二、科普类
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The seahorse is a very strange fish. Do you know w________ its head looks like? It looks like a h________. Of course it is not as b________ as a horse. You can pick it up with one h________. It swims with its head up and t________ down.
This strange-looking fish often remains still (静止的). It will h________ on to a bit of weed (草) with its tail. Then when a small fish swims by, the seahorse will s________ jump and eat it up.
M________ seahorse lays eggs. These eggs are k________ in father’s pouch (育儿袋). When the eggs hatch (孵出), the babies pop (蹦出) out of the pouch i________ the sea.
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No man can change the weather. Nobody can control (控制) the weather. But if we study carefully the signs around us, we can tell the important c________ in weather. This way of t________ what the weather will be like on the f________ day or two is called weather forecasting.
For many centuries and in all countries people have s________ the weather and tried to make weather forecasting. Sometimes the objects far away such as hills and tall trees seems to be very c________ and near. This is a sign of much water vapor (蒸汽) in the air, and so r________ may come. Rings (光环) round the sun are sign of the c________ rain. Many people fell pain in their bones (骨头). This is a sign of the coming of wet weather. Some birds fly h________ if fine weather is coming, they fly near the g_______ if rain or storm is on the w________. If you see a rainbow (彩虹) during rainy weather, this sign shows that the weather will become clear and fine. If a fog comes out in the morning just about sunrise, then the day will be warm.
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The Kiwi lives only in New Zealand. It looks a bit like a long-beaked (咀) chicken, but it has no tail and it cannot fly. Kiwis live in f________. They sleep in the day time and come out to f________ at night. They eat worms and insects (昆虫) that live among dead l________. They also enjoy fallen f________.
The Kiwi is a very strange-looking bird. It is about 45cm long. A female (雌性) Kiwi weighs (重) o________ 4 kilos, but her egg weighs about 0.5 kilo e________. That’s nearly ten times as h________ as chicken’s egg! It gets its name from its c________ of Ki-wee.
The number of Kiwis is getting smaller and smaller because so many have been k________ by the cats, dogs and other animals that people have t________ to New Zealand. What a pity!
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Light and shadow (影子) usually go together. They are friends. We r________ light every day. At the same time, we m________shadow.
Light cannot shine t________ you. Your body stops it from p________. There is a dark spot (斑点) on the ground next to you. The light cannot reach the dark spot. That is your shadow.
At noon the sun shines right o________ your head. Your body h________ stops all light from reaching the ground. So your shadow is quite short. In the early morning or late afternoon, the sun is low in the sky. Your body k________ a lot of light from reaching the ground. So your shadow is long.
We love light, especially sunlight. Without sunlight, life on the earth can’t live at all. Most of us like to stand in the shadow of a tree in s________. But some people are afraid of their own shadows at night. They do not want to walk in a d________ street. They do not want to see the shadow, either. But still light and shadow usually go t________.
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There are modems that can move information at speed of light. A modem is machine that c________ a computer to a telephone line and send information to another computer.
The new modems use a cable (电缆) TV system (系统). They move information very f________.
A fifth grade teacher is waiting to use the new modems. They are fast. It is i________ when she is working with 30 kids. When a teacher n________ to get something, one can not sit for ten minutes w________ for it. The difference with the new modems is s________. With a common modem, it might t________ 18 minutes to get a file. With one of the new cable modems, it could get the file in just two s________.
A news reporter w________ that the information being sent should be interesting.
H________ a fast modem is not worth it if one can not get good information from it.
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When man began to wearch the skies, he saw a lot of things. In the universe, the earth s________ to be just a small bit of dust. It is only a small p________ and travel around the sun.
The sun, together with i________ planets, travel in the Milly Way (银河). The Milly Way has about thirty billion stars l________ our sun, and is one of about a hundred million galaxies (星系) in the u________. Because the space is so g________, it is difficuly to w________ out how far away a star is.
I________ of kilometers, we have light-years. A light-year means how far light rravels in one y________. Our nearest neighbor galaxy is more than 90,000,000 light- year away from the e________.
