(共10小题,每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Ben: Look! The Great Wall.
Tom: It’s _________(real) splendid.
Ben: This is a man-made wonder and it is thought of._______ one of the greatest ___________(wonder) in the world.
Tom: Look, so many people are here. I’m sure there are thousands of people ___(visit) it every day.
Ben: Yes, there are more than ten thousand visitors climbing the Great Wall every day.
Tom: What’s the ___________(long)of the Great Wall?
Ben: It’s about 6,000 kilometers from East to West.
Tom: __________was it built?
Ben: The construction of some walls began _______the Warring States period. In 221 BC, Qin Shihuang had all the walls____(link) up and added up. From then on, we got the Great Wall.
Tom: I see. The Great Wall has___________ history of more than two thousand years.
Ben: Yes, you are right. And there is a Chinese saying, “He, .______ doesn’t reach the Great Wall, is not a true man.” Come on. Let’s go to the top.
Have you ever heard “Tuhao (土豪), let’s be friends”? Are you puzzled, wondering it means? Then you’re possibly out of date.
The Chinese words “tuhao” and “dama (大妈)” have become so familiar many Chinese people that they often play jokes on each other when (chat) about the daily life. For example, if you take out your new (fashion) mobile phone, your naughty friends may call you “tuhao”, laughing loudly and happily.
Amazingly, the two wildly popular words have also become hot words in English. The BBC recently (produce) a program to introduce “tuhao”. On the Internet, “tuhao” can be translated into “new money ” in English.
Besides, The Wall Street Journal has also borrowed “dama” from the Chinese pinyin (describe) bargain-hunting middle-aged Chinese women, calling “a force in the global gold market”. Experts say the Chinese language’s influence English will continue during the entire 21st century, it is expected that “tuhao” will be welcomed by to appear in new word lists.
语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
In the Western countries, especially in America, some social customs have lasted till today. For example, Ladies First, that is to say, women in these countries (respect) in many ways.
In the USA, in Europe, you will see men usually open doors for women, and women generally walk ahead of men into a room or restaurant, the men have to be ahead of the ladies to choose the table, to open the door of a car or to give other services. On the street, men almost always walk or cross the street on the side of the ladies is closer to the traffic. But if a man walks with two ladies, he should walk between .
If the host or hostess comes to fetch their guest for dinner in a car, the guest should sit at the front seat and leave the back seat free, as the host or hostess is also driver. When the host shows the guest to the sitting room, most men (seat) in the room will stand up if the guest is a lady. Generally speaking, younger ones are introduced to older ones first. The ladies in the sitting room will not stand up the new comer is a man or a woman.
Though today it is the fact that the custom is followed by (few) people than in the past, especially among the young people, women of all ages still want to keep the custom. Anyhow, is believed that women are still respected in many ways in the Western countries.
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卷标号为1~10的相应位置上。
Six days of spring rain had created a wild river (run) by Nancy Brown’s farm. As she tried to drive her cows to higher ground, she (slip) and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. Nancy was badly hurt and could only walk with great (difficult). The water was rising. Nancy’s pace got slower and slower. Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie’s neck and try to hang on. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to (success) pull herself and Nancy out of the water and onto a bit of high land.
helicopter lowered a doctor, attached Nancy to a life-support lift. They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter.
When the flood subsided two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the highland. Lizzie was gone. was one of the 19 cows that Nancy lost. “I owe my life her,” said Nancy sobbingly.
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式(不多于3个单词)
There was a young flower in the desert all was dry and sad looking... It was growing by itself, (enjoy) every day and saying to the sun, " shall I be grown up?" And the sun would say "Be (patience) ! Each time I touch you, you grow a little." She was so pleased, she would have a chance to bring beauty to this corner of sand. And this is all she wanted to do - bring a little bit of beauty to this world.
one day the hunter came by and stepped on her. She was going to die and she felt so sad, not because she was (die), but because she would (ever) have a chance to bring a little bit of beauty to this corner of the desert.
The great spirit saw her, and was listening. - Indeed, he said... She should be living... So he reached down and touched her -- and gave her second life.
Finally she grew up to be a beautiful flower. And this corner of the desert also became so beautiful because the little flower.
Paper-cutting is a(n) (tradition) Chinese folk art with a long history.
Paper-cuts (use) during festivals to decorate gates and windows. The main cutting tools are simple: paper and scissors or a knife. Clever craftsmen are very good at ________ (cut) in the theme of daily life. When you look at works created by paper cutting (careful), you will be amazed by the true-to-life (express) of the figure’s appearance and thoughts.
Although other art forms, like painting, can show similar scenes, paper-cutting still stands out for its beautiful lines and patterns are all hand-made. Learning about cutting a piece of paper (be) easy but mastering (精通) is very difficult. One must hold the knife upright (竖直地) and press on the paper without much strength. Any carelessness will lead
damage to the whole image. Craftsmen try________ (create) a circle like the moon, a straight line like a stem(干) of wheat, and a square like a brick. They have to be careful and keep practising to make the scenes seem as alive as possible.
The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, consisting of millions of pages of data. In 1969, DARPA, US defence organization, developed a way for all their computers to “talk” to each other through the telephone. They created a network of computers and only the US army could use in the following 15 years. Then in 1984, the US National Science Foundation started the NSF network, also known the Inter-network or ”Internet”. It then became possible for universities to use the system as well. The World Wide Web, (invent) in 1991 by an English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, is a computer network that makes the information from millions of websites (access) to computer users. At the moment, about
80 % of web traffic is English, but by 2020, Chinese could take the lead. Obviously, it was Berners-Lee made it possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just the universities and the army. He designed the first “web browser”, allowed computer users to access documents from other computers. With the web and the Internet (grow), the number of Internet users rose rapidly from 600,000 to 40 million within 5 years.
