1.When I began to sing, he laughed and it made me _______________ (尴尬的).
2.Our farm ________________ (占地面积) an area of 10,000 square metres.
3.You never get a second chance to make a first ________________ (印象).
4.I’d ________________ (感激) it if you could turn it down.
5.You have to be ________________ ( 耐心的) with my mother. She is going rather deaf.
6.You look tired— you should take a ________________ (假期) .
7.After some difficulties I was ________________ (幸运的) in finding a most respectable young man as my assistant.
8.We turned to see the ________________ (接近) car slow down.
9.I mustn’t annoy my boss because I can’t ________________ (负担得起) to lose my job.
10.In ________________ (结论)， I’d like to thank you for all you’ve done for me.
11.The car is ________________ (装备) with air conditioning.
12.All students have free ________________ (接近， 通路) to the library.
13.A driver should ________________ (全神贯注) on the road when driving.
14.________________ (比较) to that one, this one is better.
15.Once you are ________________ (上瘾的) to smoking, it is difficult for you to get out of it.
Last weekend at the airport, I had some extra time before going through the airport security（安全） to catch my flight. While wondering what to do, I thought it was the ______time and place to look for an anonymous (匿名的) act of ______ to do!
One of the magazine stands outside the airport security had flowers for sale. I told the ______ that
I’d like to buy flowers for someone else, and she could decide who to ______ them to. She looked a little ______, so I explained perhaps she could hand the smile cards with the flowers to someone who seem to need some to ______. At first, the clerk ______, "That’s strange." Or maybe, "That’s crazy." I can’t ______ which. But then, I explained a little more about the ______ card and the concept (概念)of doing
something kind for a complete ______, and she brightened up.
"I’ll never know how it turns out," I said," but you will have the ______ to make someone’s day." At that point, she started to seem ______ excited about it.
She went to take the ______out of the water. Then I explained, "It’s fine to ______them there until the person you want to give them to ______."
At that point, I thought she was somewhere between amazement and delight, as it was ______ that this was really not a ______she had ever gotten from a customer before.
I ______ the flowers, said goodbye, and headed for the ______ line.
I’ll never know how it turned out, but I was ______ for the rest of the morning.
1.A .wrong B. earl C. perfect D. free
2.A. kindness B. bravery C. guilt D. pride
3.A. policeman B. clerk C. secretary D. waiter
4.A. give B. pay C. charge D. owe
5.A. frightened B. disappointed C. Confused D. bored
6.A. move down B. fall of C. leave ou D. cheer up
7.A. refused B. responded C. nodded D. agreed
8.A. remember B. tell C. choose D. notice
9.A. bank B. plant C. smile D. flight
10.A. stranger B. passenger C. beggar D. failure
11.A. courage B. mone C. knowledge D. chance
12.A. secretly B. reall C. hardl D. anxiously
13.A. flower B. card C. fish D. mud
14.A. leave B. hide C. plan D. bury
15.A. helps B. suffers C. travels D. comes
16.A. impossible B. natural C. clear D. important
17.A. request B. price C. praise D. story
18.A. put down B. put away C. set asid D. paid for
19.A. security B. passenger C. front D. fire
20.A. upset B. angry C. cheerful D. tired
Tips for Cooking on a Tight Schedule(紧密的日程)
From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money and time. _______ Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule:
1. Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I’ m already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat. So think ahead of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do
you have the right materials ready?_________
2. Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread? _________ It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.
3._________ This may surprise you, but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation(尝试). It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes(食谱) that can work well with your appetite and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.
Hopefully that gives you a good start. _________ And don’ t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!
A.Try new things.
B.Ability is easily improved.
C.Make three or four instead.
D.Understand your food better.
E.Cooking is a burden for many people.
F.Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden.
G.A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.
Welcome to our school. You can do a lot of things here. Come and join us.
1.You may have a chance to introduce your inventions on ______.
A. Sunday B. Monday
C. Wednesday D. Friday
2.The person who teaches Computer Science is from______.
A. Canada B. Australia
C. America D. New Zealand
3.You may learn something about a disease called TB from ______.
