用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文完整正确。（每个单词限用一次）good job come dress own parent hol
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| good job come dress own parent hold nothing how necessary | ||||||
| 1. comes 2. hold 3. necessary 4. parents" 5. own 6. well 7. dressed 8. nothing 9. job 10. how | ||||||
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| Three kids have been learning chemistry for only a few months. But they have already begun to challenge a world famous scientist! Li Weichi, Huang Runling, and Xiao Yan are from Zhongshan Huaqiao Middle School in Guangdong. They have just found a red cabbage that could be a new kind of acid-base indicator (酸碱指示剂). They want it to take the place of litmus (石蕊) paper. "We"ve learnt to think of and ask questions about life by ourselves," said Li, "We work well with each other." British scientist Robert Boyle discovered the use of litmus paper over 300 years ago. Now it is used widely in experiments all over the world. But when the kids did some experiments in class last winter, they saw that the litmus paper didn"t turn very blue with base matter. It"s hard to get a clear result. Will there be a better indicator than litmus paper? The three kids decided to try and find out! How? They went to collect over 40 plants in parks, gardens and markets. Then they ground (研磨) leaves, flowers and stems (茎) to get the pigments (色素) from them. The kids mixed pigments with acid and base. They spent months watching carefully to see which paper showed the best colour change. They decided it was the litmus paper! "It"s our first scientific journey, Huang said, "But it makes me want to try harder." | ||||||
| 1. Whom did the three kids want to challenge? | ||||||
| A. Their chemistry teacher. B. Their headmaster. C. Robert Boyle D. Thomas Edison | ||||||
| 2. From the text, a red cabbage is a kind of ____. | ||||||
| A. plant B. animal C. paper D. liquid | ||||||
| 3. What"s the right order for the following sentences? a. Three kids collect red cabbage everywhere. b. The kids mixed pigments with acid and base. c. The kid ground the red cabbage. d. The kids get pigments from it. | ||||||
| A. a-b-c-d B. b-a-c-d C. a-c-d-b D. b-c-d-a | ||||||
| 4. What is widely used as the acid-base indicator now? | ||||||
| A. red cabbage B. litmus paper C. any plant D. any flower | ||||||
| 5. The story mainly tells us ____. | ||||||
| A. how to make litmus paper B. about the three kids" spirit C. scientist were wrong D. the kids are heroes | ||||||
| 阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。 | ||||||
| In a classroom in any countries, the teacher teaches more than art or history or language. He or she teaches something behind-the culture(文化)of the country. In a country such as the United States, people with different history, culture and language join together and they pay much attention to personal ideas. Teachers try to make each student special. Students do not have to remember a lot of information, instead, they work and find answers by themselves. There is often discussion in the classroom. At an early age students learn to have their own ideas. Their education encourages personal thought(思想). (3) The importance is placed on how to arrive at an answer and not only to get the correct answer. In most Asian countries, people have the same language, history and culture. Perhaps for this reason, the education there pays more attention to group goals than personal ideas. Children in China and Japan often work together and help each other on homework. In the classroom, the ways of teaching are often very traditional. The teacher says, and the students listen. There is not much discussion. Instead, the students repeat(重复) rules or information that they have been taught in order to keep them in mind. In many ways these differences come from different educational ideas. In Western countries teachers are taught to help students to learn. They make it easier for the students to learn by themselves. (4) In some Asian countries, however, teachers often feel that their job is to pass knowledge to students. | ||||||
| (一)根据短文内容简要回答问题。 | ||||||
| 1. What does the education in the United States encourage? | ||||||
| 2. Which does the education in some Asian countries pay more attention to, group goals or personal ideas? | ||||||
| (二) 将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。 | ||||||
| 3. ______________________________________________________ | ||||||
| 4. ______________________________________________________ | ||||||
| (三)请给短文拟一个适当的标题。 | ||||||
| 5. ______________________________________________________ | ||||||
| 阅读理解。 判断正误。 Lifts are very useful. Why? Think about a tall building you work on the thirtieth floor. Maybe you can walk up all the stairs one time. But can you climb thirty floors to your office every day? Of course not. In an old lift, a worker is needed. He or she operates it up and down. In a modern lift there is no worker. People can operate it themselves. Do you know how to use a lift? OK, let me tell you. For example, you want to go to the twelfth floor from the ground floor. First, you must press the  button, then the door opens. After that you can get into the lift. Third, you press the  , and the door closes. Fourth, you press the number 12, then the lift takes you up to the twelfth floor. When the door opens again, you can get out of the lift. If you want to go down to the first floor, you must press the  , then do the same. It takes you there. It is easy andfast. Now can you use it? ( ) 1. In a modern lift, people can operate it by themselves. ( ) 2. If you want to go upstairs, you must press the .( ) 3. If you want to go down to the first floor, you must press the .( ) 4. In a tall building, it is very easy and fast for you to go up and down in a lift. ( ) 5. Anyone can use the lifts in a tall building. | ||||||
| 完形填空。 | ||||||
| These days, it is easier for us to travel to other countries than ever before. However, there is a big difficulty that most of us _1_ when we meet people in other countries--we cannot communicate with them. There are _2_ where English is still not spoken, though it is the most widely known language. So, wouldn"t it be _3_ if there was one language that could be understood by anyone anywhere in the world? Esperanto that was created in 1887 may be the world"s _4_ truly international language. In fact, although _5_ artificial (人造的) languages have been already created, only Esperanto has had much success. Its learner say that it is about four times _6_ to learn than other languages. Spelling and pronunciation are both easy, too. For example, it does not have silent _7_ like the "h" in "hour". If you _8_ a word, you can spell it without any difficulty. The grammar is also as simple as possible: only sixteen basic _9_, no irregular verbs (不规则动词), only six verb endings. In short, Esperanto should be attractive as a language to learn, _10_ there is a problem: how many people have met anyone who can really speak it? Anyway, we hope that some day one language can be mastered easily by anyone. | ||||||
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