、短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
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。
Mr. Wang,
I’m glad to tell you I’m back in London and how pleased I am
to have met you and your family _____ my stay in your beautiful town.
1._________
_____ pleased me most was the visit to the museum and the old
2. ________
country houses. I’d really like to keep in ____ with all of you and
3._________
I hope you won’t mind _____ (写信) to me again.
4. ________
In fact, I didn’t have as good a journey as ______ (预料).
5. _________
There were some weather problems, w______ caused the delay of my
6._________
flight. Then I had to c______ planes in Berlin. And something
7._________
_____(令人失望的) happened to my baggage. When I got to London,
8. _________
it was s_______ left in Berlin. Anyway, please accept my thanks again
9.__________
and give my best r________ to your family.
10. _________
Yours sincerely,
Marina
完成句子 根据提供的意思，完成句子。（共10分，每格0.5分）
1.他病得如此严重以致他是否回来还不清楚.
He is so seriously ill that ___ was not clear ____ ____ ____ he will come.
2.太空飞船使我们到月球旅游成为可能.
Spaceship ______ ________ ________ for us to travel to the moon.
3.由于核辐射,很多日本人担心安全问题.
______ _______ ______ _______ nuclear radiation, many Japanese are worried about safety.
4.我正要说出真相这时他打断我.
I ______ ______ ______ tell the truth _____ he interrupted me
5.老师不允许学生考试作弊逃脱惩罚.
The teacher won’t _____ students ______ ______ ______ _______ in the exam.
选词组填空 从方框内的词组中选择适当的词组并用其正确形式填空，使下列句子意思和结构完整。每一词组只能用一次(共10题，每题1分)
take place, as for, keep one’s word, account for, take a chance, in time, now that, have a gift for, break out, settle down, after all, rather than
1. You can rely on him. He always _____________.
2. You are late again. How do you ___________ that this time?
3._______ you are busy, let me do it for you.
4. Don’t give up halfway, Andy. You’ll succeed ________ if you keep on working like this.
5. We will ___________ with the weather and go for a picnic.
6. It was almost midnight that a fire ______in the neighborhood.
7. Don’t move any more; in my opinion, you must______________ to live a stable life.
8. Why didn’t you ask for help, ______ try to do it on your own?
9. He should have offered to pay ---- he has plenty of money, ______.
10. They serve well in this restaurant. __________dishes, they taste terrible.
First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people to wonder if something evil (邪恶的) is happening underfoot. It’s not.
While it may seem as if there are more earthquakes occurring, there really aren’t. The problem is what’s happening above ground, not underground, experts say. More people are moving into big cities that happen to be built in quake zones, and they’re rapidly putting up buildings that can’t withstand (经受) earthquakes, scientists believe. And around-the-clock news coverage (报道) and better earthquake monitoring(监测) make it seem as if earthquakes are ever-present.
“I can definitely tell you that the world is not coming to an end,” said Bob Holdsworth, an expert in tectonics (筑造学) at Durharn University in the UK.
A 7.0 magnitude quake in January killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Last month, an 8.8 magnitude quake--- the fifth-strongest since 1900—killed more than 900 people in Chile. And two weeks ago, a 6.0 magnitude quake struck rural eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people.
On average, there are 134 earthquakes a year that have a magnitude between 6.0 and 6.9, according to the US Geological Survey. This year is off to a fast start with 40 so far—more than in most years for that time period.
But that’s because the 8.8 quake in Chile generated a large number of strong aftershocks, and so many quakes early this year skews (扭曲) the picture, said Paul Earle, a US seismologist (地震学家).
Also, it’s not the number of quakes, but their devastating impacts(破坏性的影响) that gain attention, with the death tolls (死亡人数) largely due to construction standards (building standard) and crowding, Earle added. “The standard mantra (咒语) is earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do, ” he said.
There have been more deaths over the past decades from earthquakes, said University of Colorado geologist Roger Bilham. In an opinion column last month in the journal Nature, Bilham called for better construction standards in the world’s big cities.
Of the 130 cities worldwide with populations of more than 1 million, more than half are prone (倾向于) to earthquakes, Bilham said.
Developing nations, where populations are growing, don’t pay attention to earthquake preparedness, Bilham said.” If you have a problem feeding yourself, you’re not really going to worry about earthquakes.”
Another reason quakes seem worse is that we’re paying attention more. The Haiti earthquake quickly followed by the 8.8 in Chile made everyone start to think.
