短文填空
根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整
Making friends is a skill like other skills. It improves with practice. If you want to meet people and m 1. friends, you must be willing to take some actions.
You must first go w 2. there are many people. You won’t make friends staying at home.
J 3. a club or go to a party, talking with those who like the s 4. things as you do. Or join someone in some a 5. .
It’s human nature to feel a bit unhappy about the unknown. Most of our fears come from doubts about ourselves. D 6. forget they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself as you are, and try to put the other person at ease（自由自在）. You’ll both f 7. comfortable. Try to act self-confidently t 8. you don’t feel that way. When you enter a room f 9. of strangers, walk straight, look directly at them and smile. Meeting someone new doesn’t mean that you will make friends because friendship is based on mutual liking（基于互相喜欢） and “give and take”. It takes t 10. to develop.
动词填空 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。
1.We should do what we can _________ ( improve ) our spoken English.
2.There _________ ( be ) a wonderful competition this coming Saturday, isn’t there?
3.Your coat is really dirty. Don’t you think you should have it _________ ( wash ) in time?
4.While the Reads _________ (have) supper, they suddenly heard a loud knock at the door.
5.It’s said that the price of bread ______ (rise) by 15% recently.
6.The robber was seen ___________（hit）that young woman in the street at that moment.
7.Mr. Smith ___________ (prefer) watching TV to playing computer games in the past.
8.Another two months will be needed before the new bridge ______________ (complete).
词汇
A．根据句意及汉语提示完成句子
B.用所给单词的适当形式填空
1.Don’t be too _________(担心) about your son .He is old enough to look after himself..
2.There are twelve boys and girls here. Can this birthday cake be ________(划分) into so many pieces?
3.We tried another way to work out this problem, but that didn’t work _________(也).
4.It is a good (选择) to make a list of all the things you need to do.
5.To our___________(surprised), he succeeded in passing the exam.
6.MaYun is one of ___________ (succeed) businessmen at the beginning of 21st century in China.
7.It is almost midnight but his father is still .(wake)
8.Sam is too_________(patient) to look after his little sister.
If you could see a movie of your life before you lived it, would you want to live it? Probably not. The excitement of living is that you don’t know what’s coming.
Sure, it’s hard to see uncertainty(不确定) in such positive（积极的）light when you’re out of work, or when you feel like you’re failing. But uncertainty is really another word for chance.
When Allison graduated from Harvard, she had chances all over the place but had no idea what she wanted to do. She took a job in consulting（咨询）, but she knew she wouldn’t stay there. She took the GRE and scored so high that she was able to increase her income（收入）by teaching students. Still, she didn’t think she wanted to go to graduate school（研究院）. Allison knew she wasn’t doing what she wanted, but she didn’t know what she wanted.
She worried. All her friends were going to graduate school or starting their own businesses. She was lost and felt that she would never find anything out. After six years, Allison, by having a general（全面的）plan in mind, got married, moved to the Midwest and used her consulting experience to get a great job. Allison realized that she spent her years finding her way: time well spent.
The only way to lead an interesting life is to face uncertainty. Otherwise your life is not your own—it is a path someone else has chosen. Moments of uncertainty are when you create your life, when you become who you are. Uncertainty usually begins with a job hunt, but it doesn’t end there. Every new role we take on means another round of uncertainty. Instead of fearing it, you should find some ways to deal with uncertainty.
1. From the first two paragraphs, we can learn that .
A. being out of work is a sad thing
B. uncertainty is what makes life interesting
C. life in a film is more exciting than real life
D. chance never appears when we need it
2.What troubles Allison after graduation?
A. She couldn’t find a well-paid job.
B. She had no money to start a business.
C. She was not sure what to do.
D. She didn’t score high enough for graduate school.
3. How did Allison feel about her six years’ working experience?
A. Uncertain. B. Amazed. C. Sorry. D. Satisfied.
4.What may be discussed in the following paragraph?
A. How to deal with uncertainty.
B. What role uncertainty plays in life.
C. Why people fear uncertainty.
D. Whom to go to when facing uncertainty.
When a cake is brought to the table at a birthday party, it is usually decorated with candles. It is said that the tradition of lighting birthday candles was invented by the ancient Greeks; it has taken on different meanings through the years. Today, one of the most popular birthday traditions is to blow out the candles all at once to make a secret wish come true.
In order to please Artemis, the goddess of the moon, the ancient Greeks arranged something special for birthdays. A moon-shaped cake was baked and decorated with lit candles. They thought the smoke from the candles would carry an offering(祭品) up into the sky, where they believed Artemis lived.
The tradition of lighting birthday candles continued in Europe, where candles were sometimes kept burning all day on a person’s birthday, partly as celebration and partly to keep away evil spirits. It was believed that the blowing out of candles represented one’s prayers(祈祷) to the gods. Some cultures believe it is a bad luck to blow out the candles until after the evening meal is eaten.
Traditionally, one candle represents a year of the person’s age. Some families prefer to add an extra candle for good luck. But that practice is improper when a very young child is celebrating a third birthday. Generally, older people’s birthdays are celebrated by placing just a few candles to represent, such as an eight for 80th birthday.
Today’s birthday candles are made in different shapes, like animals or flowers. One or two candles in the shape of numbers are sometimes used instead of lots of candles; for example, a four-shaped and a zero-shaped candle would represent 40.
1.Why did the ancient Greeks arrange something special for birthdays?
A. To make their dreams come true.
B. To celebrate a person’s birthday.
C. To protect themselves from evil spirits.
D. To please the goddess of the moon.
2.What is the tradition of lighting candles for birthdays like in Europe?
A. The candles were always kept burning all day on a person’s birthday.
B. The blowing out of candles represented one’s prayers to the god.
C. Some cultures believe it is right to blow out the candles before the evening meal.
D. The Europeans sometimes keep burning the candles all day just as a celebration.
3.What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?
A. In some families, people would add an extra candle without any special meaning.
B. It is common to see a cake with four candles on a three-year-old child’s birthday.
C. Traditionally, people can use an eight-shaped and a zero-shaped candle to represent 80.
D. Usually one candle is placed on a cake for each year of the person’s age.
To write a great news story, you have to make sure it is correct, relevant and fresh.
For a start, all the information in a story must be correct. Not only the spelling and grammar, but also the facts.
Any mistakes that appear in a story can get a newspaper into big trouble. For example, if a newspaper said that Yang Liwei was the first man to go into space, it would be wrong. He wasn’t the first. The newspaper would probably lose lots of readers because of that mistake.
A news story is not only correct，but also relevant to its readers . People are mostly interested in news that happens near to them. That is why you care more about what happens at your school than at American schools. It is also why newspapers in Beijing don’t talk about much news in Shanghai or Hong Kong.
Finally, news must always be fresh. When you pick up your evening newspaper, you want to read about news that happens that day. You don’t want to read about news from last week!
So, now you know what makes a good news story. Have a good look at our newspaper and see if it is full of good news. You can try writing a news story for our newspaper like a real reporter.
1.What is the meaning of the underlined word “relevant”.
A .有趣的 B. 相关的 C. 最新的 D.正确的
2. According to the writer, newspapers in Wuxi should talk much about news in __________.
A. Wuxi B. Hong Kong C. Shanghai D. Beijing
3. Which of the following is true?
A. A small mistake can’t get a newspaper into trouble.
B. A lot of people like reading about news from last week.
C. The passage doesn’t tell us who was the first man to go into space.
D. People are mostly interested in news that happens far away from them.