二、科普类答案
1. what; horse; big; hand; tail; hang; suddenly; Mother; kept; into
2. change; telling; following; studied; clear; rain; coming; high; ground; way
3. forests; feed; leaves; fruits; only; each; heavy; call; killed; taken
4. receive; make; through; passing; over; hardly; keeps; summer; dark; together
5. connects; fast; impossible; needs; waiting; speed; take; seconds; warns; having
6. seems; planet; its; like; universe; great; work; Instead; year; earth
初中英语中考单项选择题专项训练250题（附答案） ( ) is ____used and ______ people are interested in it. A wide, many more B. widely, a lot more C. wide, more D. widely, much more ( )2、---- What would you like to drink ---- It doesn’t matter. ________ will do . A. Nothing B. Everything C. Something D. Anything ( )3、This question is very difficult . _______ people can understand it. A. Little B. A few C. Few D. A little ( )4.、After entering the WTO, _______ foreigners will come to our country for business. A. some B. fewer C. all D. more ( )5、---- The exam was very easy, wasn’t it ---- Yes, but I don’t think _______ could pass it. A. somebody B. any body C. nobody D. everybody ( )6、The population of Shanghai is larger than __________ of Hangzhou. A. one B. it C. what D. that ( )7、There is only _______ walk from my home to school. A. five minutes B. five minutes’ C. five minute D. fifth minute’s ( )8、Wang Qiang is a _________ boy. A. five-year-old B. five year old C. five-years-old D. five years old ( )9、The boy was born______ the night of May 20,1999. A. at B. on C. in D. doing ( )10、I’ve been here ___ 3 o’clock. That means I have stayed here ___ an hour and a half. A. at ;since B. at; for C. since; for D. since; since ( )11、English is as _________ as Chinese. You should learn it well. A. important B. more important C. the most important D. much more important ( )12、We’ve never seen _________ flower before. A. such a beautiful B. such beautiful C. so a beautiful D. so beautiful ( )13、You must wear glasses. They can keep your eyes ________. A. save B. safe C. safely D. to save ( )14、Would you please speak _______ I still can’t follow you. A. slow B. much slow C. much slowly D. more slowly ( )15、---- What was the weather like yesterday ---- It was terrible. It rained _______. People could _______ go out. A. hard; hard B. hardly; hard C. hardly; hardly D. hard; hardly ( )16. There are few _______ in the fridge. Let’s go and buy some peas, carrots and cabbages. A. vegetables B. fruit C. meat D. eggs ( )17. This room is __________. A. B ill and David’s B. Bill’s and David’s C. Bills and David’s D. Bill and David
高一英语语法填空专题练习 (10篇) （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 一 once there lived a rich man 31 wanted to do something for the people of his town. 32 first he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help. In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed 33 very large stone. Then he 34 (hide ) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.“Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. 35 man came along and did the same thing; then another came ,and another. All of them complained about the stone but not tried to remove 36 . Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone, 37 (say) to himself: “The night 38 (be) very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone.” Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his 39 (strong) to move it. How great was his surprise at last! 40 the stone, he found a bag of money. 二· Crying marriage? 31 (surprise), isn’t it? Factually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, and 32 (remain) in fashion 33 the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people, who view it as a 34 (necessary) to marriage procedure. It is very much 35 same in different places of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. 36 , the bride’s neighbors would look down upon 37 as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases 38 which the bride was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony. In a word, crying at wedding is a 39 by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the 40 (arrange) marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life. 三 In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are neccessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear ______31________spoken.. Secondly, we must be able to speak it correctly with confidence and without hesitation. _____32_______ ,we must be able to read the language , and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct. There is no easy way to success _____33_______ language learning. _____34________ good memory is of great help, but it is not enough only _____35________(memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long list of words and ______36_________meaning, studying the dictionary
江南大学现代远程教育第二阶段测试卷 考试科目:《大学英语（二）》时间：90分钟学习中心（教学点）批次：层次： 专业：学号：身份证号： 姓名：得分： 第一部分：交际用语（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分） 此部分共有5个未完成的对话，针对每个对话中未完成的部分有4个选项，请从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出正确选项。 1．- Good morning, John . How are you doing? - _________ A：I’m pleased. B：Good night. C：Not so bad. And you? D：How do you do? 2．- How do I get to the cinema? - _________ A：It's very far. B：Yes, there is a cinema near here. C：It's well known. D：Go down this street and turn left. 3．- This is a challenging job. Who wants it? - _________ A：I'll take it. B：It's a good idea. C：You bet! D：No sweat! 4．- I hope you have a most happy and prosperous new year! - _________ A：You are welcome! B：How smart you are! C：The same to you!
