动词填空 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。
1.What he cared about (lead) him to his career success in the end.
2.He would rather stay up late than (go) to bed without finishing his homework.
3.As the weather is clearing up, the travel plan (discuss) as soon as possible.
4.When he is in difficulty, he goes to nobody for help. He just (keep) it to himself.
5.— Jim, you have been back. I saw you in the street just now with your friends.
— Yes. Not only my friends but I (do) research on the road safety (安全)for our reports as well.
6.He has great difficulty (write) the letters “b” and “d” correctly.
7.— Tony looks even worse today than the other day.
— His failure on the mid-term exams made his father angry with him, and they (not deal) with the problem.
8.He lost his parents in an accident. From then on, he (care) for well by his uncle.
根据句意和汉语注释，写出单词的正确形式。
1.He became the manager of his company ____ (凭借) years of hard work.
2.I’ve grown up but my parents are ____（严格的）with me now, to my surprise, than before.
3.We humans continue to make ____ (进步) in the fight against illness.
4.He much ____ (更喜欢)soft drinks to water because of its nice taste before he read this Article.
根据句意，用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
1.He said nothing but ____(simple) looked at me.
2.He went to Tibet to teach for two years although he was already in his (forty) .
3.He has such a heart full of ____ (sad) that it’s hard for him to cheer up.
4.Our dream is to ____ (creative) a whole new world for our children to live in freely.
One day I went to a store with a list. “Excuse me,” I said. A lady with glasses looked up, saying, “I’m Miss Bee. Come closer and let me look at you. I want to be able to describe you to the police if something is missing from the store.”
“I’m only a little girl, not a thief (小偷)!” I was surprised.
“But I think you’re potential (有可能的) ,” she said.
“I need these,” I said, holding up my list.
“So what? I am not a person who works for you. Go to get them.” she said.
The store was a puzzle to me. It took me two hours to find everything on the list. “That packet of beans is only 29 cents, but you asked me for 35 cents. ” I corrected her. She didn’t seem unhappy, just looked at me over her glasses.
The following summer I visited Miss Bee some times a week. She always found ways to fool me. Or shortly after I remembered the places of something on the shelf, she arranged (重排) the shelves again and made me hunt for them again. By the end of the summer the shopping trip that had once taken me an hour was done in 15 minutes.
One morning I was to get a packet of chocolate. “Miss Potential, what did you learn this summer?” she said. “That you’re a meanie (刻薄鬼)!” I answered angrily. But she laughed, “Well, I believe my job is to teach every child I meet life lessons to help them. When you get older, you’ll be glad our paths crossed!” Glad I met Miss Bee? Ha! It was absurd.
Until one day my daughter said, “ Could you finish my math problems for me?” “How will you ever learn to do it yourself if I do it for you?” I said. Suddenly, I was back at that store where I had learned the hard way to check my bill. Now I have known what Miss Bee did for me. She is my good teacher.
1.Why did Miss Bee arrange the shelves again and again?
A. To laugh at the writer.
B. To teach the writer some skills.
C. To think about other customers’ need.
D. To avoid her things being stolen.
2.What does the underlined word “absurd” mean?
A. 开心的 B. 令人兴奋的
C. 令人费解的 D. 荒谬的
3.Which word can best describe the writer’s feelings for Miss Bee in the last paragraph?
A.Thankful. B. Hateful.
C. Uncomfortable. D. Unkind.
4.The purpose of writing the text is to tell us _________.
A. the facts about a kind person－Miss Bee
B. how to teach your children life lessons
C. people should check everything carefully
D. the good teacher isn’t only in the school
I travel a lot, and I find out different “style” of directions every time I ask “How can I get to the post office?”
Foreign tourists are often puzzled in Japan because most streets there don’t have names; in Japan, people use landmarks (地标) in their directions instead of street names. For examples, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.”
In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat; in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example, people will say, “Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile.”
People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map; they measure (估量) distance in time, not miles. “How far away is the post office?” you ask. “Oh,” they answer, “it’s about five minutes from here.” You say, “Yes, but how many miles away is it?” They don’t know.
It’s true that a person doesn’t know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in such a situation? A New Yorker might say, “Sorry, I have no idea.” but in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers “I don’t know.” people in Yucatan believe that “I don’t know” is impolite. They usually give an answer, often a wrong one. A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan!
1.When a tourist asks the Japanese the way to a place, they usually _________.
A. tell him the names of the streets
B. show him a map of the place
C. describe the place carefully
D. refer to (意指)clear buildings and places
2.What is the place where people show distance in time?
A. New York. B. Los Angeles. C. Kansas. D. Iowa.
3.Usually, People in Yucatan give a tourist a wrong answer _________ instead of saying “I don’t know”.
A. to save time B. as a test
C. to be polite D. for fun
4.What can we learn from the text?
A. It’s important for travelers to understand cultural differences.
B. It’s useful for travelers to know how to ask the way properly.
C. People have similar understandings of politeness.
D. New Yorkers are generally friendly to visitors.
An excerpt (节选) from The Card
Edward Henry Machin first saw daylight on the 27th of May, 1867, in Brougham Street in Bursley, the oldest of the Five Towns. Brougham Street goes down a hill to the canal (运河).The rent (租金) for one of these houses was not high — only about twenty-two pence (便士) a week.
Edward Henry’s mother (his father was dead) lived by making and washing clothes for fine ladies. She did not often laugh. She was a woman of few words, and saved time every day by calling her son Denry, instead of Edward Henry.
Denry did not work hard at school, and boys who were lazy and not very clever usually just found jobs in the potbanks. Luckily, at the age of twelve, he won a place at the best school in Bursley. It happened like this. On the second day of the examination, Denry arrived a little early. As he walked around the examination room, he came to the teacher’s desk, where he saw a list of names with marks for the first day of the examination. The highest possible mark was 30, but next to his name he saw the number 7. The numbers were written in pencil, and the pencil was on the desk. He picked it up, looked around the empty room, and at the door, and them wrote a 2 in front of the 7. Of course, this was not honest, but how many truly honest schoolboys are there? Denry was no worse than most of them.
1.What was Edward Henry’s mother like?
A.Patient. B. Dishonest.
C. Hard-working. D. Kind.
2.What was the mark Edward Henry got in the end?
A. 30. B. 7 C. 2 D. 27
