根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。
Happiness is a feeling that lights up your eyes, makes your steps light and makes you want to sing for no reason. Everyone wants to be happy.
As the saying goes: When you smile, the world s 1. with you; when you cry, you cry alone. Wearing a smile will help you to w 2. lots of friends.
Life is full of u 3. and downs. We can’t change the way life is, but we can do our best to change a bad situation into a good one. To help us do this, it’s good to know some of the factors that i 4. happiness.
One of the biggest factors is social r 5. . People who are close to family and friends are h 6. than people who don’t have those relationships. Another factor is work or school. If you enjoy school, e 7. if you have lots of homework or extra classes, you will still feel that your school life is meaningful and happy. But if you h 8. school, your negative attitude(态度) may cause you to feel bored and upset that you have to do so much work.
A third factor is your attitude towards life. How do you feel if you fail in an exam? Maybe you think it’s unfair because you always study hard and should get a good m 9. . You can't stop blaming(责备) yourself. Or, maybe you accept it. You go through the paper c 10. , find out why you made stupid mistakes, and tell yourself, "Take it easy! I’ll do better next time!" Your attitude makes a big difference.
根据句意用所给的单词的适当形式填空。
1.I would certainly think _______before I follow your suggestion.(two)
2.I think China’s action in South China Sea is well worth_______.(praise)
3.Keep trying hard, and you will in making your dream come true.(success)
4.Paper cut is a Chinese skill with a history of thousands of years.(tradition)
5.He is a very shy boy and it is ______ for him to be so active in class today. (usual)
根据句意和汉语提示写出单词，完成句子。
1.Tom always keeps his things in good ______.(顺序)
2.His father is very ______with him in his study.(严格)
3.Simon likes to learn about the world _______the Internet. (凭借)
4.Peter, my English teacher, never fails to ________ us to study hard. (鼓励)
5.John could ______believe his eyes. He was too surprised to say a word.(几乎不)
阅读与回答问题
Lizzie was born in 1842. She lived in a small house on a farm with her parents and two brothers. Her father and older brother worked in the fields picking cotton, and her mother and younger brother worked in the vegetable garden. Lizzie worked in the farmer’s house.
The farmer didn’t like Lizzie’s older brother and gave him the hardest jobs. Lizzie was afraid that one day the farmer would hurt her brother, or sell him to another farmer.
Many slaves(奴隶) tried to run away to the free states. But most were caught by slave catchers or tracking dogs. However some slaves found clever ways to escape(逃跑）. Lizzie was one of them.
Everyday she went to the farmer’s house, where she made beautiful clothes for the farmer’s daughters. She was allowed to keep small pieces of left-over materials, and she stitched(缝) these together into small patterns. Then she stitched the small patterns together to make a quilt. The patterns all had names such as ‘Flying Geese’, ‘Bear’s Paw’, or ‘Nine Patch’.
That quilt was really a map. Lizzie hung it on the clothes line outside the house, and her brother and other slaves saw Lizzie’s map and knew which way to go.
They also knew that Lizzie’s cabin was a “safety house” because a quilt with a sky blue square in the middle meant “safety house”. At each safe house, they were hidden and given food. With the quilt’s help, they knew the way to get to the next safe house until they got to the free states in the north.(改编于《新理念英语》)
回答下面5个问题, 每题答案不超过6个词。
1.How many people were there in Lizzie’s family?
________________________________________
2.Why did Lizzie decide to help her older brother?
Because _________________________________
3.Who did Lizzie make the clothes for?
________________________________________
4.How did she help her brother and other slaves?
________________________________________
5.What do you think of Lizzie?
________________________________________
任务型阅读。阅读下列短文，根据短文内容完成表格中所缺信息，每空一词。
A young man traveled by train. As it was running across a wild land, the passengers looked out of windows without aims.
When the train came near a turning, it slowed down and then a simple house came into view. It was the only house the passengers saw on such a long journey. Everybody on the train admired it with eyes wide open. Some passengers even began a discussion about it.
The young man was also impressed by the scene. On his return, he got off the train at the nearest station from the house and found his way there. Its owner told him he was troubled by the noise of the train and that he wanted to sell the house but nobody would buy it.
Soon the young man paid 30,000 dollars for the house, thinking it a wonderful place for advertisement. It faced the railway turning, where the train had to slow down and the bored passengers would cast their eyes at the house to refresh their minds.
The young man tried to contact big companies and make them realize the place was the perfect for advertisement. Finally the Coca-Cola Company put up an advertisement on the house. The young man got 180,000 dollars for three year’s rent.
Good chances always hide somewhere around us, waiting for those who are careful and smart enough to find them.（改编于《初中英语读本9A》）
Where the railway 1. | ||
The thing | A simple house | The only one the passengers saw on a 2. journey. |
The 3. |
The passengers | ◆Everybody thought 4. of it with eyes wide open. ◆Some passengers even 5. it. |
The owner | ◆He was 6. by the noise of the train. ◆He wanted to sell the house but 7. would buy it. | |
The young man | ◆He got off the train and found his way there; ◆He 8. the house for 30,000 dollars; ◆He rented the house to Coca-Cola Company for its 9. . | |
The theme | Good chances always hide somewhere around us, waiting for those who are 10. and smart enough to find them. | |
In the past, many people depended on horses for transportation(运输), farming and other kinds of work. Nowadays a lot of people still like to ride horses. So it is not surprising that many expressions about it are still used by Americans today.
Long ago, people who were rich or important rode horses that were very tall. Today, if a girl is too proud and looks down upon others, you might say she should "get off her high horse."
Last night, I got a telephone call while I was watching my favorite television show. I decided not to answer it because "wild horses could not drag me away" from the television -- there was nothing that could stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
Sometimes you get information "straight from the horse's mouth." It comes directly from the person who knows most about the subject and is the best source. Let us say your teacher tells you there is going to be a test tomorrow. You could say you got the information "straight from the horse's mouth." However, you would not want to call your teacher a horse!
You may have heard this expression: "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink." That means you can give someone advice but you cannot force him to do something he does not want to do.
In politics, a "dark-horse candidate" is someone who is not well known to the public. Sometimes, a dark horse unexpectedly wins an election(选举).
Another piece of advice is "do not change horses in midstream." You would not want to get off one horse and on to another in the middle of a river. Or make major changes in an activity that has already begun.
1.What does the underlined word “it” mean in the first paragraph?
A. the horse B. riding horses
C. raising horses D. horse racing
2.The expression “get off her high horse” is used for a girl____.
A. who has a lot of money
B. who is cleverer than others
C. who is respected by others
D. who thinks she is better than anyone else
3.What can we learn about the news “ straight from the horse’s mouth”?
A. It is very hard to get the news.
B. The news will be true and reliable（可靠的）.
C. The person who gives the news is called a horse.
D. The news is a lie and can’t be trusted.
4.Which of the following can describe a person who wins an election unexpectedly?
A. do not change horses in midstream
B. wild horses could not drag me away
C. dark-horse candidate
D. get off her high horse
5.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. The horse is a kind of useful animal.
B. The expressions used by Americans.
C. Some expressions about the horse.
D. It is popular to use the word “horse”.
