英语晚练（July 30）
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
他是一个富有想象力的作家。
He is __________________________________.
他们成功地完成了任务。
They have ______________________________ successfully.
那孩子对他的新玩具着了迷。
The child _______________________________ his new toy.
他专心致力于化学研究。
He __________________________________the study of chemistry.
候选人对大众的欢呼表示感谢。
The candidate _______________ the cheers of the crowd.
他们催促我们马上去。
They ________________________ at once.
我相信你会为说了那些话而感到后悔。
I believe you will __________________________ those words.
她的音乐才华无人赏识。
Her talent for music ____________________________.
Ⅱ阅读理解
A
Last week my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home in Tucson, Arizona. He moved there a few years ago, and I was eager to see his new place and meet his friends.
My earliest memories of my father are of a tall, handsome successful man devoted to his work and family, but uncomfortable with his children. As a child I loved him, as a school girl and young adult I feared him and felt bitter about him. He seemed unhappy with me unless I got straight A’s and unhappy with my boyfriends if their fathers were not as “successful” as he was. Whenever I went out with him on weekends, I used to struggle to think up things to say, feeling on guard.
On the first day of my visit, we went out with one of my father’s friends for lunch at an outdoor café. We walked along that afternoon, did some shopping, ate on the street table, and laughed over my son’s funny facial expressions. Gone was my father’s critical air and strict rules. Who was this person I knew as my father, who seemed so friendly and interesting to be around? What had help him back before?
The next day my dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him at that moment. After so many years, I’m at last seeing another side of my father. And in so doing, I’m delighted with my new friend. My dad, in his new home in Arizona, is back to me from where he was.
Why did the author feel bitter about her father as a young adult?
He was silent most of the time.
He was too proud of himself
He didn’t love his children.
He expected too much of her.
When the author went out with her father on weekends, she would feel _____________.
A. nervous B. sorry C. tired D. safe
3. What does the author think of her father after her visit to Tucson?
A. More critical B. More talkative.
C. Gentle and friendly. D. Strict and hard-working.
4. The underlined words “my new friend” in the last paragraph refer to ____________.
A. the author’s son B. the author ‘s father
C. the friend of the author’s father D. the café owner
B
More than 10years ago, it was difficult to buy a tasty pineapple. The fruits
that made it to the UK were green on the outside and, more often than not, hard
with an unpleasant taste within. Then in 1996, the Del Monte Gold pineapple
produced in Hawaii first hit our shelves.
The new type of pineapple looked more yellowy-gold than green. It was
slightly softer on the outside and had a lot of juice. But the most important thing
about this new type of pineapple was that it was twice as sweet as the
hit-and-miss pineapple we had known. In no time, the Del Mount Gold took the
market by storm, rapidly becoming the world’s best-selling pineapple variety,
and delivering natural levels of the sweetness in the mouth, up until then only
found in tinned pineapple.
In nutrition it was all good news too. This nice-tasting pineapple
contained four times more vitamin C than the old green variety. Nutritionists
said that it was not only full of vitamins, but also good against some diseases.
People were understandably eager to be able to buy this wonderful fruit. The
new type of pineapple was selling fast, and the Del Mounte Gold pineapple
rapidly became a fixture in the shopping basket of healthy eater.
Seeing the growing market for its winning pineapple. Dol Mount tried to
keep the market to itself. But other fruit companies developed similar
pineapples. Del Mount turned to law for help, but failed. Those companies
argued successfully that Del Mount’s attempts to keep the golden pineapple for
itself were just a way to knock them out of the market.
5. We learn from the text that the new type of pineapple is _________________.
A. green outside and sweet inside
B. good-looking outside and soft inside
C. yellowy-gold outside and hard inside
D. a little soft outside and sweet inside
6. Why was the new type of pineapple selling well?
A. It was rich in nutrition and tasted nice.
B. It was less sweet and good for help.
C. It was developed by Del Monte.
D. It was used as medicine.
7. The underlined word “fixture” in paragraph 3 probably refers to something _____________.
A. that people enjoy eating
B. that is always present
C. that is difficult to get
D. that people use as a gift
8. We learn from the last paragraph that Del Monte ______________.
A. allowed other companies to develop pineapples
B. succeeded in keeping the pineapple for itself
C. tried hard to control the pineapple market
D. planned to help the other companies
答题卷
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Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
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Ⅱ阅读理解
1. __________ 2. _________ 3. __________ 4. _________
5. __________ 6. _________ 7. __________ 8. _________
课件5张PPT。His achievement earned him respect
and admiration.
His achievement earned respect and
admiration from people.
2. She loves the child as if she were
her/his mother.3. You can’t apply for the job until
you have satisfied the/these
conditions.
Not until you have satisfied the /these conditions, can you apply for the job.
4. He was awarded the Nobel Prize
for his contribution to the peace of
the world.an
2. to
3. away
4. peacefully
5. dressed6. when
7. was listed
8. as
9. where
10. living1---5 DCBD课件5张PPT。Keys (Nov.26)1 Too much meat disagrees with her.
How will the tax affect people on low incomes?
What effect will the tax have on people on low incomes?
3 With a lot of clothes to wash, she had to stay at home.
4 You should have been more careful in the experiment.1. under 2. death
3. remaining 4. them
5. to remove 6. was building
7. when 8. planned
9. Besides 10. management1---5 BACDA课件1张PPT。Keys (August, 6)
Living in that island country for 3
months
2. Early to bed and early to rise
3. Whether he’ll join us in the
discussion
4. To travel hopefully
5. The unemployed
1----4 BADC 5----8 ACBD Keys(August, 20)
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
at the mercy of wind and weather
He indicated that I could leave.
are all involved
at random
are close to
is still awkward with
The book is nowhere to be found./Nowhere can we find the book..
Ⅱ语法填空
1. from 2. strangers 3. Instead 4. that/which 5. including
6. and 7. regularly 8. written 9. others 10. training
Ⅲ阅读理解
BBDD
Keys(August, 20)
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
at the mercy of wind and weather
He indicated that I could leave.
are all involved
at random
are close to
is still awkward with
The book is nowhere to be found./Nowhere can we find the book..
Ⅱ语法填空
1. from 2. strangers 3. Instead 4. that/which 5. including
6. and 7. regularly 8. written 9. others 10. training
Ⅲ阅读理解
BBDD
Keys(August, 20)
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
at the mercy of wind and weather
He indicated that I could leave.
are all involved
at random
are close to
is still awkward with
The book is nowhere to be found./Nowhere can we find the book..
Ⅱ语法填空
1. from 2. strangers 3. Instead 4. that/which 5. including
6. and 7. regularly 8. written 9. others 10. training
Ⅲ阅读理解
BBDD
Keys (Dec.10)
We should spend the money on something that benefit everyone.
Addicted to gambling, he is deeply in debt now.
He gave whoever came to the meeting a gift/present.
Visitors aren’t permitted to take photos.
1. with 2. but 3. hired 4. will graduate 5. agreements
6. formally 7. employees 8. earning 9. as 10. who
1---4 BDCA
Keys (Dec.10)
We should spend the money on something that benefit everyone.
Addicted to gambling, he is deeply in debt now.
He gave whoever came to the meeting a gift/present.
Visitors aren’t permitted to take photos.
1. with 2. but 3. hired 4. will graduate 5. agreements
6. formally 7. employees 8. earning 9. as 10. who
1---4 BDCA
Keys (Dec.10)
We should spend the money on something that benefit everyone.
Addicted to gambling, he is deeply in debt now.
He gave whoever came to the meeting a gift/present.
Visitors aren’t permitted to take photos.
1. with 2. but 3. hired 4. will graduate 5. agreements
6. formally 7. employees 8. earning 9. as 10. who
1---4 BDCA
Keys (Dec.10)
We should spend the money on something that benefit everyone.
Addicted to gambling, he is deeply in debt now.
He gave whoever came to the meeting a gift/present.
Visitors aren’t permitted to take photos.
1. with 2. but 3. hired 4. will graduate 5. agreements
6. formally 7. employees 8. earning 9. as 10. who
1---4 BDCA
课件3张PPT。We should spend the money on
something that benefits everyone.
that is of benefit to …
that everyone benefits from
2. Addicted to gambling, he is deeply/
heavily in debt now.
He is addicted to …, so he…3. He gave whoever came to the
meeting a gift/present.
4. Visitors aren’t permitted to take
photos.with
2. but
3. hired
4. will graduate
5. agreements6. formally
7. employees
8. earning
9. as
10. who1---4 BDCAKeys
All the students exploded into laughter.
The drought has done/did great harm to the crops.
I seem(ed) to have seen him somewhere before.
It seems(ed) that I have (had) seen him somewhere before.
The news that They had won the game spread throughout/all over the school.
1. with 2. other 3. owners 4. embarrassment 5. more
6. compared 7. including 8. which 9. a 10. realized
1---4 CDAB
Keys
All the students exploded into laughter.
The drought has done/did great harm to the crops.
I seem(ed) to have seen him somewhere before.
It seems(ed) that I have (had) seen him somewhere before.
The news that They had won the game spread throughout/all over the school.
1. with 2. other 3. owners 4. embarrassment 5. more
6. compared 7. including 8. which 9. a 10. realized
1---4 CDAB
Keys
All the students exploded into laughter.
The drought has done/did great harm to the crops.
I seem(ed) to have seen him somewhere before.
It seems(ed) that I have (had) seen him somewhere before.
The news that They had won the game spread throughout/all over the school.
1. with 2. other 3. owners 4. embarrassment 5. more
6. compared 7. including 8. which 9. a 10. realized
1---4 CDAB
Keys
All the students exploded into laughter.
The drought has done/did great harm to the crops.
I seem(ed) to have seen him somewhere before.
It seems(ed) that I have (had) seen him somewhere before.
The news that They had won the game spread throughout/all over the school.
1. with 2. other 3. owners 4. embarrassment 5. more
6. compared 7. including 8. which 9. a 10. realized
1---4 CDAB
课件2张PPT。 1. All the students exploded into/with
laughter.
2. The drought has done/did great
harm to the crops.
3. I seem(ed) to have seen him
somewhere before.
It seems(ed) that I have (had) seen
him somewhere before.
4. The news that they had won the
game spread throughout/all over the
school.with
2. other
3. owners
4. embarrassment
5. more6. compared
7. including
8. which
9. a
10. realized1---4 CDABKeys(Dec.24)
He found it hard/difficult to settle down to his work.
Who prevented the plan (from) being carried out.
After the meeting, he was surrounded by a group/crowd of reporters.
As fare as I am concerned, whether the meeting will be held tomorrow doesn’t matter.
1. of 2. a 3. on 4. organizations 5. owned
6. have sent 7. strictly 8. willing 9. and 10. or
1---4. DCAB
Keys(Dec.24)
He found it hard/difficult to settle down to his work.
Who prevented the plan (from) being carried out.
After the meeting, he was surrounded by a group/crowd of reporters.
As fare as I am concerned, whether the meeting will be held tomorrow doesn’t matter.
1. of 2. a 3. on 4. organizations 5. owned
6. have sent 7. strictly 8. willing 9. and 10. or
1---4. DCAB
Keys(Dec.24)
He found it hard/difficult to settle down to his work.
Who prevented the plan (from) being carried out.
After the meeting, he was surrounded by a group/crowd of reporters.
As fare as I am concerned, whether the meeting will be held tomorrow doesn’t matter.
1. of 2. a 3. on 4. organizations 5. owned
6. have sent 7. strictly 8. willing 9. and 10. or
1---4. DCAB
Keys(Dec.24)
He found it hard/difficult to settle down to his work.
Who prevented the plan (from) being carried out.
After the meeting, he was surrounded by a group/crowd of reporters.
As fare as I am concerned, whether the meeting will be held tomorrow doesn’t matter.
1. of 2. a 3. on 4. organizations 5. owned
6. have sent 7. strictly 8. willing 9. and 10. or
1---4. DCAB
课件2张PPT。 1. He found it hard/difficult to
settle down to his work.
He found (that) it was hard/
difficult to …
2. Who prevented the plan (from)
being carried out.
3. After the meeting, he was surrounded
by a group/crowd of reporters.
4. As far as I am concerned, whether
the meeting will be held tomorrow
doesn’t matter/isn’t important.of
2. a/one
3. on
4. organizations
5. owned6. have sent
7. strictly
8. willing
9. and
10. or1---4. DCABKeys(Dec.3)
His achievement earned him respect and admiration.
She loves the child as if she were her/his mother.
You can’t apply for the job until you have satisfied the/these conditions.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the peace of the world.
1. an 2. to 3. away 4. peacefully 5. dressed
6. when 7. was listed 8. as 9. where 10. living
1---5 DCBD
Keys(Dec.3)
His achievement earned him respect and admiration.
She loves the child as if she were her/his mother.
You can’t apply for the job until you have satisfied the/these conditions.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the peace of the world.
1. an 2. to 3. away 4. peacefully 5. dressed
6. when 7. was listed 8. as 9. where 10. living
1---5 DCBD
Keys(Dec.3)
His achievement earned him respect and admiration.
She loves the child as if she were her/his mother.
You can’t apply for the job until you have satisfied the/these conditions.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the peace of the world.
1. an 2. to 3. away 4. peacefully 5. dressed
6. when 7. was listed 8. as 9. where 10. living
1---5 DCBD
Keys(Dec.3)
His achievement earned him respect and admiration.
