完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项We have no idea a

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完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
We have no idea about 1 men first began to use salt. But we do know that it had been used in many different ways __2___ the history.
For example, in many history books it is __3_ that people who lived three thousand years ago __4__salted fish. Thousands of years ago in Egypt（埃及）, salt __5_ keep the dead. It can keep the dead bodies __6__ decay.（腐烂）
In the eighteenth century, a person who stole salt was __7__ to have broken the __8__. if a person was caught stealing salt, he would be thrown into __9__. Books also record that in England about ten thousand people were put into prison during that century __10__ stealing salt! In the year 1553, if a man took __11__ than his share of salt, he would be thought to have broken the law and would be __12__ punished(惩罚).
Salt was very __13__ on the dinner table of a king. It was always put __14_ the king when he sat down to eat. Then important visitors sat near the salt __15__ less important visitors were given seats farther away from it.

小题1:

A．when

B．where

C．what

D．which

小题2:

A．throughout

B．thought

C．though

D．although

小题3:

A．say

B．reported

C．recorded

D．reading

小题4:

A．eat

B．ate

C．eating

D．have eaten

小题5:

A．used to

B．was used to

C．was used

D．used

小题6:

A．off

B．from

C．on

D．out

小题7:

A．think

B．consider

C．thoughtful

D．thought

小题8:

A．law

B．glass

C．computer

D．time

小题9:

A．pool

B．hill

C．prison

D．river

小题10:

A．because	B．because of
C．by	D．as

小题11:

A．more

B．less

C．fewer

D．most

小题12:

A．serious

B．bad

C．terrible

D．seriously

小题13:

A．important

B．necessary

C．clever

D．cheerful

小题14:

A．in the front of	B．behind
C．in front of	D．before

小题15:

A．when

B．as

C．however

D．while

答案

小题1:A
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:B
小题6:B
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:B
小题11:A
小题12:D
小题13:A
小题14:C
小题15:D

解析

试题分析：本文讲述了盐在古代的用途，以及在古代如果偷盐会受到怎样的惩罚，并且在古代通过盐也能看出尊卑来。
小题1:根据题干，本句的意思“我们不知道人类什么时候开始用盐”，“什么时候”是when。所以本题选A。
小题2:throughout是“贯穿”，though和although是“尽管”，thought是“思想”，根据题意，本句的意思是“但是我们知道在整个历史中盐有许多不同的用途。”所以本题选A。
小题3:根据题干，此处应该是“据记载”的意思，而“据记载”是It’s recorded。所以本题选C。
小题4:根据three thousands years ago可知，本句应是过去时，故用ate。所以本题选B。
小题5:根据题干，本句的意思是“盐被用来保存尸体。”“被用来做某事”是be used to do。所以本题选B。
小题6:keep……from是“阻止某人或某物做某事”，是固定用法。所以本题选B。
小题7:根据前面的was可知，后面应该用过去分词表示被动语态，只有thought。所以本题选D。
小题8:通过阅读下文可知，此处应该是违反法律。故用law。所以本题选A。
小题9:根据if a person was caught stealing salt可知，对待罪犯的方式是将他投入监狱。故用prison。所以本题选C。
小题10:根据题干，本句的意思是“一万多人因为偷盐被投入监狱。”“因为”是because或because of；根据stealing salt可知，应该用because of。所以本题选B。
小题11:根据题干，应该是带更多的盐会被惩罚。故用more。所以本题选A。
小题12:根据题干，本句的意思是“将被严重惩罚”，本空是修饰“惩罚”一词，故用副词。所以本题选D。
小题13:本句的意思是“过去盐在国王的餐桌上是很重要的。”故用important。所以本题选A。
小题14:根据题干，“它总是被放在国王的前面”。In the front of是在物体本身上的前部，in front of是“在物体前面”不附属在物体上，而before一般表示时间之前。故用in front of。所以本题选C。
小题15:根据前句important visitors sat near the salt和后句less important visitors可知，两者之间是转折的关系，故用while“而，却”。所以本题选D。
点评：阅读本文时，首先应该明白盐的重要性，才会理解为什么在古代对盐会有这样的规定。在完成本题是，应充分阅读文章，充分体会作者的意图。要结合生活中的常识，进行选词，并且应该注意区分一些词的用法和英语中的固定搭配等。