A. Dr. West B. Mr. Morison
C. Mrs. Green D. Mr. Thomas
I ran into a local store today to pick up a few things. With an important meeting to attend, I was in a hurry , so I didn’t take a cart (手推车) on my way inside. As I walked between the shelves in the store, I passed by a young couple and their baby. I continued going through the store, picked up a few items I needed and ended up standing behind this couple in the checkout line.
While waiting, I noticed that the young father was holding his money tightly and nervously. The young mother was carrying a baby in her arms and asked the cashier (收银员) for a job application.
When the total was rung up, they had to pick items out of their cart because they didn’t have enough money. But all their items were basic necessities(必需品) that they needed most. It just broke my heart to watch the couple try to think about what they could do without. However, they were able to whittle down their items and paid the bill with the money that they had.
After they left, I quietly asked the cashier to add those items to mine. The cashier rang everything up, and then got me a shopping cart. We put in their items and I hurried over to their car. “This is for you,” I told them.
The young father just looked at me with such appreciation and thanked me. I will never forget the expression in his eyes. As I was getting into my car, they drove over. The young mother said, “Miss, thank you so much.”
Tears welled up in my eyes---as they are again now, while I write this. “You are so welcome. Pay it forward some day,” I replied.
1.The underlined phrase “whittle down” in Paragraph 3 probably means “__________”.
A. add to B. break down
C. pay for D. cut down
2.The author felt __________ to watch the couple taking some items out.
A. angry B. sad
C. excited D. interested
3.It can be inferred from the passage that _________.
A. the young mother didn’t have a job then
B. the young father felt so sorry to accept help
C. the cashier treated the young couple impolitely
D. the young couple bought something unnecessary
4.The author ’ s main purpose in sharing the story is to tell us __________.
A. what a great plan she made
B. to take a cart while shopping
C. to help those who are in need
D. how to pick out basic necessities
Great white sharks! Just hearing that name makes many people’s hair stand on end. In reality, these big fish have more to fear from us than we do from them. For many years, people killed countless great white sharks in the waters around the United States.
But thanks to conservation (保护) efforts, great whites are making a comeback in the U.S. Two recent studies show that the population of these sharks is rising along the east and west coast.
Why is the growing population of a killer fish something to celebrate? “When you fish too many of them, you start to lose balance in the environment,” says shark researcher Tobey Curtis. As the biggest killer, sharks help keep the populations of fish, seals, and other creatures they eat from growing too large.
In spite of their importance, great white sharks had long been hunted for their meat and their fins (鳍). Then, in 1997, the U.S. government passed a law that didn’t allow the hunting of great whites.
Afterwards, the numbers of these sharks in the U.S. waters started to increase.
The law wasn’t the only thing that has helped great whites. Conservationists have also played a part
in the sharks’ comeback. The research group OCEARCH is using a method called tagging (加标签) to help change people’s attitudes about great white. They let the public follow each shark as it travels the world’s oceans. OCEARCH also gives each tagged shark a name to help people form a closer connection with the big fish.
The group’s most well-known shark is named Katharine. She was tagged last year near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Since then, thousands of people have tracked Katharine’s movements on Twitter and the
OCEARCH website.
This helps people see sharks in a new way. Chris Fischer, the founder of OCEARCH believes
learning to appreciate great whites will encourage people to do more to protect them.
1.The underlined part “makes many people’s hair stand on end” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by______.
A. worries many people B. bores many people
C. frightens many people D. interests many people
2.The law passed in 1997 ______.
A. seemed very helpful B. let scientists down
C. needed to be changed D. made people like great whites
3.Katharine’s example is used to show that ______.
A. great whites are in fact lovely animals
B. the OCEARCH website has a lot of visitors
C. the number of great whites is growing quickly
D. OCEARCH help people get closer to great whites
4.The main purpose of the passage is to ______.
A. introduce an experiment result
B. make an advertisement for OCEARCH
C. remind us that big killers are dying out
D. inform us that great whites are making a comeback