She loves the child as if she were her/his mother.
You can’t apply for the job until you have satisfied the/these conditions.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the peace of the world.
1. an 2. to 3. away 4. peacefully 5. dressed
6. when 7. was listed 8. as 9. where 10. living
1---5 DCBD
课件1张PPT。Keys(July, 30)
1. an imaginative writer
2. accomplished their task/mission
3. was fascinated with
4. devoted himself to/ was devoted to
5. acknowledged
6. urged us to go
7. regret having said
8. was not appreciated
1----4 DACB 5----8 DABC Keys
You promised me that you would never be late again,
you didn’t keep your promise/broke your promise.
Young children will usually compete for their mother’s attention/love.
In common with many other children, I prefer pop music to classical music.
Her parents wouldn’t let her marry the young man whose family was poor.
1. born 2. graduate 3. where/and 4. serving 5. unsuccessful 6.a 7. and 8. As 9. was named 10. after
1---4 BDCB 5---8 ABBD
Keys
You promised me that you would never be late again,
you didn’t keep your promise/broke your promise.
Young children will usually compete for their mother’s attention/love.
In common with many other children, I prefer pop music to classical music.
Her parents wouldn’t let her marry the young man whose family was poor.
1. born 2. graduate 3. where/and 4. serving 5. unsuccessful 6.a 7. and 8. As 9. was named 10. after
1---4 BDCB 5---8 ABBD
Keys
You promised me that you would never be late again,
you didn’t keep your promise/broke your promise.
Young children will usually compete for their mother’s attention/love.
In common with many other children, I prefer pop music to classical music.
Her parents wouldn’t let her marry the young man whose family was poor.
1. born 2. graduate 3. where/and 4. serving 5. unsuccessful 6.a 7. and 8. As 9. was named 10. after
1---4 BDCB 5---8 ABBD
Keys
You promised me that you would never be late again,
you didn’t keep your promise/broke your promise.
Young children will usually compete for their mother’s attention/love.
In common with many other children, I prefer pop music to classical music.
Her parents wouldn’t let her marry the young man whose family was poor.
1. born 2. graduate 3. where/and 4. serving 5. unsuccessful 6.a 7. and 8. As 9. was named 10. after
1---4 BDCB 5---8 ABBD
Keys
but it remains to be seen whether it will succeed.
He can’t/couldn’t have been at home
He had his leg broken in the football match, which worried his mother.
There is no doubt that this financial crisis has a great effect/influence on global economy.
Each ticket admits only one person to the football match.
1. a 3. looking 4. where 5. for 6. based
7. between 8. oldest 9. possibly 10. but
1---4 CDAD 5---8 BDBA
Keys
but it remains to be seen whether it will succeed.
He can’t/couldn’t have been at home
He had his leg broken in the football match, which worried his mother.
There is no doubt that this financial crisis has a great effect/influence on global economy.
Each ticket admits only one person to the football match.
1. a 3. looking 4. where 5. for 6. based
7. between 8. oldest 9. possibly 10. but
1---4 CDAD 5---8 BDBA
Keys
but it remains to be seen whether it will succeed.
He can’t/couldn’t have been at home
He had his leg broken in the football match, which worried his mother.
There is no doubt that this financial crisis has a great effect/influence on global economy.
Each ticket admits only one person to the football match.
1. a 3. looking 4. where 5. for 6. based
7. between 8. oldest 9. possibly 10. but
1---4 CDAD 5---8 BDBA
Keys
He has so few friends here that he sometimes feels lonely.
He let the chance/opportunity go by.
It has been decided that the sports meeting will be held next week.
We should protect the plants from the cold (weather).
1. an 2. where 3. breathing 4. on 5. taken
6. Since 7. but 8. for 9. donations 10. whether
1---5. CBCAC 6---10 ACBAD
Keys
He has so few friends here that he sometimes feels lonely.
He let the chance/opportunity go by.
It has been decided that the sports meeting will be held next week.
We should protect the plants from the cold (weather).
1. an 2. where 3. breathing 4. on 5. taken
6. Since 7. but 8. for 9. donations 10. whether
1---5. CBCAC 6---10 ACBAD
Keys
1.He has so few friends here that he sometimes feels lonely.
He let the chance/opportunity go by.
It has been decided that the sports meeting will be held next week.
We should protect the plants from the cold (weather).
1. an 2. where 3. breathing 4. on 5. taken
6. Since 7. but 8. for 9. donations 10. whether
1---5. CBCAC 6---10 ACBAD
Keys
He has so few friends here that he sometimes feels lonely.
He let the chance/opportunity go by.
It has been decided that the sports meeting will be held next week.
We should protect the plants from the cold (weather).
1. an 2. where 3. breathing 4. on 5. taken
6. Since 7. but 8. for 9. donations 10. whether
1---5. CBCAC 6---10 ACBAD
课件2张PPT。He has so few friends here
that he sometimes feels lonely.
2. He let the chance/opportunity
go by.
3. It has been decided that the
sports meeting will be held next
week.
4. We should protect the plants
from the cold (weather). an
2. where
3. breathing
4. on
5. taken6. Since
7. but
8. for
9. donations
10. whether1---5. CBCAC
6---10 ACBADKeys (Nov.26)
Too much meat disagrees with her.
How will the tax affect/ What effect will the tax have on
With a lot of clothes to wash, she had to stay at home.
You should have been more careful in the experiment.
1. under 2. death 3. remaining 4. whom 5. to remove
6. was building 7. when 8. planned 9. Besides 10. management
1---5 BACDA
Keys (Nov.26)
Too much meat disagrees with her.
How will the tax affect/ What effect will the tax have on
With a lot of clothes to wash, she had to stay at home.
You should have been more careful in the experiment.
1. under 2. death 3. remaining 4. whom 5. to remove
6. was building 7. when 8. planned 9. Besides 10. management
1---5 BACDA
Keys (Nov.26)
Too much meat disagrees with her.
How will the tax affect/ What effect will the tax have on
With a lot of clothes to wash, she had to stay at home.
You should have been more careful in the experiment.
1. under 2. death 3. remaining 4. whom 5. to remove
6. was building 7. when 8. planned 9. Besides 10. management
1---5 BACDA
Keys (Nov.26)
Too much meat disagrees with her.
How will the tax affect/ What effect will the tax have on
With a lot of clothes to wash, she had to stay at home.
You should have been more careful in the experiment.
1. under 2. death 3. remaining 4. whom 5. to remove
6. was building 7. when 8. planned 9. Besides 10. management
1---5 BACDA
课件2张PPT。but it remains to be seen whether it
will succeed.
2. He can’t/couldn’t have been at home
3. He had his leg broken in the football
match, which worried his mother.
4. There is no doubt that this financial
crisis has a great effect/influence on
global economy.
5. Each ticket admits only one person to
the football match.
1. a
3. looking
4. where
5. for 6. based
7. between
8. oldest
9. possibly
10. but1---4 CDAD 5---8 BDBA 课件2张PPT。You promised me that you would
never be late again,
you didn’t keep your promise/
broke your promise.
2. Young children will usually compete
for their mother’s attention/love.
3. In common with many other children,
I prefer pop music to classical music.
4. Her parents wouldn’t let her marry
the young man whose family was poor. born
2. graduate
3. where/and
4. serving
5. unsuccessful
6. a
7. and
8. As
9. was named
10. after
1---4 BDCB 5---8 ABBD课件2张PPT。1.I can’t imagine life without
electricity.
2.to be persuaded to take part
in/into taking part in the
competition
3.Are you familiar with the
computer software they use?
4.He insisted that he was
innocent/on his innocence.1. to see
2. closely
3. has been
4. the
5. which6. original
7. sending
8. with
9. unchanged
10. growth1---4 DCDB 5---8 AACD 课件2张PPT。It seems(ed) that he has(had)
finished his homework./He seems(ed)
to have finished his homework.
2. they were well prepared
3. Not all the children are noisy.
4. The man who is shaking hands with
my father is a policeman.
5. They are fighting for freedom and
independence.1. lasting
2. his
3. to resolve
4. to
5. traditional6. after
7. has been listed
8. that/which
9. leader(s)
10. and1---4 DCBB 5---8 ADCAKeys
I can’t imagine life without electricity.
to be persuaded to take part in/into taking part in the competition
Are you familiar with the computer software they use?
He insisted that he was innocent/on his innocence.
1. to see 2. closely 3. has been 4. the 5. which
6. original 7. sending 8. with 9. unchanged 10. growth
1---4 DCDB 5---8 AACD
Keys
I can’t imagine life without electricity.
to be persuaded to take part in/into taking part in the competition
Are you familiar with the computer software they use?
He insisted that he was innocent/on his innocence.
1. to see 2. closely 3. has been 4. the 5. which
6. original 7. sending 8. with 9. unchanged 10. growth
1---4 DCDB 5---8 AACD
Keys
I can’t imagine life without electricity.
to be persuaded to take part in/into taking part in the competition
Are you familiar with the computer software they use?
He insisted that he was innocent/on his innocence.
1. to see 2. closely 3. has been 4. the 5. which
6. original 7. sending 8. with 9. unchanged 10. growth
1---4 DCDB 5---8 AACD
Keys(Otc.15)
It seems(ed) that he has(had) finished his homework../He seems(ed) to have finished his homework.
they were well prepared
Not all the children are noisy.
The man who is shaking hands with my father is a policeman.
They are fighting for freedom and independence.
1. lasting 2. his 3. to resolve 4. to 5. traditional
6. after 7. has been listed 8. that/which 9. leaders 10. and
1---4 DCBB 5---8 ADCA
Keys(Otc.15)
It seems(ed) that he has(had) finished his homework../He seems(ed) to have finished his homework.
they were well prepared
Not all the children are noisy.
The man who is shaking hands with my father is a policeman.
They are fighting for freedom and independence.
1. lasting 2. his 3. to resolve 4. to 5. traditional
6. after 7. has been listed 8. that/which 9. leaders 10. and
1---4 DCBB 5---8 ADCA
Keys(Otc.15)
It seems(ed) that he has(had) finished his homework../He seems(ed) to have finished his homework.
they were well prepared
Not all the children are noisy.
The man who is shaking hands with my father is a policeman.
They are fighting for freedom and independence.
1. lasting 2. his 3. to resolve 4. to 5. traditional
6. after 7. has been listed 8. that/which 9. leaders 10. and
1---4 DCBB 5---8 ADCA
课件2张PPT。he was going through the students’
exercises/homework.
2.Teenagers are crazy about rock
music.
3.We recognized him to be/as a great
leader.
4.Science plays an important part in
developing agriculture.
5.It was not until yesterday that he
came back.
6.We are/were all concerned about
her safety.to walk
2. excited
3. achievement
4. chosen
5. a6. after
7. which
8. to
9. as
10. have sent1—5 CDABB课件2张PPT。The church dates back to/from
Roman Times.
2. on a large scale
3. to take the opportunity to
4. must be accompanied by an adult/
adults
5. values(v.) honesty(n.)
6. resulted in the deathCDCA7. Does the idea of working abroad
appeal to you?
8. dressed(p.p.) in a beautiful evening
dress(n.)
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The church dates back to/from the Roman times.
on a large scale
to take the opportunity to
must be accompanied by an adult/a grown-up
values honesty
resulted in the death
Does the idea of working abroad appeal to you?
dressed in a beautiful evening dress
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6. have announced 7. financial 8. where 9. his/the 10. to donate
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The church dates back to/from the Roman times.
on a large scale
to take the opportunity to
must be accompanied by an adult/a grown-up
values honesty
resulted in the death
Does the idea of working abroad appeal to you?
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6. have announced 7. financial 8. where 9. his/the 10. to donate
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keys(sep.10)
The church dates back to/from the Roman times.
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1. a 2. However 3. of 4. organized 5. mostly
6. have announced 7. financial 8. where 9. his/the 10. to donate
CDCA
Keys(sep.24)
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6. performance 7. long 8. who 9. rushing 10. the
1—3 BAC 4—7 BDCD
Keys(sep.24)
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6. performance 7. long 8. who 9. rushing 10. the
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6. performance 7. long 8. who 9. rushing 10. the
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6. performance 7. long 8. who 9. rushing 10. the
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3.were being treated
4.out
5.named6. performance
7. long
8. who
9. rushing
10. the1--3BAC
4--7BDCDKeys:
that he is popular with girls
is made up of many different parts
You are responsible for keeping the room tidy
have made reservations for 3 rooms
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6. selected 7. including 8. for 9. after 10. the
1-3 CDD 4-7 CBDB
Keys:
that he is popular with girls
is made up of many different parts
You are responsible for keeping the room tidy
have made reservations for 3 rooms
1. whose 2. to 3. appearance 4. As 5. while
6. selected 7. including 8. for 9. after 10. the
1-3 CDD 4-7 CBDB
Keys:
that he is popular with girls
is made up of many different parts
You are responsible for keeping the room tidy
have made reservations for 3 rooms
1. whose 2. to 3. appearance 4. As 5. while
6. selected 7. including 8. for 9. after 10. the
1-3 CDD 4-7 CBDB
Keys:
that he is popular with girls
is made up of many different parts
You are responsible for keeping the room tidy
have made reservations for 3 rooms
1. whose 2. to 3. appearance 4. As 5. while
6. selected 7. including 8. for 9. after 10. the
1-3 CDD 4-7 CBDB
课件1张PPT。for
had sickened
apology
where
safety6. while/when
7. a
8. believed
9. after
10. if1---4 BBAB
5---9 CCDCDKeys
翻译句子
he was going through the students’ exercises/homework.
