阅读下面短文,根据以下提示:1)汉语提示,2)首字母提示,3)语境提示,在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词,并将该词完整地写在下方相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确,拼写正确。
Working at the whaling station, I had w catching huge whales many times with the help of the killer whale. On the afternoon I arrived at the station, as I was sorting out my
(住所), I heard a loud noise coming from the bay. It was Old Tom, the killer
was telling us that there was about to be a whale hunt.
Having become (意识到) of what was happening, we jumped into the boat without
(一刻不停的) and headed
into the bay. As we d
nearer, I could see a whale
attacked by a pack of about six killers. Because of being badly wounded, the whale soon died and its body was
by the killers down into the d
of the sea very soon.
There once was a goat and a donkey(驴), which lived _____ a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the ____
__ (much) food. Sometimes the donkey was given more food___
___it could eat. This made the goat so jealous ___
___ it began plotting against(谋划对付)the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend ___
____ (get) sick so you can take a day ___
____?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable(畜栏) on its side with its eyes ____
___(close). Right away, the farmer called the doctor. _
_____looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special medicine ___
____(make)from the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed ___
____goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.
As a working mom with three young sons, keeping the house clean is a big challenge. ________ we clean the house every week, one hour later after cleaning our bedrooms and bathrooms are back to their __________
_(mess) look. When asked, my boys will help neaten their room, clear their plates from the table and pick up their school junk. But I need to remind them______
____ it again and again.
If I don’t remind them, I will step over all the things _________make my house look like a garbage can. This is quite _______
___ change from my pre-kid years when I never ______
___(leave) any waste in the house. ____
____seems that I cannot get these days back again at my own house.
When last week I found a program called “Share a Healthy Habit” on a newspaper, I saw a great chance to engage my sons in cleaning chores. Why not encourage these behaviors during the summer, while school is out and their life is __________ (relax)?
The goal for my boys is to clean__________own dorm room themselves when they are free. The rewards for clean habits start young and continue as they get ______
____ (old), so I need to start my plan as soon
语篇填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Number the Stars", by American author Lois Lowry, is about________ escape of a Jewish family from Copenhagen during World War II. The story centers_
_______ ten-year-old Annemarie, who lives with her family in Copenhagen in 1943. __
________ with her family, she is involved in an event to help local __
_______ to reach Sweden to avoid __
_______(send) to Concentration Camps. She risks her life to help her best friend, Ellen, by pretending that Ellen is Annemarie's older sister Lise. In this process, Annemarie
_________ (begin) to realize that the world they live in is a place __
______ the right thing is often hard, and sometimes dangerous. _
_______ she has to take a deep breath, take her responsibility, and make a decision. The following __
______ (content) are right there waiting for you to read, to explore and to comprehend. _
________(hope), you will enjoy and benefit a great deal from the novel.
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
One day, an old monk named Wisdom, followed by two young monks, was walking from one town to another____ they caught sight of a lake. Tired and thirsty, they stopped to have a rest. __
__old monk, pointing to the lake, asked the __
__ (young) one to get him some water.
When the little monk reached the lake, a cart____ (draw) by an ox started crossing the lake, ___
___made the water very muddy. The little monk thought, “How can I give this muddy water to my master to drink!” So he came back__
___ any water, saying, “The water is very muddy. I don’t think__
__is suitable to drink.”
After a while, the same monk _____(ask)to get water again. When he went back to the lake, he found that the mud _
(settle) down already, so he collected back a pot of water. Wisdom looked at the water happily and then up at the monk, “To make the water clean, __
__you need to do is just to let it be and the mud would settle down on its own.”
It is also the same with your mind. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time and it will settle down itself.
语法填空。请仔细阅读下面的短文,短文中有10个空格。请按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中的词语的正确形式填空。(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)。
Where will you choose to live, in the city ____ the countryside? People have different ideas
___ the question. Some of my friends would like to live in the city. They can enjoy TV films, entertainment and delicious food. Everything
____ (be) convenient in the city.
____ people are thirsty, they can have boiled or bottled water at once. When a child is ill, he
____ (send) to hospital in just a few minutes.
_____, people have to suffer heavy traffic and air pollution anyway.
On the ____ hand, others will choose the countryside. The reasons are simple. Nothing is better
____ to live in fresh air, drink clean water, and enjoy free natural beauty. Of course the most important is a longer and a
_____ (happy) life. Which will be your
____ (choose), my friend?