So far, the Internet (create) thousands of millionaires all over the world, but Berners-Lee is not one of them.
Many people think that teachers give pupils too much homework.They say that it is unnecessary for children to work at home in their free time.Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not (proper)plan the homework tasks they give to pupils.The result is that pupils have to repeat tasks that they(do)at school already.
In Greece,many parents complained about the difficult homework that teachers gave to their children.The parents said that most of the homework was waste of time,and they wanted to stop it.Spain and Turkey are two countries stopped homework.In Denmark,Germany and several other (country)in Europe,teachers cannot set homework at weekends.In Holland,teachers allow pupils (stay)at school to do their homework.The children are free to help one another.Similar (arrange)also exists in some British schools.
Most people agree that homework is not fair.A pupil doing his homework in a quiet and comfortable room is in a much (good)position than a pupil who does his homework in a small, (noise)room with the television on.Some parents help their children with their homework.Other parents take no interest their children’s homework at all.
语法填空
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
There is old Spanish Proverb which states, “Tomorrow is often the (busy) day of the week”. How many (time) have we put off our dreams until tomorrow? I’d say, too many. Our dreams should not, and cannot wait. We have to go for them now! Here are the reasons.
Tomorrow is not promised. Nobody likes to talk about (dead), but the reality is--- is going to die at one point. None of us know the day, or the hour. Therefore, today is all we have. Don’t go to your grave unfulfilled dreams. Make the decision to go after every dream, big or small right now.
You’ll be much (happy) if you go for it. Imagine how much happier you’ll be you’re living the life you always dreamed about. The only thing is stopping you is yourself. Take control of your own happiness. Don’ t keep your dreams (wait). Go after them today!
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Canada is a country North America consisting of ten provinces and three territories. (locate)in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Covering 9.98 million square kilometers in total, Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area and the fourth-largest country by land area. common border with the United States forms the world's longest land border.
Canada is a developed country and one of the (wealthy) in the world, with the tenth highest nominal per capita income (global), and the eighth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among highest in international measurements of government transparency(透明度), civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, and education. Canada is member of the Commonwealth of Nations, is furthermore part of several major international and intergovernmental institutions or groupings, (include) NATO, the G8, the Group of Ten, the G20, the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
短文填词(共10题;每题1分,满分10分)
阅读下面短文,根据以下提示:1)汉语提示,2)首字母提示,3)语境提示,在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词,所填单词要求意义准确,拼写正确。
One day while walking through the woods, an old man found a cocoon(茧) of a butterfly. Heb it home. A few days later, a small opening appeared, he watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop (取得)any progress .It appeared as if it could hardly go further .Then the man decided to h the butterfly, so he took a p of scissors to cut the cocoon. The butterfly then came out easily.
But it can never (飞).The man didn’t understand the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening was just the nature's way of forcing fluid (液体) from the body of the butterfly its wings, which would be ready for flight once it achieved its (自由)from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life any struggling, it would weaken us seriously .We would not be as (强壮) as what we could have been.
阅读下面短文,根据以下提示:1)汉语提示,2)首字母提示,3)语境提示,在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词;并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确,拼写正确。
Children’s education is changing very fast today. In the past, teachers made children sit (安静) for hours. They made them remember all k of things. The children had to go on reading things again and again u they know them “by heart”. Today, many teachers wonder________it is possible to make children learn at all. They say you can only help them learn. They say you must let children learn and _______(发现) things for______.
But for some of the children, school is a kind of place they cannot escape________. They are there only because their _________(父母) make them go. They get out of the classroom as soon as the teachers let them leave. Many of them want to find jobs but the law will not let them w_______ until they reach a certain age. And so, they have to stay in school. Often they do not learn ______at all and hate every moment.
Everyone may have a complex and different process of (grow up). There are many (influence)factors in a person's growth and development of his personality.
As for me,what has affected me most in my growth and personality is my family and friends, the two (equal) important factors. As we know, children who (bring up)in a good atmosphere have a better character than those are not. (fortune), I belong to the former. Besides, friends in some ways affect me a lot. we my have many different opinions and personalities, I have really learned something positive from them. In (conclude), I get lots of valuable things from them. My family offers me warmth and cares, my friends give me (strong) and courage. Both of them have influenced me most since I was born.
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
I felt upset when I _____(tell) that I would have to leave the company. In order to find
_____ new job to support the family, I read almost all the newspapers
_____ set down almost all the telephone numbers in ads
_____ my notebook and tried to call almost all the companies that needed new clerks. Not until I
_____ (find) a job in a small town near Townsville did I calm down. My new boss, Mr. Brown, was one of my schoolmates
_____ I was getting along well with at school. Both of us were
____(excite) to see each other and we spent the whole afternoon
_____(talk) about things and persons
___ we remembered at school. He asked me to give him some advice on how to enlarge his present business and he was
____(entire) happy about my advice.
A man and his friend were walking through the desert. During the trip they had a quarrel, and the man hit his friend in face. His friend was hurt, but saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend hit me.”
They kept on (walk) until they found a lake, where they decided (take) a bath. The man’s friend fell into the lake and was in a (danger) situation, but the man saved him (immediate). After he came back to life, he wrote on a , “Today my best friend saved my life.”
The man had hit and saved his best friend asked, “When I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you wrote on a stone. Why?” His friend (reply), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand, where wind can blow it away. However, when someone does something good for (we), we must write it down in stone, where it can last for ever.”
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