Teenagers are crazy about rock music.
We recognized him to be/as a great leader.
Science plays an important part in developing agriculture.
It was not until yesterday that he came back.
We are/were all concerned about her safety.
语法填空
1. to walk 2. excited 3. achievement 4. chosen 5. a
6. after 7. which 8. to 9. as 10. have sent
阅读理解
1—5 CDABB
Keys
翻译句子
he was going through the students’ exercises/homework.
Teenagers are crazy about rock music.
We recognized him to be/as a great leader.
Science plays an important part in developing agriculture.
It was not until yesterday that he came back.
We are/were all concerned about her safety.
语法填空
1. to walk 2. excited 3. achievement 4. chosen 5. a
6. after 7. which 8. to 9. as 10. have sent
阅读理解
1—5 CDABB
Keys
翻译句子
he was going through the students’ exercises/homework.
Teenagers are crazy about rock music.
We recognized him to be/as a great leader.
Science plays an important part in developing agriculture.
It was not until yesterday that he came back.
We are/were all concerned about her safety.
语法填空
1. to walk 2. excited 3. achievement 4. chosen 5. a
6. after 7. which 8. to 9. as 10. have sent
阅读理解
1—5 CDABB
Keys（sep 17）
语法填空
1. for 2. had sickened 3. apology 4. where 5. safty
6. while/when 7. a 8. believed 9. after 10. if
阅读理解
1---4 BBAB 5---9 CCDCD
Keys（sep 17）
语法填空
1. for 2. had sickened 3. apology 4. where 5. safty
6. while/when 7. a 8. believed 9. after 10. if
阅读理解
1---4 BBAB 5---9 CCDCD
Keys（sep 17）
语法填空
1. for 2. had sickened 3. apology 4. where 5. safty
6. while/when 7. a 8. believed 9. after 10. if
阅读理解
1---4 BBAB 5---9 CCDCD
Keys（sep 17）
语法填空
1. for 2. had sickened 3. apology 4. where 5. safty
6. while/when 7. a 8. believed 9. after 10. if
阅读理解
1---4 BBAB 5---9 CCDCD
Keys（sep 17）
语法填空
1. for 2. had sickened 3. apology 4. where 5. safty
6. while/when 7. a 8. believed 9. after 10. if
阅读理解
1---4 BBAB 5---9 CCDCD
英语晚练（August, 20）
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子。
他们在海上迷失了方向，任凭风和天气的摆布。（mercy）
They were lost at sea, _________________________________________.
他暗示我可以离开。(indicate)
___________________________________________________________.
不管我们喜欢与否，我们都牵涉在内。(involve)
We ________________________, whether we like it or not.
他随手拿了一本书。(random)
He took a book ___________________.
两国即将签署和平协议。(close)
The two countries ____________________ signing a peace agreement.
他仍然拙于使用刀叉，每餐都会掉饭菜。(awkward)
He ___________________ a knife and fork and drops food at each meal.
这本书到处都找不到。(nowhere)
__________________________________________________________.
Ⅱ. 语法填空
Most Americans don’t like to get advice 1 members of their family. They get advice from “ 2 (strange).” When they need advice, they don’t usually go to people they know. 3 many of them write letters to newspapers and magazines 4 give advice on many different subjects 5 (include) family problems, the use of language, health, cooking, child care, clothes, 6 even on how to buy a house or a car.
Most newspapers 7 (regular) print letters from readers with problems. Along with the letters there are answers 8 (write) by people who are supposed to know how to solve such problems. Some of these writers are doctors, 9 are lawyers or educators. But two of the most famous writers of advice are women without special 10 (train) for this kind of work.
Ⅲ . 阅读理解
What do you want to be when you grow up? A teacher? A doctor? How about an ice-cream taster?
Yes, there really is a job where you can get paid to taste ice cream. Just ask John Harrison, an “Official Taste Tester” for the past 21 years. Testing helps manufacturers to be sure of a product’s equality. During his career Harrison has been responsible for approving large quantities of the sweet ice cream ---- as well as for developing over 75 flavors.
Some people think that it would be easy to do this job; after all, you just have to like ice cream, right? No ---- there’s more to the job than that, says Harrison, who has a degree in chemistry. He points out that a dairy or food-science degree would be very useful to someone wanting a career in this “cool” field.
In a typical morning on the job, Harrison tastes and assesses 60 ice-cream samples. He lets the ice cream warm up to about 12 F. Harrison explains, “You get more flavor from warmer ice cream, which is why some kids like to stir it, creating ice-cream soup.”
While the ice cream warms up, Harrison looks over the samples and grades each one on its appearance. “Tasting begins with the eyes,” he explains. He checks to see if the ice cream is attractive and asks himself, “Does the product have the color expected from the flavor?” Net it’s time to taste!
Continuing to think up new ideas, try out new flavors, and test samples from so many kinds of ice cream each day keeps Harrison busy but happy---- working at one cool job.
What is John Harrison’s job?
A. An official. B. An ice-cream taster.
C. A chemist. D. An ice-cream manufacturer.
2. According to John Harrison, to be qualified in the “cool field”, it is helpful to ____________.
A. keep a diary of work
B. have a degree in related subjects
C. have new ideas every day
D. find out new flavors each day
3. What does Harrison do first when testing ice cream?
A. He stirs the ice cream.
B. He examines the colour of the ice cream.
C. He tastes the flavor of the ice cream.
D. He lets the ice cream warm up.
4. Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?
A. Tasting with Eyes B. Flavors of Ice Cream
C. John Harrison’s Life D. One Cool Job
答题卷
班别____________ 姓名_____________ 学号______________
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Ⅱ. 语法填空
1. __________ 2. _________ 3. __________ 4. _________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. _________ 8. __________ 9. _________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. ___________ 2. ___________ 3. __________ 4. ___________
英语晚练（August 6）
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
在那个岛国住了三个月对我是一段难忘的经历.
_________________________________________ was an unforgettable experience for me.
早睡早起使人聪明身体好.
__________________________________ makes a man healthy and wise.
他是否参加我们的讨论是很重要的.
_____________________________________________ is of great importance.
带着希望旅行(的过程)远胜于到达目的地的(那一刻)
_________________________ is a better thing than to arrive.
失业的人生活一般很困难..
___________________________ usually lead a hard life.
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
A
Edward Wilson is Amerca’s, if not the world’s, leading naturalist. In The Future of Life, he takes us on a tour of the world’s natural resources. How are they used? What has been lost? What remains and is it able to continue with the present speed of use? Wilson also points out the need to understand fully the biodiversity of our earth.
Wilson begins with an open letter to the pioneer in environment protection, Henry David Thoreau. He compares today’s Walden Pond with that of Thoreau’s day. Wilson will use such comparisons for the rest of the book. The problem is clear: man has done great damage to his home over the years. Can the earth, with human help, be made to return to biodiversity levels that will be able to support us in the future?
Biodiversity, Wilson argues, is the key to settling many problems the earth faces today. Even our agricultural crops can gain advantages from it. A more hundred species are the basis of our food supply, of which but twenty carry the load. Wilson suggests changing this situation by looking into ten thousand species that could be made use of, which will be a way to reduce the clearing of the natural homes of plants and animals to enlarge farming areas.
At the end of the book, Wilson discusses the importance of human values in considering the environment. If you are to continue to live on the earth, you may well read and act on the ideas.
We learn from the text that Wilson cares most about ___________________.
the environment for plans
the biodiversity of our earth
the waste of natural resources
the importance of human values
How many species are most important to our present food supply?
A. Twenty B. Eighty C. One hundred D. Ten thousand
3. Wilson suggests that one way to keep biodiversity is to _______________________.
A. learn how to farm scientifically
B. build homes for some dying species
C. make it clear what to eat
D. use more species for food
4. We can infer that the text is ___________________.
A. a description of natural resources
B. a research report
C. a book review
D. an introduction to a scientist
B
Holidays
Holiday News
Vacancies now and in the school holidays at a country hotel in Devon. This comfortable, fridenly home-from-homelies near the beautiful quiet countryside, but just a drive away from the sea. The food is simple but good. Children and pets are welcome. Reduced prices for low season.
The Snowdonia Center
The Snowdonia Center for young mountain climbers has a mountain climding lesson. The beginners’ cost are ￡57 for a week, including food and rooms. Equipment is included except walking shoes, which can be hired at low cost.
You must in good health and prepared to go through a period of body exercises. This could be the beginning of a lifetime of mountain climbing adventure
The World Sea Trip of a Lifetime
Our World sea Trip of 2008 will be unlike any holiday you have ever been on before. Instead of one hotel after another, with all its packing and unpacking, waiting and traveling, you just go to bed in one country and wake up in another.
On board the ship, you will be well taken care of . Every meal will be first-class and every cabin like your home.
During the trip, you can rest on deck, enjoy yourself in the games rooms and in the evening dance to our musical team and watch our wonderful play.
You will visit all the places most people only dream about---- from Acapulco and Hawaii to Tokyo and HongKong.
For a few thousand pounds, all you’ve ever hoped for can be yours.
5. What can you do if you like to go on holidays with pets?
A. Choose the holiday in Devon.
B. Go to the Snowdonia Center.
C. Join the world Sea trip of 2008.
D. Visit Acapulco and Hawaii.
6. In what way is the Snowdonia Center different from the other two holidays?
A. It provides chances of family gatherings.
B. It provides customers with good food.
C. It offers a sports lesson.
D. It offers comfortable rooms.
7. What is special about the world Sea trip of 2008?
A. You can have free meals on deck every day.
B. You can sleep on a ship and tour many places.
C. You will have chances to watch and act in a play.
D. You have to do your own packing and unpacking.
8. At the Snowdonia Center, the beginners’ cost of ￡57 do not cover ________________.
A. food B. rooms C. body exercises D. walking shoes
答题卷
班别____________ 姓名_____________ 学号______________
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Ⅱ阅读理解
1. __________ 2. _________ 3. __________ 4. _________
5. __________ 6. _________ 7. __________ 8. _________
英语晚练(Dec.24)
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子
他发现要安下心来工作很难。（settle down）
_________________________________________________________________
谁阻止了这计划的执行。(prevent)
_________________________________________________________________
会后，他被一群记者围住了。(surround)
_________________________________________________________________
对于我来说，明天是否举行这会议无关重要。(as far as)
_________________________________________________________________
Ⅱ. 语法填空
Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao confirmed on Saturday evening that the taskforce would consist ___1___ three vessels（舰）, and would patrol（巡查） the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia.
The Ministry of Defence said the taskforce would be made up of two destroyers and ___2___ supply ship, and would leave Sanya of southern Hainan Province on December 26.
Their major task is to protect the safety of Chinese ships and crew ___3___ board as well as ships carrying humanitarian（人道主义的） relief material for the international ___4___(organize) such as the United Nations World Food Programme, Liu said.
Ships registered in China or ___5___(own) by Chinese companies had been attacked by pirates off the Somali coast this year, he said.
China was acting in accord with United Nations resolutions, he said.
So far the United States, NATO and other countries ___6___(send) naval forces to ply（定期往返） this area.
"Chinese naval vessels will ___7___(strict) follow U.N. Security Council resolutions and international laws. They are ___8___(will) to work with other countries ___9___ to take part in humanitarian relief tasks," Liu said.
Liu told the press that seven ships, either owned by China ___10___ carrying Chinese cargo and crew, had been hijacked and one fishing boat, with a crew of 18, was still held by pirates.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
Despite the fact that it has never been seen almost everyone is familiar with the legendary unicorn(独角兽). Descriptions of unicorns have been found dating from ancient times. The great philosopher Aristotle theorized that there were two types of unicorn--- the so-called Indian Ass and the Oryx, a kind of antelope. Unicorns are often used in the logo of a noble family, town council or university as their special sign. Even Scotland is represented by a unicorn.
According to the legend, anyone attempting to catch a unicorn had to be extremely cautious as it has a reputation for being very fierce. A clever trick suggested by unicorn-trappers, in order to catch this magnificent beast without being hurt by its horn, was for the hunter to stand in front of a tree and then to move quickly behind it as the unicorn charged. Hopefully, the creature could then be captured when its horn was stuck in the tree.
When hollowed out and used as a drinking-cup, the unicorn’s horn was said to have the power to offer protection against person. It was believed that nobody could be harmed-by drinking the contents of a unicorn’s horn. Right up until the French Revolution in 1789, the French court was said to have used cups made of “unicorn” horn in order to protect the king. In addition, the horn was said to have medicinal value, so much so that it could be sold for more than ten times the price of the same weight of gold. What, then, was “unicorn” horn? We know at times the rhino(犀牛) was confused with this legendary creature. A drinking-cup supposedly made of “unicorn” horn was discovered to be made of the horn of a rhino.