举一反三

“If you want to see a thing well, reach out and touch it!”That may seem a strange thing to say． But touching things can help you to see them better． Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round． But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth* and cool the ball is． You can feel how heavy the glass is． When you feel all these about the ball, you really see it． With your skin, you can feel better． For example, your fingers can tell the difference between two coins* in your pocket． You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too．
All children soon learn what “Don’t touch!” means． They hear it often． Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up． In shops, we touch things as we might buy: food, clothes． To see something well, we have to touch it．
There are ways of learning to see well by feeling． One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that touching your skin． Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body, the air on your skin． At first, it is not easy to feel these things． You are too used to them!
Most museums are just for looking． But today some museums have some things to touch． Their signs say, “Do touch!” There you can feel everything on show． If we want to see better, reach out and touch． Then you will really see!
小题1:By touching things, ______．

A．you will have a strange feeling

B．you will learn how to reach out your hand

C．you can tell the difference of the things

D．you can tell what colours they are

小题2:When people buy things in shops, they often _______．

A．try them on first

B．keep their right hands on them

C．ask about them

D．feel and touch them

小题3:Why does it say “At first, it is not easy to feel these things”? Because _______．

A．the things are used by people, too

B．people feel the things too often

C．people know how to use the things

D．the things are easy to feel

小题4:Which of the following is true?

A．Touching is more important than seeing

B．Our feet, fingers, hands and skin can help us buy food．

C．People have to learn to see by feeling as they grow up．

D．Visitors can feel the things on show in some museums．

小题5:Which of the following can be the best title of the story?

A．Touching by Feeling．	B．To See or to Feel?
C．To See Better—Feel．	D．Ways of Feeling．

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阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。（共8分，每小题2分）

What is a spelling bee?   1 , but it is so popular in the Unite States. It is a game for children to spell English words.
The National Spelling Bee is the largest education contest(比赛) . It first began in 1925 in Washington.D. C.   2 . It is open to students in eighth grade or lower and not reaching their 15th birthday.
The contest is quite simple. When it"s your turn, the teacher says a word and you have to spell it.   3 , you stay in the game. If you spell it wrong, you"re out. What"s not so easy are the words the teachers ask you to spell.
Usually, children need to spend a lot of time learning vocabulary. They must remember thousands of English words and spell every word correctly in the contest. Only winners in regional (地区的) contest can enter the national contest. It’s many children’s dream to win the regional contest and go to Washington, D. C. The final winners will be called the Spelling Bee.   4 . Do you also think they are great?

A. If you spell it right
B. Not too many Chinese students know it
C. It is held in late May or early June of each year
D. The children like the sports a lot
E. It means they have worked hard

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History, as we know, is filled with facts, with places, names, dates, and events.
History is also filled with feelings, with pain, joy, excitement, and fear.
Facts are set down in books, but what happens to feelings? How can you take the pain, for example, and write it into a history book? You can’t. But you can put it to music. Take the blues for example.
The blues started when black musicians in the South began to sing about their hard times, those times which made them feel blue. The early blues was the beginning of other musical styles, from jazz to rock and roll.
Music, you might say, is a record of feelings.
Of course, facts are important: the civil rights movement, the race for space, the Vietnam War. But the feelings behind these events – the pride of being black, the excitement of a rocket blast (点火起飞), the pain of a war – are also an important part of history.
小题1:In the passage, the word “blue” and the word “blues” are related to __________.

