阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个词)或括号内单词的正确形式,并把答案写在答题卡上的相应位置。
Louis invited his friends to lunch one day. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he (find) that he had run out of salt. So Louis called to his son, “Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much
too little.”
His son looked surprised. “I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, not save a bit of money?”
“That would be a very (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours,” Louis said.
Louis’s guests, had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy sale more cheaply if they could. Louis replied, “The only reason why a man would sell sale
a lower price would be that he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce
.”
“But such a small thing couldn’t (possible) destroy a village.”
“In the beginning, there was only very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always
(think) that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today.”
阅读下面短文,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词语的正确形式填空。
The question “How are you?” seems simple, but _____ can actually make people feel very strange.
Last month, Alina Simone wrote in The New York Times about the difficulty ________ Russians have with this question. __
_____ same question, in Russian language and culture, is always answered in a negative manner. In Russia, when people are asked “how are you?”, they usually complain _____
___ health, weather or things that __
___ (happen) recently. So when they’re asked “How are you?” in English, they don’t know what to do.
In English-speaking countries, “How are you?” has one standard answer: “Fine, and you?” It is not _______ (actual) about getting information --- it’s a greeting. If a native English-speaking friend really wants to know ____
___is going on in your life, he or she is more likely to ask: “What have you been up to?” or “What’s new?”
But I understand why people are so ______(confuse). When we learn second languages, we have to learn ____
____(rule) for using words. How can you learn them? ____
____(watch) English-language TV shows is a good place to start. If you can, try to make a native English-speaking friend and talk to him or her directly.
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
In the days when an ice cream cost much less, Tom, 8-year-old boy, entered a hotel coffee shop
sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him. "How much is an ice cream?" "Fifty-cents," replied the waitress. The little boy pulled
right hand out of the pocket and studied a number of coins in it.
"How much is a dish of plain ice cream?" he asked. Some people were now waiting for her service and the waitress grew a bit (patience). "Thirty-five cents," she said
(rude). The little boy carefully counted the coins
. "I will have a plain ice cream," he said. The waitress walked
. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and left. It was not long
the waitress came back and then she began to wipe down the table and suddenly was surprised
what she saw. There,
(place) neatly beside the empty dish, were two nickels and five pennies --- her tip!
语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分, 满分15分)
阅读下面短文,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词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1-10的相应位置上。
Habits, whether good or bad, are gradually formed. When a person does a certain thing again, he _______(drive) by an unseen force to do the same thing ____
_____ (repeat) ; then a habit is formed. Once __
___ habit is formed , it is difficult, and sometimes ____
______ (possible) to get rid of .It is therefore very important that we should pay great attention to the formation of the habits.
Children often form bad habits, some of ______remain with them as long as they live.____
__(lazy),lying, stealing and so on are all easily formed bad habits. However, there are many ___
____ habits formed in early life that are of great help. Many successful men say much of their success has __
____to do with certain habits in early life like early rising and honesty. We should keep away ___
___ all the bad habits and try to form such good habits___
___ will be good for ourselves and others.
按照课文内容填空(共8小题;每小题0.5分,满分4分)
阅读下面的短文,在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词,或填入括号中动词的适当形式。
It’s easy for you to start smoking, but ___you become addicted to it, you may find it __
__to stop smoking. Firstly, you may become _
_ addicted to nicotine, one of the hundreds of harmful chemicals _
_(consist) in cigarettes. When the drug leaves your body, you get withdrawal symptoms. Secondly, you get addicted __
__ habit. _
__ is, if you do the same thing repeatedly, you begin to do it __
__. Lastly, you become mentally addicted to it, when you may believe that you will only feel good when you smoke and may find all kinds of negative emotions in you when you stop smoking. Smoking may have all kinds of harmful effects on the health of both the smokers themselves and non-smokers around them. So it is time that smokers __
__(quit) smoking.
语法填空(共10题,每题1分,满分10分)______(exact) when the first people arrived in what we now know as California,no one really knows. However,
______is likely that Native Americans were living in California at least fifteen thousand years ago.
Scientists believe that these first settlers______ (cross) the Bering Strait in the Arctic to America
_______ means of a land bridge which existed in prehistoric times. In the 16th century, after the
_____ (arrive) of Europeans, the native people suffered greatly. Thousands were killed or forced into slavery. In addition, many died
_____ the diseases brought by Europeans. However, some survived these terrible times, and today there are more Native Americans
______ (live) in California than in any other state.
In the 18th century, California was ruled by Spain. Spanish soldiers first arrived in South America in the early 16th century. Two centuries later, the Spanish had settled in most parts of South America and along the northwest coast of _______ we now call the United States. Of
______ first Spanish to go to California, the majority were religious men, whose ministry was
_______(teach) the Catholic religion to the natives.