I usually go to bed _______ ten o’clock.
A.in B.after C.on D.from
—What’s the time?
—It’s _______ three-thirty.
A.of B.around C.at D.in
Writing:
Write at least 60 words about the topic “An Unusual Experience”（以“一次不寻常的经历” 为题写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格。)
Use the following points as a reference. （以下问题仅供参考）
What was the unusual experience?
When and where did it happen?
Why do you think it was unusual?
An Unusual Experience
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Answer the questions.(根据短文内容，回答下列问题)
Vanessa Tahay is different from the other teenagers (青少年) in her school. Her skin is dark and her voice is thick. But these are the things she is proudest of.
Tahay is one of the best poets (诗人) in Los Angeles. But that doesn’t come easily to someone who comes from a small village in Central America.
When she first came to school, she was shy and laughed at by others for being short and different.
She spent hours after school and on weekends watching the same DVDs: English Without Barriers (障碍). Tahay’s elder brother, Elmer, advised her to join the after-school poetry club.
The first time Tahay read the poems in the club, she was shocked. “I wish I could write like that,” she thought to herself.
She wrote her first poem about her first year in America. She called it “Invisible (无形的)”. The day she read it in front of the team, she broke down crying. She cried a lot. “I had too much to express (表达) myself,” Tahay said.
Though her English was not good at that time, she kept at it. At first, she wouldn’t tell her friends about her poetry because she worried they’d make fun of her.
But with time, her poems changed her. “They gave me pride,” Tahay said. “They told me I’m worth (值得的) something.”
1.What does Tahay take pride in most?
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2.Where does Tahay come from?
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3.What’s Tahay’s first poem “Invisible” mainly about?
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4.What event changed Tahay’s life?
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5.Why did Tahay seldom share her poems with her friends at first?
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6.What can you learn from this story?
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Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.(在短文的空格内填入适当的单词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)
Bananas don’t grow on trees. They grow on a stalk (秆) that looks just a little like a stalk of corn. The stalk is soft enough to be cut with a k1..
It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked. Some are as small as fingers. Others are as long as men’s arms. Some banana plants grow as tall as a house — even taller!
Not all bananas are eaten as fruit. Some never get sweet, and they are cooked as a kind of v2..
People in most countries never see a banana until it reaches the store. But if you visited a country where it’s hot and rains a lot all the year, you might see a banana plantation, a large farm where bananas grow.
The tasty fruit doesn’t come from a seed but from a root planted deep in the ground. First, a stalk pushes up into the air. Then leaves grow. In the beginning the banana plant grows very f3. — sometimes as much as the length (长度) of your feet in one night. Soon, sweet-smelling flowers come out, and when their flowers drop off, bananas b4. to grow.
As they get bigger, bananas start turning up. It looks as if they’re growing upside down! Bananas are ready to eat when they t5. soft and yellow. Bananas are picked long before this — when they’re hard and green. This is because bananas have to travel many miles before they a6. at a store. On trucks, boats and trains bananas travel all over the world. There are special boats just for bananas and special trains that keep them just cool enough so that they will get ripe while traveling. If bananas are picked when they are ripe (成熟的), they will spoil (腐坏) on the way.
Choose the best answer and complete the passage (选择最恰当的选项完成短文)
Ari’s mother asked him to pick up firewood for the fire. Instead of doing that right away, Ari thought he could ________his friends first.
Not long after, his mother began to want to know why he had not returned. It was already dark and she was worried. At the same time, Ari ________ that he had not done as his mother had asked and told his friends about this. The boys then began gathering the firewood.
Meanwhile, Ari’s mother came looking for him. She soon heard the boys’ voices. She had mixed feelings. She was _______ to know that he was safe but angry at the same time because Ari had disobeyed (没服从) her. She decided to give the boys a lesson.
She hid in the nearby woods. _______ she picked up a twig (树枝) and threw it. It hit the ground making a sharp noise. It caught the boys’ attention. They stopped what they were doing and looked at one another. She threw another twig in the opposite ________. The boys jumped. The mother cried in a low trembling voice, “ Listen to your mother!” Scared, the boys dropped ________ and ran home. Ari’s mother could not stop laughing.
After picking up some pieces of firewood, she headed home, where she found Ari in tears.
“Mother, Mother, I’m sorry I didn’t listen to you,” he sobbed (哭诉). His mother held him with love. She knew he was truly sorry and would not repeat his mistake.
1.A.care for B.play with C.depend on D.hear from
2.A.expected B.forgot C.realized D.decided
3.A.sad B.happy C.worried D.careless
4.A.Instead B.Therefore C.However D.Then
5.A.direction B.seat C.street D.woods
6.A.nothing B.something C.everything D.anything