1. Which of the following is TRUE of the unicorn?
A. It was not historically recorded
B. Its horn was first used in France
C. It was similar to the Indian Ass and the Oryx
D. It could be the symbol of a university
2. To catch a unicorn, the unicorn-trappers had to try all of the following EXCEPT ____.
A. tempting the unicorn to attack
B. making use of the tree as a protection
C. hiding quickly behind the unicorn
D. having the unicorn horn stuck in the tree
3. The last paragraph is mainly about ____.
A. the properties of the unicorn horn
B. the users of the unicorn horn
C. the price of the unicorn horn
D. the comparison between the unicorn horn and the rhino horn
4. In the last paragraph, the word “unicorn ” is in quotation marks (引号)because _____.
A. the cup is designed only for a royal family
B. the unicorn does not exist in reality
C. the unicorn is the rarest animal in the world
D. the medicinal value of the horn is appreciated
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________
英语晚练（November 5）
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子.
这听起来是一个好主意,但是否会成功还需拭目以待.(remain)
It sounds like a good idea, ____________________________________.
他昨晚肯定不在家,因为灯一直没亮.
__________________________________, for the lights were out all night.
他的腿在球赛中摔断了,这使得他的妈妈很担心.
__________________________________________________________.
毫无疑问,这次金融危机(crisis)对全球经济有巨大的影响.
__________________________________________________________.
每张票只供一人入场看足球赛.(admit)
__________________________________________________________.
Ⅱ. 语法填空
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama sought to energize voter turnout(投票人数) on Saturday in the final weekend of ___1___ long and grinding US presidential election campaign.
McCain spent the day in Virginia and Pennsylvania ___3___(look) to turn out the vote on Tuesday. Virginia normally votes Republican but appears to be siding with Obama. Obama, enjoying a lead in national polls and in many battleground states ___4___ the election will be decided, sought a knockout punch in three states that went ___5___ President George W. Bush in 2004 -- Nevada, Colorado and Missouri.
Americans on Tuesday will vote in what amounts to 51 separate elections in each state and the District of Columbia. Each state has a number of electoral votes ___6___(base) on the size of its representation in Congress. Whichever candidate gets 270 electoral votes wins the White House.
They will choose ___7___ Illinois Sen. Obama, 47, who would be the country's first black president, and Arizona Sen. McCain, 72, the former Vietnam prisoner of war who would be the ___8___(old) person ever elected to a first presidential term.
If current polling is accurate and stands up on Election Day, Obama will win, ___9___ (possible), by a comfortable margin(获胜的幅度), ___10___ McCain and his aides(助手) see signs of hope from their own polling as well as some public opinion polls.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
A
Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts（工作班次） are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”
So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 a.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just ￡90. “It’s better than what it was last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”
The hours she’ s chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.
Her work isn’t physically very hard, but it’s not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they’d be a bit more careful.”
The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. “Since I’ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself——and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”
Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write,” said Margaret. “I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been doing, but I don’t think that way any more. I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”
1. Margaret quit her job as a nurse because _______
A. she wanted to earn more money to support her family
B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure
C. she needed the right time to look after her children
D. she felt tired of taking care of patients
2. Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because _______.
A. they never clean their offices
B. they look down upon cleaners
C. they never do their work carefully
D. they always make a mess in their offices
3. When at work, Margaret feels _______.
A. light-hearted because of her fellow workers
B. happy because the building is fully lit
C. tired because of the heavy workload
D. bored because time passed slowly
4. The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret’s parents would _______．
A. help care for her children
B. regret what they had said
C. show sympathy for her
D. feel disappointed in her
B
One morning a few years ago, Harvard President Neil Rudenstine overslept. For this busy man, it was a sort of alarm: after years of non-stop hard work, he might wear himself out and die an early death.
Only after a week’s leave—— during which he read novels, listened to music and walked with his wife on a beach—— was Rudenstine able to return to work.
In our modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. Amazingly, within this world there is a universal but silly saying: “I am so busy.”
We say this to one another as if our tireless efforts were a talent by nature and an ability to successfully deal with stress. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others. To be unavailable to our friends and family, and to be unable to find time to relax—— this has become the model of a successful life.
Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the guide telling us where to go, the food providing is with strength, the quiet giving us wisdom.
How have we allowed this to happen? I believe it is this: we have forgotten the Sabbath, the day of the week—— for followers of some religions—— for rest and praying. It is a day when we are not supposed to work, a time when we devote ourselves to enjoying and celebrating what is beautiful. It is a good time to bless our children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals, walk and sleep. It is a time for us to take a rest, to put our work aside, trusting that there are larger forces at work taking care of the world.
Rest is a spiritual and biological need; however, in our strong ambition to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, we may feel terribly guilty when we take time to rest. The Sabbath gives us permission to stop work. In fact, “Remember the Sabbath” is more than simply permission to rest; it is a rule to obey and a principle to follow.
5. The “alarm” in the first paragraph refers to “_______”.
A. a signal of stress
B. a warning of danger
C. a sign of age
D. a spread of disease
6. According to Paragraph 4, a successful person is one who is believed to _______.
A. be able to work without stress
B. be more talented than other people
C. be more important than anyone else
D. be busying working without time to rest
7. Some people feel guilty when taking time to rest because they _______.
A. think that taking a rest means lacking ambitions
B. fail to realize that rest is an essential part of life
C. fail to realize that religions force them to rest
D. think that taking a rest means being lazy
8. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. We should balance work with rest.
B. The Sabbath gives us permission to rest.
C. It is silly for anyone to say “I am busy.”
D. We should be available to our family and friends.
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________
5. __________ 6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________
英语晚练(Nov. 19)
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子。
他在这儿没有几个朋友, 因此有时感到寂寞.(so/such…that)
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他失去了这机会.(go by)
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已经决定校运会将于下周举行.(it作形式主语)
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我们应该保护植物不受冻.(protect)
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Ⅱ. 语法填空。
Former Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian was taken from his jail cell to a hospital on Sunday after a five-day hunger strike when a doctor found an irregular heartbeat, a prison official said.
Lee Ta-chu, ___1___ official at Tucheng Jail ___2___ Chen had been held since last Wednesday for investigation on graft allegations, said a prison doctor recommended Chen's hospitalization after examining him. Chen "is having difficulty ___3____(breathe) and is complaining of pain ___4___ the left side of his chest," said Lee, adding that Chen was conscious when ___5___ to the hospital. Chen has denied any wrongdoing and said he is being persecuted by his successor Ma Ying-jeou. ___6___ his arrest, dozens of Chen supporters have protested daily outside the prison, backing his claim of innocence and demanding his release. He has not been formally indicted, ___7___ in line with Taiwanese law, can be held in jail ___8___ up to four months while officials pursue his case. The corruption probe began soon after Chen finished eight years in office in May, forcing him to withdraw from his Democratic Progressive Party in disgrace. In August, Chen admitted he broke the law by not fully disclosing campaign ___9___(donate) he had received, after a lawmaker alleged that Chen's son and daughter-in-law moved $21 million to Switzerland in 2007. At the time, prosecutors said they wanted to determine ___10___ the funds were donations left over from political campaigns - as Chen insisted - or whether bribery may have been involved.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
A
Young adult filmmakers all hope to show their works in international festivals like Sundance and Toronto. But what about really young filmmakers who aren’t in film school yet and aren’t, strictly speaking, even adults?
They are at the heart of Wingspan Arts Kids Film Festival, tomorrow, in a setting any director might envy: Lincoln Center. Complete with “red carpet” interviews and various awards, the festival has much in common with events for more experienced moviemakers, except for the age of the participants: about 8 to 18.
“What’s really exciting is that it’s film for kids by kids,” said Cori Gardner, managing director of Wingspan Arts, a nonprofit organization offering youth arts programs in the New York area. This year the festival will include films not only from Wingspan but also from other city organizations and one from a middle school in Arlington, Virginia. “We want to make this a national event,” Ms. Gardner added.
The nine shorts to be shown range from a Claymation biography of B. B. King to a science fiction adventure set in the year 3005. “A lot of the material is really mature,” Ms. Gardner said, talking about films by the New York City branch of Global Action Project, a media arts and leadership-training group. “The Choice is about the history of a family and Master Anti-Smoker is about the dangers of secondhand smoke.” Dream of the Invisibles describes young immigrants’(移民) feelings of both belonging and not belonging in their adopted country.
The festival will end with an open reception at which other films will be shown. These include a music video and a full-length film whose title is Pressures.
1. Wingspan Arts Kids Film Festival ______.
A. is organized by a middle school
B. is as famous as the Toronto Festival
C. shows films made by children
D. offers awards to film school students
2. Which of the following is true of Wingspan Arts?
A. It helps young filmmakers to make money.
B. It provides arts projects for young people.
C. It’s a media arts and leadership-training group.
D. It’s a national organization for young people.
3. The underlined word “shorts” in Paragraph 4 refers to ______.
A. short trousers B. short kids C. short films D. short stories
4. Movies to be shown in the festival ______.
A. cover different subjects
B. focus on kids’ life
C. are produced by Global Action Project
D. are directed by Ms. Gardner
5. At the end of this film festival, there will be ______.
A. various awards B. “red carpet” interviews
C. an open reception D. a concert at Lincoln Center
B
Federal regulators Wednesday approved a plan to create a nationwide emergency alert(警报) system using text messages delivered to cell phones.
Text messages have exploded in popularity in recent years, particularly among young people. The wireless industry’s trade association, CTIA, estimates(估计) more than 48 billion text messages are sent each month.
The plan comes from the Warning Alert and Response Network Act, a 2006 federal law that requires improvement to the nation’s emergency alert system. The act tasked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with coming up with new ways to alert the public about emergencies.
“The ability to deliver accurate and timely warnings and alerts through cell phones and other mobile services is an important next step in our efforts to help ensure that the American public has the information they need to take action to protect themselves and their families before, and during, disasters and other emergencies,” FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said following approval of the plan.
Participation in the alert system by carriers—telecommunications companies—is voluntary, but it has received solid support from the wireless industry.
The program would be optional for cell phone users. They also may not be charged for receiving alerts.
There would be three different types of messages, according to the rules.
The first would be a national alert from the president, likely involving a terrorist attack or natural disaster. The second would involve “approaching threats,” which could include natural disasters like hurricanes or storms or even university shootings. The third would be reserved for child abduction(绑架) emergencies, or so-called Amber Alerts.
The service could be in place by 2010.
6. What is the purpose of the approved plan?
A. To warn people of emergencies via messages.
B. To popularize the use of cell phones.
C. To estimate the monthly number of messages.
D. To promote the wireless industry.
7. The carriers’ participation in the system is determined by ______.
A. the US federal government
B. mobile phone users
C. the carriers themselves
D. the law of the United States
8. Which of the following is true of cell phone users?
A. They must accept the alert service.
B. They may enjoy the alert service for free.
C. They must send the alerts to others.
D. They may choose the types of messages.
9. An alert message will NOT be sent if ______.
A. a child loses his way
B. a university shooting happens
C. a natural disaster happens
D. a terrorist attack occurs
10. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Cell Phone Alerts Protecting Students
B. Cell Phone Alerts by Wireless Industry
C. Cell Phone Alerts of Natural Disasters
D. Cell Phone Alerts Coming Soon
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. ___________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10.__________
英语晚练（October 15）
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子
他好像已经完成作业了.(seem)
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他们出发时有充分的准备.(prepare)
When they set out, _________________________________________________
不是所有的孩子都吵吵闹闹的.
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正在和我父亲握手的那个人是一个警察.(定语从句)
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他们正在为自由和独立而斗争.(fight)
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Ⅱ. 语法填空
OSLO: Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a ___1___(last) peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East.
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 to Martti Ahtisaari for ___2___ important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, ___3___(resolve) international conflicts. These efforts have contributed ___4___ a more peaceful world and to 'fraternity(友爱) between nations'," the committee said in announcing the prize.
By selecting Ahtisaari, 71, for the prize, the Nobel committee returned its focus to ___5__(tradition) peace work ___6___ tapping climate campaigner Al Gore and the UN panel on climate change last year.
Ahtisaari ___7___(list) as a possible Nobel Peace Prize candidate since 2005 after he negotiated an end to a conflict ___8___ began more than 130 years ago by bringing together the Indonesian government and the ___9___(lead) of the separatist(分离主义者) guerrilla(游击队) movement in Aceh.
"He has also made constructive contributions to the resolution of conflicts in Northern Ireland, in Central Asia, ___10___ on the Horn of Africa," the citation said.
Speaking to NRK Norwegian TV, Ahtisaari said he was very pleased and grateful at receiving the prize.
The prize will be handed over in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death in 1896 of Swedish inventor and philanthropist(慈善家) Alfred Nobel.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
(A)
Something in chocolate could be used to stop coughs and lead to more effective medicines, say UK researchers.
Their study found that theobromine, found in cocoa, was nearly a third more effective in stopping coughs than codeine, which was considered the best cough medicine at present.
The Imperial College London researchers who published their results online said the discovery could lead to more effective cough treatments. “While coughing is not necessarily harmful（有害的）it can have a major effect on the quality of life, and this discovery could be a huge step forward in treating this problem,” said Professor Peter Barnes.
Ten healthy volunteers（志愿者）were given theobromine, codeine or a placebo, a pill that contains no medicine, during the experiment. Neither the volunteers nor the researchers knew who received which pill. The researchers then measured levels of capsaicin, which is used in research to cause coughing and as a sign of how well the medicines are stopping coughs.
The team found that, when the volunteers were given theobromine, the capsaicin needed to produce a cough was around a third higher than in the placebo group. When they were given codeine they needed only slightly higher levels of capsaicin to cause a cough compared with the placebo.
The researchers said that theobromine worked by keeping down a nerve activity（神经活动），which causes coughing. They also found that unlike some standard cough treatments, theobromine caused no side effects such as sleepiness.
