People use their mouths for many things. In the English language, there are many expressions using the word “mouth”. But some of them are not so nice.
Sometimes, people say something to a friend or a family member. Later they regret because it hurts that person’s feelings. Or they tell the person something they didn’t mean to tell. The speaker might say: “I really put my foot in my mouth this time.”
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend is going to say. When this happens, the friend might say: “You took the words right out of my mouth!” Sometimes a person has a bad or sad experience with another person. He might say that experience “left a bad taste in my mouth.” Or the person possibly has a very frightening (可怕的) experience, like having an angry dog running after him. He might say: “I had my heart in my mouth.”
Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. You might say the person “was born with a silver spoon (银勺) in his mouth”. He is the opposite of a person living from “hand to mouth”. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.
The underlined word “regret” may mean .
A. feel sorry B. feel excited
C. feel proud D. feel surprised
【小题２】When a man says “I had my heart in my mouth”, usually he means he was .
A. excited B. afraid C. surprised D. happy
【小题３】Your best friend Tony has said what you are going to say, you might say: “ !”
A. You were born with a silver spoon in your mouth
B. You really put my foot in my mouth
C. You really left a bad taste in my mouth
D. You took the words right out of my mouth
【小题４】Tom says that he is living from hand to mouth. He means he is living a(n) life.
A. busy B. hard C. easy D. rich
【小题５】Which of the following might be the best title for this passage?
A. Different Uses of Mouth
B. People and Their Mouths
C. Expressions about Mouth
D. The Importance of Mouth
How could we tell time if there were no watches or clocks anywhere in the world?
The sun might be the world's first“clock”，except in the far north，where the Eskimos（爱 斯基摩人）live．There，it's dark most of the winter，and light most of the summer．But in most
of the world, if you don't have a clock that shows time, you still know that when the sun shines, it's day, and when it's dark, it's night. The sun can not only tell you whether（是否）it's day or night but also it's morning, noon, or afternoon. When the sun is almost directly（恰好）overhead, it's noon.
People who live near the sea learn from the tides. In the daytime, for about six hours, the water rises higher and higher on the beach. And then it goes down and down for about six hours. The same thing happens again at night. There are two high tides and two low tides every 24 hours.
Seamen on a ship know time by looking at the moon and the stars. The whole sky is the clock.
In some places in the world the wind comes up at about the same time every day or changes
direction or stops blowing. In these places the wind can be the clock.
A sand clock is an even better clock. If you had fine dry sand in a glass like the one in the picture, you would have what is called an hourglass. The sand in the hourglass goes from the top part to the bottom part in one hour. When the hourglass is turned over, the sand will take another hour to go back again.
1.The Eskimos in the far north can’t use the sun for a clock because ______.
A. they know very little about the sun
B. the sun there never goes down in winter.
C. it’s too cold for them to go out to watch the sun
D. there are long dark winters and long light summers in the far north
2.The underlined word “tides” in paragraph 3 means ___________.
A. ocean current
B. storm
C. a regular rise and fall of the sea
D. wave
3.In which part of the newspaper can you probably read this passage?
A. News B. Science
C. Business D. Advertisement
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Different Ways to Tell Time
B. Useful Machine to Tell Time
C. The History of the Clock
D. The Development of the Clock
5.How many ways are mentioned in the passage to tell time?
A. Five B. Four C. Six D. Three
In Britain, children go to school from Monday to Friday. School usually starts nine o’clock in the morning and finishes at about three o’clock in the afternoon. Most schools ask their students to wear a school uniform.
School always starts with registration. What is registration? Every child going to school each morning and afternoon is recorded(记录) in a special book. The teacher reads out each child’s name in turn. On hearing his/her name, the child makes a reply(回复) and the teacher writes in the book. From the book, you can see whether(是否) the child is in school or not.
At 9:10, children go to the meeting place. There they sing songs, listen to a story and pray(祈祷).
The first lesson begins at 9:20. They have break time from 10:20 to 10:35. During break time, the children have a snack and play games outdoors. After that, they go back in for another lesson until lunch at 12:00. Afternoon lessons begin at 1:10 and end at 3:15, and children go home. They don’t have a break in the afternoon.
1. How much time does a British student usually spend at school in a week?
A. Around 20 hours. B. Over 40 hours.
C. About 30 hours. D. Only 6 hours.
2.The following things take place in British schools each morning. Which do you think is the right order(顺序)?
① Teachers call over the children’s names.
② Teachers write something in the book.
③ Children answer “Here”.
A. ①②③ B. ①③② C. ②①③ D. ③①②
3.What do they usually do after registration?
A. They meet, sing and pray.
B. They have a lesson.
C. They do some reading in a classroom.
D. They play some games.
4.When do the children have a snack?
A. Before they go to school.
B. After they have afternoon lessons.
C. When they finish their outdoor games.
D. At about half past ten in the morning.
5.Which of the following is true?
A. In Britain, most students live at school at night.
B. Students in Britain mustn’t call their teacher’s names.
C. Students in Britain go to school before nine every morning.
D. Students in Britain have a long break between the afternoon lessons.
完型填空 (本大题共10分，每小题1分)
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming to this concert. I hope you have enjoyed the music.
The purpose of this concert is to money for children in Africa. Every day children in Africa die because they have diseases or have not enough .There are two main reasons. First, there are no jobs for the children's parents, so they have no money to buy food or . Second, the governments in many African countries do not have the money to take care of poor people.
Most African counties are poor. The land is not good for food and the weather is also bad for farming. The Feed Africa Fund a lot of money every year on food for poor people in Africa. The money comes people like you-kind, generous people who do not want to see children die from hunger. Just one dollar can buy enough rice or corn to a family of four for three days.
How much do you spend on food every day? Ten dollars? Twenty dollars? I am sure you can spend a little on your own food so that you have a few dollars for the Feed Africa Fund.
Ladies and gentlemen, we will now take a .Please be generous. Thank you.
1.A. borrow B. raise C. pay D. donate
2.A. hundred B. hundred of C. three hundreds D. hundreds of
3.A. to eat B. to sleep C. to play D. to enjoy
4.A. clothes B. houses C. cars D. medicine
5.A. growing B. inventing C. eating D. seeing
6.A. costs B. spends C. takes D. pays
7.A. to B. from C. with D. without
8.A. feed B. build C. develop D. buy
9.A. more B. few C. less D. least
10.A. show B. kindness C. look D. collection
-- I hope you don’t mind my opening the door. ---- ________
A. Not at all B. You’re welcome
C. Of course D. It’s a pleasure
--Having many helpers makes a task easier and faster to finish.
- I think so_______.
A. Many hands make light work
B. Practice makes perfect
C. The early bird catches the worm
D. Actions speak louder than words
