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根据句子意思,用括号中所给汉语提示或英语单词的适当形式填空。在答题卡标有题号的横线上,写出空缺处所填单词的正确形式。(每空一词)
1.Did you hear someone ___________on the door when you were watching the cartoon?(敲)
2.The wind ___________ strongly and I almost lost my way.(吹)
3.Thank you for your _________ and it makes me learn more about the product. (介绍)
4.He sat ___________ me, saying nothing to me.(在……对面)
5.Jack found his job and later made a living on his own in his ______________.(五十多岁)
6.It is ____________for Dave to be late. He is always on time. (usual)
7.The more mistakes he made, the _____________ he got. (angry)
8.We should talk with our parents and teachers _______________. (polite)
9.Mr. Green explained it again and again to make _____________ understood. (he)
10.As a guide, I must pay attention to all the ______________safety during their trip. (tour)
I grew up in New Hampshire, a small town in South Canada, where in my father’s words for the seasons were “Spring, Summer, Fairtime and Winter!” At that time, a week-long fair was held in the town every autumn. Thousands of people from other towns came to sell and buy things. It was the busiest time of the year.
When “Fairtime” came, my grandma became the most “useful” and busiest person of the family. Grandma was a kind, well-educated old lady. She was good at cooking. All her relatives liked the food she cooked. During “Fairtime”, they would come to live in her house and have meals there. Grandma was always happy to look after them.
Year after year, many people moved to big cities. There was no longer “Fairtime”. Grandma became very old and was gradually(逐渐地) going blind. My parents and I moved to live with Grandma in her house. We did our best to make her day-to-day life as comfortable as possible. I was at high school then.
What I often did at home was to help Grandma with the daily newspaper’s crossword puzzle.(填字游戏) However, she didn’t look happy. She often sat in her room for hours, without saying a word.
To attract people to move back, the Town Hall decided to reopen the fair. One day, when I came back from school, I saw Grandma wearing her glasses, washing the dishes in the kitchen. With a big smile on her face, she looked a lot much younger. She told me that her two nieces(侄女)would come. “They said the food I cooked was very delicious and they want to stay in my house again,” Grandma said happily. “They will stay here for one week and we can have a big party. That must be the busiest week I’ve had in years!”
I suddenly realized that Grandma didn’t want to be looked after. She wanted to be “useful”, appreciated and helpful.
1.What was mentioned to make Grandma happy in the passage?
A. My parents moved to live with her.
B. The writer did the crossword puzzle with her.
C. Her two nieces would come.
D. We tried to make her live comfortably.
2.Which is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Grandma preferred looking after others to being looked after.
B. The fair usually lasts for about a week.
C. Grandma was kind and educated very well.
D. Grandma liked to stay in the room for hours without saying a word.
3.What does the underlined word“appreciated” mean?
A. 激动的B. 感激的 C.轻松的 D.迷惑的
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Fairtime B. My “Old” Grandma
C. A Small Town D. Grandma’s Family
Smoking in indoor public places including public working places, public transport vehicles and some other special outdoor working places has been banned(禁止)in China since January 2011. Let’s look at the following advantages of banning smoking.
First, banning smoking will not only help in saving smokers from health problems and diseases, but will also be good for passive(被动)smokers. When the smoker is smoking in a restaurant, the people around him are sure to breathe in the smoke and suffer from the diseases an active smoker gets. If smoking is banned, spread of these diseases can be controlled.
Next, banning smoking will put stress on smokers to give up. Since a smoker is prevented from smoking, he will learn how to live without smoking for long hours. When a smoker doesn’t smell or see anybody around him smoking, it might reduce his wish to smoke too. As a result, people have to give up smoking.
Smoking in public places influences non-smokers to start smoking, especially adolescents. When teens see people around them smoking, they will follow them easily. Thus the number of teen smokers will increase. Also asthma(哮喘)and other problems are often seen in children living around smokers. So if it is banned, these places will become safe for children and teenagers.
Smoking should be banned to increase work productivity(生产率). Employees(雇员)who smoke usually take breaks to smoke while working. So the number of hours they put in their work is smaller.
If you see from the environment point of view, smoking should be banned. Smoking causes air pollution. If it is banned, it will help keep the environment from getting worse.
1.________doesn’t belong to a non-smoking place.
A.A field
B. A hospital
C. A library
D.A restaurant
2.The second paragraph mainly wants to tell us ______.
A. banning smoking is good for restaurants
B. banning smoking is good for non-smokers
C. banning smoking is good for spread of diseases
D. banning smoking is good for active smokers and passive smokers
3.According to the text, the underlined word “adolescents” means ______.
A. menB. womenC. adults D. teenagers
4.Which of the following statements in NOT true?
