“Never give up!” It is my law of my life. It has brought me . I learned the law from my father’s story.
My father was born in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, then in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework during midnight. Life was hard, because they had no money!
At the age of 14, my father heard of . It was the land of gold, the land where people can become rich.
“ don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.
So, my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to money in America,” he told me. “ when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like hiring me because I spoke little English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, washing dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was for the first few years. I worked from 10 am to 11 pm. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t the schooling.”
My father kept working hard, and reached his goal!
“Alan,” he often says to me, “if you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come in life.” That is what I learned from my father.
A．sadness B．loss C．success D．failure
A．taught B．worked C．studied D．slept
A．China B．France C．America D．the UK
A．weak B．poor C．clever D．lazy
A．What B．How C．Why D．When
A．discover B．make C．collect D．spend
A．But B．If C．So D．Because
A．comfortable B．strange C．nice D．hard
A．borrow B．need C．afford D．pay
A．really B．easily C．quietly D．slowly
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
完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
Some young people are worrying about acnes(青春痘) on their faces, and some are worrying about their figures(身材). Do you know on earth（到底，究竟） the secret of beauty is? Think of smile and health, and then you may find the .
Maybe you are not with your big nose, your small _ or your weight(体重). Don’t waste energy and feelings on the way you look . In fact, when you become an and look at pictures of your past time, you’ll find how cute you are.
is the best way to make you beautiful. When people are happy, they look nice. When people smile or laugh from the of their hearts(心脏), they look very beautiful.
Don’t worry about your weight too much. Don’t food for it. No one lives health. So you need to eat healthy food and do enough exercise.
When you accept（接受） what you have and enjoy them, you will really become pretty “inside and out”.
A．how B．what C．where D．which
A．question B．problem C．reason D．answer
A．satisfied B．strict C．popular D．angry
A．skirt B．dress C．book D．eyes
A．Adult B．parent C．doctor D．engineer
A．Beauty B．Health C．Wealth D．Happiness
A．Bottom B．top C．foot D．head
A．receive B．accept C．Refuse D．get
A．on B．for C．without D．with
A．used B．got C．done D．Owned
完形填空 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择能填入相应空白处的最佳答案。(10分)
What are the British like when they learn languages?
______ is said that the British are the worst language learners in Europe(欧洲) —62 percent of them can’t speak _____ other language except(除了) their own! ______38 percent of them speak at least one foreign language, only18 percent speak two.
Learning a foreign language is not ________ at school in Britain; children start studying a foreign language at 11 and many ________ completely at 14. So why don’t young people_________ studying languages at school?
The government is now looking at different ways to _______ language learning. One idea is to start much ______and introduce foreign languages when kids are five. ______idea is to give school children more choice—they can choose to study their favorite language.
It may be difficult to_______ people’s attitude(态度) to learning languages but the government has decided to have a try!A. That B. It C. This
A. any B. no C. some
A. As B. When C. While
A. popular B. good C. interesting
A. wake up B. turn up C. give up
A. look for B. go on C. set up
A. stop B. improve C. find
A. younger B. sooner C. slower
A. Other B. One C. Another
A. choose B. take C. change
The Internet, mobile phones and Ipads are part of our lives now. Technology is greatly affecting all ways of our lives, from the ways we work to the ways we play. And it even causes a number of social problems such as cloning humans.
We have had lots of technology and it has changed our lives a lot. There is no doubt that humans will continue to use more and more technology. Here are some examples of modern technology that will change our ideas and will affect our lives greatly.
Global positioning system(GPS)(全球定位系统)
It’s a system that uses radio signals from satellites to show exact(精确的) information. It tells you where the user is on the earth in all weather conditions. It’s made up of three parts：satellites, control equipments(设备) on land and receivers.
Space Technology
Russian and American scientists have worked together for the international Space Station(ISS) for a long time. They hope the ISS will provide a long-lasting lab. Such a lab will bring humans limitless(无限的) advantages. It’s even hoped that one day spare technology will take humans to their new houses in space.
Underwater Robot
Hercules is a kind of underwater robot with some high technology equipments. It will be used to search for ancient ships which were destroyed into the deep sea during their journey long ago.
The world is changing so quickly that it’s hard for us to catch up with all the new inventions because they seem to come out every month. It’s important for us to learn about new technology and the role that it plays in our lives. So we should be willing to accept modern technology, or we will fall behind the times.
_______ can tell you where the user is on the earth exactly.
A．Satellites B．Receivers C．Global Positioning System D．Underwater Robot
A．It has carried people to other planets. B．It will provide a long-lasting lab for us. C．Russian and American are working for it. D．Humans will get a lot of advantages from it.
A．save lives in the sea B．take picture in the sea C．repair the broken ships D．look for the ancient ships in the sea
A．the use of GPS is affected by the weather conditions B．it’s very important for us to learn about new technology C．it’s easy for us to catch up with all the new inventions D．technology brings us many advantages such as cloning humans
A．To help us study some new technology. B．To tell us technology is changing the world. C．To help solve the problems that technology causes. D．To remind us the advantages of technology are limitless.