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首字母填空 Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词,使内 容通顺, 每空格限填一词，首字母已给) (14分) We all like getting into gossip(闲聊).Studies s__92___ that gossiping releases(释放)our emotions and reduce tension(紧张). Research has proved that in the USA, gossiping can make people more democratic(民主，平等). It is a way of free expression. While gossiping, people communicate with a free mind. Gossiping h__93____ us shift(转移)our interest to others. When we gossip, we seldom discuss our own problems. We generally discuss another person who is not present. Doing so, we laugh away our own cares. Sometimes we feel sorry for a person involved in a particular problem. And we also come up with solutions to his problems. More happiness flows into our lives when we help and guide a person we are t__94___ about. But, be aware of the dangerous side of gossiping! Gossiping can be harmful if you h__95___ others on purpose. When you start speaking i__96____ of someone, you start criticizing others for nothing. When you gossip with an ill-will, it makes you tense. Tension naturally comes to you when you try to make others tense. Why do people talk badly about each other? People pass bad remarks about others simply out of hatred,憎 恨), fear, envy(妒忌), and greed. The person making insulting(侮辱性的) remarks thinks his listener will keep the talk a s__97____, but gossiping travels faster than the wind! And still faster when the gossiping is bad! We all gossip at one time or another. After gossiping, people feel l__98____ and relaxed. But purely bad gossiping makes us tense and envious of others. D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通 顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) Uncle Henry and Aunt May went on holidays to Alaska. Mom, Dad and I went to visit them when they got back, and they showed us the video they made there. This is my review. The video tells the story of how they left home and f 92 to the west coast. The video shows us lots of clouds that can see out of the window of the plane. When they got to the coast, they traveled by train to a place where they could get on a big ship. They didn?t know the name of the place. It wasn?t mentioned(提到)o 93 the video. Uncle Henry and Aunt May couldn?t remember it when I asked them. When they got on the big ship, they sailed up the coast of Canada to Alaska. The video has many pictures of Aunt May with ice and snow, Aunt May with water, Aunt May at the front of the ship, and Aunt May with other people. We didn?t know any of the people, but we had to hear their life s 94 . Aunt May insisted on pausing (暂停)the video and telling us. The most e 95 part was when they came close to a river that turned into a kind of waterfall into the sea. They came up r 96 close and one of the tour operators leaned over the front of the ship and tried to catch some of the water in a cup. We all wanted to know whether she would fall into the ocean b 97 she got the water. She didn?t. Other surprising parts were when they saw a seal(海豹) sleeping on an iceberg, and when Aunt May tripped over a piece of rope and a 98 fell over. Uncle Henry kept saying, “Are you all right, dear?” I think this is an interesting video and I like it very much. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (本篇每题2分) (本篇答案必须用黑墨水钢笔或黑色水笔填写，用圆珠笔或铅笔填写不给分。) One day last June I was walking along the beach of a small seaside town where I live. I was looking at the ships in the harbour. Though the weather was sunny, it was a very cold day, and I could h__92__ feel the sunshine on the beach. I planned to have a swim when I left home, but now I changed my mind. Just when I was hesitating w__93__ I should go back home, I came to a shelter made of glass. I decided to sit for a while. When I entered, I found that I was so w__94__ to have made such a decision. The shelter protected me from the cold wind and I could enjoy the sunshine. But soon after I sat down, a large friendly dog suddenly appeared and lay down at my feet. No matter how hard I tried to get rid of him, he r__95__ to leave. It seemed that he had decided to go home with me. He was wearing a collar (颈圈)but there was no name or a__96___ on it. Finally I had to ring the local police station and explained what had happened. I promised to keep the dog until they found the owner. Several days later a lady appeared at my house to say the dog was h_97___. She said he jumped on a bus and rode away while she was talking to a friend at the bus stop. He sat and listened quietly. When she finished and called him in a soft voice, he got up and f_98___ her away happily. I was quite upset to have to give back such a friendly animal. D(Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入恰当的词，使其内容通顺， 每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(共14分) Many teenagers have problems that worry them. Some do not learn their school subjects well. Some are good at learning and do well in exams, but they are doing so poorly in sports t___92____ their classmates call them „bookworms?. So many teenagers suffer from stress(压力). The good news is that there are some simple ways to d____93___with stress. Firstly, eating a h____94____ diet, getting enough sleep and doing exercises are very important. How can