Hangzhouhua (杭州话)：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(消失) in the next one hundred years. Will Hangzhouhua be one of 1)________? It’s a 2)________ that more people are asking.
In China, Putonghua is the official language. That 3)________ it’s the language of government, business and the media (媒体). And it’s also the language that is 4)________ in schools.
Hangzhou is a special city. It used to be the capital of Wu and Yue States in the 10th century during the Five Dynasties period. Now it is modern, fashionable and also beautiful. And Hangzhouhua shows that by being modern, fashionable and beautiful.
Young people still speak Hangzhouhua but not as 5)________ as their parents and grandparents. They are under more and more pressure to speak Putonghua. So the language is being used 6)________ often in everyday life. Some people want to keep the language from disappearing completely 7)_________ building museums and having cultural festivals to save it. But a language isn’t a painting 8)________ a book. It’s a living thing and you 9)________ use it or lose it.
If people 10)________ using it in their daily lives, a museum or a festival will not help. It will be lost forever, like the Yangtze River dolphin.
选词填空：要注意适当形式变化哟！！！！
| they swim like watch player at game want |
Many people in the USA love sports. Some people like playing sports and some people like ______ sports. ____
___school, students play many different sports. Such as football ,basketball and volleyball. In summer, students go ____
____ and play basketball. Mike _
___ playing volleyball but she doesn’t like swimming. Andy and Simon love playing football but __
__ don’t like swimming. They are members of the school Football club Millie and Sandy like playing table tennis. They are good ___
____ and win(赢得）many table tennis matches, but they don’t like volleyball. Mille’s best friend ,Lily ,is a good badminton player. She thinks badminton is an easy ____
_____. She ___
___ to teach her friends to play badminton in her free time.
根据句意，从方框中选择恰当的词或短语填空。每个只能用一次。注意：名词、动词、形容词等可以按需要变成适当的形式。
| singer, useful, factory ,interesting, himself, good, is fond of, feed |
Jay Chou_____________________ singing. He sings a lot.
Last night I ______________ some fish to my cat.
He enjoyed ___________ at the party yesterday .
Song Zuying is a famous _____________ in China.
I think this is a _____ book.
More and more __________ move into Zhaoqing.So the air here is worse and worse.
The movie is __________________________ of all.
Go to bed early,and have a good sleep ,you’ll feel soon..
方格里的词你还记得吗？请你在下面找出它们的意思，并把单词的字母编号写在答题卡上。
| A. cancer, B. collect , C. forest D. whale E. hen F.brave G.friendshipH. clearI. stupidJ.museum |
a relationship between friends
can do everything without fear（害怕）
not clever
a building keeping collections of great value（价值）
get or bring together
A very large animal living in the sea, and looks like a fish
A large area of land with many trees growing close together
a serious disease
A female chicken
easy to see through
用be动词（am, is, are）填空。This ______ Michael.
I ____ Lucy.
Where ____ you from?
He ____ my teacher, Mr. Wang.
How______ you?
Who ____ she?
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once (将下列单词或词组前的字母填入空格。每词限填一次)
| A. quietlyB. danger C. easy D. looked like E. from time to time F. suddenly G. plan H. lovely I. frightening |
It was a very hot afternoon, and we decided to cool off in the river near my home. As we climbed down a small rocky hill toward the water, my boyfriend Edward started to shout, then jumped into the water below. Mathew and Kathy quickly followed but I was too far away to jump.
I heard a low hum (嗡嗡), which was growing louder. From a distance, the group of bees ___ a cloud of smoke. As it got closer, I realized it was actually large numbers of bees flying towards me. All I could do was to cover my face with hands. I thought that if I sat very
, the bees would think I was just another rock.
After a few minutes, I knew my hadn’t worked. The bees were attacking me. I could hear my friends shouting at me to get down to the pool fast. But it wasn’t so
. I was in great pain and the only way I could get away was to use my hands to climb down the rocks. However, I was afraid to do that at first because my face would be unprotected. The noise the bees made was so loud and
, but I had no choice.
I rushed down the rocks and jumped into the pool, but I don’t remember doing it. I was just so happy to be free from the pain. I was safe and the water felt wonderful.
But we still weren’t out of . Every time we tried to climb out of the pool, the bees flew back over our heads. We spent the next three hours in the water, putting out heads under the water
to avoid the bees until they finally lost interest.