1. According to Professor Barnes, theobromine .
A. cannot be as effective as codeine
B. can be harmful to people’s health
C. cannot be separated from chocolate
D. can be a more effective cure for coughs
2. What was used in the experiment to cause coughing?
A. Theobromine. B. Codeine. C. Capsaicin. D. Placebo.
3. We learn from the text that volunteers in the experiment .
A. were patients with bad coughs
B. were divided into three groups
C. received standard treatments
D. suffered little side effects.
4. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Codeine: A New Medicine B. Chocolate May Cure Coughs
C. Cough Treatment: A Hard Case D. Theobromine Can Cause Coughs
(B)
Attractions in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Historical Museum
30 N. Carroll Street on Madison’s Capitol Square
Discover Wisconsin’s history and culture（文化）on four floors of exhibits. Open for public programs. Admission is free.
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm.
(608)264-6555 www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum
Swiss Historical Village
612 Seventh Ave., New Glarus
The Swiss Historical Village offers a delightful look at pioneer life in America’s heartland. 14 buildings in the village give a full picture of everyday life in the nineteenth-century Midwest.
Tue.- Fri., May 1st – October 31st ,10:00 am – 4:00 pm. Admission is $20.
(608)527-2317 www.swisshistoricalvillage.com
Artisan Gallery & Creamery Cafe
6858 Paoli Rd., Paoli, WI
One of the largest collections of fine arts and crafts （手工艺品）in Wisconsin. Over 5000 sq. ft, of exhibition space in a historic creamery. While visiting, enjoy a wonderfully prepared lunch at our cafe overlooking the Sugar River. Just minutes from Madison!
Gallery open Tue. – Sun., 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
Cafe open Wed. – Sat., 11:00 am – 3:00 pm.
Sun. brunch with wine, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm.
(608)845-6600 www.artisangal.com
Christopher Columbus Museum
239 Whitney St., Columbus
World-class exhibit – 2000 quality souvenirs（纪念品）marking Chicago’s 1893 World
Columbian Exhibition. Tour buses are always welcome.
Open daily, 8:15 am – 4:00 pm.
(920)623-1992 www.columbusantiquemall.com
5. Which of the following is on Capitol Square?
A. Wisconsin Historical Museum.
B. Swiss Historical Village.
C. Artisan Gallery & Creamery Cafe
D. Christopher Columbus Museum.
6. Where can you go for a visit on Monday?
A. Wisconsin Historical Museum.
B. Swiss Historical Village.
C. Artisan Gallery & Creamery Cafe
D. Christopher Columbus Museum.
7. Where can visitors have lunch?
A. At Wisconsin Historical Museum.
B. At Swiss Historical Village
C. At Artisan Gallery & Creamery Cafe
D. At Christopher Columbus Museum.
8. We learn from the text that .
A. Swiss Historical Village is open for half a year
B. Christopher Columbus Museum overlooks a river
C. tickets are needed for Wisconsin Historical Museum
D. Artisan Gallery & Creamery Cafe are open daily for 4 hours
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________
5. __________ 6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________
英语晚练(October 8)
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
我无法想象没有了电的生活.(imagine)
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我搁不住别人的劝说, 参加了比赛.(persuade)
I allowed myself __________________________________________________
你熟悉他们使用的计算机软件(software)吗?(familiar)
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他坚持说他是无辜的(innocent).(insist)
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Ⅱ. 语法填空
A spokesman of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), or the central bank, said Saturday that China welcomed the passage(通过) of the massive US rescue plan and hoped that it would be implemented(实施) as soon as possible and achieve positive results.
"We are glad ___1___(see) the passage of the rescue bill by the House of Representatives and the Senate despite earlier twists and turns," the spokesman said.
"The Chinese government has been ___2___(close) following the developments of the US financial crisis and its impact. The US financial rescue plan proposed by the US government ___3___(be) a global focus recently," he said.
The spokesman made the remarks after the US House of Representatives approved overnight ___4___ revised bailout plan, ___5___ was immediately signed into law by President George W. Bush. The House on Monday rejected the ___6___(origin) rescue legislation, ___7___(send) global markets to plunge.
He also said China was willing to enhance(增强) coordination(配合) and cooperation ___8___ the US and other economies to overcome current difficulties and stabilize the international financial market.
The spokesman also said the fundamentals of the Chinese economy remained ___9___(change) and its financial market was safe and stable.
The Chinese economy was developing toward a direction guided by the government's macro-economic control policies and it had great potential for a sustainable(可持续的) ___10___(grow), he noted.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解.
(A)
There was a story many years ago of a school teacher--- Mrs. Thompson. She told the children on the first day that she loved them all the same. But that was a lie. There in the front row was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. He didn’t play well with the other children and he always needed a bath. She did not like him.
Then Mrs. Thompson got to know that Teddy was actually a very good boy before the death of his mother. Mrs. Thompson was ashamed of herself. She felt even worse when, like all her other students, Teddy brought her a Christmas present too. It was his mother’s perfume(香水)。
Teddy said, “Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mom used to.” After the children left she cried for at least an hour. On that very day, she stopped teaching reading, writing and math. Instead, she began to teach children.
Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. The boy’s mind seemed to come alive. The more she encouraged him, the faster he improved. By the end of the sixth grade, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class.
Six years went by before she got a note from Teddy. He wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole life. He went to college. Mrs. Thompson got two more letters from him with the last one signed, Theodore F. Stoddard, M. D.(医学博士).
The story doesn’t end there. On his wedding day, Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson’s ear, “Thank you, Mrs. Thompson, for believing in me. You made me feel important and showed me that I could make a difference.”
Mrs. Thompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back, “Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn’t know how to teach until I met you.”
1. What did Mrs. Thompson do on the first day of school?
A. She made Teddy feel ashamed.
B. She asked the children to play with Teddy.
C. She changed Teddy’s seat to the front row.
D. She told the class something untrue about herself.
2. What did Mrs. Thompson find out about Teddy?
A. He often told lies.
B. He was good at math.
C. He needed motherly care.
D. He enjoyed playing with others.
3. In what way did Mrs. Thompson change?
A. She taught fewer school subjects.
B. She became stricter with her students.
C. She no longer liked her job as a teacher.
D. She cared more about educating students.
4. Why did Teddy thank Mrs. Thompson at his wedding?
A. She had kept in touch with him.
B. She had given him encouragement.
C. She had sent him Christmas presents.
D. She had taught him how to judge people.
(B)
Most young architects—particularly those in big cities— can only dream about working in a building of their own. And making that dream come true often means finding a building no one else seems to want, which is exactly what happened to David Yocum and his partner, Brain Bell. Their building is a former automobile electrical-parts film in Atlanta. Form the outside, it looks too old, even something horrible, but open the door and you are in a wide, open courtyard, lined on three sides with rusting(生锈的)walls.
In 2000, Yocum and Bell found this building in the city’s West End. Built in 1947, the structure had been abandoned years earlier and the roof of the main building had fallen down. But the price was right, so Yocum bought it. He spent eight months of his off-hours on demolition(排除), pulling rubbish out through the roof, because it was too dangerous to go inside the building. The demolition was hard work, but it gave him time to think about what he wanted to do, and “to treasure what was there— the walls, the rust, the light.” Yocum said. “Every season, more paint falls off the walls and more rust develops. It’s like an art installation(装置) in there—a slow-motion show.”
Since the back building had been constructed without windows, an all-glass front was added to the building to give it a view of the courtyard, and skylights were installed in the roof. The back of the building is a working area and a living room for Yocum and his wife. A sort of buffer(缓冲) zone between the front and the back contains a bathroom, a kitchen and a mechanical room, and the walls that separate these zones have openings that allow views through to the front of the studio and the courtyard beyond.
Yocum and Bell, who have just completed an art gallery for the city, feel that the experience from the decoration of their building, focusing on the inside rather than the outside, has influenced their work. It has also given these architects a chance to show how they can make more out of less.
5. Yocum bought the old building because _____.
A. it was a bargain to him
B. it was still in good condition
C. it was located in the city center
D. it looked attractive from the outside
6. Working on the old building, Yocum and Bell _______.
A. pulled rubbish out through the roof
B. removed the skylights from the bathroom
C. presented a slow-motion show in an art gallery
D. built a kitchen at the back part of the old building
7. It can be inferred from the passage that Yocum and Bell _____.
A. benefited a lot from pulling down the roof
B. turned more old buildings into art galleries
C. got inspiration from decorating their old building
D. paid more attention to the outside of the art gallery
8. The main idea of the passage is that ______.
A. people can learn a lot from their failures.
B. it is worthwhile to spend money on an old building
C. people should not judge things by their appearance
D. creative people can make the best of what they have
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________
5. __________ 6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________
英语晚练（September 24）
Ⅰ. 语法填空
A fire at a club in Shenzhen of south China's Guangdong Province left at least 43 people ___1___ (die) and 88 others injured on Saturday night, local police said.
___2___ those injured, 51 people needed treatment and ___3___ (treat) in hospital. All were in stable condition, doctors said.
The fire broke ___4___ at about 11 p.m. at a club, ___5___ (name) "King of the Dancers," in Longgang District in Shenzhen City, when hundreds of people were watching a ___6___ (perform).
According to police's initial(最初的) investigation, the fire was triggered(导致) by fireworks ignited(燃烧) on the third floor of the club.
There was only a narrow aisle(走廊), about 10 meters ___7___ (length), in the hall. Many people got hurt in stampede(狂奔), said Yang Zhi, a club staff member ___8___ survived the fire.
"I saw people ___9___ (rush) out at about 11 p.m. and all the lights were off." Yang wetted his clothes and followed the others. He got burns on the neck.
The fire was put out at the night. Most of the injured were ___10___ audience, police said.
The province has set up a special working team for the case. An investigation has begun.
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
A
Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to pick up a passenger at 2:30 AM. When I arrived to collect, I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.
I walked to the door and knocked, “Just a minute,” answered a weak, elderly voice.
After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her eighties stood before me. By her side was a small suitcase.
I took the suitcase to the car, and then returned to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the car.
She kept thanking me for my kindness. “It’s nothing,” I told her. “I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother treated.”
“Oh, you’re such a good man.” She said. When we got into the taxi, she gave me an address, and then asked, “Could you drive through downtown?”
“It’s not the shortest way,” I answered quickly.
“Oh, I’m in no hurry,” she said. “I’m on my way to a hospice(临终医院). I don’t have any family left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”
I quietly reached over and shut off the meter(计价器).
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived, and the furniture shop that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to slow down in front of a particular building and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
At dawn, she suddenly said,” I’m tired. Let’s go now.”
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.
“How much do I owe you?” she asked.
“Nothing.” I said.
“You have to make a living,” she answered. “Oh, there are other passengers,” I answered.
Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly. Our hug ended with her remark, “You gave an old woman a little moment of joy.”
1. The old woman chose to ride through the city in order to ______.
A. show she was familiar with the city
B. see some places for the last time
C. let the driver earn more money
D. reach the destination on time
2. The taxi driver did not charge the old woman because he ______.
A. wanted to do her a favor
B. shut off the meter by mistake
C. had received her payment in advance
D. was in a hurry to take other passengers
3. What can we learn from the story?
A. Giving is always a pleasure.
B. People should respect each other.
C. An act of kindness can bring people great joy.
D. People should learn to appreciate others’ concern.
B
Domestic (驯养的) horses now pull ploughs, race in the Kentucky Derby, and carry police. But early horses weren’t tame (驯服的) enough to perform these kinds of tasks. Scientists think the first interactions humans had with horses were far different from those today.
Thousands of years ago, people killed the wild horses that lived around them for food. Over time, people began to catch the animals and raise them. This was the first step in domestication.
As people began to tame and ride horses, they chose to keep those animals that had more desirable characteristics. For example, people may have chosen to keep horses that had a gentle personality so they could be ridden more easily. People who used horses to pull heavy loads would have chosen to keep stronger animals. Characteristics like strength are partly controlled by the animals’ genes. So as the domesticated horses reproduced, they passed the characteristics on to their young. Each new generation of houses would show more of these chosen characteristics.
Modern day horse breeds come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. This variety didn’t exist in the horse population before domestication. The Shetland horse is one of the smallest breeds—typically reaching only one meter tall. With short, strong legs, the animals were bred to pull coal out of mine shafts (矿井) with low ceilings. Huge horses like the Clydesdale came on the scene around 1700. People bred these heavy, tall horses to pull large vehicles used for carrying heavy loads.
The domestication of horses has had great effects on societies. For example, horses were important tools in the advancement of modern agriculture. Using them to pull ploughs and carry heavy loads allowed people to farm more efficiently. Before they were able to ride horses, humans had to cross land on foot. Riding horses allowed people to travel far greater distance in much less time. That encouraged populations living in different areas to interact with one another. The new form of rapid transportation helped cultures spread around the world.
