1 . Have you ever noticed the Mu Us Desert (毛乌素沙漠) in the northwest when you read a map of China? If you haven’t, then you probably never will. That’s
You might wonder: Why is this happening? Who is the “killer”? Well, it is the
In Yulin, there are many other fighters. One of them is Guo Chengwang. He started to plant trees in his village when encouraged by the government in 1985. Guo is now in his nineties. His children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren have
These trees have made a big difference. In Yulin, the number of sandy days has
A.why | B.how | C.because | D.when |
A.trouble | B.result | C.importance | D.reason |
A.necessary | B.serious | C.useless | D.harmless |
A.received | B.forgotten | C.changed | D.continued |
A.dropped | B.stayed | C.risen | D.disappeared |
It was summer, and my dad wanted to treat me to a vacation like never before. He decided to take me on a trip to the Wild West.
We took a plane to Albuquerque, a big city in the state of New Mexico. We reached Albuquerque in the late afternoon. Uncle Paul, my dad’s friend, picked us up from the airport and drove us up to his farm in Pecos.
His wife Tina cooked us a delicious dinner and we got to know his sons Ryan and Kyle. My dad and I spent the night in the guestroom of the farm house listening to the frogs and water rolling down the river nearby. Very early in the morning, Uncle Paul woke us up to have breakfast. “The day starts at dawn on my farm, “he said. After breakfast, I went to help Aunt Tina feed the chickens, while my dad went with Uncle Paul to take the sheep out to graze (吃草). I was impressed to see my dad and Uncle Paul riding horses. They looked really cool.
In the afternoon, I asked Uncle Paul if I could take a horse ride, and he said yes, as long as my dad went with me. I wasn’t going to take a horse ride by myself anyway. So, my dad and I put on our new cowboy hats, got on our horses, and headed slowly towards the mountains. “Don’t be late for supper, “Uncle Paul cried, “and keep to the track so that you don’t get lost!” “OK!” my dad cried back. After a while Uncle Paul and his farm house were out of sight. It was so peaceful and quiet and the colors of the brown rocks, the deep green pine trees, and the late afternoon sun mixed to create a magic scene. It looked like a beautiful woven (编织的) blanket spread out upon the ground just for us.
1. 阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。注意:
续写词数应为150左右;
请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Suddenly a little rabbit jumped out in front of my horse.
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We had no idea where we were and it got dark.
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2. Task one: put the correct forms of the following words into the blanks.
drive comfort out permit loss dusks noon last roll delight trip next | ||
time | event | feeling |
One summer day | My dad decided to take me on a new | excited |
In the late afternoon | Uncle Paul picked us up and | Curious |
The first night on the farm | We spend the night in the guestroom listening to the frog and water | |
Early in the | I helped Tina feed the chickens. My dad and Uncle Paul took the sheep | admirable |
In the afternoon | I got a | |
At | We got | …… |
3. Task two: answer the following questions.
1) How did the writer or the horse react to the rabbit?
2) How did the writer and his father get lost?
3) What difficulties did they meet?
4) How did they find their way back to Uncle Paul’s house?
3 . Zak’s grandfather, Stan, was very famous. Why? Because he had a very, very, very long white beard(胡子).
One day, Zak asked his grandfather, “When you sleep,do you put your beard over or under the quilt(被子)?”“I’m not sure. I never care about that, ”said his grandfather. “I’ll look tonight.”
Stan got into bed that night and pulled up the quilt. Then he remembered his grandson’s question. Aha!His beard was under the quilt. But wait. Did that feel right?
He lifted his beard from under the quilt and put it above it. This also didn’t feel right. So he put the beard under the quilt again. But he soon felt it would be better if it were out. The beard went in and out—first under the quilt, then over it, under, over, all night long.
Stan spent a sleepless night.In the morning, he was so tired and unhappy that he cut his long beard right off!
Stan’s wife was so happy. She advised Stan to cut that beard off many times, but he never did it. Now a simple question made him do that.
