任务型阅读 认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。
Most of us have never thought about building an educational toy by ourselves. If we need a learning toy or something, we simply go to the nearest store and buy it. However, things are not as easy in third world countries. With families even having no food to put on the table, buying toys, especially the educational ones, is the last thing on the parents’ minds.
So how can one get these kids interested in science? This was a question that worried the Indian engineer Arvind Gupta so much that he decided to leave his job and spend his life making toys from things that people no longer want or need!
Mr. Gupta began teaching in the 1970s. While still an engineering student at the Indian College of Technology, he volunteered to teach the children who could not afford to go to school. After his graduation, he found a good job at India’s Tata Motors and spent the next five years designing cars.
But he soon realized that this was not something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. So he took a year’s training course and took part in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program whose aim was to make science fun and exciting for poor children using common materials.
Mr. Gupta found the whole project so intereting that he decided to leave his high-paying job and pay his attention to designing educational toys that were not only cheap and easy to build, but are also full of scientific principles(科学原理), so that children could get interested in this interesting subject.
When the Internet started becoming a more widespread learning tool, Mr. Gupta created a Toys from Trash website and also recorded over 250 YouTube videos.
Today, over 50,000 children and teachers visit the website daily to download the videos for the toy creations developed from cool science. Some young children have become so inspired (鼓舞)that they have even won international science competitions with the help of his creations.
Making educational toys from rubbish
Reasons ●Most people never thought about building educational toys.
●Usually people go to the nearest store to buy educational toys in 1.
●To some families, food is more 2. than educational toys.
●We should help children to get interested in science.
About Mr Gupta ●Finding a good job and spending five years designing cars after 3.
college
●Deciding to stop a good job and spending his life making special toys
●Volunteering to teach the children from 4. families
●Taking a year’s training course to learn to make science fun and exciting for poor children
●Focusing his attention on designing educational toys
About the website ●A Toys from Trash is a website with over 250 YouTube videos
●Many children visit the website and they are with the videos for the toy creations 5. on cool science
●With the help of his creations, children have even won international science competitions
用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。
1.---Oh, my God. I have to give up the difficult problem.
--- Don’t worry. I _____________(explain) it to you.
2.He seems to have difficulty ___________ (spell) these long and difficult words correctly.
3.I will send you a Christmas card as soon as the meeting ____________ (end).
4.The firemen _________________(control) the fire, so all of you are out of danger now.
5.----Has your friend completed his design?
----Not yet. He ______ (work) on it last night.
6.More people prefer to ride bicycles ________________(reduce) the pollution.
7.Many of my friends_____________(send) messages by QQ, but now they like using Wechat.
8.--- Will you leave her alone? --- Not until her drawings _____________(finish).
根据句意，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
1.Try to calm down and not to get __________(patient) while facing much stress.
2.The money is used to support ___________ (develop) projects
3.Shanghai Disneyland will open on June 16, 2016. I __________(simple) can’t wait for the day.
4.I think the man in white must be____________(mistake) for a doctor.
根据句意和汉语注释，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出单词的正确形式。
1.Safety comes first. You have no __________ (选择) but to be careful..
2.The kid was careless and fell _____________(沉重地) to the ground.
3.I hope that our headmaster will _____________(赞扬) us for the special design.
4.It’s necessary to become ___________(严格的) with yourself before important exams than usual.
"BANG!" the door caused a big noise. It was just standing there, with Father standing on one side, and I on the other side.
We were both in great anger. "Never set foot in this house again!" stormed Father. With tears in my eyes, I rushed out of the flat and ran along the street.
The street lights were shining, causing rather sad-feeling. I walked aimlessly.
A young father who held a child in his arms walked past me. I felt as if I saw my childhood from another space: happy and carefree.
But now I don't know whether it is because I have grown up or because Dad is getting old. We differ in our ways of thinking. He always puts his opinions and rules of behaviour on me. Whenever I do something wrong, he never allows it. We are just like two people coming from two different worlds. It feels like there is an iron door between us that can never be opened.
I walked in the streets, without a place in mind. My heart was frozen on this hot summer night. As I walked on, there were fewer and fewer people on the streets, until I had only the street lights to keep me company. When I finally reached the high-rise apartment block in which I lived, I saw that the light was still on.
I thought to myself: "Is Father waiting for me, or is he still angry with me?"
In fact, it was nothing. Perhaps, Dad was throwing away some of his old stamps. Perhaps he thought they were useless. I never had the courage to tell him that I liked collecting stamps. I can't stand his words: "I can't throw you away, let alone these old papers?"
All the lights were off except Father's.
Dad was always like this. Maybe he didn't know how to express himself. After shouting at me, he never showed any pity or any moments of feeling sorry. After an argument he has the habit of appearing silently in my sleep and then helping me under the covers.
This was how he always was. He has been a leader for so long that telling everyone else what to do has become his second nature.
The light was still on. "Am I wrong?" I whispered, maybe... With the key in hand, I was as nervous as I had ever been. At last, I decided to open the door. As soon as I opened the door, tears ran down my face. I suddenly realized that the iron door that I had imagined between us did not exist (存在) at all. Love---is second to none.
1.Which is the best order of the following according to what happened in the passage?
a. I opened the door and entered the house.
b. Sadly I ran out into the street.
c. I reached the place where I lived and saw my house still brightly lit.
d. I thought of my father's kindness towards me.
e. I walked about in the street without any aim.
A. b-e-d-c-a B. b-e-c-d-a
C. b-e-a-c-d D. b-e-c-a-d
2.What made the writer think of his childhood?
A. The sight of the street lights.
B. The sight of the empty street.
C. The sight of a father with a child in his arms.
D. The sight of light in his own house.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A. The father treats his son in an unfair way.
B. The father is actually kind to his son.
C. The father is neither kind nor rude to his son.
D. The father is always finding his son wrong .
4.This passage is mainly about________.
A. How the boy understand his father’s love
B. Where the boy went
C. What made a father angry
D. Why the boy left home
It seems that there’s a good reason why dogs are always seen as man’s best friend. Scientists have found that dogs are the only animals that can read emotion(情感)in faces much like humans. The finding suggests that like an understanding friend, dogs can see if we are happy, sad, pleased or angry.
When humans look at a new face, their eyes usually look across the left, falling on the right hand side of the person’s face first. A possible reason for this is that the right side of the human face is better at expressing emotions.
Scientists have now shown that pet dogs also have “left gaze bias(左视偏好)”, but only when looking at human faces. No other animal has been known to do like this before. Dr. Kun Guo with his team showed 17 dogs the pictures of human, dog and monkey faces as well as something else. The dogs’ eyes and heads show a strong left gaze bias when the animals see human faces. But this did not happen when they were shown other pictures, including those of dogs.
Guo suggests that over thousands of years living with humans, dogs may have developed the left gaze bias as a way to guess our emotions.
“Recent studies show that the right side of our faces can express emotions better than the left. If true, then it makes sense for dogs and humans to see the right hand side of a face first.”
1.Why are dogs seen as man’s best friend according to the passage?
A. Because dogs are the closest animals to humans.
B. Because dogs can read the emotions in humans’ faces easily.
C. Because dogs can understand us better when we feel sad.
D. Because dogs are good at expressing emotions.
2.The dogs’ left gaze bias helps them _______.
A. get along well with humans
B. express emotions quickly
C. have more understanding friends
D. remember more new faces
3.The passage mainly wants to tell us that _______.
A. dogs have been man’s best friends for thousands of years
B. humans have a “left gaze bias”
C. the “left gaze bias” works on all animals
D. dogs can read emotions the same as humans
