阅读下面短文, 根据以下提示：1）汉语提示, 2）首字母提示, 3）语境提示, 在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词, 并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确, 拼写正确。
Two girls were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins. They decided
to take the train west to east across Canada _____ than fly all the way.
1._____________
They learned from their friend that they would see some great s_____
2._____________
when going _____(朝东). First in Vancouver, they felt the weather and the
3.____________
beauty of the city which is _____ (环抱) by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
4.____________
There’re also extremely tall trees in the forests north of Vancouver, some m___
5._____________
over 90 meters. Their next stop was Calgary that is famous ____ its Stampede
6._____________
where the cowboys from all over the world _____ (比赛) to win prizes. Most
7._____________
of them have a _____ for riding wild horses. After two days’ travel, they
8.____________
realized that Canada is quite empty with a population of s_______ over 30
9.____________
million. And they better understand why Canada has more _____ water (淡水)
10.___________
than any other country in the world.
1.多读书对孩子们很有好处。
Reading more books is __________ __________ __________ __________ children.
2.他匆忙地赶往学校，就在这时，他看到了以前的老同学。
He was hurrying to school ____________ he ____________ ___________ __________ his former classmate.
3.空气中过多的二氧化碳使得地球上的热无法释放到太空中去。(prevent)
Too much carbon dioxide ___________ ___________ ______________ ______________ from the earth to space.
4.一种普遍被人们所接受的理论是：宇宙起源于一次大爆炸，它将物质投射到四面八方。
According to _______ _____________ ______________ ____________, the universe began with a “Big Bang” __________ threw matter __________ ____________ _______________.
1.There is a t______________ in our family that we have a party on New Year’s Eve.
2.Things fall to the ground because of the earth’s ________________.
3. All the children felt e_______________ after a long journey.
4.The custom of arranged marriages still ___________(存在) in many countries.
5.As is known to all, smoking is h______________ to people’s health.
6.Air is a m_________________ of gases.
7.To succeed, we must __________________ (结合) talent with hard work.
8.Children are supposed to avoid watching v_______________ programmes and video games, which are possible to cause them to become more aggressive.
9.I know you don’t like her but try not to make it so ______________ (明显).
10.The actor’s performance left a strong i_________________ on the director.
You may know your mother, but how well do you really know Mother’s Day? Cards, flowers, sales, TV specials, and a day off for someone who really deserves it ---- those are what probably come to mind for many people when they think of Mother’s Day. But there’s more to the story.
The earliest Mother’s Day celebrations were held during spring in ancient Greece. The celebrations honored Rhea, the Mother of the gods. During the 1600’s, England celebrated a day called Mothering Sunday. On this day even servants were given the day off to spend with their families. A mothering cake was even served with the family meal.
In the US, Mother’s Day began in 1872 when Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the words to the famous song The Battle Hymn of the Republic, suggested it as a day devoted to peace. But it didn’t really become popular until 1907 when Anna Jarvis stared a campaign to honor mothers. She believed that mothers could help people get over the pain they experienced during the Civil
War. The US isn’t alone in devoting a day to mothers. Many other countries including Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Japan, and Belgium also honor their mothers in May. Other countries honor their mothers at different times of the year.
Learning more about Mother’s Day and celebrating Mother’s Day are important, but probably not as important as understanding what your own mother, or grandmother, or aunt has really done for you. And that will certainly be appreciated more than one day in a year.
1.What is the passage mainly about?
A. The reason why people celebrate Mother’s Day. B. The ways people honor mothers.
C. The history of Mother’s Day. D. The great contribution of mothers.
2.Where was the earliest Mother’s Day celebrated?
A. In ancient Greece. B. In the US. C. In England. D. In Italy.
3.We can learn from the passage that _____.
A. Rhea is the mother of a king in ancient Greece
B. not all the countries celebrate Mother’s Day in May
C. only mothers were given a day off on Mothering Sunday
D. it was in 1872 that Mother’s Day really came into being
4.The last paragraph tells us that _____.
A. all the people should celebrate Mother’s Day
B. only mothers are honored on Mother’s Day
C. understanding mothers’ work is more important than just celebrating Mother’s Day
D. people should celebrate Mother’s Day every day
What is most likely to affect your success at school or at a job? The ability to read. And that goes for your kids too. The declining literacy(读写能力的下降) of our society has been a main concern of educators for a while now, and yet things are not getting better.
In most cases, how well we learn to read will depend largely on our exposure（接触） to language as children. If we hear people around us talking about all kinds of subjects as children, we naturally pick up the words and phrases they use. If we pick up a lot of words, we will learn to read better.