4. Before domestication horses were ______.
A. caught for sports
B. hunted for food
C. made to pull ploughs
D. used to carry people
5. The author uses the Shetland horse as an example to show ______.
A. it is smaller than the Clydesdale horse
B. horse used to have gentle personalities
C. some horses have worse shaped than others
D. horses were of less variety before domestication
6. Horses contributed to the spread of culture by ______.
A. carrying heavy loads
B. changing farming methods
C. serving as a means of transport
D. advancing agriculture in different areas
7. The passage is mainly about _______.
A. why humans domesticated horses
B. how humans and horses needed each other
C. why horses came in different shapes and sizes
D. how human societies and horses influenced each other
答题卷
班别____________ 姓名_____________ 学号______________
Ⅰ. 语法填空
1. __________ 2. _________ 3. __________ 4. _________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. _________ 8. __________ 9. _________ 10. __________
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
___________ 2. ___________ 3. __________
4. ___________ 5. ___________ 6. __________ 7. ___________
英语晚练（September 29）
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
当我走进他的房间时, 他正在批阅学生作业.(go through)
When I came into his room, _________________________________________.
青少年对摇滚音乐十分狂热.(crazy)
________________________________________________________________.
我们承认他是一位伟大的领袖.(recognize)
________________________________________________________________.
科学在发展农业中起重要作用.(play a part in)
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直到昨天他才回来.(强调句型)
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我们都关心她的安全.(concern)
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
Astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man ___1___ (walk) in space on Saturday, clambering（爬上） out of China's Shenzhou VII space craft in a technological feat（极好的技术） that made the Chinese people ___2___ (excite). "I'm feeling quite well. I greet the Chinese people and the people of the world," Zhai said as he climbed out of the craft at around 16:40 Beijing time, a?historic ___3___ (achieve) telecast（电视转播） live on CCTV. Zhai,?42, ___4___ (choose) by an expert team for the first "extra-vehicular activity," unveiled ___5___ red?national flag, helped by colleague Liu Boming, who also briefly popped his head out of the capsule. Zhai slowly made his way towards a test sample of solid lubricant（润滑的） outside the capsule, took a sample and handed it to Liu.
Zhai safely returned inside the craft ___6___ about 20 minutes. The walk marked the highpoint of China's third manned space journey, ___7___ has received widespread media coverage.
Zhai wore a $4.4 million Chinese-made suit weighing 120-kg. Zhai's suit has 10 layers and takes up ___8___ 15 hours to assemble and put on. Liu wore a Russian-made one and acted ___9___ a back-up. The third crew member, Jing Haipeng, monitored the ship from inside the re-entry module. China's first manned spaceflight was in 2003. A second, two-manned flight followed in 2005. The only other countries that ___10___ (send) people into space are Russia and the United States. Shenzhou VII took off on Thursday and is due to land on the northern steppes of Inner Mongolia on Sunday.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place
Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically（身体上）.
Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale（秤）instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.
On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.
The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.
Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.
1. From Paragraph 1, we learn that ________.
A. diet products fail to bring out people’s potential
B. people have difficulty in choosing diet products
C. diet products are misleading people
D. people are fed up with diet products
2. One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to _____.
A. try out a variety of diet foods
B. hesitate before they enjoy diet foods
C. pay attention to their own eating habits
D. watch their weight rather than their diet
3. In Paragraph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means ______.
A. losing weight is effortless
B. it costs a lot to lose weight
C. diet products bring no pain
D. diet products are free from calories
74. Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.
A. are over-consumed
B. lack basic nutrients
C. are short of chemicals
D. provide too much energy
75. Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
英语晚练（September, 17）
Ⅰ. 语法填空
SHIJIAZHUANG -- China diary giant Sanlu Group apologized to the public on Monday ___1___ its contaminated(被污染了的) milk powder which ___2___ (sicken)1,253 babies with kidney stones, two fatally. Zhang Zhenling, Sanlu's vice president, read a letter of ___3___(apologize) at a news briefing on Monday afternoon here in Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei Province, ___4___ the corporation is based. "The serious ___5___(safe) accident of the Sanlu formula milk powder for infants has caused severe harm to many sickened babies and their families. We feel really sad about this," he said ___6___ reading the letter to reporters. According to the Ministry of Health, the powder was found to contain melamine, ___7___ chemical raw material ___8___(believe) to cause the condition. It said most of the cases occurred in Hebei, Jiangsu and Gansu provinces. The two deaths were both in the northwest Gansu Province. "We solemnly declare we will recall all the infant milk powder produced prior to(在……之前) August 6," Zhang said. "And for those produced ___9___ that date, we will also make a recall ___10___ consumers have doubts and worries."
Ⅱ.阅读理解
（A）
Parents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when Mr. Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenagers.
"I would never have said to my mom, 'Hey, the new Weezer album is really great. How do you like it?'" says Ballmer. "There was just a complete gap in taste."
Music was not the only gulf. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to revolve in separate orbits.
Today, the generation gap has not disappeared, but it is getting narrow in many families . Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago. Now they are comfortable and common. And parent-child activities from shopping to sports, involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood.
No wonder greeting cards today carry the message. "To my mother, my best friend."
But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents.
"There's still a lot of strictness and authority on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening," says Kerrie, a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College. "In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion among parents."
Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes. They see the 1960s as a turning point. Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic process that encourages everyone to have a say.
"My parents were on the 'after' side," explains Mr.Ballmer. "It's not something easily accomplished by parents these days, because life is more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now."
1. The underlined word gulf in Para. 3 most probably means _______.
A. interest
B. distance
C. difference
D. separation
2. The change in today’s parent-child relationship is _______.
A. more confusion among parents
B. new equality between parents and children.
C. less respect for parents from children.
D. more strictness and authority on the part of parents.
3. By saying “today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the “after” side”, the author means that today’s parents _______.
A. follow the trend of the change
B. can set a limit to the change
C. fail to take the change seriously
D. have little difficulty adjusting to change
4. The purpose of the passage is to ________.
A. describe the difficulties today’s parents have met with
B. discuss the development of the parent-child relationship
C. suggested the ways to handle the parent-child relationship
D. compare today’s parent-child relationship with that in the past.
(B)
Sometimes you’ll hear people say that you can’t love others until you love yourself. Sometimes you’ll hear people say that you can’t expect someone else to love you until you love yourself. Either way, you’ve got to love yourself first and this can be tricky. Sure we all know that we’re the apple of our parents’ eyes, and that our Grandmas think we’re great talents and our Uncle Roberts think that we will go to the Olympics, but sometimes it’s a lot harder to think such nice thoughts about ourselves. If you find that believing in yourself is a challenge, it is time you build a positive self-image and learn to love yourself.
Self-image is your own mind’s picture of yourself. This image includes the way you look, the way you act, the way you talk and the way you think. Interestingly, our self-images are often quite different from the images others hold about us. Unfortunately, most of these images are more negative than they should be. Thus changing the way you think about yourself is the key to changing your self-image and your whole world.
The best way to defeat a passive self-image is to step back and decide to stress your successes. That is, make a list if you need to, but write down all of the great things you do every day. Don’t allow doubts to occur in it.
It very well might be that you are experiencing a negative self-image because you can’t move past one flaw or weakness that you see about yourself. Well, roll up your sleeves and make a change of it as your primary task. If you think you’re silly because you aren’t good at math, find a tutor. If you think you’re weak because you can’t run a mile, get to the track and practice. If you think you’re dull because you don’t wear the latest trends, buy a few new clothes. But remember, just because you think it doesn’t mean it’s true.
The best way to get rid of a negative self-image is to realize that your image is far from objective, and to actively convince yourself of your positive qualities. Changing the way you think and working on those you need to improve will go a long way towards promoting a positive self-image. When you can pat (拍) yourself on the back, you’ll know you’re well on your way. Good luck!
5. You need to build a positive self-image when you ____.
A. dare to challenge yourself
B. feel it hard to change yourself
C. are unconfident about yourself
D. have a high opinion of yourself
6. According to the passage, our self-images _____.
A. have a positive effects
B. are probably fixed
C. are often changeable
D. have different functions
7. How should you change your self-image according to the passage?
A. To keep a different image of others.
B. To make your life successful.
C. To understand your own world.
D. To change the way you think.
8. What is the passage mainly about?
A. How to prepare for your success.
B. How to face challenges in you life.
C. How to build a positive self-image.
D. How to develop your good qualities.
9. Who are the intended readers of the passage?
A. Parents.
B. Adolescents.
C. Educators.
D. People in general.
答题卷
班别____________ 姓名_____________ 学号______________
Ⅰ. 语法填空
1. __________ 2. _________ 3. __________ 4. _________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. _________ 8. __________ 9. _________ 10. __________
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
___________ 2. ___________ 3. __________ 4. ___________
5. ___________ 6. ___________ 7. __________ 8. ___________
9. ___________
英语晚练（September, 3）
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
1. 汤姆很帅, 因此很受女孩子欢迎.(popular)
Tom is so handsome ____________________________________.
2. 一辆汽车是有许多不同的零部件组成的.(make up)
A car ________________________________________________.
3. 你要负责保持房间内的整洁.(responsible)
_____________________________________________________.
4. 我们已经在这旅馆预定了三个房间.(reservation)
We __________________________________________ at the hotel.
Ⅱ. 语法填空.
HONG KONG - The visiting Chinese gold medalists displayed their superb sports skills again in Hong Kong on Saturday morning, ___1___ performance impressed over 5,000 Hong Kong spectators face ___2___ face as well as tens of thousands of viewers through TV live broadcasts.
The enthusiasm for the Olympic Games was rekindled（使……再燃） in Hong Kong as Chinese mainland's Olympic gold medalists on Saturday made their ___3___(appear) and met the public. ___4___ part of their visit to Hong Kong, the delegation of Chinese mainland's Olympic gold medalists put on demonstrations of table tennis, badminton, diving and gymnastics.
More than 5,000 people watched their performance at the four venues（会场） of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong government, ___5___ tens of thousands of viewers watched the TV live broadcasts at home or elsewhere.
The gold medalists also had exchanges with young Hong Kong athletes. Some of the participants, ___6___(select) by drawing lots, took part in the sports-for-fun sessions with the medalists in table tennis, badminton and gymnastics.
The delegation, ___7___(include) 63 gold medalists from the Beijing Olympic Games, took part in the flag-raising ceremony at the Golden Bauhinia Square on Saturday morning.
The delegation will leave ___8___ Macao on Sunday afternoon ___9___ they visit Disneyland and ___10___ Ocean Park, two of Hong Kong's famous theme parks.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解.
(A)
The African elephant, the largest land animal remaining on earth, is of great importance?to African ecosystem(生态系统). Unlike other animals, the African elephant is to a great extent the builder of its environment. As a big plant-eater, it largely shapes the forest-and-savanna(大草原)surroundings in which it lives, therefore setting the terms of existence for millions of other animals that live in its habitat(栖息地).
It is the elephant's great desire for food that makes it a disturber of the environment and an important builder of its habitat. In its continuous search for the 300 pounds of plants it must have every day, it kills small trees and underbushes, and pulls branches off big trees. This results in numerous open spaces in both deep tropical forests and in the woodlands that cover part of
the African savannas. In these open spaces are numerous plants in various stages of growth that attract a variety of other plant-eaters.
Take the rain forests for example. In their natural state, the spreading branches overhead shut out sunlight and prevent the growth of plants on the forest floor. By pulling down trees and eating plants, elephants make open spaces, allowing new plants to grow on the forest floor. In such situations, the forests become suitable for large hoofed plant-eaters to move around and for small plant-eaters to get their food as well.
What worries scientists now is that the African elephant has become an endangered species. If the elephant disappears, scientists say, many other animals will also disappear?from vast areas of forest and savanna, greatly changing and worsening the whole ecosystem.
1. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Disappearance of African elephants.
B. Forests and savannas as habitats for African elephants.
C. The effect of African elephants' search for food.
D. The eating habit of African elephants.
2. What does the underlined phrase “setting the terms” most probably mean?
A. Fixing the time. B. Worsening the state.
C. Improving the quality. D. Deciding the conditions.
3. What do we know about the open spaces in the passage?
A. They result from the destruction of rain forests.
B. They provide food mainly for African elephants.
C. They are home to many endangered animals.
D. They are attractive to plant-eating animals of different kinds.
(B)
Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change-to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.
Landscape(风景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.
Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests.
To?sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods. Over thousands of years the fun_ction of the arts has remained relatively constant.?Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.
4. Leslie's paintings are extraordinary because .
A. they are close in style to works in ancient times
B. they look like works by 19th-century painters
C. they draw attention to common things in life
D. they depend heavily on color photography
5. What is the author's opinion of artistic reality?
A. It will not be found in future works of art.
B. It does not have a long-lasting standard.
C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.
D. It is lacking in modern works of art.
6. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?
A. They express people's curiosity about the past.
B. They make people interested in everyday experience.
C. They are considered important for variety in form.
D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.
7. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A. History of the arts.
B. Basic questions of the arts.
C. New developments in the arts.
D. Use of modern technology in the arts.
答题卷
班别____________ 姓名_____________ 学号______________
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
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Ⅱ. 语法填空
1. __________ 2. _________ 3. __________ 4. _________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. _________ 8. __________ 9. _________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
___________ 2. ___________ 3. __________
4. ___________ 5. ___________ 6. __________ 7. ___________
课件2张PPT。to deposit your valuables
2. Your mother seemed(s)/appeared(s)
to have known the truth.
It seemed(s) that your mother had(have)
known the truth.
3. in good/high spirits
4. to secure the company’s future/the future
of the company
for securing …
that/ which secured/will secure …5. that/which could not be foreseen by its
inventor(s)
(that/which) its inventor(s) could not
foreseebut/while
the
on
turning
performers6. which
7. with
8. perfection
9. have witnessed/
witnessed
10. their1---3 CAB 4---7 ABCD英语晚练（August，27）
Ⅰ.根据意思完成句子
建议你把贵重物品存到旅馆的保险箱里.(deposit)
You are advised ___________________________ in the hotel safe.