根据上述内容,判断下列句子正误,正确的写“A”,错误的写“B”。
1. Stan was very famous for his long white beard.
2. Stan never cared about Zak, his grandson.
3. In the very beginning,Stan’s beard was under the quilt.
4. That night Stan was sleepless and tired because of the question.
5. Stan listened to his wife’s advice to cut the beard off.
4 . Two years ago, Shirley, wife, mother and doctor, found herself worn out. She got up earlier, and went to bed later, just to meet everyday
She and her husband, a lawyer, began searching for ways to
So the couple chose to live more simply, shopping with care for necessities and enjoying inexpensive
Then Shirley
Shirley and her husband are
For most people,
A.activities | B.services | C.demands | D.exercises |
A.time | B.strength | C.money | D.ability |
A.lead | B.simplify | C.adapt | D.consider |
A.comfortable | B.interesting | C.important | D.hard |
A.study | B.help | C.meet | D.play |
A.pleasures | B.places | C.tasks | D.goods |
A.found | B.received | C.took | D.quit |
A.read | B.wrote | C.showed | D.told |
A.us | B.yourself | C.children | D.herself |
A.attending | B.organizing | C.having | D.going |
A.life | B.result | C.balance | D.difference |
A.office | B.hospital | C.park | D.school |
A.gone | B.better | C.strong | D.obvious |
A.a bit | B.far from | C.much too | D.more than |
A.keep pace | B.settle down | C.take off | D.slow down |
A.expect | B.doubt | C.complain | D.imagine |
A.How | B.When | C.Where | D.Why |
A.traveling | B.reading | C.shopping | D.working |
A.aware | B.afraid | C.proud | D.sure |
A.value | B.control | C.success | D.experience |
5 . A couple of months before I started high school, my parents gave me the greatest gift any teenage boy could ask for: a cellphone. I lived on that phone all summer with my face buried in its screen. I ignored my family and my surroundings. Being connected was more important than being present.
So, you can imagine my displeasure when I learned what my dad had planned for our family vacation that year. “This year,” my dad said, “we’ll be doing something special. We’re going camping!” His excitement was met with a disappointed sigh. It wasn’t my dream vacation because mind was on my phone. I was so buried in the screen, in fact, that the first time I can remember truly looking up was when we drove across a bridge on the way to our campsite.
I stared out the window and saw redwoods towering above us, their branches threatening to pierce (刺破) the blue sky. I saw a roaring river, with slivers of silky black water appearing between crashing white rapids. The air blowing into the car from the open windows was hot. But none of that mattered to me. The reason I had looked up was for something far more serious: my phone no longer had service.
The last hour of the drive was increasingly tense. My dad announced that he had chosen a campsite that had no cell service, and that my phone would be useless until we returned home. I would be trapped in the forest for four days with no way to contact the outside world! I went through the full cycle of teenage emotions during the first day of the trip. I raged. I bargained. I begged. I flip-flopped (转变) from a depressive state to anger and back.
I went to bed angrily that night. But when I awoke in the morning, something had changed.
1. 根据文本内容从方框中选择恰当的词并用其正确形式填入文本图示中,每词限用一次,有两词为多余选项ignore enjoy teenager present prize disappoint bury surrounding camp serve anger use |
The author, a
PLOT | FEELING |
Months before the author started high school, his parents gave him a cellphone as a | The author was very happy. |
With his face | He |
Dad planned to go | The author was very displeased and |
On the way to the campsite, the author was so absorbed in his cellphone that he didn’t raise his head until his phone was out of | The scenery on the way didn’t matter at all to the author. |
The last hour of the drive became even more tense when the author got to know that his phone would be | The author was depressed and |
2. What problem did the author have after he got a cellphone?
3. What would they do the next day?
4. How would the author feel at the end of the vacation? Why?
6 . The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place
Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically(身体上).
Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale(秤)instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.
On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.
The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.
Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.
1. From Paragraph 1, we learn that ________.A.diet products fail to bring out people’s potential |
B.people have difficulty in choosing diet products |
C.diet products are misleading people |
D.people are fed up with diet products |
A.try out a variety of diet foods | B.hesitate before they enjoy diet foods |
C.pay attention to their own eating habits | D.watch their weight rather than their diet |
A.losing weight is effortless | B.it costs a lot to lose weight |
C.diet products bring no pain | D.diet products are free from calories |
A.are over-consumed | B.lack basic nutrients |
C.are short of chemicals | D.provide too much energy |
A. | B. | C. | D. |
7 . Melissa Poe was 9 years old when she began a campaign for a cleaner environment by writing a letter to the then President Bush. Through her own efforts, her letter was reproduced on over 250 donated billboards across the country.
The response to her request for help was so huge that Poe established Kids For A Cleaner Environment (Kids F.A.C.E.) in 1989. There are now 300,000 members of Kids FACE worldwide and is the world's largest youth environmental organization.
Poe has also asked the National Park Service to carry out a "Children's Forest" project in every national park. In 1992, she was invited as one of only six children in the world to speak at the Earth Summit in Brazil as part of the Voices of the Future Program. In 1993, she was given a Caring Award for her efforts by the Caring Institute.
