Miss Yang finally________first prize in the city’s speech contest．
A．kept
B．made
C．won
D．chose
My grandfather doesn’t feel________though he lives________in the countryside．
A．lonely；alone
B．lonely；lonely
C．alone；alone
D．alone；lonely
Be careful when you walk________the street．
A．through
B．over
C．above
D．across
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People all over the world enjoy sports．________
Some people like playing games by themselves，but some enjoy watching others play．They buy tickets or turn on their TV sets to watch games．________When“their teams” can’t win the game，they are even sadder than the players themselves．
Sports change with the seasons．______Most people’s favorite sport in summer is swimming and skating is usually a winter sport．
Sometimes people play games inside the room，and sometimes they play outside．______
Some sports are very interesting and people everywhere like them．Football，for example，is very popular in the world．Men and women，the old and the young all like it．People from different countries cannot understand each other．_______
A．People play different games in different seasons． B．But after a game they often become good friends． C．Sports are good for people’s health and sports make people strong． D．They usually have“their teams”or“their players”． E．We can watch sports here and there． |
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（2014上海）
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A school newspaper The Teens asked over one thousand teenagers how they spent their spare time．Here they report the r______of the survey．It’s not at all surprising to learn that most teens said they wanted more free time．Most have less than an hour a day for after－school activities．
P______activity was popular among both girls and boys，averaging between three to six hours a week．Favourite sports among girls were tennis，basketball and swimming．Boys said they liked football，basketball and skating．
Speaking of entertainment，music and TV were popular．About half of those surveyed said that music was their favourite activity．This i_____both listening to and playing music．TV was also very popular．Three quarters said they preferred watching TV to reading a book or magazine．
Unexpectedly，as many as three out of ten teenagers mentioned that collecting things was something they liked to do in their spare time．They had v_______collections from cartoon books and baseball cards to stickers，toys and coins．
V________friends was also popular．Eight out of ten teenagers said they met friends once a week．Nine out of ten said they contacted friends through the Internet．A________popular way of contacting friends was the telephone．Everyone we surveyed said they spoke to friends every day．Most said they spoke about twenty minutes a day．Surprisingly，teenagers s________went dancing，especially girls．Only one out of ten said they went to the dance regularly．
1．________ 2．________ 3．________ 4．________ 5．________ 6．________ 7．________
（2014重庆）
Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May 27，1907．Her mother，Maria Carson，had been a schoolteacher．She loved books．She also loved nature．She showed Rachel the beauty of nature．She also taught Rachel a deep love for books．As a quiet child，Rachel liked to read and write stories．At a very early age，she decided she wanted to be a writer some day．Her story first appeared in a children’s magazine when she was ten years old．
Her first book．Under the Sea Wind came out in 1941．In 1948，Miss Carson began working on another book，The Sea Around Us．She always researched carefully when she wrote．She collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around Us．When the book came out in 1951，it won the National Book Award．It was No.1 on the best－seller list for more than a year．The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous．
Rachel Carson’s most famous book，Silent Spring came out in 1962．In this book，she pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides（杀虫剂）like DDT would cause the number of birds to decline because it would kill them as well．Finally，in November 1969，the United States government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years．
Rachel Carson has been regarded as a great environmentalist（环保主义者）and writer．She will be remembered by the world．
1.Rachel Carson had a deep love for nature and books because of________．
A．her father
B．her mother
C．her sChool teacher
D．her brother
2.Rachel decided that she wanted to be a writer when________．
A．she was very young
B．she was in college
C．she became a teacher
D．she became famous
3.The Chinese meaning of the word“decline”in this passage is probably“________”．
A．增加
B．减少
C．维持
D．翻番
4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？
A．Rachel Carson was a careful and serious writer．
B．The Sea Around Us won the National Book Award．
C．In Silent Spring Rachel said some pesticides were bad for the environment．
D．The use of DDT was stopped as soon as the book Silent Spring came out．
B
