任务型阅读
请仔细阅读方框中的名言，然后将它们与1—5题中的话语配对。
A．One picture was of a calm lake. B．Serenity means to be in the midst of all those things but still keep calm in your heart. C．The other picture had mountains, too. D．But when the king looked closely, E．Which picture do you think won the prize? |
The Real Meaning Of Serenity(安祥；安静)
Once there was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of serenity. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them.
1.______________ The lake was a perfect mirror for serene towering mountains all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy(松软的,毛茸茸的) white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of serenity.
2. ______________ But they were rocky and had no tall trees. Above was an angry sky, from which rain fell and in which lightning played. Down the side of the mountain was a noisy waterfall. This did not seem quiet at all.
3.________________ he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rushing water, sat the mother bird on her nest ----- in perfect serenity.
4. ________________________ The king chose the second picture. Do you know why?
5.“Because,” explained the king, “serenity does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise and trouble. _______________________ That is the real meaning of serenity."
语法填空
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。
Christmas is one of the most important festivals in Western countries. But what does Christmas mean? Does it just mean having parties, decorating Christmas trees 1. giving presents to each other ? No, not exactly. The true 2. (mean) of Christmas lies behind all these things. Maybe Charles Dickens’ novel, a Christmas Carol,can make you think more of Christmas.
Charles Dickens told us a story about a mean (吝啬的）old man 3. is called Scrooge. Scrooge cares about nothing but his business and money. He treats others badly. Then one Christmas Eve, Scrooge has a dream, in his dream, he meets the ghost (鬼) of Jacob Marley, one of his partners. Marley was as mean as Scrooge when he was alive. But after he 4. (dead), he was punished 5. his unkindness. He tells Scrooge that three spirits(幽灵) will visit him soon.
And then 6. day they have mentioned comes at last. One of them is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The spirit takes Scrooge to see what will happen to him when he is dead. Scrooge is sad and frightened 7. (find) that nobody cares about his death. He is so afraid that he wakes up and finds out it is just a nightmare(恶梦).
The dream warns Scrooge to change 8. (him) and be kind to others. He changes quickly and he celebrates Christmas happily with his relatives by giving gifts. From then 9. , he treats everyone with kindness and warmth. So what does the story tell us? Yes, it tells us that we should show kindness to others by 10. (spread)love and joy.
阅读下面短文，然后根据所给的汉语意思写出单词的正确形式。（每空限填一词）
Some people believe that schools will no longer be necessary in the future. They say that because of the Internet and other new technology, there is no 1. （必要） for school buildings, classes or teachers.
Perhaps this will be true one day, but if the world has no schools, I can’t 2. （想象） how our society will be.
In fact, we should learn how to use new technology to make school be connected to libraries, 3. （博物馆）, science centers, labs and even companies. Learning programs should be 4. （创造）for schools by the special companies. Talks can be given by scientists or professors through the Internet. Besides, TV networks and local stations can develop programs about things students are 5. (实际上）studying in school. Labs can set up websites to show new technology so 6. （以便）it can be seen on the Internet.
Is this a dream? No. there are already 7. （许多） cities where this is beginning to happen. Here the whole city is connected to the Internet, and learning can take place at home, at school, and in the offices. Business provides programs for the schools and the society. The schools provide computer labs for people 8. （没有）their own computers at home. Because everyone can be on the Internet, older people use it as much as younger ones. And everyone can visit distant libraries and museums as 9. （容易） as nearby ones.
How will this new kind of school change the usual way of learning? It is too early to be sure, but it is very 10. (激动人心的) to think about it. Technology will change the way we learn； schools will change as well； and we will all learn something from the Internet.
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词仅用一次。
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1.The photo is about a pretty girl who is protecting her reading materials ______ the showers.
2.It doesn’t _______ to buy that expensive coat when these cheap ones are just as good.
3.They did have her granny’s _______ birthday celebrated last month.
4.The activity is organized by these Young ________.
5.The flies ______ away because they wore special hats on the farm yesterday.
For hundreds of years, scientists have been trying to answer what things have an influence on people’s emotions. What your feeling is always controlled by many things. Your emotions can be influenced by your personality (个性), by the actions of others and by events around you. Perhaps you don’t know your emotions can be influenced by the weather as well.
People often say they feel good when the sun is shining and sad when it is cloudy. In fact, sunlight makes us feel good. When sunlight hits our skins, our bodies produce a vitamin(维生素）. Vitamins are natural chemicals which we all need to stay healthy. Sunlight helps our bodies produce vitamin D. Vitamin D helps our bodies make a special chemical. This special chemical influence our brains and makes us feel happy. For example, there are long, dark winters of little sunlight in Sweden and Norway, so many people in these countries often feel sad. Without much sunlight, their bodies produce less vitamin D. Without enough vitamin D, their bodies make less ofthis special chemical which makes them feel good. To help the people in these countries feel better, special“sunrooms”with man-made lights have been built. People can go there and get “sunlight” for an hour or two.
The weather can also influence people’s emotions in other ways. Hot weather can make people angry because people feel uncomfortable when they are hot. In the same way, rain can make people angry because being wet can be unpleasant. As you can see, the weather can have an effect on the chemicals which control our brains. Through these ways, the weather can influence our emotions. Sadly, while the weather can change us, we can hardly change the weather.
1. Which of the following can bet described as a factor(因素) that can influence one’s emotions?
A. Weather. B. Actions of others.
C. Personality D. A, B and C.
2.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “emotions” in Chinese?
A. 运动 B. 情绪 C. 感动 D. 激动
3.Which of the following is TRUE about vitamin D according to the passage?
A. It is a kind of man-made chemical.
B. It makes us worried by influencing our brains.
C. It is needed by us all to keep fit.
D. It is in the sunlight.
4.What may be the best title for this passage?
A. Why Do We Feel Sad.
B. The Weather Influences People’s Emotion.
C. People Need More Vitamin D.
D. We Can Hardly Change the Weather.
How could we tell time if there were no watches or clocks any where in the world?
The sun was probably the world’s first “clock”, except in the far north, where the Eskimos live. There, it’s dark most of the winter, and light most of the summer. But in most of the world, people have used the sun fully, 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 it’s day or night but also it’s morning, noon, or afternoon. When the sun is almost over your head, it’s noon.
People who live near the sea can tell time from the tides（潮水）. 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 twenty-four hours.
Seaman on a ship tells time by looking at the moon and the stars. The whole sky is their 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 shaped 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 exactly one hour. When the hourglass is turned over the sand will take another hour to go back again.
1. From the passage we can know there are ____ ways to tell time besides the clock and watch.
A. three B. four C. five D. seven
2. 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. it has long dark winters and long light summers
3.This passage is probably a kind of ___________.
A. news B. science
C. advertisement D. sports
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Different ways to tell time.
B. How the clock was invented.
C. The development of the clock.
D. A useful machine to tell time.
