根据所给首字母填写准确的单词。 Why do we l 1 English? This is an interesting question

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根据所给首字母填写准确的单词。     Why do we l   1   English? This is an interesting question for us to know about. We all know that f   2
people speak Chinese outside China. But English is spoken in many c   3   , not only in the United Kingdom,
the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, but a   4   in India, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia
and some o   5   places. English is the most widely used language in the world. There are a   6   750,000,000
English speakers in the world. As we have seen, even though E   7   does not have the greatest n   8   of
speakers in the world, it is one of the most u   9   languages in the world. English is just like a bridge b   10
countries in the world.
1._____ 2._____ 3._____ 4._____ 5._____ 6._____ 7._____ 8._____ 9._____ 10._____

答案

1.learn 2.few 3.countries 4.also 5.other
6.about 7.English 8.number 9.useful 10.between

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     Paragraph 1
     Scientists have learned a lot about kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of
food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus
(柑橘) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and
eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷类), rice is also in this kind of food ;
(7) butter, or something like butter.
     Paragraph 2
     People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are
cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of
the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times
a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn"t matter whether foods are
eaten raw or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn"t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o"clock in the afternoon
or at eleven o"clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.
     Paragraph 3
     There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first is to find
some way to feed the world"s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people
everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

1. According to the scientists, which of the following group of food is the healthiest for your lunch? [ ]
A. chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages
B. potatoes, carrots, rice, bread
C. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes
D. beef, pork, fish, milk 2. If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about? [ ]
A. When people eat their lunch
B. What to do with the two problems
C. How to cook food in different ways
D. Why people eat different kind of food

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阅读理解。     It seems to be strange to you there is a blind spot on the eye. Here is an interesting experiment that can
make something disappear, When one eye is open?
     Make a card about the size of a postcard and write two English letters L and R on it. L on the left and R
on the right. first, hold the card about 80 cm away and you see both the letters. Then close your right eye
and look at the letter R only with your left eye. And now, as you move the card slowly towards you, you"ll
see the letter L disappearing. But if you move the card nearer to your lace, the letter will be seen again. Now
do the same experiment with your left eye closed, you"ll see the letter R disappearing.
     Why did the letter disappear? It is because there is a blind spot on the eye. When the image of the letter
falls on the blind spot, it won"t be seen. That is why either of the letters disappear. 1. The word"disappear" in the first paragraph means _____. [     ]
A. 消散
B. 丢失
C. 消失
D. 遗失 2. You fail to see the letter "L" in the experiment because _____. [     ]
A. your eyes are poor
B. you move it close to your eye
C. its image falls on the blind spot
D. your left eye is not open 3. In which order (顺序) should you do the experiment?
a. hold the card
b. move the card nearer
c. close your right eye
d. write two English letters
e. look at the letter R
f. make a card [     ]
A. f-d-a-b-c-e
B. a-c-f-d-e-b
C. f-a-d-c-b-e
D. f-d-a-c-e-b 4. This passage mainly (主要) tells us _____.[     ]
A. there is a blind spot on the eye
B. an interesting experiment
C. where the blind spot is
D. how to find the blind spot

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阅读理解。     London has a new magazine. But it is not printed on paper. Everyone who has a television can receive it
because it in on TV.
     If you want to read the magazine, you have to have a decoder (解码器). Each page of it is numbered,
so you only have to dial the number to choose which subject you want to read about. There is a wide
choice-everything is included from cooking to the latest sports news.
     If you want to read the news, the first thing you have to do is to turn to the index (索引) page which
has an easy-to -temember page number, 100 for example. The news is on pages 101 to 109 so you push
out the numbers and the news appears written across your screen. Perhaps you want to go out in the
afternoon, so you press 181, and a brightly colored weather map appears on the screen.But the weather
is terrible so you decide to go shopping and dial 162 for a list of the week"s best bargains. But should you
drive or take the train? To answer that question you only have to press 189 for the traffic report. It is very
simple to use. But probably the best thing about the service is that it is being updated all the time. Journalists
type new material directly onto the screen and whole pages of the magazine can be replaced in minutes. 1. Where can you see this new magazine? [     ]
A. In a bookshop.
B. In a library.
C. On television.
D. In a reading room. 2. If you want some information about weather, you should press _____. [     ]
A. 162
B. 189
C. 109
D. 181 3. We can know from the passage that _____. [     ]
A. the magazine can be bought at any shop
B. most of the postmen in London will lose their jobs some day
C. everyone can read this magazine if they have a television
D. the readers can get all kinds of information staying at home 4. In the sentence "Each page of it is numbered", here "it" means the _____.[     ]
A. decoder
B. magazine
C. subject
D. program 5. The passage is mainly about _____. [     ]
A. a new magazine that is printed in London
B. a new way of getting news
C. a popular TV program about magazines
D. a new idea of reading quickly

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阅读理解。     "Dream may be more important than sleep. We all need to dream," some scientists say.
     Dream takes up (占据) about one quarter (四分之一) of our sleeping time. People have a few dreams
each night. Dreams are like short films (电影). They are usually in color. Some dreams are like old films.
They come to us over and over again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something.
Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer.
     Some people get new ideas about their work from dreams. They may think about their work all day.
These thoughts can carry over into dreams.
     Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can"t remember the dream.
     Too much dreaming can be harmful (有害的). The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is
hard at work when we dream. That is why (......的原因) we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired. 1. It may be less important to sleep than to _____.[     ]
A. think
B. dream
C. work
D. study 2. Dreams and films are usually _____. [     ]
A. very long
B. very sad
C. about work
D. in color 3. Why do some people often dream about their work? [     ]
A. Because they are tired in the daytime.
B. Because they are not interested in their work.
C. Because they may be thinking about their work all day.
D. Because they have too much work to do. 4. The main idea of the story is _____. [     ]
A. what the dream is
B. people like to sleep
C. dreams are like films
D. we always remember dreams 5. Which of the following is true? [     ]
A. Sleeping without dreams takes up about a quarter of our sleeping time.
B. When we dream, the mind doesn"t work.
C. Too much dreaming is good for health.
D. We may be still tired after a long sleep

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选择适当的词（组）并用适当形式完成短文。其中有两个词（组）是多余的。

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