D：Nice going! 5．- Would you like to see a film? - _________ A：Yes, I'd love to. B：Do it, please. C：No, you like it? D：How do you do? 第二部分：阅读理解（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分） 此部分共有2篇短文，第一篇短文后有5个问题。请从每个问题后的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出正确选项。第二篇短文后有5个正、误判断题，请选择T或F. Passage One It has been reported that in colleges across the United States, the daytime serial drama known as the soap opera has suddenly become "in". Between the hours of 11 a.m. and 4:30 pm, college television lounges are filled with soap opera fans who can't wait to see the next episode in the lives of their favorite characters. Actually, soaps are more than a college favorite; they're a youth favorite. When school is out, high-school students are in front of their TV sets. One young working woman admitted that she turned down a higher paying job rather than give up watching her favorite serials. During the 1960's, it was uncommon for young people to watch soap operas. The mood of the sixties was very different from now. It was a time of seriousness, and talk was about social issues of great importance. Now, seriousness has been replaced by fun. Young people want to be happy. It may seem strange that they should turn to soap opera, which is known for showing trouble in people's lives. But soap opera is enjoyment. Young people can identify with the soap opera character, who, like the college-age viewer, is looking for happy love, and probably not finding it. And soap opera gives young people a chance to feel close to people without having to bear any responsibility for their problems. 6．What is soap opera? A：Plays based on science fiction stories. B：Plays based on non-fiction stories. C：The daytime serial dramas on TV. D：Popular documentary films on TV. 7．What can be the best title of the passage?
Unit 13 One of These Days Part 1 Communicative Activities Aims: 1. Learning about the background information of the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. Learning to talk about the personalities and personal sketches 3. Practicing using language through role-play and drama activities 1. Interactive listening and speaking Learning suggestions: 1. Listen to the recording for several times until get enough details. 2. Complete Task A (Answers: 1-a 2-b 3-c 4-c 5-a 6-c ) 3. Read Task B for personal sketches and listen to the recording again. Work with your friends discussing your notes and descriptions. … Notes: 1. Notes about the author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a well known Latin American novelist, short story writer, screen writer and journalist. His most famous novels are Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) (1982 Nobel prize laureate) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). 2. Notes about the country Colombia. Official Name: Republic of Colombia. It is the fourth-largest country in South America. (哥伦比亚). Don’t confuse it with Columbia as derived from Christopher Columbus who discovered Americas in the 15th century.) Scripts: Early life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a well known Latin American writer. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in literature for his famous novel Hundred Years of Solitude. Today we are going to talk about his early life, and show how this part of his life influenced his works. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1928 in a town called Aracataca in Northern Colombia. At first, he was raised by his maternal grandparents as it was quite common at that time if one’s parents were poor and struggling. This part of life
PEP小学英语总复习——选择题专项训练题 1.You can play _____the clean dog after class. A.with B. in C. at 2.Is your mother ______Huizhou? Yes, she is. A.live B. goes to C. visiting 3.Where _____you this morning? I _____at a meeting. A.were, was B.are, am C.do, am 4.Her brother is a policeman. He works in a _____ A.post office B.police station C.office 5.What’s the weather like today? It’s________ A.rain B.windy C.sun 6.Were you _____ Canada during the summer holiday? A.in B. on C. at 7.Are you ______a good time ? A.have B.has C. having 8.What do you have _____lunch? A.in B. for C.at 9.Tom and Mary have bread and milk___the morning. A.in B. on C. at 10.Does it ____in Guangzhou? A. raining B.rains C.rain 11.The bank is _____my uncle’s home. A. next to B.in C.to 12.How many _____are there under the tree? A. man B. women C. woman 13.Is you r bag big ____small? A. and B. or C. an 14.______does Ben go to school? By bus. A. How B.What C.Where 15.______is that? That’s my cousin. A.Who B. What C.Whose 16. I usually ride the bike after school ______Mondays. A.on B. in C.at 17. Is your mother strong ____weak? A. and B. or C. but 18. I get up ____7:00 every morning. A. in B. on C.at 19.My friend likes ______ A.running and swimming B. cook and sing C.run and dance 20.Tom is ______than Ben. A. heavy B. heavyer C.heavier 21.Tony is 14, Jim is 15.Tony is ______than Jim. A.younger B. bigger C. older 22.______is your birthday? A. Where B. When C. What 23.______is that? That’s Tom’s mother. A.What B. Whose C. Who 24. Is your mother ______? Yes, she is. A. cook B. cooks C. cooking