we be happy if we are not fit? For school work, planning ahead can help. Making a l___95___ of the things they need to do and planning when to do them can help students organize their time. If you are weak in a subject, you should s___96___ more time on it and ask a teacher for help. Students should pay no attention to people who laugh at them. I___97___, they should find the things they are good. Then students should also make enough time for their hobbies. Playing sports, reading and watching films help them r___98___. D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通 顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) Obamas’ $1 Allowance(零花钱): How Much Do You Pay Your Kids? Many children in America try to find the jobs in their holidays to earn their pocket money, including President Obama?s daughters Sasha and Malia. Obama gives his seven and ten-year-old daughters just a dollar a week each for the jobs they do. They help to do housework such as setting the table, washing dishes, and c 92 their play areas and bedrooms. Some people question if it is r 93 to give children allowances in this way. But most of the American parents believe that everyone in the family should be responsible for the housework. The people who agree with this point say that kids shouldn?t just get allowances for n 94 , and that such payments can help kids learn it is not easy to get money -- this is the first l 95 of their money management skills. Most of the children in America are allowed to spend their allowances on the things they like. Many people think that kids can start receiving allowances around ages 4 or 5, when children start to understand how money w 96 in life. How much should the children get from their jobs is another problem, e 97 in these tough economic times (经济困难时期). One way here can help the parents to make the decision: write down how much you spend on your child daily for two weeks and set an a 98 based on (基于) the average daily expenses. Then you will get the answer. D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺， 每空格限填一词，首字母已给): (14分) Two American scientists told the people in industrial nations that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of foods eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago. The scientists say that the human body has changed very l 92 since human first appeared on earth, but the way we live has changed greatly. Our body has not been able to deal with these changes in life style and this has led to new kinds of d 93 . These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times. So they are called “diseases of civilization(文明)”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system, including heart attacks and strokes(中风)are examples of such diseases. Scientists noted that early stone-age people used very little alcohol(酒精)or tobacco (烟草), probably none. Ancient people also got a great deal of physical e 94 , but a change in food is one of the main differences b 95 life in ancient times and life today. Stone-age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than farm animals. They also ate a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits. They did not use m 96 and other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains. But today, we eat a lot of dairy products and grain foods. We eat six times more salt than stone-age people. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but much l 97 vitamin C. People today probably do not w 98 to live as people thousands of years ago did, but scientists say that we would be much healthier if we ate as those ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet foods. D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺， 每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) The Amazon (亚马逊) rainforest is home to millions of different kinds of animals, plants, and birds. Most of the world?s fresh water is here and the forest plants clean the Earth?s air every day. Chico was born near the Amazon town, Brazil (巴西), in 1944 and started working when he was very young. Like the r 92 of his family, the boy got the money by taking a little rubber (橡 胶) from the trees in the forest. The forest and its people lived together comfortably and peacefully. But some people think too much about the p 93 and never think about the future. In 1980, the forest was burned to build roads, houses and factories. Chico was angry; he wanted to save the forest! He talked to the government workers, but they didn?t listen to him. They were still clearing the rainforests to make quick, easy money. “Many voices are s 94 than one,” he thought, so Chico held group meetings. He discovered that hundreds of people agreed with him. His hope g 95 . More people came together to try to stop the work of the forest clearers. Large areas of the forest were saved. Later he traveled to many other countries for i 96 help. People soon became very much interested in this brave Brazilian. In the next few years Chico?s name became famous all over the world. The government of Brazil started making plans to protect large areas of the Amazon rainforest. But as Chico?s dreams started coming true, someone stopped him in the o 97 possible way. The famous forest fighter was murdered (谋杀) right outside his home