单词检测，根据下列句子所给音标、汉语注释或上下文，写出空白处各单词的正确形式。每空只写一词。
1.I'm ['terәbli] sorry. I had no idea you felt that way.
2.I have the honor of [intrә'dju:siŋ] to you Mr. Smith.
3.一 What did you do last night，Lily?
一I continued (开展)on with my study of red-crowned cranes.
4.John and Mary sat at (对面)ends of the table to each other.
5.He had a real (知识)of animals, birds and flowers.
6.Let's go somewhere and feed our (胃)first.
7.All 140 guests were brought out of the building (安全)by firemen.
8.一How are the local people after the water flood?
一The government has provided them things they need most.
9.一Little Mary lost her parents in a car accident, leaving her an orphan(孤儿).
一It us all deeply to see how she lived.
10.一Mary's father likes travelling all over the world.
一But he is unable to travel much of old age.
"What's the name of our neighbor? I can't remember right now. " Have you ever heard your grandparents ask questions like this sometimes? Usually, we think that older people's memory becomes bad because their brains get weak. But now a team of scientists at the University of Tubingen in Germany has a new idea.[
"The human brain works slower in old age，" says Michael Ramscar, the lead scientist. "But only because they have stored more information overtime. "
The findings are based on a series of computer simulations(模拟)of learning and memory. Scientists let the computers read a certain amount of words and learn new things each day. When the computer "reads" only so much, its performance on cognitive(认知)tests is similar of a young adult. But if the computer learns the experiences we might encounter over a lifetime, its performance is similar to that of an older adult.
Often it is slower, but not because its processing capacity has declined. Rather, increased "experience" has caused the computer's database to grow, giving it more data(数据)to process-which takes time. This is similar to old people. Imagine a person knows two people's birthdays. Another person knows the birthdays of 2000 people, but can only match the right person to the right birthday nine times out of 10. Can you say the first person has a better memory than the second person?
1.The writer uses a question at the beginning of the passage to .
A. invite the readers to answer the question
B. attract the readers' attention to the topic
C. show how weak older people's brains are
D. tell the readers the latest findings about brains
2.According to the research, why do old people forget people's names easily?
A. Because they have a very poor memory.
B. Because they are too old to remember things.
C. Because their brains become weaker than before.
D. Because they have stored too much information.
3.Where would this passage most probably appear?
A. In a magazine. B. In a story book.
C. In an ad. D. In a guidebook.
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Do old people have a bad memory?
B. Scientists' new findings on brains
C. Human brain's processing capacity
D. Which is better, the old or the young?
Parents are busy today. Sometimes they have to leave their children at home alone. For children, it is important to know how to keep themselves safe when they are at home alone. If you are one of them，what should you do? Let me give you some advice.
When you arrive at your home, you should check the doors and windows first. If they are broken, it says someone must have entered. If so, wait outside and tell your parents or the police. If everything appears normal，you should go inside and lock the door quickly. If something seems strange inside, you should ask your neighbour for help and call the police.
If someone knocks at the door, you should identify the visitor before you open the door. This can be done by saying, "Yes, who is it?" You can also look through the peephole to see if you know the visitor. If you don't know the person very well, don't open the door.
You should not allow strangers to enter the house or give out any information about your family. You should be polite when you talk with the stranger, but remain behind the closed door. If the visitor wants to speak to your parents, you should say that the parents can't come to the door at the moment and offer to take a message.
1.The passage is written for .
A. Parents. B. Police.
C. Children. D. Strangers.
2.What should children do when they find something unusual at home alone?
A. Lock the door quickly.
B. Tell their parents immediately.
C. Ask their neighbours for help.
D. Remain behind the closed door.
3.What does the underlined word "identify" mean?
A. find out who the visitor is
B. keep silent with the visitor
C. refuse to let the visitor in
D. look carefully at the visitor
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A. How to ask for help.
B. How to talk to strangers.
C. How to be a brave child.
D. How to be safe at home.
Dear friends，
I'd like to share my suggestions about studying with you. "Studying" is not the same thing as "doing homework"! Studying may include doing homework，but it also includes a lot more, as you will see. So if you say that you have no homework，and therefore you can't or you don't have to study, you're mistaken!
I am going to give you some suggestions on how to study efficiently. They worked for me when I was in the high school and college.
Not only that, but they also worked equally well for me in literature and math.
Although everyone's learning style may be different，and some of my suggestions may not work for you, I still ask you to try them. A lot of successful students have used them.
Please send me suggestions about studying that work for you. I will try to include them into the further version of this guide.
Here are some of my suggestions:
A. Manage your time.
B. Take notes in class and rewrite them at home.
C. Study hard and study in a quiet place.
D. Read texts actively and slowly. Do it before and after class.
E. Finish your homework by yourself.
F. Do not only study for exams.
Yours,
Emma
1.If Tom often tells his parents that he has no homework to do，we can infer that .
A. Tom's teachers are very lazy
B. maybe Tom's learning style is not good
C. Tom's classmates often help him with his homework
D. Tom is clever enough to finish his homework at school
2.The underlined word "They" refers to .
A. some of the successful students
B. all Emma's classmates and teachers
C. the suggestions that Emma will offer
D. all the subjects that Emma has studied
3.What does Emma think of her learning style?
A. Hers may not be the best, but it may be helpful.
B. Top students don't have to learn her learning style.
C. It works better in literature and math than in other subjects.
D. It doesn't work well in language learning but students can have a try.
4.What's the writer's purpose in writing this passage?
A. To ask students to study harder than ever before.
B. To get some help from teachers and different students.
C. To show that she is very successful in "Studying".
D. To ask for students' suggestions and share her suggestions.
完形填空
先通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
One evening last summer, when I asked my 14- year- old son, Ray，for help with dinner, his response(回答)shocked me. "What's a colander(漏勺)?" he asked. I could only blame _________ . In the family, nobody else went into the kitchen except me. But that night, as I _________ to him that a colander is the thing with holes in it，I wondered what else I hadn't _________ Ray for.
As parents，while we focus on our sons' confidence and character，we perhaps don't always consider that we are _________ raising someone's future roommates，boyfriends，husbands，or fathers. _________ I came up with a plan: I would offer Ray a private home economics course. I was _________ to find that he didn't say no. For two hours, three days a week, Ray was all mine.
I knew that he would rather have been playing basketball with friends than _________ to mend socks with his mother，but in fact he was learning, and more than just housekeeping. "I appreciate(感激)what you do _________ a mom," he told me one day. Ray now realizes there's _________ masculine(男子气概的)about being helpless.
Now，not only can he make his own dinner, but also he can make a big meal for his family. That's _________ I call a man. I'm glad that I prepared so great a present for my future daughter in-law.
1.A. themselves B. ourselves C. myself D. himself
2.A. explained B. continued C. thought D. advised
3.A. planned B. prepared C. produced D. punished
4.A. even B. also C. still D. either
5.A. But B. And C. Because D. So
6.A. cheerful B. nervous C. patient D. serious
7.A. learning B. checking C. asking D. affording
8.A. by B. for C. as D. with
9.A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing
10.A. what B. how C. why D. who
一Thank you for looking after my son while we were away.
一
A. Why me? B. My pleasure.
C. It's my fault! D. With pleasure!
