语法填空,阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Smith: Hi, Cathy, how did you find yesterday’s speech competition?
Cathy: Well, to be honest, it was quite 1. (disappoint).
S: You didn’t like the speeches?
C: Yes, I did．In fact, I 2. (enjoy) listening to most of the speeches．But I just couldn’t accept the result, you know.
S: Hmm, you mean the judges?
C: I mean, most of the listeners including me didn’t understand 3. the judges didn’t like Samantha．It was such a shock 4. they announced the winner was Jim．We all thought Samantha’s 5. (pronounce) was the best.
S: You’re 6. (probable) right．But don’t you think the speech itself is 7. (important)? As I see it, Jim’s speech was more meaningful．I was deeply moved by the story he told us.
C: That I know now.In my 8. ,we also learned something very important 9. Samantha’s speech.
S: That’s right．Samantha and Jim were indeed very close．I guess it was difficult for the judges.
C: Well, I wish I 10. (can) agree with you．But I do think Samantha was best.
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根据短文内容.
Any car accident is frightening, but an accident in which your vehicle is thrown into the water, with you trapped inside, is absolutely(绝对地) terrifying.
1. . However, most deaths result from fear, without a plan or understanding what is happening to the car in the water. By adopting a brace(支撑) position, acting decisively and getting out fast, you can save yourself from a sinking vehicle.
Brace yourself for impact (撞击力). As soon as you're aware that you're going off th e road and into a body of water, adopt a brace position. The impact could set off the airbag system in your vehicle, so you should place both hands on the steering wheel(方向盘) in the "ten and two" position.
Undo your seatbelt. 2. . Release the children, starting with the oldest first. Forget the cell phone call. Your car isn't going to wait for you to make the call.
3. . Leave the door alone at this stage and concentrate on the window. A car's electrical system should work for up to three minutes in water, so try the method of opening it electronically first. Many people don't think about the window as an escape choice either because of fear or misinformation about doors and sinking.
Break the window. If you aren't able to open the window, or it only opens halfway, you'll need to break it with an object or your foot. It may feel counter-intuitive (有悖常理的) to let water into the car. 4. .
Escape when the car has equalized. If it has reached the stage where the car has been filled with water and it has become balanced, you must move quickly and effectively to ensure your survival. 5. . While there is still air in the car, take slow, deep breaths and focus on what you're doing.
A. Open the window as soon as you hit the water.
B. This is the first thing to do, yet it often gets forgotten.
C. Surviving a sinking car is not as difficult as you think.
D. In short, if you know what to do in the water, you will be safe.
E. It takes 60 to 120 seconds for a car to be filled with water usually.
F. Such accidents are particularly dangerous to the risk of drowning(淹死).
G. But the sooner the window is open, the sooner you can escape directly through it.
America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flow more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending(延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time.
Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!
1.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.
B. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.
C. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.
D. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.
2.From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be ______.
A. offered a ride to his home
B. treated hospitably at his home
C. treated to dinner in a restaurant
D. warmly welcomed at the airport
3.A suitable title for this passage would probably be “______”.
A. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships.
B. Friendships between Americans.
C. Friendships between Chinese.
D. Americans’ hospitality .
There was once an old wise man living on the top of a mountain. Whenever the villagers had a problem, they would climb up the mountain and ask the old man for advice.
One day a young man arrived. “Wise man,” he asked, “What makes a man truly great?”
The old man said, “Do you sincerely want to know?”
“Yes, yes!” the young man replied.
“Well,” the wise old man said to him, “Let me tell you in the form of a story.”
There was once a Greek man who suffered from a deadly disease. Knowing that he would die soon, he was the first to join the army when his country was in a battle with the enemy. Hoping to die in battle, he would fight in the front line, risking himself without any worry for his life. Finally they won the battle and he was still alive. His general (将军) was so impressed with his bravery which contributed much to the victory.
The general decided to promote him and award him with medals of bravery and honor. On the day of presentation (授予仪式), he was looking very down and sad. Curiously, the general asked him why he was so sad on a day he should be so proud. The soldier told him of his deadly disease. “How could I let such a brave soldier die?” the general thought. So the general hired the best physician and finally cured the soldier. But from that day on, the once valiant soldier was no longer seen at the front. He would always avoid danger and tried his best to protect his life.
“Young man,” the wise man said, “if you want to be truly great, you must not be afraid of dying, you must be daring.”
