阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或单词等提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的单词，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。
Handwriting has1. (become) a dying art. Now children start using keyboards as soon as they begin school. But writing things by hand may be an 2. /ɪmˈpɔːtnt/ way for us to train our brains.
Writing by hand is different from typing. Typing means choosing the whole letter by 3.(touch) a key.4., if we write by hand, we should use strokes (笔画) to make a letter. These finger actions make the large parts of the brain to work, to think and to remember 5. (language). Handwriting helps children learn letters and shapes, and it also improves their abilities to express ideas.
In grades6. /tu:/, four and six, children write more and7. (fast), and express more ideas when they are writing compositions by hand than typing on a keyboard.
The children who 8. /'præktis/ writing by hand have more active brains than the children who just look at letters.
Writing things by hand is 9. for both the children and the adults. When adults learn a new language, they can remember 10. (it) characters better if they write them out by hand. It’s time for us to write by hand instead of typing all the time!
根据情景提示，用恰当的短语或句子填空。
1.当你听到朋友说他妈妈生病时，你可以这么说：
_______________________________________________________________________.
2.同桌Mary夸你今天穿的裙子很漂亮，你会这样回应她:
_________________________________________________________________, Mary.
3.打通电话时，你想确认接电话的人是否是Alice,你会这样问：
___________________________________________________________________?
4.你想咨询店员字典的价格， 可以这么问：
______________________________________________________________________?
5.你想问Jack介不介意把窗户打开，你可以这么询问他：
Would you mind ___________________________________________________, Jack?
阅读短文内容，从方框中选出五个句子填入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整正确。
The Silk Road is the name of different roads that long ago connected Europe, Africa and Asia. 1.. Scientists believe people began to travel. The Silk Road about 3000 years ago. By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world. The Silk Road covered almost 6500 kilometers. It went from Rome to China, which is from the West to the Far East.
More Chinese travelled along The Silk Road to carry silk, of course. They also carried and traded other things like spices (香料), cloth, jewels and gold.
2..
It is said that Roman soldiers who lost a war through central Asia.3.. Some of these Romans married local Chinese women and a new tribe (部落) was started.
During its busiest period, the Silk Road allowed people from many different cultures and countries to meet each other and mix.4.. It included people and trading goods from different areas. All these people traveled the Silk Road. And they shared goods, stories, languages and cultures.
5., but now they are crossed by trains instead of camels and horses. There is even silk route (路线) museum in Jiuquan in China. It has over 35,000 objects from all along the Silk Road. In this way, China protects the history of many countries and peoples.
A.Along and around these ancient path, has a fascinating and mysterious story
B.The Silk Road allowed the sharing of valuable things and new ideas
C.People reached these different places along these roads
D.In modern times, the old Silk routes are still used
E.They decided to live somewhere near the ancient Chinese villages
Imagine having an ear made out of an apple. It seems like a crazy idea. But it could happen in the near future.
Canadian biophysicist Andrew Pelling used an apple to grow a human ear. He thinks fruit and vegetables can be used to cheaply repair human body parts in the future.
Scientists have been trying to grow organs in labs to replace our old ones. But it‘s a hard job. In the past, scientists have used man-made materials, animal parts and even dead people as scaffolds（支架）. But that has proved to be difficult and expensive.
Pelling and his team, however, found the apple to be a cheap and easy-to-use scaffolds.They first cut an apple into the shape of an ear. Then they used a special way to take out the apple‘s cells（细胞）and make it a scaffold. The team then added human cells to the apple, and watched it grow. “You can implant（移植）these scaffold into the body, and the body will send in cells and a blood supply and actually keep these things alive, ” Pelling said during a Ted Talk speech.
The team put the apple scaffold inside a living mouse and the mouse’s cells slowly take over the pieces of the apple.
Now Pelling is thinking of the other fruit, plants or vegetables to use.
1.Andrew Pelling is a scientist who studies
A.body and organs B.biology and organ
C.physic and body D.biology and physics
2.What did Pelling and his team use as scaffolds?
A.Fruits. B.Animals. C.dead people D.man-made
3.According to Paragraph 4, the right order is________.
①Make the apple a scaffold.
②Cut an apple into the shape of an ear.
③Implant this scaffold into the human body.
④Add human cells to the apple scaffold.
A.①④②③ B.②①④③ C.②①③④ D.④①③②
4.How will the body keep the implanted scaffolds alive?
A.By repairing the scaffolds. B.By replacing the scaffolds.
C.By taking over the scaffolds. D.By sending in cells and a blood supply
5.What‘s the best title of the passage?
A.Scaffolds and cells B.Organs and cells
C.Organs Made of Apples D.Scientists and apples
If you were asked to recite lines of poetry that have the Chinese character “hua”—which means flower—how many could you recite?
He Liran, 13, had to tack on this challenge on a TV show aired by Shandong TV. He Liran, a student at the Harbin No 163 Middle School in Heilongjiang, competed with over 100 other students. The competitors took turns reciting lines of poetry that used the word “hua”, with He Liran replying to each one.
One competitor used the line “As if the vernal breeze had come back over night; adorning thousands of pear trees with blossoms white.” He Liran replied with “After one night of wind and showers; how many are the fallen flowers!”
At the end, He Liran won, reciting more than 60 out of the 127 lines that were recited in the competition.
Her lifelong love of reading helped her win. Her father started reading poems to her when she was just 4 years old. She has been a bookworm ever since.
Though busy with schoolwork, she spares time to study at least one poem each day. She thinks ancient poetry is still important, even in modern times.
“Once, I walked along a small path in a forest. The scenery was the same as what is described in the line ‘On the sandy path between pine-trees there is no mud’, which comes from one of Su Shi’s poems. At that moment, the line from his poem naturally came to my mind and I realized that poems can be part of our daily lives,” she said.
1.He Liran started to learn about poetry at the age of________.
A.4 B.6 C.8 D.l3
2.The underlined line in Paragraph 3 probably mans “________” in Chinese.
A.一树梨花压海棠 B.雨打梨花深闭门
C.千树万树梨花开 D.梨花满地不开门
3.According to the text, the competitor________will probably win the competition.
A.that likes ancient poetry best B.that studies at least one poem each day
C.that has recited the most poems with “hua” D.that can recite 127 lines of poems
4.Which of the following is TRUE about He Liran?
A.She competed with over 163 other students. B.Poetry plays an important role in her life.
C.She won the competition in her school. D.She thought of Li Bai’s poem when walking in a forest.
5.What can we learn from the passage?
A.Interest is the best teacher. B.One tree can’t make a forest.
C.Better late than never. D.Actions speak louder than words.
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1.The student who________may be interested in the class on Friday.
A.is too shy to speak in public B.can’t speak English very well
C.has problems understanding others D.wants to learn about basketball
2.When will the classes about English end?
A.After 2 p.m. B.After 3 p.m. C.After 4 p.m. D.After 8 p.m.
3.If you take part in Easy Trip with Math, you may________.
A.have classes on Monday B.learn how to improve thinking skills
C.have classes at the gym of Haved School D.learn with teachers from Whitehawk School
4.How much will they pay if Mary and her friend take part in all the classes mentioned?
A.$ 100. B.$ 150. C.$ 200. D.$ 300.
5.Where is the reading material probably taken from?
A.A storybook. B.A diary. C.A newspaper. D.A report.
