有时他还是在吃这些弱点的苦头。
Sometimes he still ________ ________these weaknesses.
我觉得难受，我要去药店买一些药。
I ________ ________. I must go to the chemist’s to get some medicine.
我不喜欢和懒惰的人交朋友。
I don’t want to ________ ________ with indolent persons.
根据对话内容选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，有两项为多余选项。
A:1.
B: Tom Sawyer, by the famous American writer, Mark Twain. I’m writing about him for English class.
A: I read Tom Sawyer. Very good！Hey, we can find out about him on the Internet.
B: Yes! …OK.2. His real name was Samuel Clemens and he was born in 1835 in Missouri He left school and began work at the age of twelve.
A:3.
B: He wrote for a newspaper. Later he got work on a boat.
A:4.
B: No, he went to New York, and other cities.
A:5.
B: I don’t know the exact date. But he took the name Mark Twain and became very famous in the 1860s. He went to Europe as well. But he didn't come to China.
A: Yes, I knew that. Enjoy the book.
B: Yes, it’s good.
A.Look at this!
B.When did he begin his stories?
C.That’s OK.
D.What are you reading?
E.Why don’t we go for a swim?
F.Did he stay in Missouri?
G.What did he do?
Planes have changed the world in the last hundred years. But this great change began with two ordinary people.
Orville and Wilbur Wright were two brothers who had a bicycle shop in Ohio, the USA. They were good at making bicycles, but planes were their real interest.
At that time, people knew how to build and fly gliders (planes without engines), but nobody could build a plane with an engine and fly it. The plane builders had two main problems: they could not make the wings strong enough, and the planes always crashed(坠毁) when they tried to take off.
The Wright brothers read about these problems in a newspaper, and they decided to look for answers. They made small model planes in the bicycle shop and they built a wind tunnel to test the models. They also built real gliders. Finally, they built a plane with an engine, which they called The Flyer.
On December 17th 1903, Orville and Wilbur pulled The Flyer onto a fat sandy beach. The plane weighed 275 kilograms and had a petrol engine. The day was very cold, and there was a wind of about 30 kilometres per hour. The brothers tossed(投掷) a coin to see who should fly first. Orville won. He climbed onto the plane and started the engine.
The Flyer began to move into the wind, Wilbur ran along beside the plane, And then the plane took off：It flew for only 12 seconds, but someone took a photograph, and the plane flew into the history books.
1.People have used planes with engines for more than _______ years.
A.50 B.100 C.150 D.200
2.What was one of the glider builders’ main problems before 1903?
A.None of them was good at making and selling bicycles.
B.Their planes could take off and fly for only 30 minutes.
C.They could not afford to buy an engine for their planes.
D.They could not make enough strong wings for their planes.
3.Why did the Wright brothers make models?
A.They made models to test their ideas.
B.They hoped to sell them for money.
C.They had nothing to do and did that for fun.
D.They weren't interested in making real planes.
4.How was the weather on the day of The Flyer’s flight?
A.Rainy. B.Warm. C.Windy. D.Hot.
5.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.The Wright brothers owned a model plane shop in the USA before 1903.
B.When The Flyer began its first flight in 1903, it weighed 275 kilograms.
C.Orville and Wilbur both wanted to fly the plane first and Wilbur won at last.
D.The plane The Flyer succeeded in taking off and flew for only 12 minutes.
An idiom is a phrase that we can’t understand from the meaning of each word. For example, if an American boy asks his mom what’s for dinner tomorrow, she may say “I’ll play it by ear”, that means she doesn't have plans for dinner and she will decide later.
“Play it by ear” used to mean playing music without using the sheet music(乐谱), but now people often use it when they’re not talking about music!
There are many idioms in English. If you learn to use them, your English will be much more vivid(生动的)and colourful.
Have you ever heard the idiom “He bought the farm”? It means he died. Do you know how it became popular? It was first used during World War I. When a soldier died, the government gave his family enough money to buy a farm.
In the early 1930s, people in the U.S. often did not know when or where their next meal was coming from. So as soon as they got something in their hand that could be eaten, it would go into their mouth. That was how people began to use the idiom “living hand to mouth” to mean “living a poor life”.
And don’t be angry if your English friend says this to you, “Break a leg in your game!" In fact, he is wishing you good luck! Hundreds of years ago, people believed in sprites. Sprites enjoyed causing trouble. If the sprites heard you ask for something, they would make the opposite take place. Tell someone to “break a leg” and the sprites would make something good take place.
Aren’t English idioms interesting? And break a leg in your next football match!
1.The idiom “play it by ear” means“________”
A.have no plans for dinner today. B.have no plans for dinner tomorrow.
C.play music with sheet music. D.have no plans and will decide what to do later.
2.If someone is very poor, we can say he_________.
A.buys the farm. B.lives hand to mouth.
C.breaks a leg. D.plays it by ear
3.We can infer(推断)that in the early 1930s common American people________
A.loved buying farms. B.lived a hard life.
C.had meals at different places and times. D.liked eating from their hands.
4.British people used to believe the sprites liked to________
A.make something good take place. B.break a leg.
C.make trouble. D.make bad things take place
5.If your friend is having a basketball match, you can say all of the following excpt “_______”.
A.Bad luck B.Good luck C.Have fun D.Enjoy the game