But it won’t last, said US disaster researcher Deniis Mileti. “People are paying attention to the violent planet we’ve always lived on,” Mileti said.” Come back in another six months if there has been no earthquakes, most people will have forgotten it again. ”
1. What is the main idea of the article?
A. The number of earthquakes is increasing this year.
B. The reasons why earthquakes are so devastating.
C. The reasons why recent earthquakes have struck large cities.
D. Why earthquakes seem to be more serious this year.
2. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the seeming increase in earthquakes this year，
according to the article?
A. Greater underground activity.
B. A larger number of buildings prone to damage during earthquakes.
C. Around-the-clock news coverage.
D. Better earthquake monitoring.
3. According to the article, it is safe to say that ______.
A. there is an evil force beneath the world’s surface
B. large cities are always built in quake zones
C. enough attention has been paid to reducing the impact of earthquakes
D. the earthquake in Chili caused many aftershocks.
4.According to the article, the greater damage of earthquakes this year can be mainly caused by ______.
A. the occurrence of larger earthquakes
B. not enough warnings about earthquakes
C. poor construction standards and overcrowding
D. an increase in large cities
To what degree can a computer achieve intelligence？The answer to this question may lie in a newly-developed US computer program called Smarter Child and the Internet.
If you ran into Smarter Child online, you would be surprised at this kid’s huge memory. It can recite many facts. For example, Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season.
He knows every word in the dictionary and the weather in every major city areas across the US. However, if you ask Smarter Child other questions, you get strange answers. A question about Smarter Child’s age returns. “One year, 11 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes, and 47 seconds!” Asking where he lives gets, “In a clean room in a high-tech building in California.”
Smarter Child uses the vast information on the World Wide Web as his memory bank. To answer questions about spelling, for instance, Smarter Child goes to American Heritage Dictionary online. For the weather, he visits www.intellicast.com.
Some scientists believe that by joining the many systems of the Internet, an artificial being with the combined knowledge of, say, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon and Britney Spears could be born. However, if Smarter Child wants to think and learn on his own like the boy-computer David in the movie A. I. Artificial Intelligence, he must overcome two problems.
The first is that computers find it difficult to read web pages because the files are labeled in different ways. That’s why programmers need to tell Smarter Child where to look for the weather. It would be a much more difficult task to let him find it himself.
Another problem is that while Smarter Child can process information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks common sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious to any young child.
1.From the text we can infer that www.intellicast.com is a website .
A．where we people can find Smarter Child
B．which is specially designed to help Smarter Child
C．where weather forecasts are made
D．which is about artificial intelligence
2.It is probably most difficult for Smarter Child to .
A．learn the ability to tell right behaviors from wrong ones.
B．tell us how to spell a difficult word
C．provide us with a famous poem by Shakespeare
D．tell us how the American government is run
3.The underlined “it ” in Paragraph 6 refers to ________.
A．where to look for the weather B．Smarter Child.
C．a much more difficult task D．to read web pages
4.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A．A New Web Child B．Intelligence Development
C．Smarter Child D．The Future of Internet
When you are curious about something, and want to know more about it, you can use the way of asking questions. Asking questions is the first step to make discoveries and find interesting answers. The steps below can guide you during the research.
Discover more about dinosaurs.
1. Dinosaurs lived long before human beings appeared.
2. Dinosaurs lived on the earth for more than 150 million years.
3. Some dinosaurs fed on plants, some on meat.
1. What’s the best weather for dinosaurs to live in?
2. How many kinds of dinosaurs are there?
3. Have dinosaurs really disappeared?
For example, you might discover that dinosaurs disappeared about 65 million years ago. Why? What happened? Asking new questions can help you research your subject more widely.
The next time you find something interesting to research, take time to organize your thinking by asking good questions. And remember—learning more always bring more questions.
1. When you do some research, you should take the following steps: .
①list what you want to know ②choose a research subject
③list what you already know ④discover new problems
A．①④③② B．②③①④ C．③②④① D．④③①②
2. What does the underlined sentence “Armed with your list of questions” mean?
A．Putting your list of questions under your arm.
B．Discussing your questions with your classmates.
C．Writing down your list of questions.
D．Taking your list of questions with you.
3. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A．You can find all the answers online.
B．Learn more, and you’ll have no questions.
C．During the research, you may keep finding new questions.
D．Asking questions is the only way for research.
4.. The best title for this passage is .
A．Discovering Dinosaurs B．Asking Good Questions
C．Finding Subjects D．Having Interesting Answers
