Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage(选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文):
Mary Donaldson is worried about her 16-year-old daughter, Sophia. Six months ago, Sophia came back from a party, upset and unhappy. From then on, she thinks of nothing but __________ to lose weight and become beautiful. She refuses to eat and keeps on doing exercise. Sophia had always been a little heavy, so when she decided to go on a diet, Mary ___________ her, she felt that her daughter would look more attractive if she lost 10 kilograms. However, Sophia___________ over 20 kilograms until now. Her eating and exercising habits are having__________ her health. She is too thin and is often sick.
Her mother is trying to prevent her from going on a diet and losing weight, but Sophia thinks that she is still too heavy and refuses to start eating _________.Sophia’s mind is full of the idea of looking like a model. Every day she goes to a club to do exercise. When she is not there, she spends her time reading magazines like Fashion & Beauty. The models in these magazines are very thin and beautiful. Sophia says, “If I look like these models, I will be happy and all the boys will like me.”
Mary doesn’t know how to help her daughter. She feels ___________for having encouraged her at first, because Sophia no longer feels good or pleased with her body. She’s afraid that Sophia will never be happy if she keeps comparing ___________ with the models in the magazines. Mary tries to tell Sophia that true beauty is from within. Common people are not supposed to look like models. The most ordinary face becomes beautiful when the person behind it is filled with confidence, wisdom and the joy of life.
1.A. what B. when C. how D. why
2.A. refused B. encouraged C. helped D. agreed
3.A. has got B. has bought C. has lost D. has lent
4.A. a harmful effect on B. a good help to C. a different idea with D. an active change to
5.A. as usual B. as common C. as well as D. at last
6.A. happy B. sorry C. worry D. pleased
7.A. someone B. others C. himself D. herself
Choose the best answer. Choose the best answer(根据短文内容,选择最恰当的答案, 用A、B、C或D表示):
Can kids make their own newspapers? They do in Paris. Student editors(编辑) at a French newspaper for kids called “Mon Quotidien”, do every day.
The 10-year-old newspaper has its headquarters (总部) in Paris. Sometimes the newspaper sells 200,000 copies every day. It gets more than one million dollars every year! This is much more than other newspapers.
How do they decide what to put in the paper? All the adult editors working on the children’s daily agree that the paper should be easy and simple to read. Kids should be able to finish it within 10 minutes.
The paper covers school life, animals, and science, which are usually kid’s favourite subjects. It also talks about big world problem, like the Iraq (伊拉克) war.
In order to make the paper more popular with kids, adult editors invite students from age 10 to 15 to take part in their meetings. They have meetings every Wednesday and Sunday. Adult editors, reporters and kids sit together and decide which topics should come out in the paper and on which page.
Which topic should come out on the front page, European Union (欧盟) or bears in the zoo? Often the kid editors and adult writers disagree. Sometimes, the adult editors have to give up because their little editors won’t give in.
Usually the student editors stay in the newspaper office for three hours at each meeting. Any kid in France can call the newspaper if they are interested in being a one-day editor.
1. A kid can read Mon Quotidien ____________.
A. daily B. on school days
C. weekly D. weekends
2.Mon Quotidien ______________________________
A. is a 10-year-old English newspaper
B. is made only by kids
C. always sells 200,000 copies every day
D. gets over 1,000,000 dollars every year.
3. The newspaper should not be ____________
A. simple B. interesting
C. difficult D. easy
4. You can find the information below on the newspaper except _____________.
A. European Union.
B. The lovely volunteers in Kingdom school.
C. Wild foxes need your help.
D. Do you know these musical instruments?
5. Adult editors may invite ___________ to the meeting to make the paper more popular with kids.
A. a college student B. a middle school student
C. an adult editor D. a reporter
6.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The topic on the front page is decided by adult editors at last.
B. Any kid in France can be a one-day editor.
C. Only big world problem can come out on the front page.
D. When the kid editors and adult writers have different ideas, adults never give in.
Rewrite the following sentences as required.(按要求改写下列句子,每空格限填一词)1.A drop of water sped down the mountain into the Yangtze river (改为一般疑问句)
_________ a drop of water_________ down the mountain into the Yangtze river?
2.We will graduate from junior school in 10 months. (对划线部分提问)
_________ _________ will you graduate from junior school?
3. He is responsible for the science section of the paper. (保持句子含义不变)
He _________ _________ of the science section of the paper.
4. Could you please tell me how I can operate the machine? (该为简单句)
Could you please tell me __________ __________ operate the machine?
5.ought to, young children, on the escalators, parents, carry (连词成句)
Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms. (用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空,每空格限填一词):
1.Please help _________ to the cake, everybody. (you)
2.It’s a good __________ to take fewer things with us. (choose)
3.We all know that trees can produce oxygen to keep people _________. (live)
4.Joyce sat __________ on a sofa watching a cartoon. (comfortable)
5.The student has ___________ to receive the invitation from the big company. (decision)
6.We all need your __________ about the things happened yesterday. (explain)
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once. (选择与下列各句中划线部分内容意思相近的单词或短语,用A, B, C…或G等表示):
A. die out B. better C. run out D. burn |
The electricity in your home is from power stations. Power stations usually ____1.___ coal, oil or gas to make electricity. These power stations pollute our air.
Here at the Earth Friends centre we get our energy from the sun, water and wind. They give us energy every day and they’ll never_____2.____. This is renewable energy. Solar panels (太阳能板) and water and wind turbines(涡轮机) are clean and so are ____3.____ for our planet. They are environmently friendly.
E. like F. bigger G. after H. until |
Solar panels catch the sun’s energy and turn it into ecletricity. The electricity is stored in batteries _4.________ we use it. You could put solar panels on the roof of your house and make your own clean electricity.
Moving water turns the turbine and produces electricity. Hydro electric power stations(水力发电站) on rivers work in the same way but they are much ____5.____.
Windmills(风车) have existed for hundreds of years. In the past, farmers used them to make flour. Modern ones are used to produce electricity. The wind moves the turbine just ____6._____ the water moves it to make hydro electric power.
So now you know how to save energy at home and how we can make electricity every day without polluting our Earth.
----I’ve got the first prize for the English speech contest. How happy I am!
---- ___________.
A. Never mind. B. That’s all right.
C. Thank you. D. You deserved to win.