完形填空。 There are many words in the English language. You will never 1
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English. When you read, you will often find many 2 you do not know. You will not have enough time
to 3 reading and try to find every new word in a dictionary.
Sometimes you can 4 a new word because you know some of the parts of the new word. For
example, if a word ends 5 the letters "er", that word 6 be the name of a 7 or a thing that does
a certain action (某个动作). A writer is a person who writes. 8 it is not 9 to know the parts of a
new word to understand it, 10 it will help you many times.
答案
6. B 7. C 8. D 9. C 10. A
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the following passage.
The awards started in 1929. Their full title is "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Awards". The Academy is a group of people who have worked in the film industry for many years. They
decide who will receive the awards. The awards are often referred to as the "Oscar". This is a nickname
given to the awards by a lady called Margaret Herrick. She was once the director of the Academy and she
once said that the little gold statue reminded her of her uncle Oscar!
The Oscar is always an exciting event. Each year, at least one unusual thing happens. When the Italian
actor and director Roberto Benigni won an Oscar for best foreign film, he danced on stage! When Gwyneth
Paltrow, the star of Shakespeare in Love won the Oscar for best actress, she could not make her acceptance
speech because she was crying so much with happiness!
In 1987, Roberto Benigni won the award for best director for a film about the last emperor of China.
Since then, Chinese film and actors have started to make an impact at the award. Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon was a huge success and it won the award for best foreign language film in 2001. It also won several
technical awards for its amazing "flying" people. We expect to see more awards for Chinese film in the near
future.
It"s time for the Oscar again. Once more, the stars will dress up in their finest and go to Kodak Theater.
There, they will find out who had won the awards for best actor, best actress and best director. Millions of
people watch the awards every year to find out who the winners are. Some people watch it to see the stars
crying and laughing as they receive their awards.
B. Oscar.
C. The Academy of Nicknames.
D. A group of people who have worked in the film industry for many years.
When you go go restaurants in different parts of the world, it"s 1 to know the right and wrong
things to do. For example, in China it"s OK to 2 a lot of noise in a restaurant. In fact, if a restaurant
isn"t noisy and 3 , you may think there"s something wrong with it. However, in many western countries,
restaurants are 4 palces. If a table is too loud, other people who are eating there might even 5 to
the owner of the restaurant.
Paying the bill is also different from country to country. In China, one person usually pays for 6 .
In western countries, one person pays if he or she is entertaining clients, but 7 friends eat together,
they usually share the cost. This is called "Going Dutch" Also, when westerners pay the bill, they ususlly
leave some money for the 8 . This is called "leaving a tip." Leaving a tip is thought to be polite. In the
US, it"s 9 to leave tips of 10%, 15% or 20% of the bill. Which is decided by how good the service is.
Good waiters can make a lot of money!
The way people eat food is different in the world, but you can 10 the same kinds of food in many
countries. Chinese and Italian food, for example, are popular all over the world.
and phrases, usually through borrowing. Just as someone borrows a pencil from a classmate in order to
finish work, languages borrow words from other languages in order to fill what is called a "word gap". A
word gap happens when a language has no term, synonym, or easy translation for an object or activity.
One way a language finds something to fill a word gap is to borrow a word from another language. Unlike
a person, language never really returns words to their starting place. Instead, the words remain and become
part of the borrowing language. We see this borrowing course at work in English in different ways and for
different reasons.
English, like any other language, will probably continue to borrow words from other languages as long
as it continues to change — in other words, for as long as people continue to speak.
| A spoken language changes | 1. _______ new words and phrases. |
| In order to fill a "word gap" | languages 2. ________ from other languages. |
| Unlike a person | the words become 3. ________ the borrowing language. |
| English | continues to change 4. __________ people speak. |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| 150 Years of Cool Look in the bedrooms of young people around the world. You will probably find a pair of blue jeans in each room. Jeans are very popular all over the world. Jeans give you the feeling of comfort, youth and energy. They have long been liked by every person. Levi Strauss is an American company. It first made blue jeans. The company was founded in 1853 by 24-year-old Levi Strauss. Twenty years later, he made the first blue jeans in the world. The jeans were used as working trousers for the cowboys of the American West. During the Second World War, American soldiers brought blue jeans to Europe and Asia. People there began to wear jeans. Little by little, they become cool. People from different countries like different styles of jeans. Americans like to wear simple and single- colored jeans, but many Chinese like to wear jeans with lots of different colors. Jeans now can be seen everywhere. However, in many places, it"s not always good to wear jeans. No matter how good they may look, or what color they are, it"s often not right to wear jeans in formal places. But, when you are out, relaxing and having fun, jeans are the best choice. | |
| 1. The story is talking about ______. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. Levi Strauss B. young people C. cool D. jeans | |
| 2. Levi Strauss made the first blue jeans ______. | |
| [ ] | |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| Potato Chips History: Potatoes came from South America. We know that the people of Peru were eating potatoes as long as 2,000 years ago. Potatoes were not widely grown in Europe (欧洲) until the early 19th century. Production: The first chip factory in Britain was opened in the early 1900s by Frank Smith. For about 50 years, Smith"s Chips were the only ones that you could buy. Potatoes are cut, cooked in vegetable oil (油), dried and packed. It takes only 12 minutes to turn a potato into a bag of chips. Chips are the most popular snack (零食) in the UK. Around 8,500 million bags are sold every year. Each person eats 3.5 kg every year. Making potato chips in South America Potatoes are grown in the mountains of South America. This is how the village people make their own potato chips. A. At harvest (收获) time, the villagers dig up the potatoes and bring them into the village. The potatoes are put on the ground in the middle of the village. B. The villagers walk all over the potatoes and flatten (弄平) them. They do this every day and keep on doing so for five days. C. While they are out in the open, the potatoes are dried in the sun and in the cold night air, the potatoes are left on the ground. D. After five days, the chips are ready and are put into strong bags. The potato chips are kept in the food store until winter. After reading the steps above in making potato chips, please match them to the pictures below. | |
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