阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Imagine falling towards the planet Earth at 1. awesome speed of 300 kilometers per hour. You start your fall from over four kilometers above the Earth. And you have less than one minute before you pull your parachute (降落伞）cord. You are falling 2. fast that just turning your head can send you off 3. a different direction. This is the wild side of a sport that has not found its limit—freeflying.
Freeflying 4. (base) on the more traditional skydiving, 5. of which are eye-catching. However, it is more terrifying to watch freeflyers create formations and movements. Freeflyers, 6. the name suggests, enjoy the more spontaneous(即兴的）thrill of doing their own things.
The wildest trip for a freeflyers is falling ‘head down’. Falling ‘head first’ requires a great deal of control, which means 7. (travel) not only fast but also steadily. Even the 8. (slight) movement has a great effect on your direction.
They wear the amusing jumpsuits, strange helmets and smaller parachutes. 9. (actual), their parachutes are about one quarter the size of the traditional skydiver’s parachutes. It is only in the last few years 10. freeflying has gained any real public acceptance.
完形填空
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
You can really tell a lot about people’s character by how they act at the grocery store.I________ what had happened in a crowded store when there was a ________ of shopping carts a few days ago.
A well-dressed man, together with his wife and a child, was ________ a cart when another man stopped him. “Excuse me,” the second man said, “ ________ this cart is what I brought here. It’s mine.” The first guy looked rather ________ and then became annoyed. Instead of ________ , he protested, “But someone took my cart!” At that moment, his wife also glared at him, so he unwillingly ________ his ill-gotten gain. The well-dressed man had ________ the useful saying that “Do to others as you would have others do to you.” ________ , there are often some shoppers who have changed their minds about ________ some items and put what they have chosen on the ________ shelf. They think that the store ________ shop assistants who should put the things they give up ________ . In the opinion of these fellows, does that mean it’s OK for kids to ________ their rubbish on the floor or everywhere because schools employ ________ to clean the hall? In the ________ , there are express-line cheaters who enter the “10 items or less” line with 14 items because they’re in a hurry or ________ because they are unwilling to queue up. They don’t think that someone will________ them behaving immorally. Even if someone finds them out, they’re ready to ________ that “It depends on what you call an item.”
I consider these fellows as a black sheep and there are a small number of such people. In our society we should be ________, and play by the rules. It is important for us to set a good example to our kids, even in the grocery store.
1.A. believe B. remember C. imagine D. recognize
2.A. loss B. request C. shortage D. picture
3.A. pushing B. carrying C. dragging D. searching
4.A. but B. while C. so D. then
5.A. concentrated B. disappointed C. relaxed D. embarrassed
6.A. apologizing B. accepting C. replying D. quarreling
7.A. took away B. gave up C. doubted about D. thought about
8.A. understood B. refused C. ignored D. imitated
9.A. Actually B. However C. Especially D. Exactly
10.A. picking B. buying C. using D. exchanging
11.A. lowest B. nearest C. newest D. cleanest
12.A. hires B. admits C. supports D. offers
13.A. ahead B. back C. aside D. out
14.A. recycle B. hit C. throw D. deliver
15.A. teachers B. students C. assistants D. cleaners
16.A. store B. school C. hospital D. bank
17.A. hardly B. quietly C. simply D. nearly
18.A. protect B. stop C. resist D. challenge
19.A. repeat B. confirm C. condemn D. argue
20.A. polite B. confident C. creative D. considerate
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
If you are hungry, what do you do? Have your favorite meal and stay quiet after that?_ 1. But it never lets you know, because, you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars．So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow．When mind loses its freedom to grow．creativity sets a full stop．This might be the reason why we all sometimes think "What happens next?", "Why can't I think?"
2. Why reading but not watching TV? It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood．Since it develops other aspects of our life, we have to take help from reading．
Once you read a book, you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you． 3. Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas．If it is used many times, the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things, which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams!
This is nothing but creativity． 4. Within no time you can start talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words．
So guys, do give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading． 5. Go and get a book!
A．Also this makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary.
B．Reading can help you make more friends, too．
C． The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed．
D．Why not do some reading while you are hungry?
E．Now what are you waiting for?
F．Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading．
G．Just like your stomach, your mind is also hungry．
It is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr.Johnson’s famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.
Bill Bryson, for example, concludes that, as the English weather is not at all exciting, the obsession with it can hardly be understood. He argues that “To an outsider, the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.
Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive. Bryson is wrong, he says, because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena.” The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.” According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.
Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the English. Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point. The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all. English weather-speak is a system of signs, which is developed to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other. Everyone knows conversations starting with weather-speak are not requests for weather data. Rather, they are routine greetings, conversation starters or the blank “fillers”, In other words, English weather-speak is a means of social bonding.
1.The author mentions Dr.Johnson’s comment to show that________.