高一英语语法填空专项练习 （一） 第二节语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分） Do you ever wonder why you yawn? Why do you open your mouth wide and take a deep breath? Well, a scientist at the University of Maryland is searching for the answer. Professor Robert Provine has been studying yawning for the past two years. But he says he still does not know 31 people yawn. In fact, no one seems to know much about it. Professor Provine’s students have helped him find out more about yawning. They agreed to 32 (watch) while sitting alone in small rooms. In the rooms, they watched television programs, or pictures of people yawning. Or they just sat and 33 (think) about yawning. Students also kept records of when they yawned throughout the day. The professor says he has learned 34 number of things from these experiments. He says yawning seems linked in some way to sleeping. His students yawned most just before sleeping or 35 waking from sleep. He also found that people yawn much when they are __36 (bore ) or not interested in what they are doing. Now, Professor Provine is planning future experiments to help him find the purpose of yawning. He said there is some evidence 37 yawning is linked to 38 (excite). Yawning is common among runners 39 (wait) to begin a race. It is also common among people waiting to make a speech. Professor Provine says he is most interested in learning why seeing someone yawn makes others yawn as well. He says almost anything connected with yawning can make people yawn. As a matter of fact, I found 40 yawning a lot as I prepared this report. I wonder if hearing it can make you yawn. If it does, excuse me, if you did yawn, write and tell me. 答案：31.why 32.be watched 33.thought 34.a 35.after 36. bored 37.that 38.excitement 39.waiting 40.myself （二） 第二节语法填空（共10小题; 每小题1.5分，满分15分） Traditional Chinese culture places much emphasis（重视）on food. Considered to be an important part of each day, __31 __(eat) is far beyond simply meeting a need. However, people are living in fast-paced society now, so they hardly have time to enjoy their food. They need fast food. That is _32_ China’s fast-food market expands. A foreign fast-food restaurant __33__（call）KFC arrived in China first, quickly followed by _34_ such as Pizza Hut and McDonald’s. __35__ the development of China, foreign fast-food chains are realizing high-speed __36__ (grow) in China. However, these “junk foods”have long been criticized by health experts because __37__ can’t provide balanced nutrition(营养). The experts also show that some foreign fast food contains a food colouring, Sudan I , __38___can cause cancer. In fact, China has many of its own traditional fast-food dishes. Among them, dumplings, soybean milk and noodles are __39__ most popular. Compared with foreign fast food, those traditional ones are healthier. __40__ many Chinese still enjoy the special taste and the good environment in the foreign fast-food chains even though there exist some potential（潜在的）risks. 第二节语法填空(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，在空格处填人一个适当的词或
中国地质大学(武汉)远程与继续教育学院 大学英语课程综合测试2 学习层次：专升本时间：90分钟 专业：姓名： 第一部分：交际用语(共5小题，每小题3分，满分15分) 此部分共有5个未完成的对话，针对每个对话中未完成的部分有4个选顷，请从A、B、 C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 1. What?s the problem with your bike? A. Not at all B. Good, thank you C. nothing serious D. sure 2. Good morning, John. How are you doing? A. I?m pleased B. Good night C. Not so bad. And you? D. How do you do? 3. --_______ -- You too! A. Merry Christmas! B. What a beautiful day! C. Help yourself D. It?s very kind of you. 4. –I didn?t know my identity card was needed, sir. -- ________________. A. That?s sorry B. I don?t believe you. C. sorry, but that?s no excuse D. How dare you say that. 5. --Would you do me a favor? --____________. A. I would B. I?m not sure C. What is the favor? D. With pleasure 第二部分：阅读理解(共10小题，每小题3分，满分30分) 此部分共有2篇短文，每篇短文后有5个问题。