The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world. It’s also, perhaps, the gentlest , 1 not always.
Elephants are like us in some ways. They 2 for a long time—fifty or sixty years. They can 3 things very well. They never forget great sadness or happiness. A female elephant 4 , her daughters and her granddaughters are sad for many months. They stay with the dead 5 . Then they carry a bit of it away with them. They never forget a 6 friend.
Elephants are like us, but they’re also 7 .They live in families; families or females. There will be a few young males-a few “baby boy”. But they will soon be 8 away by their mothers or sisters. An elephant family 9 only its daughters, mothers and grandmothers and its great grandmothers.
The females stay together for fifty, sixty or a hundred years.The older animals 10 the young ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.And 11 happens to male elephant? Well, the young males stay with their mothers for a time. Then they must 12 the family. The females just send them away. A bull elephant does not often have a friend ,He lives 13 ,away from the family, and away from other bulls.
Sometimes the females call a bull. He can 14 _them then, and they stay for a time. But soon his “wives” and “sisters” send him away again. The females have a very 15
family life. What do the bulls think about it? We don’t know.
A．and B．but C．so D．yet
A．play B．work C．live D．sleep
A．remember B．practice C．talk D．change
A．is hurt B．is caught C．loses D．dies
A．head B．legs C．body D．feet
A．terrible B．dad C．young D．dear
A．different B．same C．special D．popular
A．thrown B．sent C．kicked D．posted
A．hopes B．keeps C．Allows D．frightens
A．look at B．carry out C．look after D．take away
A．how B．who C．which D．what
A．leave B．stay C．hear D．walk
A．sadly B．hard C．alone D．noisily
A．visit B．beat C．hide D．receive
A．dangerous B．happy C．beautiful D．clever
完形填空先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意, 然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。 （本大题共10分，每小题1分）
I sat down to read under an old tree in the park. I felt my life was , for my whole world was dark.
A young boy ran up to me, out of breath. He stood right before me with his head down and said , “Look what I found!” In his hand was a flower, and what a poor sight! The flower was dry and . I gave him a small smile and then turned my eyes away so that he could take his dry flower and go off to play.
However, he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his and said in surprise, “It smells sweet and it’s beautiful, too. That’s I picked it. Here, it’s for you.” The flower before me was dead. But I knew I must it, or he might never leave. So I accepted the flower, and replied, “This is just what I want.” Just then, for the first time I noticed that the boy could not see — he was blind.
Tears (眼泪) came down my face as I him for picking the best one. “You’re welcome,” he smiled, and then ran off to . I sat there and wondered how he was able to learn about my pain.
Through the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. And for all those years I myself always was . I decided to see the beauty in life, and every second of my life. And then I held that dry flower up to my nose and breathed in the smell of a beautiful rose.
A．hopeless B．colorful C．simple D．wonderful
A．sadly B．strictly C．angrily D．excitedly
A．dead B．fresh C．alive D．heavy
A．head B．nose C．ear D．neck
A．how B．when C．where D．why
A．buy B．sell C．accept D．break
A．forgave B．thanked C．paid D．hated
A．sleep B．study C．dance D．play
A．cheerful B．useful C．blind D．deaf
A．waste B．enjoy C．lose D．forget
完形填空(15分)阅读短文，然后从A、B、C、D中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Long long ago, there was a river. The river was very _______. He had spent long time being alone and refusing to share his water with any fish, plant or animal. His life was full of loneliness and sadness.
One day, a little girl came to the river. She was going to move to _____ country and decided to put ______ favourite little fish into the river. This little fish, named Scamp, was a happy fish._______ he fell into the river, he felt the river’s loneliness. Scamp tried to ________to the river and wanted to make the river ________. But the river told Scamp to go away. Scamp didn’t ________. He kept asking and _________ in the river, and ______ he started jumping in and out of the water. ______ time went by, the river became happy and they became good ________ . But one day, this little fish was caught by a little boy.
The river spent that night thinking about how much_______ it was to have a friend, and how much he had missed by not _______ him. Before, he was so _________. From then on, the river became friendly to others and made friends ________ the plants and fish in the river.
A．kind B．unfriendly C．outgoing D．strange
A．other B．another C．else D．the other
A．his B．her C．my D．your
A．Until B．If C．Because D．When
A．talk B．laugh C．cry D．catch
A．brave B．weak C．happy D．sad
A．grow up B．give up C．get up D．come up
A．standing B．swimming C．praising D．fighting
A．finally B．slowly C．hardly D．luckily
A．While B．Since C．Whenever D．As
A．classmates B．brothers C．parents D．friends
A．fun B．time C．money D．stress
A．having B．attacking C．reporting D．eating
A．tired B．untidy C．stupid D．valuable
A．for B．about C．with D．over
It was the last day of the examination in a large eastern university. On the steps of one building , a group of students were talking about the exam that was going to begin soon. This was their exam---then on to graduation and jobs. On their faces was . With four years’ hard study in the college, they felt and able to take it. The coming exam, they knew, would be an one, as the professor(教授) had said they could bring books or notes they wanted, requesting only that they did not from each other during the exam.
they walked into the classroom. The professor gave the papers. And the students found there were only five questions.
