uniforms become stricter.
D. Students can have different activities in a boarding school.
2.Students can make themselves something to eat in a kitchen______.
A. at breakfast time B. at any time
C. in the morning D. in the evening
3.The underlined word “facilities” means______.
A. 老师 B. 设备 C. 活动 D. 课程
4.Most boarding schools have a light-out time when______.
A. the house-masters come to look after the students
B. the students have finished their subject plans
C. it’s time for the students to go to bed
D. all the students are in after-school hours
5.Which is the best title for the last paragraph?
A. What to eat B. When to eat
C. Where to eat D. How to eat
MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a food additive (食品添加剂), which has been widely used by many food factories all over the world since it appeared first in Japan in 1909.
MSG is a substance that is added to some food to improve its original (原先的) taste and colour. It is used in foods around the world such as cakes, bread, frozen meats, fish and vegetables. In the beginning, people thought MSG was safe just like salt and sugar. However, in 1968 some people reported they seemed to have bad reactions (反应) to MSG after having had a meal at a restaurant. They included headaches and quick heartbeat (心跳). It was also reported that MSG excited a person's brain and caused his death in Japan. Scientists think that MSG may lead to many neurological disorders (神经紊乱). In mice studies done by a university, the evidence showed the mice didn’t want to eat the food including MSG.
Today many food companies “hide” MSG on food labels (标签) by using different names. If you see “natural flavorings”, “hydrolyzed protein” and “spices” in a food label, you are probably seeing a hidden way to “report” MSG in a food label. Every time we have a meal in a restaurant, we always feel the food very delicious to taste, but sometimes it is dangerous for our health because some poisonous food additives have been added to the food.
To protect people’s health, our governments, from central to local, are taking actions to stop factories producing poisonous food additives.
1.Monosodium Glutamate is _______.
A. a food B. an additive
C. a factory D. a country
2.MSG is often used in _______.
A. frozen meats B. cups C. clothes D. book covers
3.The examples in the second paragraph tell us ________.
A. the food including MSG is delicious
B. people like to eat in a restaurant
C. mice like eating the food including MSG
D. MSG is not safe sometimes
4.If you see “natural flavorings”, “hydrolyzed protein” and “spices” in a food label, you will know________.
A. you must eat the food in a hidden way
B. the food label must be hidden
C. MSG is probably added to the food
D. you must report the food to your parents
5.The underlined word “substance” in the article means __________.
A. colour B. material C. taste D. Food
When I was a little kid, a father was like the light in the fridge. Every house had one, but no one really knew what either of them did when the door was shut.
My dad left the house every morning and always seemed glad to see every one again at night. He opened the jar of pickles when no one else at home could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go into the basement by himself.
Whenever it rained, he got into the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription(处方) filled. He set mousetraps. He cut back the roses so the thorns(刺) wouldn’t hurt you when you came to the front door. He oiled my roller skates, and they went faster. When I got my bike, he ran alongside me for at least a thousand miles until I got the hang of it. He signed all my report and cards. He took a lot of pictures, but was never in them. He tightened up Mother’s sagging(松垂的) clothesline every week or so.
I was afraid of everyone else’s father, but not my own.
Whenever I played house(玩过家家), the mother doll had a lot to do. I never knew what to do with the daddy doll, so I had him say, “I’m going off to work now,” and threw him under the bed.
When I was nine years old, my father didn’t get up one morning and go to work, he went to the hospital and died the next day.
There were a lot of people in the house who brought all kinds of good food and cakes. We had never had so much company before.
He never did anything; I didn’t know his leaving would hurt so much.
1.Father did a lot of things at home including______.
A. making roller skates
B. helping mom wash clothes
C. watering the flowers in the garden
D. taking photos for the family
2.The underlined phrase “got the hang of it” means______.
A. could hold the bike
B. could repair the bike
C. could ride the bike well
D. could run as fast as a bike
3.We can infer(推理；暗示) from the passage that______.
A. the writer thought her father was cool
B. the writer missed her father very much after his death
C. there were always a lot of people in the writer’s house
D. the writer was afraid of her father
4.The first paragraph tells us that______.
A. the writer loved her father because he often put delicious food in the fridge
B. the fridge in her house was very big and her father was a big man too
C. the writer didn’t know much about her father when she was young
D. the writer’s father loved to eat food from the fridge
5.From the passage, we can see that the writer’s father______.
A. loved his family very much
B. loved only about his work
C. was very careless
D. always acted strangely