请从每个问题后的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Passage 1 When George finished his studies at university, he began to look around for a job. He did not know what he would like to do. One of his uncles had worked for the government for thirty years, and he advised George to try to get a job of the same kind, so he went for an examination one day. He was successful, and his first job was in a large government office in London. When George had been working there for a few weeks, his uncle came to visit the family one Saturday evening. He was delighted that his nephew had managed to get a job working for the government, and he asked him a lot of questions about it. One of the questions he asked was: “And how many people work in your department, George?” The young man thought for a few minutes and then answered, “About half of them,
Key to Exercises of College English Book 2 Unit 1 ★Text A Vocabulary I. insert 2) on occasion 3) investigate 4) In retrospect 5) initial 6) phenomena 7) attached 8) make up for 9) is awaiting 10) not…in the least 11) promote 12) emerg ed 2. 1) There is a striking contrast between the standards of living in the north of the country and the south. 2) Natural fiber is said to be superior to synthetic fiber. 【 3) The city’s importance as a financial center has evolved slowly. 4) His nationality is not relevant to whether he is a good lawyer. 5) The poems by a little-known sixteenth-century Italian poet have found their way into some English magazines. 3. 1) be picked up, can’t accomplish, am exaggerating 2) somewhat, performance, have neglected, they apply to 3) assist, On the other hand, are valid, a superior II. 1. 1) continual 2) continuous 3) continual 4) continuous 2. 1) principal 2) principal 3) principle 4) principles 5) principal III. : 1. themselves 2. himself/herself 3. herself/by herself/on her own 4. itself 5. ourselves 6. yourself/ by yourself/on your own Comprehensive Exercise I. Cloze 1. 1) contrast 2) exaggerating 3) priority 4) on the other hand 5) promoting 6) pick up 7) assist 8) accomplish 9) on occasion 10) neglecting 11) worthwhile 12) superior 2. 1) end 2) perform 3) facing 4) competent 5) equipped 6) designed 7) approach 8) rest 9) definitely 10) quality II. Translation ； 1. 1) It takes an enormous amount of courage to make a departure from the tradition. 2) Tom used to be very shy, but this time he was bold enough to give a performance in front of a large audience. 3) Many educators think it desirable to foster the creative spirit in the child at an early age. 4) Assuming (that) this painting really is a masterpiece, do you think it’s worthwhile to buy/purchase it 5) If the data is statistically valid, it will throw light on the problem we are investigating. 2. To improve our English, it is critical to do more reading, writing, listening and speaking. Besides, learning by heart as many well-written essays as possible is also very important. Without
七年级英语完形填空与语法选择专项训练 完形填空(共30小题；每小题1分，满分30分) 通读下面短文，然后从下面四个答案总选择一个符合文章意思和语法的正确选项。 A From Monday to Friday, most people are busy working or studying. But in the evenings and weekends, they are__1__ and enjoy themselves. Some watch television or go to the cinema, others__2__sports, this is decided by their own interests. There are many different ways to spend our free time. Almost everyone has some kind of hobby. For example, someone likes__3__ stamps. Some hobbies are very expensive, but others don't cost anything__4__. Some collections are worth a lot of money, others are valuable(有价值的) only to their owners. I know a man who has a coin collection worth several thousand dollars. A short time__5__, he bought an unusual fifty-cent piece which __6__ him $250! He was very happy about it and thought the price was all right. And my youngest brother Tom, he collects__7__. He has almost 600 of them, but I wonder if they are worth any money. __8__, to my brother, they are quite valuable__9__ makes hin happier than to find a new match box for his collection. That's what a hobby means, I think. It is something we__10__ doing in our free time. The value in dollars is not important, but the pleasure it gives us is. ( )1. A. lucky B. clever C. funny D. free ( )2. A. think about B. join C. take part in D. take care of ( )3. A. collecting B. getting C. printing D. making ( )4. A. first of all B. at all C. of all kinds D. in all ( )5. A. after B. ago C. before D. last ( )6. A. spend B. took C. cost D. waste ( )7. A. stamps B. match boxes C. pens D. model planes ( )8. A. So B. However C. Because D. Whether ( )9. A. Nothing B. Everything C. Anything D. Something 1