Three hours had passed, the professor began to collect papers. The students no longer looked confident. The professor looked at the faces before him, and then asked: “How many all five questions?” ,No hand was . “How many answered four?” Still no hand. “Three? Two?” Still no one. “One, then?” But the class silent.
The professor put down the papers. “That is exactly what I ”, he said. “I just want you to know that, although you have completed four years of study, there are still many things you don’t know.” Then, smiling, he added, “You will all this course, but remember----even though you are now college graduates, your education has just . ”
A．first B．next C．final D．main
A．pleasure B．confidence C．surprise D．interest
A．glad B．ready C．sorry D．nervous
A．interesting B．important C．easy D．unusual
A．both B．either C．neither D．all
A．listen B．look C．talk D．copy
A．Normally B．Peacefully C．Quickly D．Carefully
A．up B．away C．down D．out
A．worried B．scared C．moved D．tired
A．regarded B．considered C．completed D．replied
A．put up B．lift C．risen D．set up
A．refused B．reported C．remained D．reminded
A．learned B．enjoyed C．hated D．expected
A．pass B．fail C．take D．start
A．achieved B．finished C．started D．succeeded
Mr. and Mrs. Hill were invited to a Christmas party at a hotel one year. They ____ their car outside and went in. Mr. Hill had never got drunk(醉) before, so he was ____ not to drink too much, though his friends asked him ____ more all along.
During the party, Mrs. Hill found that she had _4__ to bring her bag, she asked her husband to go out to the car and get it for her. He ____ so, but on his way back to the hotel gate, he heard a car horn(喇叭) blowing near his own car. He thought ____ might be in need of help and he went over to the car with the noise. He found a bear sitting in the driving-seat and blowing the horn.
When Mr. Hill ____ the party, he told people about the bear but of course they did not believe him and thought he was drunk. When he took them out of the hotel to show that his story was ____, he found that the car with the ____ in it had gone. There were so many ____ about Mr. Hill’s bear during the next week that he at last put an advertisement(广告) in the newspaper,“If anyone saw a bear blowing the horn in a car outside the Century Hotel ____ the evening of Christmas Day, please tell…”
Two days later Mrs. Richards called him and said that she and her husband had left their pet(宠物) bear in their car outside the Century Hotel for a few minutes that evening, and that ____ he had blown the born.
Mrs. Richards did not ____ to think there was anything ____ about that.“Our bear likes blowing car horns,”she said,“and we don’t ____ when we are not driving the car.”
A．pulled B．stayed C．parked D．hid
A．polite B．careful C．glad D．afraid
A．to drink B．drink C．drank D．drinking
A．learned B．known C．remembered D．forgotten
A．said B．went C．did D．thought
A．one B．someone C．his wife D．the bear
A．was sent to B．was seated at C．got red of D．got back to
A．interesting B．correct C．true D．exciting
A．horn B．bear C．bad D．driving-seat
A．laughs B．shouts C．smiles D．calls
A．for B．at C．in D．on
A．quickly B．completely C．maybe D．almost
A．mean B．have C．know D．seem
A．useful B．strange C．common D．bad
A．agree B．like C．mind D．worry
Many people of the early times believed that by eating an animal they could get some of the good qualities of that animal for themselves. They thought, ,that eating deer would make them run like a deer. Some people believed eating enemies who had bravery in the battle would make them brave. The practice of eating human flesh might have started because people were to become as strong and brave as their enemies.
Many people once thought that ginger roots(姜根）by some magical power could the memory .Eggs were thought to voice pretty. Tomatoes were believed to have magical powers. They were called love apples and were believed to make people who ate them fall in .
Later, another wrong idea about tomatoes . The idea was that they were poisonous(有毒的）.How The people who thought tomatoes were poisonous would be if they could know that millions of tomatoes were given to the soldiers abroad the Second World War.
Even today there are still a great many ideas about food. Some of them are found in many places. One idea is that fish is the best brain food. But no one has been able to that fish is better for the brain than many other kinds of food. such idea is that people should not drink water with meals. Washing food down with water instead of chewing it is not a good idea,but some water with meals has been found to be .It helps to digest(消化）the food.
A．for example B．in fact C．in general D．later on
A．seen B．shown C．found D．realized
A．excited B．pleased C．worried D．anxious
A．improved B．help C．use D．make
A．leave B．let C．get D．make
A．also B．too C．either D．neither
A．likeness B．enjoyment C．love D．friendship
A．used up B．thought of C．thought about D．grew up
A．bored B．terrified C．surprised D．interested
A．through B．of C．before D．during
A．right B．wrong C．good D．true
A．so B．such C．what D．how
A．say B．show C．find D．think
A．Other B．Others C．Another D．The other
A．wonderful B．useless C．helpful D．thankful