A．a feeling and a kind of music	B．a color
C．a kind of music and a person	D．people and their feelings

小题2:According to the writer’s idea, what can make people feel blue?

A．A history book	B．Music.
C．History.	D．Hard times.

小题3:Besides the above, the writer also explains ___________.

A．what caused the Vietnam War

B．the feelings behind some important events

C．the relation between history and music

D．why he wrote the article

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Everyone would like to be remembered. A few people even try to do something that no one else in history has ever tried to do. These people sometimes have their names recorded（记录）in the Guinness Book of Records.
Often it takes a group of people to do something unusual. One such team paddled（用桨划）a bathtub（浴缸）145 kilometers for 24 hours. This group had 13 members. They paddled their bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28 and 29. 1983. A month later, a racing team of hospital bed pushers in Avon, Great Britain, pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes! However, the distance（距离）record for hospital bed pushing is still held by the men of Bruntsfield Bedding Center. This team from Edinburgh pushed a hospital bed 5,203 kilometers in 1979. It took the team 35 days to cover the distance.
Another group of record makers held the highest dinner party in the world. Nine people from Sydney,Australia, climbed Mountain Huascaran on June 28, 1989. The climbers carried a dinner table. chairs, and a meal up the mountain. When they reached the top, they all put on warm suits for dinner.
People all over the world are trying hard to do something unusual to make a record. It should be understood, however, that now not all the records will be kept in the Guinness Book of Records.
小题1: According to the passage, what record was made near Ashford in May, 1983?

A．A record for paddling a bathtub.

B．A record for climbing a mountain.

C．A record for pushing a hospital bed

D．A record for swimming across a river.

小题2:The word cover in the passage means _______.

A．start

B．go through

C．keep

D．know

小题3:What was unusual about the highest dinner party held by the nine people in the passage?

A．The people who held the dinner party all came from Sydney.

B．Only nine people held the highest dinner party.

C．They had a meal on the mountain.

D．They carried a dinner table and chairs up the mountain to hold the dinner party.

小题4:Which of the following shows the right order（顺序）of what happened in the passage?
a. A group of 13 members paddled a bathtub on a river near Ashford.
b. A team from Edinburgh made a distance record for hospital bed pushing.
c. A group of nine people from Sydney had a dinner party on the top of Mountain Huascaran.
d. A racing team pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes in Avon.

A．a-b-c-d

B．d-b-c-a

C．a-d-b-c

D．b-a-d-c

小题5: Which of the following is mentioned（提及）in the passage?

A．Hospital bed pushing was a popular sport in Edinburgh.

B．People living in Ashford usually used a bathtub to carry things.

C．Two different records for hospital bed pushing were given.

D．Hospital bed pushing was held twice a year in Avon, Great Britain.

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Long, long ago there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people move form place to place over the land, hunting animals for food.
No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to look for food any more. They could stay in one place and grow it.
People began to live near one another. And so the first village grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew very big. When machines appeared(出现), life in the villages changed again. Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities grew very big.
Today some people are moving back to small towns. Can you tell why?
小题1:The best title(题目)of the text should be ___.

A．Cities or Villages	B．Back to Towns
C．How Cities Grew	D．People and Animals

小题2:The underlined word "they" in the second paragraph refers to(指的是) ___.

A．villages

B．animals

C．cities

D．people

小题3:When factories were built, ___.

A．more people live near the factories

B．people began to live in the factories

C．many people began to work in villages

D．many machines appeared in big factories

小题4:We can learn from the text that ___.

A．people like to work only in big cities

B．some people don"t like to live in big cities

C．there will be no small towns in the future(将来)

D．it is better to live in cities than in villages

小题5:In what order did people do the following things?
A. Worked in villages       B. Lived near the factories.
C. Learned to grow food.    D. Built factories.
E. Began to live near each other.
A. d, b, a, e, c         B. e, a, c, d, b
C. c, e, a, d, b         D. a. c. d. e. b

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