他考虑很久了要写一部小说。
He has ________ ________ starting a novel for a long time.
表面上看，他的建议合乎情理。
On the face of it, his suggestions ________ ________.
根据天气预报，明天有雨。
________ ________the weather report, it will rain tomorrow.
根据对话内容，从方框内选择恰当的句子将对话补充完整。（选项中有两项是多余的）
A: Mum, can I go on a holiday with my friends?
B: 1.
A: We’re going climbing in the mountains.
B: 2.
A: Well, Susan and Dave are going with us and they suggest that we join a group. There will be fifteen people altogether.
B: It sounds dangerous. Where are you going to sleep? 3. Will you be able to call me?
A: Don’t worry! We’re going to camp out. We’ll cook our own food, and I’ll take my mobile phone.
B: What about the clothes? 4.
A: I’ll take lots of warm clothing.
B: I’m worried that you’ll fall and break your leg! Then what will you do?
A: 5. Everything will be fine. Please can I go?
B: Well... all right. But do be careful!
A.What are you going to do about food?
B.How long have you been like this?
C.Who are you going with?
D.Where are you going?
E.Oh, stop worrying, Mum!
F.The village looks very quiet.
G.It’s going to be cold in the mountains.
Pablo Picasso was an amazing painter who created with colour and shape. His paintings opened people’s minds and showed there were many ways to express ideas.
Born in Spain in 1881, Picasso learned to paint at an early age because his father was a painter. At fourteen, Picasso began attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Although Picasso did well, his teachers wouldn’t let him develop his own style (风格). So he changed schools. Though his new teachers praised his work, they still criticized (批评) it as being too unusual. Picasso made up his mind to express himself in his own way.
Disappointed at his job in Spain, nineteen-year-old Picasso moved to Paris, where he learned about abstract (抽象派的) art. However, an important development in his own style came along when his best friend killed himself. Picasso was so sad that he painted only in blue and grey. He painted the poor and the disabled. This is known as his “Blue Period” .
In 1904, Picasso’s painting style changed again when he fell in love with an artist model. He began painting everything with colours of red and pink. He mainly painted circus performers (马戏团表演) and artists during this time, called his “Rose Period” .
Picasso’s style went through another change as he began to learn about African art and geometry (几何学). Instead of painting with different colours, he used different shapes. His paintings surprised people because they looked like they had been broken and put back together incorrectly. Picasso’s new style became known as “Cubism”. Cubism was so unusual that it became very popular.
Pablo Picasso is most remembered for his Blue, Rose and Cubism periods. But his painting styles kept changing until his death at age ninety-two.
1.What were Picasso’s school teachers like?
A.Traditional. B.Careless. C.Friendly. D.Strange.
2.What did Picasso mainly paint during his Blue Period?
A.His friends. B.Artist models.
C.The poor and the disabled. D.Circus performers and artists.
3.How old was Picasso when he began his Rose Period?
A.14. B.19. C.23. D.35.
4.Which of the following sentences describe Picasso’s Cubism period?
① He used many shapes.
② He used different colours.
③ He was influenced by African art and geometry.
④ He painted broken things that were put back together perfectly.
A.①② B.①③ C.②③ D.③④
5.What is the passage mainly about?
A.The symbols in Picasso’s art. B.The secrets of Picasso’s success.
C.Picasso’s unusual human relationships. D.The changes in Picasso’s painting style.
Some children were working in a wheat (小麦) field. Some worked hard and some didn’t. But one small boy just ran here and there after the butterflies (蝴蝶) and sang happily.
In the evening, an angel (天使) came and said to the children, “Come now to the gate, and bring your sheaves (小麦捆) with you.”
So the children came, bringing their sheaves, but the boy that had run after the butterflies came empty-handed.
“No one can enter here without sheaves,” the angel told him.
Hearing that, the small boy lowered his head.
Then all the other children cried out together. One said, “Dear Angel, let him in! In the morning I was sick and this boy came and played with me, and showed me the butterflies. Also, he gave me one of his sheaves, and I would give it to him again.”
Another said, “Dear Angel, let him in! At noon I fainted (昏倒) and fell down. This boy brought me water, and then he showed me the butterflies until I felt better. To me he also gave one of his sheaves, and I would give it to him again.”
And a third said, “Just now, as evening was coming, I was tired and I couldn’t go on working. But this boy comforted me, showed me the butterflies, and gave me one of his sheaves.”
And the other children said with one voice, “We also had sheaves of him, dear angel. ▲ ”
The angel smiled, and reached his hand inside the gate and brought out a few sheaves. “Here are his sheaves!” said the angel. “They are known and counted, everyone.” And he said to the small boy, “Lead the way in!”
1.When did the angel appear?
A.In the morning. B.At noon. C.In the afternoon. D.In the evening.
2.The small boy lowered his head probably because ________.
A.the angel was angry with him B.his butterflies all flew away
C.he couldn’t bring enough water D.he felt it hopeless to enter by the gate
3.When a child was ill in the morning, the small boy ________.
A.sang to him B.played with him
C.gave him a butterfly D.brought him some water
4.Which of the following sentences can be put in ▲ ?
A.You’re too stupid! B.They are lost!
C.Thank you! D.Let him in!
5.What did the small boy probably feel at the end of the story?
A.Pleased. B.Sad. C.Worried. D.Shy.
