Don’tplaywiththeknife,oryoucan-优题课

阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。请将答案写在短文后相应题号的横线上。注意：①每个词只能用一次。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。

usual, eat, mean, Britain, little, exciting, chance, or, although, common, if, spend

In many European countries it is normal to have a long break in the middle of the day when all members of the family return to their houses to eat together. This is not very _________in Britain because normally it is a long way from the place of work or school to the home. The _______ people often have a big breakfast before they go to work and the meal at midday is not ______with the members of the family but with workmates or schoolmates. Lunch is normally _______ between 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm. Most people finish work at five thirty. It often take at _________ an hour to get home from the school or workplace so people eat their meal ______ "dinner" between 6:30 pm and 9 pm.
On Sundays people don’t have to work so they take the _______ to eat together with their family. Sunday lunch is ________ the best meal of the week and many of the meals which are considered real British food are eaten for Sunday lunch, such as roast beef and pudding.
___________ everyone in Britain understands that "breakfast" is the first meal of the day, there is a lot of confusion(混乱) about the words for other meals such as "dinner, lunch, tea, high tea, elevenses, brunch, supper". And if you ask a British person what these words ________, most of them will give you a different answer according to what part of the country they are from.

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从方框中选出恰当的单词，将其正确形式填入短文空白处。（每词限用一次）

what, pull, another, with, some, found, still, decide, success, teacher

A professor(教授) told his students to go into the city slums(贫民窟) to study the life of 200 boys. He asked them to write reports about each boy’s 1ife and future. One of the students wrote, “They don’t have hope．”
Twenty-five years later，professor read about the earlier study. He told his students to find out had happened to the boys. They tried very hard and that 176 of the boys had become successful as doctors, teachers and scientists.
The professor was very surprised and to study it further．Luckily, all of them were living near the place and he was able to ask each one, “What made you successful?” Each one answered, “It was a .”
The teacher was living there, so the professor found her and asked the old woman what she had done to those boys out of the slums, and change them into people.
The teacher’s eyes began to shine and said a sweet smile, “It’s really very easy. I love those boys.”

请阅读下面短文，掌握其意思，然后从方框中所给方的词中选出最恰当的10个，用适当形式填空。（每小题1分，共10分）

healthy, what, because, ourselves, speech, teach, to, find, isn’t, scientist, that, so

In America, science is a very important class. In middle school we were ___ how to solve problems by thinking like a _____. We had to think of a question, guess an answer, and _____ a way to test our guess. There were lots of experiments and other activities. I remember studying how science can explain things like light and electricity.
Our English class is very different from_____ in China, more like Chinese class I think! We read lots of books and talked about them, ____ we could understand what we read better. We learned how to know what information is important when we read and what ____ so important. In my class we all gave six ____ to the class during the year. We had to talk in front of the class for six __ten minutes!
We also have health classes. In this class, we learned about our bodies and how to take care of _____ by doing things like eating healthy foods, and not doing _____ things like smoking or drugs (毒品). We cooked a little bit, but I was not very good at it!

请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从方框所给的词中选出最恰当的5个，用其适当形式填空。

habit, result, talk to, get over, sorry, mad

I’d like to tell you a story about my best friend Jane. Last week in school we had a big fight, and she didn’t 1me. It all started when she asked me if she could copy my homework. I asked her why she wanted to do that, and she said that she had forgotten to do hers. I said I didn’t think it was a good idea. I said it would start a bad 2and she should do her own work. She got really 3at me and said she didn’t want to be my best friend anymore. I said that was OK and that I was sure she would 4it. And she did. Yesterday she told me she was 5. She said it was much better if she did her own work.

根据短文内容，用方框中单词的恰当形式填空，每个词只能用一次。

why，because, so，I, with, work, it, invite, but, bad, tell，

Dear Joyce,
You must be very busy these days. I called you several times, no one answered. Are you still busy on the report?
I called you because I am having problems with Mom and my friends these days. You know, I am a shy person. That’s I have few friends. Last month, some of my classmates me to the Internet café after school. It was a lot of fun we could play the latest online games there, and it was the first time that I felt I was not alone anymore. However, my grades were getting than ever before, and Mom found out the reason. She got really angry with ! She wouldn’t even let me go out with my friends again, so I had to them that I couldn’t go out with them any more. My friends laughed at me and even called me a coward (胆小鬼). I couldn’t stand , so I went to the Internet caféthem like before. Mom is really disappointed with me now. I didn’t want to make her sad, but I still want to have my own friends. What should I do?
Last, Mom and I miss you a lot. We hope to hear from you soon.
Your brother
Ben