Because most restaurants were full of people.
( ??) 5. Mr. Jackson wanted some hot soup first because __________.
??????????A. the restaurant was very cold
??????B. it snowed heavily
??????????C. there were few people in the restaurant
??????D. he felt cold after he left the office
( ??) 6. The waiter’s words mean that ___________.
??????????A. the soup in the restaurant was nice
??????????B. there was nothing in the soup
??????????C. there were usually flies in the soup in summer
??????????D. he had to say sorry to Mr. Jackson
B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage(選擇最恰當?shù)膯卧~或詞語完成短文):(共6分)??????????????
All big cities are quite similar. Living in a modern Asian city is not different _____1_____ living in an American city. But the same cannot be said about living on farms.
In many parts of _____2_____, farmers and their families live in villages or towns. But in the USA, each farm family live on its own fields, and often they live far away from each other. _____3_____ traveling from a village to the fields every morning, Ame
rican farmers stay on their land _____4_____. They travel to the nearest town on Saturday for shopping.
Of course life _____5_____ changing for everyone, including (包括) farmers. Today they have cars, good roads, radios, television sets and computers. And of course there are modern machines for farming. _____7_____ have changed farm life.
( ??) 1. A. from B. as C. with D. for
( ??) 2. A. the world B. the country C. the city D. the mountain
( ??) 3. A. Instead of B. Instead C. Not to D. For
( ??) 4. A. for a moment B. for weekdays C. several times D. for a visit
( ??) 5. A. keeps B. stops C. start D. begin
( ??) 6. A. Much of it B. Some of these
???C. All of these D. Many of these[來源:學*科*網(wǎng)Z*X*X*K]
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當?shù)脑~,使其內(nèi)容通順,每空格限填一詞,首字母已給):(共6分)
Listen! 2012 is knocking on your door. Have you e__________ tried writing English greetings on New Year’s card? Anyway, this year, try it! Here is an English greeting –
May the New Year be warm with the memories of yesterday, happy with the presence of t__________, and bright with the promise of tomorrow.[來源:學科網(wǎng)ZXXK]
But h__________ can you write this long sentence on
?the card?
If you are creative (富有創(chuàng)造力的),you can w__________ your greetings (問候) according to the picture on the card.
Today, e-cards are getting popular. An e-card is u__________?a “flash”, a short cartoon with m__________. People like to send e-cards to each other by e-mail.
D. Answer the questions?(根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答下列問題): (共6分)
Pearl and Jane were good friends and spent most of their time togeth
er.
They went both very old and they worried about their health. Most of the time they talked about nothing else.
They worried about their food. Was it clean? Would it give them pains in the stomach?
They worried about the weather. Was it too cold and wet? Would it give t
hem pains in their bones?
They worried about pollution in the air. Would it give them pains in their chests and throats?
They worried about being hurt in a car accident, killed in an airplane crash, getting sick, and so on.
All they could think about was being ill or hurt.
One day they went on a train journey together.
“We’ll need some food.”?Pearl said.
“We’ll buy some bananas.”?Jane said.?“They are good to eat and always clean.”
And they bought two bananas to eat on the train.
It was not long before they were hungry.
Pearl took out the bananas and gave one to Jane. Then she peeled the skin of her banana and took a large bite of it.
At that moment the train went into a tunnel. Everything went black.
“Don’t eat your banana!”?Pearl shouted,?“Mine has made me go blind.”
1. Did Pearl and Jane spend their most time together?
__________________________________________________________
2. What did they worry about?
__________________________________________________________
3. Why did they worry about the air pollution?
__________________________________________________________
4. How did they go traveling?on day?
__________________________________________________________
5. Pearl didn’t have a large bite of the banana, did she?
__________________________________________________________
6. Did the banana make Pearl
?blind or not?
__________________________________________________________
?
II. Writing
(寫話): (共10分)
Write at least 50 words?about the topic “My favourite season”.?(以“My favourit
e season”為題寫一篇不少于50個詞的短文,標點符號不占格)
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