Much of the traditional advice to struggling readers, theses days, seems to include developing “cognitive strategies”（认知策略）. In this way, readers are asked to centre more, to think, to be interested and ask questions, to analyze, to predict, to reason, and to check their understanding, or worse still to answer questions of what they have read. In other words they are asked to become self-conscious（有自我意识的） readers. I do not agree with this approach.
Here are my several strategies for reading improvement.
Read about things that interest you. If you are interested in what you are reading about, the words will come alive, and you will understand better. The more you read, the better you will become at reading. Just get started and it will become a habit, as long as you are interested in what you are reading.
Read material that is at your level or just a little difficult for you. Read material that you find easy to read, or just a little challenging. Looking up many unknown words in a dictionary is dull, and the results of the dictionary search are quickly forgotten.
_____ If you can hear the new words and phrases that you are reading, you will have an easier time understanding and remembering them. Hearing the rhythm of someone reading a text will help your own reading.
Don’t worry about what you don’t understand. Most of your reading should be for pleasure. You can still enjoy reading without understanding all of what you read. You may even understand some things in your own personal way.
Unfortunately not all reading is just for pleasure. When you are reading a textbook or report or other material for school, you may need to underline, take notes and read some parts over again. However, if you have developed the habit of reading for pleasure, you will find that the skills you need will come naturally, and that you will understand a lot better than before.
1.In Paragraph 2, the author tells us the importance of _____.
A. hearing people around as children B. talking ability as children
C. contacting different people D. learning different languages
2.Which sentence is best to be filled in the blank in the passage?
A. Listen as much as possible. B. Try to use your imagination.
C. Great works need to be read out loud. D. Listen first if you have trouble reading.
3.It can be learned from the last paragraph that _____.
A. you should find pleasure from reading a textbook
B. the habit of reading for pleasure is important
C. reading for school is helpful for reading for pleasure
D. reading for school requires different skills from reading for pleasure
4.What is the purpose of the author in writing the passage?
A. To tell us some ways to improve reading ability.
B. To show that poor literacy has been a big problem.
C. To teach us how to look for fun in reading.
D. To tell us some ways to pick up new words and phrases.
A healthy amount of sunshine may be the secret to staying young. British scientists have discovered.
Vitamin D is produced naturally by the skin in response to(对…的反应) sunlight and may help to slow the ageing process and protect against heart disease, according to the study.
Researchers from King’s College London studied 2,160 women aged between 18 and 79, looking at their telomeres--- a biological marker of ageing found in DNA. As people get older, their telomeres get shorter and they become more susceptible(易受伤害的) to certain illnesses.
But the study found women with high levels of vitamin D had comparatively longer telomeres--- a sign of being biologically younger and healthier.
The study suggests vitamin D may help to slow down the ageing process of DNA, and therefore the ageing process as a whole.
Lead researcher Dr Brent Richards said, “These results are exciting because they show for the first time that people who have higher levels of vitamin D may age more slowly than people with lower levels of vitamin D.” This could help to explain how vitamin D has a protective effect on many ageing related diseases, such as heart disease and cancer.”
Professor Tim Spector, a co-author of the report, added, “Although it might sound absurd
(荒唐的), it’s possible that the same sunshine which may increase our risk of skin cancer may also have a healthy effect on the general ageing process.”
Vitamin D made by the action of sunlight on the skin accounts for 90 percent of the body’s supply, but lower levels can also be got through food such as fish, eggs and breakfast cereals(粥).
Other studies have suggested the vitamin plays a key role in protecting against cancer and heart disease.
1. A certain amount of sunshine helps people stay young because _____.
A. people feel happy and energetic in the sun
B. sunshine protects people against heart disease
C. vitamin D makes one’s skin look young and healthy
D. vitamin D may help to slow the ageing process
2.From Brent Richards, we know that _____.
A. sunlight causes skin cancer to people with high level of vitamin D
B. the study generally has a healthy effect on the general ageing process
C. vitamin D can only be got from fish, eggs and breakfast cereals
D. the higher levels of vitamin D people have, the more slowly people may age
3.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Telomeres are important signs of ageing of the DNA.
B. Sunlight can be dangerous as it causes skin cancer.
C. Sunlight does a great deal of good to our health.
D. Vitamin D can also be gained from food.
4. What is the best title of the passage?
A. Secret of Staying Young B. Vitamin D Helps Slow Ageing
C. Sunlight and Vitamin D D. Sunlight and Health