A. most commentators agree with Dr.Johnson
B. Dr.Johnson is famous for his weather observation
C. the comment was accurate two hundred years ago
D. English conversations usually start with the weather
2.What does the underlined word “obsession” most probably refer to?
A. An emotional state
B. An unknown phenomenon.
C. A historical concept.
D. A social trend.
3.According to the passage, Jeremy Paxman believes that________.
A. Bill Bryson has little knowledge of the weather
B. English people talk about the weather for its uncertainty
C. the English weather attracts people to the British Isles
D. there is nothing special about the English weather
4.What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage?
A. To convince people that the English weather is changeable.
B. To analyze misconceptions about the English weather.
C. To find fault with both Bill Bryson and Jeremy Paxman.
D. To explain what English weather-speak is about.
Soup on my nose, a nearly spilled glass of wine and chocolate down my white blouse, as blind dates suggest, this was a really messy one. I have never made so much noise with plates and glasses, nor had I dined with a never-before-met companion. This blind date was quite different: we could see nothing. "Put your left hand on my shoulder, and then we'll take small steps forward," said Michael, the visually impaired(视力障碍的) server, in an East London accent. We three felt our way carefully bumping past heavy curtains before being arranged at the dining table, where we would eat and drink three completely secret and unseen courses.
Welcome to Alchemy in the Dark, Hong Kong's first full-time restaurant in total darkness. Upon arrival, diners briefly tell the chef on their allergies(过敏性反应), lock away their mobile phones and enter the windowless restaurant, which can seat 25. When the meal is over, the contents of the delicious menu are shown --- often to the diners' surprise. "This is definitely duck," my friend said, while eating chicken. "This soup," I declared, "is carrot and coriander." Even the too-close smell did not reveal the real tomato and cumin flavors. Dining in the dark changes everything: the sense of smell is heightened, manners go out of the window ----using your hands to feel around the plate becomes normal--- and there is a strange thrill in being able to ignore your facial expressions. Best of all? You don't have to spend hours beforehand(事先) wondering what to wear.
Alchemy in the Dark is at 16 Arbuthnot Road, Central, (tel: 6821 2801) and is open Monday to Saturday, from 7pm to 11pm. Reservations are required. A three-course meal with wine pairing costs HK$700 per person. Five per cent of all profits go to the Hong Kong Society for the Blind.
1.How did the author and her companion arrive at their dining table?
A. By using a map
B. By being led
C. By feeling their way.
D. By finding it by themselves
2.According to passage, which of the following is true?
A. The diners might eat what they are allergic to.
B. The author enjoyed a special lunch at Alchemy in the Dark.
C. The restaurant donated some money to the H. K Society for the Blind.
D. The diners aren’t allowed to take phones to the restaurant at any time.
3.From the passage we can learn that the author ___________.
A. had the table booked
B. shared the meal with a friend.
C. practiced how to eat in total darkness.
D. chose her clothes in advance for the meal.
4.The last paragraph is intended to ____________.
A. present some facts about eating in the dark.
B. inform what to do at Alchemy in the Dark
C. conclude the experience of eating at Alchemy in the Dark.
D. provide some information about Alchemy in the Dark.
Grant Wood’s American Gothic caused a stir（轰动）in 1930 when it was exhibited for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago and awarded a prize of 300 dollars. Newspapers across the country carried the story, and the painting of a farmer and a younger woman posed before a white house brought the artist instant fame.
In 1930, Grant Wood, an American painter with European training, noticed a small white house built in the small southern Iowa town of Eldon. Wood was so fascinated by it that he decided to paint the house along with the kind of people he thought should live in that house. In the painting, the farmer is modeled on his dentist. Dr. Byron McKeeby. His younger sister Nan served as a model for the woman （imagined to be the farmer’s wife or daughter）. Wood wanted to give a description of the traditional roles of men and women as the man is holding a pitchfork symbolizing hard labor. Each element was painted separately; the models sat separately and never stood in front of the house. The Gothic style of the house inspired the painting’s title.
American Gothic remains one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art. The painting has become part of American popular culture. Some believe that Wood used it to satirize（讽刺） the narrow-mindedness that has been said to characterize Midwestern culture. The painting may also be read as a praise of the moral virtue or rural America or even as a mixture of praise and satire. American Gothic is one of the few images to reach the status of cultural symbol, along with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
1.Which of the following is true about American Gothic?
A．It won a prize of 300 pounds.
B．The two characters in it posed before the White House.
C．It was the first painting by Grant Wood.
D．It was on show at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930.
2.From the passage we can infer Iowa is in __________.
A．the southern town of Eldon
B．the Midwest of the United States
C．a European country
D．the city of Chicago
3.Grant Wood chose the two models __________.
A．to describe traditional roles of men and women
B．to praise the moral virtue of rural America
C．to make his dentist and his sister famous
D．to carry the story across the country
4. The title of the painting is based on __________.
A．the name of a small town
B．the man and the woman
C．the style of the house
D．the pitchfork symbolizing hard labor