A. If smoking is banned, work productivity will increase.
B. If smoking is banned, the number of teen smokers will be larger.
C. If smoking is banned, it will make the environment become better.
D. If smoking is banned, smokers will learn how to live without smoking.
There once was a little boy who wanted to meet the king. He set off, walking towards the king’s castle. After many years of walking, the king’s castle came into his view. However, as the boy drew closer to the outside of the castle, the guards noticed him.
“Get out of here!” ordered the guards.
Well, the little boy didn’t have to be told twice. He turned…and ran. All he wanted to do was to tell the king wonderful things, and see all the beautiful things in the king’s house. But he couldn’t even get near the castle! The boy finally stopped running, sat down and cried.
A young man happened to be coming down the path at the very moment. He saw the little boy and stopped. “What’s wrong, young man?” he asked.
“Sir, I walked and walked just to see the king. But these guards made me scared. I wanted to tell the king how lovely everything is and just tell the king that I just wanted to see him!”
The man looked at the little boy thoughtfully. “Look, why don’t you try again. I’ll come with you this time.”
The little boy got up and took the man’s hand. The king’s guards spotted them.
“Look, mister, we don’t have to do this…I don’t want you to get hurt. We can just turn around now.”
The man held the little boy’s hand and went on. The boy really thought the man might be crazy until he looked back up at the guards. They were all smiling now. The little boy was amazed.
“Who are you?” asked the little boy in surprise.
“Why, I’m the king’s son. You can enter the castle and be with the king.” said the man.
The little boy broke into a huge smile.
1.Why did the boy want to see the king?
A. To get some help from the king.
B. To invite the king to visit his beautiful village.
C. To share wonderful things with the king.
D. To ask the king to play with him.
2.What does the underlined sentence in the paragraph mean?
A. The little boy didn’t understand the guards words at first.
B. The guards repeated the words to the boy.
C. The little boy had been to the castle twice.
D. The little boy understood the guards’ words at once.
3.According to the passage, the man is .
A. kindB. stupidC. rudeD. selfish (自私)
4.Which of the following best suits the story’s lesson for us?
A. Never judge a book by its cover.
B. Anything is possible if one tried hard enough.
C. Life can sometimes be unfair (不公平).
D. Make new friends and keep the old.
What’s on TV?
6:00③Let’s talk! Guest: Animal expert Jim Porter ⑤Cartoons ⑧News ⑨News 7:00③Cooking with Cathy Tonight: Chicken with mushrooms. ⑤Movie “A laugh a Minute”(1955) James Rayburn. ⑧Spin for Dollars! ⑨Farm Report 7:30③Double Trouble(comedy) The twins disrupt the high school dance. ⑨Wall Street Today: Stock Market Report 8:00③NBA Basketball. Teams to be announced ⑧Movie “At day’s End”(1981) Michael Collier, Julie Romer. Drama set in World WarⅡ. ⑨News Special “Saving Our Waterways: Pollution in the Mississippi”. |
1.If you were a housewife, which program would probably interest you most?
A. Let’s Talk! B. Wall Street Today.
C. Cooking with Cathy. D. Farm Report.
2.If you’d like to watch something about pollution, you could turn on the TV to.
A. Channel 5 at 6:00 B. Channel 9 at 8:00
C. Channel 8 at 7:00 D. Channel 3 at 7:30
3.Which is most probably the News Channel?
A. 3.B. 5. C.8. D. 9.
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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
When Dave was 18, he bought an secondhand car for$200 so that he could travel to work more than by bus. It worked quite well for years, but then it got so old, and it cost him much in repairs that he decided that he had better it.
He asked all his friends to see if anyone wanted to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so of them wanted to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was worried one evening, and said, “What's , Dave?”
Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's was right, he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, very little oil, only two owners. Bargain (成交) at$50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no . But then on Saturday evening a man rang up and said he would like to see the car. Dave felt very happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll my wife. We want to go for a ride in it to it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, waiting there for the people who had answered his advertisement. Even Dave had to admit(承认) that the car really like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported this to us yet, sir?”
1.A. directly B. safely C. properly D. easily
2.A. soB. suchC. very D. too
3.A. keepB. repairC. sell D. throw
4.A. someB. neither C. none D. most
5.A. onB. up C. it D. that
6.A. learnB. missC. get D. find
7.A. message B. advice C. request(要求)D. description
8.A. usesB. losesC. has D. spends
9.A. doubt B. help C. troubleD. answer
10.A. exact B. suitable C. early D. late
11.A. follow B. meetC. bring D. introduce
12.A. praise B. getC. admireD. test
13.A. looked B. smelled C. tasted D. sounded
14.A. asB. that C. soD. such
15.A. bargain B. saleC. accidentD. result