语法填空(共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1-10的相应位置上。
Many Chinese students studying abroad like to stay with host families to learn their language and culture. Nowadays, many Shanghai white-collar workers have received native English-speaking 1 (national) students as their host families, too, in order to learn English from them.
It is usually free for foreign students to stay in a host family in Shanghai, but he/she must take 2 the responsibility of teaching English to at least one certain members of the family. Miss Li has always worried about her 3 (limit) English. “I never knew what to say to an English-speaking person,” said she. She has taken a number of English courses, but 4 has proved to be useful. Last year, she saw 5 advertisement recruiting(征募) host families for foreign students, and that was how Carey (from Chicago, US) came to her home. Carey is actually not a student, but a manager. She stays in Li's apartment for free, 6 has to teach Li oral English for 1 hour every day. “She could hardly speak Chinese at the beginning, and we had to guess 7 each other meant through gestures, ”said Li.
Two months later, they could talk to each other 8 gesticulating(做手势). Now, Li can communicate with any English-speaking person freely. About one hundred Shanghai families have received foreign boarding students, and the figure 9 (rise). However, foreign boarding students can only help improve oral English, but 10 examination skills.
根据短文内容,从下框的A – F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。
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Americans are far more knowledgeable about drinks than they were 20 years ago.Witness the Starbucks revolution and you’ll know where the trend goes.Now, encouraged by recent studies suggesting that it can cut the risk of cancer and heart disease and slow the aging process, tea is enjoying a similar change.Enough fashionable tea houses are springing up to make even longtime coffee drinkers consider switching drinks.
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Tea is available in more places than ever.The Tea Association of the United States reports that from 1990 to 1999, annual sales of the drink grew to $4.6 billion from $1.8 billion.“Green tea is seen by consumers as a ‘functional food’” — delivering health benefits beyond food itself, says Vierhile.
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Recently published studies point out that only teas that come from the leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis have been shown to contain health benefits.Other herbal teas may taste good, yet they do little more than warm up the drinker.But for Camellia sinensis, the evidence is powerful.In a 1998 study, Harvard University researchers found that drinking one cup of black tea a day lowered the risk of heart attack by as much as 44 percent compared with non-tea drinkers, and other studies have suggested that the antioxidants (抗氧化剂) in t
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One such antioxidant in green tea is ECGC, a compound 20 times as powerful as vitamin E and 200 times as powerful as vitamin C.“When people ask me for something good and cheap they can do to reduce their cancer risk, I tell them to drink real tea,” says Mitchell Gaynor, director of medical oncology at New York City’s Strang-Cornell Cancer Prevention Center.
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Among those inspired to become a green-tea drinker is Tess Ghilaga, a New York writer who took it up after seeking advice from a nutritionist six years ago.“I’ve never been a coffee drinker,” says Ghilaga, 33.“She told me to start drinking green tea for the antioxidant qualities.” Now Ghilaga and her husband habitually make tea — they order theirs from InPursuitofTea.com, an Internet tea company.And although tea contains about half the amount of caffeine in a cup of coffee, “you still get such a kick from it,” says Ghilaga.根据对话情景的内容,从对话后所给的选项中选出能够填入每一空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。该选项中有两个为多余选项。
M: How are your new neighbors, Nancy?
W: They seem nice enough, but they have a son who’s driving me crazy.
M: ___6___
W: He comes home every night around 10 with his car window rolled down and radio turned up really loud.___7___ But by then Brian and Lisa are wide awake.
M: Oh, no.
W: Oh, yes.Sometimes it takes us until midnight just to get them to settle down again.
M: ___8___
W: We haven’t even really met them yet except to say a quick hello.
M: You are not going to like them when you do meet them, I dare say.
W: I know, but I feel stupid complaining.___9___ I’m just not getting enough sleep and neither are the children.
M: ___10___
W: Yeah.
M: Then you could mention that the hardest thing at present is getting your children to sleep at night.
A.Have you tried talking to them? |
B.What do you mean? |
C.Actually, they didn’t say anything. |
D.Maybe you could ask about their son and they’ll be sure to ask about yours. |
E.Well, you know how early I have to get up to be here at the office.
F.Don’t get your hopes too high!
G.It stops as soon as he turns the car off.
根据对话内容,从对话后的选项中选出能填在空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(AB="E," AC="F," AD=G)
—When is your vocation going to start?
—I'll be leaving on the fifth of August
—61How many weeks are you going to be taking?
—I'm taking two weeks now, but l want to save the other week and take it sometime during winter.
—That sounds good.62
—To the beach.
—Have you made your hotel reservation yet?
—63I'll be staying with friends.
—You're lucky. 64
—What about you? When are you planning to take your vocation?
—_ 65I should be thinking about it, I guess.
A.Oh, I don't need to do that. |
B.No, not really ! |
C.That's only a few days from now |
D.It’s hard to find a hotel in August. |
E. That depends.
F. I don't know.
G. Where are you going?
根据对话内容,从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(每小题1分,共5分)
M:Hi.Jenny.Nice to meet you here! Have you got everything ready for Christmas?
W:61.What about you,Mike?
M:62.By the way,have you read this news in the newspaper? Two men broke into a store near here last night and took more than $4,500 in cash.
W:63.Two young men held up my husband on the street last week in the middle of the afternoon.
M:Really? 64.Where did that take place?
W:65.Right in front of the cinema.
A.I’m sorry to hear that |
B.No.I came here to get some meat and fruit |
C.Only a block from here |
D.I think I can get everything ready today |
E. How much did it cost you?
F. That’s nothing
G. Good luck to you
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
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A.It was the Mississippi that made the city what it is |
B.Levees, high banks built of earth, hold back the flood waters |
C.Therefore, as we know, it’s the third longest river in the world |
D.It is known that the“Great Water”has also been a frontier river |
E.However, they paddled up and down the Mississippi in their boats to seek their fortune
F.The“Great Water”always remains a thread, for the streets of the city are below the level of the river
G.They call themselves Cajuns, who have actually been leading fairly primitive lives and preserving their own traditions
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