The company was named Gates Hall ______ a man named James Gates.
A．in need of B．in search of
C．with the help of D．in memory of
请根据以下提示写一篇100词左右的英语短文，
某英语报社举办“ I like music”的征文比赛，请根据以下提示，用英语写一篇短文。
1音乐教会我学会欣赏2音乐充实我的生活；3音乐帮助我放松
注意：1词数100左右2可适当增加细节，以使行文流畅3参考词汇：充实enrich
短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
My friend Jack who was always working hardly so that he could earn enough to buy a car of his own. He used to say, “My life will be better when I get a nicer car.” It took him more than three years to make his dreams come true. However, Jack was not satisfied with what he has achieved. He worked even harder, hoping that he would able to buy a big house with a beautiful garden. One day, I told himself that happy is a journey, not a destination. Try to do what you like and enjoy what you can enjoy at the present, and you will feel regretful when you are too old to do anything.
用所给短语的适当形式填空（每题1分共10分）
get away with play a trick on dress up take place
turn around make sure burst into laughter as usual
be familiar with look forward to
1. Great changes _______________in the rural areas in the last two decades.
2 .She is ___________________going home on May Day.
3.They _______and went to the dancing hall together.
4. Our monitor successfully ___________all of us on April Fool’s Day.
5. I don’t know how he managed to _____________stealing the bike.
6. As parents, you must ________ that the children get enough sleep.
7.He looked at his watch, knowing that she was late again__________.
8. As she came to know him better, she _______________him more.
9.When the teacher __________,the students began to make faces and talk .
10 .On hearing the funny story, everybody_______________.
How to Be a Good Sport(开朗的人)
Learning to lose without losing your cool is a skill, like learning to ride a bike.___1.___ and when you can handle losing; people will call you a good sport.
Why must we learn to lose gracefully(文雅地)?Here is the answer:
___2.___But any time two teams or kids are facing each other in a game or contest, someone will lose (unless it’s a tie平局).Kids lose in small ways, like in a game of checkers(西洋跳棋),but they also might face losing in bigger ways, like when their team loses a championship(锦标赛) game.
__3.____So it’s not surprising that kids don’t like it. Adults don’t like it either, but everyone can learn to control how they react to a loss. In other words, what should you do when you lose?
The most difficult thing is that sometimes you might react before you even realize it. For instance, your little league game comes to an end and, in a flash, the other team has won. __4.____Oh dear, you probably don’t want to be crying right now, even though it’s ok that you feel sad.
Kids who are good sports don’t freak out (表现失常)when they lose. __5.___Kids might not be as eager to play with someone who gets angry all the time and won’t ever give the other guy or girl a break.
A．Everyone wants to win.
B．Losing is really a disappointing matter.
C．They are usually unpopular among young people.
D．They will become known as kids who are fun to play with.
E. There they are celebrating on the field and yon burst into tears.
F. You might find it hard to do this at first, but over time it will get easier.
G.. Many people behave badly after losing a game, especially young people.
How Americans Began to Eat Tomatoes
People have strange ideas about food. For example, the tomato is a kind of very
delicious vegetable. It is one of useful plants that can be prepared in many ways. It has rich nutrition and vitamin in it. But in the 18th century, Americans never ate tomatoes. They grow them in their gardens because tomato plants are so pretty. But they thought the vegetable was poisonous (有毒的). They called tomatoes “poison apples”.
President Thomas Jefferson, however, knew that tomatoes were good to eat. He was a learned man. He had been to Paris, where he learned to love the taste of tomatoes. He grew many kinds of tomatoes in his garden. The President taught his cook a way for a cream of tomato soup. This beautiful pink soup was served at the President’s party. The guests thought the soup tasted really good. They never thought their president would serve his honored guests poison apples. Jefferson never spoke to his honored (尊贵的) guests about the fact.
1.After you read the passage, which of the following do you think is true?
A．Americans never ate tomatoes after they began to plant them.
B．American didn’t eat tomatoes before the 19th century.
C．Even now Americans don’t eat tomatoes
D．In the 18th century Americans ate a lot of tomatoes.
2.The passage tells us that Jefferson was a President who learned to love the taste of tomatoes.
A．while he was in Paris .
B．when he was a little boy.
C．the President ’s cook.
D．the President’s wife.
3.According to the text, ________cooked the beautiful pink soup at the President ’s party?
A．the President himself.
B．A French cook
C．the President ’s cook
D．the President’s wife
4.The underlined word “cook”in paragraph2 means_______
A．厨房 B．厨师 C．厨具 D．做饭
5.From the passage we know all the honored guests invited by Jefferson were______.
A．people from other countries B．from France
C．People of his own country D．men only