on December 22, 1988. Chico?s life was cut short, but his brave new ideas continued in other people. One man c 98 the world?s ideas. After his death, people around the world sent money to help Chico?s work. D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺， 每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) Americans think that travel is good for people. Some even think it can help one of the country?s worst problem—crime. (犯罪) Crime worries a lot of people. Every year, the n 92 of crimes goes up and up. They often come from sad homes, with only one parent or no parents at all. There are problems with drugs. (毒品) There are many young criminals (罪犯) in prison. But prison doesn?t change them--60 to 70 percent will go b 93 to crime when they come out of prison. One man, Bob Burton, thought of a new idea. In the old days, young men had to live a hard life on the road. They learned to be strong and brave, and to help their friends in time of danger. This helped them to grow into m 94 . So Bob started “Vision Quest” (幻想探究). He takes young criminals on a long, long j 95 with horses and wagons (马车) 3,000 miles through 7 states. They are on the road for more than one year. The young people on Vision Quest all have bad problems. Most of them have already s 96 time in prison. This is their last chance. It?s hard work on the road. The day starts before the sun comes up. The boys and the girls have to feed the horses. Some of them have never loved anyone before, b 97 they can love their horses. That love can help them to start a new life. Not all young people in Vision Quest will leave crime behind them. 30 or 40 percent will one day be in prison a 98 . But that?s a lot better than 60 or 70 percent. Bob is right. Travel can be good for them. D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺， 每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) Let me tell you a story. One of my good friends lives with six hundred animals on the Greek Island of Kyklos. There is not enough water on the island, t 92 there is a lot all around it. Ever since he left school, he has travelled all over the world collecting animals for his o 93 zoo. He hoped to collect at least two examples of every sort of animals on his island. He writes books about his travels, and about his wonderful animals that he collects. The money from his books helps him to p 94 for all the food that these animals eat. My friend told me that when he was out looking for water last week , he found oil. He n 95 money for his travels, and for his zoo, and a little oil can buy enough water for a long time, but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it, it will be the e 96 of his zoo and his life?s work. So I think he will not tell anybody e 97 you and me about what he found — because oil and water can?t be put together . Oil may bring g 98 trouble to his animals than not having enough water . Do you think so? D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺， 每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) My old friend, Harrison, a British gentleman, was a retired banker. Harrison had worked and lived in the Mediterranean for many years b (92) he returned to England. Harrison had often dreamed of retiring in England , his hometown ,where he spent his childhood happily, he had p (93) to settle down in the country. He had no sooner returned in July than he bought a house and went to live there. Harrison had thought of everything e (94) the weather. Almost immediately he began to complain about the weather, for even though it was still s (95) ,once the most sunshiny days of this period with his schoolmates playing outside during their holidays, it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold. After so many years of e (96) the sunshine in the Mediterranean, Harrison got a shock. He acted as if he had n (97) lived in England before. In the end, Harrison had to admit that the weather of his hometown was more than he could bear. He had h (98) had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country. The dream of my poor friend had had for so many years ended there. D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺， 每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) My old friend, Harrison, a British gentleman, was a retired banker. Harrison had worked and lived in the Mediterranean for many years b (92) he returned to England. Harrison had often dreamed of retiring in England , his hometown ,where he spent his childhood happily, he had p (93) to settle down in the country. He had no sooner returned in July than he bought a house and went to live there. Harrison had thought of everything e (94) the weather. Almost immediately he began to complain about the weather, for even though it was still s (95) ,once the most sunshiny days of this period with his schoolmates playing outside during their holidays, it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold. After so many years of e (96) the sunshine in the Mediterranean, Harrison got a shock. He acted as if he had n (97) lived in England before. In the end, Harrison had to admit that the weather of his hometown was more than he could bear. He had h (98) had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country. The dream of my poor friend had had for so many years ended there. D(Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通 顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) Shanghaihua (上海话):use it or lose it There are about 6.000 languages in the world and some experts say that as many as half of these languages will disappear in the next one hundred years. Will Shanghaihua be one of t (92) ? It?s a question that more people are asking. In China, Putonghua is the official language. That m (93) it?s the language of government, business and the media(媒体). And it?s also the language that is used in schools. Shanghai is a special city. It is modern, fashionable and sophisticated (老练的). And Shanghaihua shows that by being modern, fashionable and sophisticated.