短文填空
A
I’m a 15-year-old middle school student. I’m in the 1.______ (nine) grade this year. Though I 2.________ (learn) English since I was in Grade Three, I can’t do well in English tests. So yesterday I asked my English teacher, Miss Lin, for some advice on how to be a 3.______ (success) English learner. Here’s what she 4._______(tell) me.
First, create an interest 5.______ English. This is very important. There’s a saying, “Interest is the best teacher.” If you are interested in English, your brain will be more active and it is also much 6.______ (easy) for you to pay attention to it for a long time. You can connect English 7.________ something you are interested in, like music or sports. You can also listen to English songs or watch sports programs in English. Sometimes you can read English magazines. These 8.________(help) you memory more English words and you won’t get 9._________(bore) of English.
Second, practice and learn 10.______ mistakes. Remember, “Use it or lose it!” Even if you learn some words and sentences well, you will forget them 11.______ you use them. Practice makes perfect. Never be afraid of making mistakes.
Third, develop your study skills. It is not enough to just study hard. You have to know how 12._______(study) and find out the best ways to learn English well. The basic way is to take notes by 13.______ (write) down key words or by drawing mind maps. You have to find some time to review what you have learned.
Miss Lin is sure that as long as I learn 14.______ (wise), I can learn English well. I should believe in 15.___________ (I). So I will do as my teacher said and make greater progress.
B
Inventions play an important part all the time. In our 1._______ (day) life, we can see inventions everywhere. Even the 2_______ (small) inventions can make a big deal to our lives. The barcode (条形码) is one 3________ the most useful inventions. If you want 4._______ (know) the information of the product, you can scan the barcode with your smartphone. But do you know how the barcode 5.________(invent) Here is something 6._______ it.
In the 7.________ (five) month of 1948, an owner of a small food store found it difficult to record the prices of his 8.__________(product). 9.________ he turned to the Drexel Institute of Technology for help. He wanted to find 10._______ way to solve the problem. The good news was that Bernard Silver 11._________ (take) up the challenge and began 12.__________(work) on it. At last Bernard Silver and a group of 13.________ (he) students set up a barcode system to solve the problem.
Now the invention is 14._______(wide) used. It not only makes shopping more convenient but also 15.________ (help) companies to manage their stock(库存) better.
C
It is fun to do housework! My sister Lucy and I always help with different 1_______ (job) at home. We have a lovely dog named Ruby, 2_______ my favorite job is taking him for a walk. Every morning after breakfast, I take him 3_______ the park.
During the week, Lucy and I take turns to set the table for dinner and wash the dishes. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Lucy 4_______ (wash) the dishes and I set the table. On Tuesday and Thursday, I do the dishes and Lucy sets the table. But today, Lucy wanted 5_______(change) the roles. Now she 6_______ (set) the table. And after dinner I 7_______ (do) the dishes. She thinks it is a 8_______ (please) to make a little change.
At weekends, we usually do some gardening and shopping. The grass around our house 9_______ (cut) about once a month. Last Sunday, Lucy 10_______ (help) our dad cut the grass. It is the 11_______ (four) time for her to do that this year. 12________ the same time, my mom and I went shopping. And we put everything in the fridge when we 13_______ (get) home.
Lucy and I like talking 14_______ (happy) as we do the housework. It is fun when we work together as 15_______ family. We really enjoy our wonderful life at home.
D
Dear me in 2035,
As I write to you in 2022, my feelings are mixed. It’s the 1. (one) time that I have written to you. When you receive this letter, I guess you might be feeling 2._______ (excite) . I hope you can be successful in 2035. Let me tell you 3._______ my future plans. I hope you can realize them.
You 4.________(take) an exam for high school soon. I hope you can go into 5. good high school and later a good college. You’ll learn medicine well 6.______ you are thirsty for(渴望) knowledge. You will be 7.______ (real) proud of yourself because 8.______(you) work helps society. I guess you’ll join a research team to develop new medicine that can help 9._______ (patient).
Lastly, some questions about life in 2035 will 10.________(give) to you. Will things be 11.____ (cheap) than they are now Will many people have private planes or flying cars I’m looking forward 12. your answer. I hope you will remember that you used to love 13. (play) the violin. Please stick to this hobby, no matter 14.______ busy you are. Try 15.________(relax) and don’t stress out. I hope I will meet a happy man. See you in 2035.
Your friend,
You
E
I’m so happy! Tomorrow I’ll be one of the 1.________ (one) students to travel into space. The spaceship 2._______( leave) the Earth at 9:00 a. m. and it’ll take us to the Moon. We 3._________(prepare) for the flight for a long time. I can’t wait to fly there.!
The Moon is around 380,000 4.________ (kilometer) from the Earth, so it’ll take us about three days 5.________ (get) there. The gravity in space is very weak, 6._______ we’ll all be floating around in the spaceship. And we won’t sleep in beds—we’ll sleep in sleeping bags. We need to tie 7. ________(we) sleeping bags to the wall so that we won’t float away in our sleep! Because 8.________ the low gravity, our bodies may get weak, so we’ll have to do exercise every day.
When we 9.________(arrive), I’m going to walk on the Moon. The Moon has 10.________ (weak) gravity than the Earth. A person weighs much less on the Moon, we can jump very 11.________(high). I’ll have to wear a spacesuit to help me breathe because there is no air on the Moon. That also 12._______ (mean) there is no sound there. We can only hear the sounds inside our spacesuits.
The Moon is 13._______ amazing and strange place. I’m going to take as many photos 14.______ I can. I’m sure that it’ll be a 15.________ (wonder) trip!