1.The reason why the young man went to see the old man was that .
A. he enjoyed the scenery of the great mountain
B. the old man was very good at telling stories
C. there was a difficult problem troubling him
D. he was not sure who the greatest man was
2.The general decided to award the Greek man .
A. after he realized the man’s serious illness
B. because the man fought bravely in battle
C. though he knew the man would die soon
D. so that he could find the man a good doctor
3.The underlined word “valiant” is closest in meaning to .
A. brave B. polite C. curious D. proud
4.What the old man really wanted the young man to do was .
A. trying to be kind to the people in trouble
B. mastering the skills of telling
C. joining the army to fight for his country
D. learning a lesson from the Greek man
A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the proper time and is never late in keeping an appointment.
The unpunctual man, on one hand, never does what he has to do at the right time. He is always in a hurry and in the end loses both time and his good name. A lost thing may be found again, but lost time can never be regained. Time is more valuable than material things. In fact, time is life itself. The unpunctual man is for ever wasting and mismanaging his most valuable asset (财产) as well as others. The unpunctual person is always complaining that he finds no time to answer letters, or return calls or keep appointments promptly. But the man who really has a great deal to do is very careful of his time. He knows that he can not get through his huge amount of work unless he faithfully keeps every piece of work when it has to be attended to.
Failure to be punctual in keeping one’s appointments is the sign of disrespect towards others. If a person is invited to dinner and arrives later than the appointed time, he keeps all the other guests waiting for him. Usually this will be regarded as a great disrespect to the host and all other guests present.
Unpunctuality, moreover, is very harmful when it comes to one’s duty, whether public or private. Imagine how it would be if those who are put in charge of important tasks failed to be at their proper place at the appointed time. A man who is known to be habitually unpunctual is never trusted by his friends or fellow men.
1.What does the author think is the main difference between a punctual person and an unpunctual person?
A. A punctual person does everything ahead of time.
B. An unpunctual person never does anything at the right time.
C. A punctual person has a lot of appointments.
D. An unpunctual person has little time to do anything.
2.According to the passage, the main reason that a person is always unpunctual is that _______.
A. he has more work to do than other people
B. he is always in a hurry when he works
C. he doesn’t care much about time
D. he always mismanages and wastes his time
3.If someone isn’t punctual in keeping his appointments, he might ________.
A. lose his life
B. mismanage his asset
C. be thought to disrespect others
D. do harm to others
4.According to the third paragraph, when you are invited to dinner, you should arrive there ________.
A. after other guests
B. before other guests
C. at the appointed time
D. after the host getting things ready
5.Which of the following statements best describes the harm of unpunctuality?
A. If you are an unpunctual person, you cannot be in charge of any important task.
B. If your friends know that you are unpunctual, they may not see you again.
C. Unpunctuality may bring about heavy losses for both public and private affairs.
D. Unpunctuality may make you miss a lot of appointments and lose friends.
Anyone who wants to buy a gun in California will have to wait for 2 weeks. Four people waited for 15 days to buy guns. Then they robbed a store and shot 3 people .
Congress(国会) is now trying to pass a law that will make everyone wait to buy a gun. Many people do not want this law. Others are glad it might happen. California is one of the longest waiting times for someone to buy a gun. A gun dealer said that this waiting time does not seems to do much good．He has not seen crime(犯罪) go away because of it.
One good thing that has happened with the waiting time to buy a gun is a smaller number of suicide (自杀) . a lot of suicides are with a gun. In California, there are less suicides by gun than in other places. One reason to make people wait to buy a gun is to make sure the guns are not sold to criminals(罪犯). Last year, this check stopped 2,400 guns from being sold to criminals. This check does not stop anyone else from buying a gun.
Many criminals buy guns on the street and not in a store… some people think that a law like this will not do any good．But other people think that if only one person is stopped from getting a gun, then this law is worth it.
1.A long waiting time to buy in California has led to ___.
A．a good gun control B．less suicides by gun
C．less shop robbery D．a sharp fall of gun sales
2.If congress passed the law, ____.
A．no one could kill himself
B．there would be no gun deals
C．one would see more crimes go away
D．criminals couldn’t easily get guns in a store
3.From the passage we can infer that ___.
A．California is the only state to have a waiting time to buy guns
B．Congress will surely fail to pass the law to have a waiting time to buy guns
C．Different states can have some different laws in the United States
D．No laws can cover all the states in the United States of America