“I love riding on the b (94) and listening to people speaking Shanghaihua.” Miss Evans, an American reporter said. “ I don?t understand a word they are saying but I like the sound of the language. It sounds smoother than Putonghua. And Shanghainese like things “renao”(热闹)so even a discussion about the weather can sound like an argument or a party. My bus rides are a (95) interesting.” Young people still speak Shanghaihua but not as well as their parents and grandparents. They are under more and more pressure(压力)to speak Putonghua. So the language is being used l (96) often in everyday life. Some people want to keep the language from disappearing completely by building museums and having cultural festivals to save it. But a language isn?t a painting or a book. It?s a living thing and you e (97) use it or lose it. If people stop using it in their d (98) lives, a museum or a festival will not help. It will be lost forever , like the Yangtze River dolphin. D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺， 每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) A nurse took a tired soldier to the bed. “Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to say the words several times b 92 the old man?s eyes opened. The old man dimly (模糊地) saw a young man in a Marine Corps uniform standing beside the bed. He reached out his hand. The soldier took it. The nurse brought a chair so that the soldier could sit by the bed. Nights are long in hospitals, b 93 all through the night, the young man sat there in the ward (病房), holding the old man?s hand and offering him words of love and encouragement. Sometimes, the nurse suggested that the young man move away and rest a while, but he r 94 . Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the soldier was oblivious (遗忘的) of her and of the night noises of the hospital. Now and then, she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said n 95 , only holding tightly to his son?s hand all through the night. Early in the morning, the old man died. The soldier went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited. Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy (同情), but the soldier stopped her. “That?s not n 96 …. Who was that man?” he asked. The nurse was s 97 . “He was your father,” she answered. “No, he wasn?t,” the soldier replied. “I never saw him before in my life.” “Then why didn?t you say something when I took you to him?” “I knew right away that there had been a m 98 , but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn?t here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, and that how much he needed me, I stayed.” D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺， 每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) More and more Japanese teenagers read novels on mobile phones(手机), n___92____ on the paper. The phone novels are usually written by first-time writers—usually in their tens or twenties. Several novels have been turned into real books. Love Sky, a story a____93____ a boy with cancer, has sold more than 1.3 million books and has been made into a f____94_____. Many of the phone novels are influenced by comic(漫画) books because comic books are very popular in Japan. So phone novels are heavy in dialogue and have r____95____ short paragraphs. Large empty spaces between sentences are used to mean that the characters are thinking. A mobile phone novel website, Maho i-Land which started several years ago, now has six million members and a million novels on the site. However, some t____96_____ writers are angry about phone novels. They c____97____ that phone novels are short of scene(缺少情景) and character development. Koichiro Tomioka, a professor at Kanto Gakuin University, said it was a new w____98____ for writers to become known. He said, “It?s interesting. The problem is: can this new type of writer keep on writing books as a professional writer?” D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通 顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) Going to see a new movie is a good way to spend a night out on the town, and there are more and more to choose from. In a big city like London, New York or Beijing, it is p 92 to choose from more than 100 films every night of the week. Some of them cost more than 100 million dollars to make, and some of them were made for just a few hundred dollars. The movie industry is big business, b 93 things are not as good as they should be for movie makers. In addition to competition from other forms of entertainment—television, computer games, etc.