看来你妈妈已经知道真相了.(动词不定式)
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我们兴高采烈地踏上旅途.(spirit)
We started our journey ______________________.
这是为保障公司前途的交易.(secure)
This is a deal _____________________________.
这种方法以其发明者无法预见的各种方式得到运用.(foresee)
The method was used in ways ______________________________________.
Ⅱ. 语法填空
The competitions are over and the party begins. All medals were given out ---1--- the memory stays. In a lavish closing ceremony illuminated(照亮) by a fireworks extravaganza（盛大的表演）, the world's top athletes joined their Chinese hosts to celebrate ---2--- success of the 29th summer Olympic Games ---3--- Sunday night.
When the Olympic flame, after 16 days of burning in the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, in north Beijing, went out at 9:24 p.m. Sunday, a gala of songs and dances was staged in the stadium, ---4--- (turn) the ceremony into a big party.
Surrounded by several thousand Olympians, all in casual wear and jubilant（喜悦的） mood, nearly 3,000 Chinese ---5--- (perform) and volunteers started a spectacular circle dance, around a 20-meter-tall "Memory Tower," ---6--- resembled the heaven-reaching Babel.
The over-two-hour closing ceremony started at 8 p.m. ---7--- splendid fireworks forming a huge circle, a symbol of ---8--- (perfect), harmony and endlessness in the Chinese culture, over the Bird's Nest.
These Games ---9--- (witness)the rise of Asia, as China, with home advantages for its athletes, topped the gold medal table with a record of 51 golds, 15 more than the second-placed United States, and Mongolia and Bahrain celebrated ---10--- first ever Olympic gold in wild ecstasy（狂喜）.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
(A)
The very wealthy English Baron Fitzgerald had only one child, a son, who understandably was the apple of his eye. His wife died when the child was in his early teens.
So Fitzgerald devoted himself to fathering the kid. Unfortunately the son died in his late teens.
Meanwhile, Fitzgerald's wealth greatly increased. He spent a lot on art works of the masters. Later Fitzgerald himself became seriously ill. Before his death, he had carefully prepared his will as to how his wealth would be settled-to sell his entire collection at an auction(拍卖）. Because of the large quantity and high quality of his collection, a huge crowd of possible buyers gathered for the auction. Many of them were museum directors and private collectors eager to bid（出价）. Before the auction, the art works were shown, among which was a
?painting of Fitzgerald's son by an unknown artist. Because of its poor quality, it received little attention.
When it was time for the auction, the auctioneer gaveled（敲槌）the crowd to attention. First the lawyer read from Fitzgerald's will that the first art work to be auctioned was the painting of his son.
The poor-quality painting didn't receive any bidders, except one-the old servant who?had served the son and loved him, and who for emotional reasons offered the only bid. As soon as the servant bought the painting for less than one English pound, the auctioneer stopped the bidding and asked the lawyer to read again from the will. The crowd became quiet, and the lawyer read from the will: “Whoever buys the painting of my son gets all my collection. ”Then the auction was over.
1. The English Baron Fitzgerald was __________.
A. a museum director B. a master of art
C. an art collector D. an art dealer
2. Why did the old servant bid for the painting of Fitzgerald's son?
A. He was devoted to the family. B. He saw that no one bid for it.
C. He knew the content of the will. D. He found it cheap for him to buy.
3. Fitzgerald's will showed __________.
A. his desire to fool the bidders
B. his invaluable love for his son
C. his sadness at the death of his son
D. his regret of having no children to take over his wealth
(B)
Dear all,
Please read Professor Hume's email about his next lecture on Rosa Parks.
Susan Miller
Secretary
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Dear Susan,
Please forward this message to students of my history class.
Besides the life story of Rosa Parks in the textbook, the students are also required to read the passage below and some related stories that can be borrowed from the school library.
Ted Hume
The early experiences of Rosa Parks(1913-2005), long known as the “mother of the civil rights?movement, ”were not different from those of many African-Americans at that time. The black woman, however, turned the course of American history in December 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. “By sitting down, ”remarked John Lewis, “she was standing up for all Americans. ”
Among the numerous awards Parks received in her life were the Presidential Medal of Freedom(1996)and the Congressional Gold Medal(1999).
Parks died on Oct. 24, 2005. At St. Paul A. M. E. Church in Montgomery, a large crowd including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice celebrated her life. Rice said she and others, who grew up when the political activities of Parks held public attention, might not have?realized her impact(影响)on their lives, “but I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here as Secretary of State. ”
After her casket(灵柩)was placed at the Capitol, U. S. President Bush, members of Congress and ordinary Americans paid their respects. In American history Parks is the first woman to lie in state at the Capitol, a very high regard usually reserved for Presidents of the United States.
4. What is the main purpose of Susan’s email?
A. To make arrangements for Professor Hume's class.
B. To introduce to the students Rosa Parks.
C. To help the students organize a lecture.
D. To answer Professor Hume's last email.
5. What does the underlined word “forward” mean?
A. Explain. B. Send. C. Take. D. Read.
6. The political impact of Rosa Parks lies in the fact that she .
A. helped Condoleezza Rice achieve political success
B. joined the civil rights movement at a young age
C. made racial equality a common value in American society
D. set a good example in her early life for other black Americans
7. How was Rosa Parks treated after her death?
A. She was named “mother of the civil rights movement. ”
B. She was received by President Bush at the Capitol.
C. She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
D. She was honored to lie in state at the Capitol.
答题卷
班别____________ 姓名_____________ 学号______________
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
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Ⅱ. 语法填空
1. __________ 2. _________ 3. __________ 4. _________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. _________ 8. __________ 9. _________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
___________ 2. ___________ 3. __________
4. ___________ 5. ___________ 6. __________ 7. ___________
英语晚练（Dec. 10）
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子
我们应该把钱花在大家都能得益的事上.(定语从句和benefit)
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沉迷于赌博(gambling), 所以他现在负债累累.(in debt)
_____________________________________________________________
他发给每个到会的人一份礼物.(宾语从句)
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参观者请勿拍照.(permit)
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Ⅱ. 语法填空
GUANGZHOU - Sun Xiaogang is more familiar ___1___ studying the works of famous Chinese writers such as Lu Xun, ___2___ now he is swotting(刻苦) up on how to make the best cuts of pork.
Sun was one of 35 postgraduates ___3___(hire) by Guangdong Tiandi Food Group who worked in markets throughout the city.
The postgraduate student majoring in Chinese literature at Guangzhou's Sun Yat-sen University, ___4___ (graduate) from the school in the summer of next year.
To win the post, Sun sold pork in the market for three days.
The 35 successful applicants signed ___5___(agree) with the company on Thursday, meaning that they can ___6___(formal) start working as soon as they complete their studies.
After they start work, they still need to sell pork in markets for at least two months, a manager at the company Lin said.
"This is training for all of our new ___7___(employ)," she said.
After the two months, they will be appointed to managerial(管理方面的) posts, ___8___(earn) between 80,000 yuan ($12,000) and 100,000 yuan a year, she said.
Sun said he did not mind having to work in the market ___9___ a pork seller, given the current poor state of the job market. In addition, the firm has offered him a great opportunity, he said.
Li Xiaolu, director of Guangdong education department last month warned students ___10___ are going to graduate from college and graduate school next year that the job market they will face will be the toughest in three decades.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely----a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “Creative voice.”
“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”
Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a short-story collection.
1. Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?
A. She had seven brothers.
B. She felt herself a nobody.
C. She was too shy to go to school.
D. She did not have any good teachers.
2. The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _____.
A. work for a school magazine
B. run away from her family
C. make a lot of friends
D. develop her writing style
3. According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success?
A. Her early years in college.
B. Her training in the Workshop.
C. Her feeling of being different.
D. Her childhood experience.
4. What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?
A. It is quite popular among students.
B. It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.
C. It wasn’t success as it was written in Spanish.
D. It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________
英语晚练(Dec.17)
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
所有的学生突然大笑起来.(explode)
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这场旱灾对庄稼造成了很大的危害.(harm)
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看来我好像之前在某个地方见过他.(seem)
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他们赢了比赛的消息很快就传遍了整个学校.(同位语从句)
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Ⅱ语法填空
Dogs are prone(易于……的) to complex emotions such as jealousy and pride, according to scientific research that sheds new light on their relationship ___1___ humans.
Canines(犬科动物) do not like seeing their owners offering affection to ___2___ creatures, especially other dogs, and react negatively when their ___3___(own) bring home new partners, the research found.
Psychologists previously believed most animals lack the "sense of self" needed to experience so-called secondary emotions such as jealousy, ___4___(embarrass), or guilt. These emotions are ___5___ complex than feelings associated with instant reaction – such as anger, or joy.
Dr Friederike Range, of the University of Vienna's neurobiology department, has shown that dogs feel intense jealously when they spot that they are unfairly treated ___6___ (compare) with other dogs.
The dog study is the latest into several species, ___7___ (include) cows, horses, cats and sheep, ___8___ have shown that animals are far more self-aware than was thought.
Dr Paul Morris, ___9___ psychologist at the University of Portsmouth who studies animal emotions, told The Sunday Times: "We are learning that dogs, horses, and perhaps many other species are far more emotionally complex than we ever ___10___ (realize). "
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively（被动地）. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.
We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.
Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor(谣言).
Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed.
That’s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping（打上标记）it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.
This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.
1. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in _______.
A. doing a medical experiment
B. solving a math problem
C. visiting an exhibition
D. doing scientific reasoning
2. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.
A. active learning
B. knowledge
C. communication
D. passive learning
3. The author mentions the game Rumor to show that _____.
A. a message may be changed when being passed on
B. a message should be delivered in different ways
C. people may have problems with their sense of hearing
D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor
4. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Active learning is less important.
B. Passive learning may not be reliable.
C. Active learning occurs more frequently.
D. Passive learning is not found among scholars.
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________
英语晚练（Dec. 3）
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
他的成就赢得人们的尊敬和仰慕。(earn)
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她像母亲一样爱这个孩子.(as if)
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直到你符合了这些条件, 你才能申请这个工作。(satisfy)
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由于他对世界和平的贡献, 他获得了诺贝尔奖.(the Nobel Prize).(award)
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
The world's oldest person, ___1___ Indiana woman, died on Wednesday at the age of 115, according ___2___ a gerontology(老年学) expert.
"Ms. Edna Parker of Indiana, the world's oldest person for a number of years, passed ___3___ at the age of 115 years, 220 days," Stephen Coles, a gerontologist at the University of California in Los Angeles, said on the website of the Gerontology Research Group.
Parker, a former school teacher who was born on April 20, 1893, died ___4___(peace) at the Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville, Indiana, the local newspaper reported. A photo of Parker, ___5___(dress) in a blue dress with a flower corsage（胸前花饰）, graced（使。。。。。。生辉） the front page of The Shelbyville News.
Parker and her husband, who died of a heart attack ___6___ she was 48, had two sons.
Parker ___7___(list) in the Guinness Book of World Records ___8___ the oldest person alive. The nursing home ___9___ she lived was also the home of Sandy Allen, who was listed as the world's tallest woman.
The oldest ___10___(live) person is now 115-year-old Maria de Jesus of Portugal, who was born on September 10, 1893.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解.
Melissa Poe was 9 years old when she began a campaign for a cleaner environment by writing a letter to the then President Bush. Through her own efforts, her letter was reproduced on over 250 donated billboards(广告牌) across the country.
The response to her request for help was so huge that Poe established Kids For A Cleaner Environment (Kids F.A.C.E.) in 1989. There are now 300,000 members of Kids F.A.C.E. worldwide and it is the world’s largest youth environmental organization.
Poe has also asked the National Park Service to carry out a “Children’s Forest” project in every national park. In 1992, she was invited as one of only six children in the world to speak at the Earth Summit in Brazil as part of the Voices of the Future Program. In 1993, she was given a Caring Award for her efforts by the Caring Institute.
Since the organization started, Kids F.A.C.E. members have distributed and planted over 1 million trees! Ongoing tree-planting projects include Kid’s Yards—the creation of backyard wildlife habitats(栖息地)—and now Kids F.A.C.E. is involved in the exciting Earth Odyssey, which is a great way to start helping.
“Starting the club turned out to be a way to help people get involved with the environment. Club members started doing things like recycling, picking up litter and planting trees as well as inviting other kids to join their club.”
“We try to tell kids that it’s not OK to be lazy,” she explains. “You need to start being a responsible, environmentally friendly person now, right away, before you become a resource-sucking adult.”
1.. Kids F.A.C.E. is ______.
A. a program to help students with writing
B. a project of litter recycling
C. a campaign launched by President Bush
D. an organization of environmental protection
2. What can we learn about Poe?
A. She was awarded a prize in Brazil.
B. She donated billboards across the country.
C. She got positive responses for her efforts.
D. She joined the National Park Service.
3. Kid’s Yards is ______.
A. established in a national park
B. started to protect wildlife
C. a wildlife-raising project.
D. an entertainment park for kids
4. Which of the following can be inferred from the text?
A. Adults are resource-sucking people.
B. Poe sought help from a youth organization.
C. Kids F.A.C.E. members are from the U.S.
D. Kids are urged to save natural resources.
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________
英语晚练（Nov.26）
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
她不适合吃太多肉.(disagree)
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这项税收将对低收入人士有什么影响?(affect/effect)
_______________________________________people on low incomes.
有很多衣服要洗, 她不得不留在家里.(with结构)
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你本来应该在实验中更加小心.