F
The sun came out after a heavy rain. The gentle wind touched the grass and the 1.______(flower) looked more beautiful. On the wet ground, there was .________ little snail . He 3._________(walk) behind his mother, carrying the shell all the way. He felt tired and bored. So he asked his mother loudly, “Mom, why do we have to carry our shells ”
His mother 4. (tell) him, “Because we don’t have any bones (骨头) in our body. We can only crawl (爬). The hard shells not only help us move 5. (much) quickly but also protect us.”
The little snail still couldn’t understand 6._______ his mother said, “Caterpillars (蝴蝶的幼虫) don’t have bones, either. They can’t even crawl. But they don’t need 7._______(carry) heavy shells like us.”
The mother smiled, “Caterpillars turn into butterflies when they grow 8. , the sky 9.________( protect) them.
“How 30. the earthworms They don’t have bones, they don’t crawl fast and they don’t turn 11.________ butterflies. And they don’t have to carry heavy shells.” The mother answered, “Earthworms 12._________(live) under the ground and the land protects them.”
The little snail started to cry, “13._______ poor we are!” The mother snail comforted (安慰) him, “That’s the reason why we have shells! We don’t depend (依靠) on the sky. We don’t depend on the land. We depend on 14. ______ (we).”
Hearing that, the snail stopped 15. (cry). He finally knew the importance of his shell.
G
The world’s 1. ________(one) large language model (LLM) for moon study is coming! It makes studying the moon much faster and 2._________(easy) than before.
The new tool 3.________(come) out in August at the China International Big Data Industry Expo in Guiyang, Guizhou. It is the “smart brain” for the digital moon, which has the most moon information in one place in the world, said Xinhua.
On the moon, there are more than 1 million big craters (陨石坑) and lots of small ones. It’s 4.________(real) hard for scientists to find all these holes by 5._________(they). The LLM can tell and remember different craters by size, depth and shape.
According to Liu Jianzhong, 6._______ researcher at the Institute of Geochemistry, the model is correct more than 80 percent of the time.
Working things out faster 7.________( help) scientists learn more quickly and get ready 8.______ harder tasks in the future. Using big AI 9.________(model) for moon science can also teach researchers how 10.__________(explore) other planets better.
“The LLM is like a child 11.________ a very high IQ. We train and teach her professional (专业的) things,” Liu told Xinhua. “We will keep it 12.________(grow) and helping us solve more scientific problems.”
However, like any new technology, LLMs also face challenges. People are not sure 13.________ the information they provide is true or not. So people need to pay attention to and deal with the possible problems.
All in all, although there are these problems, they 14.________(continue) to play an important part in the 15.__________(develop) of science and technology in the future.
H
Jason practiced a new song on the piano. His father sat in the room, reading a book. Suddenly Jason 1._______(stop) and said to his father, “I don’t think I can learn it, 2.______ the song No More Blues is too difficult for me.”
Jason’s father closed his book and said, “The word ‘blue’ 3.________ (mean) unhappy, so your song wants 4. (tell) us to be happy. Maybe you need a break from practice. Let’s take a walk. It’s such a 5. ______ (sun) day.”
Jason and his father began to walk down the street. They turned into a park near their home. It was a cold autumn day, and the 6. (leaf) on the trees began to turn yellow. A cool wind blew against Jason’s face.
7. hour later, Jason and his father returned to the house. Jason sat 8._______ at the piano again to play. His fingers (手指) moved 9. (easy) over the keys. And the music filled the room. “I don’t understand why it is easier for 10. (I) to play the same song now.”
“How did you feel 11. the walk ” Jason’s father asked. “Terrible,” Jason said with a frown (皱眉).“And how do you feel now after 12. (take) a walk ” Jason’s father went on. “Great!” Jason answered, then he 13.______ (smile). “Taking a walk helped me stop being unhappy. Just like the song, I have no 14.________(much) blues! I think I 15._________(play) the song again.”
参考答案A
1. ninth; 2. have learnt; 3. successful; 4. told; 5. in; 6. easier; 7. with; 8. will help; 9. bored; 10. from; 11. unless; 12. to study; 13. writing; 14. wisely; 15. myself
参考答案B:
1. daily 2. smallest 3. of 4. to know 5.was invented;
6. about 7. fifth 8. products 9.So 10. a 11. took 12. working
13.his 14. widely 15.helps
参考答案C
1. jobs 2. and 3. to 4. washes 5. to change
6. is setting 7. will do 8. pleasure 9. is cut 10. helped 11. fourth 12. At 13. got 14. happily 15. a
参考答案D
1. first 2. excited 3. about 4. will take 5.a
6. because 7. really 8. your 9.patients 10.be given 11. cheaper 12. to 13.playing 14. how 15.to relax
参考答案E
1. first 2. will leave 3. have prepared; 4.kilometers; 5..to get;
6.. so; 7.. our; 8. of; 9. arrive; 10. weaker;
11. high; 12.means; 13. an; 14.as; 15. wonderful
参考答案F
1.flowers; 2. A; 3. was walking; 4.told; 5.more;
6.what; 7.to carry; 8.up; 9.protects; 30.about;
31.into; 12.live; 13.How; 14.ourselves; 15.crying
参考答案G
1.first; 2. easier; 3. came; 4.really; 5.themselves;
6. a; 7.helps; 8.for; 9.models; 10.to explore;
11.with; 12.growing; 13.whether; 14.will continue; 15. development
参考答案H
1. stopped 2. because 3. means 4. to tell
5. sunny 6. leaves 7. An 8. down
9. easily 10. me 11. before 12. taking 13. smiled 14.more 15.will play