—there is the problem of illegal download(下载)of films. The movie industry has started to consider the problem very s 94 . In a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, a 13-year-old boy named Ben Rangel recently downloaded four movies from the Internet. What he did was against the law. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) took legal action, not against Ben, but against his 67-year-old grandfather, Fred Lawrence. Ben u 95 his grandfather?s computer to download the movies. The MPAA wrote a letter to Mr. Lawrence, but didn?t answer. They then asked for a payment of $600,000 and Mr. Lawrence was very worried. Finally, the MPAA and Ben?s family agreed about the best thing to do. Ben said he was s 96 in front of 100 students from the seventh and eighth grade at his school, Maple Dale School in Racine. Ben warned students not to download movies or computer games w 97 paying for them. “My grandpa had much t 98 because of me,” said Ben. “I?m here to tell you that download is wrong, and we shouldn?t do it. D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺， 首字母已给):(14分) 每空格限填一词， Many people use the Internet to get useful knowledge and facts, and to relax themselves. But some of them are not using it in a good way. Here are some rules to make sure you are s 92 and have fun on the Internet. , Make rules for the Internet use with your parents. For example, when and how long you can go online, and what activities you can do online. , Don?t give your password to anyone else, and never give out the following i 93 : your real name, home address, age, school, phone number, etc. , Check with your parents before giving out a credit (信用) card number. , Never send a photo of yourself to anyone in an e-mail u 94 your parents say it?s OK. , Check with your parents before going into a chat room. Different chat rooms have different rules and attract different kinds of people. You and your parents must make sure it?s a r 95 place for chatting. , Never agree to meet someone you meet on the Internet w 96 your parents? permission (允许). Never meet anyone you meet online a 97 . , Always remember that people online may not be the people they say they are. Treat (视为) everyone online as if they were strangers. , If something you see or read online makes you uncomfortable, l 98 the site. Tell your parents or your teachers at once. , Treat other people as you?d like to be treated. Never use bad language. , Remember---not everything you read on the Internet is true. D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通 顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) Everyday Millan puts on his running shoes and takes a four-hour walk with 40 dogs---large and small, y 92 and old. Most of those dogs belong to him. The rest are at the heart of his work, they are troublesome dogs sent to Millan to learn good manners. Millan, star of the TV show Dog Whisperer and author of the best-selling book Cesar’s Way, has a special gift for working with these animals. Growing up on a farm, Millan knew he wanted to work with dogs. His first job, at the age 15, was helping a veterinarian(兽医). He was so good at letting dogs quiet and handling all kinds of situations. People started to c 93 him “the dog boy”. Since then, he has built a rewarding job around his favorite animal. “My grandfather taught me at an early age n 94 to work against nature,” he explains. In nature, dogs like to stay in a group and follow one leader. Millan?s specialty is teaching people to be leaders for their dogs. Studying dogs on the farm where he grew up, Millan realized they need lots of exercise to stay quiet. He explains his way: “Exercise and rules f 95 , and then love!” he says that a lot of people get it backwards because they don?t realize what dogs r 96 need. Therefore, while he trains dogs, he teaches owners to understand that their pets need rules. To find the right job, Millan e 97 kids to do what they enjoy. “A lot of people don?t realize I?ve worked with dogs for more than 20 years---long before my TV show or book. Success followed me because I was following my d 98 of being the best dog trainer in the world.” C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通 顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):(14分) There are many online food shopping sites. Things l___92___ CDs, books, and DVDs sell well online. But it is quite different to sell food online b___93___ people like to see food with their own eyes. It is very i___94___ for people to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. Customers like to c___95___ their food by its color. They also want to touch and smell it. Some people like going to the same shop to buy food with good quality. So if the food is always g___96___ , they will feel comfortable buying it online. Boxes of fruits and vegetables have been delivered to h___97___ around Britain for a few years now. Dried or canned foods are almost the same all the time, but fresh things are not. For example, people may want to pick their own apples so they can take the o__98__ that look nice. Buying dried and canned food online is easier. A person can buy this kind of food on the Internet and then buy fruits and vegetables at a store or a market.