Many people spend half their time______ways of getting rich.
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A．dreaming on |
B．to dream up |
C．dreaming up |
D．dreamt up |
He_______just before the concert started.
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A．dropped out |
B．dropped away |
C．dropped in |
D．dropped up |
Vocabulary 单词拼写
根据首字母和中文意思填写单词
1. All of us have been a_____________ (知道的，明白的)that ads play an important role in our daily life.
2. Some commercial ads don’t tell the truth, so be s_____________ (聪明的，精明的)about them.
3. Many young people like his songs, that is to say, his songs a_____________ (迎合，有吸引力)to young people.
4. They held a party in h_______________ (荣誉，光荣)of the model workers.
5. He was our l_______________ (主导的，主要的)goal scorer last season.
6. Harry Potter is a e_______________ (非凡的，特别的)role in the series of JK ‘s novels.
7. I shall never forget the i______________ (印象)l have gathered during my trip.
8. In most of the people’s opinions, money can’t buy h_______________.(幸福)
9. It’s quite c_________________ for us to live near the station.(方便的，便利的)
10. In the new production, I will play the r___________ (角色) of a policeman.
Task-based reading 任务型阅读
请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空不超过1个单词。
For centuries people dreamed of going into space. This dream began to seem possible when high-flying rockets were built in the early 1900s.
In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for space travel. His plan was the first one in rocket science to use correct scientific calculation. About 30 years later, a U.S. scientist named Robert Goddard built the first rockets that could reach high altitudes. During World War II, German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives. After the war, scientists from Germany went to the United States and the Soviet Union to help those countries build space rockets.
These two countries were soon racing to get to space first. Each of these countries wanted to prove that it was stronger and more advanced than the other one. Both countries also had powerful bombs. People in the United States were worried when the Soviets were first to launch a space satellite, which was called Sputnik. The Soviets were also first to send a person into space. Yury Gagarin orbited the earth in the Vostok I spaceship in 1961.
The US government set a goal for its space program to be the first country to put a person on the Moon. The U.S. space program built a series of Apollo spaceship. These vehicles were powered by huge Saturn 5 rockets. In 1969 Apollo II took three men to the moon successfully. Nell Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.
The Soviets may have lost the race to fly people to the Moon, but they built the first space station in 1971. The United States also built a space station. The space stations allowed people to live and work in space. Then the Soviet Union and the United States cooperated to hook two spaceships together in space. This action ended the "space race". Today a much larger space station, built by several countries together, orbits Earth.
Another new way to go to space is by space shuttle. A space shuttle, first made in the United States in 1981, looks like an airplane. Astronauts who fly spaceships have used shuttles to help put satellites into space.
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History of space travel |
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Events |
Information concerned |
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Early 1900s |
High-flying rockets were built. |
It made the ancient dream of going to space possible to come 66) ▲ |
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1903 |
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (67) ▲ out a way to use rockets for space travel. |
He planned to put correct scientific calculation to use in rocket science. |
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Around (68) ▲ |
Robert Goddard built new rockets. |
The rockets could fly very (69) ▲ in the sky. |
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During and after World War II |
German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives. |
Germany was ahead of all the other countries in building space rockets and later it (70) ▲ the Soviet Union and the United States |
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The Soviet Union and the United States competed to get to space first. |
The Soviet Union became the (71) ▲ of the competition when it launched the first satellite and sent the first astronaut into space. |
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1969 |
The United States was (72) ▲ in putting a person on the moon. |
In one way, it (73) ▲ the Soviet Union by becoming the first country to fly people to the moon. |
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1970s |
The Soviets built the first space station and was soon followed by Americans. And they finally ended the "space race" by (74) ▲ |
Astronauts can live and work in space stations. |
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1980s-- |
Space shuttles are used as new vehicles for space (75) ▲ . |
Shuttles are also used to help put satellites into space. |
My house is made out of wood, glass and stone. It is also made out of software.
If you come to visit, you’ll probably be surprised when you come in. Someone will give you an electronic PIN （个人身份号码）to wear. This PIN tells the house who and where you are. The house uses this information to give you what you need. When it’s dark outside, the PIN turns on the lights nearest you, and then turns them off as you walk away from them. Music moves with you too. If the house knows your favorite music, it plays it. The music seems to be everywhere, but in fact other people in the house hear different music or no music. If you get a telephone call, only the nearest telephone rings.
Of course, you are also able to tell the house if you want something. There is a home control console (控制台), a small machine that turns things on and off around you.
The PIN and the console are new ideas, but they are in fact like many things we have today. If you want to go to a movie, you need a ticket. If I give you my car keys, you can use my car. The car works for you because you have the keys. My house works for you because you wear the PIN or hold the console.
I believe that ten years from now, most new homes will have the systems that I’ve put in my house. The systems will probably be even bigger and better than the ones I’ve put in today.
I like to try new ideas. I know that some of my ideas will work better than others. But I hope that one day I will stop thinking of these systems as new, and ask myself instead, “How will I live without them?”
1.What does the passage mainly discuss?
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A．How to develop a new system. |
B．The function of the PIN. |
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C．A home for the future. |
D．Easy life in the future. |
2.What’s the purpose when the writer wrote the fourth paragraph?
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A．To let readers know why his ideas are new. |
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B．To let readers know how special his house is. |
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C．To explain the importance of the PIN and the console. |
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D．To explain more easily what the functions of the PIN and the console are. |
3.The writer’s new house is different from ordinary ones mainly because _____.
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A．it has been controlled by computers |
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B．you can make a telephone call anywhere |
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C．it has your favorite music following you |
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D．the writer is able to change his new idea into practice |
4.What is the writer most likely to be according to the passage?
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A．An IT expert. |
B．A famous doctor. |
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C．An idealist |
D．An experienced teacher. |
5.What can’t be done in the writer’s new house?
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A．turns on the lights |
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B．play music |
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C．get a telephone call |
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D．go swimming |
My little son _____ out alone at night.
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A．dares not go |
B．dares not to go |
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C．dare not to go |
D．doesn’t dare to go |