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Ⅱ. 语法填空
A week after a subway tunnel(隧道) ___1___ construction collapsed in east China's Zhejiang Province, the confirmed ___2___(dead) toll has risen to 12, with another nine people still missing.
More than 400 rescuers continued to remove sludge(烂泥) from the tunnel in search of the ___3___(remain) nine people -- all of ___4___ were believed dead by now, said a rescue worker.
"We are crossing fingers hoping the weather won't hamper(妨碍) our work," he said, without giving his name. The weather forecast said Hangzhou was in for rain Saturday night.
"It's already very difficult ___5___(remove) the sludge -- could be worse if rainwater floods the tunnel," said a spokesman for the Fourth Bureau of the China Civil Engineering Group Co. Ltd, the company that ___6___(build) the subway.
The tragedy began ___7___ a 75-m section of the subway tunnel at the ___8___(plan) Xianghu Station in the suburbs of Hangzhou collapsed last Saturday afternoon.
___9___ the 21 people who were dead or missing, 24 others were injured in the accident. A total of 11 construction workers are still in hospital.
The State Council Work Safety Committee said in a report issued on Wednesday that inadequate local government surveillance(监督)and poor construction safety ___10___(manage) were to blame for the accident.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked DeLuca about his plans for the future. “I’m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,” DeLuca recalls saying. “Buck said, ‘You should open a sandwich ship.’”
That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1,000. DeLuca rented a storefront(店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn’t cover their start-up costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.
But business didn’t go smoothly as they expected. DeLuca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn’t know how badly, because we didn’t have any financial controls.” All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.
Deluca was managing the store and going to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They’d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. “We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, ‘We are so successful, we are opening a second store.’” And they did—in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error.
But the partners’ learn-as-you-go approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, DeLuca would drive around and hand-deliver the checks to pay their suppliers. “It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn’t necessary, but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out,” DeLuca says.
And having a goal was also important. “There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal,” DeLuca adds.
DeLuca ended up founding Subway Sandwich, the multimillion-dollar restaurant chain.
1. DeLuca opened the first sandwich shop in order to ______.
A. support his family B. pay for his college education
C. help his partner expand business D. do some research
2. Which of the following is true of Buck?
A. He put money into the sandwich business.
B. He was a professor of business administration.
C. He was studying at the University of Bridgeport.
D. He rented a storefront for DeLuca.
3. What can we learn about their first shop?
A. It stood at an unfavorable place.
B. It lowered the prices to promote sales.
C. It made no profits due to poor management.
D. It lacked control over the quality of sandwiches.
4. They decided to open a second store because they ______.
A. had enough money to do it
B. had succeeded in their business
C. wished to meet the increasing demand of customers
D. wanted to make the pubilc believe that they were successful
5. What contributes most to their success according to the author?
A. Learning by trial and error.
B. Making friends with suppliers.
C. Finding a good partner.
D. Opening chain stores.
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. ___________
英语晚练（Nov 12）
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子
你曾答应我你绝不再迟到, 但令我失望的是,你没有守诺言.(promise)
___________________________________, but to my disappointment, ___________________________________________________________.
小孩子通常都会在母亲面前争宠.(compete)
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和许多其他的孩子一样, 我喜欢流行音乐胜过古典音乐.(common)
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她的父母不让她嫁那个家里很穷的年轻人.(定语从句)
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Ⅱ. 语法填空
Barack Hussein Obama，___1___(bear) in August 4, 1961, is the President-elect(已当选而未就任的总统) of the United States. Obama is the first African American President of the United States.
He is a ___2___(graduation) of Columbia University and Harvard Law School ___3___ he was president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights lawyer before ___4___(serve) three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an ___5___(success) bid for ___6___ seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003, won a primary victory in March 2004, ___7___ was elected to the Senate in November 2004.
___8___ a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional（常见的） weapons and to promote greater public accountability（负有责任） in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
On February 10, 2007, he announced his candidacy for President of the United States, and on June 3, 2008, he ___9___(name) the nominee（被提名人）of the Democratic Party after a 17-month-long primary campaign. He became the President-elect ___10___ defeating Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the general election on November 4, 2008, and is due to be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
(A)
Kathy started at my nursery school at the age of three. She settled into the group easily, and would be first on the slide and highest up the climbing frame. She could put on her coat without help and not only fasten her own buttons but other children’s too.
She was a lovely child but unfortunately a scratcher. If anyone upset her or stood in her way, her right hand would flash out fast and scratch down the face of her playmates. Children twice her age would fly in fear from her.
This must have been very rewarding for Kathy but obviously it had to be stopped. All the usual ways failed and then I remembered an account by G Atkinson Highfield School, of how fights in the playground had been stopped. No punishment had been given, but the attacker had been ignored and the victims rewarded. So I decided to try out on Kathy.
With a pocketful of Smarties I followed Kathy around. She was so quick that it was impossible to prevent her scratching, but I was determined to stay within arm’s length all afternoon.
All was peaceful but then I saw Kathy’s hand moved and heard the scream. Gently I gathered up the little hurt one in my arms and said “Nice, nice sweetie” and then looked puzzled when she got nothing.
Soon came another scream, this time from John. While holding him in my arms, I said, “Look, Kathy, a nice Smartie for John” and put it into John’s mouth.
A smile of understanding flashed across Kathy’s face. Minutes later, she came to me and said loudly, “Give me a Smartie! I have hurt my finger!”
“No,” I replied, “you’ll get it if someone hurts you.”
On purpose, she turned and scratched a nearby boy, Tom, and waited quietly while I mothered and rewarded him, then she walked away. She has never scratched a child since.
Parents who find older children bullying younger brothers and sisters might do well to replace shouting and punishment by rewarding and giving more attention to the injured ones. It’s certainly much easier and more effective.
1. From the passage, we know that Kathy is _______.
A. sensitive but slow
B. smart but a bit rude
C. independent but selfish
D. quick but sort of passive.
2. Kathy scratched Tom because _______.
A. she was angry at Tom, who was in her way
B. she wanted to get a Smartie from the teacher
C. she was in the habit of scratching other children
D. she wanted to know if the teacher meant what she had said
3. According to the passage, the underlined word “bullying” is closest in meaning to“_______”.
A. helping
B. punishing
C. hurting
D. protecting
4. The writer of this passage aims to recommend an approach to _______.
A. rewarding children’s good behavior
B correcting children’s bad behavior
C. punishing badly-behaved children
D. praising well-behaved children
(B)
People believe that climbing can do good to health. Where can you learn the skill of climbing then? If you think that you have to go to the mountains to learn how to climb, you’re wrong. Many Americans are learning to climb in city gyms(体育馆). Here, people are learning climbing. The climbing wall goes straight up and small holding places for hands and feet.
How do people climb the wall? To climb, you need special shoes and (保护带) around your chest to hold you. There are ropes(绳索)tied to you. The ropes hold you in place so that you don’t fall. A beginner’s wall is usually about 15 feet high, and you climb straight up. There are small pieces of metal that stick out for you to stand on and hold on to. Sometimes it’s easy to see the new piece of metal. Sometimes, it’s not. The most difficult is an your fear. It’s normal for humans to be afraid of falling, so it’s difficult not to feel fear. But when you move away from the wall, the ropes hold you, and you begin to feel safe. You move slowly until you reach the top.
Climbing attracts people because it’s good exercise for almost everyone. You use your whole body, especially your arms and legs. This sport gives your body a complete workout. When you climb, both your mind and your body can become stronger.
5. What can we infer from the passage?
A. People are fairly interested in climbing nowadays.
B. It is impossible to build up one’s body by climbing.
C. People can only learn the skill of climbing outdoors.
D. It is always easy to see holding places in climbing.
6. The most difficult thing to do in wall climbing is _______.
A. to tie ropes to your B. to control your fear
C. to move away from the wall D. to climb straight up
7. The word “workout” underlined in the last paragraph most probably means _________.
A. settlement B. exercise C. excitement D. tiredness
8. Why does the author write this passage?
A. To tell people where to find gyms.
B. To prove the basic need for climbing
C. To encourage people to climb mountains.
D. introduce the sport of wall climbing
答题卷
班别 ____________ 姓名____________ 学号 _______________
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
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Ⅱ. 语法填空.
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. __________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________ 4. __________
5. __________ 6. __________ 7. __________ 8. __________
英语晚练（September， 10）
Ⅰ. 根据意思完成句子.
此教堂建于罗马时代.(date)
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自1980年以来一直有大规模的发展.(scale)
There has been development _______________________________ since 1980.
我想借此机会祝你旅途愉快.(opportunity)
I would like _______________________________wish you a good trip.
14岁以下的儿童必须有成人陪同.(accompany)
Children under 14 ________________________________________________.
我父亲把诚实看得比什么都重要.(value)
My father ___________________________beyond all else.
这意外导致了两名乘客死亡.(result)
The accident ________________________________ of two passengers.
你对出国工作的主意感兴趣吗?(appeal)
__________________________________________________________________
她穿这一件漂亮的晚礼服去参加这舞会.(dress)
She went to the ball, ________________________________________________
Ⅱ. 语法填空.
The 6.1-magnitude quake rocked the mountainous Sichuan-Yunnan border region on August 30, killing 38 people and injuring 982. The epicenter of the quake was near Panzhihua city, about 550 km south of the May 12 Wenchuan quake's epicenter.
The area is mountainous, making transport a time-consuming affair. Hence, reaching construction material there poses ___1___ challenge, too.
___2___, the quake-hit Sichuan-Yunnan border area is not short ___3___ food or clothes, Pang told a press conference, ___4___(organize) by the State Council Information Office. Instead, providing proper shelter before winter is "the problem".
About 532,000 houses, made ___5___(most) of wood and mud, were destroyed or damaged in the quake, leaving about 1.2 million people in urgent need of shelter, the ministry said.
Governments at all levels ___6___(announce) preferential land policies and ___7___(finance) support, and people have offered donations to help them do so.
In areas ___8___ rebuilding permanent houses immediately is difficult, people will have to spend the winter in cotton-padded tents, provided by the governments".
Premier Wen Jiabao has warned of a difficult winter for people in the quake-hit areas. On ___9___ fourth inspection tour of Dujiangyan and Qingchuan, which were hit by the devastating May 12 quake, Wen urged the entire society ___10___(donate) winter clothes and bedding for the quake victims.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解.
(A)
Mail carriers will deliver some good news and some bad news this week.
The bad news: Stamp prices are expected to rice 2 cents in May to 41 cents, the Postal Regulatory Commission announced yesterday. The good news: With the introduction of a “forever stamp”, it may be the last time Americans have to use annoying 2-or-3-cents stamps to make up postage differences.
Beginning in May, people would be able to purchase the stamps in booklets of 20 at the regular rate of a first-class stamp. As the name implies, “forever stamps” will keep their first –class mailing value forever, even when the postage rate goes up.
The new “forever stamp” is the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) answer to the complains about frequent rate increases. The May increase will be the fifth in a decade. Postal rates have risen because of inflation, competition from online bill paying, and the rising costs of employee benefits, including healthcare, says Mark Saunders, a spokesman for USPS.
The USPS expects some financial gain from sales of the “forever stamp” and the savings from not printing as many 2-or-3-cent stamps. “It’s not your grandfather’s stamp,” says Mr. Saunders. “It could be your great-grandchildren’s stamp.”
Other countries, including Canada, England, and Finland use similar stamps.
Don Schilling, who has collected stamps for 50years, says he’s interested in the public’s reaction. “This is an entirely new class of stamps,” Mr Schilling says. He adds that he’ll buy the stamps because he will be able to use them for a long period of time, not because they could make him rich---- the volume printed will be too large for collectors. “We won’t be able to send our kids to college on these,” he says, laughing.
The USPS board of governors has yet to accept the Postal Regulatory Commission’s decision, but tends to follow its recommendations. No plans have been announced yet for the design of the stamps.
The main purpose of introducing a “forever stamp” is ______________________.
to reduce the cost of printing 2-or-3-cent stamps
to help save the consumers’ cost on first-class mailing
to respond to the complaints about rising postal rates
to compete with online bill paying
By saying “It could be your great-grandchildren’s stamp”, Mr Saunders means that forever stamps ________________________________.
could be collected by one’s great-grandchildren
might be very precious in great –grandchildren’s hands
might have been inherited from one’s great-grandfathers
could be used by one’s great-grandchildren even decades later
Which of the following is true according to the passage?
The investment in forever stamps will bring adequate reward.
America will be the first country to issue forever stamps.
The design of the “forever stamp” remains to be revealed.
2-or-3-cent stamps will no longer be printed in the future.
What can be concluded from the passage?
With forever stamps, there will be no need to worry about rate changes.
Postal workers will benefit most from the sales of forever stamps.
The inflation has become a threat to the sales of first-class stamps.
New interest will be aroused in collecting forever stamps.
答题卷
班别____________ 姓名_____________ 学号______________
Ⅰ根据意思完成句子
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Ⅱ. 语法填空
1. __________ 2. _________ 3. __________ 4. _________ 5. __________
6. __________ 7. _________ 8. __________ 9. _________ 10. __________
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
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