Since the organization started, Kids F.A.C.E. members have distributed and planted over 1 million trees! Ongoing tree-planting projects include Kid's Yards – the creation of backyard wildlife habitats (栖息地) and now Kids F.A.C.E. is involved in the exciting Earth Odyssey, which is a great way to start helping.
"Starting the club turned out to be a way to help people get involved with the environment. Club members started doing things like recycling, picking up litter and planting trees as well as inviting other kids to join their club."
"We try to tell kids that it's not OK to be lazy," she explains. "You need to start being a responsible, environmentally friendly person now, right away, before you become a resource-sucking adult."
1. Kids F.A.C.E is _____.A.a program to help students with writing |
B.a project of litter recycling |
C.a campaign launched by President Bush |
D.a club of environmental protection |
A.She was awarded a prize in Brazil. |
B.She donated billboard across the country. |
C.She got positive responses for her efforts |
D.She joined the National Park Service. |
A.established in a national park. |
B.started to protect wildlife |
C.a wildlife- raising project |
D.an entertainment park for kids. |
A.Adults are resource-sucking people |
B.Poe sought help from a youth organization |
C.Kids F.A.C.E members are from the U.S. |
D.Kids are urged to save natural resources. |
It was a lonely job, but Mo was a smart boy. He enjoyed the green, open land of Shandong. He enjoyed looking up at the blue sky and the white clouds, To pass the time he talked to the goats. He told them his thoughts and some stories. It was the beginning of his life as a storyteller.
During the Cultural Revolution(文化大革命),Mo had to leave school and work for a company. This was difficult for Mo, because he loved books and he loved reading. Luckily, he found a friend who would lend him books. Later, Mo became a soldier and to continue his education. In the end he graduated from Beijing Normal University. This is where he began to write.
Although Mo had left Gaomi, Gaomi never left him. Many of his books talk about rural life and the people of Gaomi, For Mo, all of man nature can be seen in the village life of Gaomi. Mo is famous now, but he remains a true son of soil.
1. Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012.
2. As a young boy Mo Yan took care of his family’s goats and he hated the job.
3. Mo Yan continued studying in a middle school during the Cultural Revolution.
4. Mo Yan graduated from Beijing Normal University and this is where he began to write.
5. Gaomi never left Mo Yan because many of his books talk about rural life and the people of Gaomi.
Millions of dollars have been used in developing special chemicals to help dismiss the spills and to clean up the animals, beaches, and land spoiled by the oil. Unfortunately, when many of these chemicals are used, more damage is caused to the environment, especially to lives in the sea.
Of all of today’s environmental disasters, an oil spill may actually be one of the least serious. Although oil is poisonous, it is a natural material. In the end, it breaks down naturally. There are, of course, long-term effects, but it is usually more serious in the short term.
Nature by itself works better than chemical materials, but when there is a spill we demand that governments act immediately with as much hi-tech knowledge as possible. In 1967 the tanker Torrey Canyon sank off the Scilly Isles near the coast of England and spilled 120,000 tones of oil into the ocean. If you go there today, you will find it hard to see any sign that it ever happened.
Governments seem to accept the risk of transporting millions of tons of oil by ship every day so that we can fill up our cars and drive around and cause even more environmental damage. Interestingly, the biggest companies in the world produce cars, and the next biggest supply the gasoline to make them run!
We should be thinking more about reducing our dependency on oil. Governments should be encouraging research into new technologies, such as cars run by solar power(太阳能), electricity, hydrogen, and so on. Much of this research has, in the past, been held back by the oil, gas, and coal.
If the world’s millions of cars were 10% more efficient(高效的) — and the industry could easily produce cars at least twice as efficient — we would need many fewer tankers crossing the oceans each year. If this happened, the risks of oil spills would be reduced, and the air we breathe would be cleaner and fresher, too.
1. What is the passage mainly talking about?
A.Oil spills pollution. | B.What oil pollution is. |
C.Oil tanker accidents. | D.How to reduce oil pollution. |
A.By giving a description. | B.By making an argument. |
C.By giving an example. | D.By drawing a diagram. |
A.Transportation depending more on oil. | B.Poisonous oil breaking down naturally. |
C.Millions of tons of oil spilling into the sea. | D.More environmental damage being caused. |
A.We should build safer oil tankers in the near future. |
B.We should develop new technologies to cut oil use. |
C.Tankers should not be allowed to sail near the coastlines. |
D.Countries should build more oil pipelines under the sea. |