词汇运用
A) 根据括号内的中文提示写出单词的正确形式，使句子意思完整正确，每空一词。
1.Our city is becoming more and more (拥挤) and polluted.
2.We are excited to hear that we will have two __________(月)holiday.
3.Nancy felt proud when she （升起）the national flag in the playground this Monday.
4.When I look out from the (二十九) floor of that tall building, I can see the whole city.
5. The documentary he is interested in (描述) how wild animals live in Zhalong Nature Reserve.
B) 根据句意，用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空，每空一词。
6.In winter, some animals become (active) and sleep for the whole winter.
7.---Can the stars ( see ) in the day ?---No, they can’t.
8.Jim has a wide ___ _______( know) of physics and geography .
9. I think __________ ( eat) too much meat and watching too much TV are bad for our health.
10.To get good grades in the exam, we should avoid (care).
There are some very good inventions which, for one reason or another, don’t become popular. These inventions should be better known, even though I think that some of them are crazy. Let’s have a look at some of these inventions and see if you agree that they should be more successful.
The Australians had a great idea to stop people from drinking and driving. The idea was that if a driver wanted to start the car, she or he would have to blow into a bag first. If there was too much alcohol (酒精) in their breath, the car wouldn’t start. It sounded like a great idea to me, but people said that they might need to drive the car in an emergency (紧急情况) even if they had drunk too much alcohol. Another idea I liked was an invention by a scientist who thought his children watched too much TV. He connected the TV to an exercise bike so that the electricity to power the TV was produced by the bike. If the children wanted to watch a lot of TV, they had to pedal (踩动) very hard. I found another invention on the Internet which encouraged good habits. Believe it or not, this invention was an ashtray (烟灰缸) which spoke to you when you lit a cigarette! The “voice” of the ashtray was started by the heat from the cigarette and reminded you how dangerous it is to smoke.
One of the strangest inventions I have come across is a bicycle which can cross rivers! The idea was that when you came to a river, you could inflate a huge plastic ball all around the bike. You would then get into the ball which would float on the river while you pedaled the bike inside the ball! Why not use a bridge instead? A friend of mine at school once bought a strange pair of football shoes. On the bottom of the shoes there was a rotating pad of studs (转动钉垫). The idea was that you would change direction more quickly if the studs rotated with you. The problem was that every time you stopped you changed direction whether you wanted to or not! I think he wore those shoes twice! One thing I would like is a baseball cap with a built-in radio so you can listen to sport all day with your hands free. While we are on the subject of sport, the Americans invented a kind of robot for sports fans. If you were watching your team on TV on your own, you could press a button and the robot would do “high fives” with you! Fantastic! I wonder if you have any good ideas for inventions like these.
1. What’s the writer’s attitude towards the inventions mentioned in Paragraph 2?
A. The writer regrets he knew nothing about the inventions.
B. he writer doubts if the inventions will be popular soon.
C. The writer thinks these inventions will do good to people.
D. The writer finds these inventions are the strangest of all.
2.What can we know from the passage?
A. The father used his invention to stop children watching too much TV.
B. It was very bad for the drivers to blow into a bag before their driving.
C. The bike crossing rivers was considered one of the best inventions.
D. The invention of new shoes would make players run much faster.
3. The underlined word “inflate” in the third paragraph means ________.
A. check out B. blow up
C. look into D. turn over
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Popular Inventions Today
B. Technology and Invention
C. Inventions with a Difference
D. The History of Invention
One of sweetest memories as a child is of going down to the river and sitting comfortably on the bank. There I would enjoy the peace and quiet, watch the water rush downstream and listen to songs of birds. I would also watch the bamboo trees bend under the pressure from the wind and watch them return gracefully to their original state after the wind had died down.
When I think about the bamboo tree’s ability to bend and move back, the word “resilience” comes to my mind. When it is used for a person, this word means the ability to readily recover (恢复) from shock, sadness or any other suffering. Have you ever felt like you were going to snap? Have you ever felt like you were at your breaking point? Thankfully, you have survived to talk about it.
Life is a mixture (混合) of good times and bad times, happy moments and unhappy moments. The next time you are experiencing one of those bad times or unhappy moments that take you close to your breaking point, bend, but don’t break. Try your best not to let the situation get the best of you.
An amount of hope will take you through the unpleasant suffering. With hope for a better tomorrow or a better situation, things may not be as bad as they seem. The unpleasant suffering may be easier to deal with if the end result is worth having.
If things get tough and you are at your breaking point, show resilience. Like the bamboo trees, bend, but don’t break!
1.What does the underlined word “snap” in the second paragraph most probably mean?
A. break B. change C. win D. complain
2. What can help people get through sufferings according to the writer?
A. Holding peace and quiet in mind.
B. Waiting until sufferings disappear.
C. Experiencing more bad times.
D. Hoping for a better tomorrow.
3.What would be the best title of this passage?
A. Memories of Bamboo
B. Be Like Bamboo
C. Enjoying Bamboo
D. Characteristics of Bamboo
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1.Which of the following will help to improve your speech?
A. IELTS Listening .
B. Car and Driver.
C. Quick & Easy Meals.
D. Designing Effective Speech Interfaces.
2. Who will probably be interested in Quick & Easy Meals?
A. Car fans.
B. English speakers.
C. Housewives.
D. Businessmen.
3. How many of the four short passages are introductions of magazines?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
完形填空
阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳选项。
A teacher was giving a talk to his students on stress (压力) management. He raised a glass of water and asked them, “How do you think this glass of water is?”
The students began to think and . Their answers are different, from 20g to 500g.
“It does not matter on the real . It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a
,it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call a . It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes. What we have to do is to put the glass down, for a while before holding it up again.”
“If we carry our burdens (负担) ,sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on. The burden will become increasingly heavier. We have to the burden every now and then, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on.”
So you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don’t carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow.
Whatever burdens you have, let them down for a moment if you can. And learn to
ourselves.
Life is short but amazing. Enjoy it!
1.A. heavy B. full C. much D. long
2.A. read B. watch C. guess D. listen
3.A. glass B. weight C. water D. height
4.A. minute B. night C. day D. week
5.A. mother B. teacher C. doctor D. friend
6.A. rest B. shake C. look D. work
7.A. this time B. some other time C. next time D. all the time
8.A. give up B. put down C. pick up D. think about
9.A. after B. since C. before D. until
10.A. save B. help C. care D. relax
The boy is standing under the tree is our monitor.
A. that B. which C. who D.A &C
