阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。请将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。
Electricity is of great to our life. What would life be like without electricity? “That’s terrible!” most people would say. But it’s life in Ethiopia.
When I was in that country, the power went off every few days. This happened not only in small towns,
even in the capital.
One day when I went to the airport, the power was . I didn’t know which flight to take. At the same time, the Internet was of course
The weather was very hot. To my
, restaurants only served warm drinks. Time after the sunset, between 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., was
. Without any light, I stayed in my room, walking or
in bed. How boring!
I wondered what I would get into if there was no power in America. So I had a try. At 8:30 a.m., I turned off the power. Then I
nothing but rest at home. Things were not so difficult because it was summer and the sun didn’t set until 8:00 p.m. I’ll try this again in winter, and I hope to learn what I can do without electricity.
| Photo regular good keep that |
Every person needs friends. Friends are ____ who open their hearts to us. They always encourage us to try our __
__ to do everything, and they even make us face challenges bravely. __
__ in touch with our friends is important to us all. In this way, we can know how everything is going on with our friends. Friends communicate with each other in different ways. Some make phone calls to their friends __
__. Some send postcards to their friends when they go on holiday. Others prefer to send interesting articles and __
__ along with their letters. Among the ways, there must be your favorite one. Anyway, let’s communicate with our friends as often as possible.
(B)
Music touches our hearts and shortens (缩短) the distance between people of different countries. The super star Jay Chou has cooperated with the American NBA star Kobe Bryant to create a song named The Heaven and Earth Challenge. That’s a song written by Jay Chou whose favorite sport is basketball. It expresses the love for basketball. And it encourages young people to be more confident. Jay Chou has learned much from Kobe’s sports spirit. In the song, Jay Chou does most of the singing part while Kobe plays a part of rapper (说唱者). People can download the ring tone (铃声) of the song from the Internet. All the money from the downloads will go to Project Hope, which aims to improve educational environment in poor areas in China.
任务1. 用方框里所给的单词的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理（每词限用一次）
任务2. 根据英文释义及首字母提示，拼写单词。d__________: space between two points or places
e__________: give confidence or hope to somebody
任务3.同义句转换，每空一词。
Jay Chou has learned much from Kobe’s sports spirit.
Jay Chou has learned ______
______ from Kobe’s sports spirit.
任务4. 根据短文内容简答问题。What does the song express?
_________________________________
cheer, win, especially, body, poor, for, best, photo, believed, knowledge
Football is, I suppose, the most popular game in England. Rich and, young and old, you can see them all there, shouting and
for one side or the other.
You may be surprised to find that even the smallest boy seems to have the greatof the game. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams. He has
of them and knows the results of many matches. He will tell you who he expects will
such and such a match, and his opinion is usually as valuable as that of men three or four times his age.
In England, it isthat education means not only filling a boy’s mind with facts in a classroom but also training character. One of the
ways of training character is by playing games,
team games, where the boy has to learn to work with others for his team, instead of working
himself alone.
Football is good exercise for the, it is a team game, it needs skill and a quick brain. So the school often arranges games and matches for its pupils.
每个单词只能用一次；2.每空限填一词,有些词需要做相应的变化；3.其中有两个多余选项。
| house, smile, keep, happy, listen, money, all, look, ill, friend, travel, be |
How can you get happiness? You may say that happiness requires nice comforts like a , a car, big bank balance, a high paying job.
Here in India where I live, I havethrough villages where people seemed to earn just enough to make ends meet.I have seen happiness there.I have seen
faces and smiling eyes that readily gave me directions.They were very
and made my journey easier.
I have also worked for 3 years on Wall Street, in a big Investment Bank.I have seen some people with a lot of but still unhappy.I am not saying that all rich are unhappy (or the poor, happy).But the fact that there
some rich people who look angry or listless (无精打采的) and there are some poor people who
happy, points out that there must be something else to
, than just money, luxury (奢侈品) and comfort.
Happiness, it seems, is not a factor of how much you have.You can feel happy to a good song, you can feel happy watching a beautiful sunrise, you can feel happy in any number of ways that don’t require any possessions at
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根据语境和句意，从括号中选择一个可填入句子的正确选项，并将答案填写在答题卡上指定的位置。The cook added salt into the soup but it still wasn’t_______ enough. (salt, salty)
The story book is interesting and it was______ by Mark Twain. (written, writing)
“What do people in Korea do when they meet _______the first time?” “They usually bow.” ( in, for)
Singapore has a night_______, you can watch many kinds of animals there.(zoo, party)
Every year, Guiyang attracts larger numbers of tourists, ______in summer.( especial, especially)
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文正确、通顺。（每词限用一次）
Shanghai is the biggest city with the largest population in the world. It is also the fastest growing
city. Its means "on the sea", because it sits on the shores(海滨) of the East China Sea. The city used
to a fishing town, but these days it is not only a major financial(金融的) center, it's also
for its art and culture.
Visitors to Shanghai can be from the airport to the center in a fast train. The train
up to 430 kin/hour. Once you are in the city, you can't miss a popular area the Huangpu River.
Also, Shanghai Museum is a great place. And if you want to try the local _ , you should go to
Yang's Fried Dumplings. You can get some nice dumplings and a bowl of soup for only ¥15.
Now Shanghai is getting very "heavy" from all the growth. a result, the city is going
down the soft ground. 1921, it has gone down for almost two meters.