One day, there was a blind man called John sitting on the bench with a hat by
his feet and a sign that read, "I am blind. Please help me."
A creative publicist (广告员) named Tom was walking by the blind man and stopped to see that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He put a few of his own corns in the hat. Without asking for permission, took the sign, turned it around and wrote a new message. Then he put the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left.
Later that afternoon the publicist returned to the blind man and noticed that his hat was almost full of bills and coins. The blind man recognized(识别)his footsteps and asked if it was he who had changed his sign. He also wanted to know what the man wrote on it.
The publicist said, "I just wrote the message a little differently." He smiled and went on his way.
The new sign read, "Spring has come, but I can't see anything."
1.What's the blind man's name?
A. Tom. B. John. C. Tony. D. Sorry, I don't know.
2.Who wrote a new message?
A. The blind man. B. The teacher. C. The publicist. D. The farmer.
3.How did the blind man recognize the publicist?
A. By his sign. B. By his footsteps.
C. By his voice. D. By his corns.
书面表达
81. 根据以下提示，以“My e-friend” 为题写一篇70-80词左右的短文，要求语句流畅，所给的信息均要写进去。
姓名：张宏；年龄：14；个性：自信，有活力，有耐心，做事效率高；
星座：白羊座(Arise)；爱好：看杂志，踢足球，玩电脑，英语成绩好；喜爱的颜色：黄色，代表智慧与热情；
问题：对足球过于狂热，不能听从家长的建议；数学不太好，因为花在上面的时间太少。
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用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1.Thanks for___________(listen)to my problem．
2.So far he____________(accept)a lot of gifts from his friends．
3.It gives me__________(please)to celebrate the success with you．
4.I will think about your________(suggest)，and give you an answer tomorrow．
5.The mobile phone is not mine．It may be somebody__________(else)．
根据句意、首字母或中英文提示，完成下列句子。
1.Read through one of the following_________(文章)．
2.Our astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng travelled to the sky________(成功)．
3.________(事实)is sometimes stranger than fiction(小说)．
4.She had to make a_________(选择)between the two dresses．
5.I’m worried about whether he will soon give me a_________(答复)or not．
6.My parents are s________ with the progress I have made．
7.If you always q_________ with others，you will have no friends．
8.His aunt sent him a v__________ present on his birthday．
9.There are many exciting__________(show)on Channel Five of CCTV．
10.I’m going to_________(go over)my English notes tonight．
It’s not just women who wear skirts. Men can wear them, too. In Scotland, men wear a kind of skirt called a kilt. The kilt is their national dress and an important part of their tradition.
A kilt is a coloured skirt reaching down to the knee. It has checks(格子)on it with different colours, like red or blue. Each family in Scotland had its own colours.
How did the Scots start to wear kilts? There are many stories about it. One story is that the kilt was invented in the 1720s by an English factory owner, Thomas Rawlinson.
Rawlinson has a number of Scottish workers in his factory and he thought their clothing got in the way of their work. So he cut their long clothes into a shorter skirt.
Today, most Scotsmen see kilts as formal(正式的)dress. They usually only wear them at weddings or big dinners. There are only a few men who still wear a kilt every day.
Scots also wear kilts in parades when they play their traditional musical instrument：bagpipes(风笛). The army still has kilts as the dress uniform. but they no longer wear them to fight.
1.In Scotland, it’s not just women who wear skirts, _________can wear them, too.
A. children B. the old C. the young D. men
2.In Scotland, different families have different_________.
A. colours B. checks C. rules D. shapes
3.What does‘got in the way of’in the fourth paragraph mean?
A. 到达 B. 得到 C. 在路上 D. 妨碍
4.The story mainly tells us________．
A. things about Scotsmen’s traditional kilt
B. how to wear kilts
C. when to wear kilts
D. Scotsmen’s important tradition
The word‘day’has two meanings．When we talk about the number of days in a year，we are using‘day’to mean 24 hours．But when we talk about day and night，we are using‘day’to mean the time between sunrise and sunset．Since the earth looks like a ball，the sun can shine on only half of it at a time．Always one half of the earth is having day and the other half night．A place is moved from day into night and from night into day over and over by the spinning(旋转)of the earth．At the equator(赤道)day and night are sometimes the same length，they are each twelve hours long．The sun rises at 6 o’clock in the morning and sets at 6 o’clock in the evening．For six months the North Pole is tilted(倾斜的)toward the sun．In those months the Northern Hemisphere(半球)gets more hours of sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere．Days are longer than nights．South of the equator nights are longer than days．For the other six months the North Pole is tilted away from the sun．Then the Southern Hemisphere gets more sunlight．Days are longer than nights．North of the equator nights are longer than days．Winter is the season of long nights．Summer is the season of long days．
1.When the Western Hemisphere is having day．the Eastern Hemisphere is having_________．
A. both day and night B. day
C. neither day nor night D. night
2.At the equator day is_________ as long as night．
A. sometimes B. never C. usually D. always
3.When the North Pole is tilted toward the sun，the Northern Hemisphere gets _________ sunlight．
A. less B. more C. all D. no
4.When it is winter in China，_________．
A. the USA is tilted toward the sun
B. the South Pole is tilted away from the sun
C. the North Pole is tilted toward the sun
D. the North Pole